The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 726 - 405 Mr. Chan’s Conditions

According to Mr. Toad himself, he has been living in the Hidden Stream residence for over three thousand years, becoming a Big Toad with profound cultivation. He is not like those little monsters without experience that are easy to fool. Toad venom is of little value to him, so it’s fine for other Pill Masters to trade for it with poisonous insects he likes to eat. However, Lifebound Essence Blood is far too precious compared to toad venom, and Ning Xiaoxian wants as much as twenty drops, which is tantamount to him giving up a whole year’s cultivation. Therefore, Mr. Toad pondered for two days before proposing his terms for the exchange.

As for what Ning Xiaoxian is going to do with his essence blood, what does that have to do with Lord Toad? Pill Masters are all a bunch of odd people; having guarded the door here for thousands of years, isn’t he familiar enough with them by now?

After listening to his demand, Ning Xiaoxian’s beautiful brows furrowed tightly, because, besides asking her to provide twenty delicious poisonous insects, he also wanted a Heavenly Centipede Pearl produced by a centipede with more than three thousand years of cultivation. Dragons, turtles, snakes, clams, and centipedes can all produce pearls inside them. This is common knowledge. "This is the Bashe Forest, where tens of thousands of demons gather; can’t you manage to get a Heavenly Centipede Pearl?"

Mr. Toad’s gaping mouth remained motionless, but his voice reached her ears: "I have already researched this; there are only sixty-three centipedes in this forest with over three thousand years of cultivation! Every single one of them is living well and thriving; should I go and cut open their bellies to take the pearls? Even if I had the heart, I do not have the ability either! Alas, the centipede clan’s leader enjoys good fortune here in Hidden Stream as well, and neither Elder Qingluan nor Elder He could kill centipedes and get the pearls for me without reason."

He continued: "In order for a Green-eyed Golden Toad to advance to the Great Mahayana Realm, there is a special prerequisite condition—to collect one three-thousand-year cultivation ’Five Poisons’ poison bead of each type. I have spent several thousand years in Bashe Forest and have gathered four types: snake, gecko, scorpion, and my own toad bead. I am only missing the centipede’s." His words carried a tinge of sorrow. He is a demon with almost no ability to attack, yet he must gather five poison beads to ascend; the heavens really seem to love making his species the butt of jokes. If it weren’t for this demand, why would he come to the Ba Snake Mountain Range to do such a lonely and solitary job?

Ning Xiaoxian sighed deeply and said: "I do have plenty of poisonous insects, but unfortunately, I can’t get you a Heavenly Centipede Pearl anytime soon."

The Big Toad rolled its popping eyes and said: "I heard Lord Langya commanded you to go out after the Martial Arts Competition?" She gave a wry smile. Life in the mountains of Hidden Stream is calm and boring; any little thing can become known by all the demons around the mountains. The news of her leaving the mountains had only been discussed with a few Pill Masters; she didn’t know who let that slip. "...that’s not difficult, it seems you’re highly valued by the Sect Leader, and you’ll have many opportunities to go on quests in the future. I’ll lend you the essence blood first. Someday when you kill a centipede old enough outside, you can just cut out its pearl and give it to me." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Is this kind of good deal for real? She almost couldn’t believe her ears. Changtian chuckled and said: "This Big Toad really knows how to calculate its bets; if this deal falls through, it can squat here all day, and the Heavenly Centipede Pearl still won’t just fall from the sky. Twenty drops of essence blood aren’t a big deal to a demon of its cultivation. Lend it to you first, you’ll always find a chance to bring it the pearl."

Sure enough, the Big Toad giggled slyly: "My demands are not high, just bring me the Heavenly Centipede Pearl within ten years. Otherwise, don’t even think about entering the Immortal Plant Garden anymore!" Then, with a turn of its large mouth, it managed to reveal a rather malicious smile on a toad face. With it guarding the big door of the Immortal Plant Garden and possessing the innate "tear-inducing" ability, indeed, if it declares one can’t enter, then they simply cannot. And what future does a Pill Master who can’t enter the Immortal Plant Garden in Hidden Stream have?

So, it truly isn’t worried about Ning Xiaoxian taking the money and not doing the work.

Is this still a toad? It’s craftier than a fox. Ning Xiaoxian is also one used to careful accounting; how could she let it have the upper hand? She immediately raised the price to forty drops of essence blood. After some haggling back and forth, the deal was finally struck for thirty-five drops of essence blood.

Even at this price, she still felt at a loss, but unfortunately, it’s a seller’s market. She rolled her eyes, passed over a bottle first, received the toad’s essence blood, and safely stored it away. Then she started to arrange the poisonous insects she had on hand.

Using demons as feed for it was not something Ning Xiaoxian could afford, so what she brought out were two Ding Ning Bees and about ten of her Gu Worms. After obtaining the Gu Worms and the Secret Method of Cultivating Gu from the Colorful Dress Woman in the "Heavenly Ladder" secret realm, she often caught some poisonous creatures to feed according to the method. These little creatures didn’t carry demon energy and could sometimes have surprisingly effective uses. Therefore, the thirty or so types of Gu she kept had about ten that reached the Post-insect Realm, and several had reached the standard of King Insect. This was all thanks to regular Gu fights and feeding with Spiritual Medicine.