A bald head in a black robe, always looking as if he could never wake up.
"Senior, I have come to exchange for some items." Liu Bai lightly tapped the counter, rousing the dozing old man.
"Hmm, it is you, little fellow. Speak then, what do you want to exchange this time?" The bald old man in the black robe looked at Liu Bai in a daze and then let out a big yawn.
"A fifth-rank array diagram, the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, a Heaven-grade mid-level spiritual beast essence, the Ancient Golden Crow."
When Liu Bai finished stating the items he wanted, Northern Sea Dragon, whose eyes had originally seemed unfocused, revealed a flash of surprise.
"A fifth-rank array diagram, huh? You little fellow are becoming more and more unpredictable."
He scanned Liu Bai with his gaze, and in that instant, Liu Bai felt as if he had been completely read through.
"A Four-winged Flying Flood Dragon with Earth and Wind attributes, a Golden Ni Beast with Metal attributes, and the Ancient Golden Crow. Your ambition is too great. You plan to construct the innate Five Spirits within your body, but this is no easy task."
Liu Bai was shocked but not surprised that this ancient divine beast, who had lived countless years, could see through his intentions.
Setting aside the huge difference in cultivation, the identity of a divine beast alone was enough to perceive the changes in the spiritual beast essences within his body.
Seeing Liu Bai remain silent, Northern Sea Dragon did not get angry. Instead, he smiled faintly. His already emaciated frame looked even more sinister under that smile.
"Constructing the innate Five Spirits within your body is not impossible, but little fellow, with the techniques you are currently cultivating, it cannot be done. If you cannot make the Five Spirits complement each other, then you will simply have four extra spiritual beast essences compared to others. The value will be limited, and it will not be worth the effort."
Northern Sea Dragon continued, and these last words truly caused Liu Bai to hesitate.
After all, his cultivation of the Five Elements had been purely speculative. There was nothing to reference along the way. Everything depended entirely on his own imagination, which made him feel insecure.
Now, hearing Northern Sea Dragon's words, the once vague path before him became slightly clearer, yet he still did not know exactly how to proceed.
"Please, senior, guide me." Liu Bai bowed sincerely.
"Guidance is possible, but in the near future, you must do something for me."
Liu Bai's heart stirred, a guess forming, yet he spoke carefully: "Please, senior, speak plainly."
Northern Sea Dragon shook his head. "It is still too early to say. When your strength reaches above the Heavenly Transformation Realm, and you have fully mastered the Five Element Divine Thunder Technique, then you will have the qualifications to help me."
"But do not worry. For now, you only need to cultivate as you wish. As for your pursuit of the innate Five Spirits and your techniques, before breaking through to the Supreme Realm, they will not affect you greatly."
Upon hearing Northern Sea Dragon's request, Liu Bai immediately understood that his guess had been correct.
"It seems he truly wants me to help him acquire the Thunder God Pill. But this old man, should he not teach me the complete Thunder God Body as well?"
Although he had cultivated the Ice Skin Jade Bone Technique, a body refining deity art, it did not mean he no longer desired the Thunder God Body. The latter greatly enhanced combat power, while the former was more of a supportive ability. The two were not the same.
However, with the Ice Skin Jade Bone Body capable of integrating myriad methods, it would not reject the cultivation of the Thunder God Body.
Yet now the old man had not even mentioned it.
Of course, this was likely because Liu Bai had already mastered the Five Element Divine Thunder Technique, granting him the same ability as Mu Chen from the original story to obtain the Thunder God Pill.
As long as this old man could eventually provide a technique meeting Liu Bai's requirements, he was willing to take the risk.
This was merely a verbal agreement for now. After Liu Bai nodded, Northern Sea Dragon did not say more and casually tossed the two items he requested over.
Naturally, not a single point of Spiritual Value was deducted.
The Ancient Golden Crow required four million, the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array one point three million, totaling five point three million Spiritual Value. Liu Bai had one point five million Spiritual Value, and his two Spiritual Arts and two high-grade Spiritual Artifacts together amounted to four point eight million. After the exchange, he still had over one million Spiritual Value remaining.
Liu Bai did not touch this one million for the time being, as he still lacked two spiritual beast essences to exchange.
With his items in hand, Liu Bai quickly returned to his residence.
Fusing the Ancient Golden Crow was an important enhancement. Though ranked below the Four-winged Flying Flood Dragon, it possessed an unparalleled advantage: its terrifying spirit fire rivaling the Nine Nether Sparrow's Black Flame.
The Solar Spirit Fire, a supreme golden flame like the great sun, was unique to the Golden Crow clan. If the Ancient Golden Crow could ascend in the future, it could evolve into Solar God Fire, even reaching the highest Solar True Fire.
Compared to the Nine Nether Sparrow's Nine Nether Fire, the Nine Nether Dark Fire and the Immortal Fire were equally formidable.
Though Liu Bai only fused the spirit beast essence of the Ancient Golden Crow, not its bloodline, as long as the compatibility was high enough, he could integrate the Solar Spirit Fire into his Fire Element spiritual power.
His Fire Element power would naturally be greatly enhanced, just as his Earth Element power had been.
However, this process would take a long time.
The Ancient Golden Crow, though only a Heaven-grade mid-level spiritual beast, had a divine beast above it, the Great Sun Golden Crow. To evolve, it would need to reach divine beast status, which required too many beast soul points that Liu Bai could not afford for now.
Without the system's support, it was almost impossible to achieve high compatibility with self-fusion alone.
Therefore, Liu Bai had to postpone this process.
The fusion took ten days to complete, finally subduing the fierce Golden Crow. After successful fusion, the previously ethereal firebird in Liu Bai's mind space fully manifested, resembling a real sun suspended in his spiritual space.
At the center of the sun, a giant Golden Crow with golden flames spread its wings, and its furious spirit fire seemed as if it could melt the heavens and earth.
"In this way, the Fire Element can also operate autonomously."
Now with Metal, Fire, and Earth Element spirits in place, even without deliberate cultivation, these three techniques could autonomously increase his experience. Though this was minimal compared to the experience needed for leveling, accumulation would save him some effort.
As for the Divine Cauldron Refining Heaven Array, Liu Bai had already brought it to an entry-level state.Mastery required ten thousand experience points, and Liu Bai's current experience was insufficient, so he left it for now. He would improve it after gaining experience from missions.
After staying at the academy for more than ten days, Liu Bai's desire to go out and hunt monsters had become overwhelming. Once ready, he immediately headed to the Mission Hall.
This time his goal was a Heaven-level mission. Upon arrival, he went straight to the elder responsible for issuing Heaven-level missions.
"Ah, it is you, little fellow. Have you once again been unable to resist doing missions?" The Mission Hall elder, now familiar with Liu Bai, spoke more casually.
Liu Bai smiled and said, "The academy requires Spiritual Value everywhere. I currently need it greatly."
"So, elder, do you have any recommendations? Preferably a mission with high rewards and light difficulty."
The Mission Hall elder immediately rolled his eyes.
"What are you thinking? If such a good mission exists, it would have been claimed the moment it appeared."
"However, there is one mission here that I think might interest you."
Liu Bai's eyes lit up with interest. "Quickly, tell me."
"It is an extermination mission. The target is Mu City, the Fan Clan…"
Hearing the name of the target, Liu Bai's heart stirred. It seemed the academy was preparing to directly make a move against the Fan Clan.
Although the one who destroyed the Xie Clan back then had been the Blood Dragon Demon Yu Yuan, this man was already listed on the academy's bounty board and had risen from the tenth position to the fifth.
Yet Yu Yuan was too cunning, and his true body could never be located. Many attempts to hunt him down had ended in failure.
This time, however, was an excellent opportunity for the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy. While issuing the extermination mission against the Fan Clan of Mu City, the academy had also secretly dispatched a team to pursue Yu Yuan in hiding, hoping to find a chance to eliminate that ruthless and evil figure.
But this had nothing to do with Liu Bai. The pursuit team was sent by the Discipline Hall, not students, so the Mission Hall elder would not disclose such information to him.
"This is a Heaven-level High-Grade team mission, requiring two squads of five people each to complete. The reward is eight million Spiritual Value. One squad has already been confirmed, led by Chu Lin, who is ranked fifth on the Heavenly Ranking. If you are interested, you can gather some reliable teammates to join."
"Five people in a squad…" Liu Bai frowned.
That was truly troublesome.
After all, he was still just a freshman. The people he was familiar with at most had cultivation in the Heaven Fusion Realm, whereas such a mission clearly required strong experts.
Within the Willow God Society, apart from himself, only Su Xuan barely qualified. Li Jing and Guo Xiong were still far too weak. In fact, even in the original story, when they appeared, they were never qualified to participate in such high-grade Heaven-level extermination missions.
Aside from them, who else could he find?
After pondering for a while, Liu Bai made a decision. Raising his head, he looked at the Mission Hall elder and said, "I will take this mission."
The elder revealed a knowing smile and nodded. "Good. Three days from now, you must bring your squad here to assemble. Then both squads will set out together."
After agreeing, Liu Bai immediately headed toward the freshmen quarters.
At the Freshmen Quarters, in the Xuan Gang, Liu Bai arrived just as Li Xuantong returned from cultivation. That saved him a trip.
"You actually came to find me. How rare."
Looking at the figure before him, Li Xuantong's calm eyes revealed a trace of curiosity.
"Tell me, Liu brother, what matter brings you here today?"
This fellow was always elusive. Every time he disappeared and reappeared, his strength had increased. At times, Li Xuantong even doubted how Liu Bai managed to accomplish that.
"A mission. A Heaven-level High-grade team mission. I wonder if brother Li has any interest." Liu Bai spoke directly without concealment.
"Heaven-level High grade?" Li Xuantong's heart trembled. Since when had this fellow already reached the qualifications to touch such missions?
He himself could not even take High grade Earth-level missions. He could only accept lower grade Earth-level ones. This frustrated him so much that he no longer wanted to visit the Mission Hall, focusing instead on bitter cultivation until he could break through to the Heavenly Transformation Realm.
Unfortunately, closed-door cultivation required a vast amount of Spiritual Value. He had just depleted his remaining Spiritual Value, forcing him to emerge and prepare to take some missions to earn more. At this moment, Liu Bai appeared.
"What is the mission? Who are involved? What is the reward?" Li Xuantong asked the questions that mattered most to him.
"Exterminate a clan that controls a large city. They have many experts in the Heavenly Transformation Realm. The strongest is a late-phase Heavenly Transformation Realm cultivator. Two squads of five will participate. I am one of them, but currently only Su Xuan and I are confirmed. The total reward is eight million Spiritual Value, theoretically split between the two squads."
Li Xuantong looked at Liu Bai again in shock.
A powerful clan with a late-phase Heaven Transformation Realm xpert. Yet Liu Bai, a freshman only at the Heaven Fusion Realm, dared to involve himself. Furthermore, from the looks of it, he even intended to select members from the freshmen. Would the other squad even agree?
"Are you certain the other squad will agree to cooperate with us?" Li Xuantong finally voiced his concern.
Liu Bai smiled faintly. "It seems brother Li has agreed. As for whether they accept us or not, that is not my concern. If they refuse, they can withdraw. We can go on our own. In that case, we will just have a larger share of the Spiritual Value."
Li Xuantong: "…"
Even though he considered himself well aware of Liu Bai's arrogant nature, hearing these words still left him stunned.
This was beyond arrogance. This was wildness and audacity.
Did this fellow truly not know what it meant to court death?
Yet when he opened his mouth, what came out was
"I will join."
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