"Greetings, senior! Is this your first time on Western Star Island?" A young man with only six or seven layers of Qi refinement, under the age of twenty, with small but extremely lively eyes, saw Zhao Di come out of the stone house and proactively stepped forward to bow.

  Ordinarily, low-level cultivators who saw high-level cultivators wouldn't dare to breathe loudly, let alone take the initiative to talk to them like this young man. Zhao Di was slightly curious and calmly replied, "What's it to you?"

  "My surname is Xiao, and my name is Ye. Some familiar seniors also call me Little Yezi! I was born on this Western Star Island and grew up here since childhood, so I am very familiar with the Western Star Island and its affiliated hundreds of small islands. If you need a guide, I am absolutely the best candidate! If you are satisfied with my service, just reward me with two low-grade spirit stones per day!" The young man said with a smile, ignoring Zhao Di's coldness.

  Zhao stared at the young man with a blank expression for a while, but didn't say anything, making the young man feel quite frightened for a moment.

  "I really need a good guide. Alright, if you do your best and satisfy me, I'll pay you five spirit stones! But if you take me to some unscrupulous shops and I find out afterwards, you won't be able to escape the consequences!" Zhao Di said in a cold tone, his warning clear.

  The young man was not afraid, but rather extremely happy, and repeatedly said: "Definitely! Senior, rest assured, junior is absolutely not a stooge invited by some merchant! Moreover, junior has been making a living here all along, who dares to offend such a senior expert? That would be simply digging one's own grave!"

  "Alright! Then you tell me, what islands are there in this deep sea area and how can I find a suitable cultivation cave?" Zhao nodded and casually set up a soundproof barrier, enclosing him and Xiao Ye within it.

  For questions like this, Xiao Ye almost always has to answer when he's guiding, so he doesn't even need to think about it. He launches into a smooth and practiced introduction:

  "Seniors, this deep sea area is vast and boundless, specifically how big, no one has ever explored. In this sea area, there are tens of thousands of islands with spiritual veins, large and small, scattered throughout the sea area, like stars in the sky, so we people in the deep sea area call this sea area Starry Sea."

  "The Starry Sea is divided into two major sea areas: the Inner Starry Sea and the Outer Starry Sea. In the Inner Starry Sea, there are three extremely large islands, namely Penglai, Yingzhou, and Fangzhang, collectively known as the Three Fairy Islands. These three fairy islands are the core of our Starry Sea, each controlled by one of the three largest immortal factions in the Starry Sea. Each island has a sphere of influence spanning thousands of miles, with all large islands within this range directly under its jurisdiction. And each large island, in turn, governs hundreds to thousands of smaller islands nearby."

  "Like our Western Star Island, it is the largest island on the westernmost side of the Inner Starry Sky, belonging to the Penglai Immortal Island of the Three Immortal Islands. The Western Star Island has more than a thousand small islands with spiritual veins, all of which can be chosen by cultivators as their own cave dwellings. Seniors only need to go to the Far-Viewing Peak on the south side of the Western Star Island to handle the relevant procedures. If seniors have flying magical instruments, I can take you there."

  At this point, a hint of anticipation appeared in the young man's spirited and intelligent eyes. As a low-ranking cultivator, he didn't often have the opportunity to fly through the sky on his flying sword. This fresh and fun experience was something he had only tried three or four times before.

  "It's just a pity," Zhao said lightly. "This isn't urgent, you first tell me, how much do you know about the situation with the capture and killing of the demonic beast?"

  "Hehe, don't worry, senior. Although my cultivation is still low, I'm not unfamiliar with the demonic beasts in the Starry Sea. After all, most of our Starry Sea cultivators rely on hunting and killing demonic beasts to cultivate." The young man said with a smile, this was probably the question he answered the most. Out of ten cultivators who came from the mainland's coastal areas to the Starry Sea, seven or eight of them were here to hunt and kill demonic beasts.

  "In the inner starry sky, there are also many demon beasts, but most of them are low-level demon beasts of level one and two. High-level demon beasts are rare and scattered, making it difficult to find them. In the outer starry sky, the density of demon beasts is much higher, not only are there many high-level demon beasts, but there are also several gathering points for demon beasts, making it relatively easy to find them. Therefore, although the danger in the outer starry sky has increased greatly, most cultivators still go there to hunt and kill demon beasts."

  "If seniors want to hunt and kill demon beasts, it's better to team up with other foundation-building cultivators. Although the amount of spiritual stones obtained may not be much, it is much safer. I've heard that only a small number of late-stage foundation-building seniors and some extremely powerful Nascent Soul stage experts dare to act alone in the outer starry sky. Even so, every year, many Nascent Soul stage experts die at the hands of demon beasts in the outer starry sky."

  "Of course, if you encounter unscrupulous people when teaming up, the risk is even greater than encountering a monster. However, on this Western Star Island, there are several Foundation Establishment period seniors with very good reputations! These seniors are all old hands who frequently travel to other star systems, and they are also very fair and have a good reputation for distributing spoils of war! If you need to, you can ask these seniors about it." As he spoke, the young man rattled off over a dozen names of Foundation Establishment cultivators. The cultivation levels of these people were almost all in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, with only two or three being in the middle stage.

  Zhao silently memorized these names, then asked the young man again: "In the market of Xingxing Island, are there any elixirs that can improve the foundation-building period cultivators' cultivation?"

  "Ready-made elixirs?" The young man said with a hint of surprise: "Foundation-building period's elixir for sale is extremely rare, and the prices are extremely high. In Star Ocean, cultivators above the foundation-building period usually refine their own elixirs."

  "Refine it yourself? Isn't the success rate very low? And what about the detailed method of refining Dan medicine, that is, the Dan formula? How can you get your hands on it? Without the Dan formula, you can't refine it yourself!" Zhao Di was even more shocked. In the past, when he was in Jin Yan country, the most difficult thing to find in the classics was the detailed method of refining Dan medicine and the matching of raw materials. These Dan formulas were all passed down from generation to generation by the alchemists, and they were not willing to reveal a single detail, more secretive than any other technique or array formula.

  He had also thought about refining his own elixirs, so that even if he only managed to refine a lower-grade elixir, it wouldn't be a waste and could still be used to cultivate ordinary medicinal pellets. This way, as long as he could get the raw materials, his elixirs would no longer be a problem. However, after searching for a very long time and spending a lot of effort, he had yet to find even one alchemy formula for a high-grade Qi Refining stage elixir like the Easy Tendon Pill, let alone an alchemy formula for Foundation Establishment stage cultivators' elixirs. This was also one of the reasons why high-grade alchemists were in such high demand in the Golden Flame Kingdom's cultivation world.

  So when he heard the young man say that most of the cultivators in Xingchen Hai were self-taught, he found it very strange and didn't dare to believe it!

  The young man smiled and said, "Hehe, the high-grade elixirs of Xingchen Hai are all made from the inner dan of demon beasts. The specific refining methods have been passed down since ancient times, and it's unknown how many years have passed, but they've already been improved by those capable individuals to be almost flawless! Therefore, the success rate of refining elixirs is still guaranteed to some extent. As for the elixir formulas, they are sold in some large markets, and the price is not expensive. In our Western Star Island market, there are two or three bookstores that sell these elixir formulas. If senior goes to those shops that specialize in collecting and selling demon beast inner dan, and purchases a certain amount of demon dan, you can even get one or two elixir formulas for free."

  "So that's how it is!" Zhao Di suddenly realized in his heart, this was completely different from the way mainland cultivators used last year's spiritual medicine and herbs to refine pills.

  In the Golden Flame Country, he searched everywhere for Dan Fang but to no avail, and was also puzzled. He had even asked other cultivators about this matter before. According to a dan medicine shop owner, in ancient times, there were many types of dan fang that were passed down, with mature refining methods and relatively high success rates. However, after these dan fang were spread out, those rare spiritual herbs were quickly picked clean by the cultivators! Without the spiritual medicine materials needed for the dan fang, the dan fang became useless paper, and slowly but surely, they became scarce.

  There is still one more watch at night.