by <unknown>
Ren Dong was in a complete mess, speaking incoherently. But the astoundment in his heart was written on his face currently.
As everyone knew, alchemists all needed to borrow medicinal cauldrons and flames to refine pills.
Refining pills bare-handedly were completely forsaking these two, directing with essence energy and bare-handedly refining finished product medicinal pill.
The degree of difficulty of doing this was hard to imagine for ordinary people!
Don't simply look at how Ren Dong was a Quasi-Alchemy King. To make him refine a Tier 1 medicinal pill bare-handedly, he simply could not do it!
"I don't need you to refine pills bare-handedly. You just have to use the Lesser Phaseless Art to refine out a Tier 1 transcendent-grade medicinal pill, and I'll take you in as a disciple."
Ye Yuan's voice shocked Ren Dong awake abruptly. Only now did he recover to his sense. Surprised, he said, "Using the Lesser Phaseless Art to refine a Tier 1 transcendent-grade medicinal pill? How is that possible?"
The moment he said that, Ren Dong wanted to smack his own mouth.
Didn't Ye Yuan just refine out a transcendent-grade medicinal pill just now? How was it impossible?
Furthermore, Ye Yuan even use bare-handed alchemy technique to refine it.
Although it was a Tier 1 medicinal pill, the degree of difficulty in it, Ren Dong felt despair just thinking about it.
"Whether it's possible or not, that's your business. This is my initiation test. If you can't do it, don't mention this matter again," Ye Yuan said coolly.
With Ren Dong's standards, going to refine a Tier 1 medicinal pill, he naturally could refine out a transcendent-grade medicinal pill.
But to let him use the Lesser Phaseless Art to refine a Tier 1 medicinal pill, it was impossible to refine no matter what.
The Lesser Phaseless Art was the most basic refining technique, being extremely simple. There had never been anybody who could use such a simple technique to refine transcendent-grade medicinal pills!
This test was too hard!
Ren Dong's expression flickered, and he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! I'll definitely do it!"
Chapter 505. Thousand Query Wall |
Ren Dong immediately went back to practice the Lesser Phaseless Art after leaving Feng Ya Pavilion.
Only after witnessing Ye Yuan's methods did Ren Dong suddenly become aware that he seemed to have found a different sky.
He, a high-rank Quasi-Alchemy King, was too undeserving.
This strengthened his resolve to acknowledge Ye Yuan as his master even more!
But with this disturbance, the mood of Ye Yuan and the two girls going out to sight-see dulled as well.
Yet, right at this time, Xu Zihui came back after leaving not long ago. His expression was very ugly.
"Young Master Ye, not good! Elder Skymaple he . . . he got detained by Exquisite Jade Pavilion!" Xu Zihui said somewhat anxiously.
Ye Yuan knitted his brows when he heard that and asked, "What happened?"
Xu Zihui hurriedly explained, "Elder Skymaple challenged the Exquisite Jade Pavilion's Thousand Query Wall. The result was that he failed. Elder Skymaple was unresigned and disputed a couple of words with them, and he got detained by Exquisite Jade Pavilion. I went to Exquisite Jade Pavilion after being informed of the news to ask for him. Also don't know what wrong medicine they ate, to actually not give me face and held Elder Skymaple in custody, refusing to release him no matter what."
"In this Wu Fang City, there are actually still things that your City Lord Manor can't settle?" Ye Yuan said curiously
This was Ye Yuan's first time here. His head was covered in a fog about Wu Fang City's forces distribution.
In his view, although Xu Zihui was not a Divine Traversing Realm powerhouse, a Ninth-Level Soul Sea Realm expert absolutely could be considered a famed and prestigious character in Wu Fang City.
Furthermore, Xu Zihui was even the City Lord Manor's first-class patrolling inspector. There were actually people who dared to not give him face!
Xu Zihui forced a smile and said, "Young Master Ye is unaware. Although City Lord, His Excellency, is one of Wu Fang City's strongest alchemists, Wu Fang City's forces are intricate and complex. Some families, their forces are only slightly inferior compared to City Lord Manor, and can fully not give me any face."
Xu Zihui briefly introduced the Exquisite Jade Pavilion's situation. Ye Yuan became absorbed in his thoughts.
This Exquisite Jade Pavilion was a force belonging to Wu Fang City's Cao Family. This Cao Family's strength was exceedingly powerful too. The old patriarch in their family was middle-rank Alchemy Sovereign strength.
While it was not as strong as City Lord Manor, it was also an extremely powerful faction in this Wu Fang City.
If the City Lord or other Divine Traversing Realm experts in the City Lord Manor came forward, Exquisite Jade Pavilion would of course sell them the face.
But Xu Zihui's identity was a little inferior.
Except that it was kind of weird thinking about it. Even though Xu Zihui was not considered the City Lord Manor's upper echelon, if it were just causing some small dispute, the Exquisite Jade Pavilion would not go so far as to be so domineering.
In between this, there should have some other reason.
"How about . . . I go to City Lord, His Excellency, to report it and request his elderly self to come forward?" Xu Zihui asked probingly.
But Ye Yuan did not speak and was pondering about something.
Only after some time, did Ye Yuan look at Xu Zihui and ask, "What relationship does the Heavenly Evil Sect and Cao Family have?"
With Ye Yuan saying this, Xu Zihui was dazed, and then immediately revealed a look of sudden realization.
"Sigh! Look at this pig brain of mine! The Heavenly Evil Sect precisely belongs to the Cao Family's sphere of influence. The Cao Family's Third Young Master, Cao Fang, has close ties with the Heavenly Evil Sect's Mao Yuanji! Oh, Cao Fang is the person with the greatest alchemy strength in the Cao Family's junior generation; he is just slightly inferior compared to Young Master Ren Dong. He is also already middle-rank Quasi-Alchemy King right now," Xu Zihui said.
Xu Zihui's gaze when looking at Ye Yuan was filled with admiration. He himself had yet to even think of this aspect, and Ye Yuan an outsider actually guessed to such an extent already.
Ye Yuan nodded after listening and said, "What is this Thousand Query Wall?"
"This Thousand Query Wall is one of the Cao Family's main attraction. Countless alchemists come to Wu Fang City, and many of them come for this Thousand Query Wall . . ." Xu Zihui explained.
Turns out that in the history of Wu Fang City, the Cao Family had been glorious before too, even producing many generations of city lords. Among them, one of the city lords set up a Thousand Query Wall right in this Wu Fang City. The specific era was already unverifiable.
The so-called Thousand Query Wall was where alchemists placed their own queries on this wall, offering a reward for other alchemists to come and answer.
Through so many years' accumulation, the questions on the Thousand Query Wall were already more than a thousand long ago.
The questions on the Thousand Query Wall, as long as it was answered, it would be removed from the wall.
But the queries raised by alchemists were far more than the queries resolved. With the accumulation of months and days, the questions on this Thousand Query Wall was already rather sizable.
Furthermore, through the countless years of filtering, the difficulty of the questions on the Thousand Query Wall also became increasingly greater. Many of the problems, even peak Alchemy Sovereign powerhouses could not answer them either.
Challenging the Thousand Query Wall, one first had to pay a certain amount of essence crystals. These essence crystals would belong to the Exquisite Jade Pavilion, which was owned by the Cao Family.
If answered correctly, the alchemist would be able to take away the reward. If unable t
o answer, they could naturally only return empty-handed. Even the essence crystals from before were gone too.
With so many years, the Cao Family relied on this Thousand Query Wall to earn countless riches.
But even so, there were still countless alchemists advancing wave after wave to come to the Exquisite Jade Pavilion to challenge the Thousand Query Wall.
One could say that the reason why this Wu Fang City could become the Endless World's alchemy holy land, this Thousand Query Wall's contributions could not be forgone!
Hearing Xu Zihui's explanation, even Ye Yuan had no choice but to gasp in admiration at that generation's city lord's outstanding wisdom and resourcefulness as well.
Such exchanges absolutely had tremendous advantages towards the heightening of alchemy skills.
This Thousand Query Wall could be said to be an immensely valuable asset left behind by that generation's city lord.
Through so many years, many people who raised the query were no longer around anymore. Those questions naturally become ownerless objects.
And these questions, each one of it being answered had tremendously important meaning in promoting the development of alchemy skills.
And the Cao Family guarding such a treasure mountain could actually decline! It could be seen that this Cao Family was really rotten mud that could not even stick to a wall!
"Want to challenge Thousand Query Wall, one must leave their background on the contract. The contract won't be publicized. But the Cao Family's people most likely have ways to see it. If this matter is really Cao Fang playing tricks behind, it's rather troublesome," Xu Zihui said worriedly.
"Looks like that Cao Third Young Master dug a pit for Grand Elder to jump into! Hehe, really thinking my Tranquil Cloud Sect is easy to bully?" Ye Yuan said with a cold smile.
When Xu Zihui heard Ye Yuan's tone, he knew that things were not good.
The upper echelon meeting had yet to begin. Once Ye Yuan had a conflict with the Cao Family, it would probably incur many unnecessary problems.
"Young Master Ye, how about . . . I still report this matter to City Lord, His Excellency? I think that in consideration of City Lord, His Excellency's prestige, Cao Fang wouldn't dare to not give you any face," Xu Zihui urged.
Ye Yuan waved his hand and said, "City Lord, His Excellency, has to attend to a myriad of state affairs every day. This kind of minor thing, there's no need to trouble his elderly self. This matter, I'll settle it myself! Brother Zihui, bring me to Exquisite Jade Pavilion right now. I want to experience just how incredible this Thousand Query Wall is!"
As he said, Ye Yuan's figure moved, directly leaving Feng Ya Pavilion!
Xu Zihui could not stop in time and could only bemoan and follow after Ye Yuan.
Chapter 506. Afraid That You All Won't Have Enough to Pay |
"I wonder what does this Sir needs? Medicinal pills, weaponry, martial techniques, cultivation methods, our Exquisite Jade Pavilion has everything that one desires."
Ye Yuan walked into Exquisite Jade Pavilion slowly. It was really befitting of its name. There was a dazzling array of beautiful exhibits here. It could really be said to have everything that one desires.
Many things that could not be seen in the outside world, this place basically had it all. It was just that their prices were too outrageous.
Ye Yuan toured for a bit after entering the door, and a very beautiful female came up to greet him.
Within the words actually carried a slight bewitching ring.
Ye Yuan virtually confirmed right away that this woman definitely cultivated bewitching arts before. Furthermore, her attainments were not low.
Ordinary people who enter would probably succumb to it unknowingly and willingly buy some things to go.
Ye Yuan's divine soul was incomparably tempered. How could ordinary bewitching skills enter his all-discerning eyes?
"I heard that inside this Exquisite Jade Pavilion, the most incredible thing is the Thousand Query Wall. It's my first visit to Wu Fang City, but I came because of its fame too," Ye Yuan said with a faint smile.
When the girl saw that Ye Yuan's eyes did not have any turbidness at all, she could not help being very surprised.
Such a young age and actually had such powers of concentration. Presumably, he was not simple!
This woman had read countless people and virtually saw through Ye Yuan's uncommonness at first glance.
"So, Sir wants to challenge the Thousand Query Wall. Ling-er could not tell. This way please, Sir."
Ling-er brought Ye Yuan straight to the rear hall. After a few turns, it actually became bright and open.
An enormous temple was in front of Ye Yuan. And in this huge temple, the most eye-catching were several hundred feet tall racks.
The shelves had a total of seven levels. On each level, there were many tags sorted into categories.
However, the further up it went, the lesser the tags on the shelves.
Very clearly, the further up, the harder the problems that those tags represented.
Ye Yuan swept simply. On the highest level shelf, there were only a hundred over tags.
"Miss Ling-er, I wish to challenge this Thousand Query Wall. I wonder if there are any restrictive conditions?" Ye Yuan enquired.
Ling-er smiled sweetly and said with a thousand charms, "Challenging the Thousand Query Wall doesn't have restrictions. As long as you have sufficient essence crystals, you can even challenge all of the problems."
Ye Yuan nodded slightly and said smilingly, "Then that's good. I wonder how much essence crystals are required to challenge once?"
Ling-er said with a smile, "According to the different levels challenged, the fees are not the same as well."
"Oh? I wonder how many essence crystals does challenging the seventh level require?" Ye Yuan asked with a smile.
Ling-er smile could not help freezing. This boy had such a big tone! Opening his mouth and it was the seventh level right away!
One had to know that those problems on the seventh level were all getting dusty, year in year out. Some problems were even placed there for several thousand years already.
During these several thousand years' time, how many Alchemy Sovereign powerhouses had Wu Fang City given birth to?
But not a single one of these Alchemy Sovereign experts could answer those questions. It could be seen just how perverse this seventh level was.
Although Ye Yuan's strength was not bad, his age was too young after all. Ling-er did not feel that Ye Yuan could answer the seventh level's questions.
"Hehe. It's not that Ling-er is belittling Sir, but it's just that the problems on the seventh level are a little too difficult. Sir is at the Sea Transformation Realm. The corresponding ones are the fourth level's tags. If Sir wishes to challenge the fourth level, it's 500 middle-grade essence crystals," Ling-er said with a smile.
Ye Yuan beamed and said, "I have essence crystals. Miss Ling-er doesn't have to be courteous with me. I came today just to witness the Thousand Query Wall of the legends. Spending a few essence crystals to experience the most difficult problems, I'm willing to."
Ling-er criticized him in her heart. This boy really has too much money with nowhere to spend, in a flurry to burn!
But on the surface, Ling-er would not say it out. Deceiving a person on account of his generosity to spend unnecessary money, she would be more than willing to take them.
Furthermore, Ling-er knew that while such extravagant wealthy people were rare, there were still that one or two who appear every period of time.
"The further up, it naturally becomes more expensive. But the rewards are even more plentiful as well. If it's the seventh level, 100 high-grade essence crystals per tag!" Ling-er said.
Even for Ye Yuan, his face changed when he heard it too.
The fourth level was 500 middle-grade essence crystals, which was also five pieces of high-grade essence crystals. But, at the seventh level, the prices actually flipped twenty times over!
; This was simply robbing essence crystals!
No wonder Xu Zihui said that the Cao Family was wealthy until they flowed like water. Such fees, it was hard to not be wealthy!
He just won 100 thousand middle-grade essence crystals from Ren Dong there. Adding it up, it was also just enough to exchange for ten tags. It was really such a scam.
Seeing Ye Yuan's expression, Ling-er was contemptuous in her heart.
A bumpkin from the countryside. Scared silly by the price already, right?
100 high-grade essence crystals was not a small sum. Using it to take a look at the seventh level's problems was truly a bit too wasteful.
But Ling-er had really seen before people throwing out money just for the sake of taking a look at the seventh level's problems.
But very clearly, this boy before her eyes did not have that level of strength.
"Hehe. I see that Sir is a man of striking appearance. Maybe you can really resolve the seventh level's problems? How about you exchange for two to give it a shot?"
Ling-er's words sounded like flattery. Actually, it was a mockery.
Although Ling-er felt that Ye Yuan was not ordinary, conversing to this extent, she already placed Ye Yuan in the ranks of morons.
Maybe only morons would have no reaction to her bewitching arts, right?
How could Ye Yuan not perceive the meaning in Ling-er's words? But he really did not care.
"If I answer the question, can I exchange for the reward on the spot?" Ye Yuan asked again.
Hehe, this boy is an idiot, right? Really think that you could answer the seventh level's questions?
But a wealthy fool, not earning from you would be a waste!
Straight away, Ling-er smiled sweetly and said, "That is of course. The owners of the questions deposited the rewards with our Exquisite Jade Pavilion. As long as people can answer the question, the rewards will be theirs."
Ye Yuan nodded slightly and said, "Then that's good. Give me ten tags first then."
As he said, Ye Yuan casually threw out the storage ring he won from Ren Dong.