Because he took a long detour to the north, it wasn't until late afternoon that Gao Yuan arrived at the outskirts of the wild forest.
By the time he returned home, it was completely dark.
A bright moon that is about to be full hangs high in the sky, spreading boundless silver light.
Although the food in the restaurant in Laiyuan Town in the morning was very filling, after all, it was all ordinary ingredients that were not popular.
The taste is rich, but the energy contained in it cannot be compared with the second-level monster meat.
Coupled with a fierce battle during the day and a long flight on the road afterwards, Gao Yuan was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.
Therefore, the first thing he did when he got home was to start cooking. After he finished a full pot of vegetable and meat porridge with soup and water, he walked to the lounge with his arms on his waist and a satisfied look on his face.
Lying on the leisure chair, he fumbled in his pockets, and soon three storage bags of different styles appeared in his hands.
It was the loot he captured from the battle during the day.
They came from the two young men in black robes who followed Yu Ke, and the round-faced middle-aged man who was killed instantly by him using the top-quality talisman "Qinglan Ruler".
Because the holders of these storage bags are all dead, the inner spiritual barrier of the latter is already very fragile at this time.
After Gao Yuan penetrated his spiritual thoughts, he easily broke through the blockade and refined them one by one without much effort.
As these storage bags were successfully refined by him one by one, the storage space inside them was also presented in his mind one by one.
"Thirty square storage bag..."
"Well...this storage space is at least fifty square meters!"
"Tsk, at that time I felt that the round-faced middle-aged man was not an ordinary person. This is another 500-square-meter storage magic weapon!"
"Not to mention anything else, the value of this 500-square-meter storage bag can be worth the consumption of the 'Qinglan Ruler' I used before!"
While he reached into his spiritual mind to check the situation, he kept making comments.
"Well! As the number of missions I perform increases, the number of storage magic weapons in my hand becomes more and more abundant."
"Before, I said that there were too many things and there was no place to put them, but now it's better. There are only two of the 500 square meters of storage instruments!"
"Even if you put all the pots, pans, and other things at home, it's still far from filling up the storage space!"
“This has saved me a lot of money!”
Gao Yuan sighed in a low voice, and then a touch of joy appeared on his face.
Then he took out the items from the three storage bags one by one, stacked them on the stone table on the side of the lounge, and counted them by category.
The first is the intermediate spirit stone. There are quite a few in these three storage bags. At a rough count, there are probably hundreds or tens of thousands.
Especially in the storage bag of the round-faced middle-aged man, there were as many as 124 high-grade spiritual stones!
He took out a specially made 'spiritual stone scale' and simply weighed it for a while, and soon got the result. The total number of intermediate-level spiritual stones was about 123,000!
In addition to the 124 high-level spiritual stones, the income from this trip alone is almost 190,000 intermediate spiritual stones!
In addition, there are a total of thirteen second-level magic weapons of each grade, hundreds of bottles of unknown elixirs of various types, and hundreds of unknown talismans with unknown effects!
In the storage bag of the round-faced middle-aged man, there were dozens of unknown stones the size of fists.
"There is not even a single jade slip. These people are so ignorant!"
After selecting all the items in the three storage bags, Gao Yuan suddenly muttered in disappointment.
Then his eyes fell on the surface of the stone table. After all the spiritual stones were put into the storage space by him, there were still a lot of items left on the table, which made him couldn't help but sigh again at the skill of killing people and seizing treasures.
income.
Thinking of the three years he spent practicing at home in seclusion, during this period, while practicing diligently, he was also quite diligent in earning spiritual stones by refining various embryonic weapons to supplement his family's income.
But after three years, his total income amounted to only tens of thousands of intermediate spiritual stones.
It’s not as much as I gained from these two missions!
After sighing, he looked at the items on the table again, especially the wide variety of elixirs and talismans, which were basically trophies he had captured in battles in recent years.
During this period, it was not like he had never thought of taking these elixirs and talismans to the alliance trading area for consignment.
However, when consigning items in the alliance, the seller needs to note the attributes of the items themselves.
Therefore, except for a small number of items that he knew were sold by him one after another, most of the remaining items were still backlogged in his hands.
In fact, in the Exile Alliance, it is not that there are no ways to identify the attributes of items.
Whether it is setting up a stall in the exclusive trading area or issuing corresponding identification tasks, even the alliance itself has corresponding identification services.
But the cost of each of these methods is higher than the last. If it is some rare elixirs recovered from the ruins, that's it. If such trophies recovered from the dead are rashly used for appraisal, it is really impossible to say whether it will be a loss or a profit in the end!
"After completing the task of becoming a regular member of the 'Whip Holder', we can try to collect some information on the identification and screening of elixirs and other objects."
"Not to mention how thorough the research is, at least after getting an item, you can roughly distinguish its rarity!"
Whispering in his heart, Gao Yuan took out a storage bag specially designed for collecting miscellaneous items and put all the temporarily unused items on the table into it.
Then he took out the Exile mask, put it on his face, and lay back on the leisure chair.
…
Four days flew by.
Today is the day when the Xuan-level exclusive trading area opens. As soon as the hour of Xu arrives, Gao Yuan puts on his mask on time and enters the Exile space.
As soon as he entered the exclusive secret room, he saw many alliance transmission symbols suspended in mid-air.
After he appeared, these transmission notes wrapped in light of different colors suddenly floated towards him spontaneously.
After Tanshou clicked on them one by one, a series of voice messages quickly appeared in his mind. The contents were all reminders that the consignment items he had sold in the previous two days were successful.
After the last message faded from his mind, he glanced at his identity information panel:
[Permission]: Xuan level
[Alliance Contribution Points]: 230
[Storage of spiritual stones]: 142956 intermediate spiritual stones
[Transaction Information]: Expandable
[Task information]: Expandable
After transferring most of the intermediate spirit stones in his inventory and consigning items such as magic weapons and spiritual materials that can be easily sold, the number of spirit stones he has stored in the alliance space has now exceeded 140,000.
pellets.
"I wonder if I can buy what I want today."
He whispered to himself, and then looked towards the corner of the exclusive secret room.
The surface of the dark light door was now covered with a layer of oily luster, indicating that the exclusive trading area had officially opened.
Gao Yuanyuan didn't delay anymore and walked straight into it.
…
By the time he walked out of the thick fog, there were already many people around him.
In the stall trading area in the distance, many stalls have been set up. On the stone walls in front of these stalls, auras of light circulate from time to time, and unique trading information appears one after another.
Gao Yuan followed the flow of people and wandered among these stalls, his eyes falling on the transaction information hanging in front of these stalls from time to time.
As usual, the items displayed in the exclusive trading area are slightly rarer than the alliance trading area, but not particularly high-end.
In particular, those common and uncommon elixirs of medium or higher quality, second-level rare or even third-level spiritual materials, talismans with different functions, etc. are everywhere in these stalls.
All items brought to the exclusive trading area for trading will more or less have some rare attributes, but for Gao Yuan, these items are not the most urgently needed.
He came in this time actually wanting to buy a treasure that could protect the soul to make up for his shortcomings in soul defense.
However, such treasures are rarely circulated in the market. Even in the exclusive trading area, it is unclear whether they can be purchased.
After walking back and forth in the stall area several times, he saw a lot of strange things, but none of them were what he wanted.
Just when he thought he was going to leave empty-handed today, he suddenly found an empty stall not far away.
After a moment, the stone wall in front of the stall flashed with light, and words seemed to appear on it.
"Um?"
Gao Yuanyuan's heart moved at this, and he walked over quickly with the idea of just in case.
When he came closer, he looked at the stone wall and saw four large characters written concisely on it:
"Specialized in spiritual weapons from the Western Regions."
"Spiritual weapon?"
Looking at the words on the stone wall, Gao Yuan subconsciously repeated it in his heart.
"I haven't heard of it. Is it a special magical weapon?"
He thought about it for a moment and soon became convinced that he had never heard of this term before, and he felt a little curious.
After all, whether it is the alliance trading area or the exclusive trading area, or even the alliance auction, he has visited it once or twice, but he has never heard of the category of 'spiritual weapons'.
When he thought of this, a glimmer of expectation suddenly flashed through his heart.
So he looked up at the figure who had just sat down in the stall. Because he didn't know whether the person was a man or a woman through the Exile mask and cloak, he just raised his hand and asked vaguely:
"Fellow Taoist, I've invited you. I don't know what kind of treasure the 'spiritual weapon' your shop sells is. I'm so ignorant that I've never heard of it."
Seeing business coming to the door, the figure who had just sat down in the stall quickly stood up.
After listening to Gao Yuan's question, he first politely returned the favor, and then explained calmly:
"It's normal that fellow Taoists have never heard of it. This 'spiritual weapon' is a special magical weapon that has just emerged in the 'Qiang Wucheng' in the Western Regions. It is driven by 'spiritual stones' as energy, so it is called 'Spiritual weapon'."
"Powered by spirit stones...isn't this just a puppet?"
Gao Yuan was immediately disappointed when he heard this. He originally thought that the word "spirit" was attached to it, and it was a magic weapon related to the soul!
"The gods are powered by spiritual stones, so they are called spiritual weapons!"
He couldn't help complaining in his heart, but he didn't bother to ask again. He just bowed his hands to the other party and prepared to leave.
"Eh? Fellow Taoist, could it be that you regard the 'spiritual weapon' you are selling as an ordinary puppet?"
Just when he turned around and was about to leave, he suddenly heard the other party's rhetorical question.
"Um?"
Gao Yuan's heart moved when he heard this, and he immediately stopped and turned around to look.
…
Ten minutes later, Gao Yuan took off his mask and retreated from the Exile's space.
He reached out and patted his waist, took out the 'cross-border disc', and skillfully inserted the spirit stone to activate it.
After some manipulation, more than a dozen items appeared in front of him.
There are many types of these items, but the most valuable among them is the ten kilograms of Five Spirit Jade he just bought.
When the power of the top-grade talisman far exceeds expectations, he will naturally not leave such a powerful weapon unused. Ten kilograms of five-spirit jade can just be used to refine two 'Qinglan Rulers' and one 'Qianyuan Ling'
.
Coupled with the 'Qianyuan Order' that was half activated and then withdrawn, he will have four top-quality talismans by then.
When the time comes to fight with monks of the same level, he is confident that his attack power will not be inferior to anyone else.
After all, Gao Yuan didn't think any monk in the Kaiyuan Realm could survive the bombardment of these four powerful weapons targeting the body and soul, including himself now.
The only thing he needs to be careful about at this time is his own defense in case he is attacked first by the opponent.
Due to his physical training, he wasn't too worried about physical defense.
At this time, he not only had extremely high physical strength, but also had various spells, talismans, spherical battle puppets, etc. to coordinate his defense.
Not to mention ordinary spell attacks, even the best talisman for physical attacks, unless it can attack continuously, it will not be able to severely damage him with one blow in a short period of time.
It’s mainly about the soul!
Sighing in his heart, Gao Yuan's attention immediately fell on another item taken out from the cross-border plate.
At first glance, it looks a bit like a large breast mirror, with densely packed talisman formations imprinted on the silver-white shell.
Even if he didn't actively activate it at this time, there was still a faint light flowing on its surface.
This strange-looking item was exactly the "spiritual weapon" called the "Aegis Shield" that he had just bought in the exclusive trading area for the price of 40,000 intermediate spiritual stones.
Although the seller elaborated on the difference between this so-called 'spiritual weapon' and a puppet in various details, it still did not change Gao Yuan's initial impression.
This so-called 'spiritual weapon' essentially still belongs to the category of puppet, but its efficacy and focus are a little more special.
And the reason why he was willing to pay such a large price to purchase this 'Aegis Shield' spiritual weapon was because its effect was exactly the main purpose of his trip - to protect the soul of the user.
There is a spiritual stone slot inside this spiritual weapon. After it is activated, it can generate a soul shield of corresponding strength according to the level of the spiritual stone core installed inside.
According to the seller, just using the intermediate spirit stone can produce a strong soul protection effect; if the upper level spirit stone is used, it is enough to withstand most Kaiyuan realm spirit attack spells.
And if the best spiritual stone is used as the energy source, the soul shield generated by it can even withstand an attack from a soul attack talisman of lower quality than top grade.
Although it is still far from the absolute defense Gao Yuan pursues, it has to be said that this 'Aegis Shield' is already the best soul defense treasure he can obtain at this stage.
Perhaps because of the first customer, this seller not only agreed to enter into an alliance arbitration contract, but even agreed to Gao Yuan's request to swear an oath from his inner demon on the authenticity of his description of the ability of the 'Aegis'.
Therefore, Gao Yuan bought this 'Aegis Shield' without much hesitation.