CHAPTER 294: PLANS AND PRECAUTIONS

"As I thought." Shen Xu muttered and sighed.

Excluding Zhen Yuan, everyone in their group was at the peak of the void refining realm.

Although their cultivation was unstable and they wouldn’t need to advance for at least two hundred years, level six and seven cultivation resources weren’t easy to find.

Considering that, they couldn’t ignore any opportunities to accumulate resources.

The upcoming auction was such an opportunity!

Unfortunately, the valuable cultivation resources would not be sold at the auction but at the exchange market after the auction.

However, only void refining and fusion realm cultivators could enter that market.

"Only void refining and fusion realm cultivators can participate in the exchange meeting. Most importantly, the participants can’t bring lower realm cultivators to the market." Zhen Yuan said.

"Doesn’t that mean we all need to at least be at the void refining realm if we want to participate in the exchange market?" Yang Shi asked, and Zhen Yuan nodded.

"There is no way around this. Also..." He said, sipped his wine, and continued.

"We plan to buy and sell many things during the auction. Without strength, we will be underestimated and randomly attacked. To avoid such troubles, we need to show absolute strength."

Hearing this, Yang Shi smiled.

"We are finally going to show our true colours in front of the world." He exclaimed, and Shen Xu sneered.

"Stupid." He said and began explaining.

"We will show our strength but not our true appearance."

"Why?" Yang Shi questioned with a deflated expression.

"How old are we, and what is our cultivation level? Won’t we attract trouble if we dare to reveal ourselves?"

"Master is right." Feng Xue agreed with a solemn expression.

"You are all less than one thousand years old. Even in the Tianxuan continent, your cultivation should not be more than the peak stage of the spirit transformation realm. If others discover your abnormality, they will rightly conclude that you have a heaven-defying treasure."

"We can protect ourselves in the Tianqi content, but our cultivation is nothing in the Tianxuan continent. Let alone loose immortals and tribulation transcending cultivators, we can’t even deal with Mahayana realm cultivators."

"Is there such a big gap between the fusion realm and the Mahayana realm?" Li Wenqiang asked, and Feng Xue nodded.

"The gap is quite big." She said.

Generally, a powerful peak-stage void refining realm cultivator could cross levels and defeat an early-stage or mid-stage fusion realm cultivator.

However, it was almost impossible for a peak-stage fusion realm cultivator to defeat an early-stage, let alone a mid-stage Mahayana realm cultivator.

This was because of two things.

One, Mahayana realm cultivators could summon a domain.

Within this domain, their existence was law, and only a more powerful cultivator could circumvent this law.

Second, a Mahayana realm cultivator’s qi contained intent and specks of law.

Because of this, a lower realm attack would collapse in the face of a Mahayana realm attack.

After listening to Feng Xue’s explanation, everyone fell silent.

’We need to be more down to earth.’ Shen Xu thought and sighed.

"During the auction, we will reveal our cultivation but disguise our appearance." Zhen Yuan said, and the others immediately agreed.

Since they had finished their business, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan left the Inscription Tower City the following day.

Over the next six months, they went to the Weapons Tower City, the Talisman Tower City, Sword Tower City, Martial Tower City, and the Food and Wines Tower City.

Similar to the Formations and Inscription Tower Cities, the group leased a house in a village outside the city and arranged teleportation and other formations.

On this day, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan finally arrived in the Alchemy Tower City.

At a glance, the city was more prosperous than other tower cities they had been to.

’As expected, alchemists are the richest.’ Shen Xu thought, looking around with a curious expression.

After that, the two left the city and arranged a teleportation house before returning to the city.

Soon after, they found an inn and released the others.

"We are in the Alchemy Tower City." Shen Xu informed.

"Are we following the usual plan?" Yang Shi asked, and the double nodded.

"Alchemists are rich, but most are weak. Let’s take this chance to sell more talismans, formations, inscriptions, and weapons."

"What about pills?"

"Xiaoxu’s pills are too outstanding." Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

"Ordinary cultivators may not notice their abnormality, but alchemists won’t miss it. Let’s not stir the pot."

Feng Xue nodded when she heard this.

"Some alchemists can tell what kind of fire was used to refine a pill. Xiaomu may be exposed if we recklessly sell pills in the Alchemy Tower City."

Ordinarily, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan wouldn’t worry too much about such matters.

After all, they rarely lingered in a city and would usually leave after a few days.

However, the Alchemy Tower City was different.

One, Shen Xu planned to walk around, buying spirit grasses and other alchemy supplements.

Second, the long yearned for chaos water was in this city.

That said, getting it was not as easy as walking into a shop and buying it.

Knowing this, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan planned to stay in the Alchemy Tower City and would likely not leave until one or two months before the auction.

Later that afternoon, the group left the inn and separated into two groups.

As usual, each group went to a restaurant and began listening to gossip.

"I heard the instructions are from above." Someone said, and Shen Xu tilted his head with an interested expression.

"Above..., you mean..."

"Mmh." Someone said and quickly continued.

"The instructions are from the Tianxuan continent."

"But why..., why did they suddenly decide to do this?"

"I heard it’s not just the alchemy association. All others are the same."

Hearing this, Shen Xu couldn’t help but feel a little frustrated.

After all, the people were talking without revealing the important matter.

"The instructions came down two hours ago."

"This is going to cause a stir in the Tianqi continent."

"I agree."