After leaving the market, Zhang Xuan returned to his rented house. He first released Little Moon and planned to share the good news with her.
"Little Moon, it's all thanks to you that we managed to deter the wolf king today. Anyway, the important thing is that I've finally found the wind crystal and the frost crystal. If nothing unexpected happens, you'll be able to start your evolution soon!"
"Awoo~" When Little Moon heard the news, she was also very happy. She pounced on Zhang Xuan and licked his face.
"Hahaha, that's enough, Little Moon. Let me go."
However, Little Moon didn't let him off. She kept pressing on Zhang Xuan's body and would rub his neck from time to time while wagging her tail.
Seeing this, Zhang Xuan gave up struggling. After all this time, Little Moon's strength had increased. If it wanted to hold him down, Zhang Xuan wouldn't be able to resist.
However, Zhang Xuan knew that Little Moon wouldn't have any ill intentions toward him, so he lay down.
Life was like a game. Since you couldn't win, you might as well lie down and enjoy it.
It was the same for Little Moon.
After enjoying Little Moon's massage, Zhang Xuan stood up and took out the pills he bought today.
The evolution wasn't urgent, though. In the past ten days, while Zhang Xuan was helping Little Moon cultivate, he didn't stop improving.
Now that he was at the peak of Qi Gathering level 3, with the help of the elixir, he should be able to break through smoothly.
Opening the box, Zhang Xuan took out the pill and swallowed it.
As the medicinal energy traveled through his body, Zhang Xuan felt a warm sensation in his dantian. As if he had broken through a bottleneck, a new stream of true Qi gushed out.
Finally, he reached Qi Gathering level 4!
Feeling the changes in his body, Zhang Xuan was really happy. There were no major bottlenecks in the small stages of the Qi Gathering realm, and the advancement this time was very smooth.
He had just broken through, so his body and meridians had not been strengthened significantly yet. He still needed to consolidate it.
Before the effects of the medicine wore off, Zhang Xuan started to calm down and cultivate.
About two hours later, the effects of the pill were completely absorbed. Zhang Xuan didn't waste time and immediately took out the materials to make talismans. He planned to make a new batch of them.
He had used up a lot of talismans in his previous two trips into the mountain. Also, he needed to use them to exchange for more things, so he had to make more.
To Zhang Xuan, making talismans wasn't difficult, but the process of making them and pouring in spirit techniques needed time.
After making dozens of talismans in a row, the sky had turned dark. Zhang Xuan stopped making them and applied moon dew cream on Little Moon. After using the earth spirit essence, he went to sleep.
During the day, a man and a wolf had experienced a long trek, in addition to dealing with the beast tide for a long time. It was quite exhausting and could be said to be both physically and mentally exhausting.
Due to fatigue, Zhang Xuan slept very soundly. The sun was already high in the sky when he woke up the next day.
After eating, Zhang Xuan put Little Moon into the familiar space and went to the market. He found the stall owner and asked, "Boss, have you found any moon crystals that I asked you to find yesterday?"
The boss was still the same as yesterday, smiling warmly. "You're in luck, sir. I asked someone to look for it for you after closing the stall yesterday. Someone sent a batch of moon crystals over this morning."
The boss took out a medium-sized package and opened it.
Zhang Xuan took a closer look. There were moon crystals, earth crystals, light crystals, and other elemental crystals.
The boss explained, "Yesterday, I noticed you're very interested in this kind of mixed spirit stones, so I made the decision to find you some other mixed spirit stones beside the moon crystal. It's fine if you don't need it, I'll just return it."
"Thank you, but there's no need to return them. I want all of these." Zhang Xuan was delighted. He didn't expect the boss to have such good eyes.
Although he couldn't use the earth and light crystals now, it didn't mean that he wouldn't need them in the future!
After all, apart from Little Moon, he still had two Gem Snakes. As his strength developed, he could control more familiars in the future. When the time came, these crystals would definitely be useful, saving him the trouble of looking for them.
Thus, Zhang Xuan took out the talismans he made yesterday and handed a few to the boss. "Here are five talismans. They include the fireball talisman, the rejuvenation talisman, and the imperial wind talisman. Boss, you've saved me a lot of effort, so the extra value can be considered as a reward for you."
"Ah, thank you, sir. If you need anything in the future, just let me know!" The stall owner was grinning from ear to ear. Although there were only five talismans, their total value was much higher than those miscellaneous spirit stones.
In fact, the value of these talismans was far higher than that of the crystals. So, the boss's view of Zhang Xuan had changed.
'This customer is probably an inner sect disciple of some big sect. Although his strength is not strong now, I'll definitely have a great future. In that case, he could be considered to have made a great deal of good karma.'
After completing the trade, Zhang Xuan left the market. He was so happy as he looked at the crystals in his hand.
Now that he had found all three types of crystals, he would let Little Moon start her evolution after returning to the Blue Planet and taking the midterm exam!
But just as Zhang Xuan was filled with joy, the people on the side of the street started to panic.
"Everyone, quickly hide! The beast tide is about to attack the city!"
"Those of you who have nothing to do, hurry up and leave. The demonic beasts will attack the city! All cultivators, gather at the top of the city wall to defend against them!"
"Everyone, leave quickly. Don't get into trouble!"
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Looking at the panicking crowd, Zhang Xuan was a little surprised, but he calmed down. It was just a beast tide attacking the city. Although there was a certain degree of danger, it had little to do with him.
It was still the same. The entire Blue Planet was behind him. Even if the demonic beasts really broke into the city, he could just open a passage and leave this place.
Zhang Xuan took his time to return to the rented house and let out Little Moon to show her the crystals.
The man and wolf played for a while before Zhang Xuan started cultivating. Little Moon was about to evolve, and he could not fall behind.
At night, Zhang Xuan fell asleep.
During the day, the commoners were obviously making a big fuss. They had been making noise for an entire day, but they didn't see any demonic beasts attacking the city.
But in the middle of the night, Zhang Xuan suddenly heard a wolf howl. He instantly woke up, only to see a large Silver Moon Wolf standing in the house.
It was the wolf king from yesterday!
"We're finished! Run!" Zhang Xuan's heart skipped a beat as he pulled Little Moon and ran.
However, what surprised him was that the wolf king did not attack. Instead, it stood in front of Little Moon and looked at her.
Before Zhang Xuan could figure out what was going on, a light suddenly appeared above the wolf king's head. The light then entered Little Moon's body.
After that, the wolf king turned around and left.
"Huh?" Zhang Xuan was dumbfounded. "What's going on? The wolf king came all the way to the city just to see Little Moon and then give her a bunch of light? Or is there something wrong with the light itself?"
At this moment, Little Moon was also dumbfounded and stood rooted to the ground. The sudden turn of events clearly made it a little unable to react.