Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Greenwood Sect Invitation
Zhang Jun choked out: “Th-this is too… ugh!”

On the scorched black ground, large pools of red and yellow unknown liquid were mixed together, and a foul smell spread through the air.

Zhang Jun held it in again and again, but in the end he could not. He bent over and began to vomit violently.

When the others saw this scene, their stomachs also churned. After hearing Zhang Jun retch, they could not help throwing up as well.

Yu Zhao, Mu Ye, and Zhou Jin Yue turned their heads away in disgust and moved a bit farther from them.

Zhang Jun vomited for a long time. When he finally had nothing left to throw up, he lifted his head weakly and looked pitifully at Zhou Jin Yue as he called: “First Senior Sister…”

The visual impact was too strong.

He felt terrible.

The others also looked weak and drained, making Zhou Jin Yue shake her head over and over.

Zhang Jun asked: “Junior Sister Yu, how did you do it, to leave not even a whole corpse of a fourth-rank great demon?”

When Yu Zhao heard Zhang Jun’s question, she smiled faintly and said: “I naturally do not have such great ability, but I have a water-attribute primordial treasure in my hand.”

Everyone suddenly understood.

A primordial treasure was a magical artifact refined by a Nascent Soul cultivator. It contained a single attack from that Nascent Soul cultivator and could be used to save one’s life at a critical moment.

However, the method for making a primordial treasure was very complicated, and the cost was huge. Even Nascent Soul cultivators rarely had the patience to refine them, so very few people mentioned primordial treasures anymore.

They had not expected that Yu Zhao just happened to have such a rare primordial treasure, and it was even a water-attribute primordial treasure that directly countered the Scarlet Flame Lion.

The Scarlet Flame Lion had really not died unjustly.

Someone said: “I originally thought Junior Sister Yu was not valued on Lone Moon Peak, but I was wrong. Master Qing Yan still cares a lot about Junior Sister Yu, to actually give her a primordial treasure for protection.”

Someone voiced what everyone was thinking in one sentence.

In their fixed impression, Junior Sister Yu was a pitiful one whom her master did not dote on and her senior brothers did not favor.

It turned out everything was wrong.

Where had those rumors come from? They were really harmful!

Ye Cong Xin was so jealous that her eyes were almost red.

[How could Master be so biased!]

He gave Yu Zhao a primordial treasure, but to her he only gave a pile of flashy useless things!

It was laughable that she had thought Master had some real feeling for her. She had not expected that she still could not compare to Yu Zhao’s place in his heart.

Since it was like this, she did not need to hesitate anymore.

[She was determined to seize Master Qing Yan’s fortune!]

Among everyone present, perhaps only Lan Zi Yu had doubts about the origin of the primordial treasure.

Because he knew very clearly that their master, Master Qing Yan, was not a gentle or careful person, and even less like someone who would waste time making a primordial treasure for the sake of a disciple’s safety.

But he said nothing and only gave Yu Zhao a deep look.

Yu Zhao let everyone talk and did not explain.

They would never guess, even if they were beaten to death, that her primordial treasure did not come from Master Qing Yan but from her Third Senior Brother, Su Ming.

This was also Yu Zhao’s biggest confidence that she could save Zhou Jin Yue.

She even somewhat regretted that she had not been ruthless enough back then and had not traded more things out of Su Ming’s hands.

Zhou Jin Yue said: “Those who feel unwell, rest where you are. Those who can still move, come with me to clean up the battlefield.”

Zhou Jin Yue’s words caused a chorus of wails.

“Senior Sister Zhou, the Scarlet Flame Lion has already ended up like this. Can’t we just skip cleaning the battlefield?”

“Yeah, its body is already broken into pieces. It probably is not very useful anymore.”

“Senior Sister Zhou, let’s just leave. If we stay any longer, I am afraid I will even throw up last night’s food.”

There were not many disciples of Five Elements Dao Sect who were strapped for money. They would rather give up than search through a pile of broken corpses for demonic beast materials that still had value.

Zhou Jin Yue raised her willow-like brows and said: “The whole point of bringing you out this time was to train you. If you cannot even handle this small test now, how will you stand firm in the cultivation world in the future?”

After she finished, she pointed at Yu Zhao and Mu Ye, who had already teamed up to search for materials: “These two junior sisters are braver than you. Do you really have the nerve to shrink back?”

Since Zhou Jin Yue’s attitude was firm, everyone could only pull long faces and start moving.

At first they still felt uncomfortable, but after they got used to it, they became almost immune to the stench around them. The more they searched, the more excited they grew, and they were overjoyed even to find a single intact beast bone.

Mu Ye squatted on the ground and carefully drew the liquid from the blood vessels in a pool of dark red flesh.

Drop by drop, dark golden liquid flowed into the jade vial in her hand.

Soon, the color of that piece of flesh began to turn pale.

When she finished collecting the liquid, Mu Ye turned, shook the bottle, and gave Yu Zhao a proud smile: “This is Lion Heart Blood. It is even more precious than the deer blood of a Seven-colored Deer. Since you saw it, you get a share. When I go back and refine a furnace of pills to replenish qi and blood, I will give you a few.”

“Then I’ll thank you in advance.”

“You are welcome. Come on, let’s go collect some lion tails.”

In the eyes of outsiders, this messy place was actually an alchemist’s paradise.

Mu Ye was like a little mouse that had fallen into a rice jar, so happy she forgot to go home.

One shichen later, everyone gathered again.

Many people had no color in their faces, but their eyes shone brightly.

Zhou Jin Yue nodded in satisfaction.

Being able to get over this mental hurdle meant they had taken another step forward.

This trip to Dragon Roar Valley had not been in vain, even if it had been a bit thrilling…

Wait, thrilling?

A scare but no real danger?

Zhou Jin Yue suddenly remembered Yu Zhao’s divination result.

It was exactly the same as this outcome.

[It was really accurate!]

The bit of unease hidden in Zhou Jin Yue’s heart completely disappeared.

She lifted the corners of her lips in a bright smile and said: “While you were cleaning the battlefield just now, I already went to scout around. The Scarlet Flame Lion came from the west, so we will head west now. If we do not find anything else in two days, we will prepare to return to the sect. Do you have any other questions?”

“No,” everyone answered together.

“Good, then we set off now.”

Zhou Jin Yue shot out like an arrow that had been waiting to be released and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Watching Zhou Jin Yue’s figure disappear in front of them, Mu Ye said with a face full of envy: “Senior Sister Zhou is amazing. She always takes the lead and charges at the front. It feels so safe to be with her.”

Yu Zhao deeply agreed with this.

Among all the people she knew, Zhou Jin Yue had the strongest personal charm.

Being her friend, you would never have to worry about suddenly being stabbed in the back.

Mu Ye glanced at Yu Zhao again and said: “You are not bad either. You may not have noticed, but your mindset is much steadier than theirs. The luckiest thing on this trip for me is getting to know you and Senior Sister Zhou. If there is a chance in the future, you and Senior Sister Zhou must come visit our Greenwood Sect. I will give you as many pills as you want.”

Yu Zhao’s heart stirred.

She had heard that a Superior Fire Vein lay buried beneath Greenwood Sect. The elders of Greenwood Sect used formation array arts as a guide to split the fire vein into one hundred and eight branches and built an alchemy room above each branch.

When disciples of the Alchemy Division were not yet skilled at controlling fire, they would choose to go to the alchemy rooms to practice alchemy.

Before this, Yu Zhao had been hesitating. After she finished collecting the artifact forging materials, should she ask a Master Artifact Refiner to forge the magical artifact for her Illusory Tide Art, or should she forge it herself?

Magical artifacts forged by an artifact refiner had a high success rate and very little error in the details, but the price would also be very expensive.

Yu Zhao wanted even more to forge it with her own hands, but the problem was that she was a cultivator with a water spiritual root and could not control fire at all.

The alchemy rooms of Greenwood Sect could just provide her with a source of fire.

So Yu Zhao readily accepted Mu Ye’s invitation and kept the matter of going to Greenwood Sect firmly in her mind.