Chapter 76

Of course, that’s all for later.

Lin Xuan’s request posed no issues for the various forces; during this feast of plenty, everyone gained significant benefits.

The Wanbao Merchant Association and the Dayan Dynasty each obtained a sixth-grade elixir, which made the Hundred Flames King and the Jixuan King extremely envious.

The Jixuan King even proposed to raid and exterminate all the supporting forces, showing no sign of the grand scholar’s demeanor that the principal of Dayan Academy had cultivated. Instead, he resembled a bandit who takes advantage of others.

After all, a strong figure in the Divine Passage realm represented a perfect fifth-grade elixir. Those who dared to support the Su family were primarily members of prominent families with deep backgrounds in the royal capital, and raiding their resources could potentially yield several Divine Passage realm experts.

Lin Xuan naturally had no objections to the Jixuan King’s proposal. Since someone was willing to take on the role of the villain to help him eliminate the roots of the Su family, he was fine with it.

By the next morning, the royal capital would see an unknown number of deaths, with thousands of lives at stake.

However, Lin Xuan didn’t care about this at all.

He was busy selecting from the treasures of the Su family. It must be said that as a thousand-year-old elixir family, their wealth was indeed unfathomable. Just the medium-grade elemental stones piled up like mountains, densely packed, probably numbering in the hundreds of thousands!

“Brother Lin, hurry! So many elemental stones!”

Li Qiudao stared wide-eyed at the mountain of medium-grade elemental stones. He had faced countless hardships and encountered numerous opportunities along his journey, but he had never seen so many elemental stones.

For him, as a formation master, elemental stones were crucial. Every formation he set up required heaps of elemental stones, especially after battling Lin Xuan and annihilating the Su family; he had just managed to stop several Divine Passage realm experts, and now he had very few elemental stones left.

If he had hundreds of thousands of medium-grade stones in hand, he would dare say he was invincible below the Divine Passage realm!

Uh…

Li Qiudao glanced at the youth in front of him.

This freak didn’t count.

Lin Xuan looked at the massive pile of medium-grade elemental stones and, without hesitation, took out a storage ring and packed most of the stones into it, leaving only a few thousand scattered in the corner.

Li Qiudao: “……”

“Brother Lin, thank you!”

Li Qiudao said sincerely, but there was a slight gritting of teeth in his tone.

“Hmm, no need to be polite,” Lin Xuan replied earnestly, waving his hand.

“……” Li Qiudao was speechless. The youth in front of him was truly a little bit sinister.

Ten thousand medium-grade elemental stones were just ten thousand medium-grade elemental stones.

Having some was better than none.

Li Qiudao quickly stored the remaining nearly ten thousand medium-grade elemental stones.

The two then continued deeper into the Su family’s estate.

Next was the Su family’s elixir pavilion, which displayed a dazzling array of elixirs. However, as Lin Xuan looked at them, he felt no interest whatsoever.

In Lin Xuan’s eyes, these elixirs were of a “level” he would never reach in this lifetime. Even if he were to devour them all, it would be a waste of time. The more dross there was, the more difficult it would be to refine them, wasting both time and energy.

It was a pity for these medicinal materials.

Without any hesitation, Lin Xuan continued on to other areas.

Although he didn’t fancy these elixirs, Li Qiudao had no intention of letting them go. No matter what elixir it was, he was determined to take them all!

“Such rich families, elixir masters are really wealthy,”

Li Qiudao couldn’t help but mutter, a hint of envy in his gaze. These elixirs were worth at least a hundred thousand medium-grade elemental stones, and they just dismissed them casually.

Indeed, elixir masters were the most noble profession, unlike formation masters, who were entirely money-eating beasts!

“I wonder if that old man… is still alive…”

Thinking of formation masters, Li Qiudao had a rare moment of melancholy.

Not bothering with Li Qiudao’s mood, Lin Xuan arrived at the Su family’s medicinal material storage area, where rows of neatly arranged shelves displayed a dazzling array of medicinal materials, with a strong herbal fragrance wafting through the air.

After a quick glance around, Lin Xuan felt a bit disappointed. Most of these medicinal materials were below the third grade. Although their quality was acceptable, they were all relatively low-level and common materials.

After collecting these medicinal materials, Lin Xuan began to survey the area, as he couldn’t believe that a thousand-year-old elixir family would only have such a small amount of materials.

After searching for a while, he didn’t find the entrance to any secret chambers. He furrowed his brow slightly and slowly took out the innate sword embryo from his storage space, planning to break through with brute force.

Just as he was about to strike down, Li Qiudao’s voice called out, “Brother Lin, wait! There’s an illusionary barrier here. If you strike down, the medicinal materials might be destroyed!”

“Let me try to break the formation!”

Upon hearing Li Qiudao’s voice, Lin Xuan put away the innate sword embryo and stepped aside for Li Qiudao.

Li Qiudao’s eyes emitted a glimmer of divine light, then he formed a mysterious rune with his hands. Soon, the space ahead began to tremble, and a passageway appeared before them.

Suddenly, a terrifying aura surged, and a bird-like monster emerged from the passage, charging at Lin Xuan and Li Qiudao.

Boom!

Accompanied by a golden sword light, that fifth-grade monster, comparable to a Divine Passage realm expert, crashed heavily to the ground and lay still.

“Those big families really like this sort of thing—keeping a monster in their medicinal garden.”

Li Qiudao was unfazed by this scene.

Lin Xuan glanced at Li Qiudao and realized that bringing him along was indeed a wise decision. A son of luck who had roamed the world for years had experiences that far surpassed someone like him, a novice.

The only trouble was that they had unwittingly drawn the attention of the Blood Killing House.

Lin Xuan collected the monster’s inner core and then stepped into the medicinal garden with Li Qiudao.

The rich aura of heaven and earth surged around them. Although the space of the medicinal garden wasn’t very large, it was filled with various flowers and plants, as well as some special flora. Surrounding them were several towering trees bearing fruits in shades of green and red, shimmering faintly.

Every medicinal plant here was at least of the fourth grade!

There were even a few towering plants that made Lin Xuan’s eyes light up—nearly five thousand years old, the spirit mushroom that ranked as a sixth-grade medicinal material and the royal root, the main ingredient for refining the sixth-grade royal elixir…

These were all considered rare medicinal materials!

If he were to refine elixirs, he wouldn’t be lacking in short-term cultivation resources.

Lin Xuan collected all the medicinal materials and then headed to the armory to select a few fifth-grade longswords, leaving the rest for Li Qiudao as compensation.