Cultivation: I Can Reincarnate Into Various Worlds-Chapter 624 - 319. The impact of the butterfly effect

"Could it be Dragon Marrow Fluid?"

When Xu Xing opened the jade box before him and saw the mercury-like liquid inside, his face immediately lit up with joy.

He gently shook the Jade Box a few times.

A few breaths later, a small, three-foot-long dragon seemed to swim continuously within the Jade Box, and occasionally, dragon roars echoed from it.

Over the years, many Human Clan cultivators had obtained Dragon Marrow Fluid from the Louhai Secret Realm through special means and traded it on the market.

But this was the first time his Tiande Pawnshop had encountered this legendary Spiritual Object.

Like the thousand-year stalactite, cultivators could directly consume Dragon Marrow Fluid to increase their Magic Power and improve their chances of a Breakthrough.

However, Dragon Marrow Fluid had the most significant effect on dragon-type Demonic Beasts, offering a chance to purify their bloodlines and allow them to advance further.

"The Demonic Race is clumsy," Elder Jiu Ling said, stroking his beard with a proud expression. "They are unaware that we Human Clan cultivators possess a technique, using Fish-Luring Grass to bait dragons; thus, they let the Dragon Marrow Fluid in the Secret Realm go to waste."

"Lady Hua and I went to the Louhai Secret Realm and spent ten arduous years collecting this single box of Dragon Marrow Fluid."

"What's the price for this Dragon Marrow Fluid? I'll take it," Xu Xing said, closing the lid of the Jade Box and pondering for a moment.

This box of Dragon Marrow Fluid isn't very useful to me, Xu Xing thought. To break through to the late stage of Nascent Soul, one box alone is insufficient.

However, if the Earth Dragon Juvenile were to refine this box of Dragon Marrow Fluid, not only could its bloodline be enhanced, but the time for its transformation into a Jiao could also be shortened.

"Ten Million Spirit Shells, and the Divine Power Daoist Chang used to kill me that day," Elder Jiu Ling said, his eyes flickering.

"That Divine Power involves my very foundation; I'm afraid I can't agree to that," Xu Xing replied, frowning and shaking his head.

The Feather Transformation Immortal Sutra was a Nascent Soul-level cultivation technique from the Flying Feather Immortal Palace; its value was incomparable to a mere box of Dragon Marrow Fluid.

"'So be it!'" Elder Jiu Ling sighed upon seeing Xu Xing's unwillingness to negotiate and proposed an alternative condition.

He naturally coveted the Divine Power Xu Xing had used to kill him. However, if Xu Xing was unwilling to trade, he would not press the issue.

"'This condition is acceptable,'" Xu Xing said with a nod. He then immediately rose, retrieved two Jade Boxes from the pawnshop, and handed one to Lady Hua and the other to Elder Jiu Ling.

The first Jade Box contained an Array Banner from the Heaven Burial Blade Array.

It was an Array Banner he had forged using leftover Spirit Materials.

Each Array Banner of the Heaven Burial Blade Array could independently form a third-order Magic Formation.

The second Jade Box held a fourth-order Spiritual Object, the Life Extension Vine, which Xu Xing had acquired through the pawnshop.

After the Nascent Soul Creation Grand Ceremony, Elder Jiu Ling's Nine-Headed Lion had been saved, but it remained grievously injured, its vitality severely depleted. With the Life Extension Vine, the Nine-Headed Lion could be restored to its prime status.

「Two years later.」

After sending off Elder Jiu Ling and Lady Hua, Xu Xing learned of their subsequent fate at the Five Mountain Market.

With the Heaven Burial Blade Array and the Nine-Headed Lion working in concert, Elder Jiu Ling and Lady Hua navigated the Louhai Secret Realm smoothly, as if no one else stood in their way.

However, their good fortune was short-lived. Perhaps growing overconfident, they ventured into a perilous region of the Secret Realm—the Broken Dragon Platform.

A few days later, Lady Hua escaped, grievously wounded and having lost an arm. Elder Jiu Ling's whereabouts were unknown, and his life-tablet in the Sect had shattered.

Hearing this, Xu Xing could only sigh at the capriciousness of fate. After offering a stick of incense for Elder Jiu Ling, he put the matter out of his mind.

In the fifty or sixty years since the Louhai Secret Realm had opened, many cultivators had found opportunities and advanced their Cultivation.

But just as many cultivators had met their end in the Louhai Secret Realm, becoming lifeless corpses.

Elder Jiu Ling was one of these unfortunate souls.

「As if in a trance.」

Time flowed on.

It was the eighty-third year since the Louhai Secret Realm had opened.

Xu Xing's Cultivation had reached the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul, just one step away from a Breakthrough.

And the Earth Dragon Juvenile, after consuming the Dragon Marrow Fluid, finally succeeded in transforming into a Jiao thirty years later, its Cultivation reaching the mid-stage of the second order, equivalent to the mid-stage of Returning Core.

However, what surprised Xu Xing was that in the 411th year of Tiande, the Emperor's Son Pavilion did not issue the mission to exterminate the Daoist Sects across the Nanyan Continent. This deviated from the timeline predicted by his Fate Deduction.

Regarding this, Xu Xing guessed, Perhaps I have indirectly altered the course of fate, leading to this discrepancy in the Fate Deduction.

He was now counted among the Nascent Soul Daoist Lords of the Nanyan Continent; his every action carried significant weight.

The butterfly effect stemming from incidents like the destruction of Silver Ring Zhai and the tragic deaths of the Free and Easy Two Immortals could potentially alter future events.

「Two years later.」

It was the 462nd year of Tiande.

That year, Han Tong came to the backyard of the pawnshop to find Xu Xing, informing him of her intention to renew the lease.

Han Tong, who possessed a gentle and composed temperament, curtsied slightly to Xu Xing and said with a smile, "The hundred-year period is approaching, and Lingyin Gate intends to renew the lease for another fifty years. We hope Manager Chang will agree."

"The rent will be calculated as before: for a fifty-year lease term, it will be 1.5 million Spirit Shells. What are your thoughts, Manager Chang?"

Having been neighbors with Xu Xing for a hundred years, she had a fair understanding of his character. She knew he was easygoing and lacked the eccentricities typical of other Nascent Soul old-timers.

"'The Five Mountain Market is already showing signs of decline. If Sect Master Han insists on the previous lease terms, you'll be at a disadvantage...'" Xu Xing chuckled. He took out a contract scroll from his Storage Bag, drafted the new contract based on the previous terms using his Magic Power, and handed it to Han Tong.

The shop rent is a trivial matter. Since Lingyin Gate wishes to extend goodwill, I see no harm in it, Xu Xing mused.

"'Thank you, Manager Chang.'" After signing the lease agreement, Han Tong curtsied and departed gracefully, without lingering.