Chapter 216: Chapter 216: The Purple Bead
The entire treasury was immense, estimated to be over a thousand square meters, with all sorts of treasures arranged in perfect order.
"Master Ye Xuan, this is where all the treasures my Liuyun Kingdom has accumulated over several hundred years are stored. We have everything from materials and secret manuals to weapons and Pills. Back then, King Chu and Master Yang An also came in to choose their rewards. King Chu selected a Fifth-level Profound Soldier—the very Flowing Water Sword he now wields—while Master Yang An chose a Tier Six Spirit Medicine. Please, Master Ye Xuan, feel free to choose whatever you desire."
SQUEAK SQUEAK!
Sensing the aura of the treasures, the Little Purple Mink suddenly appeared on Ye Xuan’s shoulder. Its purple, gem-like eyes burned with excitement, darting about greedily.
Zhao Jing smiled and led Ye Xuan to one side of the treasury.
"Master Ye Xuan, this area is where we keep various Cultivation Techniques and martial arts. It includes all sorts of pill formulas and ancient methods. I heard from Master Kuchen that you are also a Soul Refiner, Master Ye Xuan. We have some Soul Skills here as well."
Before Ye Xuan was a simple, ancient shelf, on which various Cultivation Technique manuals were placed. These manuals were quite old and had clearly been around for many years.
Ye Xuan didn’t even spare them a glance and walked straight past. For him, the Cultivation Technique manuals preserved in a place like the Liuyun Kingdom weren’t even worth mentioning.
’It seems Master Ye Xuan really does have a powerful expert guiding him,’ Zhao Jing thought, his heart skipping a beat. ’Otherwise, to a Martial Artist, Alchemist, or Soul Refiner, these Cultivation Technique manuals would be absolutely vital. He would never ignore them without even a second look.’
’Unless he already possesses a wealth of resources himself.’
Unlike Ye Xuan’s nonchalance, Yang An and the others couldn’t bear to leave, their eyes shining brightly.
Some of the pill formulas stored here were extremely rare, and there were even many ancient ones that not even the Alchemist Association possessed. The incomplete formula for the Spirit Suppressing Pill had been provided by Zhao Jing.
However, this was Master Ye Xuan’s turn to choose. As much as they coveted the items, all they could do was look.
"This is the materials section. All kinds of strange materials, Spirit Medicines, Crystal Stones, and Soul Crystals are here. The Yin Kui Wood and Milk Marrow Stone from before were taken from this area."
"Over here is the weapons section, which preserves the various Profound Soldiers and soul weapons the kingdom has obtained over hundreds of years. They were either forged by the Artifact Refining Masters that have emerged in the kingdom over the years or procured from other kingdoms."
"And finally, this is the Pill section, with all sorts of high-grade and rare Pills that the kingdom has acquired through various channels."
"We also have some array flags, Array Discs, talismans, and so on over here..."
Zhao Jing explained as he guided them.
"A Fifth Grade Heart-Nourishing Pill! This is a fine item. Even I can’t refine one. I wonder where His Majesty obtained it."
"Tsk tsk, the Fifth-Level Trapping Array, the Dragon-Binding Array. Once activated, even a Tier Five Martial Sect expert would have a hard time escaping it in under a few hours."
"The Heaven-Piercing Spear? Could it be the Fifth-level Profound Soldier used by Lord Yang Jun of the Spear Sect from a past generation? After several hundred years, its Profound Qi is still intact. What a fine treasure indeed."
Yang An and the others gasped in admiration, their faces flushed. They were completely dazzled by the treasures here.
Ye Xuan remained silent, merely observing.
First, he would definitely ignore the Pills. Ye Xuan didn’t even deign to look at such things. Next were the array flags, Array Discs, talismans, and the like, which he also didn’t care for.
Then came the weapons. Ye Xuan gave the Profound Soldiers a cursory scan. The best among them were only some Fifth-level Profound Soldiers and Fourth Grade soul weapons. Furthermore, in his expert opinion, the materials and refining techniques used for these Profound Soldiers were mediocre. While they might be considered masterpieces in the Liuyun Kingdom, they would be nothing more than common goods on the continent.
The only things that held any interest for Ye Xuan were the materials.
The materials placed in the Liuyun Kingdom’s treasury were at least Tier Five. The variety of Spirit Medicines and rare treasures was dazzling even to Ye Xuan.
Among them was a small portion of Tier Six materials, which exuded a dense aura.
However, Ye Xuan could also tell that while these materials were rare, it was only in a place like the Liuyun Kingdom. In the outside world, they wouldn’t be considered particularly precious.
Of course, this was just an assessment based on the perspective of his previous life. To his current self, these treasures were still quite helpful.
If he could, Ye Xuan would have loved to empty the entire treasury. But since Zhao Jing had said he could choose three items, he wouldn’t lose his composure over these things.
Therefore, he calmed his mind and began to carefully select the items that would be most suitable for him.
’Mengluohua Heart Fruit, one of the main ingredients for the Fifth Grade Pei Xuan Pill. It’s a great help to Martial Artists trying to break through to the Martial Sect Realm, increasing the success rate by more than thirty percent. A pity it’s useless to me.’
’Millennium Stone Heart Marrow, a wondrous Body Refining material. It can alter the strength of one’s Profound Veins, making them tough and unbreakable. But I’ve already used Milk Marrow Stone to enhance my Profound Veins, and the effects of this Millennium Stone Heart Marrow are inferior to it.’
’Purple Rhombus Gauze, one of the main ingredients for refining defensive soul weapons. It can block the corrosion of martial soul power. Not very useful for me either.’
’Heart Essence Demon Iron, an Artifact Refining material...’
Ye Xuan examined them one by one, discerning their properties carefully.
Suddenly, his gaze fell upon a six-colored plant, and his eyes lit up.
It was a plant about the size of a palm, with six-colored petals. A seventh petal had only grown about halfway. The stamen was in bloom, emitting a dense fluctuation of Profound Qi.
’It’s actually a Nine-Color Flower!’ Ye Xuan was delighted, but also felt a twinge of regret.
The Nine-Color Flower was a truly miraculous Spirit Medicine. It advanced one tier every ten years. In the beginning, it only had a single petal and was just a Tier One Spirit Medicine.
After ten years, it would grow a second petal, becoming a Tier Two Spirit Medicine.
In the third decade, it would become a Tier Three Spirit Medicine...
Once it possessed seven petals and became a Tier Seven Spirit Medicine, its growth would slow to once every hundred years, continuing until all nine colors bloomed. Only then would it be fully mature, becoming a legendary Tier Nine Emperor Level Spirit Medicine.
This Nine-Color Flower currently had only six and a half petals. It had clearly been growing for just over sixty years before being picked, which was why Ye Xuan felt it was such a pity.
’Even if they couldn’t wait two or three hundred years, if they had just waited a few more years to pick it after the seventh petal grew, its value would be more than ten times higher than it is now.’
What excited him, however, was the effect of the Nine-Color Flower. It had a heaven-defying enhancement effect on the physical body. The Ninth Grade Nirvana Pill used a nine-colored flower as its main ingredient, and the Eighth Grade Emperor Body Pill similarly used an eight-colored flower.
As for a six-colored flower, it could be used to refine the Sixth Grade Profound Venerable Pill, which could cause a Martial Artist’s physical strength to advance by leaps and bounds.
Although the current Ye Xuan couldn’t yet refine Sixth Grade Pills, he could directly use the six-colored flower to advance his Body Refining Technique, the Nine Transformations Sacred Body, from the First Transformation to the Second Transformation.
Taking the six-colored flower in his hand, Ye Xuan had selected his first treasure.
"Master Xuan, what kind of treasure is this Tier Six Spirit Medicine? To think it could catch your interest!"
Seeing that Ye Xuan had spent so long choosing, only to pick such a Spirit Medicine, Hua Luoxuan couldn’t help but ask.
In truth, like the Yin Kui Wood and Milk Marrow Stone, Hua Luoxuan and the others didn’t recognize many of the items here. They had only been collected because their tier could be identified from the Profound Qi fluctuations of the Spirit Medicines.
When Ye Xuan explained the growth characteristics and effects of the six-colored flower, the entire group was flabbergasted.
"Does that mean we destroyed a future Tier Nine Emperor Level Spirit Medicine? Even if it had been picked just a few years later, it would have been a heaven-defying Tier Seven Spirit Medicine!"
Yang An and the others gulped, completely dumbfounded, their expressions filled with regret.
"Your Majesty, where was this six-colored flower picked?"
Hearing their words, something clicked in Ye Xuan’s mind, and he asked the question.
A place that could nurture a six-colored flower was definitely a location with extremely abundant Profound Qi. In such a place, other rare Spirit Medicines besides the six-colored flower would usually appear.
"This six-colored flower was brought back from the Floating Light Secret Realm by one of the kingdom’s Soul Refiners after the Floating Light Assembly ten years ago."
’The Floating Light Secret Realm again!’
Ye Xuan’s brows twitched.
This time, he was truly curious. If he had been less than enthusiastic when Elder Kuchen asked him to participate in the Floating Light Assembly before, he now found himself looking forward to it.
A secret realm that could produce rare Spirit Medicines like Yin Kui Wood, Milk Marrow Stone, and the six-colored flower could not possibly be just a low-level secret realm.
Especially the six-colored flower, a Spirit Medicine with the potential to grow into a Tier Nine Emperor Level item. The environmental requirements for it were anything but ordinary.
SQUEAK SQUEAK!
Just then, the Little Purple Mink on Ye Xuan’s shoulder seemed to sense something and suddenly shot forward.
SWOOSH!
It arrived at a shelf and picked up an inconspicuous little bead. Its gem-like purple eyes gleamed as it looked overjoyed.
At the same time, it gestured wildly at Ye Xuan, as if telling him to get this treasure for it.
"Hm? What’s this treasure?"
Ye Xuan was startled and swept his senses over it. The mysterious little bead was only the size of a pinky fingernail. It was pale purple and covered in a layer of dust, making it extremely inconspicuous. If the Little Purple Mink hadn’t pointed it out, he would never have noticed it.
However, no matter how he scanned it with his Profound Sense or Soul Sense, the little bead seemed completely ordinary. Aside from being unable to identify its material, there was nothing special about it at all.
"What’s the use of this thing? Put it back."
Ye Xuan was unwilling to choose such a useless little bead.
SQUEAK SQUEAK!
The Little Purple Mink grew anxious. It held up the small bead, trying to convey its importance.
’Could it really be some kind of treasure?’
Ye Xuan frowned. The Little Purple Mink’s origins were extraordinary, and he couldn’t even identify the material of the small purple bead. For a moment, he grew suspicious.
"Your Majesty, this little purple bead..."
He chose to ask Zhao Jing.
Zhao Jing was also completely baffled. He smiled wryly and said, "Master Ye Xuan, I have no idea what that little bead is. If your pet hadn’t dug it out, I wouldn’t even have remembered we had such a thing. But as you know, this treasury holds my kingdom’s accumulations over several hundred years. It’s quite possible one of my ancestors placed it here long ago."
Ye Xuan couldn’t help but hesitate.
