Chapter 7

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Body-building elixir, skin-tempering elixir, bone-boiling elixir, marrow-practice elixir, Liuhe elixir, eye-brightening elixir…

The sheer variety of level-1 elixirs was giving Chu Chen a headache.

Most of the level-1 elixirs were extremely fast consumables, and the most important function was that it strengthened the body by a small degree. This was to prevent the body from being possessed by one’s devil due to insufficient strength during the advancement of cultivation level.

Generally speaking, the effect of a level-1 elixir was equivalent to the result of several days of hard work on the body.

However, elixirs still have their downfalls. While it strengthens the body, it would also leave a small trace of toxins in the body. The small amount of toxins from a regular serving of elixir was no cause for alarm, but if a large amount of elixir were consumed in a short period, the accumulated toxin could be lethal.

Therefore, it was highly important to plan out the time and frequency of the consumption of elixirs.

Even if there were all level-1 elixirs, different elixirs have different strengthening processes for the body.

The skin, bones, muscles, and blood of the body all needed to be refined. The specific aspect that needed to be refined and the type of elixir to be consumed depended on one’s own state of cultivation.

After he looked around for half an hour, Chu Chen was completely dazzled and could not stand it anymore. After he thought about it for a while, a thought suddenly rushed into his mind. He then searched for a secluded place, closed his eyes and focused, and slowly activated his ‘spiritual sense’.

‘Spiritual sense’ was a kind of strange talent developed by cultivators after they had cultivated to a certain level where their mental strength would have greatly increased. Once the spiritual sense was activated, one could sense the ubiquitous spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth around one’s surroundings. So, in some sense, the spiritual sense could be said to be the cultivator’s third eye.

Because of the ancient power of Chu Chen’s soul power, the sensitivity of his “spiritual sense” had also greatly increased compared to other people.

However, what Chu Chen decided to use this time was not “spiritual sense” but “spiritual consciousness”.

If one had to say that spiritual sense used the eyes to see the surrounding space, then for “spiritual consciousness”, radar is used to detect the surrounding environment. In other words, it was an enhanced version of spiritual sense, often used for when cultivators were tracking enemies or exploring unfamiliar terrain.

Previously, when Chu Chen activated his spiritual senses, the void around him was already turbulent like a tsunami, so he never dared to activate the enhanced version ‘spiritual consciousness’.

Now that his spiritual senses had returned to normal, Chu Chen decided to use “spiritual consciousness” to examine the surrounding environment.

He did what he thought of. Chu Chen closed his eyes and concentrated. When his spiritual consciousness was activated, his body trembled slightly.

In his mind, there was an unspeakable strange scenery around him: with him as the center, a complete holographic image of the city with a radius of 30 feet appeared in his mind. He could see the overview of every street and shop. He could also clearly see the details of every stall, every disciple, and every elixir. Nothing was hidden from him.

In these stalls and shops, rays of dazzling spiritual gleams rose like mist.

These spiritual gleams were completely different from the “treasure gleams” created by the seller using little tactics. It was a natural spiritual gleam of treasures.

Most treasures were gray and white. A few things from a few stalls radiated green spiritual gleams. It was obvious to him that the colors of the spiritual gleams emitted by those things were different, and their qualities were also different.

Chu Chen had heard previously that some Legendary Stage powerhouses could see the spiritual gleam above the treasure. Gold was the best, followed by purple, red, blue, green, white, and gray.

Most of the low-quality level-1 elixirs were exuding gray spiritual gleam. And these were exactly what Chu Chen needed!

Chu Chen was pleasantly surprised. He had not expected that after this accident where there was a change in soul energy, not only would he have a clone, he could also see the spiritual gleams emitted by the treasures and judge the quality of the treasures. That meant that for all his future purchases, he no longer had to worry about being cheated by others.

Chu Chen, who was immersed in surprise, had his spiritual consciousness fully activated. He diligently swept back and forth in the market area covered by his spiritual consciousness.

Just as he discovered that this method was extremely exhausting and he was a little tired, suddenly, when he was carefully sensing a certain direction of the market, his body involuntarily shook slightly!

Not far from him, in the middle of a large number of low-quality elixir stalls, in a particular stall, an ink-like black spiritual gleam was particularly eye-catching among the many gray, white, and green spiritual gleams.

Black? What was the quality of this kind of treasure?

Chu Chen knew that gold spiritual gleam represented the best quality in spiritual objects. Among the colors, gold was the most precious. But if it was black… what level was it? Could it be higher than gold?

However, this ink-like black gleam appeared among a collection of gray spiritual gleam. In other words, the owner of this black gleam did not know the value of this treasure. In his/her mind, this treasure was actually the same as the gray low-quality level-1 elixirs.

Because there was only such a black spiritual gleam in the entire market, Chu Chen’s curiosity was aroused. Upon closer inspection, among the gray level-1 spiritual elixirs, a faded black jade slip was inconspicuous. It was mixed with many elixirs and placed casually like it was discarded by the vendor.

This turned out to be a cultivation technique!

There was a saying,- ‘”Heaven and Earth are different.'” Naturally, those immortals cannot use paper to record their cultivation techniques like ordinary people. The principle and logic of Heaven and Earth cannot be described clearly with mere words. Therefore, the techniques of the sect were generally recorded in jade slips. As long as the disciple of the sect who had been cultivating for some time could sense the spiritual energy of the surrounding void, they could also sense the message in the jade slip.

There were techniques for cultivation, but the spiritual gleam of those jade slips still followed the laws of the seven colors of gray, white, green, blue, red, purple, and gold. There should be no black spiritual gleam. This made Chu Chen very curious.

The sharp soul power faintly sensed something extraordinary from that jade slip. Chu Chen thought for a while, woke up from meditation, and walked towards the booth.

“I want this elixir, this, and this… Huh? This little thing is unconventional, how much is it?”

To prevent the seller from holding on to the odd stocks, Chu Chen acted as though he inadvertently picked up the “target jade slip” after he chose the level-1 spiritual elixir that he needed. He had it on hand for a while but put it back quickly.

It seemed that he was only slightly surprised, and the question asked by him was not expected to be answered by the seller.

The seller was a sect disciple in his twenties, dressed in a white gold silk robe. He was handsome in appearance and elegant in behavior. He got it when he collected large quantities of discarded jade slips.

At first, he thought it was a cultivation technique. When his spiritual senses penetrated the ancient jade slip to search for information, he was disappointed to find that there was no cultivation method information contained in it.

The jade slip that had no information about the cultivation method was just a piece of ordinary jade pendant. It posed no use for a sect disciple. At that moment when Chu Chen posed the question, his eyelids were only slightly raised, and he curled his lips involuntarily.

“If you purchase these elixirs, this jade pendant will be gifted to you.”

Chu Chen’s heart was beating wildly at that time because when he had this black jade slip in his hands, his spiritual consciousness felt a familiar aura, which was the aura of the Eternal Godly Demons in the celestial mountain, whereby Chu Chen was the only person who was ever in contact with. 

He could almost confirm that this jade slip should be the only remains of the war that spurted from the Black Fog Valley during the explosion that occurred in the celestial mountain war.

Chu Chen could not help but twitch slightly at the corners of his mouth. He calmly put away a lot of elixirs and the target jade pendant. Although he almost spent all his money, he could not help but had an excitement that surged in his heart!

With a handful of low-quality elixirs in his arms, Chu Chen walked down the mountain happily. Although he didn’t know what was inside the jade slip produced by “Black Fog Valley” that exuded an ink-black spiritual gleam, his super-strong spiritual consciousness could faintly sense that there was a mysterious special cultivation method recorded in it!

He was lucky to be able to get it without spending a single candareen.

With anticipation in his heart, he involuntarily sped up his pace and wanted to go back to his residence to confirm what kind of cultivation methods were recorded in the jade slip.

However, when he got to the entrance of the market light curtain, Chu Chen paused for a moment and frowned involuntarily. He did not expect to meet a person that he did not want to meet here.