It was similar to how humans had a hundred years’ lifespan—how many mortals could live fully to a hundred years?
Moreover, there were so many people who wanted to eat ginseng in the world; the greater its age, the rarer it was. A hundred years old ginseng could be seen as a Flower Blossom Tier expert, pitifully scarce; above five hundred years old was like a Deity Transformation Tier elite, and a thousand years old one was like a Shattering Void Tier—countable with one’s fingers.
This boy called out a thousand-year-old treasured medicine from the outset—it had to be a joke.
Even that old man was somewhat unbelieving, and said, “Youngster, are you serious?”
Ling Han raised his hand, then threw out a ginseng, and said, “You can verify.”
The old man caught and examined the ginseng closely. In reality, he also didn’t really know the good from the bad, but a thousand-year-old ginseng’s medicinal powers were deep and could be sensed with just a small look. The old man was immediately certain that even if this wasn’t a thousand years old, it had at least 800-900 years of age.
This was enough to extend his life more than 30 years!
He was obviously exalted, and said, “Alright, this bottle belongs to you!”
“Hold it!” the deprecating man earlier spoke up, and gazed threateningly at Ling Han. He then paused momentarily before speaking, “I’ll offer three seven hundred years old Yellow Dragon Ginseng.”
Seven hundred years old Yellow Dragon Ginseng were obviously incomparable to a thousand years old White Jade Ginseng, but with three stalks, it obviously surpassed the white jade ginseng.
Everyone was puzzled. Didn’t you say that this bottle was tattered and worthless? Why have you taken out three treasured medicines to trade for it? They immediately understood that the man earlier had intentionally deprecated it in order to decrease the competition and to win the treasured tool at the lowest price.
Now, met with a powerful contender, he still wanted the treasured bottle, so he could only increase the price.
For Ling Han, a thousand years old ginseng was of little value, but he also didn’t want to waste it arbitrarily. After all, this bottle was certainly too damaged, and other than referencing the techniques of the ancient times, it almost had no use.
But why was this man so aggressive, even using unscrupulous means?
Ling Han activated the Eye of Truth and looked towards the bottle; the bottle’s body was certainly extremely damaged, and even if it could still unleash its might, it would probably break down first.
However, at the bottom of the bottle was a layer of dazzling light, intense like a small sun, almost blinding his eyes.
A treasure!
Ling Han was stirred up inside. Those were vein-like patterns, so dazzling that even he couldn’t bear it; they had to be remarkable!
He no longer hesitated. Even if that bottle wasn’t usable at all, the vein-like patterns alone were worth it. He threw out another thousand years old ginseng, and said, “Then I’ll use two.”
Counting on years, three seven hundred years old Yellow Dragon Ginsengs were above two thousand years old White Jade Ginseng, but considering that the effects of the life-extending medicine reduced progressively, then the effect of three Yellow Dragon Ginsengs were completely incomparable to two thousand years old White Jade Ginsengs.
Anyone could do such a calculation. The old man was obviously immediately touched, but still looked towards that man… he wanted to see whether he was going to raise the price. Anyway, he was going to sell to the highest bidder to maximize the gains.
That man looked at Ling Han, and said, “I’ll add another Heart Protection Pill!”
Heart Protection Pill, an extremely precious medicinal pill that could save the lives of martial artists below the Deity Transformation Tier no matter how heavy their injury was, and help them slowly recover from their injuries; amongst medium level Earth Grade medicinal pills, it was also amongst the finest.
The old man instantly felt a rush of excitement. With such a spirit pill, he could adventure in historic sites, and maybe seize an opportunity to advance into the Deity Transformation Tier, seizing two hundred years of life more from the heavens; this was much more powerful than any life-extending spirit medicine.
Ling Han laughed—competing with Alchemy Emperor using medicinal pills? Damn, Heaven Grade medicinal pills he indeed lacked the materials to refine, but Earth Grade medicinal pills he’d got a dime a dozen. He really wanted to compete?
“I’ll add two more Heart Protection Pills,” he said.
Pu!
Many people in the surroundings already spurted out their saliva. These two guys were talking about Earth Grade medicinal pills, so why did they feel so cheap like average quality goods?
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Fire was about to burst out of that man’s gaze as he said, “I’m Nong Xue Yun. My great great ancestor is the Heaven Grade alchemist Nong Bo Xin! Brat, are you sure you want to contest with me?”
Everyone gave an “oh.” No wonder this person could take out medium level Earth Grade medicinal pills, turned out he had a Heaven Grade great ancestor.
Ling Han smiled faintly, and said, “We’re buying something now; obviously the one who offers the higher price wins. Why are you bringing up your great ancestor?”
“Fine! You win!” Nong Xue Yun stared fiercely at Ling Han and turned to leave.
Everyone couldn’t help but break into hoots of laughter. This person had terrible moral character and intentionally deprecated the bottle earlier, making many people give up on the idea of contesting. Now that he couldn’t win, he parted with threatening words, making a joke of himself for nothing.
Ling Han smiled faintly, and threw a jade bottle towards the old man before he picked up the Refine Celestial Bottle.
The old man hurriedly opened the bottle cork and dumped out a medicinal pill to examine, but he wasn’t an expert in this area. Although he saw the vein-like patterns closely interwoven on the medical pill, grand and magnificent, he was completely unaware of exactly what medicine it was.
“Don’t worry, I wouldn’t cheat you!” Ling Han said with a smile.
The old man was obviously unbelieving, but firstly, the two thousand years old White Jade Ginseng already reached his expected price, and secondly, these two medicinal pills also seemed extremely magnificent, unlikely to be of ordinary grade, so he was obviously profiting here anyway.
Anyway, even if he accepted Nong Xue Yun’s offer, how would he confirm that the other party’s medicinal pills were genuine?
He packed up the street stall. Since he’d already achieved his objective, it was obviously better to run off so as to avoid being targeted by others. Although he was at the Spiritual Infant Tier, his Qi and blood were severely exhausted, and his battle prowess was at most one-hundredth of his peak days, so in reality, he was only equivalent to a Flower Blossom Tier expert.
The youngsters here were all geniuses, and a Flower Blossom Tier elite among them could probably defeat him, so he was obviously afraid of being robbed.
Established by customary convention, everyone spent money to buy things, but if someone were really to be robbed, who would actually come forward to stand up for him?
So, the earlier he left, the more assured he’d be.
Ling Han smiled as he weighed the bottle in his hand and examined it closely with the Eye of Truth, seeing that the bottom of the bottle had a subtle difference from the body of the bottle—probably not an integral part of the structure.
The bottom of the bottle was older than the rest, and it was as if someone had intentionally made the bottle over it afterwards for the sake of concealing it.
‘Interesting,’ he thought. It should be taken into Black Tower and studied carefully.
He put away the bottle and saw that many people were staring at him.
Wealth shouldn’t be revealed inadvertently; he took out two
thousand years old ginsengs and two Heart Protection Pills without a care, obviously making many people who wanted to make some ill-gotten gains have ideas about him. However, Ling Han didn’t care. If anyone were to rob him, he wouldn’t mind robbing them in turn till they didn’t even have their underpants left.
“Young gentleman, my lady has sent you a written invitation, inviting you to the attend banquet at night.” Just as Ling Han was about to leave, a beautiful servant girl walked over and delivered a pink invitation, which had a faint fragrance wafting from it.
Ling Han didn’t immediately accept, but instead asked, “Who’s your lady?”
“Boy, you don’t even know Lady Small Peach?” Someone sneered. “Lady Small Peach is Lady Yi Yun’s personal servant girl!”
“What, Lady Yi Yun!?”
“Wang Family’s pearl, Lady Yi Yun?”
“Rumor has it, Lady Yi Yun is not only beautiful like a fairy, but also proficient in music, and even more so an exceptional talent of martial arts. At nine, she was recruited into the Azure Thunder Sect as an exception, and although her reputation falls short of Dong Ling Er’s, if we mention the ten greatest beauties in the middle state, she’s definitely famous amongst them.”
“Beautiful as a fairy, battle prowess like a goddess, an unparalleled woman!”
Everyone exclaimed with admiration. Wang Yi Yun obviously received the direct entry to the Restore Heaven Academy and actually hosted a banquet nearby… how truly extravagant!
“The Wang Family is also an influential martial arts family that has an extremely long legacy. It’s said that the great ancestor of the Wang Family is still alive, having Heaven Tier cultivation, but it’s probably impossible for them to take the last step, advancing into Shattering Void Tier.”
“With Wang Family’s financial ability, constructing a temporary palace wouldn’t be something difficult.”
“Heh, so envious. If only I could also go check out the banquet… There definitely isn’t a lack of geniuses that have direct entry to the Restore Heaven Academy among the invitees.”
“But why can this guy get receive an invitation? Doesn’t seem like he’s all that impressive, right”
Everyone looked at Ling Han, unable to discover anything surprising about him.
Ling Han pondered, but accepted the invitation, and said, “Alright, then I’ll go have a look at night.”
The servant girl bowed and turned to leave. Everyone hurriedly made way, treating her with great respect, which magnified Wang Yi Yun’s dominance.
It couldn’t be helped that she received direct entry qualifications from the Restore Heaven Academy, right? This qualification was equivalent to dividing people into layers. Those who received qualification were first grade, and those who didn’t were second and third grade.
“Boy, let Uncle Rabbit see that bottle!” The rabbit suddenly became interested in that bottle.
“Oh, why?” Ling Han asked thoughtlessly.
“Earlier, it was that Nong whatever, and now someone’s inviting you to attend a banquet… it’s obviously not because they know of your strength, but because they’re targeting that bottle. At the banquet, they’ll definitely force you to hand it over, so Uncle Rabbit’s become interested,” the rabbit said.
Ling Han was astounded, and said, “Your intelligence surprisingly isn’t low!”
“Of course, Uncle Rabbit’s brain is unprecedented in the last five hundred years and unseen in the future five hundred years, of course its tip-top… Wait, you mean, you always thought that Uncle Rabbit was a joke?” The rabbit suddenly came to a realization.
Ling Han curled his lips, and said, “You said that yourself.”
“You dare insult your Uncle Rabbit, I’ll bestow you a bloody face— ah!” The rabbit thought to sharpen its claws and pounce at Ling Han, but Hu Niu bit onto its tail by surprise, making it scream in pain again.
“Don’t be harsh to Niu’s Ling, or else Niu’ll eat you!” Hu Niu looked extremely fierce.
The rabbit feared no one but Hu Niu, instantly keeping silent.
Since there was still some time before night, Ling Han came to a remote place, and then flashed into the Black Tower.
“Hm, where’s that guy?” The rabbit opened wide its bright red eyes.
“There, walked into the forest.” Hu Niu cooked up a lie casually.
The rabbit was unbelieving, but Ling Han certainly disappeared without a trace; it felt extremely strange.
After enetering the Black Tower, Ling Han began studying the Refine Celestial Bottle.
This definitely couldn’t refine celestials!
Ling Han said inwardly, and resolutely, pa, he shattered the body of the bottle.
As expected, the body of the bottle was certainly of inferior quality, at most equivalent to forth tier rare metals; with Ling Han’s current physique and brute force, it was easily smashed into pieces. Weng, the bottom of the bottle floated into the air. Complex vein-like patterns could be seen on the face that was originally facing the inside of the bottle, and they looked like dao flowers, making one lost in thought at first glance.
“What is this thing?!” Ling Han said, extremely surprised.
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Whether it was too lazy to pay attention or lost its memory and didn’t know at all, the Small Tower didn’t respond.
Ling Han didn’t receive a reply, but wasn’t disappointed. He originally asked casually, and didn’t really expect to receive an answer. He carefully studied these vein-like patterns, deliberating over the profoundness within.
“I seem to somewhat understand,” Ling Han said to himself.
The bottom of this bottle itself was actually a Spirit Tool. After he poured in his divine sense, the Spirit Tool’s mysteriousness emerged before him.
“That old man said this was Refine Celestial Bottle… obviously too overblown.
“But, the bottom of this bottle is flat on the outside and dented on the inside. In fact, it’s a bowl. It has its own space internally and can absorb all things to refine, turning them into the most original essence energy!
“Hm, isn’t this equivalent to refining Origin Crystals?”
Ling Han was extremely surprised. He kept examining this bowl; it only looked like a tiny stone bowl. Its rim was only the size of a palm, but the inside could form an extremely large space, quite miraculous.
He pulled out five spirit medicines and then unleashed the stone bowl. As spirit power surged within, the vein-like patterns on the bowl’s body immediately lit up, and the entire stone bowl became more resplendent, emitting a powerful attraction.
Those five spirit medicines immediately flew into the air, and xiu, they entered into the bowl.
As expected, the internal part had another space. The spirit medicine was obviously larger than the stone bowl, but the stone bowl devoured it completely without difficutly.
In a short while, Ling Han smelled a light fragrance that spread from within the stone bowl. Looking again, he saw that the spirit medicine was no longer within the bowl, but had turned into a drop of light green liquid, emitting a mentally refreshing fragrance.
Those were five spirit medicines, and each one was of fifth tier, but were actually condensed into a drop of medicinal liquid; this was too ridiculous.
Ling Han withdrew his Origin Power. The stone bowl’s brilliance instantly faded, becoming extremely plain and looking like an old-fashioned ancient tableware.
He turned over the stone bowl and poured it towards his own mouth. That light green liquid slowly fell, landing with a pa into his mouth. Instantly, an indescribable fragrance overflowed in his mouth, making him feel as if he were about to ascend to heaven and become an immortal.
However, even more surprising was the extremely pure energy that followed down his throat and entered his stomach, and then spread, circulating all over his body.
“Such pure medicinal power!” Ling Han exclaimed. Normally speaking
, no matter whether it was spirit medicine or medicinal pills, the majority could only have the effect of accumulating Origin Power. However, starting from the Flower Blossom Tier, what martial artists needed more was the comprehension of Dao.
For example, at the Flower Blossom Tier, if they wanted their dao flower to grow, they had to engrave martial intent on it; this was nourishment.
A powerful alchemist such as Ling Han could extract the heaven and earth’s intent from the medicinal ingredients, and after consuming it, he could connect with the dao, from there advancing the progression of martial arts.
However, this stone bowl also had the same effect. The spiritual liquid had vein-like patterns of the dao, extremely surprising.
“Its equivalent to a great alchemist! Moreover, after the fifth-tier ingredients were purified, it actually reached the effects of the sixth tier. This even surpasses the effects of medicinal pills!
“Not only medicinal ingredients can be refined, even spirit stones and rare metals too!
“Even… living creatures!
“I understand now why forebears sealed it in another Spirit Tool to conceal its existence—this thing is truly nature-defying, and even upsets the peace of nature. If it fell into the hands of an immoral person, refining the common people to nourish oneself, that would be too unjust!”
Ling Han sighed. The forebears were probably unwilling to destroy such a priceless treasure and left this pearl in the dark, sealing it within another Spirit Tool.
“Tools themselves have no distinction of good or bad, it all depends on the users’ intentions,” Ling Han said sternly. “I definitely won’t use this to plot against the world’s people, or else, even if I could receive an endless stream of spiritual liquid, with my heart covered by a demonic temptation, how far would I be able to advance in martial arts?”
He cultivated the road of the strongest, not the heartless nor the slaughterer. Using this stone bowl to kill all living things would actually rather suit the latter two.
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