Chapter 496 - 189: 500,000 Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, 3 Portions of Ten Thousand Year Spirit Marrow, and an Unexpected Surprise (Part 3)
"Ten days later, I will naturally come to find you."
Zhou Changwang didn’t linger any longer. After saying this, he walked straight out of the compartment.
Shen Xinyi naturally didn’t dare to forcefully stop him, she just looked at the bottles of Youthful Appearance Pills on the table, a clear expression of joy appearing on her face.
No matter what identity this Kunpeng Daoist had or what his purpose was.
But with this batch of Spirit Pills, their Shuiyun Pavilion could truly emerge.
They could truly survive this crisis, and no longer fear the layers of suppression set by the Lai Family.
It was like a drowning person suddenly smelling fresh air, that sense of relief and ease made her indescribably happy and excited.
"But now is too early to be happy.
Five hundred thousand Lower-Grade Spirit Stones is no small sum.
And the three portions of Ten Thousand Year Spirit Marrow, I must find them quickly.
Although I don’t know what kind of identity this Kunpeng Daoist has, I must perfectly fulfill his request.
Not to mention, he also said there would be a surprise... surprise?"
She shook her head, naturally very much looking forward to this surprise.
Then, she immediately waved her hand, collected all the Youthful Appearance Pills, and started busying herself energetically.
...
"This Divine Concealment Technique is indeed useful.
No flaws were exposed throughout the process.
Just now, a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator passed by and even respectfully greeted, without noticing anything different about me."
Zhou Changwang, after coming out of Shuiyun Pavilion, encountered a Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivator head-on.
The person seemed to be from the Gong Family, one of Gong Bai Xue’s clan uncles, one of the three Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the Gong Family, at the Second Level of Foundation Establishment.
Upon meeting Zhou Changwang, the other party actually courteously greeted him first, inquiring about his dao name, and then cautiously probed into his background.
After being muddled past by him, there wasn’t any further questioning, just clasped hands again before taking leave.
Throughout, they did not see through his real realm.
"However, this is normal.
Although my Divine Concealment Technique is only cultivated to the Great Success Realm, its concealment effect is strong enough to be indistinguishable from the real thing.
Unless someone’s realm is a whole level higher than mine, they wouldn’t notice at all."
Zhou Changwang, while sighing, naturally concealed his aura as he continued walking for a while, unknowingly changing into another appearance.
After doing so two or three times, no one could trace his facial aura anymore.
Zhou Changwang didn’t stay long in the marketplace.
After strolling around a bit, he headed towards the outside of the marketplace.
Then, at the entrance, he saw a bounty notice about himself at a glance.
Even though nearly half a month had passed, below the bounty notice, a crowd still gathered, with some people enthusiastically introducing the identity and deeds of the person wanted.
What surprised Zhou Changwang was an old man among them, whose eloquence was truly something, making a simple story into one full of suspense and dramatic ups and downs involving grudges and enmity.
In his words, Zhou Changwang was a Loose Cultivator who came from the countryside, while Young Master Ye Ping’an was wise and heroic, a young genius. Since the two met, it seemed like a destined battle, with an inserted storyline of them competing for the courtesan at the Celestial Fragrance Tower, described in vivid detail....
Zhou Changwang listened to the story as a source of amusement before slowly walking away.
Cleaning Technique, Spirit Eye Technique, Derivation Technique, Concealing Breath Technique, Invisibility Technique, Earth Escape Technique...
Using all kinds of magic together, even exceptionally skilled trackers unknowingly lost track of him, unable to trace him at all.
Half an hour later, Zhou Changwang smoothly returned to the Little Peak Mountain Spirit Land.
In the days that followed, while carefully cultivating Spirit Plants, Zhou Changwang also practiced various magical techniques.
Among them, the progress of Body Refining Techniques was the fastest, Reversing Battle of the Eight Desolates, Nine Steps to Heaven, Ninefold Blade Force, were all cultivated to the Great Success Realm.
Besides that, there was the Divine Concealment Technique.
This magic had no flaws in front of Shen Xinyue and that Gong Family Foundation Establishment, so he naturally paid great attention to it.
After ten days, he finally cultivated it to the Realm of Perfection.
Once used, whether ’conceal’ or ’show,’ Foundation Establishment Cultivators, even those in the late stage of Foundation Establishment Realm, couldn’t see through his hiding.
As for the concealing methods, they were fine, but on the ’showing’ aspect, he could already simulate the aura of a Fourth-Level Foundation Establishment or Fifth-Layer Foundation Establishment cultivator.
The only flaw, perhaps, was in the aspect of Divine Sense.
As long as there was no combat, everything was fine, others couldn’t see the reality from the surface.
But if there was a fight, Spiritual Sense couldn’t be as keen and swift as Divine Sense, so naturally, there would be slight differences.
Fortunately, his own strength wasn’t weak, having slain a few Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators, so there was no need to worry about falling into some crisis when truly exposed.
"What a pity, the Divine Light Shield Technique, this Spiritual Defense technique, is too difficult to cultivate.
After ten days, I only cultivated it from the entering stage to Small Success.
However, in terms of defensive thickness, it is more than twice as strong as at the Mastery level."
Zhou Changwang muttered to himself, then went out the door.
Today was the tenth day promised with Shen Xinyue.
He naturally needed to keep the appointment.
Half an hour later.
Zhou Changwang once again appeared at the entrance of Shuiyun Pavilion in the same guise as before.
Before he even stepped inside, the already-prepared Shen Xinyue greeted him with a smile on her face.