Chapter 387: Golden Body Pill and Soul Nurturing Wood (2)
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“I’ll ask and you’ll answer. This is your only chance to live,” Han Zhao said in a low voice, using the Longevity Astral Qi to maintain Tong Li’s life.
“Yes… Yes!” Tong Li said with difficulty.
“Did you bring the pill formula?” Han Zhao asked.
Tong Li’s expression froze as he stammered, “No.”
Han Zhao sneered and changed the topic. “Next question, what’s your goal?”
“Recently, we…”
Under the threat of death, Tong Li spilled everything he knew like a bamboo tube.
“Very good. I can let you die without pain.” After Han Zhao asked, he circulated the Cultivation Absorption Technique.
“You… didn’t keep your word!” Tong Li was furious and stared fixedly at Han Zhao.
“Zhao Han doesn’t keep his word. What has it got to do with me, Han Zhao? Besides, you lied to me first!” Han Zhao sneered.
In an instant, Tong Li’s corpse was unharmed, leaving only a set of clothes and a Sumeru Pouch on the ground.
Han Zhao curled his right finger into a claw and gently sucked the Sumeru Pouch into his palm. His mental power entered it.
“Oh boy! I’m rich!”
Han Zhao’s eyes widened.
There were actually 400 Golden Beads inside!
“Looks like Zhao Han’s ident.i.ty will disappear from today onwards.”
Han Zhao put away the Sumeru Pouch and turned Tong Li’s clothes into dust with his Astral Qi. With a flick of his sleeve, he flew out of the window.
Plop! Han Zhao leaped through the window, transformed into a fish, and dived into the sea, accelerating towards the t.i.tan.
With so many Golden Beads in his account, he did not believe that he could not buy pill formulas and spiritual herbs to recover his mental power.
On the endless sea, a fish jumped out of the sea and turned into a white-haired old man in a ball of dim light.
“Is this the t.i.tan? It’s really a giant beast in the sea!”
Han Zhao looked northwest with shock in his eyes.
A silver-white ship with a length of nearly a thousand meters and a width of more than 200 meters sailed towards the southeast. The head of the iron armored ship rode the wind and waves. Layers of sea waves swept past the ship’s side with silver-white waves. Then, they converged at the end of the ship and formed turbulent waves, leaving a sparkling water belt that rippled.
“This is practically a mobile island, a city on the sea.”
Han Zhao was a little speechless. The largest ship in his previous life was probably not even half this size. Just the waterline to the deck was probably a hundred meters tall. It was too exaggerated!
He didn’t even know how such a huge ship could be used as a power source,
Han Zhao circulated his Internal Force and stepped on the sea surface, running towards t.i.tan.
When he was 200 meters away from the t.i.tan, he took out a silver-white token that was the same color as the hull of the t.i.tan.
Buzz!
As true qi was injected into the token, the token immediately let out a high-frequency clear cry. A silver-white light quickly enveloped Han Zhao’s entire body.
In the next second, Han Zhao’s figure flashed and disappeared from the sea. He appeared at the front of the t.i.tan’s deck with an octagonal array pattern under his feet.
This silver-white token was a teleportation array that led to the deck of the
t.i.tan.
“Are you alone?” A young man wrapped in green armor came to Han Zhao, “Yes.” Han Zhao nodded.
“The fee for setting up a stall on the deck is 1,000 taels of silver a day. The entrance deposit for the auction is 200,000 taels of silver. When you alight from the ship, the entrance deposit will be refunded. Fighting is strictly prohibited on the ship. Those who violate it will bear the consequences. The Five Qi Grandmasters and Martial Saints can obtain the right to enter for free.” The young man spoke extremely quickly as if he was going through a procedure.
“Got it,” Han Zhao said. He had already learned the basic information about t.i.tan from Tong Li.
“This is my stall fee.” Han Zhao took out 5,000 taels of silver from the Sumeru Pouch and handed it to the young man.
The t.i.tan’s auction was held once every half a year for ten days. From the fifth day onwards, the treasures needed by high-grade martial artists would be
auctioned.
Before that, Han Zhao planned to set up a stall on the deck to see if he could buy the middle- grade pill formula.
“This is your stall number.” The young man put away the banknotes and took out a white token. On the front was the number “183”.
“If you want to continue setting up the stall when the time comes, remember to renew the fee. If you leave early, the stall fee won’t be refunded.”
The young man activated his true qi, and another red “five” appeared under the token. Then, he handed the token to Han Zhao.
After Han Zhao took the token, he walked to the back of the ship.
The deck near the stern of the t.i.tan was a simple open-air market. Every five meters on the deck, there was a square frame drawn with black lines as a simple stall.
When Han Zhao arrived at stall No. 183, there were already dozens of martial artists setting up stalls nearby. The weakest among them was a Force
Tempering Martial Master. Most of them were at the Greater Mastery stage of
Force Tempering. About a third of them were Grandmasters, including a Five Qi Grandmaster.
More than half of the people here were wearing all kinds of masks. There were leopard heads, taurens, and dog heads. This was also allowed by the auction. “The nearby high- grade martial artists are probably all gathered here.”
Han Zhao took out a wooden board from the Sumeru Pouch and placed it in front of the stall. On it was written—Buying middle- grade medicinal pill formulas at a high price. Body tempering, spirit nurturing, and Fiend Condensation were the priority.
Following that, he took out a small stool and sat down. This was something he had used when he was in Blackrock City. He had taken it with him when he moved and left it until now.
As the sky darkened, there were more and more people on the deck. When many people pa.s.sed by Han Zhao’s stall, they only glanced at it before leaving.
Han Zhao was not in a hurry. He sat on the stool and closed his eyes to rest.
The next day, not a single person came up to ask. After shopping at the other people’s stalls, he made a change.
He added another sentence on the wooden board—You can use the middle- grade Five Elements Pill and the Blood Qi Pill to exchange for the pill formula. High-grade!
This time, just as it was afternoon, people came to his stall one after another to ask.
However, they all had to pay for it. The grandmaster who set up the stall even offered to pay for the Golden Beads, but Han Zhao rejected him.
The value of a Golden Bead exceeded ten thousand taels of gold. It was more than enough to buy a high-grade Blood Qi Pill. However, Han Zhao had just made a windfall. He did not lack Golden Beads and only wanted the pill formula.
The market price of low- grade Blood Qi Pills was 1,000 taels per pill, and middle-grade pills were worth about 3,000 taels. As for high-grade Blood Qi Pills, the lowest price was 10,000 taels per pill. However, they were priceless and in high demand, so no one sold them at all. This was because high-grade pills had almost no impurities. As long as the conditions allowed it, no matter how much one ate, the pill poison would not acc.u.mulate in their body.
Even if they spent a lot of money to hire middle- grade alchemists to refine Blood Qi Pills, no one could guarantee that they could refine middle- grade pills. It was the same even for high-grade alchemists. Moreover, even if they could refine high-grade pills, most of them would stay behind.
In any case, an alchemist of this level either had a deep background or was powerful. It was always others who begged him to refine pills. If you were unwilling to accept such conditions, there were many people who came to beg. They were not afraid of offending others.
“l have the pill formula you want. How many high-grade Blood Qi Pills do you have?” A martial artist wearing a tauren mask went forward and asked.
Four Qi Realm Perfection.
Han Zhao used his powerful mental power to see through the tauren’s background and said calmly, “That depends on the value of your pill formula.”
The other party probably needed more high- grade Blood Qi Pills to break through the bottleneck.
Seeing that Han Zhao was so confident, the tauren’s eyes narrowed.
He looked around and didn’t say anything. Instead, he took out a wooden board and covered it with his hand to write. After writing, he quickly handed it to Han Zhao.
Han Zhao took the wooden board and looked at the contents. His pupils suddenly dilated.
[High- grade pill formula, Golden Body Pill, supplementary pill for body tempering cultivation method to condense a Pseudo Golden Body.]
[Soul Nurturing Wood, a spiritual wood that nourishes mental power. It has a miraculous effect on martial artists below the Three Fiend Realm Martial
Saint Realm.]
“You should know that there’s a price to pay for toying with a Five Qi
Perfection Grandmaster.’
Han Zhao released a powerful true qi and stared coldly at the tauren. As soon as this aura rose, it instantly disappeared without a trace.
The tauren’s body trembled, but he immediately stabilized his mind and said in a low voice, “1 can trade the pill formula with you first. The subsequent cooperation will depend on whether your medicinal pills can satisfy my needs.’
Han Zhao stood up and waved his sleeve. He put away the wooden board and pointed at the tall building in the middle of the deck.
“Let’s go! Follow me into the house!”
There was a soundproof array foundation in the private room that was suitable for trading..