Chapter 669 – Peace

“Eat my claw!”

A giant, multicolored tiger let out a long hiss in midair, and a huge tiger claw seemed to want to tear apart the space around it.

“Hehe, without that brat Little Fishy, I, Old Xiong, am not afraid of you!”

A giant bear opened its mouth and let out an innocent sound. A palm as thick aiger’s paw swept out, slicing apart the tiger’s claw in mid-air.

“Old Bear, you’ve been tricked!”

The tiger demon sneered. Then, its iron-whip-like tiger tail sliced through the air, and with a sharp cry, it swung towards the giant bear.

“I’ve been prepared for this move of yours!”

The giant bear was also full of subtlety. Both its arms moved forward and actually sealed the whip in the tiger’s tail.

With a crisp “pa” sound, the giant bear took in a breath of cold air while swinging its arms. It was obvious that it was not lightly whipped by the whip, but the giant tiger also staggered back a few steps before asking.

“Alright, alright, even if today’s battle is a draw, you little tiger demon are really too shocking. You are only at the peak of the first stage of the True Demon Realm and you can fight me, Old Bear, to this extent. If you were to advance to the second stage, then I, Old Bear, would probably not be your match.”

The giant bear continued to shrink, gradually turning into a burly, burly man. When he spoke, he revealed a trace of helplessness on his face.

Hu Niu glanced at the bear demon, and said: “You don’t need to comfort me, you still have a demon artifact long spear, if not I would not be your match. Furthermore, that strike just now seemed to be evenly matched, but strength was your strong point, so the first to recover would definitely be you, and even if you do not have a demon artifact, the longer you live, the greater your advantage would be.”

Xiong Zhuang said helplessly: “What you said sounded like a blow to me. My cultivation level was already stronger than yours, and you still have undead ghost by your side that has not fought yet. Otherwise, even if I, Demon Artifact, went all out, I still wouldn’t be your match!”

Ever since Hu Niu and Bao Yuer combined their efforts to expel the Demonic Bears and powerfully occupy his territory at the southern end of Sandtown, the two of them had been competing with each other from time to time. From the beginning, they had been exchanging pointers with each other as if they were enemies, and now, they had even struck up a somewhat friendly relationship with each other.

Hu Niu slapped her waist and an exquisite storage bag, a wine jar appeared in Hu Niu’s hands.

When Xiong Zhuang saw the jar of wine in Hu Niu’s hands, he immediately drooled and asked, “What wine is this, is it the sweet wine I told you about last time?”

Hu Niu rolled her eyes at him, and said: “Such a big and burly guy like you, shouldn’t you drink strong alcohol? How can you drink that sweet fruit wine that only women like to drink?”

Xiong Zhuang could not wait and snatched the wine jar from Hu Niu’s hands. With a slap, he crushed the mud seal, and a strong fragrance of sweet wine pervaded the air.

Xiong Zhuang narrowed his eyes and sniffed with his big nose, then said with an intoxicated expression, “What do you know? Although strong liquor is good, it’s not as good as sweet fruit wine. In fact, there’ype of honey wine that’s better than sweet fruit wine, but unfortunately, I haven’t tasted it since I came to this world. Little Tiger Demon, you actually managed to get such a good wine from a human being.

Hu Niu completely ignored Xiong Zhuang’s probing words, and only asked, “Old bear, how do you think we should quickly increase my strength?”

Xiong Zhuang had yet to recover from the sweet fruit wine in his hand, but when he heard this, he did not even look up and said, “Your strength is already quite good. Our Old Xiong is far from being your match when he’s at your level, not to mention seeing your current cultivation, you are not far from breaking through to the second stage. When that time comes, I’m afraid that we will not even be able to fight you.”

Hu Niu shook her head and said: “Old bear, I want to get my hands on a handy demon artifact. Do you have any ideas?”

“Demonic item?” Xiong Zhuang was startled, then nodded his head, and said: “That’s true, the fastest way to increase one’s own strength is to obtain a good weapon, our Spirit Demon Race has mostly used a part of our main body to refine it for a long time, but Hu Niu, you are too young, I’m afraid you are still far from having a chance to refine it, but recently there might be a chance.”

“An exchange fair organized by the demonic cultivators of the Tuo Wu Shan?”

The information he obtained from Hu Niu quickly reached Yang Junshan’s hands, and he immediately began to calculate in his heart.

Bao Yuer said from the side: “From that bear demon, I heard that this auction was set up specifically for the newly arrived demon cultivators, as well as to let them understand this world more quickly. However, I heard that this auction has already spread out before it even began, and many Alien Cultivator from other races from all over Yuzhou have already shown themselves here to take a look.

Not to mention Hu Niu herself, even Yang Junshan himself was moved.

Yang Junshan nodded, and said: “I already know about this matter. If there is a chance, you and Hu Niu can go and take a look. Oh right, how is the situation with the Huyao County recently?”

Bao Yuer shook her head, and said: “It’s still the same, previously, the Opening Spirit School had sent a small group of disciples to train in the Huyao County from time to time, but now, there’s no movement at all. From the Tuo Wu Shan’s side, Hu Niu seemed to have heard some news about a cultivator from the Opening Spirit School who was on the verge of death due to severe injuries.”

Yang Junshan nodded his head, and said: “I already know about all of this. Go back and tell Hu Niu, tell her to pay close attention to the Demon Cultivator’s Exchange and news regarding the Opening Spirit School. There is still a period of time before the West Mountain’s spirit veins can be upgraded to a spirit river, and at that time, maybe there will be a great opportunity for the both of you to advance to the second stage.”

“Really?”

Bao Yuer’s eyes lit up, but then, she thought of something and chuckled: “That’s right, Hu Niu wants me to tell you something else. She wants a big name, she doesn’t want to be constantly called by Hu Niu.”

Yang Junshan patted his head, and said: “Hu Niu has told me about this more than once. She told me that she is the adopted sister to me, Yang Junshan, and naturally has to follow her big brother surnamed Yang, and then she will be called Yang Junxiu!”

After returning from the Buried Sky Ruins, Yang Junshan originally thought that there would be a large scale conflict with the Alien Cultivator, but unexpectedly, because of the severe injuries of both sides in the Buried Sky Ruins, they all chose to give up at the same time, and each went to recuperate.

In the blink of an eye, a year had passed. In that year, Yang Junshan had focused all of his energy on raising the West Mountain’s Spirit Vein and upgrading it to Spirit River.

There were already eight spirit veins gathered on the western mountain. Now that he had the Origin Returning Stone in his hand, Yang Junshan only needed to gather two spirit veins before he could quickly integrate them into one. In a short period of time, they would transform into a spirit river, and would receive an explosive increase in their cultivation.

To fuse a single spirit vein, one needed a hundred naturally formed jade pith coin, but with the Origin Returning Stone in their hands, they could completely replace the natural Jade pith coin’s dense Qi. Thus, Madame Yang only needed to prepare two hundred ordinary Jade pith coin.

However, the key problem was how to take out so many ready-made Jade Coins all of a sudden. Even though the Madame Yang was currently thriving, as the Yang family was going througrocess of growth, the annual consumption rate was equally astonishing, so it was not easy to raise such a large amount of Jade Coins.

In reality, over the past year, Yang Junshan had already secretly processed a large amount of cultivation resources stored within the dark market, and there was no lack of spirit tools, spirit materials, raw materials and the like. Yang Junshan had even reduced the daily supplies provided by the clan members, which was why he managed to combine all the Jade Coins without affecting the overall situation of the Madame Yang.

Yang Junshan had long since completed the formation of the supporting spirit river, so the only thing left to do was to wait for three months. The Western Mountain Madame Yang would welcome the first formed spirit river, and the reaction from the Origin Returning Stone would also allow the Madame Yang to experience a collective cultivation leap.

After sending Bao Yuer off, Yang Junshan first went to the peak of the western mountain. After fusing the sliver of lightning source he had obtained from the Buried Sky Ruins into the Purple Crystal Thunder Light Rock, this enormous lightning stone seemed to have become unstable during this period of time. Although it did not affect the entire village protection formation, the sudden increase in the amount of thunder falling from the sky still made the Xishan Village somewhat worried.

During this period of time, Yang Junshan came to the top of the mountain every day to observe the changes in the Thunder Light Stone. He had already felt that the Thunder Light Stone had gradually stabilized and there was even an additional trace of unexplainable change within it.

Furthermore, because of the increase in the power of the Thunder Source, the power of the Thunder Light Array had also increased. Yang Junshan had even considered whether he should expand the village protection formation outside his body after the Spirit River was formed.

On the way back to the secret room in his cave, Yang Junshan was playing with a communication jade in his hand, inside it was a message inviting him to the Yu Cheng. The person who sent the message was not the Adept Qing Feng, but the person who caused the commotion in the cultivation alliance of the Yu Cheng, Spiritual Master Lin Canghai.

In Yang Junshan’s secret room, a piece of wooden board that was split into several pieces was reassembled. On top of the board, a dense and complex array pattern emerged, and if a cultivator who did not understand formations saw it, they would immediately feel dizzy and vomit.

During this period of time, Yang Junshan spent most of his time deducing the runes on the ship’s wall that had fallen off the giant starship. Although he had some inspirations and harvests, but overall, his progress was not very great.

In front of this boat board, a chessboard was placed on the ground, on top of it were scattered Chess s, just like how Yang Junshan felt when he saw the boat board. Compared to the array patterns on the boat wall and Yang Junshan’s current array attainment, this set of middle grade mystical beasts was already a little unusable.

After all, Spiritual Master Lin Canghai had promised a set of Spirit Ranked Chess. Although he might offend the Zhuge family who had lost this set of Chess, compared to a set of Spirit Ranked Chess, this risk was wortry. Furthermore, he might even be able to obtain something from the Heaven-Shaking Peak.