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So, that afternoon, Xiao Yan secretly visited several of the largest auction houses in the Southern Territory. However, although his whereabouts were secretive, other forces were still spying on him. As soon as he left, people from other forces came in. He went to the auction house and bought all the medicinal materials Xiao Yan needed at a price that was more than ten times the market price.

In fact, the original price was not that expensive, but the person in charge of the auction house claimed that the prices you charged for the medicinal materials outside were ten times higher. Naturally, they couldn't lag behind. Of course, if the other party didn't want to buy it, that was fine. They could sell it to Endless Fire Domain at the original price. Faced with the auction house's practice of raising prices, Mitian Clan and other forces were also extremely annoyed. However, in order to completely suppress the Endless Fire Territory, they had no choice but to smash their teeth and swallow it.

After learning the news, Qingtan and others were also a little anxious. When they first learned that Xiao Yan was going to the auction house, they thought it was a great move. After all, the amount of medicinal materials stored in this auction house was absolutely insufficient. Young Master, I didn’t expect that I would be blocked before I even started. “These guys are moving a little too fast, aren’t they?”

"There won't be any moles here, right? Otherwise they wouldn't move so fast." Under such a high-pressure environment, even Qingtan became a little suspicious.

"There is a ghost inside, but it's not from our side, but from the auction house." Xiao Yan said calmly, "No matter how secret our whereabouts are, the people at the auction house will definitely know, as long as they reveal the news. , no matter how well we hide it, it will be of no use."

"You mean... people from the auction house took the initiative to reveal the news to other forces?" Mandala immediately understood the meaning of Xiao Yan's words and asked quickly, "But... haven't they already made an agreement with you? ?"

"You have to understand that these guys are essentially businessmen, and businessmen have always been profit-oriented. If there is a way to earn more, they will naturally not care about integrity." Xiao Yan chuckled and said, "And the fact is It's the same, they sold it to those guys for ten times the price, which is a veritable lion's mouth."

"Then what should we do? They sold the medicinal materials to other forces and they made a fortune, but our problem has not been solved yet." Qingtan said angrily when she saw Xiao Yan's smiling look. She really couldn't figure out how this guy could still be so virtuous when this was so urgent...

"If that doesn't work, should I go to the North or other places to purchase medicinal materials? I don't believe that they can extend their hands and feet to other places." Mandala suggested.

Hearing this, Qingtan's eyes lit up, but before she could speak, Xiao Yan waved his hand and said: "No, let's not talk about the long journey and the day lily will be cold when you bring the medicinal materials back. If I were those guys, I could just send a group of people to surround you on the road."

"Then what should we do? This won't work, and that won't work either. You can't really satisfy their wishes, right?"

"Actually, you don't have to worry at all, because they are the ones who should be worried." Xiao Yan looked at the worried Mandala and Qingtan and said with a smile, "I think it won't be long before they are too anxious."

"Ah?" Qingtan and Qingtan were stunned for a moment. In this situation, how could the person who had the advantage be more anxious than them?

"They spent such a large amount of money to buy these medicinal materials in order to force us to bow our heads and voluntarily give up the profits. Although this did cut off our access to medicine, the money spent was enough to break their muscles and bones. Well, if we keep insisting, then these medicinal materials will only rot in their hands, do you think they should be anxious?"

"But our reserves of medicinal materials are almost running out. The demand for elixirs has been very high recently. Without medicinal materials, the elixirs we sell cannot keep up, and other forces will definitely take the opportunity to seize our market." Mandala said with a look on his face. He said solemnly, "If that's the case, we still lose more than we gain..."

"Haha..." Hearing this, Xiao Yan also raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "Who said we have run out of medicinal materials?"

Chapter 388: Backhand

Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Mandala and Qingtan were also startled. They looked at each other, and then said with some suspicion: "In the past few days, we have been paying attention to the storage volume of medicinal materials in the warehouse. It is indeed almost bottoming out..."

"You are right. The medicinal materials in the Endless Fire Domain warehouse are indeed almost used up, but I don't have the medicinal materials in my hand yet." Xiao Yan smiled slightly and saw him gently flicking the ring on his hand. The next moment, countless medicinal plants suddenly appeared in the field, filling the entire room in an instant.

"So many?" Looking at the mountains of medicinal materials, Mandala and the two couldn't help but look happy. These medicinal materials are enough for the alchemists of the Endless Fire Territory to refine them for a period of time, and this period of time is enough for them to find ways to find new ones. With the source of medicinal materials, their biggest problem will be solved.

"Didn't you come up with so many medicinal materials earlier? You've made us worry in vain." Qingtan looked at the medicinal materials in the field and couldn't help but complain despite being excited.

"It seems that I have never said that we are short of medicinal materials, right? I keep telling you not to worry. Do you blame me for being so anxious?" Xiao Yan shrugged and said innocently.

For other alchemists, medicinal materials are indeed very important, but Xiao Yan does not need to worry about medicinal materials at all, because he has the flame of life, and the flame of life has the function of quickly promoting the production of medicinal materials, as long as there are seeds or roots of the medicinal materials , he will be able to continuously mass-produce medicinal materials.

Although the effect of the Flame of Life on the world is not that significant, Xiao Yan still has the Ancestral Talisman of Life and Death in his hand, and uses the life energy of the Ancestral Talisman of Life and Death to amplify the Flame of Life, thus improving its effect. In addition to the Flame of Life, He also has two treasures, the Sky Tomb and the Time Ancestral Talisman. Even if he finds a piece of land on site to grow medicinal materials, it will be more than enough. Therefore, Xiao Yan has never worried about medicinal materials from the beginning.

"In this case, why did you ask me to purchase medicinal materials before and said that you would not hesitate to spend ten times the price?" Qingtan suddenly remembered Xiao Yan's initial measures and couldn't help but ask.

"Of course this is a bait. If we don't take any action, how can they take the bait? If they don't release it and have to buy it at a high price, then how can they be willing to pour in the Supreme Spiritual Liquid to buy some that they don't even need? Where are the medicinal materials?" Xiao Yan sneered and said, "This is called inviting you to enter the urn."

"I guess you have ulterior motives for going to the auction house, right?" Mandala asked. Since Xiao Yan had already planned to plot against them, he probably had other purposes for going to the auction house.

"Yes, I went there to tell them that I was at the end of my rope. Another purpose was to make a deal with them. I sold this information to them and let them make a lot of money in exchange for it. Some precious elixir recipes, array diagrams, and magical powers." Xiao Yan continued.

"Aren't you afraid that they will reveal this news?"

"Of course I'm not afraid. I said that businessmen are all profit-oriented. Although they have not united with Ziyin Sect to deal with us, in fact, they have also stocked up a lot of medicinal materials and want to rip us off. At this time, I told They, in fact, I have no shortage of medicinal materials at all, but there happens to be an enemy who wants to take over, what do you think they will do?" Xiao Yan asked with a smile.

"Then you must be eager to throw your hands away!" Qingtan replied without hesitation.

"So, they will never tell other forces about this news, otherwise they will bear the losses themselves, and it doesn't matter even if it is really revealed, because even if they know this, they have already invested too much It's just the difference between having something to gain and losing something." Xiao Yan said as he put away the medicinal materials again.

He did not tell Qingtan and the others that there was actually another reason for doing this, that is, these auction houses were secretly supported by the former Holy Demon Palace, and when the Holy Demon Palace changed owners, their person in charge had secretly contacted them Xiao Yan expressed his intention to surrender. The reason why they also collected a lot of medicinal materials was to support the Endless Fire Territory, so Xiao Yan rushed over and asked them to sell these things to Ziyin Sect and others.

"I'm afraid they're going to be half angry to death now." Qingtan couldn't help but laugh. The pills Xiao Yan sold were actually improved by himself. Only he and a few people were responsible for refining the pills. The elixir master of the medicine knew it, and to avoid confusion, when purchasing, he also added a lot of medicinal materials that looked similar but would cause the alchemy to fail. Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for others to use those medicinal materials to replicate what Xiao Yan sold. of elixirs.

In other words, if those medicinal materials cannot be disposed of, then these medicinal materials are completely useless to those forces. In fact, even if they know which medicinal materials are needed, it will be of no use, because refining medicine requires more than just medicinal materials. In terms of quantity, The requirements for heat are also extremely critical.

In fact, after deciding to cut off Xiao Yan's medicine, those forces also asked their spiritual alchemists to study the pills sold by Xiao Yan in an attempt to restore the prescription. However, for so long, they still found nothing, even without the misleading of the medicinal materials. , if you want to restore a prescription that was personally improved by a master-level alchemist, you must be at least a master-level one.

However, there are few spiritual alchemists of this level in the entire Tianluo Continent, at least not in the Southern Territory. Taking a step back, even if there is an alchemist of this level in the Southern Territory, it would be extremely expensive to hire him. However, spending such a high price just to crack some supreme-level elixir recipes is obviously not worth the gain. of.

"If they will be so angry that they are half-dead just because of this, then I think I can probably make them so angry that they vomit blood." After hearing what Qingtan said, Xiao Yan also shook his head and said with a smile.

"What other tricks do you have?" Mandala couldn't help but ask. She was already frightened by just these methods Xiao Yan showed, but now Xiao Yan's words seemed to have other meanings. The means were not explained.

"It's not a back-up, I just want to tell them something." Xiao Yan smiled, then looked at the two girls with curious expressions somewhat mysteriously, and said, "Haven't you ever thought about it? Why did so many shops specializing in selling medicinal materials appear in the Southern Territory in such a short period of time? You know, there are no large-scale medicinal fields here, so where do their medicinal materials come from? "

Chapter 389: Stalemate

"You mean... you arranged those medicine shops yourself?" Both Mandala and Qingtan were surprised. Although Xiao Yan did not say it clearly, Mandala and Qingtan were not stupid people. , they immediately guessed the meaning of Xiao Yan's words, but it was precisely because of this that they were so shocked.

The Ziyin Sect's gang spent ten times higher than the market price to buy medicinal materials in order to cut off Xiao Yan's source of medicinal materials, but they probably never imagined that Xiao Yan was not worried about the medicinal materials at all, and the most outrageous thing Yes, the person who sold them the medicinal materials was actually Xiao Yan himself, which meant that not only did their operation have no results, they also actively paid a large sum of money to Xiao Yan. No wonder he said that it would make those people vomit blood. After all, This method is indeed a bit outrageous.

"However, since we are going to act, we have to do a full set." Mandala thought for a while and suddenly said: "I think we should send people to other places to pretend to purchase medicinal materials, so as to give them a It feels like we are at the end of the road, otherwise they may become suspicious when they see that we have not taken any action.”

"And I think we can temporarily reduce the quantity of elixirs sold. In this case, they will feel that our medicinal materials are almost used up, so we can only temporarily reduce the quantity of elixirs." Qingtan also put forward his own suggestions , although she doesn’t know how to do business, she also knows what it means to show weakness to the enemy.

"What you said makes sense, so let's do what you said." Xiao Yan nodded slightly. In fact, he had thought of this, but he deliberately exposed this flaw to see what Mandala and the others could do. If he couldn't make up for it, it turned out that they didn't let him down, so he could be the hands-off shopkeeper with peace of mind.

So soon, the Endless Fire Territory sent some people to the area to purchase medicinal materials, and then as expected, they were intercepted halfway. The Southern Territory Alliance was also extremely happy about this, thinking that they had intercepted Xiao Yan's last path, in this way, could force the Endless Fire Territory to surrender, but soon, they discovered that something was not right.

Because every day the elixir sales in the Endless Fire Territory give people the feeling that there is not much inventory and they can only support it hard, but on the next day, they can still sell a smaller amount of elixirs than the previous day. A month has passed since this back and forth, and they can still maintain a daily quota of elixir sales!

As a result, other forces were a little bit restless, because including the time when they first rushed to buy medicinal materials with Endless Fire Territory, their investment had lasted for nearly three months, and it took three months to purchase large quantities of the entire South. The medicinal materials in the region are still priced at more than ten times the market price. This kind of investment has gradually become too much for them. If they had not joined forces, they would have lost money to the point of begging.

However, even after forming an alliance, this long-term high-price investment still made them a little anxious. The big forces such as Mitianmen and Ziyin Sect were okay and could last for a while, but those However, the small forces have already experienced economic turnover problems, and even the supreme spiritual liquid that should be distributed to subordinates this month is almost impossible to produce.

These forces in the world must distribute resources to their subordinates on a regular basis every month. Otherwise, how could they work for you? Ordinary Supreme Beings are okay, but if there is an Earth Supreme Being or a Spiritual Alchemist who is enshrined, the price will be even more expensive.

They joined the alliance before because those big forces promised to let them get a share of the pie when things were done, so they all used the supreme spiritual liquid in their hands to invest. However, until now, this business war has still not happened. It's over, but they have to live a life of tightening their belts.

Under this high-pressure environment, the Southern Territory Alliance also convened a meeting to discuss the next actions. However, it was different from the heroic scene of the initial ambitious discussion on how to carve up the Endless Fire Territory. The forces participating in the meeting this time The lords all looked worried, which also made the lords of the big forces feel a little uneasy.

"How are the sales of elixirs in the Endless Fire Territory these days?" the head of the Mitian Sect asked first. He was the initiator of the Southern Territory Alliance. He was the one who first contacted other forces to deal with the Endless Fire Territory. Likewise, he is also the most powerful among all the people present, and his strength is at the pinnacle of the upper level.

"It's the same as before, but the quantity of pills will be much smaller." The leader of the Ziyin Sect replied, because he is the force mainly responsible for monitoring the situation in the Endless Fire Territory, so he is not aware of these matters. Calculate everything.

"Well, it seems that the Endless Fire Realm can't support it for much longer. It won't take long before their inventory will be exhausted. You guys should hold on for a while longer." The master of the Mitian Sect said.

"Hmph, you said the same thing a month ago. What's the result?" A relatively hot-tempered leader of the force slapped the table and angrily yelled: "It's been a month and their people are still selling pills, but they are still selling pills. We are almost going to drink the northwest wind! How do you want us to persist?"

"This is indeed a bit abnormal." The Palace Master of Qingyuan Palace frowned and said: "It stands to reason that their medicinal material reserves should have been exhausted long ago, and the pills should also be sold out. Even if they still had stocks before, It shouldn’t be that the inventory has not been sold out for so long. Could it be that Endless Fire Territory has obtained medicinal materials from other places?”

"This is impossible. We have monopolized all the medicinal materials shops in the Southern Territory. We have also bought all the medicinal materials from several auction houses. Even the personnel they sent to the outside world were intercepted by us. Where else can they get them? Medicinal materials?" The master of the Mitian Sect snorted coldly and said: "Besides, haven't you all heard that the quantity sold in the Endless Fire Territory is decreasing every day? If they can get other medicinal materials, they need to do this. Do it?"

Hearing this, the leaders of the small forces also breathed a sigh of relief. What they were most worried about was that the Endless Fire Territory would get another batch of medicinal materials from nowhere. In that case, their previous high-priced hoarding of medicinal materials would not only be meaningless, but On the contrary, they will suffer a big loss, and that kind of big loss is enough to make them bankrupt.

"That's right. The more critical the moment comes, the more patience everyone has to have." The leader of the Mitian Sect continued to impress everyone present, "As long as everyone can hold on until that guy gives in, we can use the weapons we have. The medicinal materials put pressure on him, and by then, everyone’s losses will be compensated tenfold!”

Chapter 390: Three Hundred and Eighty-Nine, Ancient Holy Abyss

Unlike other forces who expected to be in dire straits, the Endless Fire Territory seemed very calm at this time. The resources that should be distributed were still distributed, and the work that should be done continued, although the people under them also knew that they would not be able to purchase medicinal materials during this period. However, pills are sold regularly every day, and few people above are in a hurry, so naturally they won't worry about it.

In the past three months, Xiao Yan and others have not stopped practicing. With the many resources provided by the Endless Fire Domain and the help of the Dragon and Phoenix Art, the strength of the three of them has also increased significantly, among which the improvement has been the most obvious. It was Mandala. After hard training, her strength was raised to the peak of the lower level supreme. Finally, after Xiao Yan gave her a spirit liquid, she successfully broke through to the upper level supreme level.

And Qingtan's improvement is no less impressive. She is naturally gifted. Before, it was only limited by the environment so it didn't show up. But now, with the many resources of the Endless Fire Territory, it only took three months. In just a short time, she has broken through to the eighth-level supreme realm, and even entered the half-step to the ninth-level realm. If she continues at this rate, it won't take half a year for her to reach the true earth-supreme realm.

In comparison, Xiao Yan's improvement is a bit inferior. He has only been promoted to the level of the supreme peak. However, Xiao Yan knows that this is a normal phenomenon. After all, the economy required for his breakthrough is compared to that of the same level. It must be several times more, otherwise, I'm afraid he would have been able to break through to the supreme level of Dzogchen.

However, although there are not many breakthroughs in spiritual power, Xiao Yan has made considerable gains in other aspects. First of all, the elixir he has been studying during this period has finally succeeded. Secondly, his Nine Jue of Demonic Fury has also been successful. All of them have been improved by him to super magical powers or even higher levels.

If the enhanced nine skills of Demon Wrath are used, even the Great Perfection Level Earth Supreme may not be able to survive a few rounds in Xiao Yan's hands, and Xiao Yan is also confident that one day, he will improve all these skills. To the extent that it is comparable to the thirty-six peerless magical powers, Xiao Yan is also looking forward to that day.

Of course, although he has not yet broken through to the Supreme of Dzogchen, Xiao Yan is not far away from that realm now. Therefore, Xiao Yan has also begun to prepare some things in case he can attack the Heavenly Supreme in one fell swoop after breaking through to the Supreme of Dzogchen in the future. realm.

With his current strength, he is actually enough to dominate one side, but he knows very well that if he wants to become a true overlord in the world, he must officially enter that level. Apart from anything else, if he wants to take on the fighting spirit If people from the mainland want to live a good life, they must reach the level of Heavenly Supreme.

Not to mention that he has now provoked the Holy Heavenly Demon Emperor. For that terrifying existence that is very likely to reach the level of the Holy Heavenly Supreme, if he does not reach the level of the Heavenly Supreme, then even escape may be a luxury. Under such huge pressure Under this, Xiao Yan became more and more eager for strength.

"It seems that you haven't succeeded in breaking through yet." When Xiao Yan finished his practice for the day and was about to do other things, Mandala, who had just finished doing one good deed a day with him, suddenly said, she could feel After coming out, Xiao Yan's current aura is still at the supreme level. Although he is very tyrannical, he has not officially entered the next level.

"It's not that easy to break through." Xiao Yan shook his head. Cultivation is all about gradual progress. If he advances by leaps and bounds, it will have a huge impact on the future. The reason why his breakthrough is so difficult this time is probably due to some reasons. It was caused by the previous promotion being too fast.

"If you stay here all the time, it will be really difficult to break through." Mandala shook his white calf and said: "However, I do have information that may be able to help you overcome this difficulty, and even... You may get a great opportunity."

"What information?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.

"Have you ever heard of the Ancient Holy Abyss?"

"Ancient Holy Abyss?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but be a little confused. Although he had been in the world for a long time and knew a lot of common sense, he still didn't know much about the secrets of these ancient times.

"You should know that the Great Thousand World had a war with the evil races outside the territory tens of thousands of years ago, right? The Ancient Holy Abyss was one of the places where the decisive battle between the Great Thousand World and the evil races outside the territory was made. Although it was tens of thousands of years ago, there The environment is still extremely cruel, and even the most powerful people in the Dzogchen Land are likely to fall into it." Mandala explained slowly.

"Is there anything special there?"

"That's of course... because in that shocking war in ancient times, both the Great Thousand World and the evil races outside the territory sent many top experts. Our Great Thousand World lost nearly ten Heavenly Sovereigns, including four. A saint-level Heavenly Supreme, and more than a dozen demon emperors from the evil tribes outside the territory also fell there, and those who caused the death of the four saint-grade Heavenly Supremes were the top fifteen Heavenly Demon Emperors from the evil tribe outside the territory. However, They were also killed there by those four seniors!"

"The war broke out very suddenly, so many of the sacred objects and magical powers of the Heavenly Sovereign were left there. You can imagine, at the level of the Heavenly Sovereign, how bad can their things be? Especially among them. It has the inheritance of the Supreme Saint, and it is said that there are still two thirty-six peerless magical powers left behind!"

"The War Emperor of the West Heaven War Palace is now a powerful man. The reason why he was able to rise in the world was because he received the inheritance of the ancient War Emperor in it, and thus he was quickly promoted to where he is now. to the point where he has gained a place in the world.”

"Therefore, many powerful people from the Earth Supreme will venture into it, hoping to find the inheritance left by the Heaven Supreme, so as to reach the sky in one step. Some outstanding descendants of the ancient battlefield will also enter it, hoping to find the peerless magical powers left by their ancestors, but it is a pity that What’s strange is that the ancient holy abyss is located in the storm of time and space, and there is no trace to be found, and some clues will only be revealed before it appears in this world.”

"Then you mean... the ancient holy abyss is going to appear?" Xiao Yan asked. Mandala would never tell him these stories idle time, so he knew from a quick guess that the ancient holy abyss must be coming to the world soon. .

"That's right, although if you want to enter the ancient holy abyss, you must be sent by the Heavenly Supreme, but with your status, it shouldn't be a problem." Mandala said calmly. Until now, she still thinks that Xiao Yan is some super power "If you can find any inheritance in it, it will be easy for you to break through the Great Perfection, even the Supreme Being."

Chapter 391: Three Hundred and Ninety, Great Counterattack

"Yeah." After hearing what Mandala said, Xiao Yan also raised his eyebrows slightly. He also understood that the ancient holy abyss was indeed an extremely rare opportunity. Since it happened to happen, he would naturally not miss it. After all, he got a lot of treasures from the Dragon God Ruins back then. This ancient holy abyss is countless times larger than the Dragon God Ruins. I'm afraid there will be more good things.

As for how to enter the ancient holy abyss, Xiao Yan is not too worried. Although he is not the descendant of a certain super force as Mandala thought, he can command a heavenly supreme to teleport him in, but he has a A puppet at the Heavenly Sovereign level is enough to take over this role.

However, the only problem is that in this case, he cannot bring the puppet of the Heavenly Sovereign into the ancient holy abyss. But Mandala also said just now that only people at the level of the Earthly Sovereign can enter it, and with this With my own strength, I can definitely run amok among the Earth Supremes, so I don’t have anything to worry about.

"By the way, there is one thing you must pay attention to. The repulsion of the Ancient Holy Abyss is extremely strong. After all, it is also a junction point between the Great Thousand World and the outsiders. Therefore, there are a lot of time and space turbulence hidden in it. If you are accidentally involved, If you enter it, I'm afraid you will be transported to the territory of the evil tribe outside the territory, and you will be in trouble." Mandala suddenly remembered something, and said with a solemn expression.

Hearing this, Xiao Yan also nodded, knowing very well that the evil tribes outside the territory and the world are like water and fire. If they are really involved in other people's territory, I am afraid that even a strong man at the level of Heavenly Supreme will be extremely difficult to survive. Although He has a lot of trump cards, but he won't try something like this that is obviously seeking death.

"According to the information I have received, the ancient holy abyss will appear in the world in a few months. You should make preparations during this period to avoid being in a hurry." Mandala suggested, "That place is not even close to the Great Abyss." Perfection Supreme will fall on the spot if you are not careful. Although you are not weak, you still have to be careful."

"I know." Xiao Yan let out a long breath. He knew that in addition to reminding him to be prepared, the mandala also hinted at another thing. Since he wanted to go to the ancient holy abyss, he had to first You have to solve the matter at hand, otherwise, being tied up here by these trivial matters will be more than worth the gain.

"Really, I originally wanted to have fun with them, but now it seems that we have to close the net in advance." Xiao Yan sighed, and then said indifferently: "Try to defeat all these guys within half a month. Drop it."

Soon, under Xiao Yan's instruction, the Endless Fire Territory adjusted the number of pills sold back to normal levels. This move made many forces who originally believed that the Endless Fire Territory was at the end of its fight and were just struggling to support it. They couldn't sit still. This time, they didn't need anyone else to call them. They just gathered together on their own and started a heated discussion.

"Don't worry, everyone. According to my speculation, everything in front of you is just a trick of the Endless Fire Realm." Looking at the embarrassed people, the Master of the Mitian Sect suddenly said, "I think these should be them. The best ones are struggling to their death, and after a few days, it’s time for them to beg for mercy from us.”