Asura Emperor Venerable
Chapter 427 Exchange

Chapter 427: Chapter 427 Exchange

Over the past few days, Shi Hao still hadn’t seen Su Manman, the big yellow dog, and the others, even those few supreme talents from before had not appeared.

Like Lin Chenkai, Xia Mengyin, Zhu Yu, etc., it was as if they had vanished into thin air.

There was only one explanation for this, villages like this one must be scattered around the grasslands, so, although everyone chose different directions to travel, they could always find similar villages and enter the second round.

One month later.

The people on the outside were going crazy because they saw that Jiuwu City’s 324 had topped the leaderboard!

My God, the freak from the Cheng Family was too terrifying, having Xia Mengyin, Xu Huan, Lin Chenkai, and the others completely underfoot.

They became more and more curious, just who was this prodigy from the Cheng Family?

Unfortunately, the overall strength of the Cheng Family was too weak, causing everyone to be able to enter the secret realm, and not a single person was left outside, making it impossible for those who wanted to inquire to find anyone.

...

Inside the secret realm, a store quietly opened up in the village.

At first, no one paid attention, but there would always be some who were curious, and upon entering, they discovered a new world.

The store sold treasures!

They had Spiritual Artifacts, Talismanic Soldiers, Elixirs, and medicinal materials, a wide variety, everything one could wish for.

Suddenly, the people flocked, all wanting to purchase as quickly as possible, afraid that everything would sell out.

But they were quickly disappointed.

These treasures could only be exchanged with Reward Points, and the prices were astonishingly high.

It wasn’t that no one thought about robbing the place, but that itself was a powerhouse from the Supplementing Divine Temple, who was instantly blasted into a rain of blood, scaring the others into behaving themselves.

"Idiots!" a young man carrying a gun said coldly.

"What did you say!" The powerhouse from the Supplementing Divine Temple who got blasted was from the Liu Family of the Western Rock Continent. Naturally, he hadn’t come alone, and seeing someone daring to ridicule at this moment, the people from the Liu Family jumped out.

The young man carrying the gun sneered, seemingly disdainful, and didn’t bother speaking.

The man from the Liu Family became furious and wanted to rush over but was forcefully held back by his family members.

Who would dare to take action here and not fear getting chopped down by the guards?

Just look at their old ancestor – that was a bloody lesson indeed.

Shi Hao, on the other hand, took another glance at the young man with the gun, feeling a sense that this person was very strong!

The young man with the gun seemed to feel Shi Hao’s gaze and looked back at him. Their eyes met, like the clash of knives and spears, sparking fire.

Shi Hao suddenly felt an itch in his hands, wanting to test his skills against this person.

The young man with the gun simply smiled faintly and shifted his gaze away.

——After all, it was just the Nine Islands, the gap between them was too great, he naturally couldn’t rise to any battle will.

Shi Hao didn’t take it to heart, he squeezed into the shop and started browsing.

Wow, so expensive!

There indeed were Spiritual Artifacts for sale here, but their prices were staggeringly high, easily requiring thousands of Reward Points.

In that case, he had made a fortune with the Battle Armor he got from the bandit lair.

Because there was similar Battle Armor for sale here too, and it only had the function of defense, but Self-Observation level ones could sell for five thousand Reward Points!

Forget it, let’s not look at Spiritual Artifacts.

Shi Hao turned his attention to the Spirit Fruits and Elixirs, he wanted to rapidly ascend to the Ten Islands. That way, his ability to challenge beyond his level would reach its peak, and even dealing with quadruple or quintuple phases wasn’t impossible.

"Yellow Dragon Pill."

"Tenfold Fruit."

"Thousand Gathering Powder."

"..."

There were so many Elixirs that could improve cultivation, but most of them had side effects, the least being that taking the same type of Elixir for several months would be ineffective, and the worst could even cripple a person.

By comparison, the reward points needed to exchange for these items were much lower, ranging from one hundred to several hundred.

Shi Hao asked the clerk and found out his exact reward points.

——Seven hundred and seventy-five points.

He could exchange for four "Fierce Bear Pills." Shi Hao did the math, and this was the most cost-effective elixir for increasing one’s cultivation with the least amount of exchangeable points. Why was it so cheap?’

Simple. The side effects were too severe. Taking one pill could cause a person’s skin to crack all over and one-tenth of their meridians to break. If someone took two pills consecutively, it could cost them their life.

Because the side effects were so violent, the exchange reward points were correspondingly low.

But Shi Hao didn’t mind at all.

He wasn’t the one consuming them.

While others looked at him as if he were a fool, Shi Hao almost exhausted all his reward points and got four Fierce Bear Pills.

——What else could he be if not a fool, exchanging for four Fierce Bear Pills?

This guy was really throwing his weight around with money, though. Just a mere Nine Islands, how could he possess so many reward points?

Could it be that reward points were now so easy to obtain?

Shi Hao couldn’t care less about others’ stares; he found a secluded corner in the village, where no one could attack him, otherwise, they would have to wait for the guards to chop them down.

Therefore, he confidently began to refine.

After nine turns, the first Fierce Bear Pill was refined.

His cultivation had increased by a large margin, and according to estimates, once all four Fierce Bear Pills were refined, he would have a great chance of reaching the peak of Nine Islands or at least be close to it.

But his Soul Force was exhausted, so he could only continue the next day.

The next day, Shi Hao carried on. For the following two days, he refined a Fierce Bear Pill each day and then went to do quests.

However, by now, the tasks had mostly been swept clean, with new villagers only occasionally popping up to issue new tasks.

Therefore, most of the time, Shi Hao just sat idly by.

As a result, many had already set off on their journey, leaving the village for the next destination.

After refining the four Fierce Bear Pills, Shi Hao’s cultivation was just a thread away from the peak of Nine Islands.

"No more waiting, let’s set off."

Shi Hao made up his mind—new tasks were too few, and it was not cost-effective to stay here. It was time to hit the road.

He just needed to cultivate a bit more on his own, and he should be able to reach the peak of Nine Islands, a matter of about ten days or so.

However, five days later, Shi Hao arrived at the next stop.

This place was called... Eternal Stone.

This was also a challenge, but whether one passed or not had no impact, just like the tasks in the previous villages. Completing them or not didn’t affect the journey to the next stop.

What kind of challenge was it?

There was a stone here named Eternal Stone, and anyone could smash it. As long as one could leave a mark on it, they could inscribe their name on the Eternal Stone.

Inscribing your name would earn you reward points. How many, you ask?

A minimum of a thousand!

Keep in mind, Shi Hao had swept through the Hell Difficulty trial points and completed a multitude of tasks, but had barely earned less than eight hundred reward points, which had already put him at the top of the leaderboards.

But now?

Just by leaving one’s name on the Eternal Stone, it was easy to surpass him.

Of course, it was not necessarily the case that the higher one’s realm, the easier it would be to leave a name on the Eternal Stone. The system took into account one’s realm as well, much like the previous trial points where the monsters inside were adjusted according to the different realms.

Shi Hao was not among the very first batch of people arriving here. He saw that a whole list of names had already been carved on the Eternal Stone.

"Sky Transformation Xia Mengyin."

He quickly found a name.