Chapter 341

Over the next two days, he gave Xu Qing the second and third Eight-Treasure Lotus Seeds respectively.

After the medicinal power of the three Eight-Treasure Lotus Seeds was absorbed, Xu Qing’s cultivation had reached True Qi Great Perfection, and she could attempt the Marrow Cleansing realm.

Her bone structure, Xu Yang estimated, was not much different from reaching Grade A-minus, and might even have reached the Grade A-minus level.

However, for those who had already started practicing martial arts, their bones were already different from ordinary people, and the true bone structure level couldn't be measured.

"Go to the Hidden Merit Hall and exchange for a body-forging technique!"

Xu Yang gave Xu Qing some contribution points, and adding the contribution points Xu Qing had saved herself, it was enough to exchange for a good body-forging technique.

As for the true qi condensing technique, the Azure Wood Technique was a heterochromatic true qi technique and didn't need to be exchanged.

With the improvement of bone structure, cultivating body-forging techniques would be relatively much simpler. The higher the realm, the more he understood the importance of a solid foundation, so he squeezed out some contribution points to let Xu Qing cultivate body-forging techniques as soon as possible and temper her physical body.

He told Xu Qing not to rush to attempt the Marrow Cleansing realm, and to adapt to the surging strength before proceeding with the Marrow Cleansing matter.

Sending Xu Qing down the mountain, he came to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall.

Still the same side hall as last time, he met Duan Changji.

"What does Junior Brother Xu want to exchange for this time?" Duan Changji smiled.

Xu Yang didn't answer him immediately, but asked: "Can what I exchange for here be kept secret?"

If Elder Huoyun knew that his contribution points weren't used to exchange for elixirs but were used to exchange for spiritual herbs here, he would likely be angry again.

What kind of mess are you going to make again?

Duan Changji was stunned and shook his head: "Logically speaking, what you exchanged for can be known only by you and me. However, elders sometimes check the accounts, and they can also see what you exchanged for."

"Under normal circumstances, elders only check the accounts at the end of the year!" Duan Changji added.

At the end of the year?

As long as they didn't know now, Xu Yang nodded and said: "How many contribution points for a Dragon-Beard Root?"

"Six hundred!" Duan Changji said!

Like the Tiger-Soul Red Sun Fruit, Xu Yang opened his mouth and said: "I want one Dragon-Beard Root and one Tiger-Soul Red Sun Fruit."

Duan Changji’s pupils shrank!

Although he wasn't an alchemist, he had worked in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall for many years and knew that the Dragon-Beard Root and Tiger-Soul Red Sun Fruit were exactly the two main spiritual herbs for the Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill. Xu Yang was going to refine the Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill.

No wonder he asked if it could be kept secret. He was afraid that Elder Huoyun would know he was doing something foolish and messy again.

"Junior Brother Xu..." Duan Changji hesitated to speak, but in the end, he didn't say anything.

What Xu Yang did was not his place to talk about principles. Even Elder Huoyun’s words Xu Yang didn't take to heart, let alone him.

"Senior Brother Duan, please count!" Xu Yang placed the contribution points on the table.

"The quantity is correct. Please come back tomorrow to pick up the medicine, Junior Brother Xu," Duan Changji said.

"Please keep it secret for me, Senior Brother Duan."

Xu Yang cupped his hands and then left the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall. He put the remaining four hundred contribution points back in the quiet room and cultivated the King of Wisdom Immovable Body in the courtyard.

These past few days, he had been guarding Xu Qing at night and resting during the day, and hadn't cultivated much, so his cultivation had fallen behind quite a bit.

A day passed quickly.

The next day, he came to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall and successfully obtained the Dragon-Beard Root and Tiger-Soul Red Sun Fruit.

Without hesitation, Xu Yang went straight to Qingyang City at the foot of the mountain and soon arrived at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

"Greetings, Master Xu!"

Stepping into the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Zhou Yong greeted him with a smile.

"Can the medicine on this list be matched?" Xu Yang handed over the list he had written long ago.

The last Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill had many medicinal materials given as gifts by others. This time, he had to buy them himself, and he didn't know if he could buy them all at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. If he couldn't buy them all, he could only return to the Profound Sun Sect to exchange for them with contribution points.

Zhou Yong took Xu Yang’s list and scanned it carefully, shaking his head: "It can be matched, but with your status level in my Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Master Xu, I cannot give you so many rare medicinal materials at once."

The medicinal materials needed to refine the Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pill, besides the two spiritual herbs, Dragon-Beard Root and Tiger-Soul Red Sun Fruit, also included several other medicinal materials as rare as Pure Yang Grass and Tiger-Bone Vine.

Although they weren't at the level of spiritual herbs, they weren't common either.

Xu Yang frowned slightly, but he also heard the meaning in Zhou Yong’s words and said: "How can the status level be improved?"

"There are many ways!"

Zhou Yong smiled: "If you accumulate a consumption of fifty thousand taels in my Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Master Xu, your status can be upgraded to VIP level. Below spiritual herbs, any medicinal material can be purchased at will, and even for spiritual herbs, there is a purchase quota of two plants per year."

Xu Yang was moved. The VIP status of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion could actually allow him to purchase spiritual herbs here.

One had to know that things like spiritual herbs couldn't be bought with money in the market at all. In most cases, they were exchanged with equivalent spiritual objects. Generally, people who obtained spiritual herbs wouldn't be stupid enough to exchange them for money.

But his brows didn't stretch. He had been consuming in the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for several years, and the silver spent totaled at most twenty thousand taels, less than thirty thousand taels. Even if he wanted to consume another twenty thousand taels at once to improve his status level, he didn't have that much silver on him.

"What else?" Xu Yang said.

"If you don't want to spend money, Master Xu, you can also become an inner disciple of a certain elder in the Profound Sun Sect, and your status can also be immediately upgraded to VIP level," Zhou Yong said.

Xu Yang shook his head. He wanted to attempt the second Dragon Ascent and couldn't become an inner disciple of a certain elder.

The so-called inner disciple had to inherit the master’s mantle and sit in the position of an elder in the future.

Even if he wanted to, it was impossible. Elder Huoyun’s inner disciple had long been determined to be Gao Lin.

"The third method: succeed in the second Dragon Ascent, and you can also become a VIP of my Myriad Treasures Pavilion."

Xu Yang’s eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't feel that the VIP status of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion was anything precious before the first few conditions. Until he heard that people who succeeded in the second Dragon Ascent were also VIPs of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, he knew that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion was likely not as simple as he had imagined.

An ordinary force, who would dare to say that only geniuses of the second Dragon Ascent could become their VIPs?

"Is there anything else?" Xu Yang said.

He was confident he could attempt the second Dragon Ascent, but the second Dragon Ascent would still take more than two years.

Zhou Yong shook his head: "For you, Master Xu, there are only these three ways."

The implication was that there were other ways, for example, if Xu Yang were the Young Marquis Jiang Fan, then he would be a VIP of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion directly, but this was simply impossible for Master Xu.

"No, there is one more!"

A full-voiced sound rang out. Xu Yang looked up and saw Tao Huaijin walking out from the back hall of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion with a smile on his face.

Zhou Yong’s eyes were first blank, then brightened.

Xu Yang cupped his hands: "May I ask Shopkeeper Tao, what is the method?"

In fact, he had another way to buy these rare medicinal materials at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, but that was the last resort. Unless it was a last resort, he didn't want to do that.

Tao Huaijin looked around and saw no outsiders, then smiled: "Simple, just become a guest retainer of my Myriad Treasures Pavilion. Once you become a guest retainer of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, you can call upon resources yourself, and the share you can call upon is even more than the VIP status, and the discount is even greater."

Is someone eyeing me again?

Xu Yang didn't speak. Guest retainer sounded good, but in fact, it was no different from the retainers of great families; they were all hired thugs.

As if seeing Xu Yang’s hesitation, Tao Huaijin said: "Young Hero Xu, how about we go to the VIP room to talk?"

He stood at the stairs on the second floor of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and cupped his hands.

"Good!"

Xu Yang nodded, walked over, went to the second floor with Tao Huaijin, and entered the VIP room.

The layout here was very simple, a table, a few chairs, and some exotic flowers and plants.

However, Xu Yang could see that this VIP room was not simple, and like the rooms where Profound Sun Sect disciples lived, they were specially built and could isolate sound and aura from the outside.

Soon a maid sent tea.

Tao Huaijin smiled and invited Xu Yang to sit down, saying: "I am sincerely inviting Young Hero Xu to become a guest retainer of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, so please don't refuse."

Xu Yang sipped his tea and said: "My cultivation level is still considered okay for ordinary people, but for the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, it shouldn't count for much, right? To become a guest retainer of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion with this cultivation level, is the Myriad Treasures Pavilion short of people, or am I overestimating the Myriad Treasures Pavilion?"

Since the Myriad Treasures Pavilion dared to say that only geniuses of the second Dragon Ascent could become their VIPs and could even sell spiritual herbs, it was impossible for them to be short of a martial artist at Small Success of Marrow Cleansing like him.

Tao Huaijin shook his head with a smile: "Neither is the case. It is that I didn't explain it clearly. I am inviting you to become a guest retainer of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, not that you are immediately a guest retainer of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. You need to succeed in the second Dragon Ascent to truly become a guest retainer of my Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Of course, before that, in Qingyang City, I can take the initiative to give you some special privileges of a guest retainer, such as the purchase of spiritual herbs, which can be opened to you, because I am optimistic about your potential."

He was actually no different from forces like the Ding family; they were all optimistic about Xu Yang’s potential and wanted to invest in and win over Xu Yang in advance, looking at Xu Yang’s growth potential.

Xu Yang suddenly realized and said: "If I eventually become a guest retainer of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, what treatment can you give me?"

He didn't refuse immediately, but asked first to understand the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, this force.

Only geniuses who succeeded in the second Dragon Ascent could become guest retainers. This force was likely not as simple as he had imagined. The Myriad Treasures Pavilion here in Qingyang City was likely just a branch of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Tao Huaijin’s chest straightened slightly: "My Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s guest retainers can receive a retainer fee of fifty thousand taels per year. This fifty thousand taels, you can take the money directly, or you can have elixirs, weapons, or even spiritual herbs.

Besides the fifty thousand taels of retainer fee, you can also enjoy a ten percent discount when shopping at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. There is also a quota of five spiritual herbs per year. If there are spiritual herbs that cannot be found, all branches of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion can help collect them, and some information can also be browsed."

Xu Yang’s pupils shrank slightly. Fifty thousand taels of silver, he didn't have much concept.

Because when money reached a certain level, it was just a number.

But converted into spiritual herbs, he knew the true gold content of this fifty thousand taels of retainer fee.