Chapter 225: A heavenly treasure (1/2)

Chapter 225: A heavenly treasure

The shopkeeper was an old, yet tall and strong orc. Even in the heart of cruel winter, he just had on a thin shirt. Thick hair covered his coarse skin as he lazily rested in his shop.

There were many exotic plants everywhere in the shop. These strange flowers and grasses came in vivid colors, and the shop was filled with a refreshing scent.

Han Shuo only flicked a slight glance at the old orc as he walked in and started looking amongst the plant life himself, identifying them, and looking for what he needed.

In Chu Cang Lan’s memories, he’d spent a lot of time researching the methods of pill refinement. He’d also refined some pills himself.

However, apart from a pill cauldron and a recipe being of the utmost importance in pill refining, the next most important thing were the ingredients. The more precious the pill, the rarer the ingredients. Most of them were heavenly treasures, and one needed them in sufficient quantity to refine the pills.

This time, the leaves glittering with a golden color in front of the old orc’s shop with roots like rock had attracted Han Shuo’s attention.

Using the methods in his memories, he began to closely examine the fauna in order to identify them. After careful scrutiny, he was able to confirm that these strange plants were the ones that only grew in caves with stalactites. These were Goldmarrow Grass that had formed after absorbing the rock essence within the caves for a hundred years as well as the yin qi of the heavens.

Goldmarrow Grass was a heavenly treasure of great yin. If combined with a couple of other ingredients, one would be able to refine the transformative Reform Pill—a pill that would thoroughly excavate all of a mortal’s bones and meridians, completely transforming their body to make it suitable for demonic and magical cultivation.

There was also a small ruby-colored tree with several red fruits on its branches. The flaming fruits were round and translucent, sparkling with a faint crimson light beneath the sunlight. They each seemed to be like a miniature sun.

When Han Shuo looked at them closely, he grew even more certain that these were the fire attribute treasures, Sunblaze Fruits. If someone cultivating the fire attribute ate this fruit, then their strength would increase immensely for a short amount of time thanks to the power of the sun filtering down to them.

However, if someone not inclined towards the fire attribute ate the fruit, they wouldn’t be able to hold up under the fiery power within and would be burned to a crisp by the fruit. When he turned to cinders, the spirit power of the fruit would slowly dissipate into the skies.

Apart from the Goldmarrow Grass and the Sunblaze Fruit, Han Shuo also discovered other treasures such as the Dragonfly Fruit, Hundred Year Vine Heart, and Extreme Frost Grass in this shop. These were all precious materials that pill refiners needed. Han Shuo naturally wouldn’t let them easily out of his sight now that he’d discovered them.

After a while, Han Shuo laid out all the exotic spirit plants he knew on the counter in front of the old orc. He smiled, “Elder, how much do these go for?”

The old orc had been long since keeping an eye on Han Shuo’s movements as he lazily sat there. He finally stood up when Han Shuo placed these items in front of him.

Contrary to Han Shuo’s expectation, the stocky old orc didn’t immediately name a price. He looked at Han Shuo with interest instead and asked, “Do you recognize these items and know what they’re used for?”

The old orc’s voice was raspy and resonant, seemingly a bit awkward when he formed the syllables of human speech. His two nostrils huffed with air as he spoke, looking a bit odd.

“No, I just think they’re a bit strange and wanted to take them home for some further study.” Han Shuo smiled. The old orc was a bit disappointed when he heard that Han Shuo didn’t recognize them. He muttered self deprecatingly to himself, “Of course. So many pharmacists had no idea what this is, how would you know what they are?”

Pointing at the Sunblaze Fruit, the old orc said to Han Shuo, “Curious human youngster, these things aren’t fun at all. They grew out of an area of poor dirt in our home and no one dares play with them. For instance, this red fruit? Even if some fierce beasts eat these fruits, they’d be burned to death by poisonous flame.”