Chapter 5

Xia Chuan had reached ninth phase martial artist nine times. Eighty-one strands of True Qi were scattered in his 360 tendons. Although they were thin, he could at least tendon his True Qi.

However, the 360 tendons formed an internal circulation, preventing the true Qi from condensing.

Normal people could condense their true Qi into their fists and palms to practice their fist techniques.

However, Xia Chuan's primary energy formed an internal circulation within his body, rendering him incapable of condensing his energy.

Unless he cultivated all 360 tendons in his body to be full of Genuine Qi, reached Core Formation, and entered the Martial King Realm.

"True energy is no match for spiritual power. Maybe after using medns to temper the body, the body can take it."

Xia Chuan thought back and forth and felt that it was inappropriate. He had spent nine years to train eighty one tendons true Qi, and if he wanted to train three hundred and sixty tendons true Qi, it would take at least thirty years.

To be able to form a core and become a Martial King in thirty years, that was too much of a scam. Xia Chuan couldn't help but feel his brain burn with anger.

The word 'medn' suddenly appeared in Xia Chuan's mind.

That's right, alchemy! At the very least, he was the successor of the Saint Alchemy. How could he be stumped by a minor problem with his tendons?

Xia Chuan thought about it for a moment and came up with five or six medns that could resolve his current tendons problem. But in the end, he decided to use the tendon Cleansing Medn.

The tendon Cleansing Medn was ranked in the fifth class. Normally, it was used to cause cultivation deviation, leading to the destruction of the tendons and repairing the tendons. It could restore the destroyed tendons to the state of unopened tendons without any side effects.

Although Xia Chuan's tendons weren't damaged, the tendon Cleansing Medn was effective.

As long as the medn's medicinal energy was guided into the closed tendons, allowing them to absorb and refine it, the tendons would become unopened.

Xia Chuan calculated that he only needed to seal the related veins and arteries, break the inner circulation, and continue cultivating.

At that time, both cultivation and Qi cultivation in Tianyuan Continent would not be affected.

"Alchemy refinement, here I come."

Xia Chuan jumped in excitement from the bed, but he froze after taking two steps.

The tendon Cleansing Medn was a rank five Heavenly Medn. The main ingredients were nine sets of nine thousand year old Heavenly Yellow Grass and six thousand year old Heavenly Beast bones.

In addition, they also needed clover, black plum blossom with purple leaves, and blue star leaf, three auxiliary medicines. These three auxiliary medicines were at least two thousand years old.

Was there really a 9,000-year-old Heaven Earth Grass and 6,000-year-old demonic beast in this waste Planet?

Even if he could gather all these materials, what about the Medn furnace?

In order to refine a rank five Heavenly Medn, one would need at least a Heaven level Medn furnace.

In addition, what about Fire? He had to at least reach the Acquired Realm to be able to condense the Fire into an Earth-grade medn.

The tendon Cleansing Medn was a rank five Heavenly Medn, and it required at least the strength of the Xiantian realm to refine.

With Xia Chuan's current condition, it was essentially impossible for him to refine the tendon Cleansing Medn.

Xia Chuan thought of the other few medns. But their requirements were similar to the tendon Cleansing Medn.

"The heavens want me to die!"

He was the successor of the Saint Alchemy. Without a Medn furnace and without a the Fire, he had been reborn into a crippled star. He had all his alchemy arts, but he had been unable to refine anything. Thinking of that made Xia Chuan want to cry.

"Could this be great karma...?"

Xia Chuan couldn't help but wail.

Qingyang City was located in the northern part of the Yan Kingdom, a small border city.

A few li outside of Qingyang City was the Myriad Nether Mountain Range. The Myriad Nether Mountain Range spanned ten thousand li, rich in medicinal herbs. At the same time, there were large numbers of strange beasts living there. According to rumors, there were even demonic beasts living there.

On the other side of the Myriad Nether Mountains Range was the Qi Kingdom.

The Qi Kingdom was one of the three major powers in the Tianyuan Continent. Over the years, it had been fighting everywhere to expand its territory. It seemed to be competing with the Chen Kingdom for the second place.

Although Qingyang City was close to the Qi Kingdom, it was impossible for the Qi Kingdom to send an army over due to the distance of several tens of thousands of li.

As a result, Qingyang City, as a small border city in the Yan Kingdom, appeared very comfortable.

The Myriad Nether Mountain Range was abundant with medicinal herbs, and there was no lack of some precious spirit herbs amongst them. If one was able to obtain a single one, then it wouldn't be a problem for one to become rich.

Many commoners in Qingyang City made a living by harvesting herbs. Despite the remote geography, the city was still very rich.

However, ordinary herb gatherers could only drink soup, while those who ate meat were medicine merchants, while the medicine merchants were in the hands of the three great families.

The market under the control of the Ye Family was called Changyao Pharmacy, which specialized in herbal medicine.

At this moment, the two sides of the Changyao Pharmacy store were filled with stalls. Most of them were medicinal farmers selling herbs, and there weren't many merchants coming and going, causing it to seem slightly desolate.

Xia Chuan strolled around the Changyao Pharmacy while observing the medicinal herbs being sold.

In order to refine a medn, one must first understand the medicinal ingredients of the Tianyuan Continent.

But after a while, Xia Chuan found that he, the grand successor of the Saint Alchemy, didn't even recognize the name of a medicinal herb.

Thinking about it, it made sense. When Lin Tianya refined medns, he had used thousand-year-old spiritual grass and ten-thousand-year-old spiritual root, and he had used no less than thousands of medicinal materials.

On the other hand, the best herbs that the Changyao Pharmacy had seen were tens of years old. The herbs that were sold here were inferior to the weeds of the the Domain of Heaven. It was not surprising that Xia Chuan could not recognise their names.

Furthermore, the medicinal ingredients' names were all different. That gave Xia Chuan a headache.

"Thousand-year-old lucid ganaderma, take a look. Don't miss the chance to pass by..."

Xia Chuan walked closer to take a look and saw a wooden box on the ground. There was a lucid ganaderma the size of a palm in the box and a middle-aged man with a unkempt beard was shouting loudly.

"That Ganoderma has the same name as the the Domain of Heaven."

Xia Chuan's interest was piqued when he saw a nameless medicinal ingredient. He squatted down and examined it.

With Xia Chuan's eyesight, he could tell that it was only a hundred years old. However, it hadn't been long since he had picked it, so its medicinal energy was still pretty intact.

"How much is this lucid ganaderma?" Xia Chuan looked at the middle-aged uncle and asked.

The middle-aged man sized up Xia Chuan's shabby clothes and said indifferently, "500 Gold."

"500 Gold ingots. Why don't you rob them?"

Xia Chuan suddenly realized that he was very poor. He was poor to the point where he couldn't afford five gold coins.

"This is a thousand-year-old lucid ganaderma. If you don't understand, get out of the way. Don't disturb my business."

The middle-aged man could tell that Xia Chuan was poor and started chasing him out.

In the eyes of the former Lin Tianya, this lucid ganaderma was rubbish, even worse than the little mushroom in the Domain of Heaven.

Helplessly, Xia Chuan had no choice but to walk around the entire store. Only this Ganoderma could be used to refine some low tier medns.

After a round of the workshop, Xia Chuan finally understood a few things.

In the past, the Heavenly Medns and xian Medns could not be refined in Tianyuan Continent, but they could be refined into some low-end and simplified versions.

"I say, uncle, can you speak properly?"

Xia Chuan was a bit unhappy to see the middle-aged man being so rude.

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Boy, you came here deliberately, didn't you? Don't you know who I am? This long-term pharmacy belongs to our Ye Family. I advise you to keep your eyes open in case you get yourself in trouble."

Xia Chuan was stunned, "You are from the Ye Family?"

Xia Chuan had been born in the Yale family since he was a child. From the head of Master to the servants, there was not a single one that he did not know.

"I'm the third master of the Ye Family. People call me Third Master Ye." The middle-aged man was a little complacent.

Xia Chuan smiled. Wasn't Third Master Ye Muzhou? He had met him yesterday.

This person dared pretend to be Third Master Ye, but he was quite fat.

In fact, Xia Chuan did not know that the Ye Family had been developing rapidly in the past few years. In addition to the internal family, there were many outsiders with the surname Ye. The middle-aged uncle was surnamed Ye, and he was indeed the third in the family.

Because the Yale family was powerful, some flatterers called him Third Master Ye. But Third Master Ye was not Third Master Ye.

Xia Chuan glanced at the two people from the corner of his eyes and laughed to himself, "What a coincidence."

"You said you're Third Master Ye?" Xia Chuan deliberately raised his voice.

After Xia Chuan's cultivation had gone wrong, he rarely left the Ye Family's gates and rarely came to the Changyao Pharmacy Workshop.

The middle-aged man didn't know Xia Chuan and confirmed that he was a stranger so he wasn't afraid.

"I am the Ye Family's Third Master. I guarantee it."

The middle-aged man stroked his beard gently. His face was not red, and his heart was not beating fast. He was intoxicated.

"Ye San'er, how dare you use my father's name to swindle people again?"

Ye Ling'er and Ye Muzhou walked over together.

"Oh, this is the fake Third Master running into the real Third Master," teased Xia Chuan.

When he saw Ye Ling'er and Ye Muzhou walking over, he purposely pranked the middle-aged man since he was the one that spoke rudely.

The middle-aged man saw Ye Muzhou and Ling'er and quickly bowed with a smile, "Master, Miss Ling'er, why are you here?"

Ye Ling'er puckered her lips. "Hmph! If we didn't come, then wouldn't you be ruining my father's reputation?"

"No, no, it's nothing like that. Even if I had a hundred guts, I wouldn't dare pretend to be Third Master Ye."

The middle-aged man smiled apologetically as he shot Xia Chuan a threatening look. "Boy, you dare talk nonsense? I won't let you off."

Xia Chuan ignored the threat and said loudly, "Didn't you just say that you are the Ye Family's third master? You even said that this pharmacy is under your jurisdiction."

"Ye San'er, how bold!" Ye Ling'er clenched her fists.

When the middle-aged man saw Ye Muzhou looking at him coldly with his brows knitted, he was terrified and immediately bowed.

"Master, I was wrong! I owe you, I deserve to die!" The middle-aged man slapped himself across the face.

Ye Muzhou snorted coldly. "You'll be expelled from the Ye Family if this happens again."

The middle-aged man broke out in a cold sweat. Knowing that he had just escaped, he exhaled in relief. "Master San, I know I was wrong. I won't do it again."

Ye Muzhou was in charge of several marketplaces in the Ye Family, and this pharmacy was one of them.

Although Ye Muzhou's talent in martial arts wasn't good, he's proficient in business and earned a fortune for the Ye Family. He's one of the authoritative figures in the Ye Family, so how could the middle-aged man dare to offend him?

Ye Ling'er glanced at Xia Chuan. "What're you doing here?"

Xia Chuan said, "I'm just wandering around."

Ye Ling'er said, "This is an alchemy workshop selling medicinal ingredients. You don't understand, so why are you just walking around?"

"What are you looking around for if you don't understand?" asked Xia Chuan.

"You..." Ye Ling'er was so angry that she couldn't say anything. She turned to Ye Muzhou. "Daddy, he's bullying me."

Fighting with father? If she has the ability, then fight with grandfather? It seemed like he couldn't win. This girl's grandfather was the Master. Xia Chuan sighed.

"Ling'er, stop messing around."

Ye Muzhou naturally wouldn't cause trouble for Xia Chuan over this matter, so he helplessly scolded his beloved daughter.

When Ling-er saw that her father wasn't helping her, she glared hatefully at Xia Chuan and stopped being unreasonable.

When the middle-aged man saw that Xia Chuan dared to challenge Ye Ling'er and that Third Master Ye didn't seem to be angry, he couldn't help but secretly size Xia Chuan up.

Ye Muzhou noticed the Ganoderma and asked, "San'er, how much is this one?"

The middle-aged man smiled obsequiously and said, "Third Master, you have good taste. This is a high-quality thousand-year-old ganoderma, which was just picked from the mountains yesterday..."

"Cut the crap. How much is it?" Ye Muzhou retorted.

The middle-aged man smiled and stretched out three fingers, "300 pounds of gold."

Xia Chuan was very depressed when he saw that the 500 taels of gold had suddenly turned into 300 taels of gold.

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