Han Fei reached out to Le Renkuang and other friends the moment he left the Refining Hall. He had spent too much time with Old Jiang instead of hanging out with his friends.
“Le Renkuang, are you there?”
He waited for a while, but there was no response. He thought that the man must be on a mission.
“Xiaobai, are you on vacation today?”
It wasn’t until after he made the call that Han Fei realized that Luo Xiaobai seemed to be on a mission too.
Zhang Xuanyu was traveling everywhere these days, and Xia Xiaochan was busy too.
“Forget it. I might as well go back and refine the semi-divine weapon first,” Han Fei muttered.
Han Fei’s base was still the Skeleton Shore, but he wasn’t too much of a leader at this moment. After the last batch of ultra-quality spiritual weapons were refined, everybody in the Eighth Battalion had one with a sealed soul now.
Besides, most of them had already repaid their debt after such a long time. It was probably time for him to initiate a new round of refining activities.
While controlling the boat to fly back, Han Fei thought that he could take a peep at the Sea Swallowing Seashells of the two dead Half-Mermaids and see what was inside.
“Not good!”
All of a sudden, Han Fei realized a shocking fact: he didn’t have many ultra-quality spiritual stones left!
He slapped his thigh hard. He had spent a tremendous amount of spiritual energy on making money and refining.
On the trip to the Snow God’s Temple, he had almost used up all the spiritual spring energy and stones in Forge the Universe.
There were only about ten ultra-quality spiritual stones left, totaling up to ten million points of spiritual energy.
Han Fei instantly slapped his thigh. Damn it, I’ve really used too much spiritual energy recently! No, instead of making money through refining, I have to save more spiritual energy first.
Immediately, Han Fei put a spiritual fruit into his mouth.
He only had about ten ultra-quality spiritual stones left, but he still had eighteen thousand spiritual fruits.
About one third of them were energy fruits. The rest were ordinary spiritual fruits and those which could slightly increase spiritual power. All things considered, he had eight hundred million points of spiritual energy.
However, there were only two ways to absorb spiritual fruits.
The first way was to eat them, which would take a long time to digest, but would be beneficial to his body.
Another way was to crush them and let the spiritual energy disperse. This way was more violent and flawed.
The first shortcoming was that the nutrition of the spiritual fruit could not nurture one’s body, which was a huge loss, as the spiritual fruits could not only provide spiritual energy, but also increase one’s health, body hardness, physical strength, etc.
Secondly, the turbulent spiritual energy was hard to control. How could one conduct refining if one couldn’t control the rampant spiritual energy?
In terms of his swallowing ability at this moment, he couldn’t eat anymore after having fifty spiritual fruits in a row. He had to take a rest before he continued, or the spiritual energy inside his body would be disturbed.
“Ha!”
“Well, I might as well take another one.”
…
When Han Fei came to the Skeleton Shore, he saw hundreds of boats flying at him, and Cao Qiu standing on the leading boat.
The moment he saw Han Fei, Cao Qiu raised his hand and shouted, “Han Fei, you’re back?”
Han Fei flew close and, seeing that many people on the boats behind Cao Qiu seemed to be crying, asked, “What happened? Did you fight a battle?”
But Han Fei didn’t think that was the case, as Cao Qiu would never go to the front line.
Cao Qiu scratched his head and chuckled. “Well, we went out to test my poison.”
Han Fei’s eyelids shivered. “You needed so many people to test your poison?”
Immediately, someone said, “The Skeleton Shore has now become a desolate area because of the test.”
Wu Xiaoxiao and the others flew close on their boats. “Commander, you’re finally back!”
Han Fei was confused. “Wait a moment, why do you say that the Skeleton Shore has become desolate?”
Wu Xiaoxiao spoke to him telepathically, Commander, you should not go out! Deputy Commander Cao made a breakthrough in poison making and developed the Poison God Plus. It killed all the creatures in a range of two thousand meters in the sea. When the tide carried it to the beach, a lot of creatures on the beach died too.
“Hiss!”
Han Fei looked at Cao Qiu in shock. “Poison God Plus? How ‘plus’ is it exactly?”
Cao Qiu said awkwardly, “It’s just that I accidentally developed a contagious poison. I just tested it and things went a little bit out of control. However, don’t worry. I developed the poison by chance, and its effect will decline soon. The Skeleton Shore will be back to normal in a day at most.”
Han Fei raised his eyebrows and asked telepathically, How much do you have left?
Cao Qiu looked anxious. Well, I really don’t have much…
How about you give me a hundred kilograms first?
Cao Qiu’s expression changed quickly. I don’t have that much. I’ve only made thirty kilograms in total, and I just used ten of them.
Han Fei thought of something and said to everyone, “Everybody, it’s fine. The sea will purge the poison. Let’s take a one-day rest.”
After everybody returned to the camp, Han Fei took Cao Qiu to a corner.
The exploration in the Snow God’s Temple had taught Han Fei the importance of the Poison God, with which he killed two Half-Mermaid Heavenly Talents without any trouble. It was truly powerful.
Han Fei urged, “Come on, give me half of what you have!”
Cao Qiu hesitated. “I still need it to work on another recipe.”
Han Fei laid his hand on Cao Qiu’s shoulder. “You can continue your research. You know how much I need that. I can barter with you!”
Cao Qiu immediately replied, “I can exchange it for five hundred kilograms of Spirit Awakening Fluid.”
Han Fei pushed Cao Qiu aside and looked at him with a stunned look. “Cao Qiu, you’ve changed.”
Cao Qiu was gloomy. “I lent you strikes of peak-level Hidden Fishers, and abundant Poison God and Poison King.”
Han Fei chuckled and said, “That’s all the past. Let’s drop it. Besides, I shared the Spirit Awakening Fluid with you last time I used you Poison God. It was meant to save the Skeleton Shore as well as yourself. Otherwise, could the Skeleton Shore have fended off all those sea demons?”
Cao Qiu rolled his eyes. “I won’t be fooled again. It’s not easy to get poison. When I sell the poison to them, they aren’t very eager to buy. Many good things can’t be purchased with high-quality pearls… I’ll accept points if you want to buy the poison.”
Han Fei instantly walked forward and patted Cao Qiu’s shoulder. “It suddenly occurred to me that I don’t really need it yet. Take your time to make the cure. I’ll buy it from you when I’m richer.”
Cao Qiu: “…”
This time, it was Cao Qiu who was panicked. You don’t want it? You don’t want Poison God Plus?
Cao Qiu instantly said, “I can give you a discount on the Poison God Plus. I think you should try it. It’s a lot more powerful than the previous versions.”
Han Fei patted Cao Qiu’s shoulder. “That’s fine. I still have some Poison God left. It will make do for now. I won’t set sail any time soon, so I might as well buy it when I do need to set sail. Bye bye!”
Han Fei ran off and left Cao Qiu behind.
While running, Han Fei murmured to himself, “Seriously? You want me to pay points? You think it’s easy for me to get points?”
Han Fei quickly returned to his tree house and set up concealment, stealth, and defense arrays…
After swallowing thirty spiritual fruits in a row, Han Fei looked at his own stats.
<Owner> Han Fei
<Level> 44 (Intermediate Hanging Fisher)
Spiritual Energy: 256 (122)
<Spiritual Power> 1,782/1,799
<Perception Range> 17,999 Meters
<Spiritual Heritage> Level-Five, High-Quality
<Spiritual Beast> Twin Yin-Yang Spirit Swallowing Fish (level-38)
<Main Art> Void Breaking Technique, Volume Four of Void Fishing (Demon-Level, Divine-Quality)
…
Han Fei felt rather regretful. He had been too busy refining and learning arrays to increase his spiritual energy limit and his spiritual power.
Also, since he was already an intermediate Hanging Fisher, he should find a chance to deduce the fifth level of the Void Fishing Art. If his guess was correct, there would be a qualitative change after he got a level-seven spiritual heritage.
Unfortunately, it was impossible for him to get that soon, because the sixth level of Void Fishing seemed only available in the Thousand Star City. However, his current spiritual heritage wasn’t bad at all.
Besides, he had to save a lot of spiritual energy for a spiritual heritage breakthrough. If he had fifty spiritual fruits every three days, it would take three months for him to save a hundred million points of spiritual energy.
He could change the schedule and have twenty fruits every day. In that way, he could eat sixty fruits every three days, and the total time cost could be reduced by ten to twenty days.
Han Fei decided that in three months, he had to figure out a way to make a breakthrough on the sea.
He couldn’t do that on the Scattered Stars Island, which had too many experts. If he caused any unusual natural phenomena, he would be caught on the spot, and there might be dire consequences.
However, before that, Han Fei needed to turn the few semi-divine weapons into a real one.
On the other hand, he wondered if it was possible to combine the three semi-divine weapons into one Divine Weapon.
But Han Fei dropped the thought quickly. A semi-divine Weapon was already rare enough, and he would attract too much jealousy if he had a Divine Weapon.
Immediately, Han Fei threw the Golden Harpoon into the Demon Purification Pot.
