The chairman of the auction house was a very strong cultivator at the peak of the innate realm so, the fact that he didn't wake up after been poisoned was very strange. After checking the chairman with soul power, he didn't find any traces of poison but there was another thing.
«The poison in the body of the chairman is very peculiar but it is not impossible to cure it. » said Yun Chen to Lao Gu.
Yun Chen decided to conceal the truth because of a particular reason. The thing was eating at the chairman's life was not poison but the DEVIL QI. For the moment, he can't absorb devil qi because he didn't create the demon qi dantian so, he can't cure the chairman yet. Yun Chen was asking himself who on earth could injure the chairman with devil qi; not to mention that the devil qi inside him is too pure to be from an ordinary demon beast.
«Elder Lao Gu, if I want to cure this poison, I need to find where the poison come from. So, how did the chairman get injured with poison? » asked Yun Chen in hope to find some useful information.
«…aiya! I already told you about the fact that we hunted the two-headed black scale drake. The problem is that, when we were coming back from the mountain, we encountered an ambush of some strange demon beasts. They were extremely strong and seemed to have wisdom. » declared Lao Gu with remorse.
«Strange demon beasts? » exclaimed Yun Chen in surprise.
«Yes! They were very strange and a little similar to humans. They seemed to communicate between themselves. If not for the fact that the chairman defeated their chef and scared away the others, all of us would be dead by now. But, when he was fighting against that beast, the chairman was inured with its poisoned claws. After the battle, the chairman fainted, and he didn't wake up since then. » declared Lao Gu with a face full of powerlessness.
«And what about the corpse? » asked Yun Chen with curiosity.
« We took the corpse back and conserved it in a cold chamber in case we would need it to find a cure. » answered Lao Gu.
Yun Chen was very happy because he was finally going to obtain an important materiel.
At the beginning, he though he would have to wait a long time before finding a devil spirit root. He though he exterminated all the devils in his previous life, but it seems some remnants were left. Now, he will be able to complete almost all the condition of his cultivation art.
«Good! Very good! With the corpse at hand, I will be able to cure the chairman within a week. » declared Yun Chen confidently.
« Really? » asked Lao Gu in disbelief.
«Yes! But I will need the corpse of that beast and a room for seclusion in order to familiarise myself with that poison! » declared Yun Chen.
«Oh! There is no problem! If you need anything else, you can ask. I will do my best to find it » declared Lao Gu with great joy.
After hearing that, Yun Chen decided to take this opportunity to ask for other materiel he couldn't obtain by himself.
«Since that is the case, I won't be polite anymore. I indeed need something. Could you find me the complete corpse a two-horned red mantis in the spirit-gathering realm? » asked Yun Chen after some reflection.
The two-horned red mantis is a special beast that Yun Chen has studied when he was an assassin in his previous life. He discovered that the claw of a spirit-gathering realm two-horned red mantis can slice through a nineth grade mortal spirit weapon without resistance, an innate one could do the same to a seventh-grade earth spirit weapon and the one in the core-formation realm can do it to a second-grade heaven spirit weapon. He then decided to find out how this beast could achieve this feat. After dismantling each part of their corpses, he found that there are independent meridians inside the claws which made them grow independently from the body cultivation. They nourish themselves from the blood essence and qi of their prey. It is to the point that some two-horned red mantis developed a special armor when they are in danger. And so, Yun Chen decided to apply the same principle to craft his sword. Unfortunately, his weapon didn't have the time to grow. That is why it was destroyed after using the "JUDGEMENT SWORD SLASH". But now that he isn't too strong, his weapon will grow exponentially alongside him.
«Two-horned red mantis?...if it is in the spirit-gathering realm, it is not too strong, but they always hunt in groups. Don't worry, I will send some people to hunt one for you. » replied Lao Gu.
«Then, I will thank the elder in advance. » politely greeted Yun Chen.
«You are welcome! » replied Lao Gu.
Finally, elder Lao Gu and Yun Chen came out of the chairman's room. Lao Gu asked one of his men to escort Yun Chen to one of their secluded rooms while he was going to take out the devil corpse for Yun Chen.
The room where Yun Chen was brough to was very isolated and sturdy enough to resist an innate realm cultivator's full power strike. After some time, Lao Gu came to deliver the devil's corpse and the two-headed black scale drake's demon core.
«Young master Yun, this is the demon beast corpse that injured the chairman. I also brough you the demon core you were asking for. » said Lao Gu while showing an ice coffin and taking out the demon core from his space-ring. After that, Lao Gu departed from fear to disturb Yun Chen.
Yun Chen also dismissed elder Kong since he will be staying at the auction house for a few days.
«Now it is time to cultivate! » said Yun Chen while sitting cross-legged.
«First, let's finish with the spirit roots for the primordial qi dantian. » said Yun Chen while taking out the spirit roots that he obtained from the three-ring poisonous snake and the steel-feathers black eagle. He also took out one of the two hexa-elemental seeds.
«I only need one! I will use the other one to craft my spirit weapon when all the materials are gathered. » declared Yun Chen.
Yun Chen began to cultivate. Using his soul power as usual, he linked all the meridians coming from the primordial qi dantian to the hexa-elemental seed. He then began to circulate primordial qi through the meridians from the primordial qi dantian to the hexa-elemental seed. After receiving the primordial qi, the seed grew six roots of different colors corresponding to the six elements. Yun Chen cut the yellow root which represented the fire element, crushed it into powder and mixed it with his blood essence and a drop of blood from the three-ring poisonous snake. After that he liked the beast's fire spirit root to the place where he cut off the previous root using the previous mixture. After connecting the fire spirit root, it started changing form to adapt to Yun Chen's body. That process was extremely painful. It was to the that one would want to dig out his own chest, but Yun Chen endured it. He repeated the same process by cutting the transparent little root of the wind, crushing it into powder and mixing it with his blood essence and a drop of blood from the steel-feathers black eagle in order to link the wind spirit root. After all that suffering, the spirit roots were perfectly integrated into his body. The fire spirit root transformed into a three-star spirit root and the wind spirit root transformed into a two-star spirit root.
«Now, I can cultivate normally using the fire and wind spirit roots. But their rank is a little too low. I must upgrade them. » said Yun Chen a little disappointed.
With the cultivation art that Yun Chen is using, there is no limit to the grow of the spirit roots. They rank up by absorbing other spirit roots (spirit roots from humans and beasts) or treasure resources of the same element.
«I still have the spirit roots from the sale in the auction. Let's see which rank they can reach. » said Yun Chen with curiosity.
Yun Chen used eleven fire element spirit roots of the foundation building realm for his fire spirit root to become the four-star spirit root called the "Spirit burning spirit root" and five wind element spirit roots of the foundation building realm for his wind spirit root to become the three-star spirit root called the "Pole storm spirit root".