Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium

Standing in the wind, even a pig could take flight.

Chen Beiwu now had access to the information gap between two worlds. Saying that making enough Spirit Stones to buy cultivation methods was as easy as lifting a finger would not be an exaggeration.

But his past-life experience had taught him that the bird that stuck its head out got shot.

In his previous life, countless wealthy people had spent huge sums to bribe the media so they wouldn't attract attention, keeping themselves off every rich list to avoid being targeted.

The same held true in the cultivation world.

There were many ways to earn Spirit Stones, but Chen Beiwu preferred stable, safe sources of income.

"Thank you, senior."

Wanwan looked grateful as she accepted the Spirit Stones, though inwardly she was cursing.

Just then, Chen Beiwu's gaze fell on a Rogue Cultivator who had just set up a stall along the street. Dozens of medicinal plants lay on it, their skins faintly yellow and their stems and leaves shaped like bamboo segments.

The stall owner seemed sleepy. He yawned, then picked up a stem and ate it raw.

Noticing Chen Beiwu's gaze, Wanwan asked curiously, "Are you interested in Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium, senior?"

Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium could regulate qi, calm the mind, dispel deficiency heat, and strengthen the essence and yang. It could be used in medicine, brewed as tea, cooked, or eaten raw, and was popular with early-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

However, this medicinal plant could not help cultivators refine qi, so it had no Tier and did not even qualify as a First-Tier Exotic Herb.

Large amounts of Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium grew deep in the mountains behind Abysswall Market, and hardly anyone bothered with it. Only cultivators passing by would occasionally pick some to eat for a boost.

"I like brewing Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium as tea."

At that, Chen Beiwu seemed to take an interest. "I'd like to buy a batch of Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium. Do you have a source?"

"This..." Wanwan looked troubled.

Because Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium was everywhere, Rogue Cultivators never bothered to sell it. Only in mortal kingdoms was the price of this medicinal plant driven up to a hundred gold pieces per jin.

In Abysswall Market, two Spirit Stones were enough to buy a hundred jin of Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium.

Once, a very clever Rogue Cultivator had appeared in Abysswall Market.

To earn Spirit Stones, he offered Golden Immortal Fortune as payment and hired a large number of mortals to gather Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium in the mountains.

Qi Refining cultivators wouldn't spend a great deal of time picking a hundred jin of Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium for one or two Spirit Stones, but mortals would.

In the end, they gathered far too much, while market demand was too low. The price of Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium plunged to one Spirit Stone per thousand jin, leaving the Rogue Cultivator with a total loss and making him a laughingstock.

Could this senior, who liked brewing Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium as tea, be from a mortal dynasty rather than a Cultivation Lineage?

"Do you not have any?" Chen Beiwu's brows knitted slightly.

Although Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium had no Tier, it could still count as a medicinal plant in the Earth Evolution Realm of the Southern Wasteland.

Even if Abysswall Market didn't have any, that didn't mean nearby mortal kingdoms didn't.

"I do, I do. How much Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium do you need, senior?" Wanwan hurriedly replied.

"Let's start with a hundred jin," Chen Beiwu said.

"Would four Spirit Stones for a hundred jin of Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium be acceptable, senior?" Wanwan asked tentatively.

"Fine. How long will it take?" Chen Beiwu raised his eyelids slightly.

"By noon tomorrow." Wanwan was delighted, and her gaze toward Chen Beiwu softened.

She could earn at least three Spirit Stones from this deal. It still wouldn't be enough to rent a cultivation cave abode, but it would buy her nearly half a month's access to the Market.

Chen Beiwu tossed her a Spirit Stone. "Good. Here's the deposit."

Watching Chen Beiwu's back disappear from view, the sweet smile on Wanwan's face gradually faded. She turned and walked into a remote alley.

Two Rogue Cultivators with stalls on the street exchanged glances and followed the maiden.

"Was today's sheep fat?" one of them suddenly asked.

Wanwan replied impassively, "Spent all day wandering around without buying a thing. A waste of my time. What do you think?"

"That doesn't make sense. The way he dresses, he's either rich or noble. I get the feeling he's no ordinary person," the thin-faced Rogue Cultivator said.

The Rogue Cultivator selling Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium looked a little exasperated. "How could a cultivator from a prestigious family drink something as low-end as Phoenix Yellow Dendrobium? He probably doesn't have many Spirit Stones on him. It's not worth the risk for the two of us."

"True. His cultivation is a bit high; he'd be hard to take down." The thin-faced Rogue Cultivator gave a slight nod and looked at Wanwan.

She looked wary and stepped back two paces.

"Relax, I'm not going to target you over two Spirit Stones." The thin-faced Rogue Cultivator laughed and shook his head. Looking at the other Rogue Cultivator, he held up one finger.

"I just spotted a little fat sheep. He's got at least this much on him. Want to take him?"

"Heh. Of course we do."

Watching the two thin-faced Rogue Cultivators walk away with their arms around each other's shoulders, Wanwan let out a breath of relief.

Working as a Broker made it easy to earn Spirit Stones, but it also meant crossing paths with cultivators involved in the Gray Trade.

If she wasn't careful and avoided offending people, she might end up dead in the wilderness the moment she left the Market.

Pretty clever girl!

Across from the remote alley, Chen Beiwu smiled.

Clearly, the conversation among the three in the alley had not escaped his Divine Sense.

Chen Beiwu then turned and headed toward the center of the Market, where a cluster of buildings stood.

After paying twenty Spirit Stones, Chen Beiwu obtained the right to use a Lower-Grade Cave Abode in Abysswall Market for one week.

The Lower-Grade Cave Abode was quite bare, with no unnecessary decorations and only a meditation cushion for cultivation. What surprised Chen Beiwu was the dense Spirit Vigor inside; the Spirit Power concentration was almost equal to that of a Second-Tier Upper-Grade Spirit Vein.

Even the Lower-Grade Cave Abode is this luxurious. I wonder what the Upper-Grade Cave Abode is like? Chen Beiwu sighed, then took the Golden Egg out of the Spirit Beast Pouch.

"Glug." A string of bubbles rose from the fish tank.

Chen Beiwu wasted no time. He used his Divine Sense to help the Golden Egg circulate the Ten Thousand Beasts Art through thirty-six Greater Celestial Circuits, slowly flushing the Demon Power from its body.

Demon Power was turbid and overbearing. Through the Companion Beast Contract, it could gradually erode a cultivator's Magic Power and turn it into Demon Power.

So, after forming a Companion Beast Contract, cultivators would first manifest the Three Meridians of their Companion Beast.

Then they would turn the turbid into the pure, use Qi in place of blood, cleanse the Demon Beast's Demon Power into pure Magic Power, and use the Companion Beast Cultivation Method and Companion Beast Seal to construct a cycle of Magic Power through the celestial circuits.

Put simply, this method of cultivation was like giving cultivators a Bloodline cheat (derived from the Companion Beast), allowing them to cultivate faster while making it easier to sense and draw upon the laws of Heavenly Abyss Star.

And this was the Beast-Refining Dao passed down by the Immortal Alliance to this day, the path by which it had kept the Demon Race under its heel!

Soon, as wisps of turbid qi dissipated into the world, a trace of weariness appeared in Chen Beiwu's eyes.

Turning the turbid into the pure was a major undertaking.

An ordinary Spirit Beast needed about a month to turn the Demon Power in its body into Magic Power, while the Golden Egg had better aptitude and could shorten that time to half a month.

During this period, his cultivation could not advance, but he could refine the purity of his own Magic Power and leave his Qi on the Golden Egg, making the Companion Beast Contract more stable.

"Glug!"

Feeling the hunger that came through the Companion Beast Contract, Chen Beiwu took out his Storage Bag and removed half a jin of gold and two Purple Coral Stones.

At the sight of them, the Golden Egg's eyes lit up, and it eagerly opened its mouth.