Ten high-grade magical artifacts and four top-grade magical artifacts… Shaking Heaven Hammer, Nail-Head Arrow, Golden Resonance Bell, and Mistwind Boat. Good heavens, just how many people had Li Kui robbed to get this rich?
Ye Bufan poured out the four glittering magical artifacts and felt pleasantly surprised.
His combat strength was no longer what it used to be, and even his attack spells were very powerful. Lu Luo’s flying sword and Azure Smoke Shield no longer boosted his strength much.
What he lacked now was precisely magical artifacts.
A quick robbery had solved his urgent problem.
Once activated, the Shaking Heaven Hammer had immense power and was absolutely formidable in direct combat.
The Nail-Head Arrow was a thumb-thick little arrow, pitch-black and extremely sinister, and it was coated with deadly poison. It was clearly a killer weapon for ambushes.
“Good thing I used a substitute body to fool him and didn’t let him bring it out in time, or else… even if I could win, it would have taken a lot of effort.”
Ye Bufan could not help feeling thankful. If he had been hit by that out of nowhere, the Azure Smoke Shield probably would have been ruined on the spot.
As for the Golden Resonance Bell, it was a pure defensive magical artifact, and its defensive effect was far stronger than the Azure Smoke Shield’s.
“The Mistwind Boat? Hmm, it was top-quality among escape magical artifacts.”
Ye Bufan picked up a small green boat and tried activating it, and immediately billowing green mist filled the secret chamber to the brim.
Not only was its flight speed fast, but the accompanying green mist also blocked spiritual sense and had a confusing effect.
Besides that, there was also a defensive robe. It was not top-tier, but with the Golden Resonance Bell added in, even a Foundation Establishment great completion cultivator would have to put in quite a bit of effort to break through the defense.
“With these magical artifacts, my strength has increased quite a bit.”
Ye Bufan accepted them all with a smile.
Inside the two storage bags, one of them held more than a dozen bottles of pills, including poison pills, cultivation-boosting pills, and even aphrodisiacs.
Besides that, there were more than a dozen top-tier talismans and six thousand spirit stones.
Six thousand spirit stones did not seem like much, and that left Ye Bufan somewhat disappointed.
Several technique manuals lay in the corner, and Ye Bufan took a look before tossing them aside.
They were all middle-level techniques, which were of no use to him, though he could exchange them for some spirit stones if he sold them.
“This is… a treasure marker point for the Demon-Sealing Ruins?”
Ye Bufan took out a booklet, which was densely packed with descriptions and also contained a topographic map.
It seemed to have been drawn up by a cultivator who had once gone inside.
“It was somewhat useful.”
Ye Bufan thought about it for a moment and put it away.
After opening the other storage bag, Ye Bufan’s eyes immediately lit up.
“No wonder his net worth was so little. So this guy spent everything on medicinal herbs!”
In the other storage bag, there were actually several hundred medicinal herbs that emitted a rich herbal fragrance. Roughly speaking, they were worth at least sixty thousand spirit stones!
Among Foundation Establishment late stage cultivators, that counted as tycoon-level wealth!
Besides that, there was also an alchemy formula.
It was called the “Cloud-Breaking Pill,” a Foundation Establishment Pill that could help one break through a bottleneck.
Such pills were far more expensive than cultivation-boosting pills, and each was worth no less than ten thousand spirit stones!
Of course.
Most pills actually come with side effects, especially Breakthrough Pills, which affect foundation and potential.
“Li Kui really was too thoughtful; he even prepared the medicinal herbs for me.”
Ye Bufan rummaged out the alchemy formulas he had traded for, the Blood Condensation Pill and the Fire Dragon Pill, and carefully examined the medicinal herbs they required.
Alchemy formulas with such major side effects were not very strict about medicinal-herb requirements, and even if the herbs did not match exactly, he could substitute medicinal herbs with the same attributes.
Ye Bufan put everything away and was thoroughly satisfied.
“Prepare for alchemy!”
Afterward, Ye Bufan left the secret chamber and generously gave Lu Luo one thousand spirit stones, telling her to go to the market and buy the relevant alchemy books.
And an alchemy furnace.
“Master, alchemy is extremely difficult. Do you really want to walk the path of an alchemist?”
Lu Luo widened her eyes.
The path of alchemy was extremely profound; it required a certain amount of talent and burned through money at an alarming rate.
Basically, every alchemist was built up through thousands upon thousands of refinement attempts.
The Heavenly Demon Sect had three or four dozen Core Formation cultivators, but on Pill Peak, where alchemy was specialized in, there were only five or six Tier-2 alchemists.
There was only one Tier-3 alchemist, and his status was comparable to that of the Heavenly Demon Sect sect master!
An alchemist was the most sought-after profession among the hundred arts of cultivation.
Second to none!
There was a consensus in the cultivation world that the two people one could least afford to offend were alchemists and talisman makers.
The former had powerful connections, with countless people begging for alchemy services, and no one knew how many powerful cultivators stood behind him.
As for the latter, you never knew exactly how many talismans the other side had in hand.
If a Foundation Establishment stage level one talisman maker threw out thousands of attack talismans, even a Foundation Establishment great completion cultivator like Liu Wangchuan would only be able to run for cover.
“I was only trying it out.”
Ye Bufan could not be bothered to explain and waved her off to the market.
Lu Luo had no choice and could only do as told.
After Lu Luo came back hugging an alchemy furnace and a pile of books, Ye Bufan plunged straight into it.
During the following period, Ye Bufan studied alchemy in the morning, practiced talisman drawing in the afternoon, and cultivated the “Spirit Tempering Art” at night to improve his spiritual sense and comprehension, while also cultivating the “Demonic Light Sword Art” and “Fleeting Light and Shadow” when he had the chance.
He also took time to refine the newly acquired top-grade magical artifact.
Occasionally, he went out to tease the petite and pretty Lu Luo with her curvy figure to ease his loneliness.
He could truly be called a master of time management.
In the blink of an eye.
Half a month passed.
On this day, Lu Luo stared at the secret chamber door with dark circles under her eyes, looking utterly exhausted.
“Boom!”
With a muffled blast, the sound of an explosion came from the secret chamber, and even the soundproofing formation could not block it.
“Great, another pill explosion.”
Lu Luo had completely given up hope on Master’s alchemy talent.
A few days earlier, Master had claimed to understand the path of alchemy thoroughly and then started alchemy with full confidence.
Before nightfall even arrived, the pills Master refined had exploded three times.
That left Lu Luo, who had been cultivating outside, feeling terrified. If the alchemy furnace they had bought had not been of exceptional quality, she truly would have feared that Master would blow himself to death.
For several days in a row, the occasional frightening noises had left little Lu Luo somewhat nervous and on edge.
Meanwhile, inside the secret chamber.
The soot-covered Ye Bufan, however, was smiling.
“After sixty pill explosions, I finally produced one Blood Condensation Pill!”
He looked at the blackened pill in his hand, which was nearly cracked apart, and was extremely excited.
It had to be said that his alchemy talent was truly terrible; even beginner level was a struggle, and every attempt ended in a pill explosion, to the point that he could not even refine a failed product.
Of course, this also had something to do with him skipping Tier-1 pills and going straight to Tier-2.
In the entire alchemy world, no one else did things like Ye Bufan.
But after several days of hard work.
He finally refined one… failed product.
Out of five pills that had formed, four had exploded. Fortunately, he had moved his hand quickly, or else this failed product would have been caught in the blast and reduced to scraps as well.
If that scene were seen by that group of alchemists.
They would definitely curse Ye Bufan for wasting heavenly treasures, since the expensive medicinal herbs had all turned into trash.
“Hm, ninety-nine percent impurities. Not bad.”
The quality of a pill was judged entirely by how many impurities it contained: thirty percent medicinal efficacy and seventy percent impurities was low-grade.
Fifty percent medicinal efficacy was medium-grade, eighty percent was high-grade, and ninety percent was top-quality.
As for ninety-nine percent medicinal efficacy with only a tiny bit of impurities, that was supreme-grade!
Something with ninety-nine percent impurities like the one in Ye Bufan’s hand was also supreme-grade.
It was just a supreme-grade poison pill!
If someone ate it, let alone improving their cultivation, simply staying alive would be a miracle.
Then Ye Bufan heard a notification by his ear.
『Blood Condensation Pill side effect: After swallowing it, one can rapidly increase cultivation, but it affects foundation and can easily cause poor blood circulation and a frozen heart, with a risk of exploding on the spot.』
『Blood Condensation Pill quality: supreme-grade waste pill, ninety-nine percent impurities, rich in deadly poison. After swallowing it, one will suffer severe injury at the lightest and die at the worst, and it has absolutely no cultivation-boosting medicinal efficacy.』
Ye Bufan’s eyelid twitched.
He seemed to have underestimated his own handiwork.
It was so poisonous that even some alchemists probably could not refine it!
However.
This was exactly the kind of side effect he wanted!
“System! Hurry up and reverse it for me!”