Chapter 281 (1/2)

Chapter 281

This time, Long Chen and Elder Sun decided to go to a small valley a bit further from the monastery for their transaction .

Long Chen noticed that Elder Sun seemed to have lost a great deal of weight . He hastily congratulated Elder Sun on his weight loss .

Elder Sun didn’t say a single thing . Throwing a spatial ring to Long Chen, his eyes were completely red, looking like they might spit flames at any moment .

Elder Sun really was pained enough to die . Long Chen had requested only extremely precious medicinal ingredients, and there had even been requirements on their age . Although in terms of quant.i.ty it had been only a third of the first list, its price had been even greater than the last time .

To obtain these medicinal ingredients, he had used up the rest of all his merit points that he had saved for decades .

Elder Sun even suspected that Long Chen precisely knew how many merit points he had had . These two sets had cost him practically everything . Of his tens of thousands of merit points, less than five hundred remained now .

His heart was practically dripping blood . If Long Chen dared trick him again, he wouldn’t care about any price to kill Long Chen .

Seeing the piles of medicinal ingredients in the spatial ring, Long Chen smiled brightly . He immediately handed over a black zirconium .

Elder Sun received and saw there was another ancient character on the back: Superior . [1]

“How domineering!”

Elder Sun delighted . But then when he flipped it over, his expression changed and he roared, “Why is there nothing on here?!”

This black zirconium only had a single character written on its back . There wasn’t the slightest thing written on the front .

Originally, Long Chen had been planning on putting something there, but he hadn’t had the time . Back in Phoenix Cry, he had gone to the Huayun Pavilion and bought four black zirconiums .

Although black zirconium was ancient, it wasn’t very valuable . Long Chen had bought them just to cheat Elder Sun .

That old fellow had targeted him several times for his Nine Star Hegemon Body Art . The last time, he had even drawn over a Corrupt Elder to kill him . If it hadn’t been for Chu Yao’s help at the end, he would have died .

Although Tu Fang had then planned on punis.h.i.+ng him for Long Chen, Long Chen knew that the worst punishment Tu Fang could give was to expel him from the monastery .

Just being expelled from the monastery was far from enough to allay Long Chen’s hatred . If he wanted his technique, then he could have it .

Long Chen had drawn in the meridian circulation method of the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art . Originally, he had been planning on splitting the full diagram over four rocks .

It was said that black zirconium was something that required the carver to be at least at the Xiantian realm .

However, that wasn’t a problem for Long Chen . Although he couldn’t directly carve anything onto black zirconium, he could draw onto it .

Long Chen had used an extremely bizarre pill formula in his Pill G.o.d memories to make a mysterious stone-rotting extract .

This stone-rotting extract came from ancient times . Large sects had huge stone steles and monuments . Some were so large they were thousands of meters high .

In order to carve words into them, it not only required a great deal of power, it also required a powerful tool .

But not only that, the carver couldn’t make a single mistake when carving . A single monument might require tens of thousands of words . If the carver made a mistake, wouldn’t the entire monument be ruined? It wasn’t as if the carvers were G.o.d . No one would do something so foolish .

And so the ancient era’s tablets were not directly carved . The characters were first drawn on, and after making sure there were no mistakes, they would use stone-rotting extract to soften the rock .

Stone-rotting extract was extremely miraculous . Its corrosive nature wasn’t permanent . It would only soften the rock for a moment . Once it was removed, the rock would return to its original hardness .

And most interesting of all, rocks that had been softened with stone-rotting extract would all possess an ancient aura .

When Long Chen had drawn on these black zirconiums, he had kept his divine ring released, letting its aura permeate into his strokes . That was to make it possible to sense the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art’s aura from these rocks .

After he managed to complete one of those ‘ancient treasures’, Long Chen would then polish it up, soaking the new carvings with medicinal liquid until it was impossible to tell that those lines were newly added .

Long Chen had really put in a lot of effort for this plot . After he had finished the first piece, he had gone straight to Elder Sun to offer him the bait .

However, he hadn’t expected Elder Sun to be so efficient . He had only just finished the second stone before he returned .

The day Elder Sun came to rage to Long Chen about the diagram being incomplete, Long Chen had only managed to carve a single word on the back of the third stone .

Originally, Long Chen had been planning on immediately going to finish the carving that very day, but in the end, he had changed his mind .

“That’s because there was never supposed to be anything carved there . ” Long Chen shook his head .

“What do you mean?” raged Elder Sun, tightly clenching his fists .

“What I mean is that the front of this stone was always blank, and that it is supposed to be blank . ”

“Nonsense! You said that your cultivation technique was split into an upper, middle, and lower portion! You said you’d hand over the middle portion once I got all these medicinal ingredients! Did you forget your oath?”

“Looks like you really are getting old . Then according to how you put it, then yes, the cultivation technique is split into an upper, middle, and lower portion . But when did I ever say that I would give you the middle portion? All I swore was that I would hand over what was in my hand back then . And yes, this is precisely what I was holding back then . ”