He entered one of the shops that looked slightly more upscale on the outside, with an attitude of "since he had already paid the spirit stone, he might as well take a look".

  In this originally not very spacious shop, several cabinets of different sizes were placed horizontally and vertically. Zhao Di's gaze only swept across the counter, and he was suddenly startled. Various beast skins, beast horns, beast bones and other demon beast materials were disorderly placed on the counter, among which many materials shone with a strong spiritual light, obviously taken from third-level or even fourth-level demon beasts, and most of them were things Zhao Di had never seen before.

  Zhao Di's eyes were dazzled, and he couldn't help but want to take out a high-grade spirit stone to buy all these rare materials and refine them into one top-quality magic weapon after another. Of course, this suicidal idea only lasted for an instant.

  Considering that he would have to pay a considerable amount of spirit stones for transportation later, Zhao Di didn't dare spend too much in this market. These demon beast materials, each one priced between 200-600 spirit stones, and some even exceeded 800 spirit stones. As a result, Zhao Di didn't buy a single item. This made the shop owner, a man in his forties with a foundation-building cultivation base, look somewhat displeased. After Zhao Di left, he muttered "poor devil" to himself for a long time.

  It was a small collection of jade slips that introduced some common sea monsters, priced at 40 to 50 spirit stones each. Zhao Di bought two of them.

  Then he followed the old shopkeeper's instructions and came to a magnificent stone temple on the other side of Bihai Island, not far from Fangshi City.

  This should be where the transmission array that can transport to the deep sea area is located.

  Zhao Di walked into the grand hall, and found that the interior of the grand hall was even more spacious than he had imagined. In the center of the hall, there was a six-sided, pale blue jade platform emitting a faint spiritual glow. The platform was engraved with various strange symbols and six intersecting stripes, which formed a transmission array.

  On the edge of the law array, four blue-robed cultivators were waiting in attendance. Surprisingly, all of them had cultivation levels above the Foundation Establishment stage. One elderly man among them emitted a shocking fluctuation of spiritual energy that far surpassed others, and he should be a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

  Zhao Di cupped his fists and bowed, saying: "I was wondering if I could borrow your sect's transmission array to make a trip to Xingxing Island. Would you gentlemen be willing to do me the favor?"

  An old man with white hair in the later stage of foundation building looked at Zhao Di and said lightly, "Fellow Daoist wants to go to Xing Star Island to hunt and kill demonic beasts? Ah, I'll give you some good advice. With your current foundation building cultivation, if you encounter a demonic beast, it's likely that you'll lose your life. Why not just cultivate bitterly on the mainland and wait until your cultivation is higher before going? Even with my current cultivation, it's difficult to stand firm in the deep sea."

  "Yes, I've been in the foundation stage for many years and I don't dare to hunt for demonic beasts in the deep sea region. If we were to encounter a powerful demonic beast, even if it's a senior in the condensation stage, they would only end up falling!" A lean, slightly dark middle-aged man chimed in.

  "Thank you for your guidance, fellow Taoists. I'm just going to take a look around and don't dare to play with my own life!" Zhao Di said with a smile.

  "Just seeing the world? Do you know that it takes 300 spirit stones to teleport once?" The thin man asked with a hint of surprise, clearly not believing what he was being told.

  "Three hundred spirit stones! This... isn't this going to make me penniless all at once?! This..." Zhao's face was filled with hesitation and difficulty, as he muttered to himself.

  Seeing Zhao's flustered appearance, the four cultivators of Bihai Gate all revealed a mocking expression that was both smiling and not.

  "Alright, since I've come all the way here, I might as well broaden my horizons. I've heard that the deep sea region over there is full of opportunities to earn spirit stones!" Zhao Di's face revealed a resolute expression, as if he had made up his mind about something big, and he took out three mid-grade spirit stones of different colors and handed them over to the white-bearded old man.

  The old man took the spirit stone with an expressionless face, looked up at Zhao Di and said: "In addition to needing three hundred spirit stones, non-disciples using the transmission array also need someone to guarantee it! Which Qi Foundation stage cultivator of our sect is vouching for you?"

  "Still need a guarantor?" Zhao Di was slightly surprised, but he quickly understood the old man's meaning. He took out another pile of low-grade spirit stones and smiled awkwardly: "This... I really don't know if I need to find a guarantor. There aren't many spirit stones here, but it's already more than half of what I have left. Please, senior, accept this and be my guarantor? I'm just a lone cultivator, without any sect or school, I won't trouble you!"

  The old man's face showed a difficult expression, seemingly hesitant, and after a moment, he said: "Alright, this time I'll make an exception and be your guarantor, but don't think it will happen again!"

  After finishing, the old man took out a white talisman paper and handed it to Zhao Di, saying: "This is not an ordinary short-distance transmission, but a long-distance transmission that spans an extremely far distance! For ordinary cultivators' bodies, it will be difficult to withstand the spatial pressure during transmission. This talisman is a transmission talisman, which is used to offset the spatial force during transmission. You can stick it on now! This is a one-time talisman, use it and destroy it."

  "Yes! Thank you, fellow Taoist!" Zhao Di took the transmission talisman and, without waiting for the old man's instructions, stood in the center of the bluestone platform on his own initiative, sticking the white talisman to his chest.

  The elder nodded at the youngest of the foundation-building monks, who immediately took out six mid-grade spirit stones and placed them in various array eyes on the transmission array. The transmission formation was activated instantly, and the Qingyu platform was enveloped by a white misty light.

  "It's actually an array activated by mid-grade spirit stones, no wonder it costs 300 spirit stones to teleport once. I suppose these six mid-grade spirit stones won't be able to activate the array too many times either." Zhao Di thought to himself.

  The old man pinched a spell, lightly spat out the word "Transmission!", and the transmission array burst into a white light that shot up to the sky. Zhao Di's figure gradually weakened and finally disappeared in the white light.

  "Haha. Master Ge is indeed astute, with just a few words, he made that kid take out dozens of spirit stones and even thanked him profusely!" The middle-aged man in the foundation-building stage laughed loudly after Zhao Di was sent away.

  "Hah, this inexperienced young man, with such low cultivation, actually thinks he can go to the deep sea region and hunt down sea monsters? He's probably going to get himself killed! What a foolish bighead, if I don't teach him a lesson, that would be a waste!" The old man said with a smug smile.

  In front of him, a white mist flashed, and in an instant, he only felt dizzy, his head splitting, his whole body weak, and his five internal organs were extremely uncomfortable. At this time, the white talisman in front of him turned into a light circle, protecting Zhao Di inside, and the feeling of dizziness and nausea was greatly alleviated.

  A moment later, Zhao Di's eyes suddenly lit up, and he knew that he should have been transported somewhere, but his mind was still extremely dizzy. The transmission symbol on his chest had also turned into a flame, burning and dissipating on its own. He forcibly controlled a thread of divine consciousness, circulating in his brain, and quickly came to his senses.

  Here is also a stone house, but much smaller, and underfoot is another identical transmission array. There are two foundation-building middle-stage cultivators around the array, but judging from their attire, they don't seem to be cultivators of the Azure Sea Sect. Apart from this, there's nothing special about the inside of the stone house.

  Zhao Di slightly cupped his fists in greeting to the two, then walked out of the stone hut and saw a bustling street with dozens of large and small shops on both sides. The transmission array he came out of was actually located in the midst of a lively market.

  Zhao Di just took a rough glance and found that there were dozens of people with strong spiritual fluctuations, whose cultivation was above the foundation-building period. There were even several people whose spiritual energy fluctuations were too intense, making it difficult to determine their cultivation level, and it was unclear whether they were at the peak of the late foundation-building period or the senior cultivators of the Core Formation period.

  Apart from this, there were also many people who had no spiritual energy on them, and they looked like ordinary people. In the Golden Flame Country, places where cultivators gathered rarely saw ordinary people, even if they did, it was usually relatives of some cultivators. And yet, in this bustling cultivator market, nearly half of the people present were ordinary people, which shocked Zhao Di greatly.

  (Second update today, four updates in total! There are still two more chapters! Continued collection and recommendation sought! Seeking advertisement!)