Chapter 20: The Truth about the Golden Leaf.
<body structure activated????? >
<Du Bai's soul was devoured>
<Du Bai's soul has been refined into spiritual power>
<+1,500 soul power>
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< Du Hai's soul was devoured >
< Du Hai's soul has been refined into soul force >
<+1,500 soul power>
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<Xi Ye's soul was devoured>
<Xi Ye's soul has been refined into soul force>
<+5,000 soul power>
After collecting the Storage Rings, consuming the Longevity Seed, and repairing his appearance, a series of notices appeared in front of Yuan.
"..." Yuan gritted his teeth and endured the pain caused by receiving the memories of the Du brothers and the Soul Master without letting out a single sound.
"Hah!!…Hah!!…Hah!!" Yuan breathed heavily after finishing receiving the memories and his forehead was filled with sweat.
After a few minutes, Yuan caught his breath, wiped his forehead, and headed with Xiao Hua out of the forest.
"Xiao Hua, is there a Cultivator's Sanctuary in this city?" Yuan asked as he walked with Xiao Hua back to Spirit City.
"There must be one." - Xiao Hua nodded after thinking for a moment.
"Okay, let's go there," Yuan said with excitement evident in his voice.
Yuan couldn't wait to check the gold leaf to see if his guess was right or wrong.
With this, Yuan and Xiao Hua quickly returned to Spirit City and asked where the cultivators had gone.
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"Looks like he's here." Yuan muttered as he looked at a 21-storey pagoda.
Yuan walked in with Xiao Hua next to him and headed to the reception desk.
"Welcome to Farmers' Haven, how can I help you?" - asked the receptionist with a professional smile.
"I want to rent a room on the 21st floor for a week." Yuan said lightly and put down a bag full of gold coins.
"P-right away!!" said the receptionist, surprised at Yuan's wealth, because he didn't even ask about the room rate.
It wasn't that An Yuan didn't know the price of the room, but he knew from Xian Xiugang's memories.
"Here you go, young master," said the receptionist respectfully as she handed the card to Yuan.
"Thank you." Yuan said lightly, picked up the card from the receptionist and headed with Xiao Hua to the 21st floor.
Yuan and Xiao Hua arrived on the 21st floor, and entered an empty room.
"Why did Brother Yuan want to come to the Cultivators' Sanctuary?" Xiao Hua asked in bewilderment, because with Yuan's heaven-defying physiques, he didn't need to cultivate like ordinary cultivators, he only needed to kill monsters and expend their souls and nuclei.
"For this," Yuan said as he retrieved the golden leaf from his spatial ring.
"The item Brother Yuan bought from the auction." Xiao Hua was puzzled upon seeing the gold leaf. "Does Brother Yuan know how to use it?"
Xiao Hua was curious because she couldn't sense anything special from the paper.
"Maybe…" Yuan said uncertainly as he was just guessing in his heart and didn't know if the paper was real or not.
"Xiao Hua, can you help me?" Yuan asked earnestly because he needed Xiao Hua's help if the paper was real.
"Surely, Xiao Hua will help Brother Yuan." - Xiao Hua nodded without hesitation upon hearing Yuan's question.
"Okay, wait a bit, and I will tell you what I want you to help me with." Yuan said, and he took out a wooden basin from his spatial ring and started to put the medicinal herbs one by one.
'Does Brother Yuan want to refine his body?' - Xiao Hua thought upon seeing the medicinal herbs that Yuan had added to the spiritual water.
Xiao Hua knew that these things were obtained by Yuan Yuan from the Du brothers and the Spirit Master who was accompanying them, and she wondered what their relationship was with the golden leaf.
"Hold." Yuan said while tossing a storage ring to Xiao Hua.
"Okay, Xiao Hua will do as Brother Yuan says." - Xiao Hua nodded and didn't say anything else while curious about the gold leaf.
"Now it's time to check if my guess is true" - muttered Yuan as he took out the gold leaf and walked to the corner of the room and picked up a candle from there.
Yuan returned to the side of the medical bath, holding the gold leaf in one hand and the candle in the other.
"Inhale… exhale…" Yuan took a deep breath and placed the gold leaf in front of the candle to burn.
Contrary to what usually happens, the golden leaf did not burn to ashes, but became radiating with a golden light that increased every moment.
Seeing this, Yuan's eyes showed a hint of excitement and delight.
Suddenly, the golden leaf separated into many small golden leaves and rushed to stick to Yuan's body.
Without resistance, the golden leaves entered Yuan's body and fused with his flesh, blood, and soul.
At this time, Yuan Yuan's body was drenched in cold sweat.
Yuan gritted his teeth and jumped into the medical basin without hesitation.
Because of so much pain, Yuan's will was weakened, and this amount of pain was not enough to make him scream, but unfortunately, the pain was increasing every second.
"Arrrrrg" - The pain reached a degree that Yuan could not carry quickly, causing his screaming, but fortunately the room had a sound insulating matrix, which allowed him to scream as much as he wanted.
Only Yuan, who was in pain, and Shibao Hua, who was gritting her teeth and replenishing the medicinal materials in the bathtub, were in the room, because they were disappearing so quickly.
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After 3 hours .
"With the flesh as the medium and the person's soul as the target." Yuan opened his eyes and was muttering incomprehensible things.
"It seems that my guess was right and that was the gold leaf from the Apotheosis novel" - Yuan muttered as he fully regained consciousness.
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<Congratulations, you have obtained the 'weapon' physique>
< Weapon Physique >
< Rank: None >
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"Are you okay, Brother Yuan?" - Xiao Hua asked with obvious concern upon seeing Yuan getting up.
Even though Yuan Yuan had lost consciousness, Xiao Hua would not stop adding medicinal materials because Yuan's body was absorbing them even though he was unconscious.
"I'm fine." Yuan nodded as he clenched his hand, feeling that he was now complete, although he did not know the source of this feeling.
"Okay, I'll check out now." Yuan said after stepping out of the tub naked, not paying attention to Xiao Hua's gaze, which was examining his well-sculpted body without missing a thing.
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