The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 275: Long Xuan’s Plan

Long Xuan nodded and tossed a storage ring directly to the fat manager from the Qian clan.

The manager hurriedly caught it, and his right eye glimmered with a golden light. Using his Golden Eye, he scanned through the ring's contents, instantly calculating the total value of the vast array of spiritual herbs inside due to the Golden Eye's impressive computational power.

To be honest, Long Xuan couldn't determine the total value of the spiritual herbs in the storage bag himself; he had no idea how much they would sell for and left it entirely up to the Qian Clan’s estimation.

He wasn’t worried about any deception from the Qian Clan merchants. For regular transactions, he trusted the Integrity Gu’s binding power to keep them honest.

"Altogether, the value comes to over three hundred million spirit stones. For this first transaction, I’ll round it up for you, making it a clean four hundred million spirit stones," said the manager.

"I hope your Black Dragon Pirates will continue to sell Death Sea’s spiritual herbs to me in the future. I work for the Third Young Master, so my connections are guaranteed, and so is my financial power."

He handed Long Xuan a golden communication talisman with a beaming smile. "This is my permanent communication talisman. You can contact me anytime with it!"

"A permanent communication talisman?" Long Xuan took it curiously. Previously, he had only seen one-time-use communication talismans, so this permanent one was a first for him.

It must be expensive, he thought. Even a thousand one-time-use talismans couldn't match the value of one permanent talisman. Otherwise, everyone would choose this more practical option.

He glanced up at the manager and realized he was also aligned with the Third Young Master, which explained his chubby figure that was on par with the Third Young Master’s.

"Understood. If I plan to sell Death Sea’s herbs again, you’ll be my first choice," Long Xuan agreed, putting away the talisman.

Upon hearing this, the manager’s face lit up with joy.

After transferring all the herbs from the storage ring to his own, the manager filled the now-empty ring with spirit stones and handed it back to Long Xuan.

Long Xuan took it without bothering to count the spirit stones, trusting in the Qian Clan’s business integrity. He then turned and left, having no intention to continue the conversation.

After all, he wasn’t truly a Black Dragon Pirate, and the more he talked, the more he risked giving himself away.

Truthfully, four hundred million spirit stones was a bit on the low side. The Black Dragon Pirates had been raiding the Death Sea for years; they wouldn’t have collected only this much in herbs. Excluding those already used, they likely knew that hoarding too many herbs in one place would devalue them, so they must be selling in different locations.

Long Xuan didn’t have the time to go to each location, so this was all he would earn from Death Sea’s spiritual herbs.

He let his crew take some free time while he strolled through the bustling city with his freshly earned spirit stones, seizing the opportunity to gather the last fifty thousand materials he needed for the Heaven-Devouring World’s Toad Gu Recipe.

Sea God Island was extremely prosperous, with a vast variety of treasures, much richer in resources than Big Lonely Island.

Thus, he quickly gathered over forty thousand of the materials here, with the remaining few almost negligible.

His current position also gave him an advantage. As the Black Dragon Pirates' vice-captain, he could collect materials easily in the city, and nobody dared refuse him. Otherwise, there was no way he could have gathered close to fifty thousand materials so quickly.

This transaction, however, once again depleted the spirit stones he had earned from selling the Death Sea herbs, and he even sacrificed many rare treasures he had saved over the years, which made him ache inside.

He still had another hundred thousand materials to gather, and these were unknown ones, adding to his frustration.

This Gu recipe was truly a bottomless money pit. Other than a treasure merchant, no one could afford to refine it, and he was attempting an enhanced version.

After a quick sweep of the island and collecting all available materials, Long Xuan finally summoned his crew, ready to depart.

Bringing his crew to the shore, he waited for the Ocean's Heart to turn blue, then swiftly retrieved the Shenlong and placed it on the water’s surface. With excitement, he and the crew boarded the ship.

As the sails rose and the Shenlong moved, slowly distancing from the shore, Long Xuan and his crew set off once more toward the endless sea, with dangers and opportunities awaiting them on the journey ahead. ꞦΆNo????ÊṠ

After the voyage to Sky Island, he had no intention of disbanding his crew.

He hadn’t spent so much time creating alchemical recipes for Spirit Herbs in the Death Sea region just to do a one-off deal.

Any fortune below a billion wasn’t worth his time working on ineffective recipes.

Since he’d invested time in researching alchemical recipes for Death Sea’s Spirit Herbs, he planned to run this business long-term.

This was a hugely profitable venture. Every trip out to sea could yield billions or even tens of billions in wealth.

Since he had the ability to enter the Death Sea, why should he abandon the wealth hidden in the Forbidden Seas?

Collecting resources from the Forbidden Seas was far more profitable than any other business, and he was truly tempted by this opportunity.

He’d already planned to cultivate a trusted crew that could gather resources from the Forbidden Seas for him long-term. The Forbidden Seas were not limited to the Death Sea alone.

If possible, he wanted to traverse all the Forbidden Seas in this world.

So building his own fleet was essential, and he could use Sou Gu to remotely control this crew, ensuring that even if he were to develop inland, this crew would remain firmly under his control.

And his requirements for his crew weren’t high. He didn’t need them to have extraordinary talent; he just needed them to be 100% loyal.

Realm stages could be built up with resources, but loyalty was something resources could never buy.

Currently, the Shenlong had a crew of good-hearted people with an extremely low chance of betrayal.

Good-hearted individuals were rare in the Gu world, and he certainly intended to focus on training these rare specimens.

In the future, he would help them all become Gu Kings, then appoint them as the captains of his various teams, leading a massive fleet across all the Forbidden Seas.

As the fleet grew and conquered more Forbidden Seas, he, as captain, would become incredibly wealthy, with endless riches.

This would become the wealth he’d accumulate for the Heaven-Devouring World Toad.

Since the Heaven-Devouring World Toad’s strength was directly tied to its master’s wealth, Long Xuan was determined to spare no effort in gathering resources from this world.

So this fleet would have to be built, and his crew would surely become top-tier experts in the future. Wu Yaoyao made the right choice by boarding this ship.

Long Xuan couldn’t help but admire her sharp insight; she saw through the exceptional potential of each crew member and managed to squeeze her way onto the ship.

She certainly made the right move.

The Divination Gu she carried would have the right master in her. This Wu Yaoyao indeed had a sharp eye.

“You’ve been mingling with my crew for so long; surely, you’ve done quite a few divinations for them? Did you do one for the shipwright here?”

Long Xuan asked curiously.

He was just too intrigued by Di Xin’s future...

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