Primordial Emperor
Chapter 1129: Copper Mother Qi

Chapter 1129: Chapter 1129: Copper Mother Qi

Upon hearing Su Lie’s warning, Shi Zhongshan and Shi Lijian were suddenly stunned, their hearts filled with shock and amazement.

Especially Shi Lijian, who secretly felt a lingering fear. Luckily, he met Shi Zhongshan; otherwise, when he went to admonish his daughter, he might have unknowingly offended Lin Chen. After all, his words clearly belittled Lin Chen’s cultivation, although before Su Lie gave him this warning, he indeed despised Lin Chen’s low cultivation.

However, at this moment, he no longer dared to think that way. If he offended such a powerful figure as Lin Chen, he could not imagine the kind of danger Tan Shui Village would face, likely far more terrifying than the present water bandits.

After all, even the Four Great Families, the president of Bright Moon Commerce Guild, and even the number one artifact refiner of Cloud Dragon Kingdom all regarded Lin Chen with such importance.

Hearing Su Lie’s words, Shi Lijian instead felt that if his daughter could establish a connection with Lin Chen, it would be a good thing.

Fawning over powers was indeed the norm for those in Tan Shui Village with no background.

After all, at present, without a powerful backing, they could only be bullied by water bandits, or even face extermination, with their grievances kept to themselves.

At this moment, although Shi Lijian understood Lin Chen’s powerful background, for the sake of his people, he could only bravely seek out Lin Chen to make a trade.

Watching Shi Lijian’s departing figure, Su Lie couldn’t help but sigh, thinking to himself that he didn’t force this guy to exchange for the elixir.

To know, for that one elixir, he traded the only sixth-grade magical treasure he had on him.

Now as Shi Lijian goes forth, he will likely be squeezed dry.

After all, their leader wasn’t doing charity.

At this moment, Lin Chen had just finished cultivating and was planning to eat some spirit fruit and rest for a while.

He then heard someone asking to see him outside his residence, and it was precisely Shi Lijian.

Since he was staying at their place, Lin Chen received him.

Shi Lijian knew that someone of Lin Chen’s caliber had precious time, so he didn’t beat around the bush and directly stated his intent.

"You want the kind of elixir Su Lie exchanged for?"

Lin Chen looked at Shi Lijian, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Yes, that kind of elixir. Is there any left?"

If Shi Lijian hadn’t known about Lin Chen’s background, he would have spoken with an air of superiority, as he was the village chief of Tan Shui Village.

But having learned of Lin Chen’s powerful background from Su Lie, talking to Lin Chen left him flustered and under immense pressure, as it was said that these powerful figures were capricious.

Lin Chen looked at Shi Lijian, a wicked smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

The Primordial Myriad Transformation Cauldron had, for certain reasons, chosen Shi Yu, and sent quite a number of treasures and resources to Shi Yu, which greatly pained Lin Chen. Now Shi Yu’s father is seeking medicine. Shi Lijian came to him willingly, and if Lin Chen didn’t fleece him, he’d be living up to his nickname at the Formation Sect.

While at the Formation Sect, Lin Chen was nicknamed "Stingy Lin."

Subsequently, the two made a trade...

...

An hour later.

Though Shi Lijian now had an elixir to heal the village’s martial artists, his entire wealth and nearly all the valuable treasures of the village were squeezed dry by Lin Chen.

Yet, faced with Lin Chen’s terms, Shi Lijian had no choice but to exchange.

After all, this peculiar elixir was extremely rare and precious, crucially it was priceless in the market, even at some large auctions, it might not be found.

Once some renowned alchemist refines it, numerous powerful figures would actively seek the medicine.

Moreover, if these treasures weren’t given up, and if they couldn’t heal the injuries of the people in the village, should Tan Shui Village be conquered by the water bandits, those treasures would all fall into the hands of the bandits.

Upon realizing this, Shi Lijian felt relieved inside.

At this moment, Lin Chen was in a good mood. Although the Primordial Myriad Transformation Cauldron had sent quite a number of treasures to Shi Yu for no reason, now having gained some benefit from her father, Lin Chen felt somewhat better.

Afterwards, Lin Chen headed to Water Gorge for a leisurely walk.

On the day he was enlightening by the Water Gorge, he noticed a peculiar fluctuation of spiritual power in a patch of water. Because he needed to care for Shi Yu, he hadn’t examined it carefully before; now he came.

When Lin Chen arrived at Water Gorge, he found a pool resembling a solitary natural spring eye. Lin Chen cast an anti-water spell on himself and dove below the spring, then was shocked.

Beneath the spring, there was an extremely narrow crack, from which bubbles occasionally emerged, and upon integrating into the spring, they reveal a golden color.

"Copper Mother Qi!?"

Lin Chen showed a look of joy, immediately activating Abyssal Eye; sure enough, deep in the spring, there was a wealth of Copper Mother Qi.

To know, this Copper Mother Qi bore the same artifact refining effect as White Jade Crystal, not only enhancing the success rate of artifact refining, it also has an action that White Jade Crystal does not. That is, to a certain extent, it can cause a magic artifact to undergo a qualitative change upon nearing completion, elevating it by a rank.

To know, that means a rank elevation.

This implies that during the artifact refining process, if originally a low sixth rank magic artifact was being refined, it might instead be forged into a middle sixth rank magic artifact.

Thus, in some sense, this Copper Mother Qi is even more precious than White Jade Crystal.

The key point is this substance is extremely difficult to gather; once dissolved in spring water, it becomes hard to separate out.

Now, there is a crack before him, isolating the natural Copper Mother Qi inside; had it not been for this, the place nurturing Copper Mother Qi would have been ruined.

As Lin Chen reached out, about to shatter the narrow crack nurturing Copper Mother Qi and collect all the Copper Mother Qi within, he discovered that the area had a formation.

Upon examining, Lin Chen discovered that the people of Tan Shui Village, though unaware of how to utilize the Copper Mother Qi, realized that establishing the village formation here yielded better effects, so this place turned out to be the formation eye of Tan Shui Village’s defensive array in this area.

Thus the narrow crack was protected, not shattered by Copper Mother Qi; very little Copper Mother Qi has leaked and dissolved into the spring, preserving it very well.

"It seems I’ll have to go chat with that guy Shi Lijian."