Chapter 2614: 6: Dugu Zhen Unrivaled, Blessed Land of Eastern Sea Mountain_2

If he only targeted the Water Race, the market was getting harder and harder to sustain. First, the number of "wild" Water Race was limited, and becoming ever more limited. Second, at least within three hundred years, there was no hope of openly trading Water Race slaves.

Semi-open meant this: many times, if others turned a blind eye, you could do business; if others kept both eyes wide open, you could not.

Luo Country certainly had its own means of survival, but that was all; it had hit its ceiling early on.

Luo Country needed a new path, and he, Gong Bai, also needed a new path.

After the Taixu Illusion Realm began large-scale expansion, Gong Bai keenly saw an opportunity and threw himself into it with enthusiasm.

Especially the Fortunate Land System, which let him see what might be the only chance in his life to touch a Fortunate Land!

He had no hope of reaching Dongzhen, but taking a few more steps within the God-approaching level would also be a different world altogether.

The only problem was that he hadn’t caught the best timing. Now that Fortunate Land challenge slots had to be competed for, he didn’t have the slightest confidence in himself.

But he had his own way.

Recently, Dan Country had exploded with an extremely vile "Human Pill" scandal. Dan Country’s genius Zhang Xun died in the incident, while the Heavenly Grade Alchemist Luo Zhongmin, who masterminded the Human Pill affair, was executed in public by Gongsun Buhai, the Executioner Palace’s master.

The King of Dan Country, the State Minister, and seventeen other high-ranking officials of Dan Country were all, after a public trial, escorted to the Cliff of Celestial Punishment. What awaited them would be a long sentence.

A massive Dan Country fell apart overnight.

Of course, what collapsed was only the Royal Family of Dan Country, only the Court of Dan Country.

A joint-type organization rose straight up from the ruins of the Dan Court, named the Original Pill Alliance.

It unified all major forces within Dan Country’s borders and took control of all elixir channels.

From then on, the elixir output of Dan Country would basically be decided by the Original Pill Alliance.

One could say the Original Pill Alliance was now the highest ruling body over the pill lands; compared with a state regime, it resembled a purely commercial guild more.

Those who joined the alliance were still the same people from the old Dan Country, mostly Pill Masters.

But the forces behind each Pill Master were not hard to discern if one looked at their roots.

These "supporters" looked a motley mix. Basically, they were the various heroes who rushed to the scene at the first moment after the Human Pill incident, upholding justice and punishing evil.

Of course, the three parties of Qin Jingchu took the biggest cut, splitting between them one Alliance Hierarch and two deputy hierarch positions. The other participants, like Song, Wei, Mount Sumeru, Southern Dipper Palace, also each got scattered shares, and many precious pill recipes were thus dispersed.

As the saying goes, when a whale falls, all things thrive.

With Dan Country collapsing, how could these few houses be the only ones to feast on the fat?

Even Gong Bai, far away in Luo Country, took advantage of the period when the great powers were carving up Dan Country and pill control there was extremely lax, to ruthlessly pour in capital and buy up elixirs at low prices on a grand scale.

This deal made him earn a potful, bowls and basins overflowing.

Among them were a full twenty Blood-Boiling Green Pills, which he had prepared specifically for the Fortunate Land challenge.

The Chuguo Imperial Dynasty’s forbidden skill Boiling Blood Burning Soul was renowned far and wide; it was a life-betting forbidden Skill. The Blood-Boiling Green Pill was created by imitating its principles.

Of course, taking this pill would, while briefly boosting combat power, definitely inflict irreversible damage on the body.

But what kind of place was the Taixu Illusion Realm?

Everything was Simulation Reality, yet in the end it all returned to "illusion."

Gong Bai spent a huge amount of Power to copy the Blood-Boiling Green Pill into the Taixu Illusion Realm intact. After taking it, he gained a brief burst of strength within the Taixu Illusion Realm, yet without harming his real body at all. The Blood-Boiling Green Pill wasn’t even consumed!

This was practically a stroke of genius, allowing him to win Fortunate Land challenge qualifications in one go, and successfully take the Eastern Sea Mountain Fortunate Land—at that time, participants in the Taixu Illusion Realm, especially those at the Divine Arrival Layer, weren’t that many. And every bit of Power was extremely precious; many people were so poor they couldn’t even afford to activate the Discussion Platform. Someone called Dugu Wudi hadn’t even copied his sword into the Taixu Illusion Realm yet.

Copying elixirs consumed far more Power than a famous sword. Used on the Discussion Platform, even winning would not offset the loss. So no one had ever thought of this.

Under the currently implemented Fortunate Land challenge rules, if multiple people joined a Fortunate Land challenge at the same time, they had to duel in pairs, and only the strongest in the end would obtain the qualification to challenge the seventy-second Eastern Sea Mountain Fortunate Land.

Gong Bai encountered eleven other participants in the Fortunate Land challenge at the same time. Twenty Blood-Boiling Green Pills were more than enough for him to chew on until the end.

He thus used strength that was actually insufficient to win the various benefits of the Eastern Sea Mountain Fortunate Land.

It was just a pity that the Taixu Illusion Realm’s Fortunate Land challenge had another damned rule—being the gatekeeper of the last-ranked Fortunate Land, after winning the ownership of this Fortunate Land for the first time, one had to hold it once more to obtain the qualification to challenge upward.

Otherwise he should already be on drugs and charging up Lu Mountain today.

The seventy-first Fortunate Land was definitely better than the seventy-second.

But then again, after experiencing the effect of the Blood-Boiling Green Pill, his confidence had already skyrocketed. Over this past month, he had successively bought Scarlet-veined Vajra Pills, Six-colored Spirit Body Pills, and Fierce Sun Tiger Soul Pills, and copied them into the Taixu Illusion Realm.

These were the elixirs he confirmed, after several tests, would not conflict with one another.

These three pills could, in a short time, strengthen his physique, movement technique, and Spirit respectively.

And the Blood-Boiling Green Pill, at the cost of irreversible damage, brought a comprehensive boost to his combat power.

Therefore, when a "fully belly-armed" Gong Bai met an extremely handsome man named Dugu Wudi, his mood was calm, even tinged with a hint of mockery.