"Good fellow in Tao!"

  "Brother Xi, how have you been lately?"

  "Long time no see, my fellow Taoist!"

  ……

  Xi surname repair in the Western Star Island foundation period repair, name head is very big, tea room's repair people one after another stand up, one by one hold fist and courtesy. However, there are also four or five people who are unmoved, coldly looked at Xi Feng for a moment, then ignored him and continued to sit, as if nothing had happened.

  "Wang Dao You!", "Cheng Dao You!", "Shi Dao You"...... Xi surname cultivators also one by one clasp fists in return courtesy.

  After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Xiuxi Shi arrived at the side of Lengmiao Qingnian and others.

  "In Lower Zhao Territory, I've met Daoist Xi! Zhao Di also cupped his fists in greeting and hailed the Xi surname cultivator, while introducing himself at the same time."

  "Zhao Daoyou was being polite, please sit down!" Xi Xingfu returned a courtesy, then several people sat down one after another.

  "Brother Xi, Zhao wants to join our team, what do you think?" the big man said, not waiting for a response, he slightly opened his mouth and whispered a few words over.

  Xi surname Shu Shi heard the transmission of Da Han and was stunned for a moment, sizing up Zhao Di before saying: "Brother Zhao has such strength, if he joins us, it will be like adding wings to a tiger! However, Brother Zhao's experience is still shallow, when hunting and killing demonic beasts, please cooperate with us several people more. If there are gains, they will be distributed according to merit, is Brother Zhao willing?"

  "No problem!" Zhao Di replied readily.

  "Good!" Xi Xingshi was overjoyed and said, "This time we go to the outer star, our goal is not just third and fourth level demon beasts, but also fifth level demon beasts. With Brother Zhao's help, I have gained a few more points of confidence!"

  "A fifth-grade demonic beast?" The big man and the girl both exclaimed in surprise, while the indifferent young man beside them also showed a hint of shock on his face.

  "Not bad, I've also made quite some preparations for this over the past half year. Now with Brother Zhao's powerful help, there should be a great opportunity!" The middle-aged man's tone was not strong, but it gave people an irresistible feeling.

  "Little sister was just wondering, why big brother would suddenly ask us to recruit people and join the team. It turns out it's because of the fifth-level demon beast! I suppose big brother wants to obtain the fifth-level demon core, to use for alchemy and break through to the next level?" The young girl blinked her large eyes and said with a smile.

  "Big Brother is going to break through the Golden Elixir!" The big man shouted out loud, his tone filled with surprise and admiration.

  "Hey! Alright, I've been stuck in the foundation stage for decades. If I don't get some fifth-grade demon pellets to refine a few elixirs, it's really hard to make progress again. This time, we're going to deal with a fifth-grade demon beast. I wonder if any of you brothers and Fourth Sister are willing to go treasure hunting with me?" The middle-aged cultivator acknowledged the girl's words.

  "Wherever Big Brother goes, I'll go!" The big fellow said with great enthusiasm.

  "Yes, with Big Brother here, Little Sister won't be afraid of that fifth-grade demonic beast. Moreover, I and Second Brother, Third Brother have always been stuck in the mid-term bottleneck of foundation building. If we had a few pills refined from fifth-grade demon cores to assist us, perhaps we could break through the bottleneck and become late-stage foundation-building cultivators!" The girl also agreed!

  "I'm going!" The indifferent young man finally spoke up, but only said two words.

  "Zhao brothers, what do you think? If the brother is not willing to take risks, we can also understand." The middle-aged monk said to Zhao. As for whether the other party will agree or not, he didn't have any confidence at all!

  After all, Zhao Di's cultivation was only in the early stages of foundation building, and some third or fourth grade demon beasts' demon cores were already sufficient for him. It wasn't worth it to provoke a fifth-grade demon beast that was so dangerous. Moreover, with his top-quality Flying Needle artifact, no team would refuse him wherever he went.

  "I'll go down too, but I don't have any experience, can we start with third or fourth level demonic beasts first and then hunt fifth level ones after I get familiar with it?" Unexpectedly, Zhao Di agreed exceptionally readily.

  "This is great, haha!" The middle-aged man was extremely pleased and laughed several times, then said: "Among our team members, we address each other by ranking. From now on, if you don't mind, just call me Xi Dage, and I'll call you Zhao Wu Di, how about that?"

  "Yes, Big Brother Xi!" Zhao Di smiled slightly and shouted.

  The rest of the people also affectionately called out "Fifth Brother", "Old Five", and even the normally cold and distant young Di Er opened his mouth to shout "Zhao Wu!"

  This made Zhao Di somewhat unaccustomed. Immortal cultivators were originally thin-skinned and lacking in righteousness, greeting each other was already very polite, and situations like this where they referred to each other as brothers were extremely rare.

  But these people have gone to the alien star for years, hunting and killing monsters, and have experienced countless life-and-death crises together! If it weren't for the cooperation of several people, tacit understanding, and mutual support, they would have died in the mouths and claws of the monsters long ago. This kind of friendship that has been tested countless times is indeed not much worse than brotherly love!

  But Zhao was different, he just wanted to safely gain some hunting experience. Although these people had a good reputation, you can't know someone's heart by their face. He didn't say anything on the surface, but at every moment, he had a cautious mind. Fortunately, he had many life-saving methods, even if he couldn't win, wanting to escape with his life wouldn't be a big problem.

  "Second Brother Di, Third Brother Xun, Fourth Sister Hong!" Zhao Di also called out one by one.

  The big-eyed girl frowned and said: "The nickname 'Red Fourth Sister' is already unpleasant enough, 'Red Fourth Elder Sister' is even more unbearable! You'd better call me Red Dust!"

  "Yes, Fairy of the Red Dust!" Zhao Di said with a smile.

  Everyone burst out laughing!

  ……

  Half a day later, the five of them arrived at an ancient stone house in the middle of Xingxing Island's Fang City. There was an unusually busy large-scale transmission array here, with dozens of batches of cultivators transmitting in and out almost every hour. And this transmission array was precisely one that led to Penglai Fairy Island, one of the Three Fairy Islands of Starry Sea!

  The cultivators who guarded the Transmission Array handed over five hundred spirit stones and received five transmission talismans, which they distributed to Zhao Di and others, one for each person.

  Then five people stuck the transmission symbol in a row and walked into the transmission array. A moment later, a white light flashed, and the five people disappeared in the transmission array.

  After a dizziness, the five people appeared in a grand hall with carved railings and jade piers, and under their feet was a transmission array that looked exactly the same.

  "Little brother, is this your first time on Penglai Fairy Island?" Hongchen said, "Let me introduce you to this place!"

  "Thank you, Fairy of the Red Dust!" Zhao Di said.

  Hongchen said, "This Penglai Fairy Island is one of the three pillars of our Star Ocean! I've heard that there are dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators on this island alone! As for Foundation Establishment cultivators, they're too numerous to count! The island is so vast that even with our flying speed as Foundation Establishment cultivators, it's unlikely we could fly around it in a year. What's even more frightening is that the entire island is shrouded by an array called the 'Wàn Xiàng Fú Kōng Great Array', and it's not located underwater, but rather suspended tens of meters above the water surface. On this Penglai Fairy Island, there are several places with spiritual veins that surpass even high-grade spiritual veins. The main peak, named after Penglai, has a massive Spiritual Eye Rock over 1,000 meters tall. It's said that within a hundred miles of this rock, the density of spiritual energy is ranked first in the entire Star Ocean! Legend has it that if we Foundation Establishment cultivators can catch even a whiff of its aura, our chances of breaking through the bottleneck will increase by twofold! Many Golden Core cultivators are willing to spend a fortune to rent caves and practice here, all in hopes of rapidly advancing their cultivation!"

  "On the Immortal Island, it is extremely free, as long as you don't fight or cause trouble here. Regardless of whether you are on the righteous path or the evil path, and regardless of your cultivation level, you can come and go freely from this island. As for running a shop business, as long as you pay a certain amount of spiritual stone rent each year, there is no restriction at all. Therefore, any merchant with some strength will set up a shop on Penglai Immortal Island. The scale of the market in Penglai Immortal Island can be compared to our Western Star Island, it's more than 100 times larger! Every year, countless rare and precious treasures flow into the market of the immortal island. It can be said that as long as you have enough spiritual stones, this place is a paradise for cultivators, where you can buy anything good!"

  Zhao's heart was racing with excitement, nothing else mattered, the spirit stone was indeed inexhaustible. If it were as Hongchen said, wouldn't he just need to throw out handful after handful of spirit stones, continuously buying batch after batch of high-grade demon pellets, refining furnace after furnace of elixirs, and then steadily advancing his cultivation to the middle or late stages of foundation building, or even breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage?

  However, this idea was soon denied by him. If he really did so, even if he was extremely careful, he would eventually be targeted. In order to gain huge benefits, there must be people who are willing to take the risk of violating the Immortal Island's rules and secretly kill Zhao Di.

  People die for wealth, birds perish for food. If they knew about the enormous wealth on Zhao's body, those high-ranking cultivators above the Golden Core stage would no longer care about the rules of the Immortal Island and would try every means to kill him and seize the treasure. Moreover, in the cultivation world, high-ranking cultivators originally regarded low-level cultivators as insignificant, and at the slightest disagreement, they would often take action to eliminate them!

  (Third update! Today I wrote for a whole day again, more than ten hours, it's so cool! Please recommend and collect!)