Liu Chengfeng looked at Bai Yunxi, and said in confusion, “Fellow Daoist Bai is also interested in fire seeds?”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Yes!”
“There is a place called Hundred Flames House in Pill Capital, which sells all kinds of flames. If you two are interested, you can go there and have a look. However, the cheapest flames in that place are not less than 20,000 spirit stones.” Liu Chengfeng said.
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Okay!”
“What are you doing in Pill Capital, Fellow Daoist Liu?” Bai Yunxi asked.
Liu Chengfeng glanced at Liu Jingyu, who was on the side, and said, “There was an alchemist who said that my son is talented in alchemy, and this time I’m going to find him a famous teacher.”
Bai Yunxi looked at Liu Chengfeng with confusion, and said, “Isn’t Fellow Daoist Liu a weapon refiner? Don’t you want your son to inherit your mantle?”
Liu Chengfeng shook his head and said, “Where can weapon refiners compare to alchemists?! Staying in the weapon refining room all day and making themselves stinky. Alchemists are different. They are respected wherever they go! They can make money too. It’s much better than a weapon refiner.”
Bai Yunxi: “…” Bai Yunxi secretly thought: was this the so-called doing one thing and resenting the other thing?
“My son is about to build his foundation, and this time I also want to find him a Foundation Establishment Pill.” Liu Chengfeng sighed.
Bai Yunxi nodded, “Oh”.
Liu Chengfeng was the deputy pavilion master of Dingjian Pavilion. The competition in Dingjian Pavilion was fierce. Liu Chengfeng had already contacted an alchemist for Liu Jingyu, and was waiting to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill, but he didn’t expect to be cut off in the middle. Someone else raised the price by 30,000 spirit stones and bought the Foundation Establishment Pill in advance.
After Liu Chengfeng inquired, he found out that the medicinal pill was bought by an elder of Dingjian Pavilion, and there was the shadow of the main pavilion master, Liu Chenghan, behind this incident.
Knowing that the main pavilion master was afraid of Liu Jingyu’s ability, he was worried that this pair of father and son would both build foundations and affect his position as the main pavilion master, so he made small moves behind his back. Liu Chengfeng couldn’t help but feel a little disheartened, so he took Liu Jingyu and left Dingjian Pavilion.
“Foundation Establishment Pill? Fellow Daoist Liu, how many spirit stones do you plan to spend on the Foundation Establishment Pill?” Ye Fan asked.
Liu Chengfeng frowned, feeling that Ye Fan’s question was a bit abrupt, but he still answered. “One hundred thousand spirit stones.”
Ye Fan blinked and said, “Hey, it’s quite high! Has the price of Foundation Establishment Pills risen so much?”
Liu Chengfeng smiled bitterly. Two hundred years ago, 40,000 spirit stones could buy a Foundation Establishment Pill. However, as the raw materials for refining Foundation Establishment Pills became increasingly scarce, now Foundation Establishment Pills had risen to 70,000 or 80,000 spirit stones for one. Liu Chengfeng had negotiated a price of 80,000 spirit stones with an alchemist before, but as a result, he was cut off by someone else with 110,000 spirit stones. The value of the Foundation Establishment Pill depended on who took it.
Some people took it and entered the Foundation Establishment stage and climbed to the sky in one step, while other people took it and stayed in place, wasting spirit stones in vain.
“If you need a Foundation Establishment Pill, I have one.” Ye Fan said.
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Liu Chengfeng looked at Ye Fan and said excitedly, “Do you have one, Fellow Daoist Ye?”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes!”
Bai Yunxi frowned and thought secretly: When Ye Fan was on Ice Sword Island before, he was mostly collecting ice crystal diamonds for him, and he didn’t earn many spirit stones. Buying a fire seed required a large amount of spirit stones. It was also good to exchange a Foundation Establishment Pill for a sum of spirit stones. Anyway, he and Ye Fan had already built their foundations, and it was useless to keep the Foundation Establishment Pill. Now there was only Liu Chengfeng on the boat who was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so he and Ye Fan didn’t have to be afraid others would join forces against them.
Liu Chengfeng calmed down and said, “Fellow Daoist Ye, can you let me check the medicinal pill?”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes.”
Liu Chengfeng nervously took the medicinal pill that Ye Fan handed over and checked it out. The medicinal pill indeed had the breath of the Foundation Establishment Pill, and the quality was better than the one he had seen before, but the color was different. “This medicinal pill…”
Ye Fan looked at Liu Chengfeng and said puzzledly, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing?” Liu Chengfeng suddenly remembered that the effect of ancient Foundation Establishment Pills was very good. However, due to the lack of some medicinal materials, many of the current Foundation Establishment Pills were made by substituting some medicinal materials. Although they were still effective, the efficacy of the medicinal pill was reduced. After some thought, he recalled the ancient Foundation Establishment Pill had a special characteristic. The medicinal pill had dark golden lines. This one in his hand should be an ancient Foundation Establishment Pill.
“Fellow Daoist Ye, you said that this medicinal pill is 100,000 spirit stones?” Liu Chengfeng asked.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes!”
Liu Chengfeng readily paid the spirit stones, and both parties could be said to be very happy with the deal.
…
“Fellow Daoist Ye is interested in fire seeds. I don’t know what kind of flame you want.” Liu Chengfeng asked casually.
Having bought the Foundation Establishment Pill, which was far beyond his expectations, Liu Chengfeng was in a good mood.
Ye Fan was sitting on the boat, nibbling on some spiritual fruit, and said indifferently, “I want heavenly fire.”
Liu Chengfeng smiled reluctantly and said, “Fellow Daoist Ye is really a man with dreams.”
Who didn’t want heavenly fire! Even Nascent Soul cultivators wanted it, but it took chance to find it.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Well, all cultivators should have ambition.”
Liu Chengfeng: “…”
“Speaking of heavenly fire, there is really a kind of heavenly fire that might appear soon.” Liu Chengfeng said casually.
Ye Fan looked at Liu Chengfeng and said in surprise, “Really? What kind of heavenly fire?”
“I don’t know if Fellow Daoist Ye has heard of the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm.” Liu Chengfeng asked.
Ye Fan shook his head and said, “No.”
“The Heavenly Wood Secret Realm was originally the living space of the tree people, but the tree people have disappeared for many years. It is said that there is a flame of life ranked fifth on the heavenly fire list in this secret realm.” Liu Chengfeng said.
The tree people were born from the spiritual trees of heaven and earth. The tree people themselves had high medicinal value. Therefore, as soon as the tree people were born, they were madly slaughtered by cultivators. After being refined into medicinal pills, the tree people naturally disappeared into the long river of history.
“Heavenly Wood Secret Realm?” Ye Fan suddenly remembered that there was the character “木 (wood)” on the token he got before.
“Yes, Heavenly Wood Secret Realm. Every time the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm is opened, ninety-nine teleportation tokens will be scattered in batches. After all the tokens are issued, the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm will be opened. At that time, with the token in hand, people can be teleported to the secret realm. One token can teleport up to four people. I heard that more than 40 tokens have already been released.” Liu Chengfeng said.
Ye Fan nodded, “Oh.”
“When will the token activate?” Ye Fan asked.
“It should be about a year later. This token is very popular now. Before, a Foundation Establishment cultivator got one and was hunted down by people from all sides. In the end, this guy had to send the token to an auction house. The auction was held, and this token auctioned for more than 300,000 spirit stones.” Liu Chengfeng said.
Bai Yunxi said a little puzzled, “So many?”
Liu Chengfeng nodded and said, “Yes, the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm has been opened more than ten times, but so far, the flame of life has not been subdued.”
Ye Fan said inexplicably, “It shouldn’t be! Although the flame of life is a heavenly fire, it is the mildest type of heavenly fire. How can it not be subdued?” The flame of life ranked fifth on the list of heavenly fires, but it was the mildest type. It was a heavenly fire very suitable for alchemy.
Liu Chengfeng smiled and said, “Because the teleportation token can only teleport Foundation Establishment cultivators and below. If a Golden Core cultivator tries to force the teleportation, the teleportation token will collapse. So although many Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators are also very greedy for the flame of life, they can only be greedy.”
Bai Yunxi listened to Liu Chengfeng’s words, and was secretly delighted. If only cultivators at Foundation Establishment and below could enter the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm, then Ye Fan’s probability of getting the heavenly fire would be greatly enhanced if they entered it.
“So that’s how it is. Although the flame of life is the mildest of heavenly fires, it is still a heavenly fire. It is very difficult for a cultivator only at Foundation Establishment to deal with it.” Bai Yunxi said.
Liu Chengfeng nodded and said, “That’s right. During the several times the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm was previously opened, there were cultivators who tried to fuse the flame of life, but they were all burned to death by flames. Among them, there were many geniuses. Although the danger is great, there are still many cultivators willing to try.”
Bai Yunxi: “…”
…
The sound of waves came over. “Deputy Pavilion Master*, there are sea beasts.”
Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan walked out together, and saw a sea crab the size of a house floating on the water.
“Red cloud crab,” Liu Chengfeng’s face flashed with a bit of solemnity.
Ye Fan looked at the red cloud crab and said excitedly, “What a big hairy crab! It should be delicious.”
Hearing this, Liu Chengfeng gave Ye Fan a strange look.
“Fellow Daoist Ye, Fellow Daoist Bai, this sea beast looks very dangerous. Why don’t we take action together?” Liu Chengfeng said.
“Go.” Bai Yunxi snorted softly, and twelve spiritual swords came out from his body. The spiritual swords merged into one in the air, and fell fiercely on the back of the red cloud crab. A crack appeared on the back of the red cloud crab.
Liu Chengfeng looked at Bai Yunxi in surprise. Liu Chengfeng didn’t pay much attention to Bai Yunxi’s cultivation in the early stage of Foundation Establishment. However, Bai Yunxi’s actions shocked Liu Chengfeng.
“What a powerful sword! I don’t know which weapon refiner’s work it is.” Liu Jingyu couldn’t help but say.
Liu Chengfeng frowned and secretly thought: Bai Yunxi’s spiritual sword was indeed powerful, but it was not necessarily the work of a master craftsman. On the contrary, the craftsmanship was a bit rough. It should be the work of someone who was not good at refining weapons. After a while, there should be room for improvement. The spiritual sword could have such a good effect because the materials used were good.
He just didn’t know what kind of materials were used to achieve such a remarkable effect.
Bai Yunxi said lightly, “It’s a simple skill. Fellow Daoist Liu has overpraised.”
Liu Chengfeng could also solve the red cloud crab. but he couldn’t solve it as simply and neatly as Bai Yunxi.
…
The ship traveled at sea for three months, and encountered six sea beast attacks. In the most thrilling one, the three of them had to go all out to repel the sea beast.
The strengths of Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan shocked Liu Chengfeng. At the same time, Liu Chengfeng also felt very lucky that the two of them had good moral character and didn’t take advantage to kill people and seize treasures.
Liu Chengfeng looked at Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan, and said, “Two Fellow Daoists, just ahead is Pill Capital. I plan to open a weapon refining shop in Pill Capital. If the two of you need anything, you can come to the weapon refining shop to find me.”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Definitely.”
Along the way, Liu Chengfeng felt very fortunate that he met Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan. Liu Chengfeng felt that he had underestimated the danger at sea. If it wasn’t for Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi’s help, Liu Chengfeng felt that the people in his boat would be in trouble.
“Father, Senior Ye knows everything!” Liu Jingyu said with admiration.
Liu Jingyu had learned a little about weapon refining. In order to be accepted by an alchemist as a disciple, Liu Jingyu also learned some alchemy knowledge. Liu Jingyu discovered that Ye Fan was very knowledgeable about alchemy and weapon refining. He occasionally mentioned some things and Liu Jingyu felt enlightened.
Liu Chengfeng nodded and said, “Those two have reached Foundation Establishment at a young age. The spiritual weapons on their bodies and the exercises they practice are not ordinary. Maybe they were sent out by some major sect to practice and gain experience.”
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T/N: I guess Ye Fan is out of touch or the author forgot, but in Chapter 183, it was said that a Foundation Establishment Pill only went for 3,000 spirit stones on the market. I think it’s most likely that in Chapter 183, the main characters were poor so 3.000 sounded like a lot, but as the story progressed, it became obvious it wasn’t that much so the author had to change the value. This happens a lot in cultivation novels with a leveling-up theme.
*Not really sure why they’re still calling him deputy pavilion master when it said he left Dingjian Pavilion. Also, it said last chapter the ship supposedly still belongs to Dingjian Pavilion, so maybe it’s just a temporary leave or something. Or the author is just being inconsistent haha.
I think the discrepancy in value of the Foundation pill is bc from where Ye Fan hails, the region is affluent in Qi and other resources for cultivation so a simple foundation pill isn’t something that is high on priority but low in supply. So it might be priced low there.
Oh you’re right – that didn’t occur to me. Good theory!