24: Chapter 24 Elixir Recipes

The night was as dark as ink.

It was the perfect time for murder and looting.

Having donned his night-traveling attire and applied a disguise, Chen Hu slipped out of his small courtyard without a sound, heading toward the nearest Treasure Trove.

The night was particularly dark tonight, but for Chen Hu, it had no effect at all.

After all, with his Spiritual Sense, even in such dim surroundings, everything within a two-hundred-meter radius could clearly appear in his mind.

The first Treasure Trove was not in Changshou Ward, but in Tianshui Ward, which was adjacent to it.

Through his exploration during this period, Chen Hu discovered that the Treasure Troves revealed by the treasure hunting card were mostly in uninhabited places.

The only exception was the Sun Family Martial Arts Hall.

It did not take long for Chen Hu to sneak into a desolate mansion.

The scale of this mansion was not small; if one were to buy it, it would probably cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

However, this mansion was currently vacant.

Soon, Chen Hu arrived at an artificial lake within the mansion grounds.

Since no one had lived in this mansion for several years and the artificial lake had not been maintained, the water inside appeared particularly murky.

Shedding his clothes, Chen Hu quietly slipped from the shore into the artificial lake and swam toward the center.

Before long, he reached the center of the lake, took a deep breath, and submerged himself.

After diving down about three meters, his Spiritual Sense locked onto a wooden box.

With a thought, the wooden box was directly stored into his Storage Ring.

Returning to the surface, Chen Hu immediately swam toward the shore.

Afterward, he took a bucket of clean water from his Storage Ring to rinse off, put on his night-traveling attire, and immediately headed toward the second Treasure Trove.

About fifteen minutes later, Chen Hu arrived at the second Treasure Trove.

This Treasure Trove was located amidst some ruined walls.

A massacre had occurred here several months ago.

More than ten members of the Family were killed, and in the end, their house was burned down.

Chen Hu immediately found a blackened wooden roof beam.

With a wave of his hand, the beam was stored into his Storage Ring.

Then, without any further delay, he headed to the third Treasure Trove.

In the blink of an eye, more than an hour passed.

After Chen Hu had retrieved the treasures from the other three locations, he returned to his small courtyard.

"Now it is time to open the blind boxes!"

Life always needs a sense of anticipation; although he could have used his Spiritual Sense to inspect the items inside the boxes and roof beams while retrieving them, he chose not to do so.

He crushed the rusted copper lock on the box.

Opening it, he saw something wrapped in a layer of oil paper.

As he tore open the oil paper, a dazzling golden light immediately met his eyes.

Underneath the oil paper were actually gold bars.

Chen Hu picked up a gold bar and weighed it in his hand; it should be ten taels.

Then, he poured out the gold bars in the box and counted them; there were exactly three hundred.

In other words, there were three thousand taels of gold in this box.

"Not bad, not bad, my fortune has increased significantly!"

Chen Hu muttered to himself with satisfaction, then waved his hand to store the gold into his Storage Ring.

Afterward, he went into the courtyard and took out the blackened roof beam.

His Spiritual Sense wrapped around the beam and quickly permeated it.

Soon, Chen Hu discovered the object hidden inside.

"Store!"

He did not destroy the roof beam but chose to use the Storage Ring to collect it directly.

Before he had Spiritual Sense, he needed to touch objects with his hand to store them in the Storage Ring.

Now that he had Spiritual Sense, he did not need to touch them; he could just touch them with his Spiritual Sense.

Hidden inside this roof beam was a wooden box.

Opening the wooden box, there was a thin booklet inside.

Filled with curiosity, Chen Hu flipped through the booklet to read it.

"So it is a Pill Formula!"

This booklet recorded three types of Pill Formulas: the Body Nourishing Pill, the Internal Qi Pill, and the soul nourishing pill.

For a moment, Chen Hu's expression turned somewhat solemn.

He had heard of all three of these Medicinal Pills; they were all extremely rare and uncommon.

Take the Body Nourishing Pill, for example; this pill could not directly increase one's strength.

Its only function was to improve talent and Aptitude.

For example, if your talent was only at the high stage of the Mortal Body, and you took the Body Nourishing Pill for a long time, it would be possible to raise your talent to the Yellow Grade.

However, this kind of pill was not something an ordinary person could afford to take because it was very expensive.

A single pill cost 500 taels of silver.

Furthermore, it had to be taken continuously; taking it just once would not work.

One had to take it for at least a month continuously to improve one's talent and Aptitude slightly.

Therefore, this pill was not prepared for ordinary people; only wealthy clans and powerful Families had the qualifications to consume it.

After all, at 500 taels of silver per pill, taking it for a month would cost 15,000 taels of silver.

Then there was the Internal Qi Pill.

This pill was for Martial Artists at the Bone Refining Realm and above to use for Cultivation.

Those in the Skin Refining Realm, Flesh Refining Realm, and Tendon Refining Realm cultivated Qi energy.

Only upon reaching the Bone Refining Realm would the Qi energy transform into Internal Qi.

Since the number of Bone Refining Realm experts in Linjiang Prefecture City did not exceed 10, one could see just how important the Internal Qi Pill was.

If the Pill Formula for the Internal Qi Pill were released, it would undoubtedly spark a massive war involving the Families.

As for the final one, the soul nourishing pill, it had the function of nourishing the Divine Soul.

It was actually quite suitable for Chen Hu now, as he was also cultivating his Divine Soul.

He carefully examined the Materials required for the soul nourishing pill; apart from one of the main ingredients being quite expensive, the other medicinal herbs were relatively common.

This gave him the idea of refining the soul nourishing pill.

Putting away the booklet containing the three Pill Formulas, Chen Hu revealed a thoughtful expression.

The other party had suffered a tragic massacre.

The group involved in the massacre was very likely aiming for this booklet.

Perhaps that group was still investigating in the shadows.

Therefore, even if he wanted to refine the soul nourishing pill, he had to be careful, lest he leave any traces for the other party to find and shift their attention onto him.

The next moment, Chen Hu waved his hand and took out the item he had retrieved from the third Treasure Trove.

It was an ordinary jar.

Opening it, what met his eyes was shimmering silver.

These silver pieces were all ten-tael silver ingots, totaling 120 of them.

In other words, there were 1,200 taels of silver in this jar.

Having just obtained three thousand taels of gold earlier, Chen Hu's expression remained quite calm upon receiving another 1,200 taels of silver.

Putting away the silver, he took out the item retrieved from the fourth Treasure Trove.

It was a long, narrow wooden box.

After opening it, there was a cloth bag inside.

He picked up the cloth bag, untied it, and took out what was inside: a long spear divided into three sections.

After assembling the long spear, Chen Hu picked it up and gave it a shake; it weighed about a hundred catties and was very heavy.

Judging by the corrosion of the wooden box, the long spear had been buried underground for a very long time, yet it did not have a single speck of rust.

"Pfft!"

Chen Hu tested it by thrusting it toward the ground; without using much force, the long spear pierced into the ground for a full seventy or eighty inches.

"What a sharp long spear!"

Chen Hu thought to himself, "Could it be a Divine Weapon?"

He had previously found a Divine Weapon long sword, and now, he had obtained a Divine Weapon long spear.

One had to know, he was a blade cultivator.

But he laughed immediately; even if he found a Divine Weapon blade, he would not dare use it.

Even their Gang Leader, Leader Gao Zhan, did not have the qualifications to use a Divine Weapon.

If he, a high-ranking leader in a third-rate Gang, possessed a Divine Weapon, it would only bring disaster.

Putting away the long spear, Chen Hu prepared to Cultivate.

Why did he not check the treasure found at the fifth Treasure Trove?

Because the treasure found at the fifth Treasure Trove was less than one tael of fragmented silver.