Disgusting, truly freaking disgusting!
Xiu , a figure shot out from the courtyard—it was the old man surnamed Luo.
He was just in the zone, but he suddenly felt a gaze that fixed on him, making him greatly shocked. He hurriedly pulled up his pants and jumped onto the perimeter walls, sweeping his eyes over the surroundings.
Ling Han already brought Hu Niu into the Black Tower, so he naturally couldn’t find anything, only thinking that he had blurred vision. He jumped back into the courtyard, and naturally a great battle awaited him there.
“That blinded my freaking eyes!” Ling Han ridiculed. “No, I have to wash it with water, otherwise, I’ll have posttraumatic disorder for the rest of my life—how could there be such disgusting deeds?!”
“I must use the Eye of Truth with caution from now on. Such a scene, if seen many times… I’ll definitely die young!”
After being disgusted for a while, Ling Han calmed down and thought, ‘Strange, why would someone in the Spiritual Pedestal Tier live in seclusion here? Why follow me? I just arrived here, so it’s not possible for me to have offended anyone… there’s only Cheng Fei Jun.
Huh, could the two be related in some way? Could it be that Cheng Fei Jun’s one of this old man’s gigolos?
Pah, pah, pah, that damned old man. No, I must slaughter him, or else that ‘lovely’ scene will always disgust me!’
Ling Han returned to the inn and gave Zhu Wu Jiu a mission… to monitor Cheng Fei Jun.
Zhu Wu Jiu was able to take revenge on his great enemy after he received Ling Han’s support and had been eating Ling Han’s medicinal pills and worldly delicacies, so he desperately wanted to serve Ling Han. Seeing Ling Han arrange a mission for him, he naturally went gladly.
“Ling Han, your complexion doesn’t look too good,” Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan both said worriedly. Ling Han’s expression now was as if he’d been run over by an old hag several hundred times—it was as dark as it could be.
Ling Han waved his hands dismissively and said, “Don’t make me remember it!”
Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan were baffled. They couldn’t possibly think of something that could scare Ling Han to this degree.
Staying at the inn for a couple of days, Ling Han didn’t go out at all, and instead worked on his foundation.
He was now in the peak period of the ninth layer of the Gushing Spring Tier, having the qualifications to charge into the Spiritual Ocean Tier. But the problem was that his time in the Gushing Spring Tier was too short, and refining Demonic Qi and absorbing the Hundred Poison Jade Ointment rapidly increased his cultivation.
His foundation wasn’t completely stable, and if he now broke through, it would be disadvantageous when he climbed up to the higher tiers hereafter.
Therefore, Ling Han wasn’t in a rush to break through, simply continuing to stabilize cultivation and planning to break through after around two months.
A seventeen-year-old warrior in the Spiritual Ocean Tier was still extremely surprising!
Of course, this was already incomparable to Yan Tian Zhao, or the future Hu Niu—the little girl’s potential was truly terrifying.
However, the fact that Yan Tian Zhao could possess the cultivation of the Spiritual Ocean Tier should be related to the devouring art he cultivated… Lady Yan taught Yun Shuang Shuang the subordinate mantra of that art, maybe she also cultivated it and had her cultivation devoured by Yan Tian Zhao?
Otherwise, Ling Han couldn’t think of another possibillty for Yan Tian Zhao to reach the Spiritual Ocean Tier within the short amount of days.
However, after that, Yan Tian Zhao’s cultivation improvements should be normal; otherwise, it’d only take him several days to advance into the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, another several days to break through to the Spiritual Infant Tier, and then immediately enter the Shattering Void Tier.
This world was more complicated than Ling Han had thought, and by many folds at that!
Now was the apex of prosperity in martial arts, all sorts of talents frequently appeared, and if one wanted to reach the top, then one would be bound experience countless rivalries and contend with thousands of prodigies.
After yet another several days, Zhu Wu Jiu finally brought news back, saying that Cheng Fei Jun had come into contact with the old man surnamed Luo as expected!
Chapter 295
Chapter 295: Two Pieces of News
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Ling Han had already utilized the Star Brilliance Palace Hall’s power to investigate the old man surnamed Luo; this man’s name was Luo Ji Feng, and he came to the town three years ago, keeping a very low profile as if to live in seclusion here.
Since the man didn’t cause trouble, Star Brilliance Palace Hall naturally couldn’t chase this person out. At first, they monitored for a while, but after such a long time, they were no longer concerned about him.
During this time, Luo Ji Feng would run to the nearby inn to monitor Ling Han. Of course he thought that he was deeply hidden, but he could never hide from Ling Han’s divine sense; it was just that Ling Han simply remained calm and collected.
Ling Han remained calm and collected for so many days because he didn’t want to give Luo Ji Feng the chance to attack.
…If he dared to attack publicly at the inn, then it was equivalent to going against the Star Brilliance Palace Hall. Ling Han was now an Earth Grade alchemist, and publicly attacking Ling Han would definitely bring on the storming wrath of the Alchemist Society.
At this time, two great events consecutively happened.
First, in the Nine Nations of the Desolate North, large amounts of people from the young generation walked out from the country’s gates, heading toward the Winter Moon Sect.
Ling Han made some inquires and found out that the Winter Moon Sect would open its doors to accept disciples every five years. For the younger generation, joining the Winter Moon Sect meant that they had a chance to break through to the Spiritual Infant Tier in the future. Not to mention the young generation flocking like ducks, even the older generations were stirred up, but the Winter Moon Sect only accepted disciples under thirty.
To say the least, even if they couldn’t join the Winter Moon Sect, they could still broaden their knowledge—they couldn’t always stay foolishly conceited in their countries.
Since the Fallen Moon Gorge was the only way to the north region, large amounts of young martial artists now gathered in the Desolate North. It was said that Cheng Fei Jun personally invited them, organizing a martial arts tea party and discussing martial arts.
For the younger generation, each one arrogantly thought they were the number one in the world, and hearing of this event, they naturally wanted to attend. After all, there would be the younger generation of the Nine Countries, and who wouldn’t want to be the best, becoming the number one in the Desolate North?
That would bring them so much fame and face!
On the other hand, Cheng Fei Jun took out a ‘Restore Heart Pill’ and said that he would give it to the first place of the event as a reward, inciting the passion even more in the youngsters.
The Restore Heart Pill was a holy medicine of healing. It was said that as long as one still had a breath left, they could immediately be healed no matter how heavy their injuries… if not, it could at least keep one alive. For a martial artist, what was more precious than a life-saving medicinal pill?
Thus, for reputation and benefit, many people were naturally attracted.
Secondly, there was suddenly news on the Blue Scale Demonic Fruit, a main ingredient in refining the Restore Spirit Pill that Ling Han persistently searched for.
…The Spirit Treasures Pavilion announced that it was carrying out a large-scale auction, and in the auction, there would be one Blue Scale Demonic Fruit for sale. This was probably also related to the recent gathering of young talents from the Nine Countries, so there naturally wouldn’t be lack of those with money.
According to the legends
, this spirit medicine grew with the Blue Scale Beast, a Seventh Tier beast, an equivalent of the Spiritual Infant Tier—the harvesting difficulty was extremely large. The Blue Scale Demonic Fruit was the main ingredient in refining the Nurture Spirit Pill, which could heal martial artists’ damaged divine sense; its affects were extremely great.
From the Flower Blossom Tier, martial artists began to comprehend heaven and earth and went on a mental journey into the void, which often gave rise to extremely dangerous mirages such as traveling through hell or battling with a terrifying opponent. This could make martial artists lose themselves and become unable to differentiate between dream and reality.
Getting injured in such a dream, a martial artist’s divine sense would be injured heavily. For a martial artist, the essence, Qi, and spirit were equally important; if the divine sense was injured, then it would effect the activation of the spirit base in refining Spiritual Qi, and one’s cultivation could become stagnant.
In more severe cases, it could result in regression of cultivation—decrease of one’s tier. Therefore, Nurture Spirit Pill which could restore the divine sense became extremely precious.
Right, there was also a Spirit Treasures Pavilion here that was of common origin with the one in the Rain Country. Just like the Heaven Medicine’s Pavilion, they opened branch stores everywhere. However, Heaven Medicine’s Pavilion sold medicine, while the Spirit Treasures Pavilion was primarily in the auction business.
When Ling Han received news, he immediately took a trip to the Spirit Treasures Pavilion, hoping that the other party could offer a price to sell the Blue Scale Beast Fruit directly; after all, he left all his funds at the Ling Family… bringing it here would be useless anyways, since they simply didn’t accept the Rain Country’s currency.
So, he hoped to buy on credit or something, having confidence that his status of the Earth Grade alchemist would prove that returning money definitely wouldn’t be a problem.
However, the manager of the Spirit Treasure’s Pavilion expressed regret that they never had a precedent of selling internally, and wouldn’t start it, either. The wise way was for Ling Han to prepare more funds before the auction began.
Want to buy a spirit medicine above the Fifth Tier? Sorry, silver was of no use; one needed to use something called “Origin Power Crystal.”
Origin Power Crystals were also known as Origin Crystals. It wasn’t something of nature; it required a Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artist to extract their own Origin Power and pour it into a special crystal, sealing it with their martial intent. Origin Crystals would then be able to be refined and absorbed by other martial artists to speed up cultivation, even comprehending the martial intent within.
This was a very good supportive cultivation item, and even surpassed most medicinal pills, becoming the favorite amongst martial artists; therefore, it became the common currency in the vast lands.
Of course, different Tier martial artists refined differently valued Origin Power Crystals. The Spiritual Ocean Tier warriors refined the lowest end known as a one star Origin Power Crystal, and one made by a Shattering Void Tier cultivator was naturally of the highest grade, seven stars.
One star Origin Crystal was basically what flowed through the market, and seven stars grade was just like a dream, almost never seen and only appearing in rumors.
After all, which Shattering Void Tier cultivator needed to refine Origin Crystals to make money?
Ling Han was determined to get the Blue Scale Beast Fruit, but a very realistic problem was placed in front of him… he had no money.
To obtain a spirit fruit like this put up for auction, he inevitably needed large amount of Origin Crystals, but Ling Han didn’t even have a single Origin Crystal. Even if he turned to pressure Guang Yuan and worked him like a horse to refine it, the auction began in three days; just how much could be produced in that time?
‘Yes, Seven Turns Break Crisis Pill can be put up for auction, but who knows how much Origin Crystals it’ll be auctioned for; it’s insufficient,’ Ling Han pondered, and finally decided to attack from different angles, putting up the Seven Turns Break Crisis Pill for auction and selling the medicinal ingredients planted in the Black Tower.
It was mainly the ginseng and the ganoderma.
These were good things for nourishing Origin Qi and their value increased along with their age. Inside the Black Tower, planting it for a year was equivalent to planting it a thousand years, very easily making thousand-year ginseng and thousand-year ganoderma.
Of course, it had only been two months or so since Ling Han opened the Black Tower, so he couldn’t have a thousand-year old one; however, a hundred-year ginseng and a hundred-year ganderma were definitely hot consumer goods he didn’t have to worry about not being able to sell.
Things that nourished the body and the Origin were loved by everyone. Not to mention those of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier and the Spiritual Infant Tier, even the Shattering Void Tier warriors wouldn’t mind eating it often. For example, who could resist a gingseng pheasant stew, something both delicious and nourishing?
Ling Han didn’t know how many acres of ginseng and ganoderma he planted, so he didn’t care about taking a few acres’ worth of them to sell.
Because he didn’t want to expose the secret of the Black Tower, Ling Han planned to first return to dig up the ginseng and ganoderma, process it, then take it out; otherwise, if it was directly thrown out of fresh mud, then it would truly cause people’s suspicions.
…A spatial tool that could take in living things? F*ck, maybe even a warrior of the Shattering Void Tier would be interested, and at that time even the title of an Earth Grade alchemist couldn’t possibly protect him.
Chapter 296
Chapter 296: Gathered Together at the Small Town
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
However, just as Ling Han returned to the inn, he met a few old friends.
Qi Yong Ye, Baili Teng Yun, Li Dong Yue, and the later generation of the Eight Great Clans of the Imperial City like Zhao Huan, Qian Wu Yong, Huang Wei Ze, and so on and so forth; these people were basically the future cornerstone of the Rain Country in another thirty years.
They all heard Ling Han became an Earth Grade alchemist, and after making some inquiries, they found out that Ling Han lived here and came over for a visit.
An Earth Grade alchemist, too kick*ss, a first for the Rain Country!
Even if Rain Emperor came personally, he would only be on equal footing as Ling Han; even those slightly weaker emperors would have to boot-lick Ling Han.
Since that was so and these youngsters knew that Ling Han was here, they didn’t dare not to pay a visit and extend their greetings. Furthermore, to form a relationship with a super alchemist like this would truly be beneficial.
“Master Ling!” Qi Yong Ye and the others smiled, not daring to call Ling Han by name.
Ling Han didn’t care; his own friends naturally didn’t need to be treated as strangers, but Qi Yong Ye and Baili Teng Yun didn’t pass his test. They were only acquaintances, so Ling Han didn’t care whatever they called him.
However, Ling Han wouldn’t be petty, either, as he took out the fruits and vegetables and the meat he grew inside the Black Tower to receive them. There were several low tier beasts inside, but for receiving acquaintances, normal meat was enough.
In a short moment, everyone ate plate after plate, and the scene went out of control as the other people inside the inn thought they were about to fight, almost running off to call the people of Star Brilliance Palace Hall.
After a sumptuous meal, as martial artists, everyone couldn’t help but be curious.
“Can Ye, you actually reached the ninth layer of the Gushing spring Tier!” Zhao Huan looked at Can Ye somewhat surprised. Before this, he was always firmly on top of the other in cultivation; now he just broke through to the seventh layer of the Gushing Spring Tier, but Can Ye skyrocketed to the ninth layer of the Gushing Spring Tier, so how could that not hav
e greatly surprised him.
“Huh?”
“Hm?”
“Ah!”
Qian Wu Yong and the others cried out one after another. The arduousness of the path of martial arts was taken one step and one footprint at a time. Certainly, the lower the tier, the more likely it was possible for skyrocketing to happen, but as cultivation was higher, the advancement became slower, like climbing a tall mountain; at first one could sprint, but reaching halfway up, one would be gasping for breath, needing to rest after a few steps.
Can Ye’s advancement speed completely surpassed their expectations.
Can Ye kept silent, cold as usual, lightly rubbing the blade handle. In his eyes, no person was more important than the saber.
Everyone was just momentarily shocked, but immediately came to a realization.
Don’t forget, Can Ye now followed an Earth Grade alchemist!
With an Earth Grade alchemist chucking medicinal pills, could cultivation advancement not be fast? In reality, Can Ye also possessed the qualifications to charge to the Spiritual Ocean Tier, but he and Ling Han were the same—having increased their cultivation with medicinal pills, they had to first stabilize their tiers.
Blindly pursuing a higher tier was only pulling up a seedling in mistaken hope of helping it grow; the repercussions would soon appear, like the situation of stars of battle prowess unable to keep up with one’s tier—how was that different from being a disabled person?
“Can Ye, fight me!” Zhao Huan challenged him. Before, he could always firmly suppress Can Ye, but now the other party’s tier surpassed his instead. He wanted to fight even more to prove that he was truly the strongest talent in the Imperial City.
…Can Ye, Yan Tian Zhao, and Feng Yan, those freaks were out of consideration.
Can Ye didn’t take the fight, but shook his head and said, “You cannot match me, one strike and you’d be cut down by me!”
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