Chapter 479 - 477: Buying Information

Chapter 479: Chapter 477: Buying Information

"Then why did you ask me to go with you to take advantage of the chaos?"

Su Qing retorted irritably.

Zhu Yuan said, "If no one comes with me, what’s the point? I’m just going to have some fun."

"Besides, the Clumsy Head Palace in the Western Realm has been bullying the Taichu Daoist Palace too much. I want to let off some steam."

Su Qing didn’t even want to respond to her.

Because the situation with the Clumsy Head Palace wasn’t something he and Zhu Yuan could decide.

It was all just minor squabbles.

The real decisions were usually settled by struggles between beings like Taichu or the Thirteenth Realm experts of the Clumsy Head Palace.

"So there’s no point in us letting off steam. It’s all up to Lord Taichu."

"If Lord Taichu wanted to vent his anger, he wouldn’t need us to do anything."

Su Qing explained.

Then, he flew off in a certain direction.

At that moment, Kade was inside a shop, lounging on a chair with his feet propped up on a table, looking completely relaxed with his eyes half-closed.

"Kade, help me gather information on the major events of the last few years. The major events in the Eastern Domain."

Kade opened his eyes. Seeing Su Qing, he stood up with a brilliant smile.

"Greetings, my lord. It is my pleasure to serve you. I will prepare the intelligence for you right away."

"Please wait a moment."

Then, two chairs appeared in Kade’s hands. He placed one for Su Qing and another for Zhu Yuan, who was beside him.

"Lord Su Qing, please have a seat."

"Lady Zhu Yuan, please have a seat."

They both sat down.

Zhu Yuan said with surprise, "I didn’t expect you to come to this Kade fellow to buy intelligence."

"He’s actually very reliable."

"Mhm, I just find it easier. There’s no need to look for anyone else, since I’m not short on Taichu Coins."

"Kade is easy to deal with, his prices are reasonable, and he works fast."

Su Qing remarked.

Zhu Yuan nodded as well.

"That’s true. It seems he had some sort of fortuitous encounter recently. He somehow managed to obtain a Star Dao Path."

"Almost all his peers are incredibly envious."

...

’A Star Fruit counts as a fortuitous encounter?’

’I know the Star Dao Path is rare, but it can’t be *that* hard to obtain, can it?’

’Thinking back, I discovered and obtained my All-Knowing Dao Path and Wisdom Dao Path all by myself.’

’It wasn’t that difficult, was it?’

’It’s just the Star Dao Path, after all.’

’Cultivating a single Star Fruit wouldn’t be much of a problem for me.’

’A simple matter.’

"That was his own personal opportunity, something that can’t be replicated," Su Qing said with a smile.

"Don’t tell me you’re going into seclusion again after this?"

"Mhm." Su Qing nodded in admission.

Zhu Yuan rolled her eyes. "Seriously? Why are you always going into seclusion? And you never seem to hit any bottlenecks? You’re even crazier than Bai Di."

"Because I’m making progress, so I go into seclusion to keep mastering it."

"How is that possible? The later stages of the Taichu Cultivation Method have no set content. You have to figure it out on your own. It’s about the same for my Candle Dragon Race’s methods."

"You have to comprehend it all yourself."

Zhu Yuan was utterly astonished.

"Because I’m a genius," Su Qing replied with another smile.

This answer clearly didn’t satisfy Zhu Yuan.

But she didn’t press the matter.

「...」

"My lord, here is the intelligence you requested."

Kade hurried over, a Crystal Ball now in his hand. It was an item for storing information, apparently a product of the Mechanical Race.

It could connect to one’s soul to transmit information.

The main reason for its use was that Crystal Balls were cheap.

Su Qing took it and immersed his soul within.

He then sat silently to one side.

Zhu Yuan and Kade both waited.

Zhu Yuan, however, started questioning Kade. "Kade, have you heard any news about the Seed of Time recently?"

"Miss, an item like that isn’t so easy to inquire about. Besides, ordinary Cultivators would never even come into contact with it."

Kade said with a wry smile.

He had been working for Zhu Yuan for a long time now.

A full Star Sea Era, perhaps.

She insisted on having him search for an item ranked in the top three of all rare wonders.

The Seed of Time was the number-three-ranked wondrous item.

As long as one possessed it...

It was said that they could reach the Thirteenth Realm without any bottlenecks.

That was the most terrifying part.

Unfortunately...

Even experts of the Thirteenth Realm would fight over such a wondrous item, wouldn’t they?

Whenever one appeared, it would be snatched up by the Thirteenth Realm lords before the young miss before him even had a chance.

"Then do you know about that White Cloak Su Qing is wearing?" Zhu Yuan asked.

Zhu Yuan had checked the books in the Taichu Daoist Palace herself but found no mention of this White Cloak’s origins.

All she could say was that it was extremely mysterious.

In the Taichu Book Land...

She hadn’t seen a single record of the White Cloak.

So, she had asked Kade out of curiosity.

Kade took a look.

He shook his head. "My lady, isn’t that just a White Cloak?"

"I certainly don’t recall any wondrous items in the Star Sea known as the White Cloak."

Zhu Yuan felt helpless.

"Alright then. If you don’t remember, you don’t remember."

Zhu Yuan hadn’t really expected Kade to recognize the White Cloak anyway.

’The White Cloak is clearly very powerful, okay?’

’It was able to pull Bai Di into an Alternate Space without a sound.’

’This treasure is no small matter.’

’It might even be more powerful than a Thirteenth Realm Dao Artifact from the Last Life Clan.’

Zhu Yuan’s own clan had them too.

And she had seen her clansmen activate one before.

But, well, she wasn’t clear on the effects.

’Maybe I was trapped by a Time ability back then.’

「...」

After quite some time,

Su Qing finished absorbing all the information.

It turned out that the Eastern Domain had not been peaceful recently.

Aside from the Black Abyss Dynasty, the area around the Taichu Daoist Palace was also affected.

Most regions had been attacked.

And the losses were devastatingly heavy.

A ratio of nine deaths for every survivor.

Especially the outer Eastern Domain.

It had been almost completely cleaned out.

Truly terrifying.

Furthermore, the method was direct transportation to the Western Realm, where they were dealt with by a certain Thirteenth Realm Cultivator, along with numerous Cultivators of the Devouring Dao Path.

All of them were devoured.

They were even more voracious than the Greed Realm.

However, they were just bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

The Black Abyss Dynasty currently lacked the Black Abyss Human Clan, so the Western Realm forces didn’t dare touch the Black Abyss Flower Demons.

Because in terms of combat power, Black Abyss was stronger than Taichu.

Taichu’s overall capabilities surpassed Black Abyss’s.

They were both Thirteenth Realm Cultivators.

In truth, it was very difficult to determine a winner between them.

Unless one was like Black Abyss, who possessed a terrifying mass of the Fire of Death.

It was practically a superior form of Karmic Fire.

Utterly terrifying.

This was also the reason why so many disciples in the Taichu Daoist Palace wanted revenge.

"You know everything now?" Zhu Yuan asked, looking at the Crystal Ball in Su Qing’s hand.

"Mhm." Su Qing nodded.

"Kade, how many Taichu Coins for this intelligence?"

"My lord, 1,000 Taichu Coins."

"Alright." To Su Qing, one thousand Taichu Coins was far too cheap.

But this was also because the intelligence was something anyone could find out, which was why it was so inexpensive.

After Su Qing paid the Taichu Coins,

he left.

"Tell me, why is that Thirteenth Realm expert from the Western Realm picking a fight with our Eastern Domain?"

On the way, Su Qing asked the question that puzzled him to Zhu Yuan beside him.

"Because they think we’re an easy target, duh. If you ask me, we should go to the Western Realm and take advantage of the chaos. It’d be best if we burned down the Clumsy Head Palace."

Zhu Yuan was still fixated on taking advantage of the chaos.

Su Qing was suddenly speechless.

"I’m going to go cultivate."

"Don’t be in such a rush to cultivate. Let’s go play a game and relax a bit! It’s not like a few days will make a difference to you, right?" Zhu Yuan grabbed Su Qing directly.

Otherwise, she really felt like Su Qing would immediately go into seclusion.

And once he did, they probably wouldn’t see each other for a very long time.

"Fine, let’s play for a while. I have plenty of time anyway." Su Qing gave in.

He felt like he had been cultivating for a long time without ever relaxing.

He might as well play a game and unwind.

「...」

"You’re not helping me fight mobs, you’re luring more over!"

"Su Qing, what are you doing?!"

"Playing the game."

"Damn it, I died! It’s all your fault." Zhu Yuan was sullen, but Su Qing was having a great time.

They were just playing a game, after all. Constantly fighting mobs was boring. Luring a few over to mess with Zhu Yuan felt much more fun.

"No way, you learned how to pull mobs too!"

"Hmph, hmph."

"The aggro is still on you. I’m running first!" Su Qing’s game character turned tail and fled.

Forcing Zhu Yuan to hastily chase after Su Qing as well.

「...」