Chapter 96: Magic Crystal

  The red crystal in Brad Pitt's hand, to others, might just be a rough ruby, but in Li Xie's eyes, it shone with an enticing glow!

  And, it was emitting an aura that excited Li Xue.

  That's blood energy!

  Under Li Xie's super-sensitive perception, this red crystal was actually a crystal containing powerful blood energy.

  Roughly estimated, it contained at least 40,000 points of Blood Energy!

  400,000 blood points can be considered a small amount compared to the 20,000,000 blood points required for Li Xie's next level green-eyed vampire promotion, not to mention that this is also a way of promotion.

  If we can get a large amount of magic crystals, won't we be able to upgrade at any time? If one crystal has 40,000 health points, then wouldn't it only take fifty crystals?

  Li's heart was racing as he hesitantly asked, "Is this a magic crystal of an eighth-tier demonic beast?"

  The blood of an ordinary eighth-level demon beast contains 40,000 points of blood energy. Li Xie only had this question because of the magic crystal. Of course, what Li Xie hoped most was that it was just an ordinary magic crystal! In that case, he could quickly obtain the blood energy needed for promotion!

  "Evil brother has good eyesight, this is the magic crystal of the 8th rank demonic beast."

  When he heard this, Li Xie was extremely disappointed. The magic crystal of an eighth-stage demon beast was equivalent to having an eighth-stage demon beast itself. The quantity was probably not going to be a lot, and what's more, the spatial rings and other items on the market were all made from magic crystals. However, Li Xie hadn't sensed any blood energy existing within them. Apparently, it had to be unprocessed magic crystal in order to preserve the blood energy. This made Li Xie even less hopeful. After all, where would there be so many eighth-stage demon beasts dying?

  "Pete big brother, how much gold coins is needed for a magic crystal of an 8th-tier magical beast? Is there any quantity guarantee?" Li Xie asked, despite not having much hope.

  Brad Pitt said, "This one alone is worth 50 million gold coins! As for the quantity, it's impossible to have many. Normally, you wouldn't kill your own magical beasts to get magic crystals, and most of the magic crystals found in the wild are from low-level magical beasts. High-level magical beast crystals can provide energy for some magical beasts to help them upgrade, so they will also eat magic crystals. This way, there are even fewer. Adding this one I have, there might not be ten unprocessed eighth-order magic crystals in existence."

  Brad Pitt's words made Li Ye even more disappointed, and this approach was probably abandoned. Money wasn't a big problem, the problem was that there wasn't much of it.

  This small amount is not even worth slowly bleeding some 7th-tier magical beasts!

  However, Li Xie soon thought of a problem. What Brad Pitt said was that the magic crystal of high-level demon beasts is not much, but obviously, the magic crystal of low-level demon beasts should be quite a lot. At least, space rings and crystal cards all require magic crystals to be made, which is enough to explain that low-level magic crystals are definitely not few.

  If the blood energy in the magic crystal can be fully absorbed by Li Xie without being suppressed, then the only problem left for promotion is money.

  "Pete, big brother, do you still have any magic crystals on hand?" Li Xie hastily asked.

  Brad Pitt said: "Above the seventh-order magic crystal, wild demons will come to eat it, so it's very rare. Below the seventh order is not uncommon, I still have a lot of five or six-order demon crystals on hand. Are you, Evil Brother, going to do this business? Hehe, this business is usually only done by the Summoner Association, ordinary people don't have such advanced magic research to apply magic crystals."

  "I'm not here to do business, I'm just curious, can you sell me a fifth-grade and a sixth-grade magic crystal?" Li Xie was just trying to see if he could absorb the blood energy inside.

  "Here you go." Brad Pitt immediately pulled out two crystals, one blue and one white.

  Although the colors and shapes are different from those of the eighth-order magic crystal, they all contain blood energy. The blue one should be a sixth-order magic crystal, containing 10,000 points of blood energy, while the white one should be a fifth-order magic crystal, with 5,000 points of blood energy.

  Think about it, if the blood in the magic crystal can't be suppressed and absorbed, then two hundred sixth-grade magic crystals would be enough to promote Li Xie to the next level. Most importantly, Li Xie wouldn't have to search for seventh or eighth grade demon beast blood anymore, just a few sixth-grade magic crystals would allow him to continuously advance until he becomes a Golden Eyed Bloodsucking Vampire.

  But how can I absorb the blood energy from the magic crystal?

  Li Xie's palm held the two dragon eye-sized magic crystals, thought for a moment, and directly picked up the white crystal to swallow it. The magic crystal was extremely hard, Li Xie naturally didn't chew but swallowed it directly into his stomach, yet he could immediately feel the magic crystal dispersing into a cool air flow, flowing throughout his body.

  This proves that directly ingesting the magic crystal can absorb the blood energy inside, but also proves another point: Li Xie's body has an inhibitory effect on the absorption of low-grade demon beast blood energy, and this inhibition also exists for low-level demon beast magic crystals.

  Li Xie smiled wryly and swallowed the magic crystal of the sixth-order demon beast. The sixth-order magic crystal also turned into a cool airflow that spread throughout his body, but it couldn't increase his blood energy in excess.

  This made Li Xie's smile even more bitter. Originally, when he was a yellow-eyed vampire, he could absorb the blood energy of sixth-tier magical beasts. Now that he had advanced to a blue-eyed vampire, the blood energy of sixth-tier magical beasts was suppressed. Wouldn't it be that in the future, the higher he advanced, the more he would have to search for even higher-tier magical beasts?

  Brad Pitt stared at Li Xie with bulging eyes and exclaimed: "You ate the magic crystal?! God of war above! So you're a demon beast!"

  Some magical beasts above the 9th rank can transform into human form, similar to Xie Yunlin, and only retain some characteristics, such as Xie Yunlin's thorn tattoos. Li Xie's previous sword wing and his eating of magic crystals would naturally make Brad Pitt think he was a transformed magical beast.

  Li Xie explained: "Pete big brother don't misunderstand, I just have a strange habit of eating magic crystals, but I am indeed human and not a demon beast."

  "I thought you were some kind of high-ranking demon beast! But I guess that's not the case, since high-ranking demon beasts like to transform into human form but don't like being around humans. You seem pretty chatty too, so you don't seem like a high-ranking demon beast either. But this habit of eating magic crystals is really unheard of! Why are you making such a sour face? Is it because the fifth or sixth rank magic crystal doesn't agree with your stomach? Hahaha..." Brad Pitt cracked a joke and burst out laughing.

  Li Xie smiled wryly: "It seems that Brother Pete was right, I'm afraid it'll take 70 to 90 levels to satisfy my appetite!"

  Brad Pitt chuckled and said, "Above the seventh level, it's a bit less, you know. One mouthful is worth tens of millions of gold coins. Even if you don't care about money, it seems like your appetite can't be satisfied either. However, hehe, if you go to the dragon tribe, maybe you'll get to eat your fill, hahaha... Just kidding, the dragon tribe calls magic crystals 'dragon crystals' and worships them as ancestral tablets, how could they let you eat them, hahaha..."

  Wow!

  Dragon tribe!

  Li Xie's heart was filled with a small flame of hope!

  The dragon clan has been passed down for countless years, and if they treat the dragon crystal as an ancestor's spirit tablet, doesn't that mean the dragon clan has countless dragon crystals? The dragon clan is mostly seventh-grade, and eighth-grade, ninth-grade, and tenth-grade are not uncommon, isn't there a lot of high-grade dragon crystal?

  That's countless blood energy, enough to support Li Xie directly advancing to Golden-eyed Vampire.

  The only problem is how to get the dragon crystal of the Dragon Clan!

  It seems that I have to go to the Dragon Clan after all, where all of my dragon crystals are!

  Li Xie's eyes shone with radiance!

  Reading ten thousand volumes is not as useful as traveling ten thousand miles. If I hadn't left Chrysanthemum City for Manchester, I wouldn't have met Brad Pitt, and probably wouldn't know what a magic crystal was, let alone think of the Dragon Clan.

  Now it's just a matter of how the Dragon Clan can swindle their ancestors' spiritual thrones. Li Xie is very confident about this!

  A mere lizard from the West, trying to swindle them out of something, can still stump this descendant of the Dragon God?

  Li Xie thought for a moment, and the corner of his mouth on the right side involuntarily curled up, revealing a small canine tooth.

  Brad Pitt leaned in front of Li Xie, curiously looking at Li Xie's fangs: "You're not a demon beast? Look at your teeth!"

  "Uh... it's really not that, this is a snaggletooth. I just had a habit of biting my doorframe when I was little, and my snaggletooth got a bit swollen, so it grew out like this!"

  Brad Pitt raised an eyebrow, clearly disbelieving, but he didn't continue to dwell on the issue: "The Mercenary Guild's office has arrived, I'll go register, you guys wait for me."

  Brad Pitt entered the office, while Li Xie was outside sizing up the place.

  It looks like a triangular building, the gate is formed by four large stone pillars falling to the ground, and there is nothing special about it. The only thing that can be considered special is the two-meter-high bronze statue standing on the one-meter-high stone base in front of the gate.

  The reason why the bronze statue is special is that before Brad Pitt entered the Mercenary Guild's office, he stood in front of the bronze statue, clenched his fists and bent them to his chest, making a gesture of respect.

  "Zayn, do you know whose bronze statue that is?" Li Xie asked the cool guy beside him.

  "Martin Wegner's. I've seen his bronze statue in front of every Mercenaries' Guild building I've visited."

  "Oh, so this bronze statue is the King of Mercenaries. Hmm, he looks a bit cold-blooded, but not as cold-blooded as you."

  Soon, Brad Pitt came out of the Mercenary Association office and said to Li Xie: "We settled in Leisure Station because both Thunderbolt Mercenary Team and Galeforce Mercenary Team are nearby. I just inquired that they are resting in the residential area. Which one do you plan to ask for help?"

  "Let's go to the Thunderbolt Mercenaries." Although Li Xie didn't know either of these two mercenary groups, Skamord's information included the Thunderbolt Mercenaries, after all, the Kingdom of Tudor had dealings with them before, so it should be easier to find them.

  "It just so happens that I'm familiar with Atre of the Thunderbolt Mercenaries. It's much easier to talk to them, so let's go."

  Brad Pitt brought Li Xie to the residential area where the Ben Lei Mercenary Corps was located, and as he said, it was indeed someone familiar with Atreus, who only let people report a voice, and Atreus personally came out to greet him.

  Atre is a two-meter-tall Great Han with blood-red hair and a sunny face. From the heartfelt smile on his face, he should be a generous and passionate person like Brad Pitt, but he seems to have a fondness for gold, wearing a golden necklace wrapped around his neck several times.

  "Brad! Long time no see!" Attreyo walked over and gave Brad Pitt a hug.

  Brad Pitt burst out laughing: "Yat, don't say old friends don't take care of you. It's been a long time since we last met, and now that I've seen you, I'll bring you some business. Let me introduce..."

  Brad Pitt pointed to Li Xie and said, "This is Li Xie, this is Zayn Nader, they are Meow Sister's younger brothers. That one is Meow, yes, you didn't see wrong, it's the cat on top of Li Xie's head. No, no, not a beast of bad luck, don't be so surprised, she's a special magical creature."

  The little cat listened to Brad Pitt's introduction, proudly raised its head, and the arrogant appearance formed a sharp contrast with Li Xie's bitter expression.

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