Mortal Saint

Chapter 165: Chapter 104: Jade Marrow Cold Lotus, Grandmaster’s Inheritance

Even for Qi Dao Grandmasters with damaged meridians or chronic ailments, a medicine with the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus as its main ingredient could cure their illnesses and bring about a complete Transformation.

The first time he heard Huang Xuan describe such a miraculous, restorative effect, Ji Xiu had been utterly astonished.

But then he listened to Huang Xuan boast that items of the Earth Treasure Level could sweep away deep-seated ailments and be refined into a Great Medicine that would allow a person’s cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds. Though rare and precious, they weren’t impossible to find.

For instance, each of the many Grand Lineages within the prefecture had at least a few in their collections, cultivating them like precious darlings to serve as part of their foundational heritage.

However...

Above Earth Treasures, there were also ’Celestial Materials’ in the world!

Those things even possessed a faint Spiritual Wisdom. Examples recorded in legends included things like ’Enlightenment Water’, the ’Life and Death Tree’, and the ’Ginseng Fruit’...

It was said that those with healing properties could "bring the dead to life and grow flesh on bare bones"—a terrifying power that stole its work from Heaven and Earth!

The cultivation resources corresponding to the Upper Three Grades Martial Arts—Spirit Grade Secret Medicines that surpassed those available even to Grandmasters—were refined with these materials as their base.

Legend had it that besides tempering the physical body, they could also strengthen the Divine Soul and enhance one’s Martial Dao Will. Their effects were wondrously profound!

After hearing about all this, however, Ji Xiu simply filed it away in the back of his mind, not daring to entertain any extravagant hopes for the near future.

Except for one thing: the Celestial Materials old Huang Xuan mentioned, the ones that could "bring the dead to life and grow flesh on bare bones"...

...had truly sparked a thought in his heart:

’If I can one day obtain such a treasure and have Master Duan’s severed arm restored, only then will I have truly repaid him for helping me turn my life around and fulfilled my duty as his disciple.’

’I wonder... where in the world do such miraculous things grow?’

...

No sooner had Ji Xiu left, leading a deer with Cai Ling’er and Ye Ningzhi in tow,

than Di Yuan, the owner of a merchant ship, arrived to pay a visit. He was from the Jiangyin Prefecture Post House and an associate of that Medicine Merchant Qi Dao Alchemist, Xu Li.

Followed by servants carrying an array of gifts, he was the very picture of courtesy. But when he reached the Ji Residence and heard from Old Yao, who had become the steward, that Ji Xiu had already left for a Mountain Hunt, he couldn’t hide the disappointment in his eyes.

"What a pity."

Since arriving in Anning County, Di Yuan had made extensive inquiries, and only now did he truly understand how remarkable this young man named ’Ji Xiu’ was.

Just reading through the records of his achievements, page after page, and seeing how he had reached his current position in only a few months, Di Yuan was all but certain: this young man was not to be underestimated in the future!

That was why he wanted to visit and form a connection now, before Ji Xiu had truly made his mark.

He also planned to ask this ’General Leader’ to dispatch a few old hunters and woodsmen—men who had spent decades on the mountain paths—to draw up a map. With it, his people from the Prefecture City could use special Geomancy techniques to locate the hidden Earth Treasure, the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus. But he hadn’t expected to find Ji Xiu gone.

Celestial Materials were difficult to find in this world. They left no traces, and discovering them was purely a matter of luck and destiny.

Earth Treasures, however, were just as their name implied: treasures of the earth, reliant on great mountains and vast seas. Though difficult to find, they left behind clues.

For instance, the fact that someone had harvested a Jade Marrow Cold Lotus from the Earth Dragon Cave decades ago meant the area possessed the ’Spiritual Soil’ necessary for its growth.

After a certain cycle, the same type of Earth Treasure would grow there again. This was a consensus reached by countless Pill Masters and Martial Artists over the thousands of years of the Human Immortal Martial Dao.

As a result, many True Sects and Schools possessed leads to the locations of numerous Earth Treasures.

Every so often, they would use special Secret Techniques to conduct a geomantic survey, harvest the treasure, and bring it back to their Sect for transplantation, thereby increasing the Sect’s Spiritual Qi and transforming common earth into Spiritual Soil.

It was rumored that the so-called Celestial Pillar and World-Subduing True Sects of the Great Xuan... had planted hundreds, even thousands of Earth Treasures, to the point where entire domains of their Sects’ Spirit Soil had transformed into Spiritual Soil.

Even a common Mountain Ginseng planted within could potentially transform into a Spiritual Material or even an Earth Treasure.

One could only imagine the kind of golden spoons the disciples of those sects were born with, and just how deep their foundations ran.

Di Yuan lingered on the threshold, sighing with emotion.

But regardless, Pill Master Xu Li needed this Jade Marrow Cold Lotus for his Alchemy. As the foremost Great Pill Master in the prefecture, Di Yuan had long wanted to become his disciple, and had been serving him hand and foot for a long time.

After a great deal of effort, the old master had already begun to look upon him favorably.

Thus, upon hearing a few whispers about the matter, he had immediately arranged for a merchant ship, spared no expense, and personally made this trip to Anning.

If he could strike while the iron was hot and actually find the Jade Marrow Cold Lotus, perhaps the old master, in his delight, would announce on the spot that he was accepting him as a disciple!

Moreover...

According to some unsubstantiated rumors within his family,

the reason Great Pill Master Xu Li had traveled a thousand miles to the Earth Dragon Cave for this Earth Treasure was to procure it for a very important person—someone who could shake all of Jiangyin with a single stomp of their foot.

If he could leverage this to build a connection with them...

...that would be priceless!

Since his trip had been for nothing, Di Yuan decided not to linger. He shook his head and turned to leave, only to run into Feng Zhengming from the Wind and Cloud Association, who had also come to visit and was also carrying gifts.

Di Yuan smiled and greeted him, lacking the typical airs of a young master from the Prefecture City:

"What, here to apologize on behalf of your young master?"

Feng Zhengming sighed in resignation.

"Master instructed me to handle business for the Medicine Shop. Seventh Young Master Huang may have offended him, but the job still has to be done."

"Master Ji is in charge of the Mountain Dao. When it comes to the five-hundred-li expanse of the Earth Dragon Cave, no one knows it better than him and his people. This trip... was one I had to make."

Originally, Feng Zhengming had planned to use the friendly relationship between the Three Major Professions to connect with Ji Xiu.

But he never imagined that an indignant outburst from Huang the Seventh would provoke Lu Chengfeng and his two companions into storming out, completely disregarding even his own master’s prestige.

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