Archean Eon Art

Chapter 505 Spending Money

Meng Chuan sat cross-legged and flipped through the treasures recorded in the Treasure Catalogue. “Brother Eastcalm, Brother Eastcalm.” A voice came from outside the courtyard. Supremacy Qing Gu stood there, holding some books.

Meng Chuan turned his head and couldn’t help but smile. “Were they sent by Black Dragon City’s various shops. Do they list the treasures available?”

“Every shop will take the initiative to deliver these books to cultivators who rent cave abodes in Black Dragon City,” said Supremacy Qing Gu obsequiously. “They are hoping that you will buy something.”

Meng Chuan nodded. “Indeed, I do need to take a look.”

He came to Black Dragon City to buy treasures!

As the most prosperous trading place in the river system, 20-30% of the river system’s cultivators gathered here. Therefore, there were many treasures.

Meng Chuan spent five days window shopping around Black Dragon City, including Eternal Tower!

On the sixth day, he began making large-scale purchases!

Essence Water Manor.

“Every time you consume a drop of Heartcleansing Essence Water, your mind will be cleansed completely. It greatly aids one’s cultivation,” said the attendant with a turtle shell on his back warmly. “Ten bottles only cost one Outer Realm Essence Crystal. Ten bottles of Heartcleansing Essence Water will last you for three years if you consume one drop a day.” “How long do the effects of one drop last?” asked Meng Chuan. “About four hours,” said the turtle-shelled attendant obsequiously.

Meng Chuan nodded slightly. After some hesitation, he rather unwillingly said, “Then I’ll buy… five bottles.”

“Our Essence Water Pavilion has a total of 39 types of Essence Water. They all have their amazing…” The attendant continued.

“There’s no need. I’ll just buy Heartcleansing Essence Water.” Meng Chuan looked like he was frugal.

After a while, Meng Chuan left Essence Water Manor with five bottles of Heartcleansing Essence Water.

To speed up one’s cultivation, one had to enter a special state. For example, a state of epiphany would occur when one’s Essence Soul entered a special state. These special states could be induced by using external objects. Some natural treasures could induce one’s Essence Soul into entering a state of epiphany after consuming it. However, the price of such treasures was astonishing. Heartcleansing Essence Water was one such commonly used treasure. It had a relatively good benefit-cost ratio. It was one of Essence Water Manor’s 39 signature Essence Waters.

Meng Chuan exchanged an Imperial Lord-level treasure for three types of alcohol-nine jars each—that could supplement one’s cultivation from Thousand Drunks Manor. After Fang Chang and his followers died, Meng Chuan obtained some war spoils. Among the treasures left behind by Senior Pang Ming, many materials, treasures, and Imperial Lord-level treasures were nothing worth mentioning. He also had a pile of Outer Realm Essence Stones.

Meng Chuan was currently exchanging the less valuable items for things he needed.

Meng Chuan used Heartcleansing Essence Water, Thousand Drunks Manor’s alcohol, and over 100 Two World Void Fruits to supplement his cultivation. He often consumed them. He had only bought enough to last him for ten years of cultivation.

Next is Eternal Tower. Meng Chuan looked up at the towering Eternal Tower and immediately entered.

He had no choice but to do so. Although the other shops had all sorts of treasures, Eternal Tower was 1,000 times better than all the other shops in Black Dragon City combined when it came to Fifth Tribulation treasures and stronger! This was because Eternal Tower could transfer goods from their branches in other river systems and river zones.

This was the third time Meng Chuan had come to Eternal Tower. He didn’t buy anything the first two times he visited. But this time, he went to Eternal Tower’s fifth floor with great familiarity.

“Greetings, Imperial Lord.” In a hall on Eternal Tower’s fifth floor, a puppet attendant welcomed him warmly.

Meng Chuan no longer disguised his aura with the Mask of Illusion. Instead, he masked his aura with a treasure that Senior Pang Ming had carried with him-Sea Serpent Token. For his cultivation, Senior Pang Ming had provoked strong enemies. Thus, he usually had to hide his identity. Due to the need for anonymity, he tried his best to obtain a Sea Serpent Token. A Sea Serpent Token could only be refined by those of the Sea Serpent race.

With the Sea Serpent Token, Senior Pang Ming could perfectly disguise himself! Even mighty figures below the Seventh Tribulation realm were unable to discern his true identity.

Meng Chuan had now disguised himself as an Imperial Lord. With his technique realm and strength, his Quintessential Essence was close to that of an Imperial Lord. He also had a seventh-level Essence Soul. Furthermore, he had seen dozens of Imperial Lords in Black Dragon City. It was relatively easy for him to disguise himself as an Imperial Lord with the Sea Serpent Token.

“Yes.” Meng Chuan nodded indifferently. “I want to see all Fifth and Sixth Tribulation treasures of the lightning lineage.”

The puppet attendant smiled and waved his hand. “Please take a look, Imperial Lord.”

Phantoms of weapons and treasures appeared in the hall, floating lazily. When one’s consciousness probed these phantoms, one would obtain the introductions of every weapon and treasure.

“There are a total of over 8,000 Fifth Tribulation treasures and over 1,000 Sixth Tribulation treasures here. They are all of the Lightning lineage. Imperial Lord, feel free to take a look,” said the puppet attendant. “However, these treasures are scattered across the river zone. Imperial Lord, if you wish to buy them, you will need to wait for a while. It will take some time for these treasures to be delivered from other river systems.”

“Yes.” Meng Chuan nodded slightly.

Since Eternal Tower had too many Fifth and Sixth Tribulation treasures, the other factions in Black Dragon City didn’t sell these high-level Tribulation treasures. They only sold cheap items at the Third or Fourth Tribulation realm.

This was why Black Dragon City’s other merchants didn’t sell Sixth Tribulation treasures of the lightning lineage.

“Let me choose.” Meng Chuan looked through the selection of treasures carefully. Eternal Tower indeed had an extraordinary way of doing business. Regardless of the customer’s background, they could view all Sixth Tribulation treasures and weapons. However, Seventh Tribulation treasures weren’t up for display. One had to prove that they could afford it by showing a treasure that was worth 1,000 cubes of Outer Realm Essence Crystals.

Temporal Cave Abode. Meng Chuan carefully looked for what he wanted. There were over 10,000 Fifth and Sixth Tribulation treasures of the lightning lineage. Of them, there were two cave abodes that could accelerate the time flow.

They were, Myriad Flower Realm: Sixth Tribulation treasure. Many different kinds of rare outer realm flowers are planted within. Many of these rare flowers have miraculous uses. Myriad Flower Realm can also accelerate its time flow, allowing the flowers to bloom faster. It’s also suitable for cultivation. For ordinary Supremacies, it can maintain a twenty-fold faster time flow. For ordinary Imperial Lords, it can maintain an eight-fold faster time flow. For Third Tribulation Eminences, it can maintain a two-fold faster time flow. It’s useless for Fourth Tribulation Eminences. Price: 500 Outer Realm Essence Crystals.

Blackrock Palace: Fifth Tribulation treasure. Suitable for cultivators to cultivate in. For ordinary Supremacies, it can maintain a ten-fold faster time flow. It can maintain a three-fold faster time flow for ordinary Imperial Lords. This treasure is useless for Tribulation Eminences. Price: 80 Outer Realm Essence Crystals.

Eternal Tower only has these two temporal cave abodes available for public sale. Cave abodes that can accelerate the time flow are really rare.

There was a reason why there were so few temporal cave abodes. After all, one had to attain extremely high accomplishments in the time lineage if they wanted to accelerate the time flow. Seventh Tribulation Eminences usually refined temporal cave abodes. In history, even Eighth Tribulation Eminences had refined some of them. Tribulation Eminences typically didn’t accelerate the time flow because they would consume their lifespans faster. Doing such a thing wasn’t beneficial to their cultivation. Furthermore, it was extremely difficult for stronger Tribulation Eminences to affect the time flow in a region that they occupied.

Temporal cave abodes were difficult to refine! They also couldn’t be sold for much! This resulted in very few people willing to refine a temporal cave abode. Typically, only top Eminences would refine one for practice.

For example, the Myriad Flower Realm had clearly been used by a top Tribulation Eminence for growing flowers.

In terms of time flow acceleration, Myriad Flower Realm is inferior to Ashen Pagoda. Furthermore, it’s more expensive than Ashen Pagoda! Ashen Pagoda’s starting price in the Treasure Auction is 300 cubes of Outer Ream Essence Crystals. During the auction, this treasure’s price won’t increase by too much. As for Blackrock Palace, it’s much cheaper than both Ashen Pagoda and Myriad Flower Realm. However, it doesn’t accelerate the time flow very much. It clearly states that there’s only a ten-fold acceleration of the time flow when used by ordinary Supremacies. Am I an ordinary Supremacy? Meng Chuan was mentally prepared for this.

In terms of domain and Quintessential Essence, he was nearly an Imperial Lord. He could already live for 5,000 years! He was also stronger than many special lifeforms. The stronger a special lifeform was, the lesser the effects of temporal acceleration.

Blackrock Palace accelerates the time flow by tenfold for ordinary Supremacies. For me? Its effects might be much lower.

Compared to Eternal Tower’s two temporal cave abodes, Ashen Pagoda was more suitable for him.

“I want this treasure.” Meng Chuan pointed at a floating star phantom.

The puppet attendant who was serving him was alarmed when he heard that. Supremacies and Imperial Lords often came to browse through the treasures, but they seldom bought them.

“Please wait a moment, Imperial Lord,” said the puppet attendant immediately as he left.

Meng Chuan stared at the star projection.

Lightning Dwarf Star: A Fifth Tribulation treasure. It contains the complete laws of paramount speed. When one unleashes its peak strength, it can strike at light speed! It was originally one of the beads of a Sixth Tribulation treasure—the Lightning Star Beads. Price: 90 Outer Realm Essence Crystals.

Meng Chuan’s consciousness permeated the treasure’s phantom and read its more detailed introduction.

The Lightning Dwarf Star was refined from a 4,150-kilometer-long planet and many materials. Since it had been a part of an array formation treasure, it had very few uses by itself. One typically used it for smashing opponents. Thanks to its weight and speed, it was very good to use it to smash others! Also, due to the rarity of the complete laws of paramount speed, this treasure was relatively expensive compared to other Fifth Tribulation treasures. It cost 90 cubes of Outer Realm Essence Crystals!

Eternal Tower is truly filled with all kinds of wonders. I can actually find a Tribulation treasure that possesses the complete laws of paramount speed. This is the most suitable treasure for me. The profundities contained within it are suitable for improving Infinite Saber. This treasure is also suitable for combat.

The Bloodblade Disc only had runes for defense and escaping. When it came to killing enemies? Meng Chuan relied solely on his insights and the Bloodblades’ sharpness.

As for the Lightning Dwarf Star? He could unleash greater explosive strength when he combined it with his paramount technique, Infinite Saber. Most importantly, he could comprehend the laws of paramount speed by studying it.

“There’s another one.” Meng Chuan’s gaze landed on another chained prison phantom. “Fiend Prison.”

When he first came to Black Dragon Planet, Meng Chuan only wanted to buy two itemsLightning Dwarf Star and Fiend Prison.