Chapter 79: The Weird Little Medicine Boy

After Long Xuan took a light sip of tea, he began to copy a cultivation method called "Nine Deaths Divine Art."

The "Nine Deaths Divine Art" was a powerful body-refining cultivation method, sufficient to complete the body refining of the Soul Departure stage.

The cultivation method's divine ability was "breaking then establishing," meaning that every time the cultivator was on the verge of death, the physical body would undergo a qualitative leap, hence the name Nine Deaths Divine Art.

In ancient times, "nine" was an imaginary number; it didn't refer to nine, but to many times, meaning the more times one died, the better.

This could be considered a quite dangerous cultivation method. The cultivator had to constantly seek death, constantly experience life-and-death situations, break then establish, challenge limits, and constantly break through oneself.

However, although being on the verge of death could constantly strengthen the divine ability, if one didn't handle being on the verge of death well, it could become a real death. Who would dare to be on the verge of death?

But the more dangerous the cultivation method, the more powerful it was; the price paid was often directly proportional to the reward.

It was precisely because this cultivation method was too dangerous that it was also very powerful. Once one achieved success in cultivation, one would definitely have exaggerated combat power.

The "Nine Deaths Divine Art" was clearly not an ordinary cultivation method; its origin must be extraordinary. Perhaps it was a famous cultivation method from a certain period, or even one of the top body-refining cultivation methods in the entire Gu World; it must not be underestimated.

He already had the "Ten Extremes Scripture" for cultivation methods, so he didn't compete with others, but chose this body-refining cultivation method that no one paid attention to.

Long Xuan had always cherished his life and was as timid as a mouse. With his fear-of-death personality, he was naturally not interested in this kind of "seeking death" divine ability.

The reason he copied this cultivation method in the first place was entirely because he had long planned to create his own body-refining cultivation method immediately after refining the Water Bear Gu.

Since he wanted to create his own body-refining cultivation method, he naturally needed to draw on a large number of powerful cultivation methods.

Plus, all the array books had been snatched by Di Xin, so he could only copy the "Nine Deaths Divine Art" first.

Time passed second by second, and the cave fell into silence, with only the sound of pen tips scratching across paper.

Everyone copied the books, forgetting to eat or drink, forgetting the passage of time, wanting only to copy the Gu King's cultivation method as quickly as possible, as if fearing that delay would lead to changes.

Unknowingly, three days passed just like that. The scattered cultivators had actually been copying in the cave for three full days.

In these three days, they didn't know how much paper they had used or how many pens they had ruined. In short, the results were gratifying; everyone had bound quite a few new books in their hands, and the gains were abundant.

Smiles were on everyone's faces as they stroked the cultivation methods in their hands, unable to put them down.

However, although Gu cultivators refined their bodies and their hand speed was much faster than normal people in the previous life, it was completely impossible to copy all the books here in three days.

They only copied the inheritances they needed most.

Long Xuan had also finished copying the array books he wanted.

Li Laodao had also finished dividing the treasures in these three days, and everyone had no objections, putting their own share of treasures into their storage bags.

Only the share of treasures belonging to the Little Medicine Boy was openly put into Long Xuan's storage bag.

However, the Little Medicine Boy had long since seen through it. Knowledge inheritance was the most valuable thing; he had already obtained the cultivation method he wanted and possessed three Spirit Gathering Pills. After going back, there was a high probability he would break through the Spirit Refining stage.

With such huge gains from this trip, what was there to be dissatisfied about?

"Hehe! There are simply too many books here. If we really wanted to finish copying them, who knows how long we'd have to wait."

"Staying here all the time isn't a solution. How about we go back first, circulate them among ourselves, and copy them slowly?" Li Laodao suggested at this moment.

Long Xuan finally put down the pen in his hand, twisted his sore neck, stood up, stretched, and also said: "That makes sense. How about we leave the original manuscripts with Li Laodao? Whoever has time can go to his house to copy them."

Li Dashan also echoed: "That's fine too. I trust Li Laodao's character. Presumably, everyone knows where Li Family Village is. Whoever wants to copy them can go to Li Family Village to find him. I'm also in Li Family Village; you can visit me then."

Li Laodao laughed loudly: "Haha! You are all welcome to be guests at my house anytime. I will definitely treat you with good food and drink, and we won't stop until we're drunk."

Everyone had already copied what they wanted, and the remaining things were dispensable to them, so there was no need to copy them as soon as possible, and everyone agreed to this proposal.

They had actually wanted to leave long ago. Sitting on the ground copying cultivation methods, their legs were numb. They didn't have tables and chairs, and copying cultivation methods in such an environment was extremely uncomfortable.

Unlike Long Xuan, who actually brought tables and chairs when going out. He wouldn't feel uncomfortable even if he sat on them for a month. He was comfortable, but it was bitter for others.

When the group of scattered cultivators packed up their things and left the cave slowly, laughing and talking, the place fell into silence once again.

Who knows how much time passed, but the sound of footsteps rang out in the passage again. Even if the footsteps were very light, they seemed very heavy in the very quiet cave.

The sudden sound of footsteps broke the silence of the secret chamber once again.

That group of people had just left, yet an uninvited guest had arrived here again.

That group of people traveled together; presumably, no one would suddenly turn back. Then who could this person be?

Unsurprisingly, this person was naturally Long Xuan. The fake Long Xuan had followed the team, and at this moment, the real Long Xuan had finally arrived here.

This real Long Xuan had wandered nearby for who knows how long, collecting Water Bear Gu that were good at resisting heat while observing the situation in the cave abode at any time.

Using the Heavenly Mechanism Eye to see that everyone had left, he immediately came in.

He hadn't had time to obtain the memories of the Flame Clone, so he still didn't know what had happened in the cave or what things were there.

His sneaking over this time was entirely to see if there was a chance to pick up scraps, to see if there were any heavy treasures left behind.

What if everyone had missed a heavy treasure? Or what if everyone was blind and no one saw a certain heavy treasure?

In theory, this kind of assumption could completely happen.

Long Xuan thought about the good things and immediately decided to come in and take a look.

The Night Bright Pearls embedded in the cave walls for lighting had all been pried away by the few, so the cave was pitch black at this moment.

Long Xuan used extremely weak spiritual power, mobilized the Blazing Flame Palm, and condensed a large fireball in his palm, illuminating the cave abode.

The fireball was very bright, and everything in the cave was in full view.

Long Xuan had to lament that those few people were like wild geese plucking hair; they were truly poor to the point of madness. They even pried away the floor tiles, dug up the wall carvings, and even took away the straw mat the skeleton sat on. Where did these weirdos come from? What was there left to pick up?

At this moment, the cave abode looked like it had been ransacked. Everything had been scraped clean; things that were treasures and things that weren't treasures had all been taken away, for fear of not recognizing the goods and missing a heavy treasure.

Even the white bones left by the Shandong Master had actually been taken away by someone as a treasure; they were simply crazy.

If the Flame Clone were here, he would definitely tell him that this was the Little Medicine Boy's doing.

As everyone knew, the Little Medicine Boy loved selling junk, and naturally, he also loved collecting junk. Anything in the cave was treated as a treasure by him, and he wanted it all.

Thus, his shriveled storage bag was filled with junk; he even wanted the pile of tattered clothes and shoes left by the Shandong Master. He was just short of lifting the ground.

Everyone kept their distance from him, expressing one after another that they didn't know him, for fear that being too familiar with him would be embarrassing.

With this weirdo around, how could Long Xuan pick up any good things? He thought too much; he wouldn't even get a hair.

Looking at the scene before him that looked like it had been bombed, Long Xuan was thoroughly stunned.

What exactly happened here? Could it be that the treasure division was uneven, and a melee occurred? The Flame Clone wasn't dead yet, right?

Although this place had been plowed once and dug three feet deep, the possibility of missing treasures was already negative.

But Long Xuan wouldn't give up. Since he was already here, how could he not go in and take a look? What if there really were heavy treasures left behind?

Thus, the unwilling Long Xuan walked to the end. The secret chamber was bare, with nothing, only a large stone door standing prominently there.

Long Xuan was surprised. The floor tiles had been pried away, yet the door hadn't been moved? Did that group of ruthless people believe in Buddha?

He walked curiously to the front of the stone door and immediately discovered the twenty gears on it; it was actually an extremely complex combination lock.

At this moment, the progress on the combination lock showed 【10%】.

It wasn't hard to understand; this meant that 90% of the progress to open the combination lock remained.

That is to say, among these twenty gears, only two gears showed the correct numbers.

Long Xuan immediately dialed the first gear. When the gear was dialed to seven, the progress on the combination lock suddenly changed to 【15%】.

Long Xuan realized that he must have guessed correctly, so he began to dial the second gear.

Not long after, when the number was dialed to two, the progress on the combination lock changed to 【20%】.

Long Xuan understood that he had accidentally guessed another one correctly; his luck was truly too good.

Just like that, Long Xuan repeated these steps and guessed all the numbers correctly in less than a minute. At this moment, the progress on the combination lock was already 【100%】.

When he guessed the number of the last gear correctly, he only heard a "click," as if some mechanism had been triggered, and immediately after, the stone door vibrated violently, and then slowly opened under Long Xuan's vigilant gaze.

Not long after, another secret chamber behind the door appeared before his eyes, and a huge fire-red ancient tree appeared in his line of sight.

This tree grew fruits with strange shapes. The fruits were fire-red, but on the surface, it seemed as if a dragon was coiled around them, as if they had been carved on; he didn't know how they were formed.

Long Xuan had to lament the uncanny workmanship of nature; the world was truly vast, and there was nothing strange that didn't exist.

This tree not only had strange fruits, but even the leaves were strange. The leaves were all fire-red, the same color as the fruit tree, but flames would actually emerge from the fire-red leaves from time to time.

This wasn't even the weirdest part; the weirdest part was that this tree actually grew in a magma pool, actually living by absorbing magma.

Good heavens, other plants drank water, but it actually drank magma directly. Where on earth did this ruthless tree come from?

What kind of tree wasn't afraid of fire? Fire overcoming wood was a natural law, yet this tree actually violated the law and broke the common sense of this world. It was simply a weirdo of a tree.

At this moment, Long Xuan finally understood why this Shandong Master wanted to build his cave abode in such a godforsaken place.

It was all because of this tree. This tree lived on magma and clearly couldn't be easily moved. The Shandong Master had to settle here to look after this tree, even if it caused inconvenience in transportation.

And a tree that could make the Shandong Master spare no cost to build a home here couldn't be simple.

Could a tree that even dared to drink magma be simple?

One could think with one's butt that this must be a heaven-defying divine tree. Its value didn't need to be thought about; it was undoubtedly a priceless treasure.

Once it appeared in the world, it was possible that various forces would kill each other for it. If the value wasn't great, why would the Shandong Master spend huge sums of money to set up heavy arrays here?

Long Xuan's eyes lit up, his eyes revealing a hot gaze; he was thoroughly excited.

Sure enough, his choice to take a chance and come here was correct. He had truly picked up a big scrap; the value of this tree was likely higher than that of the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus, perhaps even a hundred times higher.

And this Shandong Master had already been dead for a long period of time; he didn't know how many years he had been dead. In this way, the age of this tree definitely couldn't be small.

Long Xuan immediately used his Golden Finger ability and looked toward the top of this tree.

However, after seeing the big symbol on the ancient tree, he was thoroughly startled.

The progress shown above the ancient tree was actually 【∞】. Long Xuan's mouth also opened into an "O."

Anyone who had studied mathematics knew what this symbol meant: infinity. This represented infinity.

This tree was actually capable of longevity!

Long Xuan gasped. At this moment, he was thoroughly unable to remain calm. He had picked up a treasure; this time, he had truly picked up a treasure.

He had to sigh that there really were heavy treasures left behind by them. How blind were they? Long Xuan thought in a "humble-brag" way.

Following the old rules, to avoid any danger in the secret chamber, Long Xuan released his Zhui Clone and let him go ahead to scout the path.

It wasn't until the Zhui Clone had been inside for a long time, and even touched the tree with his hand, that nothing happened, that Long Xuan walked in with peace of mind and arrived before the fire-red ancient tree.

At the same time, he was also frantically searching for information about this tree in his mind.

He arranged a large amount of homework for his clones every day, and even set a large amount of assignments. As a young person, how could one not study? One must study hard.

As for himself, the main body, what he needed to do was supervise their studies and check their learning results at the end of the month.

Therefore, there were many things in Long Xuan's mind that his clones had learned through hard study. Perhaps one of the clones had really seen this tree in some book.

Not long after, Long Xuan finally found relevant information. The Flame Clone had seen a record about this tree in a certain book.

This tree was called the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, named because the fruit had a dragon coiled around it. Eating the Fire Dragon Fruit could increase resistance to fire; it was a legendary Earth-grade spirit medicine.

It was worth mentioning that because spiritual power was thin in this world, spirit medicines from the fifth to the tenth grade didn't grow at all.

But only Earth-grade spirit medicines and Heaven-grade spirit medicines were exceptions.

Earth-grade spirit medicines and Heaven-grade spirit medicines were born from rules, and their medicinal properties were rich in rules, unaffected by the limitations of heaven and earth.

Therefore, when spirit medicines from the fifth to the tenth grade were all extinct in this world, a small amount of Earth-grade spirit medicines and Heaven-grade spirit medicines could still survive in this world.

As for what pills could be refined using Earth-grade spirit medicines and Heaven-grade spirit medicines.

As everyone knew, researching pill formulas required consuming massive amounts of spirit medicines for experiments.

Just look at Old Long; just repairing the pill formula had already wasted countless materials, not to mention creating a pill formula from scratch.

And Earth-grade spirit medicines and Heaven-grade spirit medicines were simply too rare. Who could use such rare materials to experiment and find a pill formula?

Therefore, no one knew about the pill formulas for Earth-grade spirit medicines and Heaven-grade spirit medicines.

Of course, one couldn't say it so absolutely; perhaps someone knew, but this person would definitely not tell you.

However, even if very few people knew the pill formulas for Earth-grade spirit medicines, Earth-grade spirit medicines were rich in the world's rules; even eating them raw could produce all kinds of incredible effects.

Therefore, even without a pill formula, the value of Earth-grade spirit medicines was precious. Once they appeared in the world, they were enough to be snatched frantically by any force.

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