50: Chapter 50: Deconstructing the Conception and Understanding?

Fang Yuan said calmly, "This should be a remnant of a top grade Magical Artifact, its spirituality is almost gone. However, the Materials might be able to be remelted and refined, but it is too incomplete. For the recycling price, I can give you at most 1,200 Spirit Stones."

"A top grade Magical Artifact remnant!" Kong Dejin said with pleasant surprise, "No wonder it's so hard."

"Boss, we've struck it rich!" the short Loose Cultivator couldn't help but say.

Kong Dejin said, "Can you give more? This is, after all, a remnant of a top grade Magical Artifact. A top grade Magical Artifact costs at least tens of thousands of Spirit Stones!"

Fang Yuan glanced at him and said, "1,200 at most. This is already the highest price I can offer."

He did not say another word, his gaze shifting to the next customer.

Kong Dejin gritted his teeth, "Alright, I'll sell it!"

He had long asked many people about this item. The highest price anyone was willing to offer was only 150 Spirit Stones. The spirituality inside was almost non-existent, so when he heard this price, he was tempted.

He even suspected that the marketplace was trying to "buy horse bones with a thousand gold" (an idiom for attracting talent/business with a grand gesture), and the Recycling House just happened to need a "horse bone," which was why he was able to get such a high price.

"Hmm, it's 1,229.7 Spirit Stones in total, let's call it 1,230. Do you want to use a Cloud Mist Coin card or exchange it directly for Spirit Stones?" Fang Yuan asked.

"What is a Cloud Mist Coin card?" Kong Dejin asked curiously.

"It is a Spirit Stone card used within the marketplace. The value of the Cloud Mist Coins inside is equivalent to Spirit Stones. It can be used in official shops or exchanged directly for Spirit Stones. It has one advantage: this type of coin card can only be used by the owner, so there is no fear of being robbed. But the disadvantage is that the outside world does not recognize this card."

Upon hearing this, Kong Dejin noticed that the surrounding Loose Cultivators watching the excitement all had a certain heated look in their eyes.

His heart skipped a beat. Loose Cultivators were dirt poor; if he held such a sum of Spirit Stones in his hand, it would be quite dangerous.

"I, I want the Cloud Mist Coin card!" Kong Dejin said.

"Hmm." Fang Yuan handed him a Cloud Mist Coin card, "There are already 1,230 Cloud Mist Coins inside. After you refine it with your Spiritual Sense, only your Spiritual Sense will be able to access the Cloud Mist Coins inside from now on."

"Thank you! Thank you!"

Kong Dejin immediately took the metal card and refined it with his Spiritual Sense. Sure enough, there was an encrypted deposit figure inside.

The other Loose Cultivators saw this and could only shake their heads in regret.

Fang Yuan said, "By the way, if you can find more remnants of this sword, I can purchase them at a similar price."

"Alright." Kong Dejin thought of that dilapidated Immortal Cave in his heart; perhaps there were still some remnants inside.

The other Loose Cultivators also received the news and came one after another to sell items they couldn't use and were difficult to sell.

Fang Yuan took a Storage Pouch and was slightly stunned when he saw the items inside.

Inside was a blood-stained long saber. Its grade had actually reached High Grade of the First Stage, and it was very intact.

Fang Yuan looked up at the slightly nervous masked Loose Cultivator in front of him.

"This is a Recycling House. It is difficult to give a high price for second-hand goods. For this item, I can only give 2,000 Spirit Stones."

That Loose Cultivator breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'll sell it! I want a Cloud Mist Coin card!"

Fang Yuan nodded calmly and handed him a Cloud Mist Coin card.

A normal High Grade Magical Artifact is normally worth ten or twenty thousand Spirit Stones. Selling it for 2,000 Spirit Stones isn't even enough to cover the cost of Materials, but this person just sold it.

This might be stolen goods.

But Fang Yuan didn't care if it was stolen goods. Who would recognize it after Decompose? As long as this thing could be decomposed into raw Materials, and the value of the Materials was higher than the purchase price, he was making a profit.

That Loose Cultivator left in a hurry.

The crowd of Loose Cultivators looked on.

What on earth did that guy sell that was actually worth 2,000 Spirit Stones?

Fang Yuan remained calm and continued to look at them one by one.

At night, the Recycling House closed its doors.

Fang Yuan returned to the Mountain Lord's Immortal Cave at the summit and took out the broken sword hilt.

He examined it up and down, using his meager nine wisps of Divine Sense to probe inside, but he didn't discover anything special about this hilt, only a faint trace of spirituality in the middle.

Fang Yuan tapped his finger on it. "Decompose!"

Amidst a golden light, the broken sword hilt turned into five items. [Thousand-Year Red Blood Crystal] + [Ten-Thousand Refined Cold Iron] + [top grade Fusion Casting Stone] + [Ice and Fire Sword Manual] + [Concept Realization]

Fang Yuan skipped the three Materials and the sword manual, his gaze falling on the last ball of light.

The ball of light presented red and blue colors, intertwined together, which was extremely miraculous.

"This is... a Concept?"

He had previously heard Li Chenggong mention the word "Concept." Later, he checked a little and learned that to Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, one basically needed to comprehend a Concept. He didn't know the specific situation, but this was clearly not something he could touch at his current Realm.

But now, a ball of Concept Realization light appeared right in front of him.

"Strange, how could there be a Concept Realization from decomposing a sword hilt?"

He guessed in his heart, could it be because the owner of the sword had been using the sword to fight, imbuing it with a Concept, and thus left the realization in the sword? Or perhaps this sword was a Lifebound Treasure, so it would naturally contain the owner's Concept Realization.

Fang Yuan took a deep breath, pressed his hand on that ball of light, and then pressed it against his glabella.

The ball of light split into two, turning into two rays of light that merged into Fang Yuan's Sea of Consciousness and rushed into his Soul.

Two types of Concept Realizations regarding water and fire instantly shrouded his mind. He tried his best to comprehend and digest them, not missing a single detail.

A full hour passed. Only then did Fang Yuan slowly open his eyes.

He exhaled, spreading his palms upward. A wisp of flame appeared out of thin air on his left hand, and a droplet of water appeared out of thin air on his right hand.

"Go!" With a thought from Fang Yuan, the flame shot out, constantly expanding in the process, simulating the form of a Blazing Fire Horse. The Blazing Fire Horse stepped on a stone, directly blasting it into fragments! This was a stone that could withstand an attack from the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Fang Yuan waved his right hand, and the water droplet changed into a Black Water Snake in mid-air, Entangling the Blazing Fire Horse. The powers of water and fire collided, their might evenly matched, and eventually, both annihilated each other.

"The power of a Concept is actually this great!"

He had just successfully comprehended a wisp of the Concept of Water and a wisp of the Concept of Fire. Then, he integrated these two into his Fire Breath and Spitting Water attacks. Not only did he succeed in using this to simulate a Yao Beast, but he also raised the power of these two to the Early Stage of the Second Stage, officially reaching the power of the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment!

This was just the result of his superficial application of the Concept; this power still had great room for exploration.

Only now did Fang Yuan understand why his innate abilities could not advance to the Second Stage, because Second Stage innate abilities required the integration of Momentum. First Stage abilities were not yet worthy of integrating a Concept; what was missing now was the integration of Momentum.

Of course, innate abilities were unreasonable. If he could raise his cultivation level and drive his innate abilities to the Second Stage, he could conversely use his Bloodline talent to master the power of Momentum. This was why Yao Beasts could comprehend Momentum.

Fang Yuan himself could comprehend Momentum and then integrate it into his innate abilities, prompting his innate abilities to transform.

"I haven't comprehended the Momentum of Water and the Momentum of Fire yet, skipping this step and comprehending the Concept directly. Now, if I go back to comprehend the Momentum of Water and the Momentum of Fire, I will surely be able to comprehend them quickly. By then, my various water and fire type innate abilities will all be able to get a boost."

Fang Yuan nodded in satisfaction, then cast his gaze on the other ball of light; this was the ball of light for the "Ice and Fire Sword Manual."