Chapter 246 The Evil King's Traces

It was normal for She Anqi to come here.

After all, Panlong Chamber of Commerce was famous all over the world. As a Yuanying-level cultivator, many things could only be found in such places, so She Anqi and others would naturally not let it go.

She Anqi met Li An in Tiansha Mountains. She had explored Li An's soul at that time, but later she also gave Li An many benefits. When Li An was in danger, she also stood up and fought for her life. Therefore, Li An had neither much affection for her nor the desire to kill her.

From now on, they were just strangers.

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Under the guidance of the waiter, Li An entered the VIP room of Panlong Chamber of Commerce.

The whole venue was very grand. The lobby on the first floor below could accommodate thousands of people, and there were also many VIP boxes on the second floor. It can be seen that Panlong Chamber of Commerce had many distinguished guests.

"Senior Gu, this is your exclusive private room. Do you need anything? Do you need a few spirit girls to serve you?"

The maid smiled and spoke.

The private room was very unique and quiet. There was a cup of steaming spiritual tea on the table, and there was also spiritual wine next to it, which gave people a very comfortable feeling. Moreover, there were actually several pretty spiritual girls to accompany them? No wonder Panlong Chamber of Commerce could become so big...

At the same time, Li An also deeply felt the dignity of the status of Yuanying. Once he entered this ranks, he would be treated with great courtesy wherever he went.

"No need."

"Okay, if you need anything, please tell me at any time. Xiaoxiao will serve you outside the door."

Xiaoxiao gracefully left the private room and closed the door.

Li An noticed that there was a formation in the private room that isolated the detection of spiritual consciousness.

He poured a cup of tea, tasted it calmly, and waited for the auction to start.

Although the spiritual tea was in his mouth, Li An immediately refined it.

Since he came into contact with Gu Shu, Li An was very cautious about everything in the outside world and developed the habit of not eating or drinking anything from the outside.

In fact, this is also the habit of many Yuanying cultivators. Even if they eat and drink, it is just a formality and they will refine it immediately.

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Soon after, the hall below was filled with people.

The dazzling light emitted by the spirit hit the stage in front of the hall. A woman in a close-fitting cheongsam came up. She was very charming and said with three steps: "Welcome everyone..."

After the opening speech, the auction started.

The first to appear were some precious third-level items, including spiritual medicine, magic tools, materials, etc. The participants in the competition were all Zhendan cultivators in the hall on the first floor. Yuanying cultivators basically did not participate.

After the warm-up, some fourth-level items finally came up.

In the private room on the second floor, a sound was also heard.

Li An stared at the fourth-grade spiritual medicine. Not long after, a fourth-grade earth yin grass finally appeared. The starting price was one hundred top-grade spiritual stones. Li An immediately started bidding:

"One hundred and fifty!"

"One hundred and eighty!"

Someone immediately followed the bid, and the price soon exceeded two hundred spiritual stones.

Li An suddenly became cautious in bidding.

He didn't have enough budget. He only had nine hundred top-grade spiritual stones at most. At least he had to keep six hundred spiritual stones to buy formation materials. With this calculation... his budget for bidding spiritual medicine was very limited.

"Two hundred and eighty!"

Someone was still bidding.

General fourth-grade spiritual medicines can actually be bought on the market, but those auctioned by Panlong Chamber of Commerce all have some characteristics. For example, this earth yin grass is very good for Yuanying, far better than ordinary spiritual medicines.

This kind of spiritual medicine is used for cultivation, and the probability of mutation will be higher!

Li An finally gave up, and someone offered a price of more than three hundred.

He had been waiting, and two more spiritual herbs were bought by a cultivator on the second floor.

Li An simply stopped looking.

"The following auction item is a rough embryo of the fourth-grade creation jade. Because it is contaminated by evil spirits, the quality is slightly inferior, but the quantity is large enough. After being identified by our Chamber of Commerce, it can be divided into three to five portions of the fourth-grade formation. The starting price is 500 spiritual stones."

At this time, the auctioneer asked someone to bring up another item, and Li An immediately locked on it.

Besides, because it contains evil spirits, ordinary people cannot control it, so few people bid for this collection.

Even if the cultivators who refine evil spirits have reached the Nascent Soul stage, they are often notorious and will not easily show up in public. There should be no evil cultivators among the cultivators who come here, so naturally no one is interested.

"Five hundred and one."

But what surprised Li An was that the voice of the auction of three fourth-grade spiritual herbs sounded again!

Li An frowned immediately. What's going on? Why does this person want the things he wants?

Li An pondered for a moment and decided to make a move: "Five hundred and two."

The other party seemed a little surprised, "Five hundred and three!"

The two raised the price all the way, but they were very restrained, obviously unwilling to raise the price too high. In the end, Li An shouted out a higher price: six hundred and fifty yuan.

This price was actually a little beyond Li An's budget. The reason why he gritted his teeth and bought it was because with his level of formation, he could make five formations with this rough embryo.

Five formation materials would cost at least more than a thousand top-grade spirit stones.

It's still a profit!

The other party was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Forget it, I can't use this thing, so I'll give it to Brother Dao——"

The final decision was made, and this rough embryo of the creation jade was bought by Li An!

Several good collections were auctioned. It must be said that the Panlong Chamber of Commerce can be famous all over the world, and there are still some things. Li An was quite fond of several treasures in the middle, but he was short of money and had to give up.

She Anqi had bid twice and bought two very good magic weapons.

"The next one to be auctioned is a residual herb, the fourth-grade red infant flower. Only the mother root is left of this flower, and it is quite difficult to cultivate, but once it succeeds, it will bloom once every forty-nine years, and the number of flowers that bloom each time is generally more than five, and each flower is a fourth-grade spiritual medicine, which brings huge benefits!"

"The starting price is one hundred and fifty spiritual stones!"

Hearing this price, there was an uproar in the venue.

In fact, the value of a red infant flower is generally more than one thousand!

Nothing else, this kind of thing grows too fast, and every fifty years, about five fourth-grade spiritual medicines can be harvested stably, which is very valuable!

But when they saw the red infant flower, everyone understood instantly-the red infant flower only had a thumb-sized rhizome left.

"It can't be cultivated at all."

"It has some medicinal value, but it can only be equivalent to an ordinary fourth-grade spiritual medicine."

"Not bad..."

There were also bids, but those who bid were all thinking of consuming the red infant flower as a one-time spiritual medicine on the spot. Li An also tried to bid, he really liked this thing.

"Three hundred and eighty spirit stones!"

At this time, the voice of the person on the second floor who was competing with Li An for spiritual medicine and good fortune jade sounded again.

Li An sighed in despair, there was nothing he could do, he didn't have any spirit stones at all.

Finally, it was still bought by that person.

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The auction was over.

Xiao Xiao brought the good fortune jade that Li An had bid for him. Li An paid on the spot, accepted the good fortune jade, and left immediately.

Walking out of the Panlong Chamber of Commerce, Li An felt a spiritual sense scanning in front of him, he was unhappy, but a fat man with a kind face had already walked over and said: "It must be you, bosom friend, bosom friend!"

He smiled and walked in front of Li An, "Daoyou, I stole many spiritual medicines from you, you won't be jealous of me?"

Li An was surprised, this person was the guy who intercepted his spiritual medicine many times?

And he came to Li An so directly?

"I wonder what you want to talk about?" Li An asked.

"How about moving over and talking?"

The fat man extended his hand.

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In a top-secret private room in Longcheng Restaurant.

"My name is Gao Tai, and I am a fourth-grade alchemist, so I have a great demand for spiritual medicines. I am currently developing some secret medicines, so I will take all of them. Don't blame me, Taoist."

The fat man took the initiative to introduce, "I see that you have a good temperament. You should be Taoist Gu from the Evil Spirit Lake, right?"

This fat man is so smart... Li An said, "How did Taoist Gao guess it?"

"Hehe, who doesn't know that Taoist Gu from the Evil Spirit Lake has a strong cultivation base and a divine formation? And to be able to form a baby in a dangerous place like the Evil Spirit Lake, he must have the ability to suppress evil and exorcise evil spirits. 's means, so the one who dares to bid for the fourth-level evil-carrying jade is most likely you. "

"In addition, there is also...hahaha, other old Yuanyings have more or less savings. If they really have something they love, they won't be so stingy. Daoyou obviously wants spiritual medicine, but because of the spiritual stones, he gives up again and again. It is obvious that he is a new Yuanying and does not have enough money. "

"I guess Daoyou came to participate in this auction with no more than 1,200 spiritual stones in his hand, right?"

Gao Tai smiled, but Li An became extremely alert in his heart!

Li An has always been the one who hides in the dark and analyzes others, but now he has been analyzed thoroughly by this fat man?

Sure enough, those who have reached the Yuanying stage are all smart people. A few simple behaviors can guess Li An's identity.

Of course, this is mainly because Li An did not intend to hide his identity.

After all, as a Yuanying strongman, he will definitely deal with many strong men and forces of the same level in the future. There is no need to hide when attending an auction normally.

Besides, during the Nascent Soul Formation, Li An had revealed some information to the outside world: he had a high level of attainment in formation, was proficient in beast control, had the ability to suppress evil spirits, etc.

It was even more natural for him to want spiritual medicine. As a newly promoted Nascent Soul, it was normal for him to desire fourth-grade spiritual medicine, and no one would suspect that he was looking for something else.

"Fellow Daoist, you are really smart. I wonder why you are looking for me, Gu?" Li An said.

"Fellow Daoist, do you know why I want this Good Fortune Jade? Because I need some evil spirits... The evil spirits in this Good Fortune Jade are the purest." Gao Tai said, "But I changed my mind and thought that since you dared to bid for this item, you must have a way to remove the evil spirits. So, I will give it to you and only ask you to give me the evil spirits after removing them. How about that? In this way, you get the Good Fortune Jade and I get the evil spirits. It's a win-win situation!" "Of course, in return, I am willing to get any spiritual medicine from the auction. You can pick any one of them. How about that?" He laid out the spiritual medicines one by one. Li An pondered for a moment and took away the rhizome of the Red Infant Flower! "Good vision! This root itself can be used as a fourth-level spiritual medicine, and compared with other spiritual medicines, it has a little more possibility of reproduction. If it is done well, the future benefits will not be small. Since you dare to choose this item, I think you have extraordinary means." Gao Tai gave a thumbs up. Li An smiled and said, "It just happened to be needed. Regarding the evil spirit you want, Gu will extract it for you, but I have to state in advance that my method may not be able to achieve the purity you want. I hope you are mentally prepared-"

Gao Tai bowed: "Gu Daoyou, just do your best-"

"Okay, then see you in two years at the Evil Spirit Lake."

Li An immediately stood up and left.

Gao Tai was stunned: "Two years?!"

Li An said: "Yes, the evil spirit in this thing is difficult to clear, two years is considered fast..."

Gao Tai was obviously a little unhappy, but he gave the things to Li An, so he had to grit his teeth and said: "Okay, see you in two years!"

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Back to the Evil Spirit Lake.

Li An opened up another small medicinal field next to his cave, specifically for planting this red infant flower.

For others, it is indeed difficult to keep it alive, but Li An has the breath of life!

As long as there is a glimmer of life, slowly nurture it, there is a chance.

Li An did not plant the Red Infant Flower immediately, but placed it on his body to nourish it with the breath of life seeds, and prepared a lot of spiritual soil for refining!

Then, he took out the rough embryo of the fourth-level creation jade.

This rough embryo was quite large, one foot square, and the jade body of the green cloud contained a turbid yellow pure evil spirit.

It was actually very simple for Li An to extract this kind of evil spirit. The magic skills and evil methods he practiced all had ways to use evil spirit.

But he pondered for a while, but did not use the skills, but buried his head in making three third-level formations!

Two of them were "evil spirit release formations" that could slowly extract evil spirits, and the other was an evil spirit induction formation, which was responsible for gathering the sucked evil spirits to prevent leakage.

Put the fourth-level creation jade rough embryo into the two evil spirit release formations, and slowly, a wisp of yellow smoke really emerged on the surface of the creation jade.

However, this process is probably going to be very long!

Li An expects it to be completed in five years. The main reason is that Gao Tai, this fat man, is very cunning. When dealing with him, one must be careful and cautious. Li An would rather choose to delay and mislead him.

"However, this part of the good fortune jade cannot be moved. I still have to go out again and buy a normal array material..."

Li An is too poor now. He must quickly make some fourth-level arrays and sell them to make money.

He should be thankful that he still has more than 300 pieces of top-grade spirit stones in his hand. Otherwise, he would not even have the capital to buy ordinary array materials. He does not want to sell the talismans at present, so he can only wait.

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In the blink of an eye, two years have passed.

In these two years, in addition to going to Panlong Chamber of Commerce to buy array materials and sell arrays, Li An has basically been practicing in the Evil Spirit Lake.

The royal family of Ji State served diligently and sent 500 top-grade spirit stones on time every year. In addition, the number of spirit mines mined has been steadily increasing, so the spirit stone cultivation is basically satisfied.

His Jinzang Jue progressed rapidly, and it would not take long for him to master it, so that he could specialize in more advanced techniques.

——It used to take him decades to cultivate a part, but after entering the Nascent Soul stage, his efficiency was naturally incomparable.

In addition, he carefully purchased some things to nourish the Gu worms, and now he can refine some more advanced basic Gu worms.

Li Shuangshuang also did his best to select a group of people to enter the Evil Spirit Lake, and with Li An's consent, established several halls such as the Transmission Hall, the Exchange Office, the Spirit Mineral Hall, and the Spirit Medicine Hall. The force that revolved around Li An had already taken shape.

In fact, the Evil Spirit Lake was already the fourth largest Nascent Soul force in Qianshuiyunzhou, standing on equal footing with the Li family and the Bishui Palace, but its foundation was definitely far inferior to those three.

Li Shuangshuang was getting closer and closer to the Dan Formation.

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"The blood ant Gu has been refined..."

Li An took out a small bottle, and in the bottle was some white powder!

These powders are made by selecting a small ant from the island in the middle of the lake and cultivating it into a basic Gu worm.

When put into the wine, it will immediately become invisible and cannot be sensed by the divine sense. After entering the body, it is also undetectable because of the cover of the life seed aura.

But once Li An controls it, the Gu worm will immediately burst out from the cultivator's blood. Moreover, although it is also a blood Gu, this time it is more advanced than the Gu he gave to Lin Fangping of the Seven Yin Sect last time!

The last Gu was called a Gu, but it was more like a poison, and there was no Gu worm in the form of life. But this time he successfully cultivated several Gu ants and made them into powder. Once it enters the body, it will burst out more tenaciously.

The last Gu worm, even if it was a true Dan cultivator, could find a way to remove it when it burst out, and it would not threaten his life, but this time it was different. After the burst, it would produce blood ants in the cultivator's body. This kind of blood ant has strong vitality and can chew through blood vessels and enter other places...

In short, it is more fierce and more difficult to deal with!

His Gu worm was at the beginning

Prepared for Lin Fangping, because he felt that this Qi Yang spirit body would be found by the Demon Cult sooner or later... If it can't be found, then forget it, it's just a casual move, just for practice.

Now, Gu technique is also highly valued by Li An, but it's a pity that it's difficult to cultivate insect bodies that meet the requirements, and the materials are even more rare, and high-level Gu insects can never be refined, so he has to use blood Gu first.

After a while, go back to the Seven Yin Sect to find the Great Elder Lin Fangping and give him all the Gu!

"Gao Tai is here to visit, and asks to see Daoyou Gu——"

That day, Gao Tai arrived as promised, and his voice came from far outside.

Li An calmly welcomed him into the Evil Spirit Lake, but when they met, Li An frowned slightly.

Because he found that Gao Tai's breath... had changed!

When he met Gao Tai two years ago, Gao Tai was normal, but now... Gao Tai actually has an evil spirit in his body!

The evil energy was very faint and well hidden. Even if ordinary Yuanying cultivators met Gao Tai face to face, they would not be able to detect it in the middle of the night. However, Li An had followed Xie Shisi, the descendant of the Evil King, and had practiced the Evil King's Heaven-stealing Method and obtained Xie Shisi's evil essence. How could he hide it from him?

Moreover, Gao Tai's evil energy was obviously formed by practicing the basic practice of the Evil King's lineage - the Evil Qi Jue!

Li An suddenly understood why Gao Tai was looking for evil energy. As the evil energy of the side door and the left and right ways between heaven and earth, the evil energy itself can be used by evil demons and is also a good source for practicing evil skills!

In the past two years, in addition to the evil energy on Li An's side, he must have found it in other places.

And he officially became an... evil cultivator!

Countless thoughts flashed through Li An's mind.

The lineage of the Evil King escaped from the chaos of Dao Sect decades ago. Li An later heard that the Evil King Xie Shisi, Xun Dongfang and others all escaped, while Wu Niangzi and Tuoba Wanzhong died in the battle and could not escape.

The only people who know the evil Qi Jue in the world should be Xie Shisi and Zhan Qingxuan.

They fled to Xinzhou? !

This is quite normal. The evil king escaped and Dao Zong was chasing him frantically. There was no place for them in Daozhou, and other continents such as Fanzhou, Wuxingzhou, and Sun and Moonzhou would also participate in the hunt. With no way to heaven and no door to earth, Xinzhou, where there was no power, naturally became the best pure land for evil demons to reproduce and thrive!

Perhaps, the other party has been secretly spreading in Xinzhou for many years.

"Gu Daoyou, let's not beat around the bush. Are you ready for what I want?" Gao Tai said with a smile, looking forward to it.

Li An sighed and said, "Gao Daoyou, please follow me."

He took Gao Tai into the quiet room. Gao Tai was stunned at a glance.

The rough embryo of the fourth-level creation jade that Li An photographed two years ago was still the same, but only about half of the evil spirit in it was cleared out, and the other half was still in it!

"Gu Daoyou, you said two years..."

Gao Tai was unhappy.

"There is really no way. I never thought that this evil spirit is so stubborn... Gao Daoyou, this is the result of the past two years. You can use it first."

Li An handed Gao Tai a jade bottle. Gao Tai took it and sniffed it gently. Feeling such pure evil spirit, his displeasure was slightly reduced. He said: "Well, well, but Gu Daoyou, you have deceived me severely once. You must return the favor next time!"

Li An smiled and said: "Okay, okay."

"By the way,"

At this time, Gao Tai suddenly said: "Gu Daoyou, I am very curious, which continent of the spiritual world are you from?"

Li An smiled and said: "Why bother asking these questions?"

Gao Tai smiled, "Curious... Gu Daoyou, I think you are a bit underemployed ", with such strength, it is a pity to run such a small place like the Evil Spirit Lake, which is poor and shabby!"

"Forget it, I'll take my leave first--"

He turned around and prepared to leave, but before leaving, he suddenly slapped his forehead again: "Oh, my brain, I almost forgot, Fellow Daoist Gu, there is another business. A fellow Daoist wants to refine a fourth-level formation, mainly a trap formation, the stronger the better, Fellow Daoist Gu, is you interested?"

"Of course!"

"This is a deposit, 500 spirit stones, if you can make it well, there is a balance of 500-about this trap formation, the fellow Daoist said that it must be strong, at least it can trap five or six Nascent Soul cultivators in a short time, how about it, are you confident?"

Gao Tai smiled and looked at Li An.

Li An was quite surprised. Isn't this fellow Daoist Gao Tai a little too generous?

Generally speaking, a fourth-level formation costs about 600 yuan, which is considered good. The other party's deposit alone is 500 yuan!

After pondering for a while, Li An said, "Okay, I'll try my best... How about this, I'll give it to you next time you come to get the evil spirit?"

Gao Tai nodded: "That's it!"

He left.

Watching Gao Tai's departing back, Li An had a thought in his mind...

It seems that Gao Tai should also be treated as a leisurely move.

It is necessary to invest in the lineage of the evil king.

Of course, he could see Gao Tai's intention. The other party seemed to be trying to win over Li An intentionally or unintentionally... But Li An also wanted to use him in return!

"He uses the evil spirit to practice evil skills. Well... I have to study it and refine a kind of poisonous insect that integrates the evil spirit."

Li An frowned. This kind of poison... is really difficult to refine. I'm afraid it will take repeated attempts.

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After sending Gao Tai away, Li An left the Evil Spirit Lake and set off for the Emperor Yuan Realm.

It has been many years since he left the Seven Yin Sect. The amiable and lovely elder should have developed well, right?

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A month later. Li An arrived at the former site of Xuanyang Sect, now the Qiyin Sect.

The Qiyin Sect's spiritual veins have been restored to the third-level state. Unfortunately, under the leadership of Lin Fangping, the sect has not developed well. It is ranked in the middle and lower levels among the Zhendan forces in the northern part of Dali.

After all, Lin Fangping's own cultivation was damaged and his Yuanying was abolished, and he did not dare to recruit other Zhendan cultivators into the sect, fearing that they would be usurped. Therefore, for so many years, he has been the only Zhendan.

Of course, it has not developed well!

Li An sneaked into the Qiyin Sect and observed for nearly a month, and then finally found an opportunity. One night, he put a blood ant Gu in the spiritual wine of one of Lin Fangping's concubines. The two drank to cheer themselves up. That night was crazy and they didn't realize it.

Li An quietly retreated, hiding his merits and fame. As a Yuanying cultivator, he was good at hiding, so of course the other party could not find out all this.

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Back to the Evil Spirit Lake.

Li An closed himself for three months, thinking hard, and had been studying and trying Gu techniques.

Three months later. "Got it."

Li An already had an idea in his mind... the gift he prepared for Gao Tai, the evil cultivator, had been found.

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