With this comparison in mind, Ling Han was more willing to believe that it was the former possibility.
“Young Friend, is there any way to break this restriction?” Zhao Wu Xue asked.
“There is!” Ling Han nodded. If it was any other restriction, he would indeed have no idea, but it was the Light of God. In his last life, he had broken this restriction who knows how many times. This had nothing to do with cultivation level. What was needed were the necessary ingredients.
“What?!” Zhao Wu Xue and the others gasped in unison. Zhao Wu Xue had simply asked in passing, and had not placed any hopes that Ling Han would be able to break the restriction. He had never imagined that Ling Han would give him such an unexpected answer.
“Is that true?” Hearing Ling Han’s answer, it rather caused a considerable amount of doubt to arise in the others. After all, Ling Han was only in Element Gathering Tier, so he was really much too weak in their eyes.
“You can choose not to believe me, but if you want me to break this…. seal, I need a few ingredients. If you can get me these ingredients, then I will immediately be able to break this seal,” Ling Han declared.
“Please tell us, Young Friend, what ingredient do you require?” Zhao Wu Xue asked.
Ling Han opened his mouth and recited the names of a colossal amount of ingredients. The names of these ingredients caused the faces of Zhao Wu Xue and the others to turn green, and some of them even looked like they were about to spit out fire.
…This was practically asking them to spend their entire family fortunes!
“Whenever you can gather all these ingredients, then I’ll be able to unseal this barrier. If you have yet to gather these ingredients, then please do not come to disturb me!” Ling Han flung out these words, and brought the two girls ahead to go back the way they had come, leaving behind these ten plus old men to exchange looks of indecision.
“Do you all think that the words of this brat could be believed?” Zhao Wu Xue asked, breaking the tension.
“Since he is Grandmaster Wu’s representative, then he should not have been speaking without thinking.”
“But this brat is only sixteen or seventeen years old. Does he really have such ability?”
“It may be true that he is indeed an exceptional genius. He would not have been able to become Grandmaster Wu’s representative otherwise.”
“All of you need not trouble yourselves with these worries. This brat requires so many extremely valuable ingredients. It is already not something that can be decided by us. We had best immediately send a messenger bird back to the Imperial City to inform our respective Clan Elders.”
“That’s true!”
They all nodded in agreement, and when they went back, all of them immediately sent off messenger birds to contact the Imperial City.
Messenger birds were actually a kind of demonic beasts that, after being trained, could be used as messengers. They were extremely fast in flight, and could travel a few thousand miles in a single day. Thus, on the next day, they all received a reply, telling them to agree to Ling Han’s request, and that all of the Clans would send out Spiritual Pedestal Tier warriors to personally deliver the ingredients over.
After all, these ingredients were really much too valuable. Probably, even half of the national treasury would be emptied due to such expense.
A mere four days later, a few high-ranking persons of Spiritual Pedestal Tier had arrived, together with the ingredients that Ling Han had asked for.
“Little fellow, you’re so young, but you know quite a lot!” A kind, gentle-looking old man entered into Ling Han’s tent and smiled at him very serenely, as if he was looking at his own grandson.
Yet Liu Yu Tong showed an expression of fear. This old man was the Elder of the Li Clan, and his name was Li Zang Ye, an authentic Spiritual Pedestal Tier warrior. But don’t take his kind and gentle expression at face value. In truth, this old man was a vicious and merciless character, possessing a great reputation in the Imperial City from the numbers that had died in his hands. In his youth, who knows how much blood had stained his hands.
Now he was much older, and had put most of his time into trying to break through to Flower Blossom Tier, which allowed his bloody reputation to diminish. Only the people of the older generation now knew of this god of death.
Ling Han laughed, and said, “I like to learn a lot of different things, so I have a bit of knowledge about a lot of different areas.”
Light of God was not something that could be broken through brute force. Even ultimate warriors of Heaven Tier could do nothing against it. As a result, Ling Han had tried a lot of methods before finally coming up with a technique that could allow him to open a “door” in the Light of God.
“Hehe, it really is good to be young and have a lot of time on your hands. You can learn anything you like, unlike me. I already have half a foot in the coffin, and when I close my eyes to sleep tonight, I don’t even know if I will be able to open them tomorrow morning,” Li Zang Ye said with a laugh. However, his laughter was a bit frightening to hear, causing goosebumps to rise on the skin of Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan.
Ling Han did not mind in the slightest. He had once been an ultimate warrior of Heaven Tier in his last life, so would he be frightened by a Spiritual Pedestal Tier martial artist? That has to be a joke.
“Please return, Elder. I need to do some preparations, and after about a day, I will be done and ready to break that barrier,” Ling Han said.
Li Zang Ye could not help be surprised. This brat actually dared to chase him off? However, he now had something to request of the latter, so he did not dare to refuse. He could only make a move and leave the tent.
“Hu, the old ghost is finally gone!” Ling Han breathed out a breath of relief, and quickly picked out a few valuable medicinal ingredients from the large amount of ingredients, and began to concoct alchemical pills in the first instant.
This!
Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan were shocked to numbness when they saw this. It seems like Ling Han had attained his own ends by abusing his position, and had named a lot of unnecessary ingredients to concoct alchemical pills for his own use.
To actually dare to scam the Imperial Family of Rain Country and the Eight Great Clans, Ling Han has got to be the only one.
That was natural. To ask him, the Alchemy Emperor, to do something for them, how could they not offer something equal in value to their request as payment?
Ling Han was at full power, and did not rest for the whole day and night, continuing to concoct a large number of alchemical pills. When it was dawn the next day, he snickered, and threw a pill bottle over to Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan respectively, and said, “This is your share of benefits and the payment for you keeping quiet.”
In the previous day, the two girls had both become his assistants, doing chores like separating the various medicinal ingredients. Otherwise, Ling Han would really not have been able to complete this large number of pills.
“Four Transformations Pill! Ancient Clear Pill!” Li Si Chan’s beautiful eyes swept over the pill bottles, and instantly gasped out in surprise. There was a clear expression of astonishment on her pretty face, “There actually exists someone who can concoct these pills in this world!”
“What Four Transformations Pill, Ancient Clear Pill?” Liu Yu Tong did not know much about the field of alchemy, so her face was filled with confusion.
“They are all Spiritual Medicines that can help raise one’s cultivation level, and their effects are ten times better than similar pills that are available now. But the Four Transformations Pill is to be used by Gushing Spring Tier, while the Ancient Clear Pill should be used in Element Gathering Tier,” Li Si Chan explained.
This time, Liu Yu Tong’s expression had changed completely. Ten times the effects, what kind of concept was that? She would be able to reach the ninth layer of Gushing Spring Tier within a year’s time, and begin breaking through to Spiritual Ocean Tier!
When she just thought that she would be only twenty years old and yet reach Spiritual Ocean Tier, she was almost ready to pass out.
Ling Han laughed. The alchemical pills concocted by others indeed had ten times the normal effects, but the pills he concocted would at least be worth thirteen Stars, and have at least thirty percent additional effects in addition to the ten times. But he would not be mentioning that lest he scared these two girls to death.
Chapter 124
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Doing good without hoping for rewards wasn’t the least bit in line with Ling Han’s personality. Since they wanted him to open up the Light of God, then how could he not take advantage of this chance to get some benefits of his own?
Putting it in a different way… asking an ultimate warrior of Heaven Tier to do something for them while offering this little bit of payment, it was already nice of him to agree.
“Let’s go. We can’t have them wait too long. It would be impolite,” he said.
The two girls instantly rolled their eyes at him. The truth of the matter was that he had spent the whole day and night concocting alchemical medicines rather than doing any kind of preparations. He was obviously the one to have them wait pointlessly for a whole day, and he actually dared to say that. He really was shameless.
The three of them left their tent. Those old monsters of Spiritual Pedestal Tier had all waited for a long time, but old monsters would be old monsters. There was absolutely no hint of impatience on their faces. On the other hand, they were actually all smiles.
‘All of them are really old foxes, scheming, astute, and wily!’ Ling Han mocked in his thoughts as he opened his mouth and said, “I’ve caused all you Seniors to wait for too long. Many apologies.”
“Young Friend, you’ve worked hard!” Those old monsters of Spiritual Pedestal Tier all said with a smile.
“Then let’s set out.” Ling Han quickly went into the main topic. He had already gotten the benefits he wanted, and he too wanted to quickly reach the source of the underground river to see what had actually happened there.
All of the old monsters were a bit surprised, for Ling Han was behaving much too calmly.
They were all in Spiritual Pedestal Tier, and were the strongest people in the whole Rain Country. Should anyone of them simply stomp their foot, they could easily cause the mountains and rivers to change. And now, they were all gathered in one place, yet Ling Han did not even blink at their presence. How could they not be curious about the reason behind his calmness?
…Yet they did not know something—compared to Ling Han’s power in his last life, what could mere Spiritual Pedestal Tier count as? Pei, they wouldn’t even be qualified to guard his door!
The group once again returned to the spot they had stopped at before, and the Light of God was once again right in front of them.
Ling Han began to arrange the ingredients. One after another, the ingredients were smoothly arranged by his hands, becoming a blur in the eyes of the others. Yet, there was a beauty in his movements that caused the others to uncontrollably become engrossed in watching him.
“Yi, I actually seem to feel a kind of rhythmic beauty from this brat’s movements.”
“So you also feel that way?”
“This brat is really quite strange, as if every move he makes corresponds with the Dao of nature. How could there be such a person?”
“Could it be….? It is written in the ancient records that there is a kind of person that is born suited to Dao. For such a person, comprehending the secrets of martial arts is as easy as drinking water.”
“…Natural Martial Body!”
The eyes of all the old monsters lit up. If Ling Han was really a Natural Martial Body, then he was definitely a valuable treasure. As long as one observed his movements every single day, they’d be able to very quickly gain comprehension of martial arts. Ling Han could absolutely be considered as a living spiritual treasure of martial arts.
This brat has gotten the acknowledgement of Wu Song Lin, so they couldn’t really kidnap him by force. But, what about… marriage!
As long as they managed to get him to marry into their Clan, then it would be perfectly legitimate for him to stay in their Clan Residence, and even Wu Song Lin would be unable to say anything against that.
Ling Han had completely no idea that he had become something that everyone would be fighting over in that instant. He had his full concentration on the ingredients in his hands, and as he flung out one after another, he actually opened up a hole in the Light of God, creating an opening that could allow a single person to pass through.
“He really succeeded!” The old monsters were all struck dumb with shock. They had all made their own attempts these few days, but the might of the Light of God was not something they could overcome. All they could do was simply stare at it blankly. They had never thought that Ling Han would actually succeed.
This naturally increased their desires to have him marry into their Clans.
One of the old monsters was an impatient character, and was about to immediately pass through the opening, yet Ling Han stretched out an arm to stop him from going ahead and said, “Wait!”
“Brat, what are you trying to do?” This old monster was a powerful warrior of Spiritual Pedestal Tier of the Qian Clan of the Eight Great Clans. He had an impatient nature and was also bad-tempered. He immediately glared at Ling Han, and a strong pressure immediately emanated from him.
Ling Han smiled calmly, withdrew his arm and said, “If you want to die, I won’t stop you. Please go right ahead!”
Hearing Ling Han’s words, the old monster from the Qian Clan did not dare to make any reckless moves and asked, “Isn’t the restriction already broken?”
“This can only be claimed to be a minor success. The current opening can allow an ordinary person to enter, but Body Refining Tier would experience rejection from the restriction. The stronger your ability, the more powerful the rejection you would feel. If you try to force your way through, that would be equivalent to seeking your own death,” Ling Han said.
So that was it.
“Stupid brat, why didn’t you speak early of such a big issue? You almost killed me!” The old monster from the Qian Clan said sheepishly, obviously a bit embarrassed.
Ling Han smiled and said, “Do you not see that I have many ingredients that I haven’t used yet? Wouldn’t this be embezzlement on my part?”
The old monsters all laughed loudly while Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan kept mocking in their thoughts—this guy was so outrageously bold. He had already embezzled a lot!
Ling Han continued to move and threw out various ingredients, allowing the opening to become firmer and sturdier.
“Now, Body Refining Tier should be able to enter.”
“En, now Element Gathering Tier should be able to as well.”
“Gushing Spring Tier.”
Ling Han suddenly came to a stop, because the ingredients had all been used up. He gave a sigh and said, “My ability is limited, so I can only create an opening that would allow only Gushing Spring Tier martial artists to enter at most!”
The others all stared blankly. The strongest martial artists that could enter was Gushing Spring Tier. Was this deliberate?
That’s right. This was something that Ling Han had done deliberately. Originally, he had intended to have this opening limited to allowing only Element Gathering Tier to enter, but he thought that this would be too obvious, so he decided to raise the entry level to the next tier.
But on the other hand, Rain Country had limited resources on hand, so even if he had not had his own intentions, the opening that he could create would at most only allow Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artists to enter.
“Only Gushing Spring Tier!” The old monsters all frowned.
“What about this? Let us immediately send a message back to the Imperial City and have the Gushing Spring Tier martial artists of our Clans all come over immediately,” someone suggest
ed. Behind this opening possibly lay hidden a great secret treasure. Who would not want to get their hands on this treasure?
“These few days, we’ll seal off this place first, and allow no one to pass through!” Li Zang Ye said.
“We should do that!”
All of them were worried that someone else would enter first and snatch away some fated opportunity that could be hidden behind the opening, so they all agreed to first seal off this place and wait for the various geniuses of Gushing Spring Tier of their respective Clans to arrive, after which all of them would enter at the same time.
“Little fellow, you have no objection, right?” Li Zang Ye said with a cunning smile.
“Of course not!” Ling Han said with a smile, “However, you all would need to make the most of your time. This opening can at most be maintained for ten days only.”
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