Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Am I That Famous?

Su Ping settled his account with the scholar using not only a portion of demon beast materials for deduction, but also a modest amount of sugar.

In the Immortal Cultivation World, sugar could be used as an auxiliary ingredient for low-tier pills, but the greatest consumption was still for using it as an ingredient for sweets, which were considered snacks for cultivators.

Especially for the disciples who had reached the late stages of Qi Cultivation from the Great Immortal Sects, who not only had a fondness for sweets but also had enough spirit stones to purchase them.

Su Ping had previously wondered why even the disciples above the Inner Sect were so fond of sweets.

Now it seemed that if they had known in advance about the contamination of spiritual objects by evil qi, causing them to dare not eat, or to eat as little as possible, spiritual vegetables, spiritual fruits, and demon beast meat.

Among the mortal world food options that were plentiful and filling, those with the same weight had high nutritional value and tasted good, seemed to be various sweets that contained a lot of sugar.

Su Ping brought in a large amount of sugar that was both cheap and of good quality. Although it was not as high quality as the sugar cultivated in spirit fields in the Southern Desolate, it still helped stabilize the sugar market of some Immortal Sects and allowed some cultivators to eat sugar more cheaply.

Saying that his merit was boundless was an overstatement, but calling him a great benefactor to the lovers of sweets was not an exaggeration at all.

Of course, since sugar had limited uses and was not an essential commodity,

the idea Su Ping initially had of dumping tens of thousands of tons to saturate the market was impractical.

The number of cultivators willing to spend spirit stones on snacks was, relatively speaking, too small.

This segment of the market was not that large. A few tens of millions of pounds a month was manageable, but once the monthly trade volume of sugar from Su Ping’s side increased,

it could easily cause severe fluctuations in the sugar market within the territory of Chi Yuan’s Immortal Sect, and attract the attention of the commerce associations backed by Immortal Cultivation Families to this sudden surge of supply.

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By then, the one to be completely devoured would be Su Ping.

After all, there were only so many cultivators in the sect.

A business yielding a few hundred spirit stones in profit per month, considering the powerful backers you must have to get your supply, the sect could turn a blind eye and allow you to have a share of the profits.

But a business seizing tens of thousands of spirit stones a month? Forget it, better call out the big shot behind the scenes to see if they can hold their ground. Can’t hold it? Well, don’t blame everyone for being ruthless!

On Su Ping’s way back to Frost Moon Villa, he discovered through the horde of rats controlled by the Spiritual Rats White and Grey that there seemed to be caravans of migrants arriving from all directions along the official roads.

Part of the wealthy families’ caravans were probably heading to places like the Nine Leaf Mountain Workshop that were protected by formations.

Even more commoners and even refugees, however, were probably only able to head towards Golden Sparrow City.

“The number of people is increasing, I’ll have to discuss with the City Lord and Ji Hu to make proper preparations,” Su Ping thought.

“The sealing magic artifact requires a population for the sacrificial ritual, as long as the profit distribution is fair, getting the big households to contribute shouldn’t be a problem.”

“Given my current persona, I can also make them believe I can ensure that fairness!” he mused.

Just as Su Ping was pondering this,

suddenly, through Spiritual Rat White, he noticed a robust group of horse bandits appearing on a hill slope near a large household caravan passing by.

Just when Su Ping thought a shootout was about to unfold,

he saw the horse bandits abruptly halt their motion, several of them pointing at a sign on the official road ahead, seemingly saying that beyond it lay the territory of Golden Sparrow City.

At the same time, a small patrol team of martial artists on horseback, carrying flags, passed by on the official road.

In the past, with just that number of cavalry, the horse bandits with their superior numbers would never back down.

But now, after a heated discussion, the horse bandits actually chose to let the caravan leave unmolested.

“Is my reputation really that big?”

“To the point where these bandits and robbers don’t dare to cause trouble in my territory!” Su Ping wondered in astonishment as he withdrew his attention from the scene.

What he did not realize was that, as one of the rare, even the only Inspector in a hundred years who truly led troops to eliminate bandits and slay demon beasts,

his fame was spreading far and wide among the lower classes, and it was also being increasingly mythologized.

In the tales of storytellers,

the wise, valiant, unparalleled, virtuous, and just Inspector of Golden Sparrow City,

who fought Tribulation Cultivators, had turned into Evil Cultivators who were about to perform a blood sacrifice to summon an Evil Demon upon the city.

The demon beasts he hunted had been transformed into Ancient Giant Beasts that were a hundred meters long and broad.

Even though those who committed evil did not fully believe the rumors about him, they were influenced enough to overestimate Su Ping’s power by imagining him at the pinnacle of their perceptions.

As a result, in recent times,

the flag of the Inspector from Golden Sparrow City proves to be particularly useful.

The safety factor in this territory of the Immortal Sect skyrocketed!

Before Su Ping’s Golden Body was pierced, given the choice, no one would willingly provoke a member of the Immortal Sect who stood up for the common folk!

Su Ping returned to Frost Moon Villa, and after dealing with some miscellaneous matters,

he went to the pharmacy and learned that the quantity of medicine bags available this batch had significantly decreased.

The production of the Body Tempering Medicine Bags was severely hindered due to a shortage of some necessary spiritual medicines.

The pharmacists mentioned that Muyuan City, located a thousand miles away and known for its abundance of medicinal herbs, had suffered from a once-in-a-millennium Geng Metal wind disaster!

Many medicinal gardens were destroyed by the great wind filled with Geng Metal Qi, with barely ten percent of the herbs surviving.

After the medicine merchants learned of this, they are now hoarding goods to drive up the price. Even with money in hand, it is now impossible to buy them in sufficient quantities.

“Geng Metal wind? Once in a millennium?”

Su Ping had a sharp hunch that there was definitely a conspiracy behind this, which possibly related to a high-level struggle between great powers.

Was he affected again by the ripples from the chess game played by those with great power?

Fortunately, at the last meeting, he had already mentioned to the registered disciples that next time, he could bring a generator into the Pot Cave Heaven and attempt to refine his body with scientific methods of thunder.

For now, they would make do with the current Body Tempering Medicine Bags.

After some thought, Su Ping decided to increase the financial support for the production of Body Tempering Medicine Bags.

He planned to spend more money to buy as much as possible.

Using silver, which is commonly used in the Mortal World of Immortal Cultivation, Su Ping had acquired quite a bit when he defeated a kindergarten with his fist.

Moreover, if consumption was too rapid, he could always directly purchase silver from Water Blue Star.

Even though the prices of precious metals like gold and silver had soared due to the advancement of automation on Water Blue Star,

they were still very cheap and available in large quantities compared to the Immortal Cultivation World.

Within the Pot Cave Heaven,

Su Ping spent a whole day and night to get a basic grasp of the North Dipper Greedy Wolf Fist Secret Skill within the Big Dipper Fist Technique.

Just mastering the basics left him as drained of qi and blood as Yun Jiu, whom he had encountered at the Cloud Mountain Workshop.

It was only by quickly consuming Life Spirit Medicine and Purification Spirit Medicine for double protection that he managed to recover.

This was still thanks to Su Ping possessing a tenth of a Sacred Body’s blessing, with his blood qi strength and his body’s purity being free of hidden injuries, far surpassing others in the same realm of Body Cultivation.

This discovery led Su Ping to inwardly complain about the excessively high entry bar for such a secret skill, one that is supposed to be cultivated during the Body Tempering Stage!

If it’s that difficult at the Body Tempering Stage, then perhaps all of the divine skills of the Supreme Self-Respect Sect were intended for disciples related to physiological spiritual bodies.

But on second thought, that did seem quite likely!

Su Ping found a mention of the Supreme Self-Respect Sect in various books recording ancient rumors,

revealing that this sect was a top-tier Immortal Sect thousands of years ago!

The two ultimate cultivation techniques of the sect were the North Dipper Death Injection Scripture, which focused on Body Cultivation, and the Southern Dipper Life Injection Technique, which focused on magic and spells.

And within the North Dipper Death Injection Scripture, there are three chapters of Body Cultivation Techniques: Greedy Wolf, Breaking Army, and Seven Killings.

What Su Ping had was just a fragment, merely the Body Tempering Stage section of the secret skill from the Greedy Wolf chapter.

Considering its profound origins,

no wonder the barrier to entry was so high, causing those without a spiritual body to struggle even with basic mastery, and resulting in a skill that could only be used as a last resort in desperate situations, not to be lightly executed!

Furthermore, without the corresponding Body Cultivation Chapter, even minor achievement would remain unattainable…

Yet, upon reflection, if it weren’t for this fact, how could he have possibly managed to acquire such a powerful secret skill?

Without so many potential problems, even if lacking spirit stones, that female cultivator would not have sold it to an outsider!