Translator: Li Anqing
Proofread by Prof Zhu Yuan"Well, there"s a black iron box here."
Yan Li looked around and found a locked box in the corner.
As the sword flashed to the box, the lock was cut off.
Opening the box, Yan Li could not draw his eyes away from it—it was filled with the monster cores.
They were all higher-level cores, at least the cores of the five-level monsters. There were even two seven-level monster cores in it.
After a little hesitation he decided to take the box away, because with these cores, he was able to break into the first level of the Mixed Yuan Cla.s.sic.
After collecting the box into the s.p.a.ce, Yan Li opened all the bottles to check the function and level of the elixirs.
Fifteen in total, there were six bottles of Dayuan Pills, 10 in each one, adding up to 60. This medicine was for Xuan warriors to enhance themselves. In general, it did not help Yan Li.
Three bottles of antidote which only detoxicated ordinary poison.
Five bottles of Tiger-Leopard Pills, which were mainly used to strengthen bodies. The last one—Qingling Pills, even better than the Qingyuan Pills, was for Xuan masters, but there were only three in total.
After counting the medicine, Yan Li looked at the magic stones.
The magic stone was also known as the Yuan Crystal.
The Yuan Crystal formed in some places where the heavenly and earthly vigor were extremely abundant, and the warriors needed the vigor.
Each stone contained a huge amount of vigor. One could yield twice the result with half the effort by using it in practice.
The higher the level of the warriors, the more the Yuan vigor would be needed. Once a warrior entered the Mi realm, he must absorb enormous vigor to support his practice.
It was also why the Dahuang Palace a.s.signed a mountain with abundant vigor to the core disciples. Only that much vigor sustained their daily practice.
The practice of the core disciples was stone-based, so the stones were indispensable training resources for senior warriors.
However, Yan Li was not greedy. Although he was in want of the five stones, he did not take them all by himself.
Scanning the book, he was surprised. It was named Stealing the Work from Heaven. One could absorb the vigor from others by practicing the skill.
He recalled the warriors with inadequate vigor outside. It must be the three cults who had learned the skill that imprisoned those warriors as if keeping pets in order to absorb their vigor.
Unfortunately, the skill was also defective. Once the warrior who learned this skill absorbed the vigor from the one who was more powerful than him, the warrior would be hurt. It meant the warrior could only absorb the vigor from a warrior at the lower level.
He found nothing useful after a second search. Then he left and saw the two girls still fainted. Without paying any attention, he flashed out of the palace.
Yan Li happened to meet Xuanyuan Yu, Shui Linglong and Meng Wuyan.
At a glance, he found that Xuan Yu"s arms were dyed with blood. He was surprised, "s.h.i.+xiong Xuanyuan, are you injured?"
Xuanyuan Yu shook his hands and said, "Nothing serious. s.h.i.+di Yan, what did you find?"
Yan Li replied, "I found a cell inside. There are a lot of gold, some elixirs, magic stones and an evil skill. Where are the two cults? Have they died?"
Xuanyuan Yu was a little down, "One escaped, but he was seriously injured. He cannot rehabilitate to the Mi realm without a few years of cultivation. Hardly can I believe there are magic stones inside. Show us! "
Following Yan Li, the three entered the cell. Fixating the “gold hill,” they were all lost in it.
"d.a.m.n it. So much gold! It is like winning a lottery! " Xuanyuan Yu couldn"t hide his excitement. He then looked at the five stones, "Haha, three of the middle level, two of the lower!"
Holding the five stones, Xuanyuan Yu seemed to think for a moment, "What about each of us taking one middle-level stone. The two for s.h.i.+di Yan. Do you agree, s.h.i.+mei Shui and s.h.i.+di Meng? "
The two nodded and agreed.
Then, Xuanyuan Yu allocated the elixirs. He gave all the medicine to Yan Li apart from the Qingling Pills.
Xuanyuan Yu became nervous as he picked up the Stealing the Work from Heaven and read a few lines. "It is an evil work. We should destroy it!"
"Wait! s.h.i.+xiong Xuanyuan." Yan Li stopped him.
Xuanyuan Yu turned his head to Yan Li. He said in a cold tone, "Why? s.h.i.+di Yan, are you interested in the skill? I shall tell you, the work is against the rule of nature. You can"t practice it!"
Yan Li shook his head, "I don"t mean that, s.h.i.+xiong Xuanyuan. How dare I? I mean, we can exchange it into some credits in the school. It is really a pity to ruin it!"
Xuanyuan Yu froze for a moment and laughed, "Good idea. Instead of destroying it here, it is better to hand it over to the school in exchange for some credit points. Presumably, the school will not retain such evil skills."
The three were the core disciples equipped with a storage instrument. Xuanyuan Yu thought that Yan Li did have one, so he kindly exchange Yan Li"s gold into notes, about ten thousand.
It was somewhat a great victory in the battle against the cults in the Mist Forest, except the escaped one.
By the time they went out of the cell, the four guards had brought together the enslaved warriors.
Surprisingly, more than 80 of them were Dahuang disciples. Dozens of them were from the Aohan Palace, the rest from other schools and different families.
As for the two young girls inside the palace, they became sober after Shui Linglong helped them drink some water. The girls were only in the primary stage of the Yuan realm, coming from a small family thousands of miles away, kidnapped by one of the cults a month ago.
During this period, Yan Li managed to find time to enter the Mixed Yuan s.p.a.ce and checked the Bladeless Sword. It had been restored to its original appearance.
Under the instruction of the Spirit, Yan Li guided them to leave the Mist Forest.
The enslaved warriors were excited as they saw the bright sky again, and they were grateful to Yan Li. During the imprisonment, the cults absorbed their vigor cultivated through intensive practice.
A few days later, the group including Yan Li returned to the Dahuang Palace.
Yuan Changfeng, the Enforcing Senior, and the Seniors of the Test Hall welcomed Yan Li and others, and praised them.
"Yuer, Linglong, and Wuyan, you three will have an additional 200,000 points for killing the cults."
The three were happy to hear that. Credit points were more precious than silver.
"Yan Li."
Yuan Changfeng looked at Yan.
"Yan Li"s here!" "
"You played an essential role in rescuing the missing disciples. We will reward you 100,000 points!"
"Thank you, Senior Yuan! "
Although he had the credit points half less than the three, he was satisfied. With the 100,000 points, he could buy a lot more training resources.