The other youths before the academy blinked their eyes as they stared in disbelief at what they had just heard from that exchange under the tree.
Their minds had exploded when they heard the three words “Qing Yun Clan” and those three words had sounded clear as thunder in their ears!
Who had not heard of the Qing Yun Clan, the top clan under the skies? And something had happened to that top clan just recently! The Elder of the Cloud Treading Peak, Mu Chen, had suddenly announced the disbandment of the Qing Yun Clan and the Sovereign and Elders of the other peaks has left. Mu Chen was the only Elder who had stayed behind and after the announcement, Mu Chen had disappeared as well and no one knew of his whaereabouts.
The topmost clan had suddenly announced its disbandment and the news had stirred the entire world. Speculations had been rife but no one knew the real reason behind it.
The Qing Yun Clan’s disbandment had driven many people still waiting for treatment to tears throughout the world. And on top of that, the people of the lands seeked not just treatment from the Qing Yun Clan, but also for their rare elixirs!
Did that youth just call the man in white “Mu Chen”!?
Wasn’t that the name of the Elder of the Cloud Treading Peak who had been the last one to leave the Qing Yun Clan?
When they realised that that man in white under the tree could be the Elder from the Qing Yun Clan, all their eyes were fixated on the scene under that tree.
The Cloud Treading Peak had been specialised in the nurturing and development of veins and arteries and not many people had seen Mu Chen in person. Many of them were in doubt at what they were seeing till they spotted the jade ornament hanging from hip of the man in white. All their suspicions evaporated right at that point!
That was the jade badge carved into the “cloud” character, which was symbolic of the Qing Yun Clan!
Such badges were only carried by the Sovereign, the Elders, and disciples of the Inner House exclusively and even the disciples of the Outer House could only dream of possessing one.
The Sovereign and the various Elders had seemingly evaporated into thin air overnight and only people from the Cloud Treading Peak were ever spotted!
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Who would dare to impersonate as an Elder of the Qing Yun Clan? No one in their right mind would dare to do it.
Moreover, that person possessed the symbolic badge of the Qing Yun Clan, leading the people witnessing the commotion to believe them.
With the disappearance of the Qing Yun Clan, the meaning behind those three words attracted attention of an unprecedented level.
The man in white looked at the pleading youth before him and said: “The Qing Yun Clan is no more and I am no longer an Elder of the Qing Yun Clan. It must be fate that we met here today. I have a few more of that elixir you want but I do not have much left. If you really want it so badly, I can part with one more for the same price that you paid previously.”
The pleading youth was ecstatic and could not stop bowing in gratitude. He reached into his sleeves and pulled out three bank notes showing an amount of one hundred thousand taels each and handed it over to “Mu Chen”.
The other youths who were watching them intently all widened their eyes. Three hundred thousand taels for one elixir!?
What kind of a price was that!?
Besides the elixirs of the Qing Yun Clan, who else was able to command such prices!?
Anyone looking to enroll into the exorbitant Zephyr Academy were from families of prodigious wealth and hundreds of thousands of taels were well within their means. They were now presented before their eyes, a chance meeting with an Elder of the disappeared Qing Yun Clan, and he had just agreed to sell an elixir from the Qing Yun Clan to that youth!
Mayhem ensued!
Groups of youths swarmed out from the queue and rushed towards the tree.
“Mu Chen” was just concluding his deal with the youth when he saw a large group of sweat drenched youths rushing towards him and before he knew it, they all knelt down at his feet.
“Elder Mu! May we ask what elixir did you just sell to that youth?” A cautious youth before “Mu Chen” asked in audacity without even stating his intentions but asking about the use and effects of the elixir impudently.
Three hundred thousand taels was not a small sum and not many elixirs across these vast lands was worth that heavenly price tag!
If they splashed such a huge sum of money but got themselves an elixir they had no use for, they would undoubtedly be shown up as fools.
“Mu Chen” stared at the crowd of youths who had suddenly surrounded him and his handsome face registered a moment of surprise but was quickly suppressed and he calmed down before saying in a soft voice: “It was just an elixir that widens your veins and arteries that speeds up the development of spiritual power in training and nothing else.”
“Mu Chen’s ” tone was nonchalant, but when those words registered in the minds of the youths, their hearts started beating faster!
Widening of the veins and arteries!?
That effect was just incredibly fascinating!!
That would mean that the progress in their future training would be faster than their peers! For elixirs such as this, its effects were better when they consume it at a young age to strengthen their foundation. The youths were all below sixteen years of age and it was the perfect time for them to consume it!
Moreover, before this, they had not known that an elixir with such effects existed!
So, who else would have the ability to produce an elixir with such heaven defying effects besides the Qing Yun Clan!?
But the Qing Yun Clan had ceased to exist and only the Heavens knew when they would meet anyone from the Qing Yun Clan again. It might turn out to be the only chance in their lifetime to buy that phenomenal elixir!
“Elder Mu!” Please grace me with one of the elixir! I’ll pay! Any amount you want!” A quick thinking youth pleaded immediately, waving a handful of bank notes in his hand!
The state of their veins and arteries would affect the future development of their spiritual powers in training, who could refuse such a heavensent opportunity?
“Elder Mu! Sell one to me too!”
“Me! Me! Elder Mu! I want one too! At whatever price!”
After the first outburst from one youth, a second youth quickly followed, and a third…..
The crowd around “Mu Chen” was still growing and the first youth who had already made a purchase was pushed out by the crowd.
The youths were all on their knees as they surged around “Mu Chen”, as wads and wads of bank notes were waved in the air, begging for just one elixir!
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The youth who was pushed out behind the crowd stared at the endless wads of bank notes waving in the air and discreetly threw a thumbs up at his three other companions standing behind the tree.
The explosive shouts of demand continued for awhile more and the commotion drew more eyes to look in the direction of the tree. In moments, the neat queue before the academy broke as many more youths rushed to come under the tree.
“Mu Chen” suddenly stated that the demand was too overwhelming and he had only four more elixirs with him.
Upon hearing that, the crowd erupted in chaos!
It would be reasonable that elixirs with such astounding effects would be rare and its quantity extremely limited. But since they had chanced upon such an opportunity so hard to come by, they were not prepared to lose it!
While the price was previously set at three hundred thousand taels previously, the overwhelming demand pushed the price up and it rocketed to five hundred thousand taels easily for each elixir sold.
After the four elixirs were sold out, the rest of the disappointed youths refused to give up and continued to pester for other elixirs to be sold to them as pity for not being able to get one of those four elixirs.
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Hundreds of thousand taels splashed out and they feel “Mu Chen” sold them the elixirs out of pity.
Those elixirs would change their life completely and with their families’ prodigious wealth behind them, the money spent would barely be a drop in the sea.
However, Elder “Mu Chen” said that he was cleared out of elixirs and a wail of despair subsequently swept through the youths before they dispersed in dejection…..
As “Mu Chen” left, many pairs of eyes were staring at his back in regret.
All but four pairs. Four youths were laughing hilariously behind the tree.
“Little Xie! That was just too wicked! With each elixir, you swindled them of five hundred thousand taels! We got ourselves two million taels with just those four elixirs! The returns were just astronomical!” Qiao Chu looked at those youths staring forlornly at “Mu Chen’s” back as he departed and he laughed even harder then. Qiao Chu wondered if those youths ever find out that the “Mu Chen” they saw was actually Hua Yao in disguise, what kind of thoughts would go through their minds…..
Hua Yao’s ability to freely control his bones coupled with Jun Xie’s talent at changing a person’s outlook enabled them to imitate anyone they met completely and they had absolutely no problem copying the looks of Mu Chen whom they had close contact with in the Qing Yun Clan!
“I spotted the kid who mocked us before and he managed to win one of the elixirs from us. Hahaha….. If he only knew that he spent five hundred thousand taels to purchase an ordinary elixir, I wonder if he would vomit out blood then!” Qiao Chu felt better the more he thought about it. Jun Xie’s underhanded scheme was really too much! If anyone else had claimed to possess such Heaven defying elixirs, no one would have believed a word of it. But they had brought out Mu Chen of the Qing Yun Clan, who specialised in veins and arteries, to make that claim, which lent undeniable credence to their words.
No matter how rotten the Qing Yun Clan was in reality, in the eyes of the people throughout the lands, they were the epitome of Medicine!
Jun Wu Xie stared at the guffawing Qiao Chu and said in a chill voice: “Those were not ordinary elixirs.”
“WHAT?” Qiao Chu was stupefied.
Fei Yan who heard Jun Wu Xie looked at her in shock while she asked: “Little Xie, you mean those elixirs would really change the state of their veins and arteries!?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
Qiao Chu and the others suddenly became speechless.
All these youths in Lower Realm claimed they had not heard of it, even the four of them who were from the Middle Realm did not know that elixirs that could change the state of veins and arteries even existed!
“You….. you mean it’s real!?” Qiao Chu still had not recovered from the shock. He had thought that the elixirs they sold were ordinary elixirs and never in his wildest dreams would he expect them to possess the effects they had claimed!
Jun Wu Xie nodded again.
“HOW CAN THIS BE!!!?” Qiao Chu shouted in disbelief. His shout shocked Hua Yao who was just returning to the group after shedding his disguise.
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“What’s going on here?” Hua Yao asked as he looked at Qiao Chu’s shocked face and then at Fei Yan’s and Rong Ruo’s perplexed expressions.
Qiao Chu was incapable of speech and could only raise a heavily shaking finger to point at Jun Wu Xie.
Rong Ruo cleared her throat before she could speak and said: “Little Xie said….. Those elixirs we sold were real.”
Even the usually calm Hua Yao paled at the news.
“Jun Xie, you cultivated those pills?” It was Hua Yao’s turn to stare in incredulity at Jun Xie as he asked again, still unable to believe his ears. When Jun Xie had suggested that he impersonated Mu Chen and use the famed name of the Qing Yun Clan to peddle those elixirs, he had thought the very same way as his companions that Jun Xie had intended to hoodwink the disgustingly rich brats here with mere common elixirs and he would never have expected that…..
That little kid had given him the real deal….. Those elixirs’ effects were as they claimed!
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly and her eyes were expressionless. She did not understand why a few elixirs would elicit such dramatic reactions from her companions.
Even Hua Yao who was already mentally prepared found himself unable to respond to Jun Xie’s honest reply that had thrown a bolt at him.
The four pairs of eyes that stared at Jun Wu Xie were incredulous. Was this kid really from the Lower Realm? They were the ones from the Middle Realm….. How was their Little Xie pulling out all these elixirs that they had never even knew existed?
Jun Wu Xie looked at her four companions staring at her as if she were some hideous monster. She was silent a moment before she reached into her cosmos bag and pulled out a white porcelain bottle.
“You want it?”
All at the same time, four pairs of eyes sparkled brightly!
They had just seen a similar bottle earlier, it looked just like the bottle Jun Xie had handed to Hua Yao to peddle.
As to what was inside, they all only knew too well by now.
“It….. It’s really for us?” Qiao Chu asked swallowing noisily and he could not take his eyes off the white porcelain bottle in Jun Xie’s hand.
Jun Wu Xie pushed the bottle that contained the Heaven defying elixirs into Qiao Chu’s hand without a word.
To her, it was just some excess elixirs left over from the batches she had cultivated for the Rui Lin Army, and did not matter much.
At that time, Jun Wu Xie had singlehandedly cultivated one hundred thousand elixirs just like those for the Rui Lin Army!
Jun Wu Xie herself was surprised that her elixirs would sell so well. She had never had to worry about money and she did not even consider how much her elixirs were worth. The figure she gave Hua Yao earlier was based entirely on the amount they needed. She had absolutely no idea if they were worth that much or not.
But the chaos that ensued had proven it…..
Worth every cent!
Jun Wu Xie might have unilaterally decided to steal Mu Chen identity, but she had no intention of sullying the man’s name as he made his way towards the Qi Kingdom’s Imperial City.
When the thought of the Qi Kingdom came to mind, Jun Wu Xie’s head lowered. She had gotten Ye Sha to send news to Jun Wu Yao, and to have Jun Wu Yao inform the Jun Family’s father and son that she had embarked on a journey of training with her Master, and there was no need to worry about her.
But Jun Wu Xie’s spontaneous little “fund raiser” though unintentional, brought about quite a bit of headache for Mu Chen.
As till far into the future, news of Mu Chen’s ability to cultivate those Heaven defying elixirs spread throughout the Lower Realm and when these elixir hungry people heard that Mu Chen was in the Qi Kingdom’s Lin Palace, they all swarmed to him, scaring Mu Chen into hiding in the Lin Palace and not daring to take a single step outside.
That is the future, and would not be discussed now.
Now, they had the money. The five of them did not have to worry about the fees any longer. Jun Wu Xie generously gave five hundred thousand taels to each of them and dispersed the group, to join the queue.
After the “Mu Chen” commotion died down, the queue before the Zephyr Academy regained its order.
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Alas…..
After queueing for one whole day, the five of them did not even manage to touch the Zephyr Academy’s gates. In the midst of the sea of people, Jun Wu Xie decided to leave and stood on one side. The Zephyr Academy’s enrollment would cease when night fell and resume the next morning. She watched as the sun made its way down towards the horizon and decided that they did not stand a chance today.
Just as the sun was about to set, a group of people dressed in white clothes trimmed in blue cam
e out through the gates of the Zephyr Academy. The man leading them looked to be in his early thirties, his face upright with a pair of eyes brimming with energy. The others behind him were all youths between eighteen and nineteen years of age and they all wore on their chests a jade emblem carved into the shape of a star.
When the group stepped out through the gates of the Zephyr Academy, all the youths who had been in the queue for one whole day suddenly became excited.
“Where is the Qing Yun Clan’s Elder Mu?” The leader of the group asked of the guards standing at the gates.
One of the guards whispered a few words and the man’s eyes frowned, his face a look of disappointment. With a heavy sigh, he brought the group back inside the academy.
Fei Yan watched on hidden behind the other youths and with his pretty looks which did not determine his sex, he went one round within the crowd and came back to assemble with Jun Wu Xie and the others after that.
“Looks like Little Xie’s bait not only won us money, it had also baited a big fish.” Fei Yan said with a smile as he leaned against a tree branch.
“What did you find out?” Qiao Chu asked excitedly.
Fei Yan did not play coy and shared all that she gathered: “That man who just came out is one of the teachers from the weapons spirits branch. The Headmaster of the Zephyr Academy has one son who suffered from a weak constitution and has been sickly from a young age. He has been kept alive with the help of countless medication taken daily and the Headmaster’s various rare and treasured herbs and elixirs. As the young master’s body is weak and he is unable to undertake long journeys, the Headmaster had kept him at home to strengthen him up. The son had finally recovered enough to make a trip to the Qing Yun Clan for Qing Yue to treat him when unexpectedly, the Qing Yun Clan disbanded! That man earlier must have gotten wind of Mu Chen’s appearance and rushed out to take a look, but a pity…..”
Fei Yan’s smile was wide as he related the information to the others. Wherever there are crowds, he could always get the information he needed.
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