Chapter 45: Ambush on the Halfway Road (Part 1)

  Top-grade Congzhēn Dan, with a 90% success rate, allows martial artists at the 10th level of the Martial Path to convert their internal energy into Pre-Heavenly True Qi, entering the Pre-Heavenly Realm. It is an extremely expensive and high-quality spiritual elixir.

  Refining a top-grade Congenital Spirit Dan is not easy, requiring many rare and precious spiritual herbs, some special demon beasts' demon cores. It's one of the most coveted Spiritual Dans for martial artists in the Martial Dao realm.

  Ninety percent of the probability of entering the Xiantian realm, as long as it is not a person with extremely bad luck, basically every martial artist who has reached the tenth level of the Martial Dao can enter the Xiantian realm in a short period of time through the use of the high-grade Condensing True Pill.

  Xuantian actually wanted to exchange the top-grade Concentrated True Essence Pill for something else, which greatly surprised this inner sect disciple.

  However, in Xuan Tian's view, the top-grade Essence Condensing Pill was far less important than the Wound Healing Spirit Pill.

  Xuān Tiān cultivates the "Pre-Heavenly Skill", and when cultivated to the extreme, the internal energy within the body will automatically transform into Pre-Heavenly True Qi. Entering the Pre-Heavenly Realm is not difficult.

  And 'Long Zhi Duan Xu Dan' is one of the best elixirs in Xuanji Lingdan for treating meridian fractures, which has a great effect on Xuan Hong's injury.

  Xuantian has just entered the ninth level of martial arts, although in the Wuji Pavilion, he fought against Chu Feng with one palm, and the white jade sword in his eyebrow burst out with some power, making Xuantian's ninth-level martial arts almost solidify, but there is still a distance from the tenth level.

  It's better to exchange the 'Upper-grade Concentrated True Pill' for a Wound Healing Spirit Medicine. This time when I return home, I'll give Father Xuan Hong a surprise.

  Xuān Tiān nodded, his eyes fixed only on the treasure map fragment, not even glancing at the Dragon's Fat Dan, and said: "Fellow Daoist, I'm interested in collecting this treasure map. Can you sell it to me?"

  People who buy healing potions are either preparing to venture into extremely dangerous places or trying to save the lives of their loved ones, in any case, they are in dire need.

  Because the price of healing potions is extremely high, they usually don't sell well. Only in special circumstances will someone buy them, so if someone does buy one and raises the price a bit, that's completely normal.

  Xuantian didn't mention wanting Longzhi Duanxu Dan, otherwise if the inner sect senior brother knew he was in a hurry for the healing spiritual medicine, he might raise the price on the spot and sell it for 24 or 50 million taels.

  That treasure map, the stall owner has been selling it for a long time, in fact, even if it's 200,000 taels of silver, there may not be anyone who wants to buy it. It's just that no one wants it, so he simply puts a high price on it, which is also a way to show off and pretend to have many valuable things on the stall, raising the level of the stall.

  Xuan Tian wanted the treasure map, and the inner door disciple said: "This treasure map is extraordinary, it was obtained by me and several senior brothers in a land of extreme danger, after going through nine deaths and one life. 300,000 taels of silver, absolutely cheap price, brother indeed has good eyesight."

  Xuān Tiān faintly smiled, knowing he was boasting, and said: "Elder brother, I want this treasure map fragment, but I think it's still a bit too expensive. Moreover, I don't have much silver on me. If I were to exchange top-grade Concentrated True Dan for it, do you have that much silver to give me?"

  A top-grade Genuine Essence Pill, a relatively reasonable price is around 2 million taels. Even if this treasure map is calculated at 300,000 taels of silver, it would still be necessary to owe Xuan Tian 1.7 million taels of silver. If the treasure map is discounted further, then even more would be owed.

  1.7 million taels of silver, for the inner disciples of the Pre-Heavenly Boundary, is a super-giant sum of money. Although this inner disciple has set up this stall with valuable items, it's not owned by just one person, but rather several people jointly own them.

  They set up a stall in the market, take out some good things they have earned from their experience, and exchange them for more benefits. Every time they pass through here, they change to another stall, while others go out to gain experience.

  If divided equally, each person's share of silver would not exceed one million taels. This is still a material value; if it were silver notes on the body, there would be even less.

  Normally, each person has about 20-30 million silver tickets on them, and it's impossible to come up with 17 million all at once.

  The inner disciple said, "Top-grade Cong True Dan is too expensive, I don't have that much silver to give you. Brother, why not take a look and see if you need to buy something else? I'll charge you 2 million taels of silver for the top-grade Cong True Dan, and the Treasure Map Fragment will be cheaper, I'll sell it to you for 250,000 taels. You can pick up something worth 1.75 million taels from my stall."

  Xuantian took out the box containing the top-grade Concentrated True Essence Pill, but after hearing what the inner sect disciple said, he put it back in his bosom and said: "It's all a bunch of things I don't need, this way I'd be losing too much, forget it, I won't take it."

  "Ah!" The inner door disciple saw that the business was gone, and his heart was anxious. He pointed at the Longzhidan Duanxu Dan and said: "Younger brother, don't be in a hurry to refuse. Take a look at this Longzhidan Duanxu Dan. It's the best therapeutic spirit medicine for treating meridian fractures among the Xuan-level spiritual elixirs, worth 2 million taels of silver. Since you want that treasure map fragment, I'll take a loss and exchange the Longzhidan Duanxu Dan plus the treasure map fragment for your top-grade Condensed Reality Elixir. What do you think?"

  Longzhi Duanxu Dan might meet the right person and sell for a higher price, but its sales route is clearly not as good as that of Shangpin Ningzhen Dan. It's possible that Longzhi Duanxu Dan won't sell out in a month, while Shangpin Ningzhen Dan can be exchanged for 2 million taels of silver in just one day, and it may also sell for an even higher price.

  The treasure map was a fragment, actually quite useless. The inner sect disciples thought to themselves, "Let's just give this trash map away and exchange the Dragon Fat Pulse-Connecting Pill for top-grade Congealing True Pill." It would be easy to get rid of it if they could just run into a martial artist looking to buy Wound Healing Spirit Medicine, but that required luck. Without luck, it was too difficult to get rid of.

  Xuantian deliberately calculated: "The Dragon Fat Dan is worth 2 million taels of silver, and adding the treasure map, it seems I've made a profit."

  The inner door disciple happily said: "I think highly of my junior brother, letting him take advantage a bit is also nothing to worry about."

  If he knew what Xuantian wanted in his heart, it was this Longzhidan. The inner disciples would definitely raise the price, and as a result, they would be begging Xuantian to buy it.

  "It seems like no loss, then it's alright!" Xuan Tian nodded his head.

  In this way, Xuan Tian used the top-grade Essence Condensing Pill to exchange for the Dragon Fat Intermittent Pill, as well as a Treasure Map Fragment. The remaining three pieces of Qi Huang Grass leaves were all left in his hands.

  Holding the treasure map, the white jade sword in his brow became even more vibrant. Xuan Tian's feeling for the sword became increasingly sharp, and he sensed a sword aura from the treasure map.

  Holding the treasure map, I looked at it for a long time, but the damage was too severe. At least two-thirds of it had been lost, and it was impossible to tell where the treasure was located. Looking at the map, all I knew was that it was within the borders of the Divine Sword Dynasty.

  He put the Longzhi Dandan and the Baozang Can Tu into his bosom, and Xuantian continued to wander around in the city. Soon, he found Mahang, spent 2,000 taels of silver, bought a black Qilin horse, and left the city, rushing towards Beimo County in the far north of Shendao Wangchao.

  The Tianjian Sect is located in the eastern part of the Shendao Dynasty, and Beimo County is located in the northernmost part of the Shendao Dynasty. The distance between them is at least 7,000 to 8,000 miles. Riding a black Qilin horse at full speed would take at least four days to arrive, and if you stop for a short rest along the way, it will take five or six days.

  The outer disciple ranking competition of Tianjian Sect is just at the end of the year, with less than half a month left before the New Year's Eve.

  The further north they went, the colder it became. On the second day, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

  On the second day, it snowed heavily all day, and the ground was covered with deep snow. The speed of the black Qilin horse decreased greatly, so Xuan Tian stopped at a small town halfway through and rested for a day. On the third day, the snow stopped, and they continued northward.

  The black unicorn ran in the snowy ground, much slower than usual, and could only travel over a thousand miles a day.

  On the fifth day, Xuan Tian had left the Tian Jian Sect for more than 5,000 miles and was only two days away from Bei Mo County.

  On the fifth day at noon, Xuántiān had lunch in Yěmǎ Town and continued to move forward. In front of him was Yěmǎ Yuán, a vast grassland stretching for nearly a thousand miles, but it was all covered with heavy snow at this moment, and he could only judge the direction through the distant mountains.

  Wild Horse Ridge was the only way to Northern Desert County, and it was impassable due to heavy snow. Except for martial artists, ordinary people would not travel at this time. In the vast snowy landscape, as far as the eye could see, there was only Xuan Tian walking alone.

  After advancing four or five hundred li in the wilderness, suddenly in the distance ahead, several black dots appeared. Before long, the number of black dots increased from a few to dozens, even hundreds.

  Xuantian's gaze fell on a group of black dots in the distance, without a doubt, in this weather, they were traveling in groups on the Wild Horse Plains, either as a merchant caravan or horse thieves. Looking at the speed at which the black dots moved, it was absolutely not a merchant caravan, there was only one possibility, it was a group of horse thieves.

  For ordinary people, encountering a group of horse bandits at Ye Ma Yuan is absolutely fatal danger, but Xuan Tian is a disciple of the Tian Jian Sect, a powerful sect that makes bandits tremble with fear. When the two meet, it's usually the ferocious bandits who flee in defeat.

  Therefore, Xuán Tiān was fearless, urging his horse forward without any hesitation.

  In the distance, horse thieves.

  The leader was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, and surrounding him were three rough-looking men.

  The tallest and most robust man on the far left, resembling an iron tower, was undoubtedly recognizable to Xuan Tian as the Third Master of the Fuwei Gang.

  San Da Jiang held a painting in his hand, and the person in the painting was Xuan Tian.

  Apart from the 18 or 19-year-old young man, the rest were members of the Fuwei Gang. The two rough and burly men standing to the right of San Dangjia were the First Master and Second Master of the Fuwei Gang.

  Fu Wei Gang was entrusted with a task this time, one million two silver coins, to take the head of Xuan Tian. Coincidentally, an 18 or 19-year-old young man came to Fu Wei Gang as a guest. The young man's name was Yin Jiu Chou, and he was a disciple of a famous thief from the Godly Knife Wang Dynasty.

  The three masters knew that Xuan Tian was a disciple of the Tianjian Sect and did not dare to take on this business, but Yin Jiu Chou did not put the disciples of the Tianjian Sect in his eyes.

  Moreover, the client also has a younger brother in the Tianjian Sect and promised to help them evade the pursuit of the Tianjian Sect. Therefore, the Fuwei Gang took over the business of beheading Xuantian's head with Yinjiu's partner.

  Scouts from Ye Ma Town just sent a message with carrier pigeons, Xuan Tian has entered the Ye Ma Plains and is heading towards Bei Mo County. The Fu Wei gang had just slaughtered a village and are now directly intercepting Xuan Tian.

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