Chapter 1717: Divine Rank Medicinal Pills

Ye Liuyun's divine sense can now extend only a hundred zhang, so after entering the city he cannot see the full view of Ice Spring City and must rely on Li Manfu and others to introduce it to him.

"Ice Spring City is merely the smallest city even in the Divine Realm."

"The city has two to three million inhabitants, and with its subordinate villages and towns the population approaches ten million."

"The Li Family Village where you are is already the smallest village."

Li Manfu told Ye Liuyun.

"That many people?"

"Yet selecting only a few thousand each year still isn't enough?"

Ye Liuyun was somewhat surprised.

Li Manfu also sighed, "Ah, the numbers are not few."

"But true martial cultivators all belong to those great powers—who would dare move them? We can only conscript strong laborers from among the common folk."

"For example, the Xuanbing Palace has tens of thousands of members, yet they pay no heed to our City Lord's mansion; there are many such powers in the city."

Ye Liuyun understood this situation.

"The City Lord's mansion's strength is such that even Old Man Li, a villager, isn't afraid, let alone the great powers."

Li Manfu then gave Ye Liuyun a general overview of the city's layout and deliberately took a detour to show him the location of the Chamber of Commerce.

"This Mysterious Origin Lou is the largest and most reputable chamber of commerce here."

"It is said to have branches all over."

"I have never traveled far, never seen it, but it should not be fake!"

Li Manfu introduced it to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun nodded.

"In such a small city, the chamber of commerce built three stories high, indicating it is a relatively strong chain."

"He did not rush in, but first followed Li Manfu and others to report to the City Lord's mansion, where City Lord Li Yuan Yang specially summoned Ye Liuyun."

"Li Yuan Yang is in his forties, a big fat man, and seems easy to get along with."

"Upon seeing Ye Liuyun, his first words were: 'You came from the Mortal Realm to our Ice Spring City; from now on you are a resident of our Ice Spring City!'"

"He also had Li Manfu register Ye Liuyun, fearing he might run away."

Ye Liuyun used his Golden Pupil to look at Li Yuan Yang; his cultivation was early stage of the second level of the Divine Realm, truly not strong, which explains why the City Lord's mansion appears weak and can only bully ordinary folk.

After the pleasantries, Li Yuan Yang immediately inquired about Ye Liuyun's alchemy-related matters.

As for basic theoretical knowledge, Ye Liuyun lacked none.

Thus Li Yuan Yang, a layman, naturally thought Ye Liuyun was an alchemy expert.

He immediately had Li Manfu arrange a single room for Ye Liuyun, then personally took him to the City Lord's mansion's Library.

"Although our City Lord's mansion is a bit small, it has everything."

"I recall there are some prescriptions in the Library; go see if any are useful."

Li Yuan Yang brought Ye Liuyun to the Library, took out more than ten prescriptions, and let him study them himself.

Ye Liuyun glanced through them and then recorded those prescriptions.

These prescriptions are all for basic medicinal pills.

Such a small City Lord's mansion naturally could not have very good prescriptions.

The medicinal ingredients listed in the prescriptions Ye Liuyun also knows, but they are divided into Divine Rank and Mortal Rank, requiring separate memorization.

"It seems Divine Rank medicinal pills do not necessarily require Divine Rank ingredients."

"They still mix in some Mortal Rank ingredients as auxiliaries."

After understanding the content, Ye Liuyun also grasped the general idea.

Li Yuan Yang also told Ye Liuyun on the side: "The medicinal pills dispensed by our City Lord's mansion are mainly Qi Refining Pills and Body Refining Pills."

"They can only be used to raise one's cultivation realm and physical body."

"Both prescriptions are available here; just looking at them, Ye Liuyun felt he could start trying to make these two."

"Then I will first try refining these two pills and see how it goes!"

Ye Liuyun said.

"Good! I will go prepare the ingredients; we have them in our City Lord's mansion!"

Li Yuan Yang immediately agreed.

"Inside the City Lord's mansion there are already dedicated alchemists who refine these most basic medicinal pills, and even the prescriptions they use are the same."

"So the ingredients are certainly not lacking."

Li Yuan Yang immediately prepared to take Ye Liuyun to fetch the ingredients.

"May I look at the books here?"

Ye Liuyun asked.

He knew some technique books cannot be freely shown to outsiders, so he asked.

"Of course, feel free to look; I have nothing secret here."

"The techniques here are also freely learnable by anyone in the mansion!"

"You just stay here and read; I will go arrange the ingredients, then have Manfu call you!"

Li Yuan Yang was generous, letting him look freely.

Ye Liuyun guessed these were just ordinary things, not profound techniques.

Ye Liuyun thanked him and stayed to browse the Divine Realm's techniques, to understand its technique system.

"But here too most are basic techniques like Qi Refining and Body Refining, palm, fist, sword methods, which to him are also ordinary things."

"Although he himself cannot use them, after recording them he can later teach the Ye Clan to cultivate, which would be of great help to the Ye Clan."

After all, when it comes to laying foundations, these cultivation methods are far superior to those of the Ye Clan.

These books also contain little historical record.

The only useful thing Ye Liuyun found was the map of Ice Spring City.

This map not only includes the surrounding villages and towns, but also marks in detail the locations of the major powers, as well as some special places.

For example, the marking for a stretch of forest indicates many ferocious beasts, Third Layer Realm.

Ye Liuyun estimated that this realm is the highest level of ferocious beasts here.

Ye Liuyun's speed of memorizing things, however, was not affected by the Divine Realm.

After quickly flipping through these books once, he had memorized them all.

When Li Manfu came to call him, he had almost finished memorizing, and immediately followed him back to his residence.

"Young Master Ye, your treatment is really high! Other martial cultivators who came to participate in the selection all live together, and they don't even have a bed!"

Li Manfu said enviously.

Ye Liuyun also smiled faintly, and didn't say anything.

It is estimated that if he cannot refine pills, he will also be arranged by the City Lord to live together with those martial cultivators.

However, he considers himself fortunate, which is still better than those martial cultivators who are treated as slaves.

When Ye Liuyun returned to his residence, Li YuanYang was already waiting for him with some medicinal herbs and pills.

The pills he brought were for him to use as reference.

"Can I try eating one?"

Ye Liuyun asked.

Li YuanYang was stunned for a moment, but then said: "Of course there's no problem."

Ye Liuyun took a Qi Refining Pill and began to experience its effects.

After the Qi Refining Pill was taken, it quickly turned into energy and then became Mysterious Origin.

Afterwards, he also took a Body Tempering Pill, which felt like it was scorching his body, but the effect lasted only a short time.

One pill can only be said to have a slight effect.

If one wants to rely on this kind of pill to temper the body, the required amount would be large.