8 Chapter 8 Appearance of the Peerless Treasure

Ten days ago, when Althea stepped out of the mansion, Duriaz had let Northem follow her secretly. But after a moment, he lost track of Althea, which surprised him a lot.

Northem is the most capable subordinate of Duriaz. He is a practitioner on the peak mid-level. He felt quite ashamed when he lost track of Althea right under his nose because Althea was only at the first stage of the low level.

"My Lord, forgive me for my incompetence", Northem said lowering his head.

"Ai... forget it, even if it was me I would have lost track of her," said Duriaz shaking his head.

His reply confused Northem because Duriaz was a high-level practitioner and now he is saying that even he would lose track of Althea which made Northem think of Althea in a different light.

Inside the Rainbow Auction Hall.

"One hundred and sixty-five thousand rizas after deducting the commission", said Manager Lane as he handed the banknotes to Althea.

" Thank you, Manager Lane, by the way, the thing I said earlier, did you do as I said"

"Miss, don't worry, although the city Lord was surprised and wanted to meet you, we did as you said"

"I have troubled you"

Manager Lane quickly waved his hand saying, "What are you talking about, this is nothing. We just hope that in the future if Miss wants to auction off some pills, our Rainbow Auction hall would be your first choice"

Manager Lane knew that there is no loss in creating a good relationship with this mysterious young lady because only people with powerful backgrounds or prominent figures could bring out golden patterned pills.

Outside the Auction hall, Walion Mori was sitting inside a carriage looking toward the entrance of the Auction hall. Soon the guard whom he sent to investigate the lady in the private room came back and immediately bowed.

"Sir, there is no information about that lady, it is only known that she is a distinguished guest of the Rainbow Auction hall. And after the auction ended she had disappeared without a trace, no one saw her leaving the auction hall" said the guard.

Walion frowned and said, "The star anise is very important to me, if she does not have a powerful background we will make a move so, keep investigating"

After leaving the Auction hall through the backdoor, Althea walked towards a deserted alley and after removing her veil and letting down her hair she headed towards the Rainbow herb hall. Now that she had gotten the star anise, the thing she wanted now was the Silver cauldron to refine an Earth-grade Reinvigorating pill. Before, she had thought of refining the pill in the bronze cauldron, but now that she had top-quality star anise, she wanted to refine it using a silver cauldron. The reason is, that the bronze cauldron would not be able to produce a top-quality earth pill.

"Miss Luvan, the silver cauldron will be arriving tomorrow. There was a mishap on the way and delayed by a few days"

"Okay then, I will come back tomorrow," said Althea.

Northeast Region, Land of Dura

"My Lord, after a thorough investigation we have found that Althea Rion used her last remaining energy and destroyed the Dragon token exploding her spirit seed. So, the four great powers had to return empty-handed" said the guard as he half-kneeled on the ground.

At this moment the man in the mask was looking towards the vast forest in front of him with his back facing the two guards who were half-kneeling on the ground.

"The Dragon token was destroyed! how could that be"

The man in the mask was lost in thoughts for a while and suddenly said, "Let's go"

"My Lord, are we going back"

"No, we are not going back, we are going to explore the Southern region of the land of Dura", said the man with a smirk as he leaps up and disappeared into the sky.

The two guards looked at each other in confusion and quickly followed after the man in a mask.

After Althea came back home, she immediately shut herself inside the room and began cultivating.

Breathing in the spiritual energy, the white mist like a swirling Dragon entered her spirit seed and started to cover the spirit seed but the spirit seed was only able to absorb a small quantity of the energy. But Althea found that, compared to other days, today, the spirit seed was absorbing two to three percent of the energy which is a great improvement. Althea knew that without the flame dragon her spirit seed could never be healed. It spent sixteen years inside her spirit seed healing it with its energy. Now, if she refined the reinvigorating pill, it would double the healing time.

Althea continued to cultivate inside her room.

The next day, Althea once again headed towards the Rainbow herb hall.

" Miss Luvan, here is the Silver cauldron. The price is ten thousand rizas" said Manager Zhar.

Althea handed the banknotes to Manager Zhar and after thanking him she was about to leave when she heard some Alchemist apprentice talking about something that piqued her interest.

"Have you heard, many powerful people are visiting the southern region"

"Yes, I heard that young talents and geniuses are spotted in our southern region this day"

"Are they from the central region? But why are they coming here"

There was a heated discussion about many Powerful forces entering the southern region everywhere in the city right now. Althea was not aware of it but after she heard the alchemist apprentice discussing it, she could not hold back her curiosity and asked Manager Zhar

"Miss Luvan, you might not know but many powerful forces from the central region had entered the southern region this past few days. It is said that a peerless treasure had appeared here in our southern region. A month ago, many powerful figures at the divine level from the five great powers had perceived a strange anomaly in the Southern region and they concluded that a treasure might have appeared. Also, the reason why the delivery of the silver cauldron was late is related to that. A few Mages from the Hall of Mage and Rainbow cloud academy who were responsible for delivery fought against each other", explained Manager Zhar

Althea's pupil shrank immediately after hearing that the Hall of Mage and the other four powers had entered the Southern region.

After leaving the Rainbow Herb Hall, Althea slowly walked back home. As she passed by the market, she heard the pedestrians talking about the same thing and she also saw many young people group together near the food stall and were discussing the young talents from the central region. The restaurant was fully packed with people who were talking about the appearance of the peerless treasure with great enthusiasm.

Althea was lost in deep thought that she didn't know how she reached the City lord's mansion. Sitting on her bed, many thoughts ran through her mind.

'A month ago.... it is also exactly when the beast incident happened. If my calculations are right, the flame dragon came out from my spirit seed to protect me at the crucial moment. Right after it came out from my spirit seed, a strange anomaly might have occurred. Maybe it triggered something letting those at the divine level perceive it. The reason why no one from the southern region didn't notice anything was that their powers are too weak, here the highest level is the peak of the high level'

Althea didn't know that her calculations are almost correct. A month ago when the flame dragon came out from her spirit seed, there was a vague dragon shadow hovering over the southern region and those at the divine level had perceived strong and strange fluctuations from it.

Getting up from her bed, Althea paced around her room for a while and said, " No one from the five powers should notice me. I am too weak now, if anyone knows about my true identity, it will be a problem. I must lay low and be careful this coming day"

Althea knew that the reason for her rebirth has something to do with the flame dragon. And if her identity is exposed now, the four great powers would eventually come to know about it because every one of them is a genius among the geniuses. Her priority now is to get stronger and attack the enemy when they are relaxing with their guards down. She plans to give a fatal blow to the four great powers which will shake their long-standing in the land of Dura.

After collecting herself from those thoughts, Althea sat down near the table and started to sort out the herbs, and then she drew an energy trapping formation on the silver cauldron.

"It's time to refine the reinvigorating pill"

Althea took a deep breath, she only has one chance to refine the pill because she can get other herbs but it will be hard to get another top-quality star anise.