Chapter 201

The towering Mount Tai stands alone, leading all other peaks.

Even though the Huo family is the most powerful in Taishan Market, everyone must give face to the Kang family of Mount Tai.

After all, the ancestors of the Kang family came from the Yuding Sword Sect and have a deep background.

This market is named after the Kang family's ancestral land.

A sound-transmitting paper crane, riding the strong wind, soon drilled into the formation on the mountainside.

Before long, someone holding the message found Kang Dongyue.

"Grandfather, the message from the Jin Shi Pavilion says that someone wants to sell elixirs."

Kang Dongyue frowned, "Isn't there a family elder arranged over there? Xianqiong, don't come looking for me for every little thing; you should also learn to take over family matters."

Kang Xianqiong said helplessly, "This time, they specifically named you to appraise them."

"Hmm?"

"First-grade top-quality elixirs, and it seems there's a large quantity!"

As she spoke, Kang Xianqiong took out the pink jade bottle.

Kang Dongyue, surprised, carefully opened the jade bottle.

A scorching, restless medicinal fragrance instantly spread out.

He raised an eyebrow and immediately held his breath.

But the young woman beside him was not as vigilant; just one breath of the medicinal fragrance entering her body made her heart beat wildly uncontrollably.

"This is... Myriad Wonder Pills?"

Kang Dongyue muttered, then became thoughtful.

"It seems that little friend from Dahe Market has come."

"I didn't expect his alchemy progress to be so fast; in just a few years, he has refined top-quality elixirs."

"Now that there are changes in Dahe Market, is he trying to use these elixirs to seek protection from our Kang family?"

"With such outstanding alchemy attainments, perhaps I can..."

As he muttered, he noticed a somewhat amorous atmosphere in the air.

He turned his head sharply.

His granddaughter Kang Xianqiong's face was flushed, her eyes blurred, and her watery eyes seemed to be able to spin silk.

One hand had already subconsciously touched her swelling chest.

"What kind of behavior is this!"

With a stern shout, he slapped a splash of water onto Kang Xianqiong's face.

Splash!

Kang Xianqiong shuddered all over, waking up in a daze.

Seeing her grandfather's gloomy expression, she immediately shivered.

"I, I..."

"What 'I, I'!" Kang Dongyue stared at his granddaughter, disappointed that she hadn't lived up to his expectations, "Have you forgotten to cultivate your heart because your cultivation is too fast? You can't even resist this little bit of medicinal fragrance; how will you inherit our Kang family's legacy in the future? Huo Hu from the Huo family has already returned from the Yan Alliance's Foundation Establishment, and you're still at Qi Refining..."

After a long-winded scolding, Kang Xianqiong's small mouth pouted, and she was about to cry.

As a young girl, she naturally had no defenses beside the powerful grandfather she trusted most.

Who knew that the elixir would be so filthy and base.

Just by smelling it, she had feelings.

Now, she was also scolded.

"Crying and whimpering, it's all my fault for protecting you too well."

"Hmph!"

"I punish you to three months of confinement at the Cliff of Reflection!"

Kang Dongyue flicked his large sleeve and left directly.

Judging by the direction of his escape light, he was clearly heading to the Taishan Market at the foot of the mountain.

Kang Xianqiong pouted, her small face puffed up with anger.

"It's all that damn alchemist's fault!"

"Making me make such a fool of myself in front of Grandfather!"

"Don't let me find out who you are..."

Kang Xianqiong scolded for a while, then obediently walked toward the Cliff of Reflection.

Halfway there, her eyes rolled around.

"Three months, and he didn't say which day to start."

"It's perfectly normal for me to go buy some daily necessities first!"

Hehe!

With a snicker, she steered her flying magic tool and quietly descended Mount Tai.

"Little friend, long time no... wait, who are you?"

In the VIP hall on the second floor of the Jin Shi Pavilion.

Kang Dongyue looked at the man in front of him hesitantly.

Luo Chen wiped his face, and the appearance he had changed with secret arts immediately returned to its original state.

He smiled slightly and cupped his hands.

"Senior, long time no see!"

"You!"

Kang Dongyue's expression changed instantly, looking at Luo Chen in disbelief.

It wasn't because of the disguise technique.

It was the spiritual power fluctuation the other party was displaying at this moment.

It was actually at the same Foundation Establishment level as his own.

Although relatively lower than his own, it was already a genuine second-level Foundation Establishment!

How many years have passed since then!

When we first met, I remember it was the fourth or fifth level of Qi Refining, right?

Kang Dongyue's expression was dazed.

Even after sitting down and Luo Chen catching up with him, he still hadn't quite reacted.

This kind of cultivation speed, even in a large sect, would be cultivated as a true disciple, or even a Dao seed!

"Senior?"

"Don't call me Senior anymore. Since you have already reached Foundation Establishment, you are a fellow traveler. Just call me Fellow Daoist."

Sighing, Kang Dongyue finally recovered his composure quickly.

He looked at Luo Chen, feeling deeply moved, and nodded repeatedly.

"No wonder you could refine top-quality Myriad Wonder Pills; it turns out you have already reached Foundation Establishment. I'm afraid you can even try to get into second-grade elixirs now!"

Try?

I have already refined them.

Luo Chen smiled slightly, "Senior, you flatter me. After so many years, your cultivation has also improved; you're already at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment!"

Flattery is just people praising each other, right!

Everyone knows how to say nice things.

Kang Dongyue sighed inwardly; he didn't consider himself fast at all!

When he went to Dahe Market, he was already at the third level of Foundation Establishment.

It was only after buying a large amount of cultivation resources at the auction that he luckily advanced to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment in these two years.

"Let's not talk about these polite words!"

Kang Dongyue took out the pink jade bottle, "On the way here, I already appraised this elixir. It is indeed top-quality, and its medicinal power is extremely extraordinary; ordinary Qi Refining cultivators would be affected just by smelling the fragrance."

"Even for true Foundation Establishment cultivators like us, I imagine it would have excellent effects after taking it!"

"In terms of price, it naturally cannot be discussed as an ordinary first-grade elixir; after all, once an elixir reaches top-quality, it is almost equivalent to a low-grade elixir of a higher grade."

"Therefore, I will give you twenty low-grade spirit stones each."

"Considering the large quantity, this price might be on the low side..."

"Ahem!"

His words were interrupted by Luo Chen.

Under Kang Dongyue's puzzled gaze, Luo Chen gave a wry smile.

"You really flatter me, Senior. How could there be batch refining of top-quality elixirs? Just this one was a stroke of luck, a flash of inspiration."

Kang Dongyue blinked, then let out a hearty laugh.

He patted the table.

"Haha!"

"I was the one who thought wrong; that's right, top-quality elixirs!"

"It's just that I was shocked by your cultivation progress earlier, and I felt that such a thing happening to you seemed acceptable."

"Hahaha..."

Amidst the laughter, the atmosphere finally returned to a normal state.

The laughter ceased.

Kang Dongyue noticed something wrong again.

"Then you said earlier that you have a large quantity of elixirs for sale?"

"Take a look at this elixir."

A jade bottle was slowly pushed from Luo Chen's hand across the sandalwood table to Kang Dongyue.

Opening the bottle stopper, Kang Dongyue pursed his lips.

He looked up, looking at Luo Chen suspiciously.

"Jade Marrow Pill... Dan Chenzi?"

"Hmm."

"Hiss!"

Kang Dongyue gasped, his gaze at Luo Chen filled with unconcealable shock.

Outsiders don't understand where this shock of his comes from.

Only true alchemists understand why this huge emotional fluctuation occurred.

Less than ten years!

Refining top-quality Myriad Wonder Pills is nothing.

At most, one could say Luo Chen has high alchemy talent and a unique understanding of this elixir, so he luckily obtained it in a flash of inspiration.

He, Kang Dongyue, also has experiences of getting things by chance in the elixirs he is most proficient in.

But!

Luo Chen also refined another elixir to the high-grade level.

This cannot be described as just high talent.

Terrifying!

Shocking!

Shocking to the world!

Stunningly talented!

Too many extreme descriptive words can be used to describe Luo Chen's alchemy talent.

In shock.

Luo Chen's words drifted over leisurely.

"I have a large quantity of Jade Marrow Pills, and they are all high-grade. I wonder if your Jin Shi Pavilion can take them?"

"Large quantity, how large?"

"A business deal worth fifty thousand spirit stones. It's best to settle the account with medium-grade spirit stones."

"Let me think..."

When it came to business, Kang Dongyue automatically restrained those emotions.

The Jin Shi Pavilion doesn't just sell his Kang family's elixirs alone.

Usually, they also collect some niche elixirs refined by rogue cultivators and small families.

In this way, the golden signboard of the Jin Shi Pavilion in Taishan Market was formed.

Even the Spirit Herb Pavilion is no less inferior to them in the local low-grade elixir business.

Fifty thousand spirit stones is a lot!

But for the Kang family, it's not that they can't take it out.

It's just that if they do, their liquid funds will be stretched.

After a while.

Kang Dongyue finally relaxed his brows, "Are all the Jade Marrow Pills you have of this quality?"

"Only better, not worse!"

The worse ones were all taken by Luo Chen to feed the River-Swallowing Toad.

"If that's the case, then I... will take them!"

Before Luo Chen could be happy, Kang Dongyue changed the subject, "However, some of them must be exchanged for resources of equal value."

"You understand, fifty thousand spirit stones is not a small amount; if we take it all out, our Kang family will also have to suffer."

Luo Chen thought for a moment and nodded lightly.

Exchanging for resources of equal value is a very common way of trading in the cultivation world.

As long as both sides agree.

"There are many types of elixirs involved in our Kang family, among which..."

"I want Golden Quality Jade Liquid!" Luo Chen stared at the old man with burning eyes, "And it must be of particularly good quality, preferably top-quality."

Golden Quality Jade Liquid, a first-grade spirit medicine.

It has a great help for body refining.

It is very suitable for Luo Chen to break through to the perfection of the first stage of body refining.

As for whether the Kang family has top-quality ones?

Luo Chen doesn't doubt it at all.

This is one of their family's signature elixirs; after hundreds of years of refining, they must have hoarded a small portion.

Refining top-quality elixirs is very difficult.

But one also has to see what grade of alchemist the alchemist is!

Kang Dongyue is definitely a second-grade alchemist; this can be seen from his multiple easy identifications of the elixir quality Luo Chen took out.

"Top-quality?"

While Kang Dongyue was pondering, Luo Chen suddenly said again,

"If there is a method to dissolve elixir poison, I am even willing to make concessions on the wholesale price of the Jade Marrow Pills. Of course, I will pay another normal price for the method to dissolve elixir poison."

"Method to dissolve elixir poison?"

Kang Dongyue looked at Luo Chen in surprise.

Immediately, a thought popped up.

He couldn't have reached Foundation Establishment so quickly by crazily swallowing elixirs, could he?

After this thought popped up, combined with Luo Chen's determination to make concessions on the wholesale price of the Jade Marrow Pills, Kang Dongyue was even more convinced of this guess.

Then, there was the surging stormy sea in his heart.

Their Kang family is not some small family.

The ancestor was originally a Foundation Establishment true person of the Yuding Sword Sect.

Although some Sword Sect secret techniques cannot be passed on, some common knowledge not publicized by large sects in the cultivation world will still be passed on to descendants.

Among them is the saying, "Elixirs are good, but don't be greedy."

Taking too many elixirs will accumulate a large amount of elixir poison.

Even the elixir formulas deduced to the extreme by large alchemy sects like the Green Elixir Valley, the Yaowang Sect, and the Mingyuan Sect will have elixir poison residues.

Usually, elixir poison doesn't show any danger.

But when it involves breaking through realms, it will form a natural chasm!

Ordinary people simply cannot break this natural chasm.

One must have terrifying foundations, huge willpower, and a share of luck to luckily break through.

Therefore, any large sect, even if they are rich, will deliberately control the elixir supply of their disciples.

Especially disciples with outstanding talent!

They would rather give the other party a top-quality elixir than let them swallow a thousand low-grade elixirs.

The value of a top-quality elixir is naturally not comparable to a thousand low-grade elixirs.

Large sects are not stingy, but they don't want to ruin a good seedling.

And this Luo Chen, I remember Liu Hecai said, his aptitude is not very good.

Initially, he was just a small rogue cultivator!

Being able to cultivate to the Foundation Establishment stage in such a short time.

I'm afraid he used his terrifying alchemy talent to exchange for massive resources with his alchemy skills to make up for the defects in his aptitude.

Only then did he reach Foundation Establishment!

Sorting out all this, the waves in his heart gradually subsided.

The look Kang Dongyue gave Luo Chen was no longer the previous envy, shock, and amazement.

Instead, it turned into a touch of solemnity and pity.

Solemnity for the other party's deep foundation.

Pity for the fact that when the other party broke through, in order to overcome the elixir poison barrier, he likely experienced unimaginable pain.

How much willpower must it take to overcome that!

Luo Chen frowned.

Isn't it just asking about the method to dissolve elixir poison?

Why did the other party show this kind of expression?

He doesn't like people showing emotions similar to pity and sympathy toward him.

That way!

It only makes him feel that his years of hard work have not been recognized.

Kang Dongyue shook his head, wiping away those thoughts that shouldn't be there.

It's just that his attitude toward Luo Chen was three points more important than before.

A person who dares to endure great pain in cultivation, even if his cultivation years are not as long as his, is completely worthy of respect.

Only then is he a fellow traveler!

"Our Kang family doesn't have a method to dissolve poison."

"Hmm?"

Luo Chen was puzzled; as an old-fashioned family in Taishan Market, and with alchemy as their main business legacy.

They actually don't have it?

Amidst his confusion, Kang Dongyue changed the subject.

"However, I do know the news of a method to dissolve poison."

"News?"

"Yes, and it's right here in Taishan Market, and it will be taken out for auction soon."

"Auction?" Luo Chen's surprise flashed by, "Auction? But isn't the Yuding Sword Pavilion already empty, and there's still someone organizing an auction?"

He didn't think about black market auctions at all.

The Yuding Sword Pavilion has left, so the Luo Yun Sect's Zhenlong Black Market naturally couldn't stay here anymore.

"Organized by the Huo family!"

"Strictly speaking, it's a large auction organized by the Huo family with the support of the Yan Alliance!"

Huo family of Red Toad Mountain?

Luo Chen fell into thought.

Kang Dongyue looked at his thoughtful appearance and suddenly asked, "Is the Luo Tian Society a force you established?"

The retreat time at Falling Phoenix Mountain has been modified to three years, not ten years. Ten years is too exaggerated for a small force like the Luo Tian Society; I wrote it too fast at the time, and it's contradictory, sorry.

(End of chapter)