Chapter 34: Advanced Special Elixir

“Are these all elixirs, Brother Yao?”

A few minutes later, after Zhao Qingzhi saw his thirty-nine elixirs being transported, he noticed that Yao Lai’s people were still moving more elixirs. Unable to hold back, he glanced inside Yao Lai’s cart.

With that glance, Zhao Qingzhi’s scalp tingled. Inside Yao Lai’s cart, there were at least a hundred more boxes containing heaven-and-earth elixirs.

“Isn’t it obvious?”

Hearing Zhao Qingzhi’s words, a faint smile appeared on Yao Lai’s face as he spoke.

“I …”  If time could be reversed, Zhao Qingzhi would definitely give his yesterday-self a good slap. How could he have thought that the Medicine family, with thousands of years of accumulation, would only have around a hundred elixirs? He had believed that asking for forty, about half of their stock, would be enough.

Back then, he should have stubbornly insisted on demanding a hundred heaven-and-earth elixirs. He was certain that Yao Lai would have eventually agreed to his terms.

But now, it was all too late. Yao Lai had already joined Kunlun, and Zhao Qingzhi no longer had any leverage over him.

“Brother Yao, your Medicine family is truly full of hidden depths.” Zhao Qingzhi stared at Yao Lai with a look as if he had lost billions, speaking in a heavy tone.

“Brother Zhao, the term ‘hidden depths’ should describe your Zhao family instead. My Medicine family merely has a bit more elixirs, which can be exchanged for a few more Kunlun points. But your Zhao family possesses an advanced Wisdom Root and a top-tier Wisdom Root. If possible, I’d be willing to trade everything I have to exchange for your Zhao family’s heaven-gifted innate conditions.”

Yao Lai looked at Zhao Qingzhi, shaking his head as he spoke.

Hearing Yao Lai’s words, Zhao Qingzhi’s expression, which had been filled with a sense of immense loss, began to recover.

Yes, these were just short-term gains in front of him. Wisdom Root was the true foundation.

Seeing Zhao Qingzhi’s expression recover, Yao Lai also breathed a sigh of relief.

He was genuinely worried that Zhao Qingzhi might become envious of the Medicine family’s elixirs and hold a grudge against them, potentially causing trouble in the future.

Now that they had openly discussed the strengths of their respective families, there shouldn’t be any conflicts between them in the short term.

…

Five minutes later, Yao Lai’s elixirs were also fully transported.

After all the elixirs were moved, Zhao Qingzhi and Yao Lai immediately dismissed the people transporting the elixirs and returned together to stand before Ye Yang.

“Mr. Ye, please help us evaluate the value of these elixirs.”

Upon returning to Ye Yang, Yao Lai pointed to the elixirs behind himself and Zhao Qingzhi, speaking with utmost respect.

“Hm.”

Ye Yang nodded lightly and then began examining the elixirs, starting with the thirty-nine elixirs behind Zhao Qingzhi, from the smallest to the largest quantity.

With Ye Yang’s divine sense, he could easily inspect all the elixirs in an instant. However, knowing everything in a single moment would lack the thrill of opening the boxes.

With the elixirs already in front of him, Ye Yang wanted to savor the anticipation, inspecting them one by one.

With a casual wave of his hand, a surge of spiritual energy shot out.

Swish, swish, swish.

As a series of whooshing sounds rang out, the small wooden boxes containing Zhao Qingzhi’s thirty-nine elixirs immediately floated into the air.

Click, click.

After bringing the thirty-nine small wooden boxes before him, Ye Yang waved his hand again, and the boxes instantly opened, revealing the heaven-and-earth elixirs inside.

The heaven-and-earth elixirs inside the small wooden boxes were all stored in crystal containers made of the same material as the Longevity Flower’s container.

Looking at the crystal boxes in front of him, Ye Yang examined them one by one in order. Soon, he finished inspecting the elixirs in ten crystal boxes. Without exception, the elixirs in these ten crystal boxes were all low-grade elixirs, and they were the lowest tier of low-grade elixirs.

After examining these ten elixirs, Ye Yang’s heart sank.

Was it true that the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment? Was the Longevity Flower, a top-tier supreme elixir, just a coincidence? Were the elixirs on Earth mostly low-grade?

If they were all low-grade, Ye Yang’s hope of using Earth’s elixirs to accelerate his rise would be shattered.

Low-grade, low-tier elixirs were only useful for the Qi Refining stages.

With the spiritual dew from the Longevity Flower and the cheat-like Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, Ye Yang could quickly surpass the Qi Refining stage and enter the Foundation Establishment stage.

By then, low-grade, low-tier elixirs would be as useless to him as low-grade, low-tier pills—completely ineffective.

In his disappointment, Ye Yang continued his inspection. When he reached the eleventh elixir, hope reignited within him.

The elixir in this crystal box was no longer low-grade, low-tier. Instead, it had jumped two major tiers, reaching the layer of an advanced low-tier elixir.

Although an advanced low-tier elixir was far inferior to the Longevity Flower, the increase in grade meant that the Longevity Flower wasn’t a fluke. Earth’s elixirs, like those in the cultivation world, existed across all grades.

This advanced low-tier elixir was called the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, a rather special elixir in the cultivation world.

Why was it special?

Its uniqueness lay in the fact that, if one could possess an infinite supply of Seven Days Seven Colors Flowers, even someone with ordinary aptitude could have a chance to become a mighty Divine Transformation realm cultivator.

The Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, when consumed, granted seven different enhancement effects over seven days.

The most significant effect was that, on one of those days, it could grant aptitude comparable to a top-tier special physique.

Aptitude equivalent to a top-tier special physique meant a starting point at the Divine Transformation realm, naturally allowing cultivation up to that realm.

But unfortunately, the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower was extremely rare.

Let alone possessing an infinite supply, even a single stalk would spark fierce competition among countless people.

In fact, it would usually be bought by cultivators at the Nascent Soul layer or higher.

The reason for this was simple: breaking through bottlenecks.

The Seven Days Seven Colors Flower could grant the aptitude of a top-tier special physique, even if only for a single day. This allowed cultivators to gain profound insights into their bottlenecks, and even after the effect wore off, the likelihood of breaking through to the next realm remained high.

“It’s a good thing. Fortunately, I discovered the Longevity Flower’s ability to endlessly convert spiritual energy. Otherwise, this Seven Days Seven Colors Flower wouldn’t be able to reach its full potential with just spiritual energy. If I only slightly activated it before consuming it, the effect would probably be less than one percent, offering me little improvement.

“But with an infinite supply of spiritual energy to catalyze it, during the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower’s duration, I might be able to soar to the peak of the Qi Refining realm in a single step.

“After all, this is an advanced elixir meant for Nascent Soul-layer cultivators and above. For someone like me in the Qi Refining stage, the effect would undoubtedly be immense.”

Looking at the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, Ye Yang nodded in satisfaction.

Soon, he continued inspecting the remaining elixir boxes.

He examined another dozen or so elixirs in succession. These ten elixirs were of much higher quality than the first ten. There were two low-grade mid-tier, three low-grade high-tier, three low-grade supreme-tier, one mid-grade low-tier, and one mid-grade high-tier.

As long as they weren’t low-grade, low-tier elixirs, Ye Yang considered them a gain.