Chapter 546: Selling the Alien Gu

Song Ciwan had no idea just how busy the Secret Sound Shell transmissions were that night, both inside and outside Demon Suppression Pass.

She hadn’t yet had the chance to buy a Secret Sound Shell and hadn’t connected with anyone, so all the world’s frantic activity seemed to have nothing to do with her.

Winds howled across the Mingqiu Desert, the cries of Demon Beasts pierced the vast sky, and camp bonfires blazed fiercely.

But the Han Guang Glaze Residence shut out all the clamor from the outside world, ensuring Song Ciwan always had her own peaceful corner in this dangerous world.

She let the Big White Goose out in the Cultivation Room, played with it for a moment, then fed it a small bowl of Great Demon stew.

She had sold most of the Great Demon stew she cooked to the Heaven and Earth Scale in exchange for various Elixirs; a small portion was kept as food for the Big White Goose.

Thanks to these feedings, the Big White Goose’s Qi Blood grew increasingly dense and plentiful, and the Demonic Power rolled within its body like billowing smoke signals.

It was already at Mid-Stage Spirit Communication, and it wouldn’t be long before it reached Late-stage Spirit Communication.

For what was once an ordinary goose, reaching this stage was a miraculous transformation.

But Song Ciwan firmly believed it could go even further. After all, with no lack of resources, advancement was inevitable.

The Big White Goose had gotten addicted to Cultivation lately. When Song Ciwan let it out, it would fly around her in a flurry, HONKING, and happily nuzzle her with its head.

After Song Ciwan fed it, the goose urged her to quickly return it to the Spirit Beast Bag.

The environment inside the Spirit Beast Bag was better suited for a Spirit Beast to digest resources, grow, and cultivate.

Song Ciwan stroked the Big White Goose’s plump, round head. “GANK! GANK! GANK!” it cried. As its master, Song Ciwan could understand the full meaning of its calls.

It was saying: ‘Wanwan, I want to cultivate! Let me go cultivate! I want to become an even bigger goose so I can fly you anywhere!’

Song Ciwan smiled gently and returned it to the bag, then placed ten thousand Primordial Pearls into the Spirit Beast Bag’s array space.

An Earth Level Spirit Beast Bag could hold a maximum of ten thousand Primordial Pearls at a time.

These Primordial Pearls would ensure the environment inside the Spirit Beast Bag remained in an optimal state, providing the Spirit Beast with Life Force and energy.

The Big White Goose went back to the Spirit Beast Bag to cultivate, while Song Ciwan summoned the Heaven and Earth Scale to open blind boxes.

The first thing she sold was an Alien Gu!

Among the seventeen Poisoned Cultivators, half of the Alien Gu had been burned to cinders during the extermination process, leaving not even a fragment of a body behind—

Then again, these insects couldn’t leave fragments behind.

Because as long as any part of them remained, the insects could stay alive! Their Life Force was terrifyingly potent; reducing them to ash was the only way to ensure they died.

Two other half-dead Alien Gu had been sealed by Song Ciwan using a Forbidden Character, placed in a specially made Jade Box, and taken by Yu Wenxu.

Yu Wenxu had stated clearly that he needed to take these two Alien Gu back to the West Wind Army’s main barracks to be given to the Grand General for research.

Of course, Yu Wenxu didn’t take the Poisonous Insects for free.

After Song Ciwan had arranged for Xing Lan’s Identity Token, Yu Wenxu directly transferred 30,000 Battle Merits to it.

Twenty thousand Battle Merits were for the purchase of the two Poisonous Insects, and the remaining ten thousand were Song Ciwan’s reward for healing the other cultivators.

According to Yu Wenxu, the Identity Token of a Five-star Medical Cultivator could not only record, transfer, and receive Battle Merits on demand, but also possessed limited image-recording and messaging capabilities.

However, the messaging function could only be activated at the West Wind Army’s Gale Camp after entering Demon Suppression Pass.

For now, Song Ciwan couldn’t use it.

Additionally, the Identity Token’s messaging function was prone to various delays and did not support real-time conversations, making it far inferior to a Secret Sound Shell. Thus, for real-time communication, one still had to go to Gale Camp to purchase a Secret Sound Shell.

Despite the many flaws of the Identity Token’s messaging function, once Song Ciwan figured out how to use it, she recorded the messaging IDs of Yu Wenxu, Cai An, Liu Mingzhong, Xiang Qing, and the others.

Once she activated her own messaging ID at Gale Camp, Song Ciwan would be able to communicate with them.

Song Ciwan hung the Identity Token from her waist. She didn’t plan on putting it away in any storage items during her time at Demon Suppression Pass. The moment it entered a Storage Pouch or the Vast Sea Grotto Heaven, its messaging function would be blocked, creating a clear inconvenience.

In the end, Song Ciwan had collected six Alien Gu for herself.

These six Alien Gu were all collected by the Heaven and Earth Scale the moment they were on the verge of death and had lost the ability to resist.

[You have sold one half-mature Alien Gu in a near-death state, tainted with the Divine Power of the Ancient Divine Insect Race. You have received one Five-star Level Marvel: Returning to the Divine Incense.]

Returning to the Divine Incense: A Five-star Level Marvel. When this incense is lit, it can, within a quarter of an hour, summon the Divine Soul of a recently deceased person, allowing their Divine Soul to re-form and their thoughts to return.

Note: A “recently deceased person” refers to someone who has been dead for no more than a quarter of an hour.

This item’s effect is limited to targets whose Cultivation does not exceed the Divine Refining Stage, or an equivalent level in other Cultivation Realms.

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Song Ciwan read the description of the Returning to the Divine Incense once, then read it again. Only then did a feeling of both joyous surprise and horror slowly creep into her heart.

The effect of the Returning to the Divine Incense was nothing short of Soul Revival!

Although it was only a Five-star item, its value was practically immeasurable compared to many other Marvels of the same level.

‘Selling an Alien Gu tainted with the Divine Power of the Ancient Divine Insect Race gets you Returning to the Divine Incense… From another angle, this implies that the Divine Power of the Ancient Divine Insect Race… that stuff probably… has some ability to gather a soul, too.’

‘The more layers of the Ancient Divine Insect Race’s veil that are pulled back, the more mysterious and terrifying it becomes.’

Next, Song Ciwan sold two more Alien Gu, for a total of three sticks of Returning to the Divine Incense.

[You have sold Malice: The death-generated Malice from a Deer-Horse Demon Beast at the Great Perfection of the Spirit Communication Stage (practicing the Cultivation Foundation Establishment Method). Amount: 6 jin and 2 taels. You have received 6,200 years of Lifespan.]

‘Wow! That’s a huge addition to my Lifespan.’

‘A Demon Beast practicing the Cultivation Foundation Establishment Method—that is, one that has taken a Foundation Establishment Pill—is only at the Spirit Communication Stage, yet its Malice is worth a thousand years of Lifespan per jin. That’s terrifying!’

Song Ciwan’s Lifespan increased, and her vitality surged once more. She closed her eyes to assimilate the feeling for a moment before returning to the Heaven and Earth Scale.

[You have sold Malice: The death-generated Malice from a Demon Core Stage Lion Demon. Amount: 4 jin and 3 taels. You have received 430 years of Lifespan.]

The Malice from the Demon Core Stage Lion Demon only granted her a little over four hundred years of Lifespan. Still, Song Ciwan didn’t feel it was too little. After all, four hundred-plus years was by no means a small amount.

Next, she sold a portion of General Yu’s emotions.

[You have sold human desires: The chagrin, embarrassment, and curiosity of a Celestial Pride Level, Innate Acupoint Fusion Realm Martial Artist. Amount: 2 jin and 3 taels. By consuming 10,000 Primordial Pearls for a targeted trade, you have obtained the supreme Daoist Technique: Fetal Breathing Saint Method.]

‘The Fetal Breathing Saint Method!’

‘The supreme medical Daoist Skill Xiang Qing mentioned, the one that allows for Limb Regeneration!’

Vast streams of scripture poured into her mind. Song Ciwan focused her spirit to comprehend it, perceiving the vastness of life and the wonders of its source.