Xu Qing is not stingy with the spirit stones needed for practice, but his life is very frugal.
Even if there was a big gain, it was just three more eggs for breakfast.
Therefore, he naturally knew quite a bit about the wanted criminals in the main city, even if the wanted criminal Yu Jian would be updated every once in a while, he would carefully keep it in mind.
After all, no matter how few spirit stones are, they are still spirit stones, and if they are lucky, they can open more items from the opponent's storage bag.
So at this moment, he recognized the identity of the corpse in front of him at a glance, the other party was from a pirate organization on the sea, worth fifteen spirit stones.
Such a spirit stone is nothing to Xu Qing today, but it can be imagined that it is a great wealth for that mute boy.
With such wealth, the other party actually gave it directly to him......
Xu Qing's eyes narrowed and he looked in the direction the mute boy was leaving.
He could naturally see that the other party was waiting for him here specifically for ...... It seems that this wanted criminal was sent.
"Is there a deception?" Xu Qing muttered, ignoring the wanted criminals at his feet, walked into the distance, and soon disappeared into the street.
After his figure faded away, the body of the wanted criminal left on the ground attracted the attention of the pedestrians around them, and most of them avoided it, but there were still some disciples whose eyes flashed after seeing the corpse, and they were about to approach after observing it.
But at the moment they approached, a thin but agile figure like a wild dog rushed from the side and went directly to the corpse.
Squatting there, his eyes showed ferocity, as if protecting food, and he looked fiercely at the people around him who were about to get closer.
His teeth seemed to have been worn out, different from normal people, and at this moment, his mouth was open, and his jagged teeth exuded a fierce intent, causing the monks who came around him to pause.
After a confrontation, the surrounding disciples swept the traces of being bitten to death on the corpse, and chose to retreat one by one, only the mute boy squatted next to the corpse in a daze, with a rare dazed expression.
In this way, time passed, and soon dusk fell, and the boy next to the corpse stayed there until the night was shrouded in darkness, he silently grabbed the body and dragged it into the alley, all the way back to his residence along the corner.
He lived not in a dharma boat, but in a simple hut.
At this moment, he approached carefully, did not go through the door, but went around and pushed away a blocked masonry from the back wall and got in.
In the cabin, he breathed a sigh of relief and squatted silently in the corner in the darkness, so that his eyes could see the window and door at the same time.
After a long time, he hesitated for a moment and touched the wanted criminal's body.
It seemed that he had not checked the wanted criminal's purse before, but now he took it, opened it and looked at it, with a surprise in his eyes, and actually took out three spirit stones.
He immediately held it, looked around vigilantly, and put away the spirit stone only after making sure that there was no hindrance, and carefully counted his accumulation, a total of seventy-seven pieces.
After counting, he squatted there, his expression became frustrated again, and finally he took out a rough stone, opened his mouth and began to grind his teeth to make them sharper.
At this moment, outside his hut, Xu Qing was standing there, watching the mute boy's every move coldly.
Xu Qing was vigilant and cautious, even if the other party's cultivation was not as good as his own, he was still on guard.
In his opinion, there are only two situations during the day, one is to really give gifts to himself, and the other is to have a different purpose.
In this cruel and troubled world, anything can happen, so he will not ask for this gift, but will hide after leaving, secretly observing and deciding whether to make a move.
"Is it because of his fear of me when we met a few days ago, so he came to please me?" Xu Qing squinted his eyes, looked at the young man in the house, pushed open the door, and walked in.
And the moment he walked in, the boy in the corner immediately bared his teeth, and his whole body seemed to be about to explode, but after seeing Xu Qing clearly, his body trembled violently, and the fear in his eyes was extremely strong, and he didn't dare to move.
"What did you see?" Xu Qing threw away a jade slip, stood at the door, and slowly spoke.
The moonlight fell on him, reflecting his shadow into the house, very close to the little mute.
The little mute body pressed tightly against the wall and took the jade slip.
This captain once asked what he would never say in death, but at this moment he did not hesitate, and immediately imprinted what he wanted to say, and handed it to Xu Qing restrainedly.
Xu Qing took the jade slip, and after the spiritual energy poured in and swept it, his expression changed in vain.
His whole eyes showed a cold light, and after glancing at the little mute meaningfully, he took out eight spirit stones and threw them over, turned to leave.
Seventy-seven plus fifteen plus eight equals one hundred, which is the amount that can be exchanged for a Dharma boat.
Until he walked away, Xu Qing's right hand still grabbed the jade slip tightly, and as he returned to the berth, the moment he stepped into the Dharma boat, he squeezed his right hand and the jade slip turned into flying ashes.
Then he walked into the cabin with an expressionless face, closed his eyes and meditated, and began to practice.
One night passed.
Early the next morning, Xu Qing went to Zhang San as usual and sent the crossbow he had obtained from the Vajra Sect, and under Zhang San's refinement, this crossbow was placed on his Dharma boat and became one of the killer weapons second only to divinity.
"This thing is a treasure, Xu Qing, your Dharma boat, as long as you get a foundation-building power source, you can be promoted from a boat to a Dharma boat." Before Xu Qing left, Zhang San smiled and spoke, then swept left and right, and whispered words.
"Xu Qing, Dabi can you go, it should be the next few days, I am going to vote, if you also go, we can join forces then."
"I'll go." Xu Qing nodded.
Zhang San laughed and didn't say much.
Xu Qing left with his fists in his hands, walking in the port, he noticed that the shops of each peak were full of disciples of the seventh peak buying items, and the number of people was much larger than usual.
At the same time, there were more Dharma boats returning from the harbor than before, and he even saw several very unfamiliar faces on the way, but the cultivation fluctuations of any of them were at least the appearance of the eighth or ninth layer of qi condensation.
There are even a few who have reached great perfection like him......
Obviously, most of these disciples of the Seven Blood Boys either chose to practice in seclusion, or they had been wandering the sea, and now they heard that Dabi had rushed back one after another.
And the evil energy on their bodies, Xu Qingsao could clearly feel the coldness from the bones.
At the same time, he also heard that the Lingbei tribe in the Xishan Islands seemed to be extremely anxious during this period, constantly asking for help from other foreign races, and at the same time sending envoys to the Seven Blood Boys for peace talks many times.
This made Xu Qing think of what the captain said and his own guesses.
"So the real target will be the mermaids?" Xu Qing muttered, that night, outside his boat, a familiar visitor came.
"Xu Qing Xu Qing, you didn't tell me when you came back, didn't you treat me Huang Yan as a brother?" Outside the Dharma boat, Huang Yan shouted loudly, with some unhappiness in his expression.
Xu Qing heard the sound outside, walked out of the cabin and saw Huang Yan, with a smile on his face.
He has known many people in the Seven Blood Boy so far, but only a very few of them give him a very real feeling, and Huang Yan is one of them.
"Come back and deal with some trivial matters." Xu Qing explained.
Huang Yan didn't mind, laughed and sat on the shore, just like the last time he came, he didn't choose to board the ship, and after sitting down at this moment, he spoke in a low voice.
"Xu Qing, I learned a big secret today!"
Hearing the word secret, Xu Qing felt a little wary, he thought of the captain's secret worth a hundred spirit stones.
Before Xu Qing could speak, Huang Yan quickly came out with some ostentatious intentions.
"Do you think something is wrong with the seventh peak this time, although the goals and destinations were announced in advance in previous years, but I always feel that this time it was too deliberate, with the urine of the seventh peak...... I think the location of this competition must not be the Lingbei tribe, based on my analysis and investigation, I conclude that the target this time is the mermaid tribe!"
Xu Qing's eyes froze when he heard this, and after glancing at Huang Yan's expression, this time he didn't need the other party to remind him, so he showed a surprised expression.
Seeing Xu Qing's expression, Huang Yan suddenly felt relieved and very proud.
"Haha, actually, it's nothing, these are all things my senior sister told me, and I have talked about everything with my senior sister now."
"After I learned this news, I started investigating the information on Mermaid Island, and when I knew you were back, I would come over and share it with you, how about it, I'm enough to be a brother." Huang Yan said, threw a jade slip to Xu Qing, and spoke again in a low voice.
"I was particularly surprised after my investigation, this merfolk tribe is too fat, their tribe has four islands, namely Yin Meiqi, Yuzang Island, Kuying Island and Mie Island, each island contains a large amount of treasure, after my intelligence investigation, the most valuable of them, the few people know, are all summarized by me on this jade slip."
Xu Qing caught the jade slip, and the spiritual energy poured in to check it, and Huang Yan on the side seemed to have memorized it, shaking his head and speaking.
"This is what I spent a lot of effort to get, let me tell you, there is an armor on Namie Island, called Mie's Armor, hidden in the Mie Volcano, it is a magic weapon-level armor that the mermaids have been building for thousands of years, this thing is too valuable, but unfortunately we can't get it."
"And on Yin Meiqi, there are a lot of mermaid tears. This is comparable to a spiritual elixir, but compared to these, Yin Meiqi still has a drop of Yin Meiqi's tears, this thing is the most valuable. Yin Meiqi is the name of the ancestor of the mermaid tribe, and these tears were the last drop he had before his death, which was embedded in the crown."
Speaking of this, Huang Yan took out two eggs, threw them to Xu Qing, poked one by himself, and sucked it while sucking.
"As for the hidden island, it is a cemetery, there are countless treasures buried in it, but the most meaningful of them is a feather, do you know whose feather it is, that is Yan Huang's, do you know who Yan Huang is, that is the king of the western forbidden area of the Truth Mountains of Nanhuangzhou, and the king of Nanhuangzhou, why is it called Nanhuangzhou, you should always know."
"Finally, there is Kuying Island, that island is also very amazing, it is said that there are many pill warehouses, there should be a lot of foundation building pills stored in it, the senior sister went there to grab it, I guess this time it will definitely be fierce."
"These are nothing, there is a treasure worth 500,000 spirit stones on Juying Island, called the Spirit Breath Lamp!"
"This spiritual breath lamp is the foundation-building relic of the mermaid tribe, and it is placed in the foundation tower of the main city of Kuying Island."
"It is the place where the mermaid monks build the foundation, the same as the foundation building place where our Seven Blood Boys build a hundred spirit stones in an hour, but we heard that they rely on the blood of divinity to protect their disciples to build the foundation, while the mermaid tribe relies on this lamp."
"This kind of magic weapon to protect the disciples to build the foundation actually has it in every big clan, and the type is different, but the mermaid tribe's actual effect is average, so those big clans don't look down on it."
"The reason why it is said to be worth 500,000 spirit stones is because after the senior sister went to snatch it away last time, she extorted two million spirit stones from the mermaid tribe, and later was bargained by the mermaid tribe for 500,000 yuan and bought it back.
By the way, it is rumored that there are clues about what temple is hidden in this spiritual breath lamp, but no one has found it for so many years, and the senior sister couldn't find it at the beginning, so she sold it back.
Xu Qing was a little silent when he heard this, he felt that he was still worried about tens of thousands of spirit stones, but the other party opened his mouth and closed his mouth to say that it was a million spirit stones.
This made him feel a little uncomfortable, and after taking a sip of the egg, he still couldn't suppress the thoughts that rose in his heart, and it turned into a heartbeat.
After Huang Yan finished speaking, he began to chat about him and his senior sister again.
He was basically talking the whole time, Xu Qing was listening, this mode of getting along was very strange, but Huang Yan felt very comfortable.
Until it was very late, Huang Yan, who had finished drinking eggs, patted his stomach and got up to leave, he burped before leaving and whispered.
"Xu Qing, I know you will most likely not, but I still want to remind you that this time you don't make a fool of yourself to fight for the first place, the identity of the core disciple is not important, resources are the key during the competition, you will know then."
"In fact, few people care about rankings, they are all running to get rich. In addition, I tell you, only the two of us know my news, I treat you as a brother, don't spread the word, we will go to any island when the time comes, we will take whatever we want, and send it first!"
Xu Qing nodded.
Huang Yan patted his belly and left, taking out the jade slip as he walked, giving his senior sister sweet words every day.
Looking at Huang Yan going away, Xu Qing sat on the board of the boat and turned his head to look at the Forbidden Sea, his eyes falling into the distance.
At this moment, the waves gently surged in, causing the boat to shake slightly.
In this shaking, under the moonlight, his shadow fell on the board of the ship beside him, and part of it spread into the sea, merging with the black seawater.
Xu Qing's eyes retracted from a distance, swept over the shadows, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and a sentence in the jade slip given by the little mute came to mind.
"It's sleeping ......"
Time passed, and three days later, in the early morning, the identity tokens of all the seventh peak disciples of the entire Seven Blood Boy all vibrated at the same time, and there was a majestic voice in it, which entered the minds of all the disciples.
"All the disciples participating in the competition will gather at the central altar and line up within a quarter of an hour, and the seventh peak competition will start immediately!"