Nine Star Hegemon Body Art c1-2048
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“You don’t need to find it curious. These medicinal ingredients mostly came from plundering.” Long Chen laughed.
Long Chen was entirely right. Within the secret realm, he had killed countless people. Even just the spatial rings of the top experts made his rewards shocking.
Those peak experts were all much prouder, and they didn’t keep ordinary items in their spatial rings. Everything they had was the best, and so the medicinal ingredients they had were the best. After those withered ingredients were planted in the primal chaos space, they could be turned into medicinal sprouts.
“Brother Zheng, you have a life ring, right?”
“Yes.” As a businessman, he naturally was prepared.
“Good. Then I will take out the medicinal ingredients one by one for you to register.” Saying this, Long Chen began to take out items from his life ring.
In truth, that was false. Long Chen was directly summoning them from his primal chaos space. He had no choice but to be careful, as its abilities were too heaven-defying, and he couldn’t allow others to learn about it.
“Amazing. Sevenstar Grass, Southern Sky Flower, Nine Leaf Lotus…” Old Qian’s eyes shone as he watched Long Chen take out precious medicines one after another.
These were mostly fifth tier precious medicines used for refining fifth tier medicinal pills. Furthermore, just as Long Chen had said, these were all mostly extinct in the outside world. Let alone living ones, just dried up versions were incredibly difficult to find.
Long Chen had taken out a total of one hundred and seven medicinal ingredients. Ninety-three of them had been fifth tier ingredients, while fourteen of them had been sixth tier ingredients. Those were used to refine medicinal pills used by Xiantian experts! They were absolutely priceless.
Some of them were even medicinal ingredients that Old Qian didn’t recognize. It was Long Chen who told them what they were, and he would have to go through some ancient records once he got back before selling them.
“Hahaha, big business, definitely big business!” laughed Old Qian. Even those wrinkles on his face lessened greatly, making him appear a decade younger.
Zheng Wenlong was also ecstatic. “Brother Long, if you sell all these medicinal sprouts, you would definitely have enough resources to create your own first-rate power.”
Long Chen smiled slightly. “Then I’ll let brother Zheng handle these things.”
“Don’t worry, brother Long, there definitely won’t be any problem.” Zheng Wenlong patted himself on the chest, also feeling moved inside.
Long Chen was handing this much wealth to him, expressing that he had absolute confidence in him.
“Speaking of which, we conduct business through spirit stones, so after gradually selling these medicinal ingredients off and deducting the normal service charge, we can send you a large amount of spirit stones,” said Zheng Wenlong.
That was because in accordance with the Business Dao, only rare things had value. If they took out these many medicinal sprouts and sold them all at once, their profits would shrink.
They would definitely have to split them up and auction them over time. Furthermore, small auctions didn’t have the ability to auction off such precious medicinal sprouts, as there was limited purchasing power there. So they definitely needed to come up with a plan first.
“You don’t need to send them here. Keep the money with yourself. Other than that, here’s a list. Help me buy the medicinal ingredients on it. You can just directly subtract the cost from the profit of the medicinal sprouts. Once you find them, you can directly send them over,” said Long Chen, handing over a list.
On that list were many medicinal ingredients. Many of those were ones Zheng Wenlong and Old Qian had never heard of.
As for the ones they did recognize, they caused them to suck in a cold gasp of air. Many of those were items that basically only existed in legends. Very, very few people had ever even seen them.
Such things were all astronomically expensive. It was no wonder Long Chen said there was no need to send him spirit stones.
As for why Long Chen wanted these medicinal ingredients, they didn’t ask. In any case, whether Long Chen was selling or buying, the Huayun Sect would still get profit.
Furthermore, considering what level of buying and selling Long Chen was planning, their profit would definitely be exceedingly bountiful. That made Zheng Wenlong ecstatic.
He had never imagined Long Chen would bring him so much profit this quickly. This way, he was no longer under so much pressure, and he could quickly get a large sum of money to give financial support to the families of the disciples who had died.
On the other hand, a large portion of that profit would be his own, and he could use it to buy medicinal pills, cultivation techniques, and various other treasures that would increase his own strength.
In the Huayun Sect, there was a certain saying: the amount of wealth you had, determined how far you could walk on the cultivation path.
“The cooperation this time is just the beginning. In the future, there will be many things I’ll need brother Zheng’s help with. This is just a small gift for you. You can consider it a bribe.” Long Chen laughed, handing Zheng Wenlong a jade case.
“Brother Long, you’re too courteous, there’s no need… what?!” Zheng Wenlong opened the case and couldn’t help letting out a startled cry.
“Qilin Fruit!” Even Old Qian cried out in shock.
The two of them were both businessmen, and their strongest point was their eyesight, the ability to appraise the value of various treasures.
The Qilin Fruit was a heaven-defying treasure capable of upgrading a person’s Spirit Root. It was something they had only seen in ancient records.
“Brother Long, this is too precious!” Zheng Wenlong didn’t know what to do. This was something cultivators would dream of obtaining. It was effective on anyone within the Xiantian realm.
“Don’t decline, brother Zheng. Didn’t you say the greatest investment a person could make was an emotional investment? Well then, this can be considered my investment in our relationship. This cooperation will also bring me great assistance, and so this is just a symbol of my sincerity,” said Long Chen.
“Alright, then I’ll accept it.” Zheng Wenlong gratefully and very carefully put away the Qilin Fruit.
This was a treasure that money could not buy. Once he returned to his sect, he could invite a master alchemist to refine it into a medicinal pill. That would bring him endless benefit.
After talking a bit longer with the two of them, Zheng Wenlong left behind his address and left with Old Qian.
Time was precious to businessmen. Each breath they took was money. It could be said Zheng Wenlong was in a race against time. The Jiuli secret realm had just closed, and many treasures were circulating around now. However, some sects didn’t dare reveal their treasures so quickly, afraid others would place their intentions on them.
In the past, it was always years before they gradually began to reveal the treasures they had obtained from the secret realm. But this time wasn’t the same. The large sects had all suffered immense casualties and were on the verge of going berserk.
As for the smaller sects, they had obtained treasures, but they didn’t dare reveal them. If Zheng Wenlong didn’t use this time properly, he wouldn’t get any profit. But then if he didn’t know how to use the medicinal sprouts Long Chen had just provided him, he really wouldn’t be Zheng Wenlong.
However, when he returned, there were many things he needed to set up. For the large enough auctions, they needed a great deal of promotion first in order to draw enough people.
These medicinal sprouts would mostly be sold to sects, and those sects all had their own medicinal fields. That was why they would be willing to spend such a large amount on medicinal sprouts.
No matter how much they spent, they would get that profit back in a few decades. Then with continual breeding, it would be a continuous flow of profit.
After send
ing them off, a disciple ran over with an extremely grave expression. “Senior apprentice-brother Long Chen, something’s happened to senior apprentice-sister Meng Qi!”
[1] Qian as in the character for money.
Chapter 485 Thousand Star Devouring Soul
Long Chen hastily ran back to Meng Qi’s room. Meng Qi was sitting on her bed, a faint black qi appearing on her face. Ling Yunzi had a hand on her back, spiritual qi curling around him, his head covered with sweat.
“Long Chen!” Tang Wan-er seemed to have found hope and hastily explained, “Sister Meng Qi was sleeping fine at first, but out of nowhere, her body began to spasm. I don’t know what’s going on.”
“She’s been poisoned. I’m using my spiritual qi to suppress the poison, not letting it invade her soul, but her body is too weak. It’s extremely taxing for me,” explained Ling Yunzi.
If it was an ordinary person, Ling Yunzi wouldn’t find it so difficult to suppress the poison. But Meng Qi’s body was too weak, and the slightest mistake might cause her body to explode.
Not to mention, the poison was too fierce, constantly attacking Ling Yunzi’s suppression, making it very hard on him.
Long Chen hastily went over and peeled back Meng Qi’s eyelids. There were countless little specks in her pupils.
He quickly pressed onto the YuZhen acupuncture point at the back of her head and poured in his powerful Spiritual Strength.
“You can’t!” Ling Yunzi cried out. Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength was bypassing his blockade to charge at the poison.
“It’s fine. This is the Thousand Star Devouring Soul Poison. Now it will focus on devouring my soul energy instead of attacking Meng Qi,” explained Long Chen.
Now Ling Yunzi saw that as soon as the poison encountered Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength, it was like a hungry wolf that had encountered meat and was crazily devouring it.
“Sect leader, help me guard her YuZhen point. I’ll expel the poison.” Long Chen increased his soul energy.
His Spiritual Strength was like a python swimming in Meng Qi’s meridians. As for the poison, as soon as it saw the Spiritual Strength, it crazily pounced on it, biting down and refusing to let go.
Long Chen’s originally transparent Spiritual Strength quickly turned black as ink because of the poison.
He then took out a knife and cut a small opening on Meng Qi’s palm. Instantly, pitch-black blood flowed out of the opening, emitting a disgusting stench.
“Everyone, get out. Close the door and get further away from the room.”
At this time, there were many people that had heard something had happened with Meng Qi and had gathered here. Now they hastily left.
This was a spiritual poison and extremely troublesome. When Tang Wan-er and the others saw that black blood, they all felt a chill.
Long Chen poured in his Spiritual Strength three times, finally drawing out all the poison in Meng Qi’s body. He finally sighed a breath of relief.
He summoned a blue flame and incinerated the black blood. The entire room was filled with the disgusting stench.
Holding Meng Qi, he and Ling Yunzi also left the room. After a moment of hesitation, Long Chen waved his hand and summoned a ball of flames that instantly burned the room to ash.
This poison was too intense. Worried about the remnants, he decided the room wasn’t worth it. This way was safer.
“What happened Long Chen?” asked Ling Yunzi.
“It was the Wind Spirit Pavilion.” Killing intent surfaced within Long Chen’s eyes. When they had handed Meng Qi over back then, they had also poisoned her.
If Ling Yunzi hadn’t rushed over here fast enough to suppress the poison from reaching her soul, the results would have been too horrible to think of.
“That goddamn Wind Spirit Pavilion, let’s go overturn their bastard lair!” raged Guo Ran. Everyone was completely infuriated now. Even though Meng Qi had already been crippled and half-alive, they still hadn’t let her off. They were definitely worse than beasts.
“Let’s go, Long Chen. I’ll accompany you to the Wind Spirit Pavilion,” said Ling Yunzi, patting Long Chen’s shoulder. He was also furious.
“Let’s cut them down!”
Gu Yang and the others roared furiously. The Wind Spirit Pavilion was truly too hateful.
“All of you calm down. Right now, we’ve only just settled in, and it’s not suitable for us to make any large moves. Don’t always think about slaughter and fighting, as that’s not beneficial to you. We should use kindness to subdue our opponents. We’ll talk it out reasonably.”Long Chen smiled.
“What? No way. Are you alright, boss?” exclaimed Guo Ran.
“Alright, that’s enough. Everyone should disperse.”
Long Chen waved his hand at everyone. With Tang Wan-er, he set up Meng Qi in another room. He also gave her a medicinal pill to help recover her physical energy.
Then, he stealthily left on his own. Changing his clothes, he went down the mountain. But before he got a mile away, he saw Guo Ran and the others had long since been waiting for him.
“What are you all doing?” Being caught red-handed, Long Chen couldn’t help being a bit infuriated.
“Hehe, I was right, wasn’t I? Boss, you wanted to go on your own,” laughed Guo Ran.
Gu Yang said, “Boss, how could you want to leave us behind? You don’t think we’re brothers?”
“Brother Long, for you to go fight without me, does it mean you don’t want me any longer?” asked Wilde, hurt.
“Fuck, what does that have to do with anything?” Long Chen was speechless. “This time, I’m not going to fight.”
“Not going to fight? Then what are you doing? To talk about your feelings? Who would believe you?” asked Guo Ran.
“I’m going to get revenge.”
“Then how is that not going to fight?”
“That’s not the same. This time, the scale is going to be rather large, and if you went, you wouldn’t be able to help. Instead, you’d hold me back,” said Long Chen.
“Are you telling the truth?” asked Guo Ran suspiciously.
“When have I ever tricked you?”
“Boss, what is going on?” Guo Ran still didn’t understand.
“Don’t ask so many questions. Just hurry up and scram. Just wait for the news. Remember, don’t tell anyone I’m leaving. If anyone asks where I am during this time, just say I’m in seclusion,” said Long Chen.
Hearing how solemn Long Chen was, they knew he was planning something. They hastily nodded.
Once Guo Ran, Wilde, Song Mingyuan, Li Qi, and Gu Yang left, Long Chen couldn’t help shaking his head.
Now, Long Chen summoned Little Snow, and taking advantage of the darkness of the night, he rushed directly towards the Wind Spirit Pavilion.
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Within the Wind Spirit Pavilion, there were over ten Xiantian Elders standing together, not daring to say a single word. In front of them, the pavilion master’s expression was exceedingly ugly.
“Third Elder, you’re sure you poisoned that slut with the Thousand Star Devouring Soul Poison?” asked the pavilion master icily.
“I’m absolutely sure. And I definitely used enough. There certainly wasn’t any mistake.” The Elder who had gone to bring Meng Qi out of custody spoke, his voice extremely silent from fear.
“Definitely enough? Certainly no mistake? Then tell me, why is that even up to now, Meng Qi’s soul tablet hasn’t broken?!” roared the pavilion master, pointing towards a jade tablet.
The Wind Spirit Pavilion’s disciples were all soul cultivators, and all the stronger disciples were made a soul tablet by the Wind Spirit Pavilion. Once the disciple died, that soul tablet would also break, no matter how far apart they were. It was extremely magical.
Back when Feng Xiao-zi had died in the secret realm, his soul tablet had broken, infuriating the entire Wind Spirit Pavilion. They had moved out in full force to their entrance of the secret realm. As a result, Meng Qi lost any chance of escapi
ng from them when she left the secret realm.
Right now, the Third Elder was clenching his teeth. According to how much poison he had given Meng Qi, she should have already died.
However, this jade tablet was still completely fine. If the Third Elder hadn’t followed him for so long, the pavilion master would definitely suspect he had betrayed him.
“Perhaps Long Chen has some ability to temporarily suppress the poison. But you also know that this poison targets the soul, and there’s no medicine that can cure it,” said the Third Elder.
The pavilion master nodded. He had a great understanding of just how terrifying the Thousand Star Devouring Soul Poison was. It was specialized in targeting soul cultivators. It was a poison that activated slowly. There wasn’t any way to sense it at the beginning when a person was poisoned.
By the time the poison erupted, it would take a person’s life in just a few breaths’ time. It was only because Meng Qi had been lucky that Ling Yunzi had been passing by and had heard Tang Wan-er’s cry, thus saving her from death.
That was also why the pavilion master suspected the Third Elder. The Thousand Star Devouring Soul Poison killed its target almost as soon as the poison activated. There was usually no time to save such a person.
“Hmph, the Xuantian Supermonastery really is intolerable. Their monastery head personally came here. Was it to establish her prestige?
“Our Wind Spirit Pavilion has been standing for thousands of years, and we aren’t so easy to bully. This time, it’ll count as giving them a lesson. My Wind Spirit Pavilion isn’t something anyone can take advantage of,” said the pavilion master through clenched teeth.
Although the Wind Spirit Pavilion’s inheritance didn’t stretch back as far as the Xuantian Supermonastery’s, they were all soul cultivators, making them incredibly powerful. Over these years, there had been practically no one who dared provoke them, causing their desires to inflate boundlessly.
In fact, they even had some intentions of standing on the same level as the supreme sects. They had been thinking of using Meng Qi and Feng Xiao-zi to stand out in the secret realm’s Righteous and Corrupt battle, shocking the seven prefectures, making their Wind Spirit Pavilion’s name resound loudly.