A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 42

Chapter 42: A Series of Lucky Finds! (Please read on! Please vote!)

What is Gold Essence?

Gold Essence is one of the five metals used to refine magical artifacts. It’s a magical artifact material on par with the Iron Essence, a specialty of Core Formation cultivator Li Huayuan,

and is grouped with Copper Essence, Silver Essence, Iron Essence, and Tin Essence as the five metals. Although it was incorporated into the handle of this talisman brush, it wasn’t actually refined into a magical artifact. It was merely a simple mixture with black iron, not contaminated by blood refining techniques. With some effort, most of the Gold Essence could be extracted.

Even if the extracted product wasn’t as high-quality as the one refined by a Core Formation cultivator using alchemical fire, it would be enough to slightly enhance other magical artifacts.

Alternatively, the handle could be directly fused into other magical artifacts.

In short,

the material used to refine this handle could be used to enhance magical artifacts.

The addition of Gold Essence strengthens aspects such as toughness, sharpness, and hardness.

Furthermore, the amount of Gold Essence in this Golden Bamboo Talisman Brush is quite substantial.

As for how he knew all this?

Because this was a small opportunity he had designed for the original body in the original timeline. It’s just that after acquiring the little green bottle, the original body hadn’t paid attention to these details.

Furthermore, the reason the original body had always had a good impression of Han Yunzhi was largely due to this talisman brush.

Sometimes, “liking” doesn’t come from nowhere.

“Besides, this golden bamboo brush itself can be used to draw beginner and intermediate level talismans, and the other materials are also quite valuable. In the future, I might even be able to get involved in the talisman path like the original body?”

Buying it for only twenty spirit stones with low-grade pills was definitely a good deal.

It was truly a bargain.

“Oh, fellow Daoist, is the amount of pills you gave me incorrect?”

Smelling the medicinal fragrance, Han Yunzhi confirmed the quality of the pills in the four bottles. For her brother, the forty pills in the four bottles offered a great chance to help him break through his bottleneck in the remaining time. Reaching the eleventh level of Qi Refining would significantly increase her chances of securing a spot among the top contestants, and also greatly improve the safety of the arena competition.

However, to her surprise,

while the finished pills in the bottles were fine,

the quantity was problematic.

“What, you think it’s too little?” Han Li asked with a smile.

“No, it’s just… just…” the girl pursed her lips, unsure how to express her gratitude.

It turned out that each bottle contained eleven pills, not ten.

With four bottles, there were four extra.

And these extra four weren’t Yellow Dragon Pills or Golden Marrow Pills, but rather the more potent Red Jade Pills. Two Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills were worth only one low-grade spirit stone. One Red Jade Pill, however, was worth one spirit stone.

These four extra Red Jade Pills meant an extra chance to break through her current bottleneck before the Ascension Tournament.

Han Li certainly wouldn’t be so generous to anyone else. But with Han Yunzhi and her brother, it was different.

He could bear the risk;

the future rewards were what he truly anticipated.

“Miss Han, your Golden Bamboo Talisman Brush is quite valuable, and I can’t take too much advantage of you siblings. Besides, I only hope these pills will help your brother successfully break through his bottleneck and win a spot in the Ascension Tournament.”

Having settled the transaction, Han Li wasn’t in a hurry to develop a deeper relationship with the brother and sister. He nodded slightly, making a brief acquaintance, and then left.

Leaving a good impression was enough.

Too much of a good thing is bad.

After blending into the crowd, Han Li stroked his chin thoughtfully:

“In my initial conception, Han Yunzhi’s brother suffered a severe injury during the Ascension Tournament, being beaten to the brink of death. Originally, as losers in the challenge, the siblings wouldn’t have been able to join the Spirit Beast Mountain. However, the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Spirit Beast Mountain noticed Han Yunzhi’s excellent spiritual roots—she possessed both water and wood spiritual roots.”

“Having dual spiritual roots already makes her a minor genius in terms of spiritual root aptitude.”

“As long as she doesn’t act recklessly and doesn’t lose her vital essence before Foundation Establishment, the probability of her achieving Foundation Establishment with a single Foundation Establishment Pill is extremely high.”

Moreover, dual spiritual roots allow for twice the cultivation speed compared to ordinary three-spiritual-root cultivators.

This advantage brings another identity: a “Core Formation Immortal Seed”!

Ordinary three-spiritual-root cultivators, without the aid of pills, might spend a lifetime cultivating to reach the peak of Foundation Establishment.

Even with the help of pills, they might not be able to refine their magical power to a level of purity sufficient for Core Formation.

Unlike those with dual spiritual roots, or those with special physiques or heterogeneous spiritual roots, their cultivation speed is much faster, allowing them more time to hone their magical power in preparation for Core Formation. The Foundation Establishment cultivators of Spirit Beast Mountain, if they weren’t foolish, wouldn’t let such a promising talent slip through their fingers.

“Because of Han Yunzhi, the brother and sister were able to join Spirit Beast Mountain together.”

“However, Han Yunzhi’s brother’s injuries were repeatedly obstructed by a certain Foundation Establishment family within Spirit Beast Mountain, preventing him from receiving proper treatment. This delay forced Han Yunzhi to marry a direct descendant of the family. Before Han Yunzhi’s true identity was revealed, she could only endure it, at one point even forcing this outwardly gentle but inwardly strong-willed girl to participate in the Blood Trial to seek the healing elixir, the Blazing Sun Flower, in the forbidden area…”

“In other words, if Han Yunzhi’s brother could achieve a breakthrough, many bad things might not have happened.”

Four bottles contained forty-four pills in total, four of which were Red Jade Pills, of significantly better quality than Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills.

The quantity was also sufficient.

If Han Yunzhi’s brother still can’t break through his bottleneck and advance further, then it truly is his fate to face this calamity.

As for whether this will change many things?

Han Li didn’t care much about that.

Because the brother and sister’s strength was weak, they could bring very little change to the cultivation world of Yue Kingdom at the moment, and it wouldn’t affect him at all. Moreover, facing this little girl who was extremely similar to his younger sister in both appearance and personality, he felt an innate goodwill and was willing to show her more kindness.

“Speaking of which, all sorts of underhanded and poisonous tricks are not prohibited on the Ascension Tournament stage. I’ll have to be more careful when I go on stage.”

The Seven Sects weren’t so merciful.

It was impossible, and there was no need to force it.

It was time to cut losses.

…

Just as Han Li was strolling around, a group of young cultivators caught his attention.

He went over to join the fun and was immediately overjoyed.

Wasn’t that another burly man selling fragments of a silk handkerchief magic weapon?

Actually, this man had been selling his own silk handkerchief fragments a couple of days ago.

After all, he guessed that this silk handkerchief fragment was a fragment of a magic weapon used by a Core Formation cultivator or even a Nascent Soul cultivator.

It possessed extremely strong concealment abilities: not only could it become invisible, but it could also conceal the spiritual energy fluctuations of the object it concealed. No matter how outsiders used their Heavenly Eye to examine it, they would find nothing.

Of course, invisibility didn’t mean disappearance.

Reaching out to grab it, one could still pull out the vanished silk handkerchief fragment and the object hidden beneath it.

It was definitely a good functional treasure.

However,

for Qi Refining cultivators or even Foundation Establishment cultivators, magic weapon fragments couldn’t be refined, and therefore, they couldn’t unleash all its inherent properties.

Furthermore, this fragment was only about the size of a palm, unable to conceal anything too large or numerous; it could barely cover a bottle the size of a fist.

Therefore, after two days of trading, no one was willing to spend a large sum of money.

And spirit stones weren’t something that fell from the sky.

Within the seven major sects, Qi Refining stage disciples earned spirit stones by tending herb gardens, guarding spirit mines, and caring for spirit beasts, averaging only two or three spirit stones per month. For independent cultivators and cultivation families outside the sects, the avenues for obtaining spirit stones were even fewer.

Forget two or three spirit stones per month;

a stable income of three to five spirit stones per year was considered a blessing.

Therefore,

asking these penniless cultivators to part with a large sum of spirit stones to buy this fragment of the silk handkerchief magic treasure was truly asking the impossible.

“Didn’t sell any more?”

The burly man at the stall muttered, a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

“If I can’t get enough spirit stones to buy pills that can help improve my magic power and break through my bottleneck, I won’t have enough time.” “

Sigh, in the end, there are just more and more people among the contestants with increasingly higher cultivation levels.”

It wasn’t that the cultivation environment for rogue cultivators had improved, with a large number of promising talents emerging. Rather

, it was that more and more cultivation families in Yue Kingdom were training their members to compete for the spots.

Those with some background and resources naturally had a significant advantage over rogue cultivators.

“With my cultivation at the peak of the tenth level of Qi Refining, I’m only at the upper-middle level among the cultivators present, and these aren’t even all of them participating in the Ascension Tournament arena battles. If I forcefully compete for the final spot, I’m afraid I won’t fare well.”

The burly man was well aware of his own limitations in this regard.

The night market of the Tai Nan Small Gathering was quickly coming to an end.

After most of the people had left,

a communication talisman quietly landed in the hands of the slightly disappointed burly man.

“Huh? This is…”

Someone actually offered four bottles of pills that could help improve magical power in exchange for the fragment of a silk handkerchief in his hand?

Want to see it?

Sure.

Then,

right there in Han Li’s small building, the burly man arrived as invited.

Both of them were straightforward people. They

got straight to business.

In the end, they agreed on an exchange of four bottles of pills.

The man left satisfied, while Han Li secretly rejoiced, stroking the small piece of magical handkerchief he had just acquired.

What the man didn’t know was that this fragment of silk handkerchief wasn’t a fragment of a magic weapon from a Core Formation stage cultivator, or even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, but rather a fragment left behind after the magic weapon of a legendary Nascent Soul cultivator from Tiannan shattered thousands of years ago!

This was also the main reason why the original owner of this body always carried the Palm Heaven Bottle on his chest in the lower realm, yet it was never detected by Nascent Soul cultivators or even Nascent Soul elders like Xiang Zhili.

If this fragment of silk handkerchief were of slightly lower quality, the Palm Heaven Bottle would have been exposed long ago.

(End of this chapter)