Chapter 99: 088 Dark Moon Market, Temple of Heaven Ruins (10k Subscriptions Requested)_6
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Then Su Yu sat cross-legged, getting into a meditative state to restore his peak condition.
By nightfall.
Su Yu officially began the process of creating Foundation Establishment Pills.
Seven days passed by in a blink.
“Buzz! ”
When the familiar aroma of the pills wafted through the air, Su Yu hastily deployed his pill collection technique. The cover of the pill furnace flew open, and four Foundation Establishment Pills floated out and hung in front of him.
This time, perhaps due to his suboptimal condition, only one pill from the four was of excellent quality.
The remaining three were standard grade.
Su Yu let out a sigh of relief and nodded approvingly, “It’s fine, having one of excellent quality is sufficient.”
Placing the four Foundation Establishment Pills in jade bottles, he then put them in a jade box. This jade box can be considered an ancient form of a Qiankun Bag, with variable storage space, ideal for preserving pills.
But to hide one of the Foundation Establishment Pills? He felt it was premature to do so.
After all, he only had four Foundation Establishment Pills, and only one of them was of excellent quality. There was no need to hoard them. If he had five, and more of them were of excellent quality, he would consider stashing one away and not revealing his true pill-making skills.
Departing from the Alchemy room, Su Yu asked Yu Qianqing to notify Luo Qianyu and others to come to Dan Pavilion.
When Luo Qianyu and others had arrived, Su Yu, with a calm demeanour, handed over the jade box, “I have successfully yielded four pills in a single furnace, including one excellent Foundation Establishment Pill and three standard Foundation Establishment Pills.”
Upon hearing this, a rare smile appeared on Luo Qianyu’s face as she said, “Thank you, Taoist Friend Su.”
Then, Luo Qianyu opened the jade box, took out a normal quality Foundation Establishment Pill, and gave it to Su Yu, saying, “This is the reward for your pill-making.”
Before Su Yu had a chance to refuse, Luo Qianyu picked up the remaining two normal quality Foundation Establishment Pills, examined them and handed them to her two junior sisters at the late stage of Qi Refinement.
Luo Qianyu said, “The quality of the Foundation Establishment Pills made by Friend Su is decent. These two are not of supreme quality, but they are not far off.’
“With the help of these pills, you two can try to break through to Foundation Establishment.”
When they bade farewell and left, Su Yu secretly gave Su Zhi three bottles of second-grade, lower-quality pills, then saw them off.
At this moment, Yu Qianqing suddenly said, “Sister Luo and the others may not be having a good time.”
“Otherwise, those two junior sisters could have exchanged for Foundation Establishment Pills within the sect.”
With a slightly furrowed brow, Su Yu contemplated, “We don’t know much about the Yunjian Sect’s situation, and there’s not much we can do about it. Let’s get ready to go to the great Dark Moon Market.”
Two days later.
A group of eight people departed from Bai Yue Immortal City. As they soared into the sky on the back of a Black-Scaled Hawk, everyone headed west.
The Great Moon Palace was located in the central region of the Great Moon Prefecture, not far from the largest monster mountain range in the prefecture, the Great Moon Ridge. The Great Moon Palace was undoubtedly the dominating power in Great Moon Prefecture, and effectively governed over it.
After all, the Great Moon Palace had a powerhouse of Nascent Soul Realm.
However, the Great Moon Palace didn’t interfere in everything. For instance, the bustling Great Moon Market was just next to it.
“The number of people in the Great Moon Palace is actually not many. As long as we don’t provoke the Great Moon Palace, there won’t be any major problems.” said Yu Ke’er, sharing her understanding and knowledge of the Great Moon Palace. Only those with superior Spiritual Roots were eligible to participate in the test for discipleship in the Palace.
This resulted in a relatively small population in the Great Moon Palace, even smaller than the Yunjian Sect.
In other words…
The Great Moon Palace did not have the energy to deal with minor issues.
“So much the better,” Su Yu murmured thoughtfully.
The Black-Scaled Hawk alternately soared west with a Double-Headed Blood Hawk for nearly half a month. Just as they were about to reach the Great Moon Ridge, they were targeted by a Foundation Establishment Realm aura.
“Squawk!” The Black-Scaled Hawk let out a piercing cry as a warning, its ferocious aura surging into the sky.
On its back…
Su Yu and the others looked slightly troubled. Looking down towards the ground, they saw a scholar holding a brush, standing on top of a high mountain peak. His aura was not particularly strong, merely at the third level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, yet he had stopped the Black-Scaled Hawk in its tracks.
As soon as the Black-Scaled Hawk stopped, a voice echoed from below, “Hehe,
Taoist Fiend Xiuyu of the Heaven’s Ruin Temple greets fellow cultivators.”
“A few friends look a little unfamiliar. You don’t seem to be from the Great Moon Market?”
Upon hearing the words ‘Heaven’s Ruin Temple’, Su Yu and Yu Ke’er’s expressions changed slightly, their brows furrowing.
This organization… righteous yet evil, had a somewhat strange style. However, in the Great Moon Prefecture or the Great Moon Market, it was most famous for information-related matters. Whether it was about individuals or about various treasures in the Great Moon Ridge, the Heaven’s Ruin Temple held a great deal of information, forever elusive and unpredictable.
Contemplating for a moment, Su Yu said, “I am Su Yu, a second-grade, sub-standard Alchemist capable of producing Foundation Establishment Pills.
“I’m about to set up my cave mansion on the Spiritual Mountain of the Yu Family in the Dark Market. If you need pills, you can discuss it at the cave mansion. The quality is guaranteed.”
The Taoist below was momentarily stunned. He then began writing something in an ancient book with his spirit brush, but no words appeared.
After a moment, Taoist Xiuyu burst into laughter, “You are quite interesting, friend. You actually consider me a customer…alright, I’ve disturbed you this time. If I have a need, or if someone needs pills, I’ll come and chat with you.
Goodbye.”
As soon as his voice faded, the figure on the mountain peak below gradually disappeared.
The expressions of Su Yu, Yu Ke’er, and Su Rui’an changed slightly again. When did this man leave? They hadn’t noticed at all.
But the next moment, Su Yu suddenly shouted, “Friend, do you have information about the various alchemists in the Dark Market?”
The disappeared figure of Taoist Xiuyu reappeared in front of the Black-Scaled Hawk within two breaths, standing in the air and then in a flash, landed next to Su Yu.
Taoist Xiuyu’s eyes appeared to turn into a shape of money, his face full of smiles, “Yes, yes, of course. What kind of information does friend require?” This was a stalwart Foundation Establishment cultivator who wore a gray robe. He was not tall and was slightly overweight, with a somewhat sleazy smile.
To Su Yu’s surprise, Taoist Xiuya seemed to be quite young, probably in his thirties or forties, and he was quite plump.
Su Yu calmed the agitated Black-Scaled Hawk and prompted it to continue flying towards the Great Moon Market.
Then, Su Yu started to ask about the number, rank, reputation, etc. of the alchemists in the Dark Moon Market, as well as the relationships between the various forces in the market, the source of medicinal materials for pills and so on.
By the time they arrived at the periphery of the Great Moon Market, Taoist Xiuyu cheerfully collected three hundred spirit stones and handed a jade slip to Su Yu, then disappeared again with a flicker.
“Hehe, I hope the information given to you, friend, will be helpful as you’ve just arrived here,” he said.
This time, Su Yu faintly perceived a trace of wind-element based mana energy.
After Taoist Xiuyu left, Su Yu’s face turned serious as he said in a low voice, “This man … is really not simple. There are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in this Great Moon Market. I feel that Heaven’s Ruin Temple is a bit similar to the Heaven’s Book Pavilion.”
“Some say that Heaven’s Ruin Temple is not a power of the Great Moon Prefecture and is very mysterious, but who knows if it’s true.” Yu Ke’er contemplated.
Before he arrived, Su Yu felt somewhat relaxed. But now, after this encounter, he became tense again..