Chapter 215: Recognize All of Them (1/2)

“Three requests?” Inside the gazebo, Lu Yun’s eyes were as wide as saucers. “Immortal crystals aren’t the auction currency?”

“Wait, you didn’t know?” The other youths looked at him with some confusion. Lu Yun wasn’t the only one surprised; his clansman Lu Shenhou was equally bewildered.

“What am I supposed to know about?” he quickly retorted.

“The Panorama Pavilion already secretly informed various factions that, rather than pay crystals and treasures, we must fulfill their three requests to the best of our ability!” Wu Tulong replied, confused by Lu Yun’s confusion. “They sent the Immortal Martial Sect a message half a month ago, but we weren’t much interested so we didn’t make any preparations. Did they not tell the Lu Clan?”

“It seems the Panorama Pavilion no longer considers us a great clan.” Lu Shenhou ground his teeth from the slight.

“What are the requests, exactly?” Lu Yun remained nonchalant, not taking the insult nearly as personally.

“Recognizing herbs, processing herbs, and refining pills,” answered Wu Tulong. The young man nodded to his friend in acknowledgment before sinking into thought.

“We’ve already informed many of you about the necessary preparations for today,” , Fairy Qing Xun’s voice sounded again from upon the platform.

Some in the audience beamed with confidence, while others gaped with consternation. Before the latter group could respond, their host conjured a thousand and eighty kinds of immortal herbs in the air overhead.

“These thousand and eighty materials are extinct in the present world. The guild dug them up in an ancient tomb. Now, let the auction for the first treasure begin. The Skydragon Tendon is the tendon of an ancient skydragon’s remains. It contains a portion of the dragon’s power, while being a rare treasure material in its own right. The one who recognizes the most types of herbs and their effects will receive the tendon!”

“A thousand and eighty types of herbs….” Lu Yun frowned slightly.

Yuying’s experience could only identify one hundred thirty-four of them. Feinie, Huangqing, Aoxue, and Xuanxi’s memories added maybe seventy more. Yet leveraging his first envoy’s acumen led him to an inkling that these thousand and eighty herbs might be refined into a legendary pill. Not that Yuying was capable of figuring out the recipe at present, but still.

If I can already recognize this many, then a little bit of analysis will help me recognize even more. Lu Yun cast his consciousness forth in order to scrutinize the herbs on the platform more closely.

A number of people came to the platform to try their hand. The Panorama Pavilion was entirely unafraid of potential theft. All of the herbs were freely accessible to the pill masters for them to look, touch, and sample. Some tried tasting the herbs while others brought out their pill cauldrons. No matter what they wanted to do, Qing Xun gave them free rein.

Twelve hours passed in no time at all. No one near the platform bothered to talk during that time, either to themselves or anyone else.

“Ahem!” A grey-robed old man suddenly spoke. “My sincerest apologies. I hold three millennia of experience, but I can only figure out eighty-one herbs. Fairy Qing Xun is exactly right. These eighty-one are extinct in the present world.”

“Greetings, Senior Gu Zun. I did not expect you to come in person,” Qing Xun congenially greeted the old man.

Gu Zun was a renowned pill master in the world of immortals. Though he was only a golden immortal, he could refine supreme pills that were effective even for dao immortals. The old man nodded, then continued, “From what I understand of these herbs’ properties, sixty-four can be used to refine the Dao Fruit Pill—alongside eight other types of supplemental herbs.”

He added the last part because Qing Xun didn’t look particularly impressed with his results.

“The Dao Fruit Pill!” Bored immortals instantly boiled over in their various gazebos. “Master Gu Zun can reconstruct the recipe for the Dao Fruit Pill!”

The Dao Fruit Pill was a pill long since disappeared from the world. Much like the Aurum Openia Pill, it was very popular once upon a time, but had dwindled from existence following the death of its creator.

A peerless immortal had to become one with heaven and earth in order to pluck a dao fruit. The latter part of the breakthrough was exceptionally dangerous. Failure meant a lethal backlash; the chance of reaching dao immortality was sometimes less than ten thousand to one.

A Dao Fruit Pill allowed a peerless immortal to freely blend in with heaven and earth, increasing the possibility of plucking their dao fruit by fifty percent. In some ways, it was a miracle pill.

Even the previously calm Qing Xun was affected. “What are the other eight herbs, Master Gu Zun?” Palpitations filled her chest as she voiced her curiosity.

“Ahem!” Gu Zun reddened. “The other eight herbs are extinct ninth-rank materials as well. I simply had the chance to read about them in an ancient text.”

The audience let out a collective sigh of relief. The Dao Fruit Pill was so powerful that it’d likely disrupt the balance of power in the present world. It was much better that it didn’t appear.

“I can only recognize seventy-two of these, but I can refine a ninth-rank pill with them!” another attendee exclaimed.