Chapter 587: Chapter 244: Marketplace Conversation, Returning to Silent Calamity Island

"Back then, a lot of people were laughing at him. Who would’ve thought he’d end up discovering a Sun Storage Stone vein in there."

"Now, he’s long since paid off his debts, and I hear that after a year, even after all expenses, he still nets two hundred thousand Spirit Stones."

"What? That much?"

"Let me tell you, two hundred thousand is a conservative estimate, and that’s only counting the Sun Storage Stone. In reality, it might even be as high as three hundred thousand Spirit Stones."

"In any case, over the past four years, the Luo Family has made at least a million Spirit Stones."

His voice rose a little when he mentioned the million, and it instantly reached the ears of those nearby.

This immediately caused a stir among the crowd.

"I’ve long heard Elder Luo’s story, but I never expected him to be this impressive."

"Sigh. In my whole life of roaming far and wide, I’ve never earned a million Spirit Stones all put together."

"Luo is truly impressive. Among our Golden Core peers, very few have his kind of ability."

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For a time, everyone was green with envy over the Luo Family’s fortune.

Xiao Chen nodded. ’That really is impressive. Most Golden Core Cultivators don’t have an income like that. The key is that the mine is relatively stable, all but guaranteeing an annual yield. Other Loose Cultivators, by contrast, have no fixed income whatsoever.’

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After leaving the stall, Xiao Chen found three nearby shops.

At these shops, he sold off his spare Storage Rings and the Elixirs, Cultivation Techniques, and Spiritual Artifacts he no longer needed.

The first three categories weren’t worth much, fetching only three hundred and eighty thousand Spirit Stones in total.

Only the Spiritual Artifacts he had accumulated from his various battles were worth a decent amount, selling for a total of one million, six hundred fifty-five thousand Spirit Stones.

All together, the total just surpassed two million Spirit Stones.

’Rounding up, that’s about two Luo Families.’

’Sigh, I still have to keep working harder.’

After all, Xiao Chen possessed Augments, so his goal was, of course, to one day surpass even the Major Sects.

To reach that point, he would indeed need to keep striving.

Leaving the Marketplace, Xiao Chen once again shouldered the Moon Wheel and began his journey back.

Perhaps because he had reached the core region, he encountered nothing else to delay his travels.

He made it all the way back to Silent Calamity Island without stopping.

From hundreds of miles away, he saw Su Li sitting on a reef just as she always was, hugging her knees and staring blankly out at the sea.

Before he even got close, her gaze shifted in his direction.

DING~!

The Red Thread Bell chimed.

Su Li immediately rushed forward to meet him, her cheeks flushed with unconcealable joy. "You... you’re back."

As she spoke, her lovely eyes curved into a pair of crescents.

Watching her afterimage dissipate from the reef, Xiao Chen’s pupils shrank to pinpricks before instantly returning to normal.

’So fast!’

’If Su Li held any malice toward him, Blade of Night would have already activated.’

’She looks so delicate and frail. Who could imagine she’s actually a Nascent Soul True Monarch with the blood of the Witch Race flowing through her veins, a natural at the Dual Cultivation of Body and Technique?’

"How did you get back so fast?"

Back in front of the stone house, Su Li’s eyes never left Xiao Chen. "I thought you wouldn’t be back until autumn."

And she truly had thought so. After all, the northwestern corner of the Compassion Sea was so far away.

An ordinary Golden Core Cultivator was already slow, and that was before adding in the time needed to search for the Wu Ling and figure out how to bypass all the mechanisms and traps. Each step should have been incredibly time-consuming.

At times, Su Li even began to wonder if she’d been alone for so long that she’d started hallucinating—that she had never met anyone at all, and that she was, and always had been, completely alone.

Fortunately, the pair of brand-new statues in front of the stone house proved that it wasn’t all a dream.

"Well, it certainly wasn’t easy."

Xiao Chen smiled. "But you’re forgetting who you’re talking to. A small matter like this was a piece of cake, of course."

"Anyway, why do you keep staring at me? Look at this!"

He pointed to the enormous Crystal Moon Wheel beside him. "Aren’t you curious about what this is?"

’On his way back, carrying the Moon Wheel had drawn the gazes of many Cultivators. They had all sized him up with curiosity, though no one had actively approached him. And yet, since he’d arrived, Su Li had just been staring at him, completely lost in a daze. He suspected she hadn’t even seen the Moon Wheel.’

"Huh? What’s this?"

Hearing him, Su Li turned to look at the Moon Wheel, her fine, lovely brows furrowing. "Judging by the design, it doesn’t look like a Spiritual Artifact."

She moved closer for a better look and soon discovered the Witch Talismans engraved on the Moon Wheel.

Over the course of a thousand Lunar Eclipses, she had learned the meanings of many Witch Talismans and could make simple sense of such inscriptions.

But for that very reason, Su Li’s eyes widened in astonishment. "This is our clan’s ancient Dominator Witch Artifact—the Illusory World Moon Wheel!"

The moment she realized this, she turned to Xiao Chen, lips parted, at a loss for words. "You..."

’Back in the day, in the hands of the High Priest, this Dominator Witch Artifact—forged with the combined strength of the entire race—was powerful enough to deter the surrounding Alien Races and anchor our people’s destiny. Logically, even a Nascent Soul True Monarch would find it difficult to resist an assault from the Illusory World Moon Wheel.’

"Do you like it?"

Xiao Chen prompted, "It’s a gift I brought back just for you."

"You have no idea what a pain it was to tear this thing out."

’Tear it out?’ Su Li was stunned for a moment. ’Theoretically, damaging anything inside the Wu Ling was an act of great disrespect. Any Witch of the Moon Witch Race should have considered him an enemy for it.’

However, she just smiled and nodded. "Yes. Thank you for the gift. I love it."

’As for some stupid old rules from millions of years ago... whoever wanted to follow them could. It had nothing to do with her.’

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