The secretary said, "Aren't you going to continue the tour? The Golden King loves sharing his treasures with others."

"No need."

Li Cunxu shook his head.

Though the treasures are tempting, they're not his, and seeing too much would only make one envious.

Moreover, the Golden King's treasury, though impressive and lavish, is not exceptionally stunning. Li Cunxu, who has seen grand scenes, knows that the Golden King's treasury wouldn't even make it into the top ten among those he saw in his past life.

The top-ranked treasury was the Picker Elder's treasury.

Li Cunxu still remembers it vividly because of the three imperial artifacts inside.

Imperial artifacts, the strongest of all tools, possess the power to turn decay into wonder, with some even granting immortality and invincibility.

There are exactly forty-nine of these imperial artifacts, no more, no less.

Li Cunxu knows the location of the Picker Elder's treasury and how to enter it, but he has no interest in the treasury.

The reason being, the owner of this treasury is still alive, and this Picker Elder is also a fragment of the old president of the alliance.

The old alliance president has three manifestations: one is an educator, the president of Shendu University, another loves collecting scraps and guiding others' fortunes, the Picker Elder, and the last oversees the first forbidden area, a fishing enthusiast, the Old Fisherman.

Li Cunxu returned to his room, taking out the Golden Dragon egg and the orange-seed gourd.

Li Cunxu had no intention of contracting the Golden Dragon egg himself, for three reasons.

First: His contract slots are full, and he can't expand them in the short term.

The side effects from the expansion item, Ageless Three-Phase Fruit, prevent him from adding contract slots for three years, and there's still more than a year before these effects wear off.

Besides expansion items, advancing to the King level can also increase contract slots.

However, Li Cunxu is still far from becoming a King.

Second: He plans for his next pet beast not to be a dragon pet.

Dragon pets, without a doubt, are top-tier in potential and combat power among beast pets, but they consume too many resources. If not for the familial support from Li Shiyin and the Crystal Dragon, Li Cunxu would feel immense pressure raising them.

Moreover, dragon pets grow too slowly.

Especially Golden Dragons, whose growth is slower the purer and nobler their bloodline is.

Third: His grandfather Li Shiji needs a powerful King-level pet beast.

Li Shiji carved his own path, thus he didn't receive much support from the Saint Lotus Li Family. Additionally, his upright nature and offending personality in his earlier years result in his contracted pet beasts having limited potential.

One fact well proves this: Li Shiji, despite reaching the King level, still doesn't have a King-level pet beast, all his pets are only Overlord level, and some were forcibly raised to Overlord status using the Holy Feast.

Even without a strong King-level pet beast, Li Shiji is already quite powerful. If he had one, imagine his strength.

Li Shiji's Magic Lotus Eye Pupil Technique can resurrect pet beasts. A powerful, peerless Golden Dragon King with infinite revivals—Li Cunxu can already imagine such a pet's terror.

Li Shiji is Li Cunxu's backing, the stronger Li Shiji is, the safer Li Cunxu feels.

Additionally, Li Cunxu wishes to repay his bloodline source, his grandfather.

For whom did Li Shiji go to the front lines, get ambushed, and face assassination attempts from the Four Evil Gods Sects?

For Li Cunxu and Li Anle. If not for them, Li Shiji could completely lead an unfettered, indulgent life like in past life games.

Li Cunxu glanced at the orange-seed gourd, quite fond of it, and toyed with it in his hands.

Little White Spider said, "You shouldn't expect too much from the orange-seed gourd. Among the seven colors of seed gourds, the orange-seed gourd is known to produce the worst gourds."

"How do you know?"

Little White Spider, who had read many classics, said, "A scholar who loves researching the history of imperial artifacts reviewed numerous documents and wrote a paper, in which he detailedly summarized the seed gourds produced historically and ranked the seven colors of seed gourds."

Li Cunxu asked curiously, "Ranked? Which color gourd ranks first?"

Little White Spider said, "The purple-seed gourd ranks first because it produces the best gourds, followed by the red-seed gourd, while the orange-seed gourd ranks last. The other colored gourds are roughly similar."

Purple-seed gourd ranks first?

Li Cunxu thought for a moment, and indeed, there's no dispute about the purple-seed gourd's ranking.

The purple-seed gourd, among the seven colors, is the most famous and influential. Because of it, a few wars were historically launched, even involving Venerable Kings.

Famous gourds produced by the purple-seed gourd include the Purple Qi Gourd, Purple Gold Gourd, and Purple Transformation Gourd...

The Purple Qi Gourd can produce a special purple aura, similar in effect to the King's Heart Gem, increasing the chance to breakthrough to King level.

The Purple Gold Gourd produces dragon-patterned purple gold, which can be forged into standard Purple Gold Dragon Coins, akin to carrying a small purple gold vein with you.

The Purple Transformation Gourd can refine any creature into a toxic pool of purple transformation water within three hours, and not even Kings can escape it.

In comparison to the purple-seed gourd, Li Cunxu is completely unaware of what the orange-seed gourd has ever produced.

"Is there any evidence for the orange-seed gourd ranking last?"

Little White Spider said, "Yes, historical records show the fewest gourds produced by the orange-seed gourd, with only three recorded: the Orange Juice Gourd, Orange Gourd, and Clearing Gourd.

The Orange Juice Gourd provides endless orange juice.

The Orange Gourd sprays indelible orange paint at its target.

Of the three, the most useful is the Clearing Gourd, which produces a substance called Clearing Liquid. Drop it in your eyes to eliminate nearsightedness, brighten your eyes, quickly restore pupil strength, and restore sight to blinded eyes."

Li Cunxu laughed, "The Orange Juice Gourd is a bit humorous, but not completely useless. During the Age of Exploration, it was quite useful, as ships on long voyages could always replenish vitamin C and prevent scurvy."

Little White Spider said, "The owner of the Orange Juice Gourd was actually a Pirate King of the Age of Exploration."

"The Orange Gourd is also a bit funny. If you opened a factory specializing in making orange dye, you could probably make a fortune. Was its owner perhaps a dye factory owner or worker?"

Little White Spider said, "Not really, the Orange Gourd's owner was a devoted orange cat lover who was a Beast Master. Her dream was to dye all the cats in the world orange, and as soon as she got the Orange Gourd, she dyed all the cats in the city orange."

"Orange cats and ginger cats are different, right! How could she tolerate that?"

"She said in court that as long as the colors are similar, the details can be ignored."

"Also quite a character."

Among the three gourds, Li Cunxu would prefer the Clearing Gourd because it quickly restores pupil strength, something no Pupil Technique Eye talent could refuse.

Li Cunxu used pieces of orange heartwood as 'soil' for the orange-seed gourd and planted it.

"May it bless me with a gourd similar in abilities to the Clearing Gourd."

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