Free Web NovelChapter 562: Chapter 514: Fortune Telling
Jiang Yuebai found the cheapest inn in the city and only booked a room for three days.
If she doesn’t earn any Spirit Stones in three days, she’ll have to go dig a cave in the mountains.
After securing her room in the inn, Jiang Yuebai returned to the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven.
Upon entering, she still saw the Lotus Platform emanating a cyan glow. The base, originally used for invisibility, was damaged, but the platform triggered spatial fluctuations the moment she entered.
Lacking a Memory Jade, Jiang Yuebai released Little Green, using its ability to record images to constantly keep an eye on the Five Elements Lotus Platform to see if it remained or disappeared after she entered.
The once barren Grotto Heaven was now partially covered by the mountains from the Small Secret Realm, taking time to merge with the land of the Grotto Heaven.
The rest remained desolate, with only grass transformed by Chaos Qi.
Currently, all the little demons, bee swarms, and Spiritual Beasts had moved to the mountain of the Hidden Immortal Sect, which Jiang Yuebai named Hidden Immortal Mountain.
On the dilapidated plaza halfway up the mountain, wild grass grew from the cracks in the shattered blue bricks.
Jiang Yuebai gathered everyone together to explain the situation, requesting the Spiritual Beasts to ’voluntarily’ lend her some Spiritual Beast Blood in exchange for startup funds.
These Spiritual Beasts were initially chosen by Yun Shang and left to roam freely in the Grotto Heaven, only provided with basic cultivation needs.
One reason was that their growth couldn’t keep pace with her cultivation, and the other was her lack of time to nurture them.
Reflecting on it now, it seemed truly wasteful.
Previously, in the stone chamber of the Hidden Immortal Sect, she found an elixir formula among the ancient elixir formulas that could rapidly enhance the Spiritual Beast cultivation. Once she could afford the herbs, she’d try refining some to cultivate and raise a few beaters.
Yun Shang’s painstakingly cultivated Strange Insects, the Green Armor Bee Swarm, and the Thunder Beast were impressive.
Before leaving, Jiang Yuebai specifically instructed the two Dragonfly Little Demons who acted as chief stewards to lead other little demons and Spiritual Beasts in repairing various constructions on Hidden Immortal Mountain.
She wasn’t running a shelter for idle beasts; even the young ones of Jixiang had to move bricks, and Tree Dragon Hongye had to take care of the Grass Dragon Eggs, learning the Human Clan’s language and knowledge alongside them.
Back in her room at the inn, Jiang Yuebai reviewed the footage Little Green captured, and it was just as she deduced; the Lotus Platform changed and spatial fluctuations occurred around it upon entry, making it disappear.
Little Green attempted to search the area where the platform vanished, but found nothing.
For Jiang Yuebai, this was a good thing, increasing security. At least no Nascent Soul Stage cultivators could detect the presence of the Lotus Platform; as for cultivators above Divinity Transformation, she was uncertain.
After selling the Spiritual Beast Blood, Jiang Yuebai bought some Blank Talismanic Papers and many herbs for refining Yuan Nourishing Elixirs.
Such an elixir for Qi Refining cultivators was something she could refine with closed eyes, producing top-grade elixirs even in a makeshift pot.
The profits might be small, but they add up. With limited capital and little to sell, she decided to earn money from the many Qi Refining cultivators in Xiiyun City.
The blood of Jixiang and Hongye was too high-grade to be lightly traded, so she could only take advantage of lower-tier Spiritual Beasts, drawing a small vial of blood from each, which they could replenish in a couple of days.
Unable to afford a Pill Furnace, Jiang Yuebai borrowed an old frying pot from the inn’s kitchen, still carrying a spicy aroma.
Besides earning money, she used these days to calm her mind and continue cultivating the "Chaos Nirvana Skill."
The Chaos Qi in the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven would suffice for some time, allowing her to cultivate without digesting Chaos Qi through eating. Yet, the hunger gnawed at her, making everything imbued with Spiritual Energy seem tantalizingly edible.
"No, no, I must restrain myself!"
Jiang Yuebai firmly quelled her hunger, refocusing her thoughts, considering that her exploration of Chaos Qi wasn’t profound enough, and she needed to work with Bai Jiuyou to conduct more experiments and record data from all perspectives.
She needed to ensure that in the future, she could fully utilize the Chaos Qi’s potency without squandering the Acquired Chaos Body she had risked her life to obtain.
Thinking about the Chaos Body, Jiang Yuebai pondered over a question these past days: does she still count as human? Ultimately, she was no longer purely a demon either.
In fact, this question no longer mattered to her because, as she said, being Jiang Yuebai was enough.
The Chaos Body now allowed her to transform freely; she could be human if she wished, or transform into a demon if she didn’t want to be human, or even be a demon for a couple of days if she didn’t want to be a demon anymore.
