Chapter 228: Grandmaster Resources, Lin Qingyi's Strength!

Chapter 228: Grandmaster Resources, Lin Qingyi's Strength!

The next day.

Wanhua Tower.

"Why are you here, kid?" Lin Qingyi patted her mouth and yawned widely.

Jiang Ning looked at the languid Lin Qingyi, a faint smile appearing on his face.

"Today, Sister Lin is up so early!"

Lin Qingyi yawned again, then glared at Jiang Ning.

"You're disturbing my peaceful sleep so early in the morning?"

"It's not my fault!" Jiang Ning spread his hands in exasperation.

He had come to Wanhua Tower early in the morning mainly to inquire about any treasures that could assist in bone forging, but he had inadvertently disturbed Lin Qingyi.

Plop!

Seeing this, Lin Qingyi instantly burst into a smile.

Then, she casually sat on the table, poured herself a cup of clear water, and drank it in one go.

"Speak! With your personality of not visiting the Three Treasures Hall without reason, why are you here today?" Lin Qingyi wiped the water droplets that had trickled down the corner of her mouth.

Jiang Ning said, "The other day, I happened to obtain a special type of blood. This blood is extremely malevolent, so I wanted Sister Lin to take a look at it."

"Oh?" Lin Qingyi's eyes widened in surprise. "What do you mean by malevolent? Tell me more!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ning recounted the events of the previous night to Lin Qingyi.

After a moment.

Lin Qingyi listened to Jiang Ning's narration, and her eyes lit up with excitement.

"Based on what you said, I think I know what it is!"

"What is it?" Jiang Ning hurriedly asked.

"Hundred Spirit Blood!" Lin Qingyi replied.

"Hundred Spirit Blood?" Jiang Ning looked puzzled, as he had never heard of it.

Lin Qingyi glanced at Jiang Ning, noticing his confusion, and explained, "Hundred Spirit Blood is the essence extracted from the blood of a hundred different wild beasts."

"For martial artists, this blood is a treasure that greatly enhances their vital energy. Just one drop of Hundred Spirit Blood can bring about significant changes."

At this point, Lin Qingyi stared at Jiang Ning.

"Do you have the Hundred Spirit Blood you mentioned? If so, let me see it, and I'll know if my judgment is correct or not!"

"I do!" Jiang Ning nodded.

The next moment.

A flash of white light appeared in his palm, and a drop of deep red blood floated above his palm.

As the blood appeared, a scent that defied description suddenly wafted into the air.

The scent caused a subtle change in their expressions.

"That's right! It's the Hundred Spirit Blood!" Lin Qingyi's eyes locked onto the drop of blood in Jiang Ning's hand, and she nodded decisively.

Then, she spoke, "Take it back!"

Only after Jiang Ning retracted the drop of blood did Lin Qingyi slowly withdraw her gaze.

She then asked Jiang Ning, "How much Hundred Spirit Blood do you have?"

Jiang Ning recalled the number of drops of fresh blood in the golden box. Based on what he had seen the night before, there were approximately a hundred drops.

He shook his head, "It's not a lot, but I do have some!"

"Can you sell me ten drops?" Lin Qingyi asked.

"Does Sister Lin also need Hundred Spirit Blood?" Jiang Ning was surprised to see a hint of astonishment in Lin Qingyi's eyes.

Lin Qingyi nodded, "Hundred Spirit Blood has two main effects. One is to significantly enhance vital energy, and the other is to serve as the best external aid for entering the Blood Exchange Grandmaster realm."

"Blood Exchange Grandmaster?" Jiang Ning was puzzled, but then he suddenly understood and nodded, "Since Sister Lin has spoken, there's definitely no problem."

Jiang Ning readily agreed.

In his opinion, not only should he sell it to Lin Qingyi, but even giving it to her would be reasonable.

She had helped him a lot in his journey.

Moreover, she had even saved his life.

The next moment.

Jiang Ning took out the golden box.

Before coming here, he had only taken out a single drop of blood from it.

"This thing..." Seeing the golden box Jiang Ning took out, Lin Qingyi's eyes suddenly focused.

Subsequently, when Jiang Ning opened the golden box, nine drops of deep red blood floated out from the box's seams.

At the same time.

A murmur passed by Lin Qingyi's ear and disappeared as Jiang Ning closed the box.

"As expected!" Lin Qingyi muttered to herself.

Then, she glanced at the ten drops of blood floating in mid-air and at Jiang Ning's slightly raised eyebrows. She was secretly surprised.

Manipulating objects in thin air was a manifestation of powerful mental strength, an ability that only those in the Bone Forging Realm could achieve.

Reaching such a level of mental strength was also the biggest hurdle to entering the Bone Forging Realm.

The slightly raised eyebrows indicated that Jiang Ning's mental strength had taken a significant leap, resulting in this feature.

After discreetly observing, Lin Qingyi couldn't help but wonder.

"What level of strength does he possess now?"

"What's wrong?" Seeing Lin Qingyi staring intently at him, Jiang Ning lowered his head to examine himself but found nothing unusual. He then asked, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing!" Lin Qingyi snapped out of her thoughts and shook her head lightly.

Regarding Jiang Ning's strength, she wasn't planning to delve into it deeply.

Then she said, "These ten drops of Hundred Ling Blood, at the market price of ten taels of gold per drop, can you accept this price?"

Ten taels of gold?

Upon hearing this number, Jiang Ning's heart skipped a beat.

One tael of gold was worth a thousand taels of silver.

Ten taels of gold was equivalent to ten thousand taels of silver.

Just these ten drops of Hundred Ling Blood were worth ten thousand taels of gold!

"Sister Lin, isn't this price a bit exaggerated?" Jiang Ning immediately voiced his doubts.

"Exaggerated?" Lin Qingyi shook her head with a smile, "Even with my status, I can't buy it at this price!"

"Can't buy it?" Jiang Ning's eyes widened in surprise, his heart filled with astonishment.

Lin Qingyi wasn't an ordinary person; she was the vice-master of Wanhua Tower in this place.

With such a status, could there be something she couldn't buy with her wealth?

At this moment, Lin Qingyi seemed to have noticed the doubts in Jiang Ning's heart.

She opened her mouth and said, "You don't understand! In this world, money isn't everything! Especially for precious items like Hundred Ling Blood."

"Even I, with my wealth, can't buy it!"

"This is the best auxiliary item for a Blood Exchange Grandmaster, and it's priceless! It's impossible for it to fall into the hands of Wanhua Tower."

"Moreover, if it fell into the hands of Wanhua, it would be intercepted and quickly used up!"

At this point, Lin Qingyi's heart was filled with countless emotions.

Hundred Ling Blood was a resource she had been searching for over the past two years.

In the past two years, she hadn't found much, and it was still insufficient for her to complete a blood exchange.

As for relying on her status as a princess, obtaining this item wasn't difficult.

But she dared not.

Once she used her status as a princess to obtain Hundred Ling Blood, such a sensitive item would undoubtedly attract the attention of the old prince.

Her final hope of breaking free from the cage would be dashed.

Now, secretly developing her strength, if she achieved the Grandmaster level, there might be a glimmer of hope for survival.

These ten drops of Hundred Ling Blood were what she estimated to be the final requirement for entering the Grandmaster level.

With these ten drops, she was confident she could reach the Grandmaster level within a few months.

Thinking of this, Lin Qingyi's face couldn't help but show a hint of a smile.

"Little brother, thank you!"

Her face was filled with joy as she teased him.

Then, with a flick of her sleeve, she directly stored the ten drops of Hundred Ling Blood floating in front of her into the Cosmic Shrinking Technique ring.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ning immediately retorted, "I'm not little!"

"What's not little?" Lin Qingyi looked at Jiang Ning with a smile that wasn't quite a smile, her eyes and brows conveying a hidden meaning.

Jiang Ning: "..."

Hearing Lin Qingyi's words, Jiang Ning's face turned pale.

"You win!" He spread his hands in surrender.

Seeing this, Lin Qingyi's smile deepened.

Looking at Lin Qingyi's smile, Jiang Ning couldn't help but smile as well.

The fact that Lin Qingyi could tease him at this moment indicated that her mood was definitely good.

This showed that these ten drops of Hundred Ling Blood were very important to Lin Qingyi.

In this way, he had helped Lin Qingyi a little and repaid some of her kindness.

Subsequently, she waved her sleeve towards the table next to her.

Ingots of gold appeared on the table.

"Ten taels each, a total of one hundred taels of gold. Count it!" Lin Qingyi said.

Hearing this, Jiang Ning also glanced at the gold on the table next to Lin Qingyi, then withdrew his gaze.

"Sister Lin, I'm not in urgent need of gold. I want resources for martial cultivation. Is that possible?"

"Whatever martial cultivation resources you want, just say it!" Lin Qingyi said.

"Iron Bone Pill, Mystic Bone Pill, Jade Bone Pill, all of them are fine!" Jiang Ning immediately stated what he needed.

Just now downstairs, he had also asked Xiao Lu.

But Xiao Lu's answer had disappointed him.

Wanhua Tower in this place didn't have any cultivation resources for the sixth-rank Bone Forging Realm.

The cultivation resources for the Bone Forging Realm were precisely the three items he had mentioned.

The Iron Bone Pill was a pill refined from special medicinal ingredients mixed with iron marrow.

After each tempering of the human body's skeleton, one needed to absorb the medicinal power from the Iron Bone Pill to supplement the missing substances in the body's skeleton.

At this level, the efficiency of external object assistance varied greatly.

To forge an iron bone, iron substances were essential.

According to the records he had read in miscellaneous books, in the early stages of martial cultivation, Bone Forging Realm cultivators swallowed iron sand, allowing their stomach acid to corrode the iron sand and absorb the iron substances with great difficulty.

Then they would excrete the iron sand.

Repeating this process over and over again, they would eventually need to consume a lot of time to forge an iron bone.

However, with the Iron Bone Pill as an auxiliary item, it was different.

Once an Iron Bone Pill was consumed, the internal iron marrow, along with the medicinal power, would dissolve and merge into the tempered skeleton, greatly accelerating the progress of forging an iron bone.

Therefore, Jiang Ning had come to Wanhua Tower at the first opportunity.

Without such auxiliary items, the bone forging progress would be extremely slow.

To quickly forge bones, this item was necessary.

At the same time, Lin Qingyi heard the three types of pills mentioned by Jiang Ning, and her beautiful eyes widened in surprise.

"Iron Bone Pill, Mystic Bone Pill, Jade Bone Pill?"

"That's right!" Jiang Ning nodded, "I need these three types of pills. I just asked Miss Xiao Lu, and Wanhua Tower here doesn't sell these three types of pills!"

"Indeed, we don't have them!" Lin Qingyi said, and she continued to look at Jiang Ning with a doubtful gaze, "What do you want these for?

"Are you about to start Bone Forging?"

"Lin Sister is right!" Jiang Ning grinned.

The next moment, a gust of wind blew, and Lin Qingyi instantly appeared within a foot of Jiang Ning, her fragrant scent wafting towards him.

She grabbed Jiang Ning's palm, and her slender, verdant jade fingers gently squeezed his hand.

Jiang Ning instantly felt that although Lin Qingyi's fingers were slender, they held an astonishing strength, causing the large sinews in his arm to tighten involuntarily.

"Dragon Sinew!!!" Lin Qingyi's eyes widened as she stared at Jiang Ning, her gaze filled with disbelief.

"You've actually reached the Dragon Sinew level!!!" Lin Qingyi stared at Jiang Ning, who was within arm's reach.

At that moment, Jiang Ning's hot breath brushed against Lin Qingyi's delicate face, causing her face to flush slightly, and her eyes darted to the sides.

Then, she released Jiang Ning's hand and took a step back.

Jiang Ning's voice sounded in her ear, "That's right! Recently, with the Contribution Points from the Inspection Bureau, I spent fifty thousand points in the Internal Affairs Department to exchange for a Dragon Ascension Pill, and thus, I reached the Dragon Sinew level."

"Dragon Ascension Pill, what a great thing!!!" Lin Qingyi's face showed a hint of admiration, "This thing can be easily exchanged at the Inspection Bureau, but it's hard to obtain in other places!"

"Even if you pay two or three times the price, it's still difficult to obtain. After all, there are too few creatures with dragon blood!"

Then, Lin Qingyi looked at Jiang Ning again.

"Since you need the Iron Bone Pill, Mystic Bone Pill, and Jade Bone Pill, I'll use these one hundred taels of gold to buy them for you from other places."

"Thank you, Lin Sister!" Jiang Ning said with a bow.

"I should be thanking you!" Lin Qingyi replied, "The ten drops of Hundred Ling Blood you gave me are extremely important to me!"

"May Lin Sister's wishes come true!" Jiang Ning said with a smile.

Upon hearing these words, Lin Qingyi's beautiful eyes sparkled, and she smiled at Jiang Ning, "I appreciate your kind words."

A moment later, Lin Qingyi bid farewell to Jiang Ning.

"This kid, he's about to enter the Bone Forging Realm without even realizing it. This progress is so fast it's scary! He's truly a monstrous talent!"

As she watched Jiang Ning's gradually disappearing figure in the distance, she couldn't help but marvel.

After a while, when Jiang Ning's silhouette vanished from her sight, Lin Qingyi finally withdrew her gaze.

"I wonder which lucky girl will catch his eye in the future!"

Then, she touched her chin and fell into deep thought.

"I wonder where Xiaojin is now after receiving my letter. I also wonder if Xiaojin, that girl, can catch Jiang Ning's attention!"

On the other side, after leaving Wanhua Tower, Jiang Ning felt a great burden lifted from his heart.

His trip to Wanhua Tower had solved two of his problems.

One problem was securing the resources he needed to enter the Sixth Rank Martial Dao.

The Iron Bone Pill, Mystic Bone Pill, and Jade Bone Pill were the three resources he required.

With Lin Qingyi's help, these were no longer issues.

Moreover, with a total of one hundred thousand taels of wealth, Jiang Ning believed that these three Bone Forging Pills should be sufficient for his smooth cultivation to the Sixth Rank Bone Forging Realm.

However, according to Lin Qingyi, these pills would take three to five days at the fastest, or seventy to eighty days at the slowest, to reach him.

This was because these pills were only available in the capital cities and county capitals.

In ordinary counties, it was difficult to obtain the resources needed for the Sixth Rank Martial Dao.

As for the other problem, through Lin Qingyi's explanation, he finally understood what the fresh blood in the Golden Box was.

Hundred Ling Blood, an extremely precious resource.

Consuming it would enhance one's vital energy and blood.

The other effect was even more crucial; according to Lin Qingyi, it was an auxiliary external object needed to enter the Blood Exchange Master realm.

From this, it wasn't hard to guess.

Currently, Lin Qingyi was at the Peak Fourth Rank, just one step away from the Third Rank Master.

"This is truly outrageous!" Jiang Ning was amazed by Lin Qingyi's strength.

A Peak Fourth Rank, yet she was living in a small place like Luoshui County.

He couldn't believe it.

And she was so young.

This fact made him even more astonished.

In Jiang Ning's opinion, Lin Qingyi looked to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.

At this age, she was about to step into the Blood Exchange Master realm.

If this news got out, it would shock a group of geniuses.

"Who is she, really?" Jiang Ning wondered.

At this moment, he no longer believed that Lin Qingyi was just an ordinary deputy branch master of Wanhua Tower in Luoshui County.

If even ordinary deputy branch masters of Wanhua Tower had the strength of Peak Fourth Rank, then Wanhua Tower's power had already reached a level that could easily shake the foundation of the Great Xia's rule.

This was an impossible situation.

Therefore, in Jiang Ning's opinion, Lin Qingyi's identity was not that simple.

There must be a huge secret hidden behind Lin Qingyi.

However, Jiang Ning didn't want to delve deeper into this matter.

Instead, he became even more determined to cling to this powerful figure.

Soon, he would become a Master.

This was a massive opportunity!

(End of Chapter)

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