NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8: Treasure Hunt
Chapter 8: Treasure Hunt
Su Yun found an inn to stay in, freshened up a bit, and then sat down to cultivate. It was already night, and he planned to enter the Demon Beast Mountain Range for training the next day.
...
A night quickly passed, and Su Yun tidied up, opened the system.
"System, transfer the memories of Yao Chen about herbs, cultivation, and experiences to me."
"Ding, organizing Yao Chen's memories."
"Ding, organization complete."
"Ding, currently transferring."
Yao Chen's memories were vast, even with some selection, Su Yun spent two hours digesting them.
Su Yun got up to stretch his muscles, heading towards the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
Through the system's transmission, he experienced Yao Chen's memories, reaching an understanding of about sixty to seventy percent. This gave him a bit more confidence before entering the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
Arriving at the Demon Beast Mountain Range, Su Yun took a deep breath.
This time was different from cultivating in Ustan City. Countless lives had perished in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and even with his confidence, he still felt nervous.
After all, he was just an ordinary person from peacetime Earth who had crossed over. How could he not hesitate in the face of life and death threats?
Su Yun adjusted his mindset, stepping into the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
Without trials, how could there be growth!
...
Timeless in cultivation, a practitioner does not count the years.
On the outskirts of the Demon Beast Mountain Range, a figure in a black robe, wielding a long sword, leaped among the trees and rocks.
Seeming to have discovered something, the figure increased speed, the long sword swung out in a clever angle.
"Puff!"
The sword entered flesh and bone.
A Flame Leopard resting in the forest let out a mournful cry, struggling for a while before becoming motionless.
Su Yun withdrew the long sword, stored the Flame Leopard in the system space, looked around to ensure no one was present, and with a thought, entered the system space himself.
"At last, the collection is complete."
Su Yun, who entered the system space, took off the black robe, revealing a joyful expression.
Drawing out the blood of the Flame Leopard, various herbs, and the blood of other fire attribute magical beasts, Su Yun took out the alchemy cauldron and began the refinement.
Since entering the Demon Beast Mountain Range, he had been practicing Dou Qi, training Dou Techniques, and had spent more than seven months.
Alchemy was also something he learned during these seven months.
Transferring Yao Chen's memories, he wanted to learn alchemy, much simpler than other people.
With Yao Chen's memories as a foundation, he could easily become a first-grade alchemist. However, due to the limitation of Dou Qi cultivation, he could only temporarily stop there.
He was currently refining a first-grade pill called Flame Blood.
This Flame Blood was composed of several different fire attribute herbs and the blood of two first-order fire attribute magical beasts. It could accelerate the cultivation speed of fire attribute practitioners.
This thing was a simplified version of Burning Blood. Burning Blood was a fourth-grade pill, and when Xiao Yan came to Qing Shan Town for training, Yao Chen had mentioned using Burning Blood to accelerate cultivation.
He didn't have such good conditions; he couldn't even afford to use the system's fusion function. After all, Burning Blood required a fourth-order magic core. He could only use the simplified version, Flame Blood.
His "Frost Flame Mantra," a dual cultivation of ice and fire, was still effective even when only using fire attribute techniques.
This thing was quite special, called a "Pill Liquid," roughly similar to the concept of Foundation Establishment Elixir.
This was already his third time refining it. Naturally, he was familiar with the process, and he finished in half an hour.
After applying Flame Blood to his body, Su Yun let out a painful hiss.
This thing was really not something ordinary people could endure.
Sitting cross-legged, he began to cultivate.
...
After a night of cultivation, Su Yun left the system space and appeared again in the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
In the seven months of cultivation here, he had never entered the interior of the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
This was not surprising. Even if there were three or four order magical beasts that could appear inside, they were rare.
He now had a physique that couldn't even fill the gaps in his teeth.
Even encountering second-order magical beasts on the outskirts of the Demon Beast Mountain Range would force him to hide in the system space.
Despite his talent, after seven months of cultivation and with the assistance of Flame Mantra, he had only reached the level of a five-star Dou Practitioner.
Dou Qi cultivation was the key.
In these seven months, the Xuan-tier low-grade "Frozen Cold Technique," coupled with the elective Xuan-tier Dou Technique, could easily deal with seven or eight-star Dou Practitioners. However, facing second-order magical beasts equivalent to Dou Practitioners was a different story.
"It's time to go to that cave." The fervor in Su Yun's eyes was almost undisguised.
Leaving aside everything else, just the high-tier Xuan-tier technique "Purple Cloud Wings" was precious enough.
Flying techniques were so rare that even Yao Chen didn't have one, and the method of refining them had almost been lost in the current continent of Dou Qi.
The Purple Cloud Wings were obtained from the fifth-order magical beast, the Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle.
According to the original work, the owner of the cave spent three years capturing it.
This indicated that his strength should also be at the Dou King level, making him one of the top elites in the Jia Ma Empire.
Moreover, the era he lived in should be quite ancient.
It was just a pity that he didn't pass down the method of refinement.
Su Yun, greedy as he was, thought to himself.
...
Using Qing Shan Town as a supply point, after more than a month of training in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, as described in the original work, Su Yun had long figured out the location of the cave.
Arriving at the cliff, Su Yun's shadow appeared faintly under the moonlight.
For treasure hunting, one still needed to be careful. Compared to daytime, there were fewer mercenaries in the Demon Beast Mountain Range at night.
Taking out a few medicine packets from the system space, Su Yun sprinkled them over the cliff. His figure flickered, returning to the system space.
Yao Chen, as a peak-level Dou Zun, had rich experience in training. The contents of these medicine packets were configured based on Yao Chen's memories.
They could expel lower-strength snake-type magical beasts. Su Yun, having thoroughly read the original work, naturally wouldn't overlook the Rock Snakes near the cave entrance.
"Hiss..."
As Su Yun scattered the medicine powder and entered the system space shortly afterward, hissed sounds of snakes came from below the cliff.
Then, more than a dozen Rock Snakes leaped into the air, flying towards a distance.
Su Yun, with a thought, appeared again on top of the cliff. Without further hesitation, he took out a rope, tied it to a tree, and climbed down the cliff.
With the Rock Snakes driven away, the process of going to the cave was smooth.
In a moment, Su Yun landed at the entrance of the cave.
Arriving at the stone door, he looked around, found a small protrusion, and pressed it down slightly with his hand.
A creaking sound followed. The stone door gradually moved upward.
If it weren't for not wanting to make any noise, Su Yun would have wanted to laugh out loud to show his excitement.
Entering the cave, he collected the gold coins on the ground into the system space.
Then, he looked at the herbs, especially the ones with white and red alternating leaves at the center.
In these seven months, he gradually absorbed Yao Chen's memories. Information about herbs was firmly memorized in his mind.
Even without scanning by the system, Su Yun knew the name of this herb.
Ice Spirit Flame Grass!
The leaves were divided into white and red. On the white branches, there were crystalline substances resembling ice crystals. On the fiery red grass crown above, it looked like a flame burning. Two completely opposite colors and attributes grew strangely on a single plant.
After collecting all the herbs into the system space, Su Yun walked towards the three chests.
"Thump!"
"Hmm! Someone's here..."
(End of this chapter)
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