Chapter – 189 Concocting mysterious level immortality pill
Although Long Yu didn’t know anything about concocting immortality pills, he was sure that Old White would definitely know how to concoct pills from the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.
The appearance of Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s had induced a surge of commotion inside the Lu auction house.
Most of the people present inside the auction house had never seen a mysterious level treasure in their entire lives. Let alone any mysterious level immortality pill or battle weapon, a mysterious level herb was enough to make them gaze with their eyes wide open!
“Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s! The base price is five crystal nuclei and the price won’t increase by any less than one crystal nucleus. The bid begins now!”
The young girl looked at the fiery environment inside the auction arena, smiled faintly and announced the commencement of the bidding.
“Five crystal nuclei!”
“Six crystal nuclei!”
……..
“Ten crystal nuclei!”
The price rocketed to new heights rapidly. Long Yu observed that the chief of the Imperial w.a.n.g clan, w.a.n.g Jue, was among the people who were bidding for the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.
“Eleven crystal nuclei!”
Long Yu didn’t lose his composure as he watched the bids rising high, since he knew in his heart that the price of this Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s was definitely going to be higher than ten crystal nuclei.
On the other side of the auction arena, w.a.n.g Jue showed a surprised expression, as if he didn’t expect that the people would raise the bid to this level.
The actual value of Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s was about fifteen crystal nuclei. However, its true value would come up once it was concocted into an immortality pill by an alchemist.
This was the only reason that in spite of being a mysterious level herb, there were not a lot of people who were bidding for Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.
If the alchemist failed, the herb would be useless and a huge amount of money would go in vain.
“Twelve crystal nuclei!”
w.a.n.g Jue continued increasing the bid.
“Thirteen crystal nuclei!”
Long Yu smiled as he raised the bid without any hesitation.
Such a confident decision made w.a.n.g Jue a bit hesitant. He didn’t know that it was actually Long Yu who had raised the bid, so he ended up wondering whether this person was some alchemist himself.
For only an alchemist could so decisively raise the bid for a medicinal herb like Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.
“I give up!”
Wan Jue said as he shook his head bitterly. Although the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s hadn’t reached its actual price yet, he didn’t want to raise the bid any longer as it was a huge risk.
Meanwhile, w.a.n.g Jue was having other thoughts in his mind. He had been informed that Long Yu and Liu Yuan were last seen entering the Lu auction house. However, he had gone through the whole lot of people present inside the auction house; Long Yu and Liu Yuan were nowhere to be seen.
Were they present among the distinguished guests?
The auction house belonged to the aristocratic Lu clan, where even the powerful w.a.n.g Jue couldn’t dare to act rashly. It was impossible to inquire about the distinguished guests present in the auction arena.
w.a.n.g Jue didn’t wait for the auction to be finished. After losing the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s to Long Yu, he immediately stood up and left the place.
He had to return to the w.a.n.g clan palace to deploy troops to surround the auction house and search thoroughly for Long Yu and Liu Yuan. He couldn’t let them escape from him.
He wanted to find Long Yu and Liu Yuan to inquire about the whereabouts of w.a.n.g Yuanchen and the old bodyguard, but how could it be so easy finding them when they were actually hiding inside the privileged cabins?
As long as Long Yu was inside the auction house, there was no way he could escape once the auction house was surrounded by w.a.n.g family’s guards.
Although he hadn’t noticed w.a.n.g Jue leaving, Long Yu knew in his heart that it was almost the time that he would leave the auction house.
Long Yu moved towards the back exit of the auction house along with Liu Yuan. This exit was meant for the distinguished guests to facilitate their smooth entry and exit. Soon, he found Lu Fu waiting for them there.
“Senior Lu, I want to leave now.”
Long Yu said to Lu Fu.
“Here’s the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s, for thirteen crystal nuclei.”
Lu Fu said with a sly smile of a businessman.
“Here are eight nuclei. The Xinghai sword was sold for 50,000 crystal coins, of which 45,000 crystal coins are mine, right?”
Long Yu asked with a smile.
“Yes, but it still lacks 5000 crystal coins.”
Lu Fu was not at all lenient when it came to his business.
“This is a high grade spiritual level flexible armor. Would this armor along with these battle weapons make up for 5000 crystal coins?”
Long Yu took out the spiritual level soft armor that he had taken from w.a.n.g Yuanchen’s corpse, as well as some of the other battle weapons that he had collected from the corpses of w.a.n.g Yuanchen’s bodyguards.
The value of these goods summed up to more than 5000 crystal coins!
After all, a high grade spiritual level soft armor along with a long sword of the same level was a perfect but rare match. No doubt it was very popular among the martial artists, who would pay any amount to get the armor and the sword together.
“Is this… w.a.n.g Yuanchen’s flexible armor?”
As soon as Lu Fu laid his eyes on the soft armor, he began to tremble with fear.
He had clearly recognized that the armor was undoubtedly w.a.n.g Yuanchen’s. This implied that w.a.n.g Yuanchen, as well as his old bodyguard, had both died at the hands of Long Yu.
No wonder the chief of w.a.n.g clan, w.a.n.g Jue, appeared so gloomy!
Lu Fu would certainly not say anything about it to w.a.n.g Jue. He soon regained his composure, smiled and said, “Very well, here is your Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.”
After taking w.a.n.g Yuanchen’s armor from Long Yu, Lu Fu handed him the jade box that contained the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.
Lu Fu took w.a.n.g Yuanchen’s armor and at an earlier instance, he had even taken Luo Zixing’s whip because Lu clan’s business was not limited to the Tang kingdom.
Although these articles couldn’t be sold inside the Tang kingdom, they could still be shipped overseas where various martial artists would readily buy them in exchange of some battle weapons of the same strength level.
The Lu auction house could sell the weapons so collected inside the Tang kingdom, gaining a lot of money.
No wonder the Lu clan had grown into one of the four large aristocratic families of the Imperial city.
And which family was the richest of them all?
Undoubtedly, the Lu clan.
Although the other three families were quite rich and enterprising themselves, their wealth was nothing compared to the wealth of the Lu clan.
After receiving the Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s and saying goodbye to Lu Fu, Long Yu left the auction house along with Liu Yuan through the back exit.
Liu Yuan didn’t inquire Long Yu as to from where did he get so much money to buy a precious herb like Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s. Although she had some doubts, she didn’t think it wise to meddle in other people’s business.
“Are you coming with me to the Divine Valley inn?”
Long Yu asked.
“Um.”
After hesitating a little, Liu Yuan finally nodded in compliance.
It was not like Liu Yuan wanted to stay and spend more time with Long Yu. The fused lunar tablet was still with Long Yu and she didn’t want to leave until they decided which one of them was going to comprehend the lunar tablet.
Moreover, she knew that by now the entire w.a.n.g clan would be searching for the party that w.a.n.g Yaunchen took with him and they might capture her or Long Yu to ask their whereabouts. While returning to Liu clan mansion would be inappropriate, she didn’t want to return to her Allure sect either. So, temporarily, she had to stay with Long Yu.
Shortly after they left the auction house, Wan Jue reached there along with his troops, surrounded the entire Lu auction house and began inquiring each and every person that left the auction house about Long Yu and Liu Yuan.
Such behavior would surely cause a conflict between Lu Fu and w.a.n.g Jue. However, the matter would stay away from Long Yu.
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The Divine Valley Inn.
The news of Long Yu coming back to the inn with Liu Yuan spread like wildfire among the disciples of the Zhentian sect and caught the attention of several female disciples, especially Liao Lele and Feng Yuxin.
Watching Liu Yuan accompany Long Yu had made Liao Lele completely hostile!
“Brother Long, who is she?”
Feng Yuxin asked Long Yu with a smile. She worshiped Long Yu for he had saved her clan, while Liao Lele was just her friend.
“This is Liu Yuan, a senior disciple of Allure sect.”
Long Yu introduced Liu Yuan to his fellow disciples.
“Imperial city’s talented Liu Yuan, oh, I have heard so much about you!”
Bu Xing smiled as he looked at Long Yu and Liu Yuan. He believed that they were a perfect match and could achieve great feats if they continue staying together.
“Why, it’s Bu… fellow apprentice!”
Liu Yuan was about to take Bu Xing’s name but she timely noticed what she was about to say and changed her statement. Otherwise, Bu Xing would have gone mad with rage.
Bu Xing had always abstained from his name!
“Yes.”
Long Yu nodded, indicating to Liu Yuan that she had guessed right.
“Brother Long Yu, I’ll stay out tonight. The room is all yours.”
Bu Xing said with a mischievous smile.
Long Yu immediately understood that Bu Xing had mistakenly a.s.sumed that Long Yu and Liu Yuan have a relationship!
“Thank you, brother.”
Long Yu couldn’t refuse. After all, the room would be much better in Liu Yuan’s company.
However, this led to a huge misunderstanding among the disciples of the Zhentian sect.
“Where’s Old White?”
Long Yu’s vision shifted to the two girls standing nearby – Liao Lele and Feng Yuxin.
“He’s in his room. What’s the matter, Brother Long?”
Feng Yuxin’s eyes shone brightly as she replied.
“I have obtained some medicinal herbs. I want him to concoct some immortality pills for me.”
Long Yu told her.
“Come with me.”
Feng Yuxin nodded and led Long Yu to Old White’s room.
At first she thought that Long Yu had found some ordinary medicinal herb and wanted to get some ordinary immortality pills concocted from them, but as she and Liao Lele walked towards Old White’s room with Long Yu, they found out that he had actually found Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s!
Not only Feng Yuxin and Liao Lele, even Old White himself was shocked.
“Young Long Yu, this is a mysterious level medicinal herb. Do you really want me to concoct immortality pills out of it?”
Old White was stunned.
He had never even touched a mysterious level medicinal herb in his entire life. He wasn’t sure whether he would be successful in concocting immortality pills out of Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s.
“Of course, Old White. I don’t know any other alchemist who is better than you.”
Long Yu smiled and said, “Will you concoct mysterious level immortality pills for me, Old White?”
A mysterious level immortality pill would certainly promote Long Yu’s cultivation level to Zhenling fourth layer, enabling him to congeal a Zhenling ent.i.ty!
“I know of a method, but I have never practically tried it.”
Old White thought for a while and said, “However, this Heavenly Dragon Gra.s.s has a moderate temperament, so processing it won’t be a big problem.”
“That sounds great!”
Long Yu was extremely happy.
“I can’t a.s.sure you. After all, I have never tried it. Moreover, concocting a mysterious level immortality pill is something that I can’t do alone. I will need the help of four of you.”
Old White looked at all four of them and said, “Compounding a mysterious level immortality pill would require a continuous flow of a large amount of Xuan qi, for which my cultivation level isn’t sufficient. Moreover, the process is a complicated one, so I wouldn’t be able to take care of all the details alone.”
In a nutsh.e.l.l, Old White needed Liao Lele and Feng Yuxin to help him in the process of compounding the pill, while he needed Long Yu and Liu Yuan to provide with a continuous flow of strong Xuan qi.
“Will a night’s time suffice?”
Long Yu asked.
“Yes, that would be sufficient, but we will need some other ingredients required for concocting the pill. These ingredients, I’m afraid, will not be cheap. Moreover, I don’t even have the right tools required to concoct a mysterious level immortality pill…”
Old White said hesitatingly.
“I hope a nucleus would suffice.”
Long Yu took out a nucleus and gave it to Old White.
A nucleus was worth 10,000 crystal coins. It was more than enough to buy the required ingredients and tools!