Chapter 500 - Ancient Divine Chests (2/2)
After voicing out some complaints, Wang Cheng continued playing chess.
At this moment, a young man’s voice suddenly resounded from afar, praising Wang Cheng.
“Well said. Those who take natural resources for granted will certainly be cast aside by Heaven. Be it concocting pills or cultivation, we must give our best effort in doing everything in the world and must not be lazy…”
Upon hearing this young man’s voice, Wang Cheng’s hand which was about to put down the chess piece in his hand suddenly froze in midair.
He raised his head in disbelief. When he saw that it wasn’t a disciple of the Pill Island but Ning Fan and his group instead, he was scared half to death. His entire body began to tremble. Instantly, he came out of the gazebo and welcomed Ning Fan.
“R-Revered Ming! What made you come to our Waste Pill Valley? Please come in… Er… Please forgive me for my foolish remark…”
All of a sudden, Wang Cheng realized that inviting Ning Fan into the Waste Pill Valley seemed to be very wrong.
The Waste Pill Valley was a place used to store useless items. Since he was inviting Ning Fan into the valley, didn’t it mean he was implying that Ning Fan was useless trash?
Wang Cheng, of course, recognized Ning Fan. To put it more appropriately, who else on the Pill Island still did not know about him?
Venerated Pill’s orders had already passed to the entire Pill Island. He was even allowed to enter the forbidden areas, much less the Waste Pill Valley.
However, Wang Cheng just could not understand why Ning Fan would come to this place but he did not have the courage to ask him about it.
He had been staying on the Pill Island his entire life. He had never experienced or witnessed any significant incidents but he had heard too much of Ning Fan’s notoriety.
Since he was interacting with Ning Fan, the number-one devil lord of the internal sea at such a close distance, he was naturally extremely nervous.
“Calm down. You don’t have to be nervous. The reason why I came to the Waste Pill Valley is just to take some defective pills for my research. I harbor no evil intentions. What’s your name and what’s your position on Pill Island?” Ning Fan explained.
After hearing that Ning Fan had no intention of doing him any harm, Wang Cheng heaved a sigh of relief. Then, he answered politely.
“This junior is Wang Cheng. I am a third-rate elder of the Pill Island and my responsibility is to look after the Waste Pill Valley.”
“Mm. I want to take some defective pills for my research. How about this? You go and pick out all the defective pills that are at the Fifth Revolution and above from the valley. After that, send them to the Primordial Heaven Palace. The faster the better. It would be great if you can accomplish it within a day.”
“W-What?! You want me to pick out all the defective Fifth Revolution Pills from the valley!? And you even said the faster the better!?”
Wang Cheng’s jaw dropped. The defective pills in the valley were not even worth a single straw. Besides, Ning Fan was an important guest of the Pill Island. It wouldn’t be a problem no matter what he takes. Thus, Wang Cheng undoubtedly had no objections.
But what he found difficult to swallow was that Ning Fan wanted him to pick out all the defective Fifth Revolution Pills…
It was extremely difficult to identify the grade of the defective pills. Moreover, most of them were black and charred. There were not many differences in terms of their appearances. It would be really hard to assess the grade of the defective pills except for pill refinement masters who possessed Fifth Revolution medicine souls.
God knows how many millions of defective pills were stored in the valley. There was only one Fifth Revolution pill in every one hundred thousand pills. Searching for a few hundreds of defective Fifth Revolution Pills from several tens of millions of defective pills was similar to looking for a needle in a haystack. The difficulty was pretty high…
Even if Wang Cheng was given ten years, he might not necessarily be able to pick out all the Fifth Revolution Pills much less in one day…
“R-Revered Ming, please forgive me… O-One day is really not enough for me…” Wang Cheng trembled uncontrollably. He did not know what consequences he would face by defying Ning Fan’s orders.
“Not enough? Could it be that the defective pills in the valley aren’t stored according to their grades?”
Ning Fan spread out his spirit sense and scanned across the valley. Then, he broke into a hearty laughter.
The defective pills in the Waste Pill Valley had been thrown around like trash. They were not categorized and arranged in an orderly manner.
Asking Wang Cheng who was merely an insignificant Gold Core Realm cultivator to pick out the defective Fifth Revolution Pills was indeed giving him a hard time.
“It’s fine… Yan Er, you’ll accompany Ming Que in looking for Fifth Revolution Pills in the valley. Her nose is sharp. She will be able to tell where the Fifth Revolution Pills are by just sniffing around.”
Ning Fan let Su Yan and Ming Que stay in the Waste Pill Valley. With Ming Que’s keen sense of smell which could serve as a radar to detect heavenly ingredients and earthly treasures, it would not be too difficult for them to find defective Fifth Revolution Pills from the valley.
Su Yan was confused. Up until now, she still had not figured out why Ning Fan would want to get his hands on defective Fifth Revolution Pills.
Ming Que, on the other hand, was extremely excited. She could not wait to find all the Fifth Revolution Pills at once and purify them so that she could start eating them.
Wang Cheng heaved deeply. He did not expect Ning Fan to be so friendly. He actually did not kill Wang Cheng when he defied his orders.
“It seems like Revered Ming isn’t as brutal as the rumors say… Speaking of which, why does Revered Ming want defective pills for his research?” Wang Cheng muttered to himself, finding it hard to understand.
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After leaving the Waste Pill Valley, Ning Fan headed over to the Pill Island’s libraries alone. He browsed through the pill recipes, pill techniques and many insights and thoughts written down by others.
Whenever he saw a Fifth Revolution or Sixth Revolution pill recipe, he would make his own copy of them. The elders who were looking after the libraries naturally did not dare to stop him.
In just half a day, Ning Fan had already visited all the libraries of the island.
Half a day later, Venerated Pill came out of his seclusion. He had already assimilated all the insights he had obtained from his battle with Ning Fan and achieved a considerable improvement.
“I heard that Fellow Daoist asked for defective Fifth Revolution Pills. Is that true? What kind of use would those defective pills have for Fellow Daoist??” Venerated Pill had already received the news and asked Ning Fan casually.
“Just for research purposes. Knowing how it failed will help in how to make it succeed.” Ning Fan gave a random answer. Of course, he could not tell him the truth.
“I see. So Fellow Daoist wants to understand the reason why the pills became defective and use them as references to improve your Dao of Alchemy…” Venerated Pill nodded without asking anything more.
Afterward, he raised his head and smiled.
“On my Pill Island, we still have another treasure in addition to the Soul Washing Pound. It’s the ‘divine chests’ left behind by ancient pill masters. Is Fellow Daoist interested in having a look at it? How about having a try on lifting its seal?.”
“Divine chests?” Ning Fan was slightly surprised.
The so-called divine chests were the unique storage method of the ancient divine race. They used their divine techniques to store items which could isolate them from Heaven, allowing these treasures to remain intact for eons.
Some divine chests contained secret treasures. Some had cultivation methods. Some had pills. Some even contained ancient living creatures…
Is it possible that there are actually divine chests left behind by ancient divine cultivators on the Pill Island?
Besides, judging from what Venerable Pill said, it seems like they haven’t been opened before!
Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel