Chapter 146 Night Walker

  On this day, in the market of Penglai Fairy Island, a cultivator at the peak of the foundation stage appeared, wearing all black clothes and a black conical hat that covered his entire face.

  Of course, in such a large bazaar, dozens of monks like this appear every day. As long as they are familiar with the bazaar, they will get used to it and no one will take a second look.

  This black-robed monk frequently appears in various elixir shops, material shops, and bookstores, often spending tens of thousands of spirit stones at a time. Although it's not particularly astonishing, he is considered extremely wealthy!

  The black-robed monk was also very cautious, every day only purchasing in one or two completely unrelated and distant shops, each time spending around 10,000 spirit stones, and only appearing in the market once every few days, with a different disguise each time.

  Even so, it was still discovered by a young monk who had only just begun his foundation!

  The young cultivator's true name was unknown to many, but his nickname "Night Walker" was well-known. It was a sarcastic reference to the fact that he didn't dare to show himself in daylight. The Night Walker's cultivation was ordinary and his strength was average! However, when he was a youth, he accidentally discovered a young beast and raised it into a variant spirit beast called the "Purple Cloud Mink". This spirit beast had an extremely strong sense of smell, no matter how well its opponents disguised themselves, it could easily distinguish between different cultivators' scents. As a result, relying on this spirit beast's unique talent, he specialized in uncovering disguises and selling information in the market, gaining some fame and earning a lot of spirit stones. However, there were also many cultivators who bore grudges against him because of this. If it weren't for the fact that he never appeared publicly or left the Penglai Immortal Island, his enemies wouldn't have dared to make a move on the island, fearing that he would be killed off early!

  Recently, "Night Walker" received a job offer from someone who gave him a piece of torn clothing and asked for his help in finding the owner of this torn fabric, saying that the owner was likely hiding in this vast city.

  This was the most common errand that Shadow received. He dressed up as an ordinary cloak monk and let Ziyun Diaozhen sniff the remaining cloth, then put it into the Ling Beast Bag. After that, he swaggered through the various places in Fang City, especially paying attention to those monks who had disguised their appearance. As soon as the owner of the remaining cloth appeared within dozens of yards, Ziyun Diaozhen would immediately inform him through divine sense.

  In this way, he wandered around the streets every day, who knew that the owner of the leftover fabric had not discovered it, but instead gained another unexpected harvest.

  One day, his spiritual beast told him that the black-robed cultivator who had just walked out of a demon pill shop several dozen feet away was someone he had met at a material store a few days ago. Although the two appearances were slightly different, Ziyun Diao judged from the smell that it was the same person. At that time in the material store, this black-robed cultivator spent over 10,000 spirit stones to buy a large batch of alchemy auxiliary materials. Now this person came to this demon pill shop again and after inquiring, he actually spent over 10,000 spirit stones again to buy several fourth-grade Jiao-class demon pills.

  The Night Walker had initially thought that this person was just extremely wealthy, after all, for a cultivator at the late stage of foundation building to take out 20,000 spirit stones in one breath, although not uncommon, it wasn't something worth making a fuss about. However, coincidentally, he met this cultivator again for the third time in just a few days. Although this time, the generous cultivator had changed into a set of grey robes, he still couldn't escape the Purple Cloud Leopard's keen senses. After witnessing this person purchasing another batch of dragon demon dan worth over 10,000 spirit stones, he finally confirmed that his opponent was not an ordinary wealthy foundation building stage cultivator, and his family must be extremely rich!

  He secretly paid attention to this person, and relying on the extremely keen sense of smell of the purple cloud weasel, he even followed him to his cave, in a relatively quiet place in the middle section of Yuqing Peak.

  Under his deliberate investigation, he also discovered that this person had made two moves in the market, both of which were worth about 10,000 spirit stones! This completely shocked him!

  To be able to take out tens of thousands of spirit stones, I'm afraid even an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator may not necessarily be able to do it!

  A windfall! However, this person's cultivation was far superior to his, and naturally it wasn't something that this dark shadow, a foundation-building initial-stage cultivator, could digest. He simply sold the information to an old acquaintance, a middle-aged cultivator in the Core Formation stage.

  The slightly bald cultivator of the Congealing Dan stage was deeply moved after hearing this, and immediately came up with many moving excuses to deceive the mysterious rich cultivator into leaving the island. Unfortunately, no matter who he sent to entice him, using treasures, spiritual elixirs, large amounts of spirit stones, and thousand-year-old spiritual medicines as temptation conditions, they were unable to trick this person into taking a single step off the immortal island. Moreover, this person was extremely cautious, and his flying magical instrument's speed was extremely fast, making it impossible to ambush him near his cave dwelling. The defensive restrictions on his cave dwelling were also extremely powerful, and even if he personally took action, he would be unable to shake them in a short period of time.

  Helpless, the Dan period cultivator arranged for several disciples to take turns guarding this mysterious cultivator day and night. If there was any movement, they would report it to him immediately. He didn't believe that this person would stay on Penglai Fairy Island forever! As long as this person left the island, he would have the opportunity to make a move, quietly killing him and swallowing his wealth worth tens of thousands of spirit stones alone.

  What he didn't expect was that this person actually stayed in the cave for a whole month without taking half a step out!

  And this situation lasted for thirty whole years!

  In these thirty years, the bald-headed Jindan stage cultivator had lost even more hair, but he still hadn't given up on his thoughts of Yu Qingfeng. At all times, there were two disciples waiting outside his cave, day and night, without stop.

  But thirty years later, on a certain day, he came to the vicinity of this peak under the urgent report of his disciples, and then left in extreme disappointment.

  This wealthy and powerful monk who was being targeted was naturally Zhao Di.

  He began to make the final preparations for the Dan after returning from the Xian Island of Yingzhou. Although he already had the Qixin Dan and two excellent cold and hot attribute spiritual liquids, he still didn't have enough confidence to succeed in one go. If not, he would have to make sufficient preparations for the second round of Hunyuan Jue's reconstruction.

  A large quantity of elixir-refining materials, some auxiliary elixir-refining materials, and a certain rare demon pill that he had in limited supply all needed to be replenished.

  In addition, his closed-door meditation will take many years, and he cannot ignore the potential of the powerful spirit beast Bingfengmang. For this reason, he also has to generously spend money, buying some Jiaolongyao Dan and other auxiliary materials for refining the Jiaolongdan.

  This way, it's inevitable to spend an astonishing amount of spirit stones. In order to avoid drawing attention as much as possible, he has split them into multiple batches and sold them separately in different shops, each time controlling the amount to around ten thousand spirit stones or so, thinking that this way, the possibility of being discovered is extremely low.

  This lasted for nearly two months during the procurement process, and it was relatively smooth. He had basically purchased all the items he needed. Occasionally, a monk would invite him to go treasure hunting together, or promise great benefits in exchange for his help with a small task. Even beautiful female monks would beg him for assistance with their miserable circumstances and offer themselves in marriage. These monks, both male and female, were of varying cultivation levels and dressed differently, but they all proposed tempting conditions, and the requirements they put forward were basically effortless for him.

  He naturally wouldn't believe such a good thing that suddenly fell into his lap. Moreover, the other party didn't even know his true identity, let alone what he looked like, so how could they possibly find him?

  At first, Zhao Diqi didn't pay much attention to this, but as he encountered more and more monks like this, he even began to worry that he was being targeted, so he closed himself off and stopped going out during the Double Seventh Festival.

  Zhao Di put the Ice Wind Python, which was about to molt and advance, in the Spiritual Beast Room. He then calmed his mind and began refining large batches of raw materials into various spiritual pills and medicines.

  Years later, from the Qi refining pills, Clear Spirit Pills and Yuanyuan Dan used by human cultivators to the 4th grade Huixiao Dan prepared for Bingfeng Nian, Zhao Di had refined a staggering number of them.

  The Ice Wind Python had also successfully shed its skin and advanced to a third-level demon beast, equivalent to the standard of the middle stage of foundation building.

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