As Gao Yuan's thoughts turned, the old man Qing Kui's head suddenly exploded.
Through a conversation with the other party, he already understood the ins and outs of the whole thing.
This group of people targeted him not because they were ordered by others, nor because they planned to steal money and kill people, but they wanted to use the so-called 'Forbidden God Gu' to control and raise him as a slave for refining the 'Five Spirit Jade'.
According to what the old man Qing Kui said, the brothers were originally ordinary demon hunters who hung out in the Gray Desert camp in Luoyu City.
When fighting with others five years ago, I killed a Kaiyuan Realm monk and accidentally obtained a sinister poison called 'Forbidden God Gu', which can control the soul of living beings.
At first they just used it as an ordinary spell, but by chance, they obtained an innate true fire cultivation method called 'Qingyang True Flame'.
Only then did he think of using the 'Forbidden God Gu' to control and raise Kaiyuan Realm monks, and control them to learn to use the 'Qingyang True Flame' to smelt the 'Five Spirit Jade', thereby earning spiritual stones.
At the beginning, this path was not smooth due to various problems.
But as time goes by, their techniques become more and more proficient, the number of Kaiyuan Realm monks under their control gradually increases, and the output of 'Five Spirit Jade' becomes more stable and considerable.
With this approach, they naturally looked down on the few spiritual stones they could earn by digging up materials in the gray desert, and instead focused all their attention on hunting down the Kaiyuan Realm monks.
In order to avoid trouble, those Kaiyuan Realm monks who were involved with the big forces naturally did not dare to move, and instead focused on those lone cultivators who had just arrived at the Gray Desert Camp.
At first, they knew how to be cautious and would only attack once every few months.
But after succeeding four times in a row without causing any commotion, they finally couldn't restrain their growing desires.
After striking five times in a short period of time, he finally attracted the attention of the camp guards.
Fortunately, they were still alert and fled away immediately when they sensed something was wrong. After that, they made a plan to move between the gray desert camps in various cities.
In the past five years, they have moved from Luoyu City to Yifeng City, and then from Yifeng City to Linyuan City.
According to their original plan, after capturing Gao Yuan this time, they were ready to leave for Xuanshui City's Gray Desert Camp.
During this period, more and more Kaiyuan Realm monks were captured and controlled by them, and now they have reached a scale of twenty-nine. The monthly output of 'Five Spirit Jade' has also been stable at more than five kilograms.
!
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
According to the market price in the exile camp, more than five kilograms of 'Five Spiritual Jade' is worth about 40,000 intermediate spirit stones, which can be hundreds of thousands in a year!
The most important thing is that as long as enough Kaiyuan Realm monks can be captured, there is almost no upper limit to this number in theory!
If it weren't for the Forbidden God Card used to control those monks who were planted with the 'Forbidden God Gu', which had been destroyed by the strong man in the previous attack, Gao Yuan was not sure whether he could withstand such a huge temptation.
After all, not to mention the huge value of the spiritual stone, the fixed monthly output of the ‘Five Spiritual Jade’ is enough for him to achieve the achievement of ‘Fu Bao Freedom’!
Shaking his head to force this crazy thought out of his mind, Gao Yuan lowered his head and looked at the two storage bags in his hands.
The difference comes from the clear old man named Tang Dexian and the round-faced old man named Feng Long.
As for the items on the other two people, they had been completely destroyed along with their bodies under the bombardment of the spell just now.
Exploring his spiritual thoughts, Gao Yuan swept into the two storage bags one after another, and soon had a general understanding of what he had gained this time.
If there is a pile of hundreds of lings, at least hundreds; if there are more than 10 lings, there may be thousands; there are also a lot of intermediate spiritual stones, at least several thousand. These are direct spiritual stone benefits.
Secondly, there are more than a dozen kinds of elixirs with different functions, totaling thousands of bottles.
There are twenty-three second-level magical instruments of various types, two jade slips, hundreds of various talismans, and thirty kilograms of ‘Five Spiritual Jade’!
In addition, in the storage bag of the round-faced old man, Gao Yuan also found two items that surprised him - the Xuan-level Exile Mask and its matching cross-border disk!
Unexpectedly, this round-faced old man is still an exile!
Although he was surprised, Gao Yuan felt that it was very reasonable.
After all, as this group of people are ordinary casual cultivators, without the channel of the Exile Alliance, no matter how much "Five Spirit Jade" they have, they will not be able to sell them for money.
If you rashly put it on the market and sell it, once it attracts the attention of a caring person, it's not a matter of whether you can save your life, not to mention selling it for money!
In addition, these two storage bags themselves are also valuable, with volumes of fifty cubic meters and thirty cubic meters respectively!
Although he was mentally prepared in advance, Gao Yuan couldn't help but take a breath when he actually saw these items.
Although he did not count it carefully due to time issues, even a rough calculation showed that the value of this batch of items is hundreds of thousands of intermediate spiritual stones!
Incredible, I really made a fortune!
With a sigh in his heart, he used his right hand to hold the headless corpse in front of him at a distance, and the pyrotechnics powered by innate energy exploded instantly, quickly burning it into ashes.
With his spiritual thoughts externally monitoring the surrounding situation, Gao Yuan directly opened the system deduction panel:
[Explosive Flame Curse·Triple Power]: Second level primary spell, can be deduced
Based on the operating principles of existing spells, a new second-level intermediate spell is obtained through deduction, which can be expanded.
Direction 1: Increase the power of the spell, the casting cost, and the casting time. The deduction cost is 500 source of mutation.
Direction 2: The speed of casting spells is greatly increased, the consumption of spiritual thoughts is increased accordingly, the consumption of real energy is consumed, the power of the spells is slightly reduced, and the deduction consumes 500 source of mutation.
Direction 3: Increase the spell burst range, spell casting cost, and spell casting time. The deduction cost is 500 source of mutation.
As expected, after three consecutive deductions, the deduction content of the new version of the Explosive Flame Curse has also changed. Not only has there been an additional deduction direction of 'increasing the burst range of the curse', but the level of the curse will also be raised from the second level to the second level.
Intermediate level.
Gao Yuan was relieved at this, and without further delay, he activated the Wind Curse and floated up, heading straight towards the wild forest beyond the gray desert.
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Running all the way, I was speechless.
After two o'clock in the night, he finally traveled thousands of miles and returned to his underground stronghold in the wild forest.
I ate something briefly, then ran to the lounge, lay on the bed and slept comfortably.
It wasn't until after ten o'clock the next morning that he got up in high spirits.
The energy spent in the desert for the past few days and the fatigue of the day's journey were all swept away.
At this time, he was sitting on the leisure chair in the lounge, counting the specific values of the items obtained in yesterday's battle one by one.
Among them, there are a total of 32,526 intermediate-level spiritual stones, including those converted into one hundred lings and ten lings.
As for the twenty-three magical artifacts, based on the market prices of second-level magical artifacts in the Exile Camp trading area, their total value is approximately just over 20,000 intermediate-level spiritual stones.
The price of Wuling Jade has always been very stable, basically around 8,000 intermediate spiritual stones per kilogram. Thirty kilograms of Five Spiritual Jade is equivalent to 240,000 intermediate spiritual stones!
As for those elixirs and talismans, because many of them were unknown to him, it was difficult to calculate their value for the time being. In addition, it was relatively troublesome to sell them, so he put them aside for the time being.
Despite this, the value of the items he planned to sell at the Exile Camp alone exceeded 300,000 intermediate spiritual stones!
Get rich overnight!
Apart from this word, he couldn't think of anything else to use to describe his mood at this moment.
He had been worried before that he might not be able to afford an alchemy furnace. After all, with his previous wealth of tens of thousands of intermediate spirit stones, even buying things in the semi-monthly exclusive trading area was not rich, let alone the semi-annual auction.
Got it.
But things are different now. When all these things are sold into spiritual stones, no matter how rare the alchemy furnace is, he will still have the confidence to eat it!
…
He then focused on the two newly acquired jade slips, and saw that one of them was a common green color, while the other was a relatively rare gray-white color.
He directly picked up the gray-white jade slip, scanned it with his spiritual mind, and a large piece of information was immediately reflected in his mind.
What is recorded in this jade slip is the method of cultivating voodoo called 'Forbidden God Gu'.
After quickly browsing the information mapped in his mind, he finally had a certain understanding of this secret technique.
Different from what he had imagined before, this was not a simple spiritual attack spell, but a mixture of spells, talismans, weapon refining and other characteristics to form a completely different spell-casting school.
According to the records in the jade slips, before the 'Forbidden God Gu' can be used, a specific 'original Gu' must be prepared.
As for this so-called 'original Gu', whether it is the early refining or the later cultivation, the process is extremely cruel and bloody.
It often takes dozens or hundreds of living souls and their flesh and blood as refining materials.
Gao Yuan looked at the various details of the refining of the 'Original Gu' described in the jade slip, and how bloody and cruel it was. Even though he had had many killing experiences, he still found it difficult to accept it. After reading the whole article, he felt a twinge of disgust in his heart.
cold.
But he still forced himself to read the contents of the jade slip carefully, and then carefully studied each step.
He did not plan to refine the 'Original Gu' according to the jade slips, but focused on combining previous actual combat experiences to try to deduce and summarize the various limitations of the 'Forbidden God Gu' and the entire 'Voodoo' school in actual combat.
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In the hope that when he encounters an opponent who performs similar Gu magic in the future, he will be able to have sufficient countermeasures.
After all, although he has never seen the appearance of those monks who have been implanted with the 'Forbidden God Gu', but based on the details of the 'Original Gu' refining described in the jade slips, as well as its specific functions, it is not difficult to imagine those who have been implanted with the poison.
The tragic appearance.
No matter what his considerations were, he did not hope that one day he would become a part of it.
This enlightenment lasted for most of the day, and it was only in the evening that he came out of the state of enlightenment.
After half a day of research, he felt that he had gained a lot, and he had actually figured out several ways to deal with the poison.
Then he put his mind on another jade slip, scanned it with his spiritual mind, and found that it contained several sets of quite detailed map information.
It includes the geographical information of the cities in the Northern Territory, as well as the locations of the camps built in the gray desert by the four major cities of Luoyu City, Yifeng City, Linyuan City and Xuanshui City, as well as some maps around these camps.
Although the parts involving the depths of the Gray Desert are relatively brief and even missing in many areas, it still invisibly deepens Gao Yuan's understanding of the Northern Territory and the parts of the Gray Desert bordering the Northern Territory.
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Two days later.
Early in the morning, Gao Yuan left the underground stronghold.
He was in a pretty good mood. Although no clues about the alchemy furnace were found in the exclusive trading area opened last night, the sale of the trophies he captured went quite smoothly.
Not only did he sell most of the batch of second-level magic weapons, but the transaction price, even after deducting transaction fees, was better than he expected.
The remaining parts were also consigned to the trading area together with the Five Spiritual Jade. He believed that they would all be sold in a short time and turned into a large number of intermediate spiritual stones, which would become the capital for him to purchase the alchemy furnace.
Using the wind curse, he floated up and flew straight towards the gray desert.
With the jade slip containing the map information, he did not take a detour to Linyuan City this time, but rushed towards the nearest Yifeng City camp in the Gray Desert.
…
Yifeng City is much closer than Linyuan City.
It was only around two o'clock in the afternoon, and Gao Yuan had already crossed the outer area of the gray desert and arrived at a place less than a hundred miles away from the Yifeng City No. 1 forward camp.
Because he did not have an identity token registered in Yifeng City, he was naturally unable to enter the camp city.
But he had no intention of entering the city on this trip, so he headed straight for the origin of the magic grass marked on the jade slip map.
Not long after, he crossed the dividing line between the outer edge and the depth of the gray desert, and entered the depths of the gray desert.
At this time, he was maintaining a neither fast nor slow speed, walking through the gray desert while silently counting the time in his heart.
Every two minutes or so, he would briefly restrain his scattered spiritual thoughts for a few seconds, thereby opening up his blind spot of perception to a limited extent for the succubus lurking around him to appear.
After walking forward for a moment, when he skillfully brought out the spiritual thoughts that he had just restrained, he suddenly felt a strange and gloomy aura in the direction behind him.
He turned around subconsciously and saw that less than twenty meters behind him, where there was an empty space a few seconds ago, there was already a pale figure, which was as quiet as a sculpture.
's standing there.
"ah!"
At the same time that his mind discovered the other party, the succubus who was standing still suddenly let out a miserable scream.
Following its cry, an invisible wave shook out, turning into an inexplicable cold feeling that enveloped Gao Yuan's whole body out of thin air.
He felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave in an instant, and the hair all over his body suddenly stood up. At the same time, even the movement of his true energy was affected by invisible interference and became somewhat stagnant.
"Buzz!"
At this moment, the 'Second-Level Evil-Repelling Talisman - Triple Power' version of the talismans placed all over his body were stimulated and began to operate spontaneously.
In an instant, countless awe-inspiring breaths spurted out, instantly driving away the invading cold energy from his body.
Almost at the moment when the succubus floated toward him, the changes in his body were completely eliminated under the influence of the evil-repelling talisman.
Seeing this succubus approaching like a ghost, there was no trace of panic on his face, and his hands that were waiting for him were suddenly pushed forward.
"boom!"
The orange-red fireball exploded, instantly drowning the pale figure that flew over.
The sea of fire that followed suddenly spread out, and the protective black mist of this mid-Kaiyuan succubus was disintegrated almost instantly.
After the black mist receded, the exposed fragile body was even more unbearable. Under the rolling flames, it quickly turned into charcoal and shattered.
"Source of Mutation 28..."
The gray-white system prompt text flashed by, and the sea of fire that enveloped him gradually disappeared.
Gao Yuan stepped forward, took out a homemade long-handled shovel from the storage space, rummaged through a large piece of charred remains, and put away the succubus's crystallized magic core.
Then he floated up and walked straight in the intended direction.