Chapter 8: The Beginning of the Hundred Miles of Flowing Light

  Wang Guang arrived at the foot of the mountain where the external gate practitioners gathered, and he immediately lit up the treasure light to summon the female merchant with whom he had traded before. This time, it took a bit longer, about half an incense stick's worth of time, when a sword light descended in front of Wang Guang, and inside the sword light was indeed the female merchant. She opened the fragrance pouch-like hundred treasures pouch at her waist, and the swirling sword light around her body spun once in mid-air before entering it.

  "Sorry, I just got into a fight with the demon beast. Do you still want the Purple Air this time?" The female merchant asked, slightly panting and tidying up her somewhat disheveled hair.

  "Wu Liang Tian Zun, come one hundred strands of Zi Yun's air." After taking out a few handfuls of crystal stones from his waist pouch and handing them over to the female merchant, he still had dozens of crystal stones left on him. However, this time he didn't stop buying Zi Yun's air, but instead wanted to see if there were any special good things among the stalls of the practitioners, so that when he saw something good, he wouldn't be short of money to buy it, which would be really frustrating.

  "Alright." The female merchant counted the crystal stones and handed over enough to exchange for the purple energy with Wang Guang. "I see that your magical power is weak, even if you refine it further, you won't be able to condense a golden elixir! I suggest you absorb the spiritual energy from these crystal stones to quickly boost your magical power. Don't worry about your foundation being unstable, the spiritual energy stored in these crystal stones is extremely pure."

  With a glance at the female merchant with an unknown idea, Wang Guang swung his hand and asked the opponent in a pretentious manner: "This Taoist friend, since you are like this, why don't you absorb the spiritual energy from the crystal stone to improve your magical power, but instead use the crystal stone for business?"

  "I'm dizzy! I think you must be very diligent in your practice, right? Don't you know that crystal stones give birth to crystal stones? I use a small number of crystal stones to earn more crystal stones, and then continuously absorb the flags within them. This is much more comfortable than absorbing these few crystal stones all at once!" The female merchant rolled her eyes in exasperation and muttered under her breath. In fact, she was more like scolding Wang Guang for being an idiot, but due to the principle of customer supremacy, she tactfully explained it instead.

  For millions of years, since the emergence of a master in the mortal world who cultivated internal energy to achieve the Great Perfection of Pre-Heaven and broke through the seal to enter the Practicing Qi World, the development of this Practicing Qi World has undergone tremendous changes. Many things that exist in the mundane world also appeared one by one in this Practicing Qi World.

  "Thank you for the advice, Infinite Heaven Venerable." Wang Guang smiled wryly. He wasn't embarrassed by this remark either. This was just a casual joke with the female merchant, but she didn't catch on.

  But what the other party said was like a fierce battle with a monster, which made his heart move involuntarily.

  At this time, the female merchant wanted to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by a figure rushing over. "This brother, what kind of magic treasure did you just use? I see that your magical power is weak, and according to reason, you shouldn't have the ability to borrow a magic treasure to fly yet!"

  The figure rushing over was the female Qi practitioner who would jump onto rocks to watch Wang Guang fly. She became enraged upon discovering someone eavesdropping and having a despicable discussion. If it weren't for the group of Qi practitioners fleeing in a hurry, she would have already taken out her weapon and started chopping.

  She had been a member of the One Qi Sect for thirty or fifty years, with a profound and unmatched magical power. By virtue of her secret method, she was able to track him down based on a hint of aura without King Guang's awareness.

  As soon as he heard this, Wang Guang's mouth twitched involuntarily. He thought to himself, "This little girl shouldn't be thinking that my treasure is extraordinary and wants to rob me, right? If she dares to rob me, I'll let her have it, and it would be best if she also takes my physical body to abuse."

  Taking a deep breath to suppress the evil emotions caused by his wandering thoughts, he waved his hand and said seriously: "Wu Liang Tian Zun, this fellow Taoist, the name of that treasure just now is called Bai Li Liu Guang. If enough magic power is continuously injected, it can fly about 300 kilometers in an hour. The technique for refining this treasure is very unusual. If you like it, I can sell you a set, but I won't tell you the method of refinement. After all, my master warned me repeatedly not to pass on its secrets. If I leak them out, I will be punished by having my soul extracted and thrown into the Nine Underworlds' fierce fire, never to be reborn."

  "You let me take a look, and I'll give you a price." The female cultivator wasn't stupid either, she immediately knew that the inner sect disciple in front of her was worried about her snatching his things. So, she put on a smile, took off the pouch from her waist, and shook it at Wang Guang. "My crystal isn't something that fell from the sky, if you can make me happy, I definitely won't treat you unfairly. If it doesn't meet my expectations, don't even think about getting one crystal, this deal is off."

  "Wu Liang Tian Zun, I've figured it out." Wang Guang nodded and took out the blue gemstones from his waist pouch. The gemstones had been refined by his magical powers and were now the size of a cat's eye. Thousands of rays of light flashed within the gemstones as they collided with each other, producing tiny fragments that burst forth in his hand, shimmering in a bright blue hue.

  "This treasure is called Bai Li Liu Guang, and it can only fly three to five meters high. However, its requirements for use are extremely simple, even a newly transformed Qi cultivator can easily activate it. If you have good quality pearls or gemstones and are willing to use great magical powers to refine them, the quality of this treasure will continue to grow." At this point, Wang Guang began to shamelessly fabricate stories.

  "My master once said that he had seen someone describe it in a book: 'A thousand lights flashing, chasing the sun and moon to absorb their essence.' This means that someone has cultivated this treasure to its limit, displaying thousands of lights flashing, chasing the sun around the world in one day, just to absorb the essence of the sun and moon." When he said this, Ming Zhi added: "My master thinks there must be some exaggeration, but even if the power is reduced by half, if it's refined to the top level, I wouldn't say that you can chase the sun for a day without falling, at least you should be able to travel thousands of miles in an instant."

  "Wow! Am I the legendary protagonist? To think that I have the opportunity to obtain this treasure!" The female cultivator's eyes widened, and she rolled up her sleeves, preparing to snatch the precious stone artifact from Wang Guang's hands.

  "Ahem!" The female merchant, being a businesswoman after all, had developed the habit of observing people's expressions and tone. With one glance, she saw that Wang Guang was talking nonsense. Having spent decades in the Qingfeng Mountain's One Qi Sect, she also knew what kind of person the woman in front of her was. Unable to bear seeing the other being deceived, she began to explain: "Not to mention anything else, but the size of this Cultivation World is unknown to anyone. Even after millions of years of exploration by top-tier cultivators, not a single person has been able to create a rough map of this world. If there really was a treasure that could allow one to travel through the entire world in just one night, it's unlikely that it would fall into our small One Qi Sect's hands."

  "Hmm! This fellow Daoist is absolutely right, so my master said that the records in that Dao book are all nonsense and nothing can be trusted. He estimated that at most it's just a matter of flashing through thousands of miles in an instant." As he spoke, he flipped his hand and tossed several precious stones into the leather pouch on his waist.

  "Little brat, don't think that just because you're an inner disciple, you can deceive me and get away with it. If you dare to cheat me, I'll personally tear you apart, extract your soul, and suppress you to the depths of the earth, where you'll suffer from the burning flames of the earth's fire for millions of years, never allowing you to escape." The female cultivator next to him changed her expression several times before taking out a hundred crystal stones from her treasure pouch and tossing them at Wang Guangdao: "You'd better give me ten such treasures."

  "Vast Heaven Venerable, how could I possibly deceive fellow Taoists?" With a flick of his sleeve, the dust settled, and this guy bowed his head in respect. "A hundred crystal stones can only exchange for one item, but my treasure is capable of using secret methods to upgrade its quality. If it were ten crystal stones per treasure, I wouldn't provide the method to upgrade its quality." Wang Guang inwardly despised the female Qi-refining cultivator before him. "Little girl, when you're unable to upgrade your treasures' quality, I'll say you don't have anything good, and you're unwilling to part with your great method. When that time comes, who knows if you'll have the ability to suppress me to the depths of the earth? You think you can suppress me, but do you have what it takes?"

  "How can the price be so expensive? It's almost comparable to a flying sword." The female Qi cultivator frowned and said discontentedly. However, seeing Wang Guang with a serious expression, closing his eyes in meditation without speaking, she had fire in her heart but couldn't express it.

  "A thousand crystal stones, give me the magic treasure." The female cultivator gritted her teeth and suddenly tore open the mouth of the pouch in her hand, from which a thousand thumb-thick long strips of crystal stone clattered out.

  The cultivators around them heard the sound of a large number of crystal stones and stopped what they were doing, turning their heads to look at Wang Guang and his group. A thousand crystal stones might be just a cloud in the sky, a pile of rocks, for some inner sect cultivators. But for those restless outer sect disciples, these thousand crystal stones were like panacea, magic treasures, flying swords, and divine arts.

  Some cultivators breathed heavily, but more of them just sneered and curled their lips. They had all been hanging around in the sect for decades or even longer, and a few crystal stones were not even worth looking at. As long as they were willing, they could easily complete a sect task.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable, I don't have a hundred treasure boxes to store them in, and secondly, my magical powers are too weak to carry these things away. If you're willing to help, fellow Daoist, we can send these items back to the inner mountain together. In three to five days, I'll come here and trade the treasures with you. What do you think?" Wang Guang said, frowning as he pointed at the crystal stones on the ground.