Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294
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“400,000!” It was at this moment that a young, melodic female voice was heard. She placed her bid very calmly, but it gave everyone a shock.
That was 400,000 Origin Crystals, not 400,000 gold and silver coins!
Ling Han had heard it very clearly. This girl was precisely one of the two people that had mocked him just now. He had been curious previously, since these two people admired the he from 10,000 years ago, why did they not even say one word when the auction was ongoing? So it seemed that they were confident of the outcome, and directly played a direct kill.
True, after so much bidding, she was naturally aware of the limits of Long Yong Chang and the others, thus the first bid she placed was a direct kill, and she would be able to save as much money as possible.
“500,000!” Another voice was heard. This one was rough and old. It was precisely the voice of the other person who had mocked Ling Han previously, the elder.
“600,000!” The girl increased her bid without hesitation, as if this 600,000 was merely paper money.
“700,000!” The elder did not cower at all.
“900,000!” This time, it was Long Yong Chang’s voice. The three Big Bosses of alchemy must have combined forces and pooled their respective Origin Crystals.
“1,000,000,” the girl and the elder spoke up at the same time.
“1,500,000!” The girl paused a while, and directly called out an astronomical price. It seemed like she was an impatient character, and did not want to add the bid bit by bit like before anymore.
“2,000,000!” The elder was unafraid as well.
These were two super rich people!
At the beginning, who would have thought that the real competitors for this alchemy furnace would be the two of them?
Putting aside their identities, merely the fact that they could take out 2,000,000 Origin Crystals was enough to qualify them to sit in a private room on the fifth floor. For the Spirit Treasures Pavilion which was a business establishment, anyone with enough money would be their dad.
Ling Han could not help but be rueful, and mumbled, “I have used a considerable number of alchemy furnaces by now, so should I consider selling them off as well?”
This caused Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan to laugh. They thought that he was laughing at himself; there was no way that they would be able to figure out that the two Ling Han were actually one and the same.
After the price had reached such a high level, even Long Yong Chang and his companions could only become observers. They felt that it was really a pity. That was an alchemy furnace that had once been used by the Alchemy Emperor, and if it could be displayed in the Star Brilliance Palace Hall, that would definitely make this place into the Holy Land for all alchemists!
…Yet they did not know that as long as Ling Han once again reached the apex in future, this place, as the important location that Ling Han had broken through to Earth Grade alchemist, would definitely become the Holy Land for alchemists.
“300,000, Two Stars Origin Crystals.” The girl once again placed a bid, and it instantly gave everyone a scare.
In theory, if the grade of Origin Crystals was raised, their value would be tenfold, but in truth, no one would be willing to spend high grade Origin Crystals like money.
Just put it this way. If the same amount of One Star Origin Crystals would allow one to successfully break through in three years’ time, then using the same amount of Two Star Origin Crystals would only take one year.
That was right, time was the most important factor!
Especially for those martial artists who were below the Flower Blossom Tier, they only had a lifespan of merely a hundred years. Thus, the earlier and the younger they broke through to the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, the more time they would have to attempt breaking through to the Flower Blossom Tier. Once they managed to break through, they would be able to cast off their mortal body.
One Star Origin Crystals were made by the Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artists, and were extremely helpful to the cultivation of anyone in the Body Refining, the Element Gathering, the Gushing Spring and the Spiritual Ocean Tier as they were able to supply enough Origin Power. However, for those in the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, the effects of One Star Origin Crystals would be greatly discounted, and only Two Star Origin Crystals would have enough effect.
And for those in the Flower Blossom Tier, aside from the fact that One Star Origin Crystals could be spent like money, they were complete trash.
Thus, the higher the grade of Origin Crystals, not only the better the effects, but also the more the purposes. There were some extremely valuable Spirit Medicines that not only needed to be purchased with Origin Crystals, they might even need Four Star, Five Star, or even Six Star Origin Crystals!
Thus, the true value of 300,000 Two Star Origin Crystals far exceeded the value of 300,000 One Star Origin Crystals.
“400,000, Two Star Origin Crystals!” the elder was similarly calm.
Everyone was so shocked that their eyeballs looked ready to pop out of their heads; what kind of concept was 400,000 Two Star Origin Crystals? That would need 40,000 Spiritual Pedestal Tier martial artists to work on concocting them for a whole year! In the whole north region, were there even 10,000 Spiritual Pedestal Tier martial artists?
Most importantly, these two seemed to be completely calm, and looked like they didn’t care at all.
Were they really from the north region?
Ling Han was also very curious. He could still understand if Long Yong Chang and his companions fought over the alchemy furnace. But what were these two fighting over it for? He could not help but activate the Eye of Truth and gazed at them. At first, he found the elder, but the latter immediately sensed his presence. He gave a heavy humph, and a sound wave spread out.
“Wu!” Ling Han gave a muffled groan, and instantly a stream of blood gushed out from his right eye. He actually experienced much suffering from this one blow.
The Flower Blossom Tier, that was power that exceeded the mortal realm.
“Ling Han!” Liu Yu Tong and the others were extremely shocked. Why did he suddenly cry tears of blood out of the blue like this?
Only Hu Niu fixed a stare at a particular direction in her alertness. It was precisely where that elder was. Obviously, the little girl was not glaring arbitrarily. Instead, she had really sensed something out of the ordinary, and immediately looked vicious.
Chapter 311
Chapter 311: An Astonishing Discovery
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Ling Han held onto Hu Niu. That old man was too powerful. Even though Hu Niu possessed a terrifying speed, in front of someone in the Flower Blossoming Tier, that would have no effect at all. The latter would only need to release a burst of aura, and that would be enough to kill the little girl with a shock wave.
“It’s all right,” he said with a shake of his head as he withdrew a towel and wiped off the blood. He could feel that his right eye was still faintly aching, but once the Indestructible Heaven Scroll circulated, the pain instantly disappeared. In a mere few minutes, his right eye was completely back to normal.
It really deserved the name of the Indestructible Heaven Scroll. Even such a fragile body part like the eye could be easily healed.
And after a few minutes of tug-of-war, this alchemy furnace was successfully purchased by that cloaked woman—she paid an astronomical price reaching 1,000,000 Two Star Origin Crystals.
‘With so many Origin Crystals, as long as I have broken through to the Spiritual Ocean Tier, I would probably be able to break through to the ninth layer in less than a month, right?’ Ling Han thought. Origin Crystals were used to create an environment filled with Origin Power, which would speed up the rate of cultivation.
He once again focused his sight to find that cloaked woman. In a short while, he had found her, but what surprised him was that the moment he found that girl, she had coincidentally stood up. Her hands were holding onto the alchemy furnace that she had just successfully purchased,
and she was actually planning to leave.
In other words, she was purposely here for this alchemy furnace, and now that the alchemy furnace was in her possession, she was naturally going to leave.
With the Eye of Truth, Ling Han glimpsed a sliver of her face, and could not help but be slightly awed.
This girl was really beautiful, not one bit less beautiful than Chi Hua Lan.
However, whether it was this girl, or that elder, they weren’t alchemists at all. Ling Han did not sense one bit of the air that an alchemist should possess on them—there was no need to doubt this. As the Alchemy Emperor, if Ling Han was still unable to distinguish whether someone was an alchemist or not, then he should really buy a piece of tofu and kill himself with it.
Two people who were obviously not alchemists, yet were willing to spend over 1,000,000 Two Star Origin Crystals for a damaged alchemy furnace. Why would that be?
Previously, they were indeed very reverent towards his previous self, but if one claimed that they would pay such a high price for the sake of their admiration, it was a little incomprehensible.
The cloaked woman left, and the elder in the Flower Blossoming Tier left as well. The two of them shared the same target, which was this alchemy furnace. Now that the alchemy furnace had found its home, they would naturally have no reason to continue staying here.
It was really baffling.
He could only take them as real rich people who were truly in love with the Ling Han of his last lifetime.
After such a major climax, the subsequent proceedings of the auction not only made Ling Han sleepy, there were also a considerable number who had begun to doze off in their seats downstairs. Some were even snoring.
“Cough, cough!” the auctioneer hurriedly adjusted the sequence of the auction and took out a considerably valuable item in advance for the auction, finally managing to make the environment lively again.
After another half an hour, an item on auction attracted Ling Han’s interest.
It was a sculpture that looked like a scorpion. It was completely black all over, and exuded a cold metallic light.
“According to the studies of a few of our experienced appraisers, this should be an antique from 5,000 or 6,000 years ago. There are some ancient words on it, which are slightly different from what we have today. After deciphering, they can roughly be interpreted as: Scorpio Palace Hall, life and death, reincarnation for 10,000 lifetimes,” the auctioneer said. “This should be a token, a key, and it should be able to open… the Scorpio Palace Hall of one of the Twelve Heaven Mystery Realms!”
Shua , his words had just fallen when everyone stood up. All of them looked very excited.
The Twelve Heaven Mystery Realms were one of the Great Mystery Realms that were rumored to exist. They would open every hundred years, and one would be rendered dumbstruck by the abundant Spiritual Qi within them. A day of cultivation within could be equal to ten days or even a hundred days of cultivation in the outside world.
As a result, innumerable Spiritual Herbs grew within. Since the Mystery Realm only opened every hundred years, not only were they mature enough, but due to the Spiritual Qi within, the quality of these Spiritual Herbs was shockingly high.
But this was not the point. The point was that the Twelve Heaven Mystery Realms had twelve mysterious palace halls, and according to the rumor, the greatest treasures of the Mystery Realm were hidden within—cultivation techniques, Spirit Tools, martial arts techniques, alchemical pills.
There was once a fortunate man who entered into the Aries Palace Hall. As a result, his fame soared greatly. In the end, he became an ultimate elite of the Heaven Tier, and furthermore was one of those extremely strong types. If it wasn’t for the fact that the era he was born in was greatly suppressed by the natural environment which meant that no one in the Shattering Void Tier could emerge, his accomplishment would definitely not be limited to the Heaven Tier, but he’d enter the Shattering Void Tier, or even successfully shatter the void to become a God.
And to enter the twelve palace halls, the corresponding key was needed.
“Hehe, according to the examination of our Pavilion, this possibly should be the key that will open up the Scorpio Palace Hall… but it could also be counterfeit. Our Pavilion cannot be certain of this, because there are some things on this sculpture that we can’t confirm,” the auctioneer returned back to the main topic.
Instantly, a considerable number looked disappointed. When they thought about it, it was logical.
If this key was real, then why would it be auctioned off here? If it was taken to the central region, there would be many more rich people there, and it would be able to get a really high price there.
Even so, there were still many who were interested in this sculpture. What if it just so happened to be real?
“Ling Han, do you think it’s real or fake?” Liu Yu Tong could not help but ask curiously.
Ling Han focused his eyes and the Eye of Truth was activated. The form of the sculpture instantly peeled apart in front of his gaze. Every layer disappeared, and when he saw something hidden deep within the sculpture, he could not help but grin because it was actually a piece of paper on which these words were written: “You’ve fallen for the trick, this is a fake, hahaha.”
But when he saw the name written last, he could not help but tremble, and wore an expression of disbelief.
“What is it?” Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan asked quickly.
“It’s nothing!” Ling Han waved his hand, but everyone could see something was off with his expression.
How could Ling Han not lose his composure? Because that was a drawing of a naked woman!
He recognized with a single glance that penmanship; it was his showy disciple, Jiang Yue Feng!
He was not the slightest bit surprised that Jiang Yue Feng would do something so pointless, but what shocked him was that this stone sculpture was rumored to be something from 5,000 or 6,000 years ago.
…But Jiang Yue Feng should have been a character from 10,000 years ago.
Even if Jiang Yue Feng broke through to the Shattering Void Tier, he would only have a lifespan of over a thousand years, so how could he have managed to survive until 5,000 or 6,000 years ago? Unless… Jiang Yue Feng advanced yet another step and stepped into the realm of gods, becoming a god himself.
Though he didn’t know whether gods could be immortal, but just look at Asura Demon Emperor. He had been supressed for several tens of thousands years and split into nine, but was still alive and kicking, wasn’t he?
Jiang Yue Feng was still alive? Had he become a God?
Then what about his three other disciples, were they all still alive? One had to know that the reason that Ling Han had been willing to take the four of them as disciples was either because they had astonishing talent in alchemy or logic-defying comprehension abilities in martial arts. Otherwise, for someone like him who had his whole focus on alchemy, how would he have eked out so much time to teach disciples?
If Jiang Yue Feng was able to become a God, then his other three disciples should also be qualified.
Then wouldn’t he still have a chance to reunite with his four disciples?
Haha, he really wanted to see the expressions on their faces at that time. It would definitely be very interesting.
Chapter 312
Chapter 312: Consecutive Successes
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Since he now knew that this sculpture was a fake, it was naturally impossible for Ling Han to still place a bid for it. Moreover, he only had about 100,000 Origin Crystals, which he still had to save to bid for the Blue Scale Demonic Fruit.
He took this chance to pay a visit to Long Yong Chang and the others to discuss the matter of a loan. After seeing the formidable wealth of the cloaked woman and the Flower Blossom Tier elder, he really did not think that 100,000 Origin Crystals was in any way a huge sum of money.
When they heard the reason why Ling Han needed the Blue Scale
Demonic Fruit, the three Big Bosses of alchemy all gladly agreed to lend their Origin Crystals to Ling Han. Of all virtues, filial piety was the most important, and they only made a request in exchange and that was that they wanted to observe when Ling Han concocted the Restore Spirit Pill.
That was an Earth Grade mid level alchemical pill!
Ling Han naturally did not mind, so he agreed very easily. The deal was thus made, to everyone’s delight and satisfaction.
The sculpture gained popularity from a large group of people. Even Gu Feng Hua and Chi Hua Lan made their respective bids for it. There were also some others who should be disciples of the various Great Clans of the north region, which increased the bidding price drastically. In the end, it was purchased by a man called ‘Xu Wen Tong’.
At first, the bidders were anonymous, but these visitors from the north region seemed to be very familiar with one another. When they placed a bid, they would not forget to either threaten or challenge their rivals. As a result, many had their identities exposed.
This Xu Wen Tong came from the Heaven Origin Sect, and seemed to have quite the reputation among the young generation.
Consecutively, another Spirit Tool appeared.
This was a saber, and there were nine hoops on the saber’s blade. Upon closer examination, they were not real hoops, but rather intricate patterns, though they looked very much like hoops from their appearance.
“Nine Hoop Heaven Hero Blade!” The auctioneer began to introduce the auction item. “This saber is a Level Five Spirit Tool, but its merit lies in the fact that these nine hoops are the seals of this Spirit Tool. One can unseal them one by one, and unseal what is equivalent to only a Level Three Spirit Tool. Moreover, with every subsequent hoop unsealed, the power of this Spirit Tool would become slightly stronger, and eventually reach Level Five.”
When they heard these words, everyone exclaimed in surprise.
In the first place, a Level Five Spirit Tool was extraordinary, and the power it possessed was enough to oppose a Spiritual Pedestal Tier warrior. But the problem was, how could the martial intent of a Spiritual Pedestal Tier elite be activated by one who was merely in the Spiritual Ocean Tier or the Gushing Spring Tier?