Too Badass!

"How did you possibly get hold of so many Fire Scorpion bones?" In the night, when Wei Suo returned to his little stone house and pulled the Ghost Nurturing Jar he had disguised as a black broken earthen jar from beneath his bed, the Green Robe Old Man emerging from it saw the huge pile of Fire Scorpion bones on the stone table and immediately stared so wide-eyed that his eyes were as big as copper bells.

"Haha, I got lucky. I happened to come across a bunch of male Fire Scorpions fighting to the death over a female Fire Scorpion, so I just waited nearby to collect the bodies." As Wei Suo carefully sorted through the Silver Candle Grass and Fire Tail Flowers he had picked along the way back, he chuckled lecherously as he answered the Green Robe Old Man. Wei Suo had already discovered that the higher the quality of the Silver Candle Grass and Fire Tail Flowers, the smoother the talisman paper produced would be, and the higher the final success rate of forming talismans.

"You take me for an idiot?" The moment the Green Robe Old Man heard Wei Suo's words, he rolled his eyes in anger.

"Haha, if you want me to tell you what really happened, then give me some useful information first." Wei Suo said this in an exceedingly sleazy manner.

"Come on, surely you understand the principle of taking things step by step, right?" The Green Robe Old Man shot Wei Suo a look.

"Of course I do. But you keep saying that once I reach the Sea of Consciousness Realm Fourth Level, you'll give me some more benefits. Yet you're always so mysterious about it. Doesn't that leave my heart itching like cats scratching and clawing at it?" Wei Suo looked at the Green Robe Old Man. "At least tell me what benefits I'll get when I reach the Sea of Consciousness Realm Fourth Level."

"Fine." The Green Robe Old Man looked at Wei Suo. "When the time comes, I'll tell you a useful Pill Recipe, and I'll also tell you some things I know—for instance, how to deal with certain demon beasts, and what might be found in certain places. For example, I know of some Rogue Cultivators who established cave abodes in certain places ten or twenty thousand years ago. After all these years, though, those Rogue Cultivators might no longer be around..."

"Holy shit! That's too badass!"

Wei Suo's eyes instantly went round. The Pill Recipe alone was enough to excite him. Wei Suo was no fool; judging by the Green Robe Old Man's expression, he knew that this Pill Recipe, like the recipe for the Fireball Talisman, would be immensely useful to him. But beyond the Pill Recipe, there were even cave abodes! What were cave abodes? They were the palatial residences of the Cultivation World's most formidable Rogue Cultivators. Basically, all their best possessions would be kept inside. Whenever Tianxuan Continent discovered the ruins of an ancient sect or a damaged cave abode, countless sects would fight over it. If he truly found one or two intact cave abodes left behind after a powerful Rogue Cultivator had passed away, he would undoubtedly become rich beyond his wildest dreams. After all, even the least impressive cultivators of that level would leave behind at least several powerful magic treasures.

And beyond all that, the demon beast wilderness outside the Heavenly Dome was unimaginably vast. Even the Taiyi Sect, the most powerful force in Lingyue City, only knew a small portion of the wilderness near Lingyue City. The demon beast wilderness not only contained countless demon beasts, but also an unimaginable number of high-level demon beasts. Even Golden Core Stage cultivators could easily perish within it. Thus, maps of even the known regions of the demon beast wilderness were exceedingly expensive. Yet this old man had followed fifty or sixty generations of masters and possessed experience spanning tens of thousands of years. From the looks of it, not only had he visited other continents, he seemed to have traveled through many parts of the wilderness beyond the Heavenly Dome as well.

What was most precious in the Cultivation World? Experience!

He had not understood before, but now that Wei Suo thought it through, he completely grasped just how incredibly valuable the Green Robe Old Man was. "Old man, whether I'll ever get to touch Shui Ling'er there in this lifetime really depends on you. But why not tell me the Pill Recipe and all that now? Why wait until then?"

"I don't want you to go throw your life away." The Green Robe Old Man sneered. "With your temperament, if I told you today, you might not be able to resist going to one of the places I mentioned tomorrow. The Pill Recipe I mentioned will only be useful after you reach the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. And you'll need to reach at least the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm before you have any chance of keeping your little life if you go to those places."

"Fine, then I have one more question..."

"Why do you have so much nonsense to say?"

"This is the last question today." Wei Suo scratched his head. "Old man, last time you came out, you immediately clamored about drinking Fire Scorpion Blood. You said it could nourish your vital essence. So how exactly do you drink this Fire Scorpion Blood?"

This time, the Green Robe Old Man was slightly stunned. After glancing at Wei Suo, he pointed to a spot on the Ghost Nurturing Jar. "Just drip the Fire Scorpion Blood onto that spot."

"Really?"

Wei Suo looked at the place the Green Robe Old Man had indicated and carefully dripped the Fire Scorpion Blood from one Fire Scorpion bone onto it. Green light flashed from that spot, and faint glowing runes seemed to flow across it. The Fire Scorpion Blood he dripped on vanished as though it had melted into the green light. After absorbing the blood from one Fire Scorpion bone, the Green Robe Old Man's complexion visibly improved.

Wei Suo glanced at the Green Robe Old Man and dripped in the blood from another Fire Scorpion bone. But when he tried to drip in a third bone's worth, the Green Robe Old Man shook his head. "Enough. That's sufficient."

"Enough?"

"With the formation on this Ghost Nurturing Jar damaged to its present extent, it can only absorb this much Fire Scorpion Blood within three days. Any more would simply be wasted."

"Then I won't bother with you anymore." Though it would have been hard to justify keeping all those Fire Scorpion bones without giving the Green Robe Old Man some, Wei Suo's heart still ached at the thought that one Fire Scorpion bone was worth roughly one Low-grade Spirit Stone. The moment he heard the Green Robe Old Man voluntarily say it was enough, Wei Suo became excited again. He carefully collected all the Fire Scorpion Blood from the remaining one hundred and four Fire Scorpion bones into several glass bottles. After sealing them, Wei Suo immediately began refining talisman paper again without stopping for breath.

After refining sixteen talisman papers of satisfactory quality, Wei Suo stopped and took out his talisman brush. The reason he paused after making so many was that, based on his previous experience, after refining around fourteen Fireball Talismans in one sitting, his physical strength and mental energy would already be nearly at their limit.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Clusters of red light began to burst intermittently from Wei Suo's little stone house once again.

"Refining talismans really isn't work fit for a human." Several hours later, Wei Suo was once again so exhausted that he lay flat on his back on the bed without moving, looking as though he did not even want to twitch a finger. On the stone table not far from the bed, nine newly refined Fireball Talismans glimmered with a faint radiance.

This time, Wei Suo persisted in refining sixteen Fireball Talismans, and nine succeeded. His success rate had already exceeded half.

(Fellow students, give it a few more badass clicks... I'll bring another badass update around midnight!)