Chapter 328: Chapter 268: Mysterious Yang Cauldron_1
It’s indeed a coincidence that Ming Yuhua’s Foundation Establishment took place at a perfect time.
It happened exactly at the end of a semester, senior students at the Treasure Trove who had worked hard for a year on their Foundation Establishment would typically open their “Device Nurturing Sphere” at this time every year.
However, Ming Yuhua’s luck wasn’t great.
Because Master Shaoyang was in seclusion, no one took him to the deeper part of the Treasure Trove to get the highest authority device piece meant for new Foundation Establishers from Duanmu Longrong.
But as an Artifact Refiner, Ming Yuhua was extremely attracted to the Device Nurturing Sphere after hearing about it from Chen Mobai.
Although he was quite disappointed he didn’t have the device piece, just being able to come and have a look was already very fortunate for him.
“You’re too slow.”
Chen Mobai, who had been waiting at the entrance of the tunnel, complained as he watched Ming Yuhua leisurely descend from the sky.
He could have descended using Chen Mobai’s “Red Misty Cloud Silk,” but Ming Yuhua, who had just established his foundation and had not had enough fun flying, insisted on flying himself, wasting quite a lot of time.
Ming Yuhua, who underestimated the height of the Treasure Trove, arrived there with a rather pale face.
“How was I supposed to know flying consumes so much spiritual power?”
After landing in the tunnel, Ming Yuhua sat down, caught his breath and immediately began condensing the dense fire spiritual power around him.
All Chen Mobai could do was wait with a helpless expression, but it also provided a good opportunity for him to observe the circumstances of Foundation Establishment through the Pure Yang Scroll.
Although he couldn’t directly observe it with the Void Spirit Eye, he gained a lot by watching the spiritual energy around him rush into Ming Yuhua’s seven orifices.
Actually, Chen Mobai had long accumulated enough Pure Yang Spiritual Power. If he chose to directly establish his foundation, he was 99 percent sure he could succeed.
However, waiting for the perfect opportunity to establish his foundation after hearing the Dao, he held himself back.
This time, observing the operation of Ming Yuhua’s Pure Yang Scroll during his Foundation Establishment, comparing with his own comprehension, he seemed to have a hint of an idea.
“Let’s go.”
Half an hour later, Ming Yuhua, who had recovered most of his spiritual power, was full of energy and stood up.
Chen Mobai led him through the tunnel, bypassed the underground undercurrents, and quickly reached the underground cavern plaza where the student union was located.
Compared to usual, today there were about 60 to 70 people, all of them true cultivators who had established their foundation.
Quite a few people had set up stalls and were presenting their Device Nurturing Spheres with dead seals.
Chen Mobai spotted someone familiar, it was Qu Hongyu, a senior who had been in charge of reception when he first enrolled.
If he remembered correctly, she should have graduated, right?
“Senior Sister, what a coincidence.”
Of course, he had to greet her after encountering her. Qu Hongyu also recognized Chen Mobai and responded with hearty cheerfulness.
“It’s you, I really didn’t expect the first one to establish foundation from your grade would be you.”
“Senior sister is mistaken, Zhongli Tianyu is the first one.”
Chen Mobai was still rather modest. Compared to Zhongli Tianyu, who broke through as if drinking water after enrollment, he was merely an ordinary person.
“You’re as modest as ever. By the way, both of you are new Foundation Establishers. You should have the device piece, right? I know of two active sealed Device Nurturing Spheres. Interested?”
Qu Hongyu established her foundation in her junior year and applied for a delay in graduation after succeeding. Now, she was an assistant teacher for the spirit flower cultivation course under the Spiritual Plant Department.
For real cultivators who established their foundation, aside from teaching, they had loads of time. And since the Spiritual Energy in the Treasure Trove was dense, most of their cultivation time was spent here.
Upon finding two active sealed Device Nurturing Spheres, Qu Hongyu didn’t have enough school credits, so she came over to see if anyone needed it.
She wasn’t there to trade Device Nurturing Spheres.
After all, the device piece was the most important thing. So here in the Treasure Trove, if you accept other people’s information and extract something good, you need to transfer a sum of Good Deed Points as information fee afterwards.
If the item extracted is ordinary, or of the lowest, lower-grade Rank-2, or a fragment then, they’d just have to accept the bad luck.
Generally speaking, if you extract a mid-grade Rank-2 Magic Artifact, you have to transfer a symbolic 10,000 Good Deed Points as information fee.
Extracting a high-grade Rank-2 undamaged Magic Artifact, the information fee is 100,000 Good Deed Points.
And if a Rank-3 Magic Artifact is extracted, this information fee can be as high as millions.
However, it has been nearly twenty years since a Rank-3 Magic Artifact was extracted in the Treasure Trove.
Active sealed Device Nurturing Spheres can’t be moved, so the person providing the information needs to take you there. Chen Mobai and Ming Yuhua were both interested, but they haven’t finished browsing the stalls in the plaza. So they agreed to go have a look when they had time in the next few days.
“The student council seems to be opening a dead sealed Device Nurturing Sphere at noon. Don’t miss it.”
After Qu Hongyu added the contact information of the two junior students who had established their foundation, she shared a piece of news.
Chen Mobai took Ming Yuhua around the dead seal Device Nurturing Spheres at the stalls again. This thing was much simpler compared to the active seals.
If you like what you see and the two sides can agree on terms, it can be directly transferred, and no information fee needs to be transferred afterwards no matter what is extracted.
Although Device Nurturing Spheres were technically property of the Dance Tool Dao Academy before they were opened, students painstakingly digging them out from various parts of the Treasure Trove, charging a hard-work fee has become the default.
Chen Mobai stopped at another familiar stall.
“Huh? Is he also a junior?”
Mi Yudao looked at Ming Yuhua, asking curiously.
“Correct, my good brother here happens to be the leading figure of our year’s Refining Implement Department.”
Chen Mobai nodded, introducing Ming Yuhua. The latter, when in front of strangers, was not unassuming and introduced himself modestly.
