Chapter 75: Encountering a Dragon Whale in the Deep Sea

Upon hearing that the target only had Middle Stage Qi Refining cultivation, Jiao Xiuyuan immediately relaxed.

He immediately took charge and promised: "Rest assured, it is just a minor Qi Refining Cultivator; I guarantee I will help you investigate his background clearly. However, as for the price…"

Li Fan smiled: "It is just a minor Qi Refining Cultivator, so presumably it shouldn't be too expensive."

Jiao Xiuyuan wanted to slap himself and said sheepishly: "Doing this line of work, there is always some risk. How about you give this amount?"

He gestured with the number eight.

"Forty Contribution Points, no more than that." Li Fan shook his head.

"Oh my, you are driving a hard bargain! Sixty points is still needed, right? Otherwise, it's another losing business deal!" Jiao Xiuyuan cried out in distress.

Li Fan turned and walked away.

"Wait, wait!" Jiao Xiuyuan hurriedly stopped Li Fan.

"Fifty points then, really can't go any lower." He said with a pained expression.

Li Fan then stopped his footsteps.

"Please pay a deposit of ten Contribution Points first." As Jiao Xiuyuan said this, he handed Li Fan a communication spirit talisman. "Once there are results, I will notify you through this spirit talisman."

Li Fan accepted the spirit talisman and took out a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone to give to Jiao Xiuyuan.

He was not in a rush to leave; instead, he began to look over the other items being sold in the room.

Seeing that a big customer had arrived today, Jiao Xiuyuan became even more enthusiastic.

"Is there anything else you need?"

"Do you have any Cultivation Technique for sale here? Preferably an escape technique, or something with an effect similar to the Hiding Talisman will do." Li Fan asked.

The expression on Jiao Xiuyuan's face immediately stiffened.

"Heh, are you pulling my leg? Why don't you take a look at something else? How about this set of Maze Formation diagrams? It is absolutely the cream of the crop. Once deployed, it can trap a Late Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator for a day."

"This set of Cold Ice Talisman Swords is also not bad, suitable for sneak attacks…"

"Hey, don't leave!"

After leaving Qianli Hall, Li Fan returned to the Tianxuan Mirror.

He planned to first Cultivate the Netherworld Illusion Art to the Late Stage of Qi Refining.

Once the Azure Flame Illusion Spirit was completely stable, he could release it to kill enemies.

With the auxiliary Cultivation mode enabled, Li Fan once again entered seclusion.

One month later, in the waters of the Flame Crystal Island in the east of the Congyun Sea.

In the deep sea, Li Fan restrained his aura and followed behind a group of Crimson Flame Sharks.

There were over a dozen of these Crimson Flame Sharks, and they were hunting a lone Crimson Seat Whale.

The Crimson Seat Whale had a massive body, fed on seabed flame crystals all year round, and its skin was like a layer of hard rock.

The Crimson Flame Sharks had sharp teeth, moved quickly, and cooperated seamlessly.

Although they could not cause much damage to the Crimson Seat Whale for the time being, they could slowly deplete its Origin Qi like a dull knife cutting meat.

The Crimson Seat Whale attempted to break through the blockade of the Crimson Flame Shark pack several times, but failed each time.

Gradually, its resistance became weaker and weaker.

Li Fan watched this scene in front of him and knew it was time.

The Azure Flame Illusion Spirit appeared.

It then transformed into a thin blue light, instantly flying rapidly through each of the dozen Crimson Flame Sharks and the Crimson Seat Whale.

A moment later, it returned to Li Fan's Sea of Consciousness.

The Crimson Flame Sharks and the Crimson Seat Whale suddenly stopped their movements.

Subsequently, a cold aura surged from within their bodies. From the inside out, it froze them.

In just an instant, eerie ice sculptures appeared on the seabed.

Their expressions and postures were just like when they were alive, but they had long since lost their life aura.

"The power of the Azure Flame Illusion Spirit is indeed impressive."

"These sea beasts are mostly equivalent to the Qi Refinement Stage in cultivation, and with thick skin and flesh, they are hard to hunt with ordinary means. After using the Azure Flame Illusion Spirit to launch a Divine Sense attack, they were actually like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, without a shred of resistance." Li Fan nodded; he was very satisfied with the initial test of the Illusion Spirit's lethality.

Not long ago, after spending more than twenty days, he finally succeeded in achieving a Breakthrough in the Netherworld Illusion Art to the Late Stage of Qi Refining.

In order to test the power of the Illusion Spirit and earn some Contribution Points along the way, he accepted this task of "Hunting Crimson Flame Sharks and obtaining the beast cores within their bodies".

One beast core was worth 5 Contribution Points, and he could earn about sixty-plus points in total. If he added the Materials from the Crimson Seat Whale, he could harvest over eighty Contribution Points from this trip.

How to put it, it was better than nothing.

In the past, every acquisition of Contribution Points was in units of "thousands," so such a small amount could hardly cause any fluctuation in Li Fan's heart.

As Li Fan thought this, he was just preparing to step forward to harvest the beast cores of the Crimson Flame Sharks.

However, he suddenly felt an extremely massive figure approaching from the deep seabed below.

Li Fan's expression changed, and he quickly retreated, not caring about the beast cores that were right in front of him.

A dark brown, ferocious-looking deep-sea behemoth, with a deformed protrusion faintly visible on its forehead, looking like a Dragon but not a Dragon, like a fish but not a fish, suddenly appeared from the shadows of the seabed.

Its giant mouth opened, swallowing the dozen Crimson Flame Sharks along with the Crimson Seat Whale in one gulp!

With a sway of its body, the behemoth swam around in a circle, then identified a direction and swam away.

Li Fan, who had barely dodged the behemoth, had not yet had time to react before he watched his prey being snatched away.

Could he endure this?

Li Fan's anger suddenly flared up.

But soon the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Mantra operated, causing him to calm down slightly.

Wait, this behemoth seems to be the same one that destroyed the island where Spirit Mist Grass was planted before?

Seeming to recall something, Li Fan was suddenly stunned.

Before, when accepting the task of hunting the Crimson Seat Whale, Li Fan had also glimpsed another bounty task.

Because this task was somewhat related to Li Fan, he had also carefully reviewed it.

It turned out that those people who had speculated on the Spirit Mist Grass back then had almost all suffered heavy losses and gone bankrupt.

With a foul breath pent up in their hearts and resentment surging, they couldn't even calm their minds to Cultivate.

But they dared not trouble the Azure Wood Transformation True Lord and the Myriad Immortals Alliance, so they could only take their anger out on the exotic beast that had destroyed the island where the Spirit Mist Grass was planted.

According to witnesses, the attacker at that time was a Dragon Whale. It had roughly Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation.

The island Guardian was also a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

But the Dragon Whale had a massive body, so the Guardian's attacks landing on it were simply like scratching an itch, having no effect at all.

The Dragon Whale directly ignored the Guardian, broke through the island protection formation, rampaged on the island, and devoured most of the Spirit Mist Grass.

After this, the Golden Core cultivator of the Myriad Immortals Alliance arrived late.

And this Dragon Whale, after taking a blow from the Golden Core cultivator, actually did not die; it was only heavily injured and escaped back into the deep sea.

The Congyun Sea is vast, and this group of people wanted to kill the Dragon Whale to vent their anger, but they searched for over ten days and could not find it.

In desperation, they could only each take out a little of their remaining Contribution Points and jointly issued a bounty task.

Whoever kills the Dragon Whale can obtain two thousand Contribution Points.

Because even Foundation Establishment cultivators could do nothing about this Dragon Whale, Li Fan, a mere Qi Refining Stage Cultivator, naturally did not go to accept the task before.

However…

Now the situation is different!