Chapter 31: 031 Qj Refinement Realm Fifth Level_l
Translator: 549690339
Glancing at the area where the ancient jade box was, Su Yu shook his head. He hadn’t sensed anything unusual and wouldn’t normally interfere with it.
The last time was an accident due to the Green Wood Year Ring Skill and Spiritual Embodiment Technique, not because he could see through the ancient jade box.
Without hesitation, Su Yu turned and walked towards the book area: “I’ll look at these.”
Scanning the area, relying on the memory from previous browsing, he found the approximate location shortly, Su Yu picked up a manuscript that contained only a small part of an ancient symbol inheritance.
This scroll recorded the fragmented inheritance of three special symbols, part of it was missing.
This missing part rendered this inheritance useless.
But the Scripture Pavilion managed to figure out the information about these three ancient symbols and note it down here.
[Five Elements Fire Lightning Symbol: One of the commonly seen ancient Five Elements Lightning Symbols, this inheritance is of the first-grade top-quality, requires first-grade top-quality fire attribute beast essence blood and symbol paper…. ]
[Fire Dragon Symbol: An Ordinary Ancient symbol, it is of first-grade top-quality, requires first-grade top-quality fire attribute beast essence blood and symbol paper…. ]
[Fire Lightning Sword Symbol: Suspected second-grade quality…]
Having found this, Su Yu headed over to the counter to pay the old man.
For fifty pieces of lower-grade spirit stones, Su Yu obtained everything related to this fragmented inheritance and then left the Scripture Pavilion.
Watching Su Yu’s retreating figure, the old man at the counter laughed. Once Su Yu was out of sight, a touch of depth and surprise emerged in the man’s eyes.
The old man sniffed, sensing the extremely faint scent of elixir in the air, and murmured to himself in a tone only he could hear, “The smell of a perfect elixir, so many kinds.”
“There are no first-grade top-quality ones, but there are many perfect elixirs of first-grade mid-quality and first-grade low-quality.”
“Hmm, how did this kid do it?”
Basing on the faint scent of elixir, the elderly man analyzed a lot and was deeply shocked.
He had seen perfect elixirs with an elixir pattern before.
But a twenty-something young man, just a first-grade mid-quality alchemist, could concoct so many kinds of perfect elixir, which left him a bit confused.
In the entire area of the Great Moon Prefecture, even reaching back over a thousand years, there has never been an exception like this.
Considering the fragmented symbol inheritance Su Yu just took, the old man secretly speculated and muttered, “He’s not planning to develop his skills into symbol cultivation too, is it?”
He didn’t think those useless papers had any value, but if Su Yu shows a terrifying talent in symbol cultivation as he does in alchemy.
Then—
“The Scripture Pavilion loves exceptions. But let’s wait and see. This youngster’s cultivation talent is, well, really lousy, a stark contrast.” The old man shook his head and sighed softly.
Although the sudden discovery earlier had alerted him to an alchemy genius, it still wasn’t enough.
The foundation of a cultivator is cultivation, while alchemy, symbols, formations, et al., are only accessories.
Without talent for cultivation, without cultivation, one is nothing.
Considering Su Yu’s horrible cultivation talent, a twenty-something man who is at just the fourth level of Qi Refinement, the old man sighed faintly. Most people of the Scripture Pavilion are exceptions, most of them have heavenly spiritual roots, so special talents can be overlooked a bit.
But lower spiritual root…The old man shook his head.
Su Yu returned to the Pill Pavilion, and started researching the ancient fragmented symbols he had just acquired.
In more than a year’s time.
He had improved his skill in symbols to first-grade mid-quality perfection. The dozen or so symbols recorded in the inheritance he had taken from the auction before were all mastered to perfection.
He also spent some time studying the remaining five first-grade top-quality symbols.
If he prepared carefully and made several attempts, he should be able to draw first-grade top-quality symbols.
However, he was not particularly interested in ordinary symbols, so he remembered the fragmented symbol inheritance from the Scripture Pavilion.
Although it was impossible to draw from this inheritance directly,
But by learning from it, and seeing if he can make the symbols he has mastered more powerful, or create new symbols.
It might be worth a shot.
Paying fifty lower-grade spirit stones for a fragmented template is worth a try, not a loss.
“Thunder magic, Fire Thunder Sword, this diagram is very mysterious. I wonder how powerful these complete symbols would be.” Su Yu was becoming more and more astonished as she studied.
The power of these three incomplete ancient symbols was much greater than the first-class symbol she obtained at the auction.
It was probably the difference between a defective product and a premium one.
As the stars turned and the sun and moon cycled, the bustling outside world had nothing to do with Su Yu. She diligently practiced the Green Wood Year Ring Skill and Body Refinement Realm every day.
Her Mana and body refinement were slightly improving every day.
This sense of having no end to one’s strength, no bottleneck, and making progress daily gave Su Yu comfort and a sense of security.
In her free time when she was not enhancing her strength, she continued to study alchemy formulas and symbols.
Though her cultivation was not enough to continue crafting stronger elixirs and symbols, she was not satisfied with simply using the formulas and symbols created by others.
Even though she was just a minor Qi Refinement cultivator, if she doesn’t even have the courage to try, she doesn’t deserve to be part of a group of returnees.
Another half a year passed.
In the alchemy pavilion.
There was a change in Su Yu’s cultivation. A month ago, she broke through from the Green Wood Year Ring skill’s one-round four-turn to one-round five-turn, the ‘year ring’ around her body grew one layer more and her cultivation increased to the fifth level of Qi Refinement.
She was now twenty-four years old.
After her breakthrough in cultivation, Su Yu began attempting to make first-class high-grade elixirs and draw first-class high-grade symbols.
At the moment, Su Yu was attempting to draw a new first-class high-grade symbol.
An hour and a half later,
Hum!
With the symbol paper made from the skin of a fire-attribute first-level high-quality monster bursting into a brilliant flame, the nervous Su Yu, drenched in sweat, let out a small sigh of relief.
“Did it work?” She put down her talisman brush and looked at the now settled talisman with anticipation.
Picking up the talisman, she stepped into the next room and activated a layer of defensive formation.
Su Yu infused a hint of mana into the talisman to ignite it and then threw it out.
“Boom!”
The talisman burned up in mid-air, and a flame arrow suddenly appeared. The arrow hit the defensive barrier in the blink of an eye, tearing it apart.
Seeing its power, Su Yu rejoiced, “It worked! The Fire Cloud Arrow symbol, this power is comparable to a full-strike attack from a ninth level Qi Refinement cultivator!”
This was a new symbol she created, taking the Cloud-Piercing Arrow symbol as a template, drawing on the Fire Dragon symbol, and the Fire Thunder Sword symbol.
The fiery nature of the symbol and the subtle mystery of ancient symbols, combined to make the ‘Cloud-Piercing Sword’ symbol at least 50% more powerful.
After the excitement, Su Yu returned to meditate to recover her mana and spirits.
A few days later.
News came from the family.
Looking at Su Jingbang in front of her, Su Yu exclaimed, “What? The Chen family wants to ally with us, offering 30% of the profits from the Purple-Gold Sand Spirit mine as terms?”
Su Jingbang nodded, “The Fifth Elder agreed to ally with the Chen family to fend off the Bai family.”
Su Yu remained silent. As far as she was concerned, the Su Family should currently be focused on cultivation since their newly acquired resource spot could at least support the emergence of one, even two cultivators at the Foundation Establishment realm.
And they could also cultivate dozens more cultivators.
At this moment, to ally with the Chen family over such a ‘Purple Gold Sand Spirit Mine’ to counteract the Bai family from Maple City would only add complications and it didn’t feel right.
However,
This was the family’s decision, as a junior member, she had no say in this matter.
Su Jingbang continued, “The Chen family has decided to betroth their disciple from the Yunjian Sect, Chen Sisi, to Qingyi. That is the main reason why the Fifth Elder agreed to an alliance.” Su Yu listened, taken aback.
Chen Sisi and Su Qingyi… To marry?
“Well, that was… unexpected.” Su Yu muttered to herself..