Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294
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He waved his fist and attacked. One punch after another, they seemed like they would topple the mountains and turn over the seas.
How could Duan Zheng Zhi dare to receive these attacks head on? He hurriedly turned and ran, wanting to flee. He would immediately bring the information that Ling Han had a Spirit Tool that could contain living creatures back to the sect. Though it would not be as high a credit as him personally getting hold of it, it would still be a great credit.
“Do you think you can flee?” Guang Yuan sneered. Like an arrow, he shot forward and caught up with Duan Zheng Zhi. Peng , he landed a solid punch on Duan Zheng Zhi’s back.
“Ah!” Duan Zheng Zhi yelled again. He had already suffered a spiritual backlash in the first place, and now that he was punched, the impact was so powerful that he felt as if his organs were turning around in his body; it was absolute agony for him.
This was still because he had cultivated Corpse Qi, so his body was different from an ordinary person. Otherwise, his torso would definitely be like a water sack that had exploded, with blood gushing endlessly.
Guang Yuan pursued him again and launched a series of fiery attacks without any hesitation. Peng, peng, peng, peng . After a successive series of five punches, Duan Zheng Zhi had literally been punched to death.
“Ah…!!!” he howled to the skies. Though he had gotten his vengeance, he was still left with innumerable regrets. If he had been slightly more forceful all those years ago and directly brought Nong Qing Yue away from this place, would the tragedy of today still happen?
Ling Han walked over to Guang Yuan, drew out a wine sack and handed it over. The thing that the latter needed the most at this moment was possibly to get utterly drunk.
On this night, Guang Yuan indeed drunk himself stupid, and Ling Han drew him into the Black Tower. He continued to advance and hired another carriage at the next town. This time, no one else appeared to block his way, and the carriage, with him within, travelled slowly towards the Extreme Yang City.
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Xiu , not long after Ling Han left, a figure appeared beside Duan Zheng Zhi’s body.
This was an old man who looked to be in his seventies. His skin was dry, and it was as if it was sticking to his bones, but his eyes were filled with a dignified aura. If a normal person met his eyes, they would most likely shiver in fear from just that one look.
“Dead?” He examined Duan Zheng Zhi’s body closely, and murmured, “He was literally beaten to death. Looking at the force of the punches, the attacker should be in the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, or could even be one who has half a foot in the Flower Blossom Tier.
“Could it be that the elites of the Winter Moon Sect discovered traces of Duan Zheng Zhi, pursued him all the way here, and finally battled here?
“I can only choose to refine him into a Corpse Soldier. Taking advantage of the fact that he’s just died, perhaps I can draw out some memories from him.”
The old man picked up Duan Zheng Zhi’s body, and his figure actually rose into mid air.
The Flower Blossom Tier!
This old man was Elder Jiu Yun of the Thousand Corpse Sect. He was at first supposed to go to the Sea Breeze City for an inspection and to issue a new mission, but had never thought that he would receive the news that the secret of the branch had been discovered by the Winter Moon Sect and could only retreat before he even arrived.
He had yet to meet Duan Zheng Zhi, but was informed that the latter was currently in pursuit of the person who had exposed them. In the end, when he chased him all the way here, the only thing he saw was Duan Zheng Zhi’s body.
In a mere five days, Duan Zheng Zhi’s corpse was refined into a Corpse Soldier.
…If he had known this when he was still alive, who knew if he would regret joining this sect. They were really deranged.
“Yi?” Elder Jiu Yun continued to draw out Duan Zheng Zhi’s memories. Though there were only a few shattered pieces, but his final battle was preserved quite fully.
“A Spatial Spirit Tool that can store living creatures?
“Hahahaha, the gods are on the side of our Thousand Corpse Sect, we will prosper! We definitely will!”
A dark expression appeared on his face, and he immediately rose up into the skies. He wanted to find Ling Han and snatch that extremely valuable Spirit Tool.
Chapter 371
Chapter 371: Open Shop
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
After dealing with Duan Zheng Zhi, Ling Han naturally needed not change his appearance anymore. Accompanied by the carriage’s swaying, he travelled all the way to his destination. When he reached the Extreme Yang City, his cultivation had reached the middle period of the third layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, but the bad news was that he had used up all his Origin Crystals, so the current him was really poor.
Guang Yuan’s cultivation had also fallen back to the first layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, and after this time period of over a month spent on cultivation, he had just broken through to the second layer, which was not that much different from Can Ye. Even if these two endlessly refined Origin Crystals without rest or sleep, they would only be able to supply two Origin Crystals in a single month, and they would only be Single Star Origin Crystals.
How pitiful!
Ling Han sighed. When he entered into the Extreme Yang City, he handed over the last Origin Crystal on him as the registration fee for his entry into the city. The registration needed only be done once, and in future, he would not need to pay any additional fees for any subsequent entries.
To save money, he didn’t even let Liu Yu Tong and the others out.
Now, the first step was not to find the remaining two main ingredients for the Restore Spirit Pill, but rather to earn money first. Without money, could it be he was planning to steal? Even if he wanted to, he had to have the ability to do so first.
The Extreme Yang City was the commercial center of the whole north region. This was an extremely lively place, and there were two colossal powers here: the Alchemist Society and the Spirit Treasures Pavilion. The headquarters of the Spirit Treasure Pavilion was still called the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, but the place where the Alchemist Society was located was called the “Northern Pill Palace Hall”. It occupied close to one-tenth of the total area of the whole city. There were numerous martial artists and alchemists residing within. There was also a gigantic medicine farm that provided the ingredients for the daily concoction of the alchemists.
It was said that this medicine farm had an extremely large Gathering Spirit Array over it, which allowed the Spiritual Qi within to be extremely dense and sped up the growth of the Spirit Grasses. To sustain the circulation of this Gathering Spirit Array, the amount of Origin Crystals consumed daily was astronomical. It was likely that even the Winter Moon Sect would shiver at seeing this sky-high figure.
In terms of wealth, there were two great parties who were at the top of the hierarchy in the north region: the Alchemist Society and the Spirit Treasures Pavilion. Only these two great parties could burn Origin Crystals like that.
When Ling Han heard that, he could not help but feel his hands itch. He wanted very much to enter this medicine field of the Northern Pill Palace Hall and pull out a few stalks of every type of Spirit Grass to be transplanted into the Black Tower to perfect his medicine field. Only in the Black Tower could it be called a real medicine field!
His thoughts wandered too far away. Priority now was to earn money, earn money!
Ling Han planned to open up a shop to sell alchemical pills, along with a restaurant, to endlessly gather Origin Crystals for him.
…Auctioning off a high grade alchemical pill would indeed get a high price, but the problem was, the rarer something was, the greater its value. If he drew out too many, their price would naturally drop. Furthermore, the amount of Origin Crystals Ling Han needed was an astronomical figure. No matter how many, he wouldn’t complain about having too many.
Thus, he not
only needed to occasionally produce some high grade alchemical pills to earn Origin Crystals like crazy, he also had to ensure a steady stream of lower grade alchemical pills to continuously earn Origin Crystals for him.
Everything was difficult at the start and lack of money could encumber even the greatest of heroes. Ling Han did not have even one Origin Crystal, so he could only start all over again.
He first harvested some ginseng from inside the Black Tower, and went to a pharmacy to sell them. But the result was that this pharmacy offered an extremely low price for them. He was so furious that he went to another pharmacy, yet the result was the same.
When they saw that he was an outsider and that his cultivation level was only in Spiritual Ocean Tier, they naturally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a killing.
In the Desolate North, the Spiritual Ocean Tier could be considered to be one of the middle ranks of power, but in the Extreme Yang City, only the Spiritual Pedestal Tier could be addressed as elite, whereas those in the Flower Blossom Tier would be able to get real respect.
There was nothing to be done. Who asked the Extreme Yang City to be the commercial center of the whole north region? There were many elite martial artists of the Flower Blossom Tier, and if one simply looked at this city, they may even think that the Flower Blossom Tier was too easy to break through to.
After switching a few pharmacies, the result was more or less the same. Ling Han could only bear the pain and sell the ginseng at a rock-bottom price. One had to understand that these ginsengs have been growing for close to two months, and their age was close to reaching three hundred years.
“You all will regret this!” Ling Han noted this down. In future, he would definitely open a branch beside every pharmacy, and snatch away all their business!
…Ling Han sometimes was also very childish.
With starting capital, Ling Han immediately opened his pharmacy and a restaurant. It was very easy to do so as he simply bought readily available ones that did not even need to be renovated. As a result, two days later, his pharmacy and restaurant were open and ready for business.
Liu Yu Tong was placed in charge of the restaurant, whereas Li Si Chan was responsible for the pharmacy.
The restaurant was called “Forget Not”, which meant that if a person ate once, he would not forget the taste and would come again and again. Meanwhile, the pharmacy was called “Alchemist King Pavilion”—with Ling Han’s skill, this was definitely not an exaggeration, but rather that he did have the ability to deserve this name.
Since he wanted to earn money, he naturally had to make his brand known. However, even though they had opened for two days, neither of the two shops were doing too well in business.
In the restaurant, Ling Han had drawn out some of the vegetables, fruits, and dried meat from within the Black Tower. Anyways, there was a lot available, but these ingredients were only used in some high-end food, and the bill had to be settled in Origin Crystals for them.
But for a shop that had newly opened, only some ordinary people would be coming for the novelty. The foods that these people chose were the most ordinary ones, and their bills were settled with gold and silver. These people could not afford the higher-end food, so how could it be possible that he could earn Origin Crystals?
The pharmacy was in the same situation. Though the name of “Alchemist King Pavilion” sounded very grand, it was also the stuff of jokes for the majority. Moreover, no one would dare to take alchemical pills randomly—before there was a very good reputation for the establishment, who would come to purchase alchemical pills? It was not possible even if the price was cheaper than average.
Furthermore, Ling Han did not want to snatch a niche in the market by waging a price competition; how could the alchemical pills concocted by the Alchemist Emperor be sold for a low price?
Could it be that he could only choose to reveal his status as an Earth Grade alchemist?
Ling Han shook his head. The claws of the Thousand Corpse Sect had already extended to the Desolate North and the Winter Moon Sect, so there was no guarantee that there were no spies or a branch of the Thousand Corpse Sect here. Ling Han ruined the plan that the Thousand Corpse Sect had put into place for many years at the Falling Moon Gorge—if he revealed his status, it would be very easy for them to find him.
If he revealed his status and if the Thousand Corpse Sect had spies here, they would definitely come and make trouble for him. Killing him should be impossible, but they could disturb his business, and this was also something that he did not want to see happen.
He changed his strategy, and had the restaurant bring out delicacies that were only available for a short period of time, and these foods were all made from the vegetables grown inside the Black Tower. They were free to sample.
After only two days, the business of the restaurant suddenly exploded to shocking levels.
As word of mouth spread, more and more people came, and there was no lack of extremely powerful martial artists among them. Furthermore, as long as they had tasted that precious food, it was naturally impossible for them to forget about it. Thus, they would willingly draw out great amounts of Origin Crystals to spend on the food.
These delicacies were very expensive. One vegetable dish would require one Origin Crystal, and the meat dishes were even more expensive as they required ten Origin Crystals. And Ling Han had yet to bring out the demonic beast meat that he was rearing inside the Black Tower, and the price for dishes made from this could be increased by another tenfold.
However, demonic beasts were very rare, so Ling Han planned to leave their meat only for his own people, and had no plans to bring it out to be sold.
Now that the business of the restaurant had improved, Ling Han guided this stream of customers to the pharmacy. In this way, the business of the pharmacy improved as well. Furthermore, the alchemical pills in the pharmacy were largely concocted by Li Si Chan, but those alchemical pills with the highest value originated from Ling Han’s hand. Once they used these pills, everyone praised their effectiveness.
In just over ten days, the two establishments had begun continuously earning Origin Crystals for Ling Han—the amount was extremely impressive. However, astronomical wealth always attracted covetous eyes. Ling Han had no backer and had just come to this city yet earned so much money, how could it be that he would not attract the envy of others?
A young man came to the restaurant, and demanded half their profits.
Chapter 372
Chapter 372: An Exorbitant Demand
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
“Call your boss out,” the young man commanded in a very haughty tone. There were two attendants behind him, and both in the Spiritual Ocean Tier.
In the Extreme Yang City, though the Spiritual Ocean Tier could not be considered as top-tier elites, they were not such commonplace thugs that a wave of a hand could gather a whole bunch of them, either. Thus, this young man should have quite a high social status, and was definitely no ordinary commoner.
The waiter hurriedly went to ask for the manager. The manager stepped out to talk with the young man, but was also waved off by the latter. He insisted that they find someone who could really make decisions in this place to talk to him.
As a result, Liu Yu Tong appeared to meet him.
When the young man saw Liu Yu Tong, his eyes lit up unconsciously. There were indeed many beautiful women in this world, but there were not many that were beautiful to the extent Liu Yu Tong was. Furthermore, such an extraordinary beauty was even in the higher ranks of the Gushing Spring Tier—she was rare goods.
“I go by the surname Lang, and my name is Jun Cai.” The young man withdrew his arrogant attitude and put on a refined and courteous manner.
“What guidance would Mr Lang like to offer?” Liu Yu Tong asked tonelessly.
Lang Jun Cai smiled slightly and asked, “How may I address you, Miss?”
This person had extremely thick skin, and was not
someone that could be easily dealt with.
Liu Yu Tong thought for a moment, then replied, “Liu.”
Lang Jun Cai was rebuffed neither gently nor roughly, yet did not get angry. He offered an open-mouthed smile. With teeth as white as snow, together with a handsome face, he looked very dashing. He said, “Miss Liu, I would like to make a business deal with you.”
“What kind of business deal?”
“I would like to have 50% of the profits of ‘Forget Not’,” Lang Jun Cai made an exorbitant demand.
Liu Yu Tong laughed in spite of herself and asked, “Is Mr Lang joking?”
Lang Jun Cai shook his head and smiled gracefully. “Don’t think that I am greedy. In truth, I originally wanted to ask for 70% of the profits, but for the sake of Miss Liu, I decided to cut down to 50%.” He immediately folded his arms over his chest and continued, “Please listen to what I can do for you first, Miss Liu.
“The Extreme Yang City is a huge cake that contains an astonishing amount of profits in it. However, this cake has already long been divided and distributed, and with Miss Liu’s forceful interference and getting a slice of your own now, this will make a considerable number of people displeased.
“Among these people, there are some that possess incredible power. Even with just a flick of a finger, they could make this restaurant suddenly collapse tomorrow.
“So, Miss Liu needs me.
“At the very least, I have some face in this Extreme Yang City. Thus, once you hang up the sign of the Lang Clan, I believe that there would be no one in the Extreme Yang City who would dare touch a chair or table here!
“Half the profits versus losing everything; for such a simple choice, Miss Liu should be clear on what to do, right?”
When he was finished speaking, Lang Jun Cai looked smilingly at Liu Yu Tong. Today, he only asked for 50% of the profits, but tomorrow, he would make this beauty into a captive beneath him, and by then, naturally, all the profits would belong to him.
Liu Yu Tong’s expression changed slightly. She came from a great clan, so she naturally knew that with the prosperous business Forget Not was making now, it would definitely attract covetous eyes. However, she had never thought that his day would come so fast.