svetikya Chapter 24 The Legacy of Master Yuantian: His Later Years Unknown
Chapter 24 The Legacy of Master Yuantian: His Later Years Unknown
Li Xian finished drinking the hot soup in the wooden bowl and put it down.
"Lei Ying".
"Yes." Lei Ying quickly stepped forward, head down, not daring to look at that overly perfect face.
"Go tell Uncle Zhang to move all the old stone tools from the village—stone rollers, stone blocks, stone mills, stone troughs—to the open space," Li Xian said calmly. "I'll exchange them for Yuan."
Lei Ying was taken aback and didn't dare to ask any more questions. She immediately ran to notify each household.
Half an hour later.
A stone mountain was piled up on the open ground.
More than eighty stone tools, of varying sizes, with pitted surfaces and covered in oil and mud.
Li Xian took three cloth bags out of the Sea of Bitterness and casually threw them on the ground.
The bag opened, revealing the white Originium.
Hundreds of kilograms of impurities—
These were the spoils of war he had collected from clearing out bandits in the surrounding area over the past few days.
The villagers were breathing heavily.
In the Northern Regions, the source is everything.
Exchanging a few broken stones for so much source material is like a windfall.
"Master, do you still want the stone trough from my pigsty?" Wang Shu's father rubbed his hands together, his eyes full of anticipation.
"That's all I need."
Li Xian's gaze swept over the pile of stones.
At the back of the crowd, Uncle Zhang, leaning on his cane, had a complicated expression on his face.
He looked at the stone tools, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he only let out a long sigh.
Master Zhang knew what these were.
That was a gambling stone left to future generations by the first ancestor, Zhang Lin.
Back then, some supreme beings plundered Shizhai and left these behind.
The descendants of the Zhang family dared not open it, fearing they would be struck by misfortune, and could only use it as an ordinary stone tool.
He had long seen through Li Xian's intentions regarding these stones, but he couldn't protect them. If Li Xian took them, it might actually be a relief for the Stone Village.
Li Xian saw through it but didn't say anything.
He needs resources, and leaving them here would be a waste; monetizing them early is the best solution.
"Let's call it a day."
Li Xian waved.
The villagers happily divided the source stones and dispersed.
With a single, sweeping motion of his hand, Li Xian used his divine power to lift up more than eighty stone artifacts and strode towards the wilderness outside the village.
We ventured ten miles into the wilderness.
The red earth was vast and desolate.
Li Xian stopped and took out several array flags.
This is a spoil of war obtained from killing Elder Han Yishui of Lingxu Cave Heaven. It's not very useful, but it can cover the view, so it's passable.
The array flags were planted all around, and a light screen rose up, sealing off the space within a hundred feet and blocking out auras and sight.
The broken monk's knife was held in his hand.
Li Xian walked to the pile of stones and, without hesitation, began to act.
With a single slash, stone chips flew everywhere.
The first item is empty.
The second item is empty.
The third item is waste rock.
With his omniscient perspective and the rudiments of Source Technique he had learned in the past few days, Li Xian's attacks were extremely swift and decisive.
The fifth item is a stone roller with a missing corner.
As the knife cut into the center, the moment the stone skin peeled away, a refreshing fragrance wafted out, accompanied by faint traces of water.
Li Xian paused, slowing the blade's movement.
Peel away the last layer of stone, and a fist-sized, pink fleshy fruit is revealed.
The flesh is translucent and exudes an extremely rich vitality.
"Human Yuan Fruit."
Li Xian recognized the item.
It cannot be swallowed directly; it must be used in medicine.
Its core function is only one: to prolong life.
If it were auctioned in the Holy City of the Northern Region, those powerful figures of the Sendai realm who are half-buried would definitely empty their coffers to exchange for it.
It was placed in a jade box and sealed.
Li Xian walked toward his next target, a heavy stone mill.
The cleaver cut in silently, just touching the center—
"Buzz!"
Ten thousand rays of divine light shot into the sky, their blinding brilliance illuminating the array space.
The purest essence of heaven and earth surged forth like a tsunami, even causing the outer array flags to shake violently.
Li Xian narrowed his eyes and gently flicked the tip of his knife.
A ball of light the size of a soybean floated in mid-air. It had no physical form; it was entirely composed of light, would never fall, and was incredibly sacred.
Divine Source!
Even if it is only the size of a soybean, the essence it contains is equivalent to 100,000 catties of pure energy.
"With this divine source, we won't lack resources, let alone the Sea of Wheels Secret Realm, or even the second or third level of the Dao Palace."
Li Xian looked slightly pleased and sealed it into a specially made jade box.
Originium freedom achieved!
Continue cutting the stone.
Both stones were hollow.
Li Xian lifted the third stone block, placed his palm on the stone surface, and instinctively sensed something inside through his Source Technique, and its aura was extremely astonishing.
Cut it off with a knife.
Another blazing divine light shot out, dazzling and brilliant.
The second Divine Source Bean!
Li Xian was about to put it away when his movements suddenly froze.
A faint, chilling aura emanated from within the sacred light.
This aura was extremely malevolent, seemingly spanning countless ages, carrying endless resentment and malice.
Li Xian did not touch it with her hands.
Use a cleaver to pry open the side of the stone.
Next to the Divine Source Bean, there was a tuft of red hair!
Crimson as blood, swaying gently in the wind, it exudes a chilling, curse-like power.
"An ominous product of Master Yuan's later years."
Li Xian remained calm; what others would avoid at all costs was, in his eyes, an excellent tool.
"Even a Saint Lord-level expert would grow hair and go insane if they came into contact with this thing. It's practically a forbidden artifact that isn't a forbidden artifact."
Li Xian quickly wrapped it layer by layer with old stone skin, then carved hundreds of Emperor characters from the Desolate Heaven Emperor's name on it, and carefully put it into a separate storage jade box, which he then placed in the deepest part of the Bitter Sea.
Then, after cutting open more than a dozen, they were all empty.
As the pile of stones gradually decreased, Li Xian carefully selected a square stone pier.
Cut to the very center, there was no divine light, no fragrance, only a grayish stone fruit, its surface covered with natural Dao patterns, ancient and mysterious.
Li Xian held it in his hand and examined it closely.
"Suspected to be some kind of unknown ancient divine medicine or fruit."
Unfortunately, the essence within had long been devoured by the Source God and Source Demon, and now it has been completely petrified and returned to the mortal realm.
Li Xian did not discard it, but instead put it into the Sea of Bitterness.
Even if a divine medicine is petrified, the Dao patterns on its surface still have value for comprehension.
Just as Li Xian was about to cut off a piece of stone.
A sudden gust of cold wind swept across the desolate sky.
The light barrier formed by the array flags shook violently, yet it was unable to stop the wind from seeping in.
Strands of red hair drifted faintly through the air—they had no physical form, as if they were formed from pure malice, and floated straight toward Li Xian's body.
The curse of the Source Master lineage has descended.
Whether they are Source Masters, Dragon Seekers, or ordinary Source Masters, as long as they seize the essence of heaven and earth and touch the 'Source', they will be targeted by some unseen being.
The stronger one is, the higher the probability of being possessed by a spirit in one's later years.
Li Xian stood still, without retreating.
"Playing tricks."
The sea of suffering surges, but at the end of the divine bridge, golden light shines brightly on the other shore.
A palm-sized chaotic millstone automatically shot out of the body and hung above the head.
A dark, chaotic light poured down, the millstone turned, crushing all rules and supernatural forces.
Red Hair was ruthlessly erased, reduced to nothingness.
The chilling power that tried to invade Li Xian's bone marrow was completely repelled by the Chaos Millstone.
The eerie wind soon dissipated, and the wilderness returned to peace.
"Source Gods, Source Demons." Li Xian looked towards the Primordial Ancient Mine, his gaze cold. "When I become an Emperor, I'll make soup from your bones."
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Note: In the original novel "Covering the Sky", a piece of divine source the size of a soybean in Shizhai is worth 80,000 to 90,000 catties of pure source. However, the fist-sized piece of divine source that opens the Ancient Source Insect King in the Holy City Stone Workshop, including the source insect, is only worth 500,000 catties of pure source. There is a conflict between the two.
Here, we use the high-density assumption to make the logic coherent.
Ordinary divine sources are extremely heavy; a piece the size of a human head weighs about 10 kilograms.
Exchange rate: Initially, 1 jin of Divine Source was set to ≈ 1,000 jin of Pure Source. Later, due to scarcity, the actual exchange rate was higher (1: tens of thousands).
This soybean-sized divine source from Shizhai belongs to Zhang Lin's collection. It is denser than ordinary divine sources and is therefore a special divine source, making it more valuable.