Chapter 54: Mysterious Object, Reward (I) (1/2)
Chapter 54: Mysterious Object, Reward (I)
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The existence of the Mysterious Objects was not a secret. This world had a book named Book of Magical Items . It wrote about all sorts of Mysterious Objects that had appeared in the world, including their usage. Even those Mysterious Objects that appeared only in legends, and only heard of in name, never seen before by people, were also in this Book of Magical Items.
Junior Leopard in Qingyang Market could be said to have read all sorts of books. Naturally, he had read this Book of Magical Itemsbefore, he read it many times, and was very familiar with all the Mysterious Objects described within.
However, the reason why a Mysterious Object could become a Mysterious Object, the biggest reason was because they were too few. Many people in this world, even during their whole lives, would not know what kind of objects Mysterious Objects were.
Amongst the Mysterious Objects in this world, the most numerous ones, and most publicly known, were possibly the Spiritual Stones. These Spiritual Stones were actually just pieces of rock. On first look, it was not much different from normal pieces of stone. However, these kinds of stones contained pure Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Even among the lowest graded Spiritual Stones, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi that was contained within was equivalent to the decades of bitter training of a normal person. From a certain perspective, this Spiritual Stone was the same as the 10,000-year-old fruit that Junior Leopard had read from wuxia novels. Eating one would make up for many years of training. Truth be told, this world was not lacking in this kind of fruit, these things were termed as Mysterious Objects.
However, this world's cultivation system was, after all, not the same as wuxia novels. What was required was the cultivation of both the outside and inside. The outside and inside had to harmonize and rely on each other, supporting each other. Even if one was holding a Mysterious Object in one's hands, one would also not dare to swallow it in one's mouth. If swallowed, the body would certainly explode under the pressure of the Spiritual Qi. Speaking of that, these kinds of Mysterious Objects such as Spiritual Stones that helped to increase one's strength seemed to be of no use!
Actually, that was not the case. Spiritual Stones contained pure Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, which was very easy to absorb. Just like practitioners of Qi, training day and night in inhalation and exhalation, the purpose was to refine the Qi. Inhaling and exhaling the essence of heaven and earth from the vast and immense heaven and earth, absorbing strands of the essence of pneuma, bringing it within the body, and refining it into Internal Qi — although the method was good, efficiency was too low. It had to be known that in inhalation and exhalation, out of ten parts of the time spent, nine parts were spent on refining the Spiritual Qi. With the Spiritual Stone things would be different. If there was a suitable Spiritual Stone in one's hands, one wouldn't be required to practice inhalation and exhalation for over ten years. He only needed to absorb Spiritual Qi directly from the stone and convert it into Internal Qi. What used to take one whole night to accomplish, now could be done with the time that it takes for half a ring. This kind of good deal, who didn't want it?
However, a Mysterious Object, they really were too few in numbers. Spiritual Stones, though they were called the world's most publicly known Mysterious Objects, there were not many either. Sometimes randomly there would be one piece, which had to be fought over till heads broke and blood flowed. Like Junior Leopard, who belonged to the lower strata of the Jianghu, naturally he would only hear of the name, and not see the object itself.
Apart from Spiritual Stones, the world had another kind of Mysterious Object, and that was the so-called Queer Pearl!
Queer Pearls — some were as big as a fist, some were as small as a yellow bean. Most of them came from all sorts of strange and evil beasts. Within the bodies of these strange and evil beasts, often there would be those Queer Pearls.
The most famous Queer Pearls were the Earth Pearls, Fire Pearls, and Water Pearls. Even though this category of pearl hadn't been seen by many people, however, in those wilderness history books, they were mentioned often.
Compared to Spiritual Stones, the numbers of Queer Pearls was even smaller. Spiritual Stones, though they were few, they could always be encountered. In those deep mountains or big swamps where the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was dense, they could still be found, occasionally could even be revealed to the world. This Queer Pearl, however, was different. Queer Pearls had nothing to do with geography, had nothing to do with Spiritual Qi, and had nothing to do with strange and evil beasts. The only thing that it was linked with was moral standing.
This was a question of moral standing!
Legends foretold — there was once a fisherman, who caught a turtle the size of a bowl. On the turtle's shell there was something protruding out. It was opened, and what was inside was a bright pearl the size of a pigeon egg. It was extremely dazzling, and was resistant against water and fire. It was an extremely precious pearl. Looking at the turtle, it was just an ordinary one, it was no different from the turtles that were usually caught. There was also once a peerless expert, Yu Dong, who slaughtered a Dragon Turtle in the eastern seas. This Dragon Turtle was extremely powerful, its Inner Elixir was big like a washbasin, with a pressurizing Spiritual Qi. The turtle armor was also tough beyond imagination, it couldn't be broken by metal nor stone. That expert spent a great deal of effort to sever its limbs and open the shell. Other than the body of flesh and the Inner Elixir, there were no more items. There was a farmer who killed a bull, and discovered on this old yellow bull a piece of Queer Pearl, which was as big a fist, and could actually hurry the growth of grass and wood. That yellow bull didn't live past ten years old, and had no special traits.
That was moral standing.
”Looks like today is really the day where my moral standing has a big explosion!” Junior Leopard bent his back and picked up the green-colored pearl. A cool-as-water feeling passed through his palm, followed his arm, and spread to his whole body. The sharp migraine that he felt earlier was rushed away by this cool and refreshing feeling, and actually, he got much better. The feeling of weariness had also subsided quite a lot.
Junior Leopard was stunned for a while, and was waiting to carefully observe. Suddenly from afar, there was a beast's roar. He put the pearl into the bag with golden lines, and then dropped down and searched the Monster Toad's corpse for a while. Finally, from within the pile of internal organs, he found one Inner Elixir. He conveniently took out a blood-red cloth and wiped the Inner Elixir. Similarly, he placed it into the black bag with gold texture. He turned and exited the steep valley, reaching the cave which he usually rested at. He threw the bag with golden lines to one side, and fell asleep.
This sleep lasted for one day and two nights. When he woke up, the sun was already high up in the sky.
”Hu—!” He lazily stretched his waist. Junior Leopard only felt a wave of refreshing feeling. He stood up, and his ears suddenly heard some noise outside of the cave. Junior Leopard's heart trembled, and hurriedly walked to the cave entrance, dropping down to the side of the cliff. He bent his head and looked down. Under the bright sunlight, there were those that ran and walked, those that flew and jumped, flowers and deer, rabbits, wild boars, and monkeys. He even saw a few fierce tigers and leopards. All of them converged at the bottom of the waterfall by the river, drinking water. It was a peaceful scene.
”Strange, what is happening? A few days ago they will run far away. Today on the contrary, there are dozens here. Could it be they know that the Evil Toad in the valley is finished?!”
Junior Leopard was praising within his heart. He stretched and checked his own body. ”Well, not bad. My Internal Qi has roughly been recovered. My head is no longer in pain, as well. This effect is definitely not bad!”
Actually, he didn't suffer too much damage. He only used too much strength, resulting in him being extremely weary. Just like a person who had done a whole day of work, after being tired, went back home and ate a meal. And after he slept a good deal, whatever weariness he had vanished.
”Gugugu—!” When he was happy, his stomach produced a strange grumbling sound.
”Damn, I am really hungry!” Junior Leopard was thinking that he had not eaten any food for a very long time. He helplessly rubbed his stomach. Junior Leopard started laughing. ”Okay, don't call anymore, soon there will be food!”
Upon speaking, he raised his hand, and down flew two kunai. One shot into the artery of a wild boar, which was drinking by the river. The other pinned a small rabbit to the ground.
”Okay, the lunch problem is settled!” Junior Leopard jumped down. The surrounding wild beasts that came to drink water all scattered in one go. Even those tigers and fierce beasts were no exception.