Free Web NovelChapter 199: Return and Transformation
This was part of his reward for affiliating himself with Eternal Prosperity Sect and helping manage the Spirit Sand trade.
If he performed well in the future, he would even be accepted into the outer sect and taught suitable high-level sect techniques.
Because of this, Xiahou Bo became extremely dedicated in serving Eternal Prosperity Sect in the years that followed.
After the group teleported into Gou Guangming’s private courtyard in Azure Origin City, Xiao Shou asked Fu Young to first take everyone back to Snowy Cave Mountain to settle them properly, while he stayed in the city for a few days to buy some things before returning.
Fu Young immediately understood.
During the secret realm and the tribulation, Xiao Shou had likely consumed a large amount of resources.
The newly recruited disciples also needed various supplies.
Combined with Xiao Shou’s habit of spending spirit stones without hesitation, Fu Young assumed his master was preparing for another large-scale purchase, so he nodded in relief and led the group back to Snowy Cave Mountain through the teleportation array.
In a sense, Fu Young was correct, but this time he misunderstood the main point.
Xiao Shou had indeed spent heavily during this period, especially when he used Yao Heng’s flower space, which had nearly exhausted his stock of top-grade spirit stones.
He was now left with only a few pieces.
Since he did not have enough spirit stones to continue buying freely, he decided to properly make use of his Absolute Fusion ability and let it shine again.
After leaving, Xiao Shou first placed an order at Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall, then stayed in a large inn.
As he disguising himself, he went to nearby shops and exchanged a large number of low-grade spirit stones.
After returning, he set up a high-level defensive formation and began continuously merging the items.
Once his storage belt was filled with a large amount of top-grade spirit stones, he recalled that his Absolute Fusion ability had already reached Tier 5, which allowing him to fuse low-grade spirit jade.
He immediately became even less satisfied.
Using various disguises, Xiao Shou repeatedly visited most of the shops in Azure Origin City.
As a result, rumors soon spread throughout the city: a strange person had appeared, sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes old, sometimes young, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly.
This person entered countless stores, purchasing massive amounts of goods and paying almost entirely with top-grade spirit stones from the Heaven Origin Realm.
The only request was that change be given in low-grade spirit stones.
They refused both mid-grade and high-grade spirit stones, claiming they enjoyed the "pleasure of counting large quantities of spirit stones."
Top-grade spirit stones were extremely valuable in the Heaven Origin Realm, so no one was willing to miss such a transaction.
Even if they had to borrow, they would gather enough low-grade spirit stones for change just to keep the top-grade ones.
Because of this, within just over two days, Azure Origin City experienced a shortage of low-grade spirit stones. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
It was only after major families urgently transported a large supply from spirit stone mines that the situation stabilized.
After obtaining a massive amount of low-grade spirit stones, Xiao Shou spent an entire day merging them.
He successfully refined more than two thousand pieces of low-grade spirit jade, along with a large quantity of top-grade spirit stones.
Only after the stock of low-grade spirit stones was nearly depleted did he stop.
He then merged and upgraded all the materials he had purchased during the exchanges before finally resting.
When the time came to collect the goods from Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall, Xiao Shou retrieved the large batch of items he had ordered and buried himself in his room to fused the items.
Storage bags, talismans, formation discs, magical artifacts, even demonic beast flesh and blood.
Everything was thrown into his Absolute Fusion.
Xiao Shou had become a true fusing maniac and spent three full days on it.
Finally, he stretched his body lazily and said, "All done. That feels so much lighter."
At this moment, his entire appearance had changed drastically.
The spiritual glow of his magical artifacts had transformed into the radiance of top-grade spiritual treasures.
The storage bag at his waist had disappeared, replaced by a pair of jade-like water green bracelets on both wrists.
A small yellow sword, about the size of a finger, was inserted into his hair bun, radiating a strange brilliance.
After Xiao Shou concealed his spiritual energy, all the light on his body disappeared and he once again looked like an ordinary cultivator in plain clothing and accessories.
Only then did he leave the room and return to Snowy Cave Mountain through the teleportation array.
When he returned, nothing seemed changed from the outside.
The stone chamber on the mountaintop was gone and An Yu was not present.
Assuming they were inside the mountain belly, Xiao Shou did not think much and still opened the defensive formation as usual, walking through the passage into the interior of the mountain.
However, after returning, he immediately sensed that the spiritual energy was noticeably thinner than before.
Only then did he realize that everyone was not here.
Xiao Shou released his divine sense and scanned the area.
He discovered changes.
Behind the waterfall he had drawn on the blueprint, two massive stone doors had been constructed.
The words "Eternal Prosperity Sect" were engraved prominently on them, covered by a layer of Tier 4 defensive formation light.
His two strongest puppets among the many he had left behind were standing guard at the entrance.
Inside the main hall, Cao Xue was sitting cross-legged on a cushion, while several children in front of him listened respectfully.
In the nearby medicinal garden, An Yu was carefully tending to a spirit herb that looked like one he had seen in an ancient cultivator’s cave dwelling.
One level below, rows of clean stone chambers had been built.
On the second level as well, but about ten of them had clearly been furnished, showing signs of occupancy.
