Chapter 237
An Immense Amount of Wealth
Sprinting back to the palace full of excitement, Yang Chen tried to let Heavenly Roar remove the restriction on the tower of treasures. But it was a pity this time Heavenly Roar did not do as he had wished. The restriction outside the palace did not even sparkle a bit.
Either Heavenly Roar’s level was too low, or the level of restriction was too high; those were the two only possibilities. Yang Chen could only turn to the next item resentfully, which was the jade case with the pair of long forks.
But too bad, the restriction on the pair of forks did not have any movement as well. After trying one by one, when it had reached the side of the gourd, finally the jade case had a reaction.
Again, brilliance began to shine, but this time it was not a white light, but a blue one instead. Heavenly Roar clearly started to become cheerful, enjoying mouthfuls of the light, as if it was a delicacy.
Yang Chen could feel dragon breaths from the brilliance, which were natural supplements for Heavenly Roar. On the other hand, this meant Yang Chen could once again obtain a desirable treasure.
The jade case which was carefully used to hold the gourd was ordinary and did not attract much attention. The case was large at one side and small at the other, not symmetrical at all. The whole gourd displayed a dark yellow colour which seemed to have been plucked off a long time ago. The top of the gourd was also mottled with many spots, with a glance he could not have known just how long it had existed for.
A red string was tied at the center of the gourd which was relatively slim, seemingly done so half-heartedly. He had no idea what it was containing, given that the Dragon King had placed the gourd here.
Heavenly Roar engulfed in a moderate manner, not too hasty yet not slow. Yang Chen also waited patiently, at the same time silently cultivating Three Purities Secret. Having experienced the sound of the golden bell, Yang Chen could feel that his spiritual awareness had dispersed as a result of the vibration, and he had no choice but to swiftly condense it.
Half a month later, once again the restriction encircling the jade case which was holding the gourd was swallowed by Heavenly Roar. Yang Chen had waited a long time for this moment, anxiously grabbing hold of the gourd and brought it to the front of his eyes.
The gourd was not huge, with the hand grasping the waist of the gourd it was the perfect fit. That part seemed to have been held all the time, rubbing it until it was now so glossy, giving out out light rays. It was extremely pleasant to hold.
Holding the gourd in his hand, the gourd appeared to have some weight on it, yet it was not very heavy. Shaking it gently, the sound of sloshing water could be heard. It sounded half-full.
Yang Chen’s other hand reached promptly for the mouth of the gourd. The original sharp end of the gourd had the mouth plugged. Combining these two parts would form a complete gourd with a small handle. Extending his hands, Yang Chen was instantly dazzled as the gourd would not open!
This was normal. If Yang Chen could open it with ease, that would be abnormal. It would probably also not be worthy for the Dragon King to store it so securely. However, from the previous lesson of the golden bell, Yang Chen did not dare to channel spirit power into it anymore. Still, he went out and found a spirit vein on the nautical map to sit down on where he would apply his spiritual awareness imprint before anything else, as usual.
The formidable spiritual awareness at the mid Yuanying stage was sufficient to collect the gourd. Nevertheless it still required Yang Chen half a month’s time to successfully mark his spiritual awareness on the gourd.
Similar to the golden bell, once the spiritual awareness marking had successfully entered the gourd, a series of chants immediately permeated Yang Chen’s mind through his spiritual awareness. Instantaneously, Yang Chen knew the ways to control the gourd.
The thing that surprised Yang Chen a little was that the gourd was just an ordinary container, which he found unbelievable. This is merely a container, is it worth it for the Dragon King to place it here? If not, is it possible that his the qiankun pouches were insufficient to store everything he had, so he needed this gourd for that purpose? he thought.
In spite of everything, though it was just a container, it still had some differences with qiankun pouches.
This gourd could only store liquids, and there was yet another formidable use for the gourd. The gourd could store different kinds of liquid separately and each of them would not affect one another, while the owner of the gourd could pour out whichever type of liquid he desired.
This was not the usefulness from the gourd that people had most desired for. The key benefit of the gourd was that, irrespective of the liquids poured into it, the gourd would purify it and allow it to age nicely.
If so, this gourd was simply a perfect wine container. Imagine a wine that had been brewed by oneself was put into the gourd, and with time it matured, what would the taste be like?
Of course, this was not limited to wine alone, the same went for other liquids for example natural perfumes. What did maturity spell? Increasing one’s age.
As long as liquids were poured into the gourd, without realising it it could increase its age, was there anything more magnificent than this?
Yang Chen opened up the gourd bottle anxiously. His spiritual awareness scouted for awhile and immediately realized there were only 2 kinds of liquid in it. One liquid was very creamy and dense, radiating ambery rays of light. Whereas the other was a purplish liquid, suffusing with fluorescent spots.
The volumes of the two liquids were very shocking, each of them was as huge as a lake. The sound of a half-filled container from the outside, in fact came from two enormous lakes.
Based on Yang Chen’s vast knowledge and experience, he could undoubtedly make a preliminary judgement of the two liquids with ease. However, looking at the incredible amounts, Yang Chen started doubting himself.
Conveniently he found a jade stone, and using a flying sword he spun it at full speed to craft a jade cup. Putting it into the Profound Spirit Furnace, he then used Real Sun Fire and Real Moon Fire alternately to scorch it. Yang Chen then took the gourd, and gently poured out a drop of the ambery, dense liquid.
Once the liquid entered the jade cup, a pleasant scent that was very refreshing was given off. Smelling this fragrance, Yang Chen was stunned and stood still at his spot. Thi—this is indeed the smell of the sweetest wine. How is this possible?
The reason Yang Chen dared not confirm, was because that huge lake was simply too gigantic. To brew such a big volume of good wine, how much resources would it have taken? Just by smelling the rich scent, one could already tell the precious materials that were used inside. The item which countless cultivators would fight for throughout their lives was just a raw material to brew wine to the Dragon King. How could this be endured?
The thing Yang Chen could not believe was this secret treasury had been put here for ten thousands of years. In addition to the effect of maturing and sweetening of the gourd, God knew how delicious those wines would be now. Yang Chen basically stopped guessing.
Perhaps, this was similar to the finest wines served to fellow immortals in the Heavenly Court? Maybe those finest wines could not even be compared to this. Since the rebellion in the Heavenly Court, only a few years had passed, while the new Jade Emperor had recently inherited throne. Based on the way the stubborn old folks handled matters, they definitely wouldn’t hand over their treasures to the betrayers.
Even for the current Jade Emperor, it was reckoned that it would also be impossible for him to have the chance to enjoy a wine of this grade.
Having this thought, Yang Chen’s mood suddenly improved. Even when the nice wine aged tens of thousands of years had become a colloid-like liquid, Yang Chen still raised his neck and poured the final drop inside the cup into his mouth.
Savouring the the exceptional aftertaste of the combination between saliva and yeast, Yang Chen was as if he had become intoxicated. However, the immense spirit power inside the wine woke Yang Chen up from it.
A strand of fire rushed from Yang Chen’s mouth to the bottom of his feet, and then back towards the top of his head again. Later, the fire string became cool and refreshing before circling him from top to bottom repeatedly. The hot and cold sensation went on alternately in Yang Chen’s body for nine times, causing him to feel more comfortable than having a hot spring bath.
Even a person who had a strong willpower like Yang Chen could feel that his body was as light as a swallow, and could float about like an immortal. How he wished he could stay in this comfortable state forever.
Just one sip, the volume which was less than 30 cubic centimetres managed to give off this feeling. For this kind of taste, this kind of satisfaction, if Yang Chen was the old Dragon King, he would’ve similarly stored this item in the most secretive treasury as well.
With this wine as the basis, Yang Chen was almost convinced that he had correctly guessed what the other liquid was.
Purple in colour and radiating with fluorescent lights, many items had the two unique characteristics, but if they were infused together, moreover in a liquid form, especially if it had been discovered at the old Dragon King’s treasury, there was only one possibility of what the liquid was—the Dark Coral Liquid of the Four Seas. There were no other possibilities.
The Dark Coral Liquid of the Four Seas was a type of liquid excreted by Thousand-year Dark Coral Insects from the north, south, east and west four seas. Nevertheless, this liquid was extremely precious. Only when the Thousand-year Dark Coral Insects had matured for over a thousand years, would they be able to excrete a single drop of that liquid from its body yearly.
How many of the Thousand-year Dark Coral Insects could there be? If only a drop of the liquid was collected yearly, how long would it take to collect the liquid so that it could accumulate to the amount as large as the lake? Yang Chen’s brain was filled with astonishment. Although he was reborn with the memories of a Great Principal Golden Immortal, he still failed to remain calm.
Leaving the Great Principal Golden Immortal aside, even the Jade Emperor who had died under Yang Chen’s Immortal Executioner Blade, although he had been in power of the Heavenly Court for many years, he also could not have owned such an incredible amount of the Dark Coral Liquid of Four Seas. Even the fellow Dragon King who had waited to benefit from close relations with an influential person would require generations of effort to accumulate this overwhelming amount.
The Dark Coral Liquid of Four Seas actually didn’t hold too many benefits, it was just a liquid which could fully cleanse the waste inside the body, purifying the body flawlessly upon being consumed. Or if some of the liquid were added when concocting pills, it could help reduce the time needed for the concoction, not to mention it could improve the quality of the pills during the process. Furthermore, during the refinery of weapons, adding some of the liquid would help further cohere the surfaces between two different materials.
Of course, every time when a whole realm was elevated, there would be the same process of cleansing the waste in the body. But, even during process of going from Yuanying to Dacheng stage, the Yin Fire tribulation could only eliminate ninety percent of the waste. Whereas just by consuming fifty cubic centimetres of the liquid, ninety-nine percent of the body waste would be easily gotten rid of.
People from dao sects wouldn’t be as heavily benefited as they normally did not hold too much waste. But for devil cultivators and demon beasts or even certain dao sect disciples practicing unique cultivation methods, they would absorb various objects during their cultivation process, which often caused problems to arise in their bodies. With the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas, there was no need to worry if such situations were to surface.
The reason the time needed for concocting pills would shorten was because the liquid was a remarkable neutralizing and catalytic agent. It increased the speed for most medicines to mix together and would not trigger a backfire. With the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas, it could tremendously improve the stability of pills. Under these circumstances, concocting second grade pills or even third grade pills was now possible.
If Elder Wu had possessed this when concocting the Heaven Seizing Pill back then, the pill might not have ended up like a clump of black dusts. This was the difference.
From the perspective of refining machineries, it was still because of its catalytic and cohesive characteristics. Even if the materials were like the five elements mutually inhibiting, under the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas’ cohesion, they still would not react towards each other violently and explode. The success rate of refining machineries would increase exponentially and at the same time, a more even and stable mixture could be obtained.
This wide increase in the margin between machineries would allow them to refine machineries to the next level. With the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas, a treasure which would normally require the Yuanying stage, could then possibly just require the JinDan stage to finish concocting.
Due to the scarcity of the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas, the market price for a drop of the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas had very much exceeded the price of a one high grade spirit stone. If someone came upon a clump of Thousand-year Dark Coral Insect, he would definitely protect it as if he had just seen a valuable treasure. Unless he had died, he would not let go of it.
This was just a drop. Just imagine how much this lake of Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas was worth? Even if this was converted to the worth of high grade spirit stones, the weight would be more than enough to crush Yang Chen alive.
This was the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas which had been smelted for thousands of years. Even Yang Chen could not determine the age of this Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas in the bottle gourd, but it could not have been less than twenty thousand years. That amount of time was not enough to accumulate this much of the liquid already, let alone its age.
Yang Chen had no impression of this immense wealth in his past life. It was estimated that the item had not been discovered before. But now, this treasure which even the Heavenly Court would even drool over, was now in Yang Chen’s hands.
Ever since Yang Chen had regained his consciousness after the vibration, the first thing Yang Chen did was pour a drop of yeast into a jade cup before diluting it with the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas. After smelling it in a greedy manner, he chugged it down. Savouring such high quality delicacy, it must be enjoyed immediately on the spot.
Having such a good stuff, Yang Chen certainly would not forget his spirit pet Heavenly Roar as it then chugged down a cup of the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas as well. Eliminating the waste inside the Heavenly Roar also meant that its faint blood vessel could be purified.
After chugging it down, Yang Chen and the Heavenly Roar lay on the spirit vein which was on the nautical map and slept away, ignoring their image.
The sleep was incredibly comfortable and that was the normal reaction after having the Black Coral Liquid of the Four Seas. Regardless of the rank of cultivators, all of them would have similarly fallen asleep after consumption.
While they were asleep, Yang Chen’s and the Heavenly Roar’s bodies started leaking out black liquids, staining all over their bodies.
When Yang Chen woke up, he sat up and straight away yawned. Ever since he started cultivating, he never had such a good sleep. He felt that his whole body was refreshed and there was an indescribable satisfaction in that.