Completely oblivious to Xia An's silent vow, Yang Shen was heading towards the market himself while thinking about the pill inside his inventory.
Having spent the entire night awake for no good reason, other than due to his twisted feeling of time when he was being tortured by the Dragon's Mark during its formation, Yang Shen had already examined the Level 6 Ice Snake Soft Armor, and the Level 5 Grand Qi Pill.
In this world, according to the knowledge Yang Shen digested from that book about cultivation he came to learn the both Alchemy Pills, and Artifacts were divided into ten levels.
With level 1 being the weakest and worst one, and level 10 representing the peak in quality and strength, Level 5 and 6 were neither rare to obtain nor cheap to buy.
They were somewhere in the middle.
In simple terms, from Level 1 to 4, both the Alchemy Pills and Artifacts would only benefit the mortals and those cultivators who were in the Body Refining stages.
From Level 5 onwards was where the Alchemy Pills and Artifacts could be considered usable by those in the Qi Cultivation Stages.
And the Level 5 Grand Qi Pill was one such pill which helped the cultivators by providing them with a huge amount of Qi to use for their cultivation.
As for the Level 6 Ice Snake Soft Armor which was stored inside Yang Shen's inventory, not only was it strong enough to defend against all attacks from those in and under the Golden Core Realm, on the armor were veins which allowed Qi to travel through it and further solidify its defence!
Once this was done, the armor would become strong enough to absorb all impacts as well allowing those who wore it to not even bear with the brute force behind an attack.
Thinking about such things, Yang Shen remembered what he saw last night.
[Grand Qi Pill (Level 5)
A pill which contains a huge amount of concentrated Spiritual Qi. Commonly used by cultivators in the Qi Stages to save time and not spend it on absorbing Qi from the air around them.
Remarks: Consuming the pill will grant you XP.]
Remembering what he read last night, Yang Shen who entered the market began passing by the shops which sold medicinal pills.
Approaching one of the shops and looking towards the jade bottles which contained the pills through the window, Yang Shen found out that every pill he had identified with the help of the system shared the same remarks.
Consuming the pill will grant you XP.
Luckily, for healing pills there was an additional remark which said that he wouldn't receive XP in case he was injured since healing him took precedence.
As for the poisonous pills, Yang Shen didn't know if he would receive XP from consuming them because none of the shops he crossed by possessed any such pills.
…
Walking through the market which possessed almost everything and anything that one who was living inside the slums might want, Yang Shen noticed something peculiar.
Most likely due to the Dragon's Mark, not only were most women who saw him throwing flirtatious glances towards him, there seemed to be something affecting the men as well.
Luckily, it was in the opposite way.
Whenever a man looked at him, or was close to him, they immediately shrank away.
It was almost as if there was something on his face that was scaring all of them away.
Well, not exactly.
There was actually nothing on Yang Shen's face or body for that matter. It was in fact the domineering aura that Yang Shen was releasing after receiving the Dragon's Mark which was causing all men to feel inferior in front of him and want to stay as far away from him as possible.
Unless they possessed a strong control over themselves, or had a lot of negative emotions towards Yang Shen that is.
Yet to discover this, Yang Shen who was moving towards the local blacksmith shop to purchase a weapon for his duel passed a tent which had the board 'Heavenly Divination' on it.
"Divination? Seems interesting."
Making his way inside the tent not just because he had extra money and time, but also because he was curious if divination worked in this world or not, Yang Shen's eyes quickly got used to the darkness inside the tent and saw an old lady sitting on the other side of the table.
Smiling amicably, the old woman pointed towards the chair on this side of the table and asked Yang Shen to take a seat.
"Tell me, young one. What do you want to find out?"
Thinking for a second, Yang Shen said, "My past, and my future. Tell me how much ever you can about the two of them."
Chuckling a little as if she didn't expect someone to ask about their past, the old woman made Yang Shen touch the crystal ball which was on the table.
Huh? No special effects?
A little disappointed that nothing happened to the ball, Yang Shen waited until the old lady said it was fine for him to move his hands away.
Grabbing the crystal ball and pressing it against her wrinkled forehead, the old lady stayed silent for a while before finally opening her eyes.
With clear shock and surprised filling her eyes, the old lady seemed to be unable to believe whatever it was that she found out.
"Your past…. doesn't matter…. Your future…. Is completely unpredictable…."
Tsk! So disappointi…
Before Yang Shen could finish his thoughts, the woman suddenly smiled and said, "There is death waiting for you in your future. But your lucky star will save you."