Yellow Court Daoist

"Big brother, follow me."

Lu Qingyu closed the shop, looking secretive, and took Lu Qingfeng to the third floor of the attic.

Then he took out a storage bag, handed it to Lu Qingfeng, his eyes proud, wearing a look that awaited praise.

When Lu Qingfeng looked inside the storage bag, he saw it was packed full, probably containing three to five hundred jade pots. Lu Qingfeng reached out and summoned a jade pot, opened the lid, and was greeted by a deep fragrance that hit his nose like aged fine wine, intoxicating.

"Blue Gold Pure Liquid?"

Lu Qingfeng looked at Lu Qingyu.

Only to see Lu Qingyu's face showing an even greater sense of pride, "Yes, it's Blue Gold Pure Liquid. A total of three hundred and ninety pots, each pot contains three hundred and sixty-five drops of Blue Gold Pure Liquid. I should have had four hundred and twelve pots. However, to fool those people at Gathering Immortal Square, I drank twenty-two pots in front of them."

"Three hundred and ninety pots."

"One hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred and fifty drops of Blue Gold Pure Liquid."

Lu Qingfeng clutched the storage bag, his face also showing an expression of surprise.

Seeing his big brother's surprise, Lu Qingyu laughed with pride, "They all think I'm truly a prodigal, recklessly squandering big brother's spirit stones without remorse, little do they know that this Blue Gold Pure Liquid is a real treasure."

"Not bad."

"Not bad."

Lu Qingfeng nodded in praise.

Lu Qingyu's smile grew even more brilliant.

Indeed, the Blue Gold Pure Liquid was a treasure.

The entire Three Mountains and Nine Waters might not know, but from what Yan Pingshu and Lu Qingyu each found out, at least in the Xuanyuan Realm, the Blue Gold Tree had only been discovered not long ago.

In the vast Xuanyuan Realm, there was only one place in the Illusion Wave Sea where Blue Gold Trees grew, deep in the ocean trenches, and only Foundation Establishment Cultivators could go down to collect the Blue Gold Pure Liquid exuded by the Blue Gold Trees.

As for outside the Xuanyuan Realm, there were no reports of Blue Gold Trees and Blue Gold Pure Liquid's existence, it seemed to be a unique product of the Xuanyuan Realm.

But according to Yan Pingshu, the Blue Gold Trees in the Illusion Wave Sea were only discovered a few thousand years ago. To say it is exclusive to the Xuanyuan Realm, in reality, it still cannot compare to the Cold Frost Spirit Shells, Cold Light Fish, and Ice Skin Fish of the Cold Frost Pond.

These other three kinds of spiritual items, with their delicious flesh, contain spiritual energy.

For ordinary cultivators, apart from savoring a delicacy, they can also slightly enhance their cultivation.

For those cultivators who practice Cold Frost Attribute Cultivation Techniques, even more so helpful in advancing their cultivation.

However, the Blue Gold Pure Liquid is purely a substance of enjoyment.

Drinking it truly surpasses many fine wines, causing it not to be priced lowly, but it does not help cultivation in the slightest, only improving vision to some extent. It is usually only those cultivators with an abundance of spirit stones and who are fond of fine wines that would be willing to purchase it.

Apart from that, there are cultivators and sects who are interested in the Blue Gold Tree and Blue Gold Pure Liquid, who would purchase some to research, hoping to uncover other uses for the Blue Gold Pure Liquid and to develop more value from the Blue Gold Tree and Blue Gold Pure Liquid.

But for thousands of years, no such discoveries have been made.

It is still treated as a special kind of spiritual wine to be sold.

"A pot of thousand-year-old liquid only for one hundred and fifty spirit stone fragments."

"What big brother said was indeed correct."

"With Daluo Cave Temple, 'Peak Rain Mountain' could close for three years, but once open, sustain for three years. With this Blue Gold Pure Liquid, big brother no longer has to search everywhere for Blue Gold Pure Liquid, whether it's for cultivating Daluo Cave Temple or other Spirit Eye Skills and Divine Skills."

After three years of reveling in his lucky find, Lu Qingyu was now able to share with someone, cheerfully disposed of the intellectual temperament that Lu Qingfeng had when he just returned.

However, Lu Qingfeng understood.

[Spiritual Objects: Alcohol Liquid (Blue Gold Pure Liquid)]

[Quality: Thousand-Year]

[Description: Every two hundred years, the Spirit Eye Tree (Blue Gold Tree) secretes spiritual liquid from its roots, which can be mixed with Mingqing Spirit Water. It can enhance Spiritual Eye and Dharma Eye techniques and divine skills.]

The Blue Gold Tree.

In the "Primordial" Five Directions Realm, Red Smoke Realm, it is known as the 'Spirit Eye Tree.' The liquid it secretes is called 'Alcohol Liquid.'

The Spirit Eye Tree was not initially known by this name when it was first discovered.

The secreted spiritual liquid was only used similarly to fine wine for enjoyment.

But who knows how many years ago, it was accidentally discovered by a cultivator after numerous experiments, that with Alcohol Liquid as the main ingredient, and combined with seven other common types of spiritual liquids and thirteen types of spirit water, one can concoct 'Mingqing Spirit Water.'

Depending on the age of the Spirit Eye Tree, the quality of the Alcohol Liquid varies, and the resulting Mingqing Spirit Water differs. The different spiritual liquids and spirit waters used in the concoction lead to various focuses for the final Mingqing Spirit Water.

But even the lowest quality Mingqing Spirit Water can enhance the potency of various Spiritual Eyes and Dharma Eyes techniques by twenty percent!

A technique!

To be able to enhance by twenty percent through external help on top of what's learned in cultivation, the value of Mingqing Spirit Water is thus imaginable. And as the essential ingredient for concocting Mingqing Spirit Water—the value of Alcohol Liquid, also skyrocketed.

It became priceless.

Previously, in the Red Smoke Realm, Lu Qingfeng had only heard of such materials, as well as the Mingqing Spirit Water that could benefit Spiritual Eye and Dharma Eye techniques and divine skills.

Once he arrived in the Five Directions Realm, in the Broken Star Sea spending a hundred years there, did he finally encounter the Alcohol Liquid and Mingqing Spirit Water.

In the Star Sea, the Spirit Eye Tree was controlled by the Immortal Sects of Great Sects. Alcohol Liquid was highly valued and sold by the drop. A drop of the lowest quality thousand-year Alcohol Liquid was worth about two spirit stones. A drop of thousand-year Alcohol Liquid, mixed with different spiritual liquids and water, could concoct a portion of Mingqing Spirit Water of different attributes.

A portion of ordinary-quality, average-attribute Mingqing Spirit Water was valued at ninety spirit stones, with the total cost of Alcohol Liquid not exceeding four spirit stones.

And in a mere three years, Lu Qingyu had hoarded one hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred and fifty drops of Alcohol Liquid!!!

"Struck it rich."

Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu exchanged looks, both overwhelmed with immense joy for a moment.

The materials in "Primordial" and the real world, while largely similar, have some differences in detail.

Various materials, elixir pills, and magic artifacts are essentially the same.

What Lu Qingfeng had encountered before were mostly common materials.

Such as materials for artifact refining.

Such as ingredients and spiritual medicines for alchemy.

Materials for Artifact Refining can be recognized for their quality at a glance, and even less common or recently discovered materials can quickly have their functions identified and their values unearthed.

There is no need to dwell on medicinal herbs and Spiritual Medicine.

Their medicinal properties are apparent, and many Alchemists and Pharmacists are often in search of and excavating new types of herbs. The situation where precious herbs or Spiritual Medicine are treated as useless waste does not exist.

Furthermore, Lu Qingfeng's energy is invested in Cultivation and the "Primordial", leaving him no time for other concerns.

To date, there has yet to be the discovery of materials or Spiritual Objects that hold unique value in the "Primordial" but are considered common in the Three Mountains and Nine Waters.

Lu Qingyu is different.

In these three years, she has been cultivating at the Daluo Cave Temple while perusing the records of various materials left by Lu Qingfeng, and at the same time, she has been browsing the Gathering Immortal Square Market, practicing the cultivation techniques of the Daluo Cave Temple.

In three years, she's seen materials numbering not in ten thousand, at least in eight thousand.

Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps it was fate.

She indeed discovered a type of Spiritual Object that was temporarily overlooked in value—

Alcohol Liquid!

Even in the Five Directions Realm and Red Smoke Realm, Alcohol Liquid is something that was discovered for its true effects after many years had passed.

In the Three Mountains and Nine Waters, research on the effects of Alcohol Liquid appears to still be ongoing.

The value of Alcohol Liquid was not truly discovered.

Hence, Lu Qingyu pretended to indulge in luxury, pretending to squander wealth, borrowing money from everywhere, massively stockpiling.

The profit margin earned in just three years, reached 486 times.

The differential arising from the information asymmetry between the two worlds, is enough for Lu Qingfeng to earn a profit of over one hundred thousand, even over a million Spirit Stones in a short amount of time!

Lu Qingfeng gripped the storage bag, inside were three hundred and ninety jade pots, totaling fourteen thousand two hundred and thirty-five drops of Alcohol Liquid. Calculating at the market price of the Broken Star Sea, they're worth a total of two hundred eighty-four thousand seven hundred Spirit Stones.

Whereas Lu Qingyu, including the twenty-two pots she drank, only spent six hundred and eighteen Spirit Stones!

...

On the way back to Fading Sun Peak, Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but reveal a smile from time to time.

The value of the Alcohol Liquid.

Over two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

For Foundation Establishment Level cultivator Lu Qingfeng, that truthfully wasn't of much use.

Firstly, wealth should not be flaunted.

Without sufficient strength, excess fortune instead becomes a disaster.

Secondly, with Lu Qingfeng's proficiency in Alchemy and Artifact Refining, it would only take a little time out of each day to earn enough for the stinting cultivation expenses of the three siblings.

Just like with Iron Fire Ants and Refining Crystals.

At the current stage, the purpose of the Alcohol Liquid is more reflected in the enhancement of Lu Qingfeng's own Cultivation level. Using Alcohol Liquid mixed with Mingqing Spirit Water can further strengthen the power of the Daluo Cave Temple's techniques.

It's also possible to practice a few more Spirit Eye and Dharma Eye Divine Skills in the game, to increase their potency.

Only when Lu Qingfeng reaches Spirit Void or even Core Formation, will he have the ability to protect his business dealing with Alcohol Liquid and Mingqing Spirit Water, which brings tremendous profits.

That's still far in the future.

But—

"Qingyu has become more independent."

Lu Qingfeng's eyes smiled, yet they contained a hint of complexity.

If it were the usual times, being separated from her elder brother for three years, Lu Qingyu would not only cling to Lu Qingfeng to spend more time with her, but she would also likely follow him back to Fading Sun Peak.

But not this time.

When Lu Qingfeng suggested that he needed to return to Fading Sun Peak to pay respects to the master first, although Lu Qingyu was reluctant, she didn't act coquettishly or insist on following him.

This was a good thing.

On the path of cultivation, one must learn to become independent after all.

Lu Qingshan had this realization long ago.

Lu Qingyu, as a girl and the younger sister whom Lu Qingfeng had raised since she was little, was someone he couldn't bear to see this for. Although being imprisoned in the Xuan Yin Cave for three years was an undeserved calamity.

But a blessing in disguise relies on misfortune, and misfortune may actually be hiding a blessing.

The ways of the world are so Mysterious and indescribable.

The emergence of Alcohol Liquid, to Lu Qingfeng, the greater benefit still lies after achieving Core Formation. But for now, it has allowed Lu Qingyu to realize her self-worth, to build confidence, and thus become a crucial step towards independence.

During these thoughts.

Fading Sun Peak arrived.

...

"Disciple Lu Qingfeng, pays respects to Master."

In the main hall of Daluo Cave Temple, Lu Qingfeng bowed deeply to the principal Gu Bu Yan. Three years have passed, and Gu Bu Yan seemed to have no changes, yet also appeared somewhat older.

"Rise."

Gu Bu Yan waved his sleeve, and a Qingfeng lifted Lu Qingfeng to his feet.

"Thank you, Master."

"Greetings, Senior Brother."

Lu Qingfeng stood up and saluted Di Zhao who stood to the side.

Di Zhao looked indifferent towards everything and had little interaction with him. However, during the three years when he was thrown into the Xuan Yin Cave, this Senior Brother, with whom he had little relationship, lent fifty-two Spirit Stones to Qingyu in succession.

One should know.

The amount of Spirit Stones earned by Luoxia Sect in one year was just around fifty or sixty.