Generally speaking, obtaining a fourth-grade high-grade Water Element Spiritual Item required going to the Eastern Sea, where the natural conditions were most conducive to producing Spiritual Items of that grade.
Now that the Buddhist cultivators occupied the Eastern Sea coast of Central Continent, contact between the Eastern Sea and Central Continent had been severed, making Water Element Spiritual Items scarce unless one happened to encounter a cultivator who had some in their collection.
Southern Continent also bordered the ocean. Although the South Sea was not as vast as the Eastern Sea and its undersea Spirit Veins were of lower grade, fourth-grade high-grade Spiritual Items could still be found there.
Qin Yan pondered for a moment before saying in a deep voice:
"The influence of Southern Continent cultivators cannot reach the depths of the ocean. Most fourth-grade high-grade Water Element Spiritual Items have fallen into the hands of the demon beast clans.
Trade between human forces and demon beast clans is strictly forbidden on the surface, so the chance of obtaining fourth-grade high-grade Water Element Spiritual Items from Southern Continent is not particularly great.
However, we can inform the Earth Fiend Gate and the Shadowless Sect of our needs. As Nascent Soul level forces, they have innumerable tangled ties with the South Sea demon beast clans.
But if we want to exchange for Spiritual Items, we must either trade Spiritual Items of the same grade or use Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and we must also bear a considerable premium."
So long as there was profit to be made, supposedly forbidden trade would simply move into the shadows.
He had not dealt much with those two sects, and gaining their trust would take time.
"Top-Grade Spirit Stones are the Spirit Vein Hearts produced only by Spirit Veins of fourth-grade high-grade and above. They