Chapter 11: Chapter 11

As soon as he heard that the target was only at the Qi Refining Middle Stage, Jiao Xiuyuan relaxed.

He immediately boasted: "Don't worry, he's just a small Qi Refining cultivator. I guarantee that I'll find out everything about him for you. But the price..."

Li Fan smiled: "He's just a small Qi Refining cultivator. I don't think he should be too expensive."

Jiao Xiuyuan wished he could slap himself. He said awkwardly: "This line of work has some risks. How about you give me this number?"

He made an eight gesture with his hand.

"Forty contribution points, no more." Li Fan shook his head.

"Ouch, you're cutting the price too hard! Sixty points is still necessary, right? Otherwise, it's another loss-making deal!" Jiao Xiuyuan cried out in pain.

Li Fan turned and walked away.

"Wait, wait!" Jiao Xiuyuan quickly stopped Li Fan.

"Fifty points, I really can't go any lower." He said with a pained expression.

"You give me ten contribution points as a deposit first." Jiao Xiuyuan said and handed Li Fan a communication talisman. "When I have the results, I'll notify you through this talisman."

Li Fan took the talisman and took out a medium-grade spirit stone and gave it to Jiao Xiuyuan.

He didn't hurry to leave, but instead looked at the other things for sale in the room.

Jiao Xiuyuan saw that he had a big customer today and became more enthusiastic.

"What else do you want?"

"Do you have any cultivation methods for sale? Preferably escape techniques, or something similar to the Concealing Talismans." Li Fan asked.

Jiao Xiuyuan's face suddenly stiffened.

"Heh, are you joking with me? Why don't you look at something else? How about this set of Mystifying Formation Diagrams? It's absolutely the best of the best. Once deployed, it can trap a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator for a day."

"This set of Ice Talisman Swords is also good, suitable for sneak attacks..."

"Hey, don't go!"

...

After leaving Qianli Hall, Li Fan returned to Tianxuan Mirror.

He planned to cultivate the Dark Spirit Illusion Technique to the Qi Refining Late Stage first.

Once the Blue Flame Illusion Spirit was completely stabilized, he could use it to kill enemies.

With the auxiliary cultivation mode activated, Li Fan entered closed-door cultivation again.

...

A month later, in the sea area of Yanjing Island in the east of Congyun Sea.

In the deep sea, Li Fan concealed his breath and followed behind a group of Red Flame Sharks.

There were more than a dozen Red Flame Sharks, hunting a lone Red Seat Whale.

The Red Seat Whale had a huge body, fed on the flame crystals at the bottom of the sea all year round, and its skin was like a layer of hard rock.

The Red Flame Sharks had sharp teeth, moved fast, and cooperated seamlessly.

Although they couldn't cause much damage to the Red Seat Whale for a while, they could slowly wear down its vitality like cutting meat with a blunt knife.

The Red Seat Whale tried several times to break through the blockade of the Red Flame Shark group, but failed.

Gradually, its resistance became weaker and weaker.

Li Fan watched this scene and knew it was time.

The Blue Flame Illusion Spirit appeared.

Then it turned into a thin blue light and quickly passed through each of the Red Flame Sharks and the Red Seat Whale in an instant.

A moment later, it returned to Li Fan's sea of consciousness.

The Red Flame Sharks and the Red Seat Whale suddenly stopped their movements.

Then a cold breath surged from their bodies. From inside to outside, they were frozen.

In an instant, there were some strange ice sculptures on the bottom of the sea.

Their expressions and movements were like before they died, but they had already lost their vital signs.

"The Blue Flame Illusion Spirit is really powerful."

"Most of these sea beasts are equivalent to Qi Refining cultivators, and they have thick skin and flesh. They are hard to kill by ordinary means. After using the Blue Flame Illusion Spirit to launch a soul attack, they are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. They have no resistance at all." Li Fan nodded. He was satisfied with his first test of the illusion spirit's killing power.

Not long ago, after spending more than twenty days, he finally succeeded in breaking through to the Qi Refining Late Stage with the Dark Spirit Illusion Technique.

In order to test the power of the illusion spirit and earn some contribution points by the way, he accepted this task of "hunting Red Flame Sharks and obtaining their beast cores".

One beast core was worth 5 contribution points. He could earn about sixty points in total. Plus the materials on the Red Seat Whale, he could get more than eighty points of contribution from this trip.

How to say it, better than nothing.

In the past, every time he earned contribution points, it was in units of "thousand". This little bit, it was hard to stir up Li Fan's heart.

Li Fan thought so, and was about to go forward and harvest the beast cores of the Red Flame Sharks.

But he suddenly felt that a huge figure was approaching from the deep sea below.

Li Fan's face changed and he didn't care about the beast cores that were close at hand. He quickly retreated.

A dark brown, ferocious-looking, deep-sea giant beast with a deformed bulge on its forehead, like a dragon but not a dragon, like a fish but not a fish, suddenly emerged from the shadows of the seabed.

Its huge mouth opened and swallowed more than a dozen Red Flame Sharks along with the Red Seat Whale!

Its body shook and the giant beast wandered around for a while, then identified and swam in a certain direction.

Li Fan, who barely avoided the giant beast, had no time to react. He just watched his prey being snatched away.

Could he bear this?

Li Fan's anger rose sharply.

But soon the Xuanhuang Refining Heart Art operated and calmed him down a bit.

Wait, this giant beast, isn't it the one that destroyed the island where the Spirit Fog Grass was planted?

He seemed to remember something and Li Fan suddenly froze.

When he accepted the task of hunting Red Flame Whales before, Li Fan also caught a glimpse of another bounty task.

Because this task was somewhat related to Li Fan, he also carefully checked it out.

It turned out that those people who hyped up the Spirit Fog Grass, almost all of them suffered heavy losses and went bankrupt.

They had a grudge in their hearts and resentment surged. They couldn't calm down even when cultivating.

But they didn't dare to trouble Qingmu Huasheng True Monarch and Wanxian Alliance, so they could only vent their anger on the strange beast that destroyed the island where the Spirit Fog Grass was planted.

According to eyewitnesses, the attacker was a dragon whale. It had almost Foundation Establishment cultivation level.

The island guard was also a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

But the dragon whale was huge. The guard's attack fell on its body, like scratching an itch. It had no effect at all.

The dragon whale ignored the guard, broke through the island protection formation, rampaged on the island for a while, and ate most of the Spirit Fog Grass.

After that, Wanxian Alliance's Golden Core cultivators arrived late.

And this dragon whale, after being hit by a Golden Core cultivator, didn't die. It just escaped into the deep sea with serious injuries.

Congyun Sea was vast. These people wanted to kill the dragon whale to vent their anger. They searched for more than ten days and didn't find it.

They had no choice but to take out some of their remaining contribution points and jointly issue a bounty task.

The one who kills the dragon whale will get two thousand contribution points.

Because this dragon whale even Foundation Establishment cultivators couldn't do anything about it, Li Fan, a small Qi Refining cultivator, naturally didn't accept the task before.

But...

The situation is different now!