“To exchange for a Fire Serpent Fruit, one needs five hundred thousand Sect contributions. Our Zhengsheng Sect’s Treasure Pavilion has only eight Fire Serpent Fruits,”
“May I exchange with this elixir pill?”
Lu Changsheng took out a Purple Gold Bagua Gourd, inside which contained the fourteenth-grade Immortal Pill “True Martial Fire Elemental Pill.”
Receiving the Purple Gold Bagua Gourd with suspicion, the Zhengsheng Sect disciple opened the wooden stopper. The scorching aura of the True Martial Fire Elemental Pill rushed towards him, nearly suffocating the Unity Realm Zhengsheng Sect disciple!
The elders and disciples of the Treasure Pavilion looked over in unison.
The commotion caused by the fourteenth-grade Immortal Pill was no small matter.
An elder from the Treasure Pavilion personally came over to appraise the value of the True Martial Fire Elemental Pill.
“This is a fourteenth-grade Immortal Pill—True Martial Fire Elemental Pill. It’s more than enough to exchange for eight Fire Serpent Fruits. Moreover, you can select a few more treasures.”
The elder of the Treasure Pavilion exchanged eight twelfth-grade Fire Serpent Fruits for one of Lu Changsheng’s fourteenth-grade True Martial Fire Elemental Pills, feeling almost guilty for gaining such a great deal. Therefore, he also allowed Lu Changsheng to pick a few other treasures.
Lu Changsheng collected the Fire Serpent Fruits.
What Lu Changsheng was interested in was not the Fire Serpent Fruit itself but the possible return of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures it might yield when bestowed.
Lu Changsheng bestowed various items upon his disciples whenever possible to see what might be returned.
“This stone…”
Lu Changsheng also took interest in a stone stained with Demon Blood.
The mere droplet of Demon Blood emitted Demonic Qi that made Lu Changsheng’s scalp tingle.
This stone’s Demonic Qi was suitable for Dugu Aotian’s cultivation.
The elder of the Treasure Pavilion said, “This is a stone stained with a droplet of Demon Blood from an Ancient Great Demon, said to be accidentally found by the Sect Leader in the Nine Nether Forbidden Land. Although it’s only a droplet of blood and despite countless years of depletion, it still has astonishing Demonic Qi. Ordinary cultivators should not use this treasure, or they risk having their Dao hearts eroded by the Demonic Qi. This item is not a common Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, so it does not have a defined tier.”
“Can it be exchanged for three True Martial Fire Elemental Pills?”
“This…”
“Five pills.”
“Daoist Changsheng, this…”
“Ten pills.”
“Enough, enough.”
The elder of the Treasure Pavilion smiled foolishly, rubbing his hands.
He had been surprised enough when Lu Changsheng first offered three True Martial Fire Elemental Pills, and before he could even finish speaking, Lu Changsheng had jumped to ten. The elder was more than eager to agree.
Although rare, the Demon Blood Stone was only useful for those with a special Demon Body. For Zhengsheng Sect cultivators, using the Demon Blood Stone would be counterproductive. The Demon Blood Stone having lain idle for a long time, the Treasure Pavilion could not have asked for a better deal than exchanging it for ten True Martial Fire Elemental Pills.
Lu Changsheng was not concerned about these few Immortal Pills; he had plenty of them.
Nevertheless, Lu Changsheng had never seen a Demon Blood Stone before, and exchanging it was certainly no loss.
After all, it was a treasure brought from the Nine Nether Forbidden Land.
Lu Changsheng wrapped the Demon Blood Stone in Xuanqing True Qi and placed it inside the Purple Gold Bagua Gourd.
Lu Changsheng then exchanged for a batch of treasures he had never seen before and returned to Changqing Cave.
Lu Changsheng called Lu Qinglian over and gave her Body Tempering Elixir.
Lu Qinglian began to cultivate the Sacred Tier superior cultivation technique, Three Thousand Demon Gods Visualization.
After the Martial King Divine Physique absorbed the Body Tempering Elixir, Lu Changsheng took out a Fire Serpent Fruit for Lu Qinglian to snack on.
Lu Qinglian excitedly ate the Fire Serpent Fruit.
The force of the Fire Element within the Fire Serpent Fruit emerged, once again absorbed by the Martial King Divine Physique.
[Ding, you have bestowed your disciple Lu Qinglian with a twelfth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure “Fire Serpent Fruit,” and received a billion-fold disciple-return reward: a sixteenth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure “Phoenix Fruit.”]
[Number of disciple-return rewards today -1.]
[Phoenix Fruit: Grows in the habitat of Phoenixes and has absorbed part of the Phoenix aura; extremely yang in nature, suitable for Fire Spirit Root cultivators, and can integrate True Qi with the Phoenix Fire.]
A billion-fold return?
Lu Changsheng froze.
The chances of triggering a billion-fold return were extremely low, and this time he had unexpectedly triggered it. A mere twelfth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure had returned a sixteenth-grade one!
Since the Phoenix Fruit was a sixteenth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, Lu Changsheng had no idea when to bestow it upon his disciples to receive a disciple-return reward. Thus, he decided to let Lu Qinglian use it in advance.
The Phoenix Fruit seemed to be able to enhance Lu Qinglian’s Fire Lotus True Qi.
The Fire Lotus True Qi was rather peculiar, being a special True Qi comprehended by Lu Qinglian at Fire Lotus Peak, which even Lu Changsheng, with his Innate Taoist Body, could not cultivate.
Lu Changsheng was currently practicing the Boundless Pure Dao of Qingyue Fairy and had refined Xuanqing True Qi, which also carried the Taqing Purple Qi.
Lu Changsheng took out the scorching Phoenix Fruit, within which the shadow of a Phoenix could faintly be seen.
When Lu Qinglian saw the Phoenix Fruit, she wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth.
The Phoenix Fruit was an exceedingly rare Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, reaching the astonishing tier of sixteen.
Such a sixteenth-grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure was equivalent to a treasured item of the Zhengsheng Sect.
“This is no ordinary object; it needs to be refined, and not directly…”
Just as Lu Changsheng was about to explain, Lu Qinglian had already swallowed the sixteenth-grade Phoenix Fruit in one gulp.
This even startled Lu Changsheng.
His disciples, Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian, would eat whatever Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures they came across, completely disregarding whether they could bear the potency.
Once the Phoenix Fruit was consumed, a tremendous surge of Phoenix Fire Essence flooded Lu Qinglian’s Zodiac Meridians, her cheeks flushed crimson as if her meridians were about to be torn apart by the frightening potency.
Lu Changsheng hurriedly used the Xuanqing True Qi to help Lu Qinglian refine the astounding Phoenix Fire Essence.
“Use your Fire Lotus True Qi to refine the Phoenix Fire Essence.”
Lu Changsheng struggled to maintain the balance of True Qi within Lu Qinglian’s body, giving her time to refine the Phoenix Fruit.
Lu Qinglian quickly circulated her Fire Lotus True Qi, and as the Phoenix Fire Essence was absorbed, her Fire Lotus True Qi gradually turned into a golden-red color, forming a new True Qi.