Mortal Seeking Immortal

After finding out the date when Xun Ke and the other two would leave Xianliu City, Ye Zhou was about to get up and leave, but suddenly thought of something and looked at the man in black robe and said, "Do you have detailed information about the spirit insects living in the Guijue Desert?"

Ye Zhou has now joined the Xianliu City patrol team and often needs to patrol the Guijue Desert. Naturally, he needs to know more about the spirit insects in the Guijue Desert.

The black-robed man placed his left hand on the black book, closed his eyes and began to carefully search the information in the book. After a while, he retracted his left hand, nodded and looked at Ye Zhou and said, "Sir, our store has three copies of information related to the spirit insects in the Ghost Desert for sale."

"The first copy records most of the information about the spirit insects outside the Ghost Desert, including the habits of the spirit insects, the location of the nests, etc., and is priced at 200 medium-grade spirit stones."

"The second copy records some information about the spirit insects in the inner part of the Ghost Desert. This copy of information is incomplete and is priced at 500 medium-grade spirit stones."

"The third copy records most of the information about the spirit insects that attacked Xianliu City over the years. It also describes some methods to deal with spirit insects. It is worth 1,000 medium-grade spirit stones. I wonder which information the customer wants?"

After the black-robed man said this, he reached out and took out a blank jade slip from the black wooden box on the table, placed it on the black book, and waited for Ye Zhou to choose.

Ye Zhou said without hesitation: "I want the first and third pieces of information."

Ye Zhou and his companions patrolled the outer perimeter of the Ghost Desert and rarely approached the inner perimeter, so only these two pieces of information were enough. Besides, the information about the inner spiritual insects sold here was incomplete, and it was estimated that it would not be of much help to him if he bought it.

After saying that, Ye Zhou took out a bag of spiritual stones from his arms and placed it on the table. The black-robed man released his spiritual sense and swept across the bag of spiritual stones. After checking the number of spiritual stones, the black-robed man placed his left hand on the black book, and a black light suddenly emitted from the black book.

The next moment, the black light shot into the blank jade slip with a swoosh.

The black-robed man retracted his left hand and handed the jade slip to Ye Zhou: "Both pieces of information are in this jade slip. The payment is in exchange for the goods. Please keep your jade slip."

"Because there is more information recorded in this jade slip, there is no destruction array on the jade slip. Guests can read it at will."

Ye Zhou took the jade slip and released his spiritual sense to scan it. What came into his eyes was the information of the spirit insects living outside the Ghost Desert. After checking the information of two or three spirit insects, Ye Zhou showed satisfaction in his eyes.

"The information of the spirit insects recorded here is indeed detailed."

The spirit insect information that Ye Zhou just checked has a kind of silver-scaled purple ring snake, which he had seen in the jade slip given to him by Lin Yunshan.

However, Lin Yunshan's jade slip only mentioned the attack methods of the silver-scaled purple ring snake, while the jade slip that Ye Zhou bought also mentioned how to find the nest of the silver-scaled purple ring snake, what method to use to detoxify the silver-scaled purple ring snake, and the natural enemies and prey of the silver-scaled purple ring snake.

Ye Zhou put the jade slip into his arms, said goodbye to the black-robed man, and came to the floor tile where the teleportation array was arranged. A white light flashed, and Ye Zhou was teleported to the outer shop.

Seeing Ye Zhou coming out, the shopkeeper sitting behind the counter did not dare to neglect him, and hurriedly stood up and respectfully saluted Ye Zhou: "Senior, take care."

Ye Zhou nodded slightly, turned around and walked out of the shop.

Seeing Ye Zhou's figure disappear outside the shop, the shopkeeper was relieved and continued to doze off behind the counter.

After leaving the shop, Ye Zhou flashed into an alley, while releasing his spiritual sense to observe the surrounding movements, while quickly passing through the alley.

A quarter of an hour later, seeing that no one was following behind him, Ye Zhou took off his black robe, raised his hand and shot out a black demon fire, burning the black robe to ashes, and then hurried back to his residence.

Standing outside the courtyard, Ye Zhou took the opportunity to open the formation outside the courtyard and released his spiritual sense to explore the surroundings inadvertently. He really saw a figure hiding in the dark and sneaking around.

This person should be the cultivator sent by Feng Hai to monitor his whereabouts.

"It seems that Feng Hai's injuries have not recovered yet. I don't know what kind of spiritual insects they encountered in the Ghost Desert."

Ye Zhou's eyes showed a hint of coldness. He withdrew his spiritual sense without leaving a trace, raised his hand to push open the courtyard door, and entered the courtyard.

Back in the courtyard, Ye Zhou fed some spiritual plant pills to the spiritual insects raised in the compartment, sat cross-legged on the couch, took out the jade slip he had just bought from his arms, and began to explore the information in the jade slip.

Two days passed in a flash.

Early in the morning of the third day, Ye Zhou rushed to a small teahouse next to the city gate and chose a window seat on the second floor to drink tea.

After half an hour, Ye Zhou saw three familiar figures following a group of Jindan realm cultivators to leave Xianliu City, and then returned to his residence and began to prepare to take back the treasure.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

In this half month, Ye Zhou left Xianliu City alone three times, all of which were to go out of the city to kill spiritual insects, and then take various spiritual insect materials back to the market to exchange for spiritual stones.

Early in the morning of this day, Ye Zhou got up early as usual and walked towards the direction of the city gate.

When Ye Zhou arrived at the city gate, it was still early and the city gate had not opened yet, but there were already more than a dozen cultivators who went out of the city to kill spiritual insects like Ye Zhou.

These cultivators all had Jindan realm cultivation, either alone or in groups of three or two.

Ye Zhou rushed to the city gate and randomly found a position to wait for the city gate to open.

Seeing Ye Zhou coming, several eyes around him fell on Ye Zhou, paused for a moment, and then quickly moved away.

Ye Zhou leaned against the city wall, about to close his eyes and rest, when he heard a slight sound of footsteps, someone was walking towards him.

Ye Zhou looked up and saw a middle-aged monk with a rich face and a white face walking up to him with a smile on his face.

Ye Zhou felt that this person looked familiar. After a brief thought, he immediately remembered his identity. He was the owner of a shop in the market he often visited.

The white-faced middle-aged monk did not get too close to Ye Zhou. He stood half a meter in front of Ye Zhou and raised his hand to bow to Ye Zhou with a smile: "What a coincidence, I met Fellow Daoist Ye here."

Ye Zhou returned the greeting to the white-faced monk and said casually: "How come the shopkeeper has time to go out of the city today?"

The white-faced monk smiled and said: "Business in the store is not good, so I had to take two assistants out of the city to find some high-quality spiritual insect materials to attract customers."

"Is Fellow Daoist Ye going out of the city to hunt spiritual insects again? If you have good spiritual insect materials, you must keep them for me. I will definitely give you a satisfactory price."

Ye Zhou casually perfunctorily said a few words to the white-faced monk, and the white-faced monk turned around and left, continuing to greet the familiar monks around him.

Soon, it was time to open the city gate. As the drawbridge outside the city was lowered, the monks waiting inside the city gate swarmed out of the city.

After leaving the city, the monks left separately and entered the Ghost Desert.

Ye Zhou deliberately walked at the end. When he saw the backs of other monks completely disappeared in the Ghost Desert, he randomly chose a direction and set off for the Ghost Desert.