After presenting the different stuffs one after another, the amount of spirit stones Yun Chen exceeded 25000 low-grade spirit stones. The old man was very exited after making this deal with Yun Chen.
«Hey, young man! With this deal you became a VIP of our exchange pavilion. So I will offer you a special gift. Take this! » said the old man while handing him a small box.
After opening the box, Yun Chen was very surprised by what he saw inside.
«A space-ring? And it has a space of a thousand cubic meters! Isn't this too much? » asked Yun Chen with an embarrassed face.
«Hahaha! You can call me Lao-san from now on! This is just a small gift from me, and I don't even use it. It is more suitable for someone like you who have a lot of stuffs» said Lao-san while laughing.
«Then I won't be polite anymore and gladly accept it. By the way, I wanted to ask something. » said Yun Chen to Lao-san.
«Oh? What do you want to know? » asked Lao-san with curiosity.
«I wanted to know where I can purchase the hexa-elemental seed? » declared Yun Chen.
«Oh! I don't sell this thing here, but I heard some rumors that two of them will be auctioned in two days at the Tongxuan auction house. But, to participate, you must have auctioned something valuable or be an influential person. » answered Lao-san.
«Something valuable? I can use the two beast corpses in the cave and auction them. I can retrieve the corpses and other valuables more easily with the space-ring. I will go back to the mountain tomorrow to take them back. » Yun Chen thought to himself.
«Thank you for the information, Lao-san! I will be going back first. » Yun Chen finally declared to Lao-san with a simple smile while leaving.
«Take care, little friend! » replied Lao-san.
Yun Chen headed out and returned home. Since he already knows the whereabouts of the hexa-elemental seed, now he needs to form the true qi dantian and the meridians paths associated. He also wanted to test if the primordial spirit stone could work in order to eliminate all uncertainties.
When Yun Chen returned home, the first thing he did was to summon Su Ling. After seeing her, Yun Chen was very pleased because she broke through again which means she was diligently cultivating.
«Ling'er, you broke through again, right? » Yun Chen asked her on purpose.
«Yes, Young master! I broke through today while cultivating. Your cultivation art is very suitable for me. » answered Su Ling with an excited face.
The only reason why she encountered a bottleneck before was the cultivation art. Now that all the shackles are removed, her cultivation will advance very quickly.
«Very good! Take this! It will help you cultivate more efficiently. » said Yun Chen to Ling'er while handing her a heavy bag.
Ling'er took the bag and tried to see what was inside. But she was very shocked after seeing what it was.
«…more…more than hundreds of spirit stones? Young master, did you steal the family treasure vault? » asked Ling'er in astonishment.
«Idiot! I earned it by selling some stuffs I brought back from the demon beast mountain. » said Tun Chen after he hit her in the head.
«…mountain beast mountain? But it is very dangerous there. » said Ling'er with her hands on her head trying to ease the pain.
«Yeah, I know! But without doing that I wouldn't be able to cultivate. Now, quickly go and cultivate! And don't let anyone disturb me. » ordered Yun Chen.
«Yes, young master! » said Ling'er before rushing out.
Now, that all is set, Yun Chen can cultivate peacefully.
He took out the stones containing the primordial spirit stone and sliced through it very carefully to retrieve the useless stones around the primordial spirit stones. After finishing, what was left was seven primordial spirit stones perfectly conserved.
«For the moment, I only need one primordial spirit stone for my dantian and meridians. I can use the others to craft some weapons later. » said Yun Chen after putting the other primordial spirit stones in his space-ring.
«Let's begin by making the true qi dantian! » Yun Chen thought to himself while closing his eyes and sat cross-legged.
He used his soul power to crush the primordial spirit stone into fine powder. He then slowly merged a part of that powder with some shards of the original dantian and directed it to slowly form the new dantian. Finally, the dantian was formed which means that the primordial spirit stone is also considered a spirit stone. The new dantian was much more sturdy and bigger than the original one.
«This dantian is at least five time much stronger than the natural dantian that the cultivators usually have and seems to have the function to purify true qi into primordial qi. Moreover, it was written in the cultivation art that the dantian's color will be white if I use a low-grade spirit stone, yellow if I use a medium-grade spirit stone and orange if it is a high-grade spirit stone. But mine is golden and if I follow the color order my true qi dantian is even better than the orange one. Since that is the case, let's change its name. It was made using primordial spirit stone so I will call it "Primordial qi dantian". » concluded Ye Chen while recalling the cultivation art.
«Now it is time repair the former meridian path using the primordial spirit stone's powder that is left. » completed Ye Chen.
While conserving the primordial qi that emanated after he crushed the spirit stone, Yun Chen used the rest of the spirit stone's powder and merged it with the shattered meridians to repair them one at a time to avoid mistakes. After rebuilding the meridians, he poured the primordial qi that was left into the primordial qi dantian. At that moment, he broke through to the third and fourth layer successively.
«It was an unexpected gain. Now, the only thing left is the hexa-elemental seed. It will help me integrate with the fire and wind attribute spirit roots that I collected. The other spirit roots that I will find must also be from innate realm demon beasts otherwise it will be unbalanced, and my cultivation will drop as a result. » analysed Yun Chen.
Yun Chen used the rest of the day to make different types of mortal poison and absorb them to strengthen his poison qi.
The following day, he rushed to the demon beast mountain to retrieve all the valuable corpses. He also took this occasion to search for some rare spirit herbs that can be refined with the star-rising spirit herb before returning to the town.
Now he is almost set to participate at the auction. The only thing remaining is to find someone to protect him on his way back from the auction.
It is very common to be attacked and robbed after leaving the auction because the owner is the only one responsible to protect his own stuffs. After leaving, the auction house, the responsibility is shifted to the new owners and the auction house can't intervene.
After racking his brain for a moment, Yun Chen finally found the perfect target.
«Let's talk with the third elder. » said Yun Chen while heading to the third elder's house. But the third elder was already on his way to meet Yun Chen.
«Yun Chen, it is good that you are here! When will you make the complete cure for the fire poison? » the third elder desperately asked.
«Come with me into my room. I wanted to talk about it with you. » replied Yun Chen while turning back and heading to his room.
The third elder followed him with hope and entered his room.
«Third elder, I can promise you that, in at most a weak, I can make the cure for you and even give you a stronger cultivation technique that I got by luck in the demon beast mountain. But in exchange, you must do three things for me. What do you think? » Yun Chen seriously asked.
«A stronger cultivation technique? That means it is at least a black level cultivation technique! Even in the whole family, only the patriarch had cultivated this kind of technique…... » said the third elder before falling into deep thoughts.
«Don't worry! I won't make you do something that is against your will. It is something you can do and if don't believe me, this is the first part of the complete technique I wanted to give you. » said Yun Chen before handing him a jade slip.
The third elder took it and used his soul power to read the technique inscribed in the jade slip. After reading the first part, the elder fell to the ground in confusion.