Genius Demon Empress - Chapter 20

Chapter 20 - Intermediate Alchemist

Translated by Luxican

On Azure Dragon Continent the Profound Qi was practiced, and the cultivators were then divided into stages, namely Profound Human Realm, Profound Jade Realm, Profound Earth Realm, Profound Heavenly Realm, Profound Phantom Realm, Yin-Yang Realm, Realization Realm and the Immortality Realm.

On the other hand, the Nightmare Field classified the items waiting to be auctioned into five ranks: Human, Spirit, Holy, Deity, Supreme Sovereign.

It measured the amount of ordinary profound pellets needed at the very least to buy them, and the base price of the five grades was at least: one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand and one million.

In the so-called Treasure Pavilion, which was interlocked, had five arches, each one sporting differently colored curtains which were also blocking the view from the outside.

Several young girls of the same age as Xiao Ya, with a slightly inferior appearance, led the guests through the different arches.

Yue Jing Hua secretly swept through the room with her consciousness, but her consciousness was burnt, and she felt a needle-sharp pain in her temple which forced her to stop.

"There's a barrier against consciousness here," Qing Pu's voice was heard on a timely manner. Obviously, he was also interested in the place called Nightmare Field.

Yue Jing Hua showed a suspicious look, "It's the first time I'm here. I don't know what grade my mystic medicine has."

An elegant voice came from one of the arches: "Ya girl, bring the guest to this old lady."

Xiao Ya did not dare to neglect and led Yue Jing Hua respectfully into the third arch.

Behind the red curtain, the first thing one would notice was a Pill Furnace, and the medical fragrance of pills in the air.

Hundreds of bottles of different types of pills were placed on various medicine racks.

Not far from the Pill Furnace, sat a beautiful lady.

Xiao Ya bowed slightly and respectfully introduced the lady to Yue Jing Hua: "This is Mrs. Yao, she is an intermediate-ranked Alchemist stationed in Po Lou City."

Yue Jing Hua nodded, when she had heard the other party was an intermediate-ranked Alchemist she became wary. In fact, she did not know what grade of auction items the Precious Jade Pills were. "Mrs. Yao, dare I ask you to measure the value of these mystic pills?"

Items such as mystic pills had to be swallowed to determine their effectiveness, but Yue Jing Hua had already eaten one and Ya Qing had also received one, there were only eight left.

"With this old lady's eyesight, even if you haven't eaten pork, you have seen pigs walking. Take out your mystic pill, I will recognize it with a glance," Madame Yao was very confident.

Well, her confidence was not unfounded, in the whole Shang Kingdom intermediate-ranked Alchemists were quite scarce.

Yue Jing Hua took out a Precious Jade Pill. The pill automatically flew to Mrs. Yao's hand.

Mrs. Yao took the pill, at first, she just casually glanced over it, then she furrowed her eyebrows and raised the pill to her nose to take a sniff.

After waiting for a while, Mrs. Yao's cheeks turned red.

Xiao Ya saw Madame Yao's embarrassment and secretly gloated at her misery. In Alchemy there are so many pills of various size and color. It was truly a foolish delusion to think you knew all of them.

"This pill is called Precious Jade Pill. It is made from water mustard, black fire vines and golden thorn chestnuts. After swallowing, it can promote Profound Human cultivators to Profound Jade Realm." Yue Ing Hua had seen her expression and knew that she couldn't guess the origin of the Precious Jade Pill.

"I can't asses this elixir, Xiao Ya take them away,"Mrs. Yao had listened and sent the pill back to Yue Jing Hua's hands.

"Ma'am?" Xiao Ya had been in the Nightmare Field for so long, and she had never heard of a pill that could immediately promote someone to Profound Jade Realm.

She has been of the Profound Human Realm for a long time now. If there truly was such a miraculous pill, she would do anything to buy it.

Yue Jing Hua was not flustered, and she asked: "Why does Mrs. Yao refuse to accept this pill?"

"If this mystic pill was really made using those herbs you mentioned, then even if it can promote one's cultivation realm, it must have horrendous side-effects." The three herbs mentioned by Yue Jing Hua were completely compatible with each other. But they were also used in the Change Pill, which was very poisonous. But she made this miraculous Precious Jade Pill with it?

"It turns out that Mrs. Yao doubted the toxicity of this Pill," Yue Jing Hua didn't argue, she paced slowly through the room, seemingly considering how to explain, and coincidently walked over to Xiao Ya's side, her fingers flicked, and taking advantage of Xiao Ya's surprise, shoved the pill into her mouth.

Mrs. Yao was also surprised, and Xiao Ya remembering what had been said, sank to her knees, her face as white as snow, "Mrs. Yao, please safe me."

Yue Jing Hua just watched unconcerned. The effects of the pill would soon unfold.

In Xiao Ya's abdomen, a warm current infiltrated into her heart and lungs, nourishing her Profound Qi that had been stuck for many years.

The sudden stimulation caused sweat drops to form on Xiao Ya's forehead.

The pleading and hopeless look, quickly began to be replaced by a look of ecstasy.

"Thank you so much I've broken through," Xiao Ya's cheeks were stained red with excitement, her voice trembling with joy.

Madame Yao was dumbfounded. It happened so fast?

Madame Yao felt Xiao Ya's pulse and didn't find anything strange, no on the contrary, it was much stronger than before. Her cultivation had really broken through Profound Jade Realm.

"These pills, you still have seven of them, right? I represent the Nightmare Field. I will buy three of them at the price of three thousand second- rank profound pellets, and the remaining four will be auctioned in the Nightmare Field, and no matter what they'll be sold for, there will be no charges at all." The surprise of Mrs. Yao had immediately disappeared and only professionalism was left.

The Precious Jade Pill would only be useful for Profound Human cultivators, so the price wasn't that high, only three thousand second-rank profound pellets, converted to gold coins, that's only 60,000 gold coins, and converted into third-rank profound pellets, it was only 30 pieces.

But being able to form a relationship with the Nightmare Field far exceeded the tens of thousands of gold coins.

"Deal," Yue Jing Hua readily agreed, and Ya Qing also grinned beside her. This time, he was the biggest profiteer. He got one of those miraculous pills for free.

After giving the three Precious Jade Pills to Mrs. Yao, Xiao Ya gave her a card.

"This is a one-star Profound Pellets card. The minimum card opening limited is 1,000 profound pellets. After the number of profound pellets reaches 10,000, it can be promoted to two-star. The guest's name has to be engraved on it. What's this honorable guest's name?" For Profound Qi Cultivators gold coins were nothing but physical objects, the Profound Pellet Card was the true status symbol.