Apart from providing low-level cultivators, the ordinary people on Island No. 1 do not have to pay any spirit stone taxes, but they also have their own unique mission, the most important of which is to repair and build the huge city wall that stands on the east side of Island No. 1 year after year without stopping.

  The city wall is so big that Yu Jian specially left a suspense in the jade slip and did not elaborate, but said that the monks can go and take a look. Any monk who sees this scene for the first time will not believe that it was created by ordinary people.

  This overseas merchant alliance seems pretty good, Zhao Di made a preliminary judgment after reading this classic. If he didn't mind wasting decades of his life being at someone's beck and call, joining the overseas merchant alliance might be a good choice.

  Zhao turned into a blue light and slowly flew towards the waist of Taile Peak.

  This island only has more than a dozen mountains with spiritual veins, but most of them are of good quality. The worst is also a medium-grade spiritual vein, and there are several places that can be considered high-grade spiritual veins.

  The monks of Island No. 1 usually live in these mountains, so when it comes to the environment for cultivation, this island does not have any special advantages and is far inferior compared to some large islands in the Inner Starry Sky.

  Tai Lai Peak is where the best spiritual vein of Island No. 1 is located, barely reaching the lowest spiritual energy density of a top-grade spiritual vein.

  In the middle section of the mountain waist of Tailai Peak, hundreds of buildings, pavilions and caves were built to serve the Golden Elixir stage cultivators who came to No. 1 Island.

  On the Star Island, Jiedan stage cultivators are already top-notch existences, so they receive the best treatment in all aspects. Even Zhao Di, a Jiedan initial stage cultivator who has just arrived on No. 1 island for the first time, can choose a cave mansion on Tailei Peak and use it for free.

  Zhao Di flew into an ordinary three-story building, where he was greeted by a middle-aged female cultivator from the foundation-building period. She was very enthusiastic and repeatedly addressed Zhao Di as "senior" while recommending many places to him. After casually selecting a secluded spot, Zhao Di took the restrictive law disk of that place and arrived at the No. 1 Island Market at the foot of Taicheng Peak.

  Although this market is much smaller than the huge market of Penglai Fairy Island, it also has its own characteristics. Especially the shops that specialize in selling demon pills, demon souls, and demon beast materials are among the largest and most comprehensive in the Starry Sea!

  Zhao Di walked around the market, although he didn't find the fire coral and agate leaves, but gained a lot of knowledge. There were more than ten kinds of monsters that he had killed before but didn't know their names or origins, all of which were found here. After inquiring, he finally understood some of the ways. In addition, some rare demon pills were also sold here, although the price was much higher than ordinary demon pills of the same level, Zhao Di still bought a few.

  There were no other gains in the market, and Zhao Di could only pin his hopes on the auction a fortnight later. He didn't linger in the market any longer and flew back to the cave mansion, where he sat down to rest.

  He had Yu Rou set up a few more restrictive arrays inside the cave, and instructed the two women not to waste time, also taking advantage of these days to take a few Congxuan Dan.

  For cultivators, it was just a blink of an eye that passed more than ten days, and Zhao Di didn't want to waste it either.

  Three days before the auction, Zhao Di left Dongfu and arrived at the second floor of Xingchen Pavilion.

  Yu Jian Zhong Jie Dai, three days before each auction, the second floor of Xing Chen Ge will be open to all Dan-stage cultivators for free, allowing them to freely exchange treasures and spirit stones. Due to time constraints, only a limited number of items can be traded at the auction, while more ordinary treasures are circulated and exchanged in this free trade.

  There are also some monks who, in order to have a large amount of spirit stones that may be used at the auction, will exchange some valuable treasures for a large amount of spirit stones before the auction, so as to avoid the regret of encountering their ideal treasure at the auction but not having enough spirit stones.

  This was an exchange between cultivators of the Congealing Dan stage, and Zhao Di naturally didn't want to miss out. He had never participated in a transaction of this level before, so who knows what surprises there might be.

  Of course, if there is a suitable treasure, he will also be willing to spend a large amount of spirit stones to buy it.

  Before entering the second floor, Zhao put on a cyan mask.

  This is a law enforcement tool he bought in the city, and its function is still to block divine consciousness and cover up one's true appearance. According to Yu Jian, most of the high-ranking cultivators who participate in auctions and pre-trading meetings will wear this kind of mask. After all, the value of the treasures traded in these occasions is often tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spirit stones, and no one wants to expose their wealth in such a public gathering of many cultivators.

  Zhao Di arrived not too early, in the second floor of the thousands-of-zhang-large main hall, dozens of cultivators had already gathered, all of whom were at least at the Foundation Establishment stage, among them two people whose spiritual pressure was clearly higher than the others by a notch, precisely the late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

  In the foreign galaxy, a master in the later stage of Jiedan is an existence at the very top. Unexpectedly, this mere pre-auction trading gathering has attracted two masters in the later stage of Jiedan.

  Among these dozens of monks, more than 70% wore a cyan mask exactly the same as Zhao Di's, and their clothes were mostly plain gray robes, white robes, and cyan clothes without any logo, obviously not wanting to be recognized.

  Hundreds of stone tables and chairs were arranged around the grand hall. Some monks who were eager to exchange their treasures had already chosen a suitable location, placing one or more jade boxes on the stone table in front of them, some open and some closed.

  More masters are like walking horses and flowers, looking at the treasures in these jade boxes one by one. If they encounter something of interest, they will carefully appreciate it. If they intend to buy, they will set up a soundproof screen with the owner of the treasure and discuss the transaction method and price in a low voice.

  Zhao Di also walked slowly in front of these stone tables, and among the open jade boxes, most of them were placed with some raw materials for refining magic treasures, from ore, spiritual wood to high-grade demon beast materials, all kinds. These things can only be used by cultivators above the Condensing Dan stage, and only they have enough treasures and spirit stones to exchange.

  Those closed jade boxes all have prohibition symbols carefully pasted on them, obviously storing even more precious treasures. The owner of the treasure is probably afraid of damaging the spiritual energy of the treasure or for other reasons does not want to open the jade box to show it off, but just puts it on a stone table to attract the attention of some powerful people. Those cultivators who are very interested in the treasure inside the jade box will transmit their voices to ask the seller.

  Zhao Di looked over the treasures on two or three stone tables, then stopped at one of them, holding a fist-sized transparent crystal filled with spiral blood threads in his hand, playing with it with great interest.

  "Fellow Daoist has taken a liking to this Blood Crystal? This is indeed an excellent material for refining auxiliary artifacts with extraordinary effects. If I weren't mediocre in the art of artifact refinement, I wouldn't be willing to part with such a treasure!"

  The owner of this treasure is a cultivator in the middle stage of forming elixirs. He introduced the treasure in Zhao Di's hand with a tone of great regret, and judging from his accent, he was probably a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

  "It's indeed a top-quality Blood Crystal Stone. I wonder what price you're willing to sell it for?" Zhao Di put the Blood Crystal Stone back into the jade box, asking with a smile.

  He once had a Blood Crystal, but he exchanged it for a more useful Foundation Establishment Pill. He never thought that after all these years, he would see this treasure again.

  "This treasure is worth 12,000 spirit stones, but I'd rather exchange it for a demon core of the sixth-grade demonic beast, Phoenix Tail Shrimp. If you have one, that would be best. Otherwise, any other sixth-grade demon core that's not too bad will do." The middle-aged man casually set up a soundproof barrier and responded in a low voice.

  In the market, demon pellets below grade 5 can still be easily bought with spirit stones, but grade 6 and 7 demon pellets and demon beast materials are extremely limited in quantity, expensive, and rarely circulate. Once they appear, they are often snapped up by well-informed Foundation Establishment cultivators who have received news of their availability, so this middle-aged man hopes to exchange for a grade 6 demon pellet that would be very useful to him.

  "There isn't even a single 6th-grade Spirit Dan in my hands!" Zhao Di's response greatly disappointed the other party, but he then pulled out a small storage bag containing over a hundred mid-grade spirit stones and handed it to the middle-aged man.

  The middle-aged man swept his eyes over the storage bag and immediately counted the number of spirit stones, then handed the jade box containing the blood crystal stone to Zhao Di with a somewhat reluctant expression.

  Zhao Di put the jade box into his storage bag, then bowed to bid farewell to the other party, and walked to another stone table with treasures.

  On this stone table were placed three or four open jade boxes, all of which contained some raw materials for refining magical artifacts. They weren't particularly valuable, but one of the jade boxes had two talismans and a white paper stuck to it, which caught Zhao Di's attention.

  "Yue Xiao Jue!" These three large characters were written on the white paper, it seems that this jade box contains a manual of Gong Fa, such a serious matter, it must be a Gong Fa that can cultivate to Yuan Ying period or above. Behind this stone table stood a short and fat cultivator who was not wearing a green mask, wearing a yellow long gown, with a face full of flesh, his eyes were protruding, big and round, showing a few hints of ferocity, his cultivation was similar to Zhao Di's, both were cultivators at the initial stage of forming elixir.

  "This fellow Daoist, is the 'Yue Xuan Jue' a method of the Earthly surname? I'm not familiar with it, and haven't heard of this method before. Does the Yuan Ying period have a cultivation mantra as well?" Zhao Di quietly transmitted his voice over.

  Since he couldn't find the sequel to "Hunyuan Jue", preparing one or two sets of complete and intact top-tier cultivation methods would still give him a chance to break through to the Yuan Ying stage. These cultivation methods have been modified and perfected by countless brilliant masters, so Zhao Di asked himself if he had the ability to create his own cultivation method just relying on the first nine layers of "Hunyuan Jue".

  (6,000 words!)

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