Spirit Realm Chapter 711-712

Chapter 711: Infamy

“No problem. I can find someone to process it as long as you supply the meat yourself and pay the fee. I guarantee that the results will be to your satisfaction,” Lu Kun said.

“Good.” Qin Lie finalized the deal.

After that, he took out a lot of rank four and rank five spirit beast flesh and five thousand Earth Grade spirit stones and passed them to Lu Kun.

Rank four and rank five spirit beasts were relatively common on Prism Continent. Rank six spirit beast flesh had greater value, but as a result it also had the unfortunate effect of drawing suspicion.

After roaming the world and tempering himself for so many years, Qin Lie had become cautious in both behavior and conduct.

Once he had passed over the spirit beast flesh to Lu Kun, Qin Lie temporarily stayed inside “Silent Moon”.

On one hand, he was waiting for Lu Kun to finish processing the spirit beast meat. On the other, he was cultivating and refining the lifeblood essences he had used up while he was in the frost cave under Frost Island.

Originally, he could only refine thirty-eight lifeblood essences in total and not one more.

These thirty-eight lifeblood essences were mostly used up after he fought an intense battle against the Ice Phoenix, Lin Liang’er.

To him, lifeblood essences were worth storing as spare energy because they contained the domineering and violent divine power of his bloodline. They could always be put into play during critical moments to achieve astonishing effects.

Therefore, he wanted to refine as many lifeblood essences as possible.

Lifeblood essences were the equivalent of strength and power!

A few days later, he discovered that he actually didn’t feel like he had approached his limit yet despite having refined thirty-eight lifeblood essences.

It was something he never felt when he was cultivating before. It felt like… he could keep refining more lifeblood essences.

His eyes gradually grew brighter.

Six days later, he successfully refined another fourteen lifeblood essences before he reached his limit. After adding them to the original thirty-eight lifeblood essences he already possessed, he now possessed a total of fifty-two lifeblood essences!

He shook his shoulder once, and fifty-two lifeblood essences that looked like translucent blood gems instantly flew out of his body.

The lifeblood essences contained rich and refined blood spirit energy, the sulphuric scent of flames, and the tiny “blaze” divine characters. They floated around him as his mind commanded and dragged out many blood threads.

“Blood threads, lifeblood essences, spirit threads, spirit diagrams…”

Qin Lie smiled from the bottom of his heart as he let his mind soar freely as he watched the lifeblood essences dance around him.

A novel idea flashed past his mind.

Qin Lie grabbed onto idea firmly.

“I wonder if it’ll be effective to inscribe a spirit diagram using my lifeblood essences as the blood thread?” he thought.

For the longest time, he had been using a combination of spirit energy and a small amount of soul energy to inscribe spirit diagrams on a spirit tablet. This was how he researched the secrets of various spirit diagrams.

Spirit energy and soul energy were two different kinds of energies. His lifeblood essence was also a kind of energy; a kind that was even more mysterious and no less unfathomable.

“What would happen if I used my lifeblood essence to inscribe a spirit diagram?”

The moment this thought sprouted inside his heart, he couldn’t hold it back no matter what. He wanted to try out his idea immediately.

Lifeblood essences were unlike spirit energy. They were created by refining one’s blood and gathering the bloodline powers through the Blood Refinement Art.

His lifeblood essences were different from those of Blood Fiend Sect members!

His lifeblood essences contained the power of his bloodline and were thus stranger and more complicated than others. They were imprinted with the special divine character “blaze”, which had its own mysterious uses.

Moreover, it wasn’t easy for him to refine the lifeblood essences.

“Wouldn’t it be a waste? I spent a lot of time and effort to refine these fifty-two lifeblood essences…” Another voice appeared in his head.

“It’s okay to just test it out.”

“Maybe there’ll be a surprise?”

He convinced himself so and took out a spirit tablet. He started by inscribing the simple spirit diagrams he learned from Armament Sect.

These spirit diagrams had more simplistic networks that were made up of only a few dozens of spirit threads. This meant that he would be using up even less lifeblood essences to compose the diagram.

A drop of lifeblood essence gathered at the tip of his finger. It slowly transformed as it fell towards the spirit tablet.

A bit of blood seeped into the tablet.

“Boom!”

The spirit tablet was instantly ignited and exploded in Qin Lie’s palm. The object had exploded into dust.

“This is no good! A spirit tablet can’t endure the violent fiery energy of the lifeblood essences!” Qin Lie frowned.

He took out a random assortment of spirit materials from his spatial ring. He looked at them and thought for a moment before he picked up the Fire Demon Stone that could be used to refine fire attribute spirit artifacts.

The Fire Demon Stone was a Profound Grade Six spirit stone that could endure high temperatures. With the Fire Demon Stone as his base ingredient, Qin Lie sent out a bit of blood from a lifeblood essence, blended it with his own soul energy and imprinted it onto the Fire Demon Stone.

The Fire Demon Stone spat fire after coming in contact with the lifeblood essence too. However, it didn’t explode into dust immediately.

His expression shook, and he began inscribing on the Fire Demon Stone using his lifeblood essence as ink.

Not long after, an extremely simplified version of the Spirit Gathering diagram appeared inside the two lifeblood essences.

He quietly stared at the Fire Demon Stone in hope that it would cause some changes and attract some spirit energy.

However, the burning Fire Demon Stone didn’t show any signs of abnormality.

The Fire Demon Stone wasn’t able to endure the blaze attribute of the two lifeblood essences for too long, so it too exploded after burning for a moment.

“Maybe it’s because the spirit material was too weak. Maybe it’s because the way I did it was incorrect. There’s no need for haste, I should test things out slowly.” He comforted himself and took out a few more fire attribute stones. He first used spirit energy to draw a simple Spirit Gathering diagram on the spirit materials. He found that they were all effective, and that they were all able to draw in small amounts of spirit energy towards them.

However, when he replaced the spirit threads with the blood threads made of his own lifeblood essences and inscribed them onto a fire attribute spirit material of the same quality, he noticed that the spirit diagram wouldn’t function as he hoped to, and the spirit materials would explode shortly after.

Before he knew it, he only had ten lifeblood essences left with him.

“This is no good.” Helpless and disappointed, he had no choice but to halt his experiment and continue refining his lifeblood essences.

Time passed in a blink of an eye, and he had stayed at “Silent Moon” for more than a month.

He had almost never left the stone tower he rented during this period. If he was hungry, he would grab some frozen spirit beast flesh from his spatial ring and used the kitchen to cook some food for himself. If he was tired or sleepy, he would sit in a meditative stance and rest.

Today, while he was still refining more lifeblood essences, the six Spirits of Void and Chaos who had been slumbering for a very long time finally awakened.

Qin Lie didn’t move from the cultivation room he specially reinforced, restricted and refortified using his own methods and allowed the six little fellows to come out of the Soul Suppressing Orb.

The six Spirits of Void and Chaos flew out into the open.

After being isolated for such a long time, the six little fellows obviously looked listless and tired. Their bodies were as small as ever, a clear sign that they were not growing during their deep slumber.

“Yiya, yiya…”

The moment they came out, the six little fellows patted their stomachs and indicated that they were feeling especially hungry.

Qin Lie brought out all of the spirit materials of the six attributes he stored inside his spatial ring and allowed the six Spirits of Void and Chaos to eat to their heart’s content.

The six little fellows entered into the pile of spirit materials and ate with all their might while cheering as usual.

The spirit materials lessened bit by bit. The tall pile of spirit materials slowly grew shorter until it completely disappeared in just half a day’s time.

However, the six little fellows didn’t look like they were full yet.

They complained and cried out in dissatisfaction for a while, but after seeing Qin Lie frowning with a look of headache on his face, they gradually calmed down.

They climbed onto Qin Lie and used his body as a toy. After playing around for a moment, the six little fellows looked tired and vanished into the Soul Suppressing Orb once more.

Qin Lie frowned deeply.

He thought for a moment and put the Demon Sealing Tombstone outside the cultivation room. He summoned the Ice Phoenix, Lin Liang’er, and told her of his troubles, “Those six little guys’ appetites suddenly grew a lot bigger. The amount of spirit materials I’ve given them was already several times bigger than normal, but still they weren’t satisfied with the amount they ate. Something’s not right.”

As of late, he would summon Lin Liang’er and ask her a little about the ancient times while he was bored and idle.

In reality, Lin Liang’er never had any experiences herself, but her mother had gone all across the world alongside the Ice Emperor. Her mother hadn’t left in a hurry after she was born, and she would often tell her about the vastness of the world and the secrets of many races.

Therefore, Lin Liang’er knew far more about the ancient times than Qin Lie despite never leaving her home.

She passed the knowledge her mother gave her to Qin Lie so as to expand his horizons.

“I think that their increased appetite is one of the reasons, but it’s also probably because that the spirit materials you prepared are low grade despite their amounts. Am I right?” Lin Liang’er answered after thinking for a moment.

“That is true. The last of my spirit materials were all random stuff of low grade,” Qin Lie answered.

“Then there’s your answer,” Lin Liang’er deduced. “They’re not picky as they can absorb all energies that correspond to their attribute. However, I believe that the better the grade of a spirit material is, the more energy it contains. To the Spirits of Void and Chaos, the real food they is that energy, and only it can fulfill their growing appetite. I believe that six pieces of Earth Grade Seven spirit materials would contain the same amount of energy as the pile of spirit materials you’ve prepared earlier. Therefore, six pieces of high grade spirit materials alone should be enough to fulfill their appetite.

“That makes a lot of sense!” The answer suddenly became clear to Qin Lie.

A few days later, he finally walked out of “Silent Moon” and began roaming through the stores of Moonstone City’s spirit material market. With the spirit stones he had amassed, he bought many spirit materials of the six attributes he needed.

He didn’t try to be choosy either. He bought any spirit material of the six attributes that were available, regardless of their grade.

During this period, he carried the Ice Phoenix’s true body with him all the time.

It didn’t take long before he attracted some people’s attention and earned some ugly sounding titles.

He quickly realized that the gazes people were throwing at him grew more and more disdainful and disgusted.

Some self-important people would avoid the places he went as far as they could, and some bold people would ridicule him behind his back or even laugh openly.

“Shouldn’t a guy like him be hanging around a dark place like the Ruined Lands? How dare he show his face in Moonstone City and operate within the borders of Terminator Sect?”

Chapter 712: Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?

Moonstone City. A certain business street filled with stores.

A slightly plump middle-aged early stage Fulfillment Realm martial practitioner crossed his arms and sneered at Qin Lie from the front of a store selling all kinds of crystals.

The two sides of the street not only had many proper stores that sold all kinds of spirit materials and spirit pills, there were also some one-man stalls.

These stalls were selling all kinds of strange spirit materials, special crystals, and ancient spirit artifacts.

There were plenty of Moonstone City martial practitioners who were choosing their desired items and haggling with the traders before the stalls.

When the middle-aged martial practitioner’s sneer started, the noisy business street suddenly fell silent.

Many looks of astonishment were directed at Qin Lie and the middle-aged martial practitioner who vocally taunted him. There were plenty of people growing excited, hoping to see the trouble brew.

Qin Lie was standing at the entrance of the street. He was carrying the Ice Phoenix’s true body on his big wide back.

Lin Liang’er’s human body had a bit of life and soul consciousness in it. Therefore, it couldn’t be stored inside a spatial ring.

He had no choice but to carry it around.

For the past few days, he had been carrying Lin Liang’er’s cold body and showing his face all over the stores of Moonstone City in order to buy and store enough spirit materials of the six attributes for the Spirits of Void and Chaos.

He had attracted a lot of people’s attention since a while ago.

For the past few days, he could hear plenty of whispers and criticisms behind his back while he was purchasing spirit materials.

This was the first person to taunt and ridicule him openly though.

He turned around and faced the martial practitioner who taunted him directly. He said with a heavy tone, “Are you the person in charge of Moonstone City?”

That person frowned. “No.”

Qin Lie’s expression abruptly turned cold as he shouted unceremoniously at the man, “Then who the hell do you think you are to meddle with my business?!”

“I…” The man was stumped for words for a moment.

Beside him, there were two young women about thirty years old dressed in almost the same attire as him. They looked like they belonged to the same force.

The two women looked at Qin Lie’s with eyes full of disgust. They never stopped whispering about him along the way.

When they heard Qin Lie’s shout, one of the women bowed her head and spoke in a soft tone, “Senior Brother Zhang, you aren’t afraid of him, are you?”

“Zhang Tian! Do you have nothing to retort against a person like this?” the other woman said coldly.

All three of them came from a Copper rank force called Water Shadow Sword Association.

Just like Moon Worshipping Palace, Water Shadow Sword Association was also a vassal force to Terminator Sect. However, Prism Continent wasn’t Water Shadow Sword Association’s territory. These three martial practitioners had only come to Prism Continent and Moonstone City because they wanted to buy some spirit materials exclusive to local shops on Water Shadow Sword Association’s behalf.

The man named Zhang Tian was the women’s senior brother. He had taunted Qin Lie purely because his junior sisters were disgusted by him.

He only did it because he wanted to win their favor.

“I, I’m not afraid of him.” Zhang Tian felt a conscious lack of confidence.

Qin Lie’s eyes after his shout had made Zhang Tian feel a little scared. He suddenly calmed down and realized that there was in fact no need for him to provoke Qin Lie at all. That was why he wanted to stop there and then.

“Zhang Tian! Prove it to us if you aren’t afraid of him!” The woman with an awl-shaped faced stared coldly at Qin Lie. “You said nothing wrong. A twisted person like him should stay in the Ruined Lands! He should’ve known that he would be scorned for showing his face in Moonstone City!”

“Are you really afraid of him, senior brother?” Another woman looked at him doubtfully.

Zhang Tian’s face was flushed. “Of course not! How could I possibly be afraid of him?”

After he said this, he steeled his determination and circulated a layer of watery light around his body, yelling, “A person like you should have stayed in a dark place like the Ruined Lands and never came to Moonstone City!”

A large majority of martial practitioners by the two sides of the streets also disliked Qin Lie, which was why they had echoed the middle-aged martial practitioner’s call.

“Well said! A person like him shouldn’t be in Moonstone City!”

“What the hell is Moon Worshipping Palace thinking? How could they let someone like him stay in Silent Moon? That’s the best lodging in the entire Moonstone City too!”

“Moon Worshipping Palace cares only about spirit stones and nothing else!”

There were a few beautiful girls among the people who echoed his calls. Their cries bolstered Zhang Tian’s confidence and momentum.

“I would advise you to take your… special item and get out of Moonstone City as soon as possible. Stop fouling our appetite already!” Zhang Tian pointed at Qin Lie from afar and waved him away with a sneer.

“Who the hell do you think you are?” Qin Lie broke into an involuntary laugh.

Once he said this, he stared straight at Zhang Tian and strode towards him while carrying the Ice Phoenix’s true body.

A fierce aura was naturally unleashed from his body. Every onlooker who detected his aura turned pale as they subconsciously opened up a path for him.

Ever since he left Ling Town, every step he took was accompanied by harsh battles and tides of blood.

Today, the number of martial practitioners who died directly or indirectly by his hands were literally innumerable.

That was why a violent and bloody aura would flow out of his body involuntarily the moment he, a martial practitioner who had fought many bloody battles, harbored killing intent in his mind.

It was a killing intent that only a person whose hands were completely covered in blood could possess.

There were plenty of people with big mouths on the two sides of the street. The moment they detected the thick smell of death on Qin Lie’s body, they wordlessly pulled away from him.

This let him walk right up to Zhang Tian.

“Did you just tell me to get out of Moonstone City? I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you properly. Do you mind repeating yourself once more?” Qin Lie suddenly shouted.

“I…” Zhang Tian stuttered as a hint of fear appeared in his eyes. He actually couldn’t form words in his mouth.

Scarlet color appeared inside his pupils.

A new wave of blood stench surged towards the trio with him at the center.

Zhang Tian and the two Water Shadow Sword Association women turned pale the moment they were struck by the stench of blood. Even their lips were trembling uncontrollably.

“Be careful when you open your mouth next time, and make sure that your opponent is someone you can provoke before you decide to show off your abilities.” Qin Lie cast a glance at the two women that could only be called pretty at best and taunted, “In my opinion, it is very much not worth it to lose your life over two average women.”

He waited for a while after throwing down this line. He finally passed by them after he saw that none of them dared to speak up to him.

The second he went away, Zhang Tian shuddered and ran away from the street like he was escaping without waiting for the two women.

The two Water Shadow Sword Association women gritted their teeth and shot a glare at Qin Lie’s back. Then, they too, left hastily with red faces under everyone’s odd gazes.

Qin Lie continued to stroll through the streets buying all kinds of spirit materials of the six attributes with a casual expression on his face. It was as if nothing had ever happened.

The innumerable number of martial practitioners on the streets couldn’t suppress the hint of fear in their eyes when they looked at Qin Lie again.

The criticisms targeted at him had also lessened somewhat. It was as if many people had turned into mutes all of a sudden.

On that evening, he returned to “Silent Moon” after his spirit material shopping and discovered that the martial practitioners staying inside “Silent Moon” had tempered the looks that they were shooting at him by a lot.

“Yao Tian, the spirit beast flesh you’ve asked me to process has been prepared.” Lu Kun appeared on his way back to his stone tower and smiled at him. He returned him his spatial ring and added, “Just give me another ten thousand Earth Grade spirit stones, and we’re done.”

Qin Lie accepted the spatial ring and probed it with his mind consciousness. He discovered that the spatial ring now contained all kinds of glass utensils specifically used to hold all kinds of meat.

Spirit beast meat inside was categorized by rank at different locations in an orderly fashion.

He casually took out a dried Rank Four Silver Armored Giant Alligator meat from the spatial ring and discovered that it had been smoked. It actually tasted quite good.

He randomly took out a few more pieces of meat and discovered that they all tasted good. This quality of work far exceeded his expectations.

“How is it?” Lu Kun smiled.

“Good, very good.” Qin Lie nodded and was about to pay Lu Kun the spirit stones he deserved.

“No need for haste.” Lu Kun waved his hand once and pondered for a moment. Then, he said in a low voice, “Can we talk somewhere else?”

Qin Lie looked slightly surprised by this.

While holding the spatial ring that was filled with cooked meat, he hesitated for a moment before he finally nodded. “Alright.”

“Please, this way.” Lu Kun’s eyes lit up, and he actually led him personally towards the most secluded stone towers at the back of “Silent Moon.”

Qin Lie quietly followed behind him.

A while later, Lu Kun led him to a beautiful-looking hall inside a stone tower and said respectfully to a person sitting on a high seat, “This is the person you wished to meet, palace master.”

“Palace master?” A thought flashed across Qin Lie’s mind, and he looked up to that person and asked tentatively, “The palace master of Moon Worshipping Palace?”

“It is I!” Dong Wanzhai said proudly and impressively from his seat.

Dong Wanzhai was almost two meters tall, so he looked like an iron tower even when he was seated. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was dressed in a silvery white martial practitioner robe. His long robe was adorned with a picture of a cold moon.

“Where are you from?” Dong Wanzhai asked casually.

“What do you want from me?” Qin Lie countered with a question.

“Yao Tian, this man here is our palace master. Please be more respectful,” Lu Kun reminded him.

“It doesn’t matter what his attitude is. What’s important is that he can help us.” Dong Wanzhai waved down Lu Kun and asked suddenly with narrowed eyes, “Did you come from the Setting Sun Islands, kid?”

Qin Lie’s heart tightened. He thought that his identity was exposed, “You know me?”

“One of my subordinates noticed you. I hadn’t known your identity before, and it is only after you’d clashed against Water Shadow Sword Association that I noticed some signs,” Dong Wanzhai said solemnly. “Your presence is unusual. I believe that you are a disciple of Blood Fiend Sect, am I right?”

“You are correct,” Qin Lie admittedly openly.

He supposed that he had thought too much. He thought that Blood Fiend Sect and Terminator Sect had gotten anxious and were searching for him after he went missing for a whole year. He had thought that he had slipped up and exposed his true identity.

But no, it was just the small matter of him accidentally exposing Blood Spirit Art’s aura when he used his aura to suppress Zhang Tian.

“I’ll speak frankly.” Dong Wanzhai sat up straight. “From what I heard, Blood Fiend Sect is currently selling Blazing Profound Bombs to the outside world. Moon Worshipping Palace wishes to buy some of these artifacts from Blood Fiend Sect, and we will follow the market price that you have set. We hope that you can be the mediator of this trade.”