Chapter 556: Chapter 236: Refining the Blood Crystal, Then It’s a Deal

At this rate, my progress would definitely surpass my cultivation as a Magic Cultivator.

Second, Blood Crystals were not a natural product; they came from Su Li.

Therefore, if he wanted to obtain more Blood Crystals, it meant Xiao Chen would have to find a way to get them from a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Considering the gap between them was an entire Major Realm.

Normally, this would be completely impossible.

But Su Li’s current situation didn’t seem normal at all.

Clearly, this was a potential opening he could exploit.

Xiao Chen quickly recalled everything that had happened since he first set foot on the island, preparing to unleash a torrent of brilliant, peerless deduction.

...

’Ugh, after a moment of calm reflection, he decided to just forget it. This was what he was worst at.’

He had no intelligence to work with. What was the bloody point of overthinking things?

’Besides, it’s not like Su Li is some kind of terrifying monster. She isn’t going to eat me.’

’So it’s better to be direct and just go for it!’

Don’t get the wrong idea. His version of "going for it" didn’t involve violence.

There was at least a full Major Realm between them. Even if Su Li looked pale and seemed incredibly weak, he couldn’t afford to entertain any foolish ideas.

Having made up his mind, Xiao Chen strode forward decisively.

He approached Su Li, who was now standing on the ground again and staring right at him. Clasping his hands in a formal salute, he said, "Senior, forgive my audacity, but this junior would like to propose another trade."

’Most things in this world have a price,’ he thought. ’It’s all just a matter of starting high and haggling your way down.’

He had plenty of Tier Four Spiritual Objects on hand, especially the Purple Gold Bodhi. He refused to believe she wouldn’t be interested.

...

The surroundings were utterly silent, so quiet that he could hear the sound of distant waves crashing against the reefs.

Huh?

’What’s going on?’

Xiao Chen was baffled. What was he to make of her neither agreeing nor refusing?

Su Li remained silent, lost in a daze.

「Time rewound to the moment the Lunar Eclipse began, when the moonlight activated her bloodline.」

For a hundred years, every time the Lunar Eclipse occurred, she would be forcibly bound beneath the moonlight, forced to receive the endless torrent of the Witch Race’s legacy welling up in her Sea of Consciousness, no matter how much her head felt like it would split open.

This agonizing process would last for hours, continuing until the arrival of a new dawn.

It was for this very reason that she had grown to love watching the sunrise, witnessing the first light of dawn as it pierced the boundless darkness.

But today, for the first time ever, the Lunar Eclipse had ended early.

As the thorns receded and the petals withered away to nothing, she still couldn’t quite snap out of her daze.

’The Lunar Eclipse is over?’

Standing on the ground once more, Su Li still couldn’t quite process what had happened.

’Is the Lunar Eclipse... really over?’

She stared blankly at Xiao Chen, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation not far away. He showed no signs of mutation; in fact, his Qi Blood was so abundant that he looked better than ever.

Looking at him, in her dazed state, was like seeing the dawn itself.

.

’He’s completely immune to the Lunar Eclipse!’

After snapping out of her stupor, Su Li’s first impulse was to act immediately and restrain Xiao Chen.

She had every reason to do so. If she could find a way to break the curse through him, she could escape this endless pain and loneliness and return to a normal life.

She also had the power to do so. With her cultivation as a late-stage Nascent Soul, suppressing a mere Golden Core Cultivator would be as easy as turning over her hand.

CRASH!

In the distance, a giant wave swelled and crashed against the reef.

Su Li stared intently at Xiao Chen for a moment before tearing her gaze away to look into the distance.

From the day she first set foot on Silent Calamity Island, she had sworn an oath to never again harm an innocent person for her own sake.

The harm she had caused in the past had never been of her own volition.

But now, if she resorted to any means necessary to be free of the Lunar Eclipse, she would seemingly escape it only to be burdened by a different curse forever.

To some, that wouldn’t matter at all.

But Su Li was different. She had already lost her sect; she did not want to lose her conscience as well.

"Senior, forgive my audacity, but this junior would like to propose another trade."

The sudden words shattered Su Li’s train of thought.

It wasn’t difficult for her to deduce that Xiao Chen had chosen to undergo the Refinement of a Blood Crystal to stop the Lunar Eclipse.

Judging by the jade bottle fragments on the ground, it seemed he had also taken some kind of Secret Medicine to suppress the curse.

’If dealing with the curse was so difficult for you, why did you take the initiative to help me?’

’Was it for the trade?’

’What is it that you want?’

"Alright!"

Su Li finally nodded. "What trade?"

Xiao Chen breathed a sigh of relief at her words.

As long as she was willing to talk, the deal was halfway done. The rest was just a matter of price.

"How about two—er, three Purple Gold Bodhi Fruits in exchange for one Blood Crystal?"

To show his sincerity, he hadn’t started with too low of a price.

And yet, even so, Su Li’s brow furrowed the moment she heard him.

Xiao Chen’s heart sank at the sight. ’Were three Spirit Fruits really not enough?’

He had to admit, he didn’t think it was enough either, but these were Tier Four Spirit Fruits, after all—and Rare Spiritual Objects that aided with comprehension, at that.

Besides, it was just his opening offer, so he hadn’t wanted to start too high.

"Three Purple Gold Bodhi?"

Su Li bit her lip. She had, of course, heard of the famous Purple Gold Bodhi Fruit produced by Pudu Temple. They were not easy to obtain.

Aside from a few major, established powers, even other Nascent Soul Cultivators found it extremely difficult to trade for them.

’But it’s fine,’ she thought. ’I’m a late-stage Nascent Soul, after all. I can afford this price.’

’As long as I can find a way to lift this curse first, I can pay him back slowly in the future.’

"Alright, three it is!"

After a moment of hesitation, Su Li nodded lightly. "However, I don’t have any Purple Gold Bodhi Fruit on me right now. Can I owe you?"

Huh?

’Wait, what did you just say?’

Xiao Chen was stunned, completely baffled by her question.

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