Supreme Hidden Dragon in the City
Chapter 257: Space Artifact

Chapter 257: Chapter 257: Space Artifact

"This Heavenly Creation Pearl is actually a Space Artifact?" Chen Fan muttered to himself.

At this moment, his Divine Sense was in an open space about the size of a living room, surrounded by endless surging white mist.

He tried to penetrate the white mist with his Divine Sense but encountered great resistance.

"There must be something else beyond this white mist!" Chen Fan concluded.

After observing for a while longer, he withdrew his Divine Sense and a cryptic smile appeared on his face, "It looks like the Heavenly Creation Pearl absorbs Spiritual Medicine to unlock its internal space. A Thousand-Year Elixir in exchange for a Space Artifact—I’ve made a huge profit this time."

A Space Artifact, as the name implies, is a mysterious Magic Artifact with its own internal space. Such artifacts can store any object that fits within its internal dimension, serving as a true mobile storage station.

The difficulty of refining Space Artifacts is immense. In the Cultivation World, even a Space Artifact with merely one cubic meter of space is considered an extremely precious treasure. The Heavenly Creation Pearl, with a living room-sized space inside, is definitely a rare treasure.

Chen Fan’s face was full of excitement as he stood up from the sofa, took the Heavenly Creation Pearl in hand, and then aimed it at the sofa. With a thought, the entire sofa vanished from its original spot.

On examining the inside of the Heavenly Creation Pearl, he found that the sofa was now quietly placed within that misty space.

"It really works!" Chen Fan couldn’t help but laugh, "With this, I won’t have to worry about carrying around a bunch of bottles and jars everywhere I go. The internal space is so large, I could even stuff all the things I might need into it, and fetch them with just a thought when I need to use them."

Although Space Artifacts have no offensive power, they are definitively the most practical and convenient Magic Artifacts.

At this juncture, Chen Fan looked at the other two brocade boxes on the table, "But since the Heavenly Creation Pearl actively absorbs the power of Spiritual Medicine, if I put Spiritual Medicine inside, will it absorb them all?"

He put the sofa back in its place and shook the Heavenly Creation Pearl over the two brocade boxes, only to discover that the Heavenly Creation Pearl had no reaction.

Recalling how the Heavenly Creation Pearl had only hovered over the brocade boxes and only began absorbing the Spiritual Medicine after the boxes were opened, Chen Fan formed a hypothesis, "Could it be that the Heavenly Creation Pearl can’t absorb the medicinal herbs when they’re in the brocade boxes?"

Thinking along these lines, he put one of the brocade boxes into the Heavenly Creation Pearl and then quickly observed.

Seeing no anomalies after the brocade box entered the misty space, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"That’s indeed the case," Chen Fan said with a light smile. "Of course, it’s also possible that the effect of that Thousand-Year Elixir is sufficient and the Heavenly Creation Pearl doesn’t need to absorb any more Spiritual Medicine. But to be safe, it’s better to keep the Thousand-Year Elixir inside the brocade boxes."

With that thought, he also placed the other brocade box into the misty space.

Although he speculated that if the Heavenly Creation Pearl absorbed another Thousand-Year Elixir, the misty space inside might expand, the space was already enough for his current needs and Thousand-Year Elixirs were scarce resources—there was no need to waste them.

"The Heavenly Creation Pearl is profoundly mysterious, with no information about it even in the memories of the Jiuyou Immortal Emperor; however, it has formed a connection with my father. It’s certain that this object is not merely a simple Space Artifact."

"Still, there’s no use in thinking too much about it right now. What I can do at the moment is to quickly enhance my strength and unravel the information left by my father. Only with sufficient strength can I possibly be of help to him."

Without further thought, Chen Fan stowed away the Heavenly Creation Pearl and returned to his cultivation practice.

The next morning.

Chen Fan sketched the appearance of the Ziyou Grass on paper and hurried to the largest medicinal herb market in the Provincial City to inquire with the merchants if any of them had seen such an herb.

However, after asking around, not a single one had seen it before.

Chen Fan, frustrated, decided to try his luck in Antique Street, where the people were well-informed and might have heard about the Ziyou Grass.

Unfortunately, he still came up empty-handed.

Just as he thought it was hopeless to find Ziyou Grass in Jiangbei and was considering other methods to strengthen his foundation, an old man with a sinister-looking face approached him.

"Young man, what do you need this herb for?"

Chen Fan glanced at the old man, feeling slightly surprised. This elder actually possessed the power of the Grandmaster Realm. Although he was deliberately suppressing his aura, Chen Fan still saw through it at a glance.

Even though the Grandmaster Realm was nothing more than ants in Chen Fan’s current view, in a Martial Arts-backward place like Jiangbei, a Grandmaster Realm was considered a master. Anyone who could reach this level in Jiangbei was definitely not a nobody, yet Chen Fan had never heard of this old man.

There was something odd about this old man.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "It’s for alchemy."

The old man’s eyes hardened, "What elixir are you trying to refine?"

Chen Fan said, "My health isn’t very good, I need to refine some elixirs to enhance my physique."

The old man pondered for a while then said, "I know where to find such medicinal herbs. If you want, follow me."

Chen Fan smiled, "That would be wonderful, thank you very much, elder."

The old man took Chen Fan to a small two-story building at the end of Antique Street.

"Wait here for a moment, I’ll go get you the medicinal herbs."

The old man turned and entered the room inside.

Chen Fan released his Divine Sense, encompassing the entire second floor.

On the way here, he had been observing the old man, always feeling a sinister aura emanating from him. Such an aura usually arose from practicing Evil Cultivation Skills.

This made Chen Fan cautious, feeling that the old man probably did not have good intentions in bringing him here.

He quickly confirmed the situation upstairs and downstairs with his Divine Sense and finally focused his attention on the innermost room on the first floor.

A thin middle-aged man was sitting in a chair practicing at that moment, with a faint aura of dark energy above his head. Chen Fan sensed this man actually possessed the strength of the fourth layer of the Transformation Realm.

Next to him on the table, there were indeed several Ziyou Grass plants.

At this moment, the old man entered the room and respectfully said, "Protector San, someone outside is asking for the whereabouts of Ziyou Grass."

Protector San stopped practicing, opened his eyes, and asked, "Looking for Ziyou Grass? For what purpose?"

The old man replied, "The person said he is unwell and is looking for Ziyou Grass to refine an elixir to enhance his physique."

After pondering, Protector San said, "Then give him a few plants and send him on his way quickly."

Hearing this, Chen Fan thought it all seemed quite normal, saying to himself that maybe he had been overthinking it. Could it be that the old man really intended to help him get some Ziyou Grass?

But then he heard the old man speak again, "I’m a bit skeptical about his story. Protector San, do you think it could be that the use of Ziyou Grass for refining Mind-Bewitching Pills in our human trafficking has been exposed, and this kid is here to investigate us?"