Chapter 62 - Pre-order of the Green Water Python Blood
"Without further delay, Brother Wu, why don't you take me to your friend's house?"
Lu Xuan put down the wine glass in his hand and looked at the monk surnamed Wu with expectation.
"I don't know if he is at home now... But Brother Lu is so anxious, it must be something important, so I will take you there."
Seeing Lu Xuan like this, the monk surnamed Wu had more free time, so he took Lu Xuan out and went to the snake-catching monk's house. After
walking for about two minutes, the two came to a dark blue stone house.
The stone house was quite spacious, but when approaching, a sense of coldness could be felt.
Lu Xuan followed the monk surnamed Wu into the stone house, and his skin was stimulated by the cold breath, and he couldn't help but have dense goose bumps.
As soon as he entered, a green python came out and stopped not far from the two of them, hissing and spitting out its snake tongue.
"Xiaolu, come back, it's Uncle Wu."
A slightly childish voice came from inside the stone house, and then the voice turned into a hissing whisper. The green python in front of Lu Xuan and the others turned into a green light and returned the same way.
A 13 or 14-year-old boy walked out from inside, and the python instantly got into the boy's sleeve.
Although the python was huge, it was impossible to tell from the outside that there was another python hidden in the boy's thin body, as if the two were integrated into one.
Lu Xuan could see the boy's appearance clearly. He was thin and pale, his eyes narrowed into two thin slits, and his lips were very thin. When he grinned at the monk surnamed Wu, his slightly sharp teeth were exposed.
"Uncle Wu, my father is out, and only my grandfather and I are at home."
"I know, I came here today for something else."
The monk surnamed Wu introduced Lu Xuan and the boy. Lu Xuan learned that the boy's name was Yu Jie, and the three of them lived together. His father was away for many years, hunting snakes and monsters for a living.
"Grandpa is raising little snakes in the backyard!"
The young Yu Jie looked at Lu Xuan curiously, walked into the backyard very sensibly, and called out his grandfather.
"Uncle Yu Tong, this is my neighbor, a spiritual plant master named Lu Xuan."
"Daoyou Lu, this old man is my good friend's father, Senior Yu Tong."
Lu Xuan bowed and greeted.
The two followed the old man into the house and sat down. The young Yu Jie came in with three cups of hot tea, and then sat obediently in the corner, without saying a word, and looked at Lu Xuan curiously from time to time.
The eyes made Lu Xuan feel very strange, as if he was stared at by a poisonous snake, but he did not feel any malice, only pure curiosity.
Seeing Lu Xuan looking back at him, he lowered his head shyly.
"Uncle Yu Tong, is Senior Yu out?"
"Yes, he went to the wilderness. When he comes back, remember to come and get fresh snake bones and snake gallbladders."
The old man said slowly.
"Don't worry about that. This time, it's my neighbor monk who came here to ask uncle something."
The monk surnamed Wu stated his purpose.
"I heard that you uncles have been catching snakes for generations and have unique secret techniques in hunting snake monsters."
"I'd like to ask, how is the blood of captured snake monsters generally handled?"
"The blood of snake monsters?"
"This is not widely used. Only when there is a cultivator with special needs, or the blood of the captured snake monster has a certain value, will the snake blood be brought back."
Lu Xuan nodded.
The old man continued.
"Since blood needs to be kept as fresh as possible and cannot be stored for a long time, it is not brought back often."
"Generally, it is used as a material for alchemists to refine some special elixirs, or occasionally there will be cultivators who need the blood of snake monsters to practice their skills."
"What grade are the snake monsters usually hunted? Can the number of hunted monsters be guaranteed for a long time?"
"Mostly are non-grade and first-grade snake monsters, and there are also second-grade snake monsters. As for the number, you don't have to worry about it. We have mastered several snake habitats in the wilderness. There are few people and there are many snakes."
Lu Xuan nodded and felt relieved.
"It's like this. I need a long-term quantitative amount of snake blood, preferably first-grade or above, and second-grade is better."
As for the third-grade, don't even think about it. The third-grade snake monster is equivalent to a foundation-building cultivator. Even if you find one in the wilderness, the snake catcher at the sixth level of Qi training will only end up with a meal.
"Second-grade snake monsters, let me think about it. There is a green water python with red blood. It can be used to refine some kind of detoxification pills. What do you think?"
Yu Tong thought for a while and said to Lu Xuan.
"As long as it can be provided for a long time, there will be no problem."
After being watered with snake blood, the Jiao vine will produce abnormalities. Lu Xuan estimated that if a certain type of snake blood with special properties is used for long-term cultivation, in addition to promoting the rapid growth of the Jiao vine, it may bring unexpected changes.
"It is still possible to provide it for a long time, but the quantity will not be particularly large. After all, there are not many second-grade green water pythons, and it is a bit difficult to deal with them."
"I wonder how much it costs?"
Lu Xuan asked curiously.
"Ten spirit stones per catty, what do you think?" The old man asked tentatively.
Lu Xuan almost couldn't control his expression. The small bottle of double-winged golden-scaled snake blood he got from Wanbao Tower a while ago cost him seven spirit stones.
Although the price has risen slightly because it was pre-ordered, it is obvious at a glance which one is more cost-effective, buying a bottle of less than one catty of first-grade snake blood with seven spirit stones or buying one catty of second-grade snake demon snake blood with ten spirit stones.
"The middlemen are still making a lot of money..."
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The value of the snake blood material itself is very low, but after being handled by Wanbao Tower, the price has risen by who knows how much.
Buying raw materials directly from the producer Yu family would save a lot of spirit stones compared to buying from other channels. Moreover, the second-grade snake blood could be provided to him stably, which made Lu Xuan, who loved bargaining, generous.
"Okay, sure."
He nodded in agreement.
Yu Tong and the young Yu Jie beside him couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.
In the past, when hunting snake monsters, if there was no specific request from the cultivators, the snake blood brought back generally couldn't be sold at a good price. It often fell into a situation of unsalable sales and had to be dumped in the end. Only the first-grade or second-grade ones could be sold at a certain price. The
second-grade green water python snake blood cost ten spirit stones per catty, which was much more profitable than before. The little risk brought by hunting the second-grade snake monster was nothing compared to the spirit stone benefits.
In addition, the second-grade green water python itself has precious snake skin, snake bones, snake gallbladder, snake venom...
The old Yu Tong wanted to return to the peak and experience the feeling of hunting the second-grade snake monster again.
The two parties signed a simple contract. The Yu family did not have the second-grade green water python blood at the moment. Lu Xuan left five spirit stones as a deposit. When Yu Jie's father came back, he would deliver the green water python blood and then pay the remaining spirit stones.
Before leaving, the old man Yu Tong specially took out a non-grade demon snake from the inner courtyard, killed it and took it, filled a bottle with snake blood, and insisted that Lu Xuan take it back.
Lu Xuan refused in every way, but he could not refuse, so he had to accept the bottle of snake blood.
(End of this chapter)