Chapter Thirty-Five: The Great Demons Gather

  The King's Seal of the Bright Emperor was a mysterious technique he had obtained from Tong Ling Mi Yuan, and in recent days, Jiang Nan had finally managed to deduce the first five seal techniques of this technique with the help of the black grinding clock in his body.

  This extraordinary skill, apart from the lotus seal and the treasure vase seal, also includes the spiritual pearl seal, the lion seal, and the radiant light seal, all of which are supreme seal methods for refining and purifying one's spirit and intentions.

  And on the wall of the magic clock, there are new printing methods still being derived.

  This Ming Wang Shen Yin's seal method is even more difficult to deduce as it goes further back, and the time spent on it will be even longer. It can be seen that the origin of this seal method is likely to be extremely great, far surpassing any martial arts seen in Jiangnan, except for the Mo Yu Xuan Tai Jing.

  "In the past few days, I have refined a total of ten furnaces of Sheli Lingdan, with thirty pellets of full-effect dan. Adding to the one furnace that was originally refined, there are only three furnaces left before it can be completely refined."

  Jiang Nan walked out of the alchemy room, thinking to himself: "Once I've refined the Sheli Lingdan, I'll immediately leave this place of right and wrong in the Medicine King's Manor and return to being a wealthy gentleman in Qi Wang City."

  These days he is rarely quiet, Su Che also stopped seeking trouble, letting Jiang Nan secretly feel a chill, things are happening in reverse, there must be a demon, the more Su Che holds back his troops, the more it makes him spirited, not daring to be careless.

  "Zi Chuan, you've finally decided to come out!"

  Suddenly, Yue Ling'er's voice came over, interrupting his thoughts. Jiang Nan looked up to see Yue Ling'er and the Fourth Prince Su Huan standing together, waving at him from a distance, and immediately walked over.

  "Zi Chuan, you've been hiding from me for several days. Are you still angry about the Second Prince sending someone to kill you?"

  Yue Ling'er was not one to be trifled with, and she spoke quickly and decisively, without any hesitation or pretension. She smiled and said, "I originally didn't know about this matter, but it was the Second Prince who set a trap to harm you. I found him two days ago and scolded him severely. He said he wouldn't bother you again."

  "Thank you, Duke Ling."

  Jiangnan also had a good impression of this carefree girl, and he cupped his hands in greeting to the two of them. He then took a few glances at Su Huai, feeling that she had become unfathomable, and his expression changed as he said: "Could it be that Your Highness has already broken through and cultivated an outer aura?"

  "Xiao Wang was lucky enough to successfully refine that one furnace of Pure Yang Crimson Blood Pill, greatly enhancing his mental state and spiritual awareness, which allowed him to finally master the external alchemy."

  Su Huai smiled humbly and was also sizing up Jiangnan, but couldn't help being shocked and said: "Zi Chuan brother, your cultivation has made great progress, it's really astonishing! Your true energy is almost twice as strong as before! Moreover, your true energy is introverted, flowing like the Yangtze River, with extremely high quality and condensation power, only slightly inferior to Lianqi. Could it be that your spiritual intention is so strong?"

  True energy requires spiritual intention to support it, in order to exert greater power. For example, two people who are at the same level of cultivating energy, with the same cultivation base, whoever has a stronger spiritual intention will have stronger actual power.

  The spiritual concept of Jiangnan's true energy was so strong that it almost matched the realm of Ling Qi, showing just how powerful his spiritual concept was!

  Su Huai was originally quite satisfied with his own cultivation of the outer cauldron, but seeing Jiang Nan achieve such success in just six or seven days made him realize that his own cultivation speed was actually nothing to brag about.

  "The fourth prince is too modest."

  Jiang Nan shook his head and smiled: "The outer boundary is only one step away from the divine wheel, I'm just in the refining air boundary, compared to the outer boundary, it's inferior by who knows how much."

  Su Huai's face was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Zi Chuan brother, when you first came to the Medicine King's Mansion, your cultivation was only at the peak of Lian Mo, but on the second day, you had already cultivated to the Lian Qi realm. During my closed-door meditation these few days, you have even surpassed the early stage of Lian Qi and cultivated to the middle stage. This kind of speed is truly terrifying."

  Yue Ling'er stuck out her tongue and laughed, saying: "Little sister and Zi Chuan met more than two months ago. At that time, he killed the Golden Scaled Red Threaded Python, saving my life. My father personally examined the python's wound and said that Zi Chuan was at most only at the Bone Forging stage. Two months' time, crossing two major realms of Bone Forging and Membrane Forging, reaching the middle stage of Qi Refining - this isn't terrifying, it's abnormal!"

  "Indeed it is!"

  Su Huai Zheng nodded his head, slowly exhaling a mouthful of turbid air. His gaze towards Jiang Nan became even more curious, and he smiled: "Brother Zi Chuan, you must have had some extraordinary encounter, one that's not inferior to Xiao Wang's in the slightest."

  Jiang Nan smiled slightly, without explanation, and thought to himself: "If you knew that I was only at the Refining Tendons stage before meeting Jiang Xue, I'm afraid your minds would be even more astonished..."

  Su Huan also had his own strange encounter, seeing him not speaking, and not asking much.

  Yue Ling'er smiled and said: "You two, today is the first day of the Medicine King City's Ten Thousand Merchant Conference, it's extremely lively, why not go out and take a walk together?"

  "What's the Wan Shang Conference?" Jiang Nan's expression changed, and he asked curiously.

  "Zi Chuan, you really are a rookie, you don't even know about the Wan Shang Conference, I have no idea how you've managed to survive in this world!"

  Yue Ling'er was quite pleased with herself, and smiled: "The Wan Shang Conference is a grand commercial event held once a year in my Medicine King City, lasting for over ten days. Merchants from all over the country will come to buy and sell precious items, and you can even see rare treasures from foreign lands. It's extremely lively! The Wan Shang Conference has all sorts of precious items, including spiritual elixirs, rare and precious treasures, peerless weapons, top-grade materials, alchemy formulas, and even various unusual martial arts techniques. I've heard that even great demons will transform into humans to come and engage in trade!"

  Su Huan nodded and smiled, "The Wan Shang Conference was originally mainly for the local aristocratic families to come and purchase the Ling Dan from the Medicine King's Manor. Later on, it became bigger and bigger, turning into a grand gathering, not just limited to buying and selling Ling Dan. Occasionally, there would be strong practitioners who had achieved spiritual powers making an appearance at the Wan Shang Conference, selling things that were hard to find in the world, but with extremely high prices. The major aristocratic families also frequently came to exchange goods."

  Jiang Nan smiled and said, "Such a grand occasion, of course, I must see it with my own eyes."

  In the Medicine King City, people were bustling about, much more lively than usual. Indeed, as Yue Ling'er had said, it was a gathering place for merchants and traders from all over the country. There were all sorts of strange and exotic goods on sale, not just ordinary merchandise, but also various magical beasts - flying creatures, running creatures, swimming creatures... Some merchants even brought in huge water tanks from Jiangnan, containing gigantic sea monsters that were ugly and terrifying, with thorns all over their bodies and six fins on their backs. People couldn't help but exclaim in wonder at the sight of these unknown species.

  However, the prices of these treasures are even more astonishing, often in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Jiang Nan secretly felt a chill in his heart, as any one of these precious items would be enough to bankrupt his entire family!

  These wealthy merchants came from various influential families and occupied the commercial streets, but apart from these wealthy merchants, there were also many warriors from all over the world who did not have much influence, because they did not have enough financial resources, often setting up stalls randomly.

  The Medicine King Courtyard specially arranged a street as a market, letting these scattered stalls gather together, called the Miscellaneous Goods Street.

  Yue Ling'er walked ahead, leading the way to the miscellaneous street, and said with a smile: "These big merchants are very knowledgeable, no matter what treasure they have, they can tell at a glance. Although there are few fakes, the prices are also frighteningly high. The miscellaneous street is full of rubbish, but occasionally there are also excellent treasures. I heard that someone once sold a divine-level secret recipe to a foreign aristocratic family! Let's go there, maybe we can find some treasures!"

  Jiang Nan and Su Huan exchanged a glance, feeling rather helpless, then followed her as she squeezed into the crowd.

  The stalls on the street were densely packed, and the goods for sale were indeed strange and varied. There were beast teeth and fur, weapons, armor, alchemy furnaces, various medicinal prescriptions, as well as spiritual elixirs and medicines. In addition to these, there were ancient tomes filled with mysterious writings, relics of the gods, and divine artifacts that had been used by the gods themselves. The names of these items were grandiose enough to take one's breath away, but in reality, they were all just ordinary objects, nothing particularly impressive or eye-opening.

  "The ancient divine elixir formula is now on sale, only a hundred taels of silver!"

  "The ancient great god's martial arts, once cultivated, immediately achieves the divine wheel, and cultivates the divine power!"

  "Even the divine magic can't penetrate this beast skin armor, swords and spears can't get in. Once you put it on, you can fly instantly and travel thousands of miles in a moment!"

  ……

  Jiang Nan and Su Huan were at a loss for words, these extremely valuable treasures were obviously a scam, but Yue Ling'er was even more spirited, haggling with a sly middle-aged man at a stall.

  "Zihe brother, inside here are dragons and snakes mixed together, there really aren't a few masters!" Su Huan's face was solemn, he said in a low voice.

  In the Jiangnan Zheng, there were many powerful individuals on Miscellaneous Street, although they were all scattered cultivators. However, among them, there were also many masters who were not to be underestimated. He could sense that at least several dozen auras were far stronger than his own, and even a few people were much more powerful than Su Huan!

  "Just now, the county master said that even demons come to trade goods here. My yang energy is strong and prosperous, so it's better to be careful not to fall into the eyes of those big demons and be taken as a human-shaped spirit pill."

  Jiang Nan took a deep breath, operating the Jiang Snow's transmitted technique, sealing off 108,000 pores and locking in his yang energy. Although he was confident in his own martial path, those who could transform into human-like demons were all strong practitioners of the Divine Wheel realm, not to be compared with the likes of Mu Qin Nan's level of martial artists, but rather on the same level as Qi Wang or Yao Wang, being targeted by such a demon was absolutely not a good thing.

  "This place indeed has an eerie aura!"

  In the four southern provinces, he had fought in nearly a hundred battles against demonic beasts and was extremely sensitive to demonic energy. He immediately discovered that several of the merchants trading nearby were emitting faint, almost imperceptible demonic auras.

  Suddenly, Jiang Nan caught sight of a middle-aged man at another stall and couldn't help but shiver with fear, secretly cursing his bad luck.

  That middle-aged man wore a gray robe, with a clear and thin face, narrow and long eyebrows and eyes, exactly the same as the gray python in the deep pool of Luoxia Mountain when it transformed into a human!

  The southernmost part of China made his scalp numb, and he almost immediately wanted to turn around and escape from the Medicine King City!

  At first, Jiang Nan had seen the human form of Hui Jiao from afar by the deep pool, and he deeply remembered his appearance. Wasn't it this grey-robed middle-aged man in front of him?

  The divine fire at the brow of Jiangnan was actually stolen from the old nest of this gray jiao, and in its furious state it even killed as far as a thousand miles away to find another demon king's evil spirit!

  "What a gathering of ten thousand merchants, this is clearly a gathering of ten thousand demons! How did all these monsters and ghosts come out? If I were to lose my composure even slightly or try to escape, letting this gray serpent see through the cracks, I would be dead for sure!"

  The powerful aura in Jiangnan's body immediately compressed his heart, causing the almost violently beating heart to return to calmness in an instant, with no change in expression, just like before, without any unusual signs.

  He even sealed all 180,000 pores on his body, and not a single drop of cold sweat came out!

  This grey serpent is not just an ordinary divine wheel boundary great demon, but has already refined five or six divine wheels and cultivated divine powers. Jiang Xue even said that this grey serpent can be said to be absolutely invincible in the Jianwu country!

  That grey wolf suddenly seemed to sense Jiang Nan's gaze, raised its head and narrowed its eyes, its gaze sweeping towards Jiang Nan, its eyebrows slightly moving as if it had detected something unusual. Its eyes suddenly became extremely sharp, and in a soft voice, it said: "There is a familiar aura on your body..."