Chapter 1 First Encounter with Jiang Yudie
"Lin, my young friend, please wait a moment," said Dongfang Pavilion. "I will take this elixir to show to our Miss. If she is satisfied, she even has the power to draw the attention of some of the most ancient forces to this elixir!"
Lin Feng's heart stirred. Could the Miss referred to by Dongfang Pavilion be the Miss of the Jiang Family?
The Miss of the Jiang Family who was granted divine inheritance by the Ancient Gods on the Vermilion Bird Platform? This greatly surprised Lin Feng; he had not expected to find such an esteemed figure at a small auction house in True Martial Country.
Lin Feng nodded and said, "Okay! I will wait here."
"Please give me just a moment, young friend!" Dongfang Pavilion rose to his feet and quickly departed.
He arrived at the door of Jiang Yudie's room, knocked, and said, "Miss, Lin Feng has come again, and he has brought an elixir."
"Uncle Dongfang, please come in," came the voice of Jiang Yudie.
Dongfang Pavilion pushed open the door and entered. Jiang Yudie put down the scroll she was reading and looked at Dongfang Pavilion, asking, "Uncle Dongfang, what elixir has Lin Feng brought?"
"It is this elixir!" Dongfang Pavilion handed a porcelain bottle to Jiang Yudie!
After opening it, Jiang Yudie sniffed and her expression changed dramatically.
"Miss, is there something wrong with this elixir?" Dongfang Pavilion's heart skipped a beat, fearing that the elixir Lin Feng had brought was problematic.
With a grave voice, Jiang Yudie said, "Ancient Blood Spirit Pill!"
"That's right! Lin Feng says this is a Blood Spirit Pill. He says cultivators below the Yin Yang Realm who consume it will have their bloodline purity tripled! Those in the Yin Yang Realm who consume it will have their bloodline purity doubled!"
Dongfang Pavilion was still finding it hard to believe as he relayed this information.
Jiang Yudie exclaimed, "Such a powerful elixir!"
"Miss, do you believe that this elixir really has such effects?" Dongfang Pavilion asked. In his understanding, such a heaven-defying elixir should not exist.
Even the Ancient Jiang Family, it seems, had never possessed such an elixir that could greatly enhance bloodline purity.
"If it were an ordinary formula, it wouldn't be achievable! But, if you have a formula from one person, it could be done!"
Jiang Yudie narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly.
"May I know who this person is that the Miss is referring to?" Dongfang Pavilion asked.
"Ancient Medicine God!" Jiang Yudie replied.
"Hisss." Dongfang Pavilion inhaled sharply. The Ancient Medicine God was a divine being enshrined by the Vermilion Bird Platform, not someone to be compared with fake gods or evil gods.
Dongfang Pavilion said, "It is rumored that the Ancient Medicine God died in the great ancient war between immortals and demons. Since then, the legacy of the Ancient Medicine God has been lost without a trace!"
"That's true... For countless years, many have sought the legacy of the Ancient Medicine God in the hopes of finding it. But there has been no news. Yet this Lin Feng first brought out the Ancient Body Tempering Liquid and now the Ancient Blood Spirit Pill! Both are astounding. Even the formulas of our Jiang Family cannot rival them. Uncle Dongfang, you should know that our Jiang Family's formulas were passed down by a Holy Ancestor, and their efficacy is so powerful that few among top-level forces could surpass our Jiang Family's. But the items Lin Feng brought are something our Jiang Family's formulas could not produce. What does this imply?"
Dongfang Pavilion said, "Are you suggesting that the alchemist behind Lin Feng has obtained the legacy of the Ancient Medicine God?"
Jiang Yudie nodded slightly and said, "Indeed, that is a possibility."
It must be said, Jiang Yudie truly was a cunning individual—merely from the Body Tempering Liquid and Blood Spirit Pill, she theorized that Lin Feng's Fire Kirin had acquired the legacy of the Ancient Medicine God, and her speculation was entirely correct!
"Then Miss, what shall we do next?" Dongfang Pavilion asked.
"I will meet him. Such a person's background should not be considered. Even the founder of our Jiang Family was very destitute in his early years, of lowly birth, and only rose to prominence in his old age. Finally, he ascended to godhood at the Vermilion Bird Platform. Although Lin Feng comes from a humble background, who can say for sure what terrifying existence he may become in the future?"
Jiang Yudie said, then stood up and walked outside.
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Lin Feng was savoring some tea.
At that moment, the sound of soft footsteps came from outside.
Lin Feng looked up and saw Dongfang Pavilion accompanying a woman around twenty years old.
This woman was truly too beautiful.
She was not merely beautiful.
The noble and elegant aura about her made anyone who saw her feel completely outclassed.
A thought struck Lin Feng, "This woman must be Miss Jiang of the Jiang Family. How noble! Truly befitting of someone from the Ancient Jiang Family!"
These most ancient forces, their "core descendants," which one of them was not a dragon among men? A phoenix among people?
Just like Qin Mubai, Qing Yao, and others Lin Feng had met before, they were all very polite people.
It was only those ordinary descendants from the great forces who would presume upon their background to act overbearingly and arrogantly.
Take someone like Chen Yang, an utterly ordinary descendant from the Penglai Sacred Land, with no significant achievements. However, after leaving Penglai Sacred Land, he considered himself superior, looking down on everything, not realizing that within Penglai Sacred Land, his status was also just the most common among many disciples.
Lin Feng stood up, cupped his fists in greeting, and said with a smile, "I presume this is Miss Jiang of the Jiang Family? I am Lin Feng."
"I have long heard of Young Master Lin from Uncle Dongfang! I am Jiang Yudie, Young Master Lin please don't stand on ceremony, please take a seat," Jiang Yudie said with a slight smile, her noble beauty making her nearly impossible to look directly in the eyes.
After everyone took their seats according to their status as host and guest, Jiang Yudie said, "Young Master Lin, from whom did this Blood Spirit Pill originate?"
Lin Feng replied with a slight smile, "I am not very talented; the Blood Spirit Pill was refined by myself."
Jiang Yudie and Dongfang Pavilion obviously did not believe that Lin Feng could have refined the Blood Spirit Pill. Of course, they would not expose him. Jiang Yudie replied with a smile, "Young Master Lin truly has great skill, to be able to refine the Ancient Blood Spirit Pill at such a young age. Our auction house will be taking over the auction for this Ancient Blood Spirit Pill. When the time comes, I will notify the various top-level forces like the Ancient Dynasties and Ancient Sacred Lands. I believe they will be very interested!"
Lin Feng replied with cupped fists, "Thank you for the trouble!"
After a pause, he added, "For the auction of the Blood Spirit Pill, I do not want Gold Coins; I want Spirit Stones."
Spirit Stones are an extremely important cultivation resource, but they are rarely circulated in the Mortal World, mostly held in the hands of powerful forces. For example, the Spirit Stone Vein that the Lin Family discovered, they simply couldn't protect it, not even True Martial Country could protect it, because of that Spirit Stone Vein, True Martial Country might be annihilated. Therefore, they had to offer it up to Sun Moon City, and only a force like Sun Moon City could guard it.
Of course, every year Sun Moon City also gave a portion of Spirit Stones to the Lin Family as compensation, but these Spirit Stones were only the lowest grade Spirit Stones. The members of the Lin Family could use these Spirit Stones for their cultivation, but such Spirit Stones were of no use to Lin Feng.
Only higher-grade Spirit Stones would be of use to Lin Feng.
Spirit Stones could be used for cultivation, and also, if large Arrays were to be set up and maintained for long periods of operation, they too would require the consumption of Spirit Stones! When Lin Feng had slain the Black Robe Poison Master, he had found quite a few Spirit Stones, but in the battle at Moonfall City, in order to set up the Guardian Array, Lin Feng had buried the Spirit Stones within the Array Eyes, their energy sustaining the operation of the Array.
This was what allowed the Array to hold off the assault of the Beastman Army of over four hundred thousand for an entire day and night.
Without the support of Spirit Stones, the Array would have been breached by the Beastman Army long ago, how could it have held out for a whole day and night?
But, obtaining high-grade Spirit Stones was a difficult task. However, if one could leverage the power of the auction house, acquiring high-grade Spirit Stones should not be particularly difficult.