Chapitre 238: Purchasing Yellow Essence Mushroom
Translator: Cinder Translations
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"Master Chen, it's getting late, and the market has been rather unsettled lately. Why not rest at the Hehuan Tower tonight and leave early tomorrow?" A Yao suggested.
It was now deep into the night, and outside, it was pitch black.
"Thank you for your kindness, A Yao, but I still have matters to attend to, so I won't trouble you further."
Song Wen stepped down the stairs and quickly left the Hehuan Heavenly Spring Courtyard.
He did not return to his residence but headed outside the market, walking for several miles until he found a foothill, where he activated his escape light.
With one hand gripping the storage bag and the other touching his somewhat weak waist, the image of the mature woman flashed through his mind. Song Wen secretly thought:
"Women truly are like red powder and dry bones; the more beautiful they are, the more dangerous they become."
From now on, he should keep his distance from women and the Hehuan Sect; they were too frightening.
After confirming there were no issues with the spirit stones in the storage bag, he transferred them to his storage ring, casually tossing the bag into a crevice between the rocks.
Then, he activated the black hole of his spiritual awareness to devour the mark.
After doing all this, Song Wen activated the "Blood Escape Technique" and disappeared without a trace.
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In the back courtyard of the Hehuan Heavenly Spring Courtyard.
A Yao was bowing respectfully, while facing her was the mature woman.
"Master, that Master Chen has left."
At this moment, the mature woman had returned to her ethereal fairy appearance and inquired.
"Is his surname Chen?"
"That young master said his name is Chen Feihe, but whether it's his real name, I don't know."
The mature woman nodded noncommittally.
Suddenly, her expression changed to one of surprise.
The mark had vanished!
Was he perhaps a disciple of some major sect? Did he have a Nascent Soul elder behind him to help him eliminate the mark?
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The next day, in the early morning.
Disguised as Yan Feng, Song Wen entered the East Huafang Market, where he purchased some spiritual herbs needed for refining Profound Qi Pills, along with items required for daily living, before returning to his residence.
He arranged the daily living supplies in their expected places, pretending to be someone who often cooked and brewed tea.
In the underground of his room, Song Wen silently dug out a hidden chamber.
He set up the "Spirit Concealment Formation" and "Nine Palaces Yin Array," and began trying to refine the Profound Qi Pills.
Now that he had disguised himself as a late-stage Qi Refinement alchemist, he was only familiar with Blood Qi pills and Qi Gathering pills, which made it somewhat difficult for others to trust him.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
After continuously failing more than ten times to refine the Profound Qi Pills, Song Wen shook his head in frustration.
He had exhausted all the medicinal materials for the Profound Qi Pills.
Refining the Profound Qi Pills was more difficult than he had imagined.
After a moment of closed-eye meditation, Song Wen took out the spiritual herbs needed for refining the "Explosive Blood Pill."
His cultivation had soared, but his foundation was somewhat unstable, so it wasn't advisable to take pills to increase his cultivation temporarily.
However, improving the "Explosive Blood Pill" wouldn't succeed in a short time.
It was better to prepare in advance and be ready for any situation.
Once his cultivation stabilized, he could research the improvements to the Explosive Blood Pill rather than waiting until the last minute.
In his hand was a regular Yellow Essence Mushroom, while the rest had been obtained from the Su family's spirit field, carrying a unique and mysterious aura.
He first tried to refine the regular Yellow Essence Mushroom, melting the spiritual herbs and extracting the medicinal liquid, successfully combining various medicinal liquids.
However, just as he was about to start condensing the pill, the medicinal liquid suddenly went out of control, and its potency rapidly dissipated.
"Ah! Not again."
Song Wen sighed lightly.
He took out a Yellow Essence Mushroom obtained from the Su family and continued to try again.
When he refined the Yellow Essence Mushroom and extracted the medicinal liquid, a trace of energy was also extracted.
However, when he attempted to fuse the Yellow Essence Mushroom medicinal liquid with other auxiliary medicinal liquids, there was a loud "bang," and the furnace exploded.
Song Wen was stunned; it was completely unexpected for the fusion step to cause an explosion.
Not understanding the reason behind this, he took out another Yellow Essence Mushroom and continued trying.
Again, when he fused the medicinal liquids, the furnace exploded once more.
Song Wen furrowed his brow: the Yellow Essence Mushroom cultivated by the Su family contained a trace of morning dew energy, which seemed unsuitable for alchemy.
"It looks like I need to buy some regular Yellow Essence Mushroom," he thought.
Two hours later.
Song Wen searched through most of the spirit medicine shops and scattered cultivator stalls in the market but couldn't find a single Yellow Essence Mushroom. Instead, he spent over a thousand spirit stones to buy materials for the Profound Qi Pills.
Stepping out of the market, Song Wen headed toward the ghost market in the mountain stream.
At the witching hour (12-3AM), Song Wen entered the largest spirit medicine shop in the ghost market.
"Friend, what kind of spirit medicine are you looking to buy?" asked a middle-aged male cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refinement.
"Do you have Yellow Essence Mushroom for sale?" Song Wen asked.
The middle-aged male cultivator glanced around, ensuring there was no one else in the shop, then lowered his voice to reply.
"You've come to the right place; I'm the only one in the entire ghost market who supplies Yellow Essence Mushroom regularly. How many do you need with what age of medicinal properties?"
Song Wen did not doubt the other's words.
He had just visited other spirit medicine shops in the ghost market, none of which had Yellow Essence Mushroom for sale. However, he had bought a thirty-year-old Yellow Essence Mushroom for a hundred spirit stones from a scattered cultivator.
That Yellow Essence Mushroom was a chance find for the scattered cultivator in the wild and couldn't be supplied regularly, which wouldn't satisfy Song Wen's needs.
"Any that are above twenty years old will do," he replied, adding, "The more, the better."
The male cultivator said, "I happen to have several Yellow Essence Mushroom here, all forty years old."
"How many spirit stones for each?" Song Wen asked.
"Three hundred spirit stones per stock," the male cultivator quoted.
Song Wen frowned slightly. "Friend, this price seems a bit steep."
He thought a more reasonable price should be around two hundred spirit stones.
Upon hearing this, the male cultivator didn't speak but instead communicated via sound transmission.
"Friend, to be honest, the Yellow Essence Mushroom here is bought at a high price from the Beastmaster Sect, and there are only ten stocks available each month, so the price cannot be low."
Song Wen said, "Can I take a look at the Yellow Essence Mushroom? If there's no problem, I'll take them all."
The male cultivator's eyes brightened, and he produced a jade box over two feet long, opening a small gap to present it to Song Wen.
Song Wen looked up and saw that the jade box neatly contained several Yellow Essence Mushroom.
After confirming there were no issues with the Yellow Essence Mushroom, Song Wen raised his hand, and a pile of spirit stones floated into the air.
The number of spirit stones was exactly one thousand and one.
The male cultivator quickly used his spiritual power to catch the spirit stones and stored them in his waist pouch.
After putting away the jade box, Song Wen asked, "Friend, when will the next batch of Yellow Essence Mushroom arrive? I'll take them all at this price."
The male cultivator showed a troubled expression. "Friend, that might not be possible. There's a regular customer who pre-ordered six of them. The most I can offer you each month is four. One of the ones I just sold to you was also leftover from last month."
Song Wen inquired, "When will the Yellow Essence Mushroom arrive? I'll come to pick them up then."
The male cultivator replied, "At the beginning of each month, during the night."
Song Wen nodded and turned to leave the spirit medicine shop.
Four Yellow Essence Mushroom each month was not enough for him.
He was exploring the formula for the Explosive Blood Pill and had a great demand for Yellow Essence Mushroom. Even if he refined pills every two days, he would need at least ten Yellow Essence Mushroom.
However, without being able to buy more Yellow Essence Mushroom, Song Wen had no other options.
He also bought some materials for the Beast Refining Pill, sold a batch of Blood Spirit Crystals, and exchanged them for ten thousand spirit stones. Then, he changed his appearance and headed to a shop that sold information.
(End of the Chapter)
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