Chapter 1183: Chapter 651: The Other Shore Flower, Nine Dragons Sophora Corner_2 Chapter 1183: Chapter 651: The Other Shore Flower, Nine Dragons Sophora Corner_2 Chen Mobai sat cross-legged under the Golden Sun Spirit Tree from which he had cut a branch, took out an incense burner, lit a stick of Mind Incense, and waited for his Divine Sense to return to normal before he grabbed a Spirit Stone to start absorbing Spiritual Energy.

Meanwhile, he divided his attention and pulled a box out of his Storage Bag.

This was the spoils from when he had killed Yan Fusheng, albeit with a Restriction set on it. To avoid damaging the contents by forcefully breaking it open, Chen Mobai had set it aside, thinking to consult an expert from the Immortal Gate when the opportunity arose.

Now that he had obtained the Echoes in the Void, he could try listening in to find out what exactly was inside.

The Restriction sealing the Black Jade Box was a very powerful Rank-3 one, but Chen Mobai’s Echoes in the Void was just the thing for listening to Restrictions below Rank-4.

Gradually, he heard the operational pattern of the Restriction and could have broken it if he wished.

However, he was currently holding a Spirit Stone and recovering, and he didn’t want to interrupt the process, so he continued to use the Echoes in the Void to listen more deeply.

Through the Restriction, Chen Mobai heard the fluctuations inside the Black Jade Box.

It was a sound he had never heard before, like ancient ice that had condensed over tens of thousands of years, emitting a tremor similar to a dragon’s roar despite being in the extreme cold.

Chen Mobai’s mind suddenly thought of something, and even with his state of mind, he couldn’t help but get excited.

But without confirmation, he curbed the surging emotions and continued to invoke the Echoes in the Void, until, finally, he heard the entire vibration of the contents inside the Black Jade Box.

In his mind emerged a long, yellow fruit with filaments, slightly concave in the middle with a curve like dragon’s tentacles, somewhat sinister in appearance.

Although he had never seen it with his own eyes, Chen Mobai recognized it immediately.

It was one of the main ingredients for Return to the Sun Spirit Water, the Nine-Dragon Locust Pod.

The locust tree, known as the Ghost Tree, would turn into a Dragon Claw Locust if planted in the Underworld, nourished by the Yin Qi of Huangquan. The fruit it bore was the Nine-Dragon Locust Pod.

Since the Black Jade Box contained such Spiritual Medicine, then could it be that the other Black Jade Box…

With that thought, Chen Mobai couldn’t contain himself any longer and immediately took out the other box from his Storage Bag for confirmation.

Under the Echoes in the Void, he listened to the contents inside, which indeed were “Other Shore Flowers.”

He should have thought of it earlier. Yan Fusheng had a Method, was a Ghost Cultivator, and had Rank-5 Soul Nourishing Wood. All that was missing was Return to the Sun Spirit Water to refine a Legal Body Nascent Soul.

Anyone would try to collect the needed medical materials, even if they didn’t have an Alchemist, to prepare in advance.

Chen Mobai was so excited that he stopped absorbing Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Stone.

He held the two Black Jade Boxes in his palm, ready to use the operational pattern of the Restriction as heard through the Echoes in the Void to break it open and retrieve their contents.

But all of a sudden, Chen Mobai stopped his actions.

Even if he opened the boxes and obtained the two main ingredients, he still wouldn’t be able to refine Return to the Sun Spirit Water.

Yan Shaoyin was absolutely untrustworthy when it came to matters concerning Zhou Shengqing’s Legal Body Nascent Soul, and even if Chen Mobai was confident that he could persuade him with more Alchemy Recipes, it was likely to result in failure nine out of ten times.

After all, Return to the Sun Spirit Water was a Fourth Grade Superior Alchemy Recipe.

In the vicinity of the Eastern Wilderness, the one capable of refining this recipe was the Golden Wind Ancestor from Xuan Xiao Dao Palace.

And he was even less likely to hope for help.

So after much thought, he could only rely on the power of the Immortal Gate.

Chen Mobai put the branch of the Golden Yang Wood, which he had cut with his Blade of the Void, into his Storage Bag, then immediately returned to Danxia Mountain and opened the website of the Alchemist Association that Qing Nu had told him about.

On the page of the association’s members, he saw many illuminated avatars!

These indicated they were available, and various big drug factories and companies could book them to refine Elixirs.

The icon for Peach Blossom Sage was dim; he must have gone to oversee the important task of refining the Infant-Feeding Elixir.

As for Peach Blossom Sage and Elder Yuanxu, Chen Mobai naturally did not dare to harbor any hopes for them; he could only look further down and noticed that there were thirteen Rank-4 alchemists with lit-up portraits.

Chen Mobai did not recognize any of these individuals.

However, among them, there was a profile page of a Golden Core Master who graduated from the Dance Tool Dao Academy, named Chu Chuanhua. Chen Mobai wondered if he could have Che Yucheng help make an introduction.

But he wasn’t in a hurry, as the Divine Wood Sect had not yet completed the collection of all other auxiliary medicines for the Return to the Sun Spirit Water.

Moreover, if he were to truly ask an alchemist from an Immortal Gate to assist in refinement, the origins of these main and auxiliary ingredients must be crystal clear; this was also one of the Immortal Gate’s rules, that practitioners need to verify the materials supplied by the employer before accepting a task.

Of course, in practice, this might be a mere formality, but that would only extend to common auxiliary materials.

For Rank-4 medicinal ingredients, a thorough check was mandatory, no matter what.

The only method Chen Mobai could think of was the Void Blind Box.

However, only five years had passed since the last time he opened a Void Blind Box, and there were only a little over seventy million Good Deed Points in his Immortal Gate account, still shy of one billion.

Chen Mobai even considered whether he should exchange the Pearls that Nu Jiang had given him at a bank.

The Immortal Gate’s bank was always buying up Spirit Stones, and these Pearls were equivalent to Top-grade Spirit Stones. Although their application was limited due to containing only Water Spirit Qi, he was willing to accept a discounted rate.

Moreover, if he put them on the civilian market for professionals to auction, Chen Mobai estimated that they could easily fetch more than a billion Good Deed Points.

However, doing so would be rather too ostentatious.

It did not fit with Chen Mobai’s public persona.

But on further thought, if Zhou Shengqing could transform into a Legal Body Nascent Soul, it would kickstart the unification of the Eastern Wilderness. He would no longer need to worry about the threats from Cloud Dream’s Poisonous Dragon and the Xuan Xiao Dao Palace, and it would also make it easier for him to collect the resources of the Eastern Wilderness, ensuring he had no further worries.

After weighing the options, Chen Mobai felt he might need to be somewhat more aggressive in his approach within the Immortal Gate for the sake of the Return to the Sun Spirit Water.

Having thought it through, he immediately called Wen Ping, the City Lord of Yu Wood City, inquiring about professional auction companies.

The City Lord of Red Sandstone City, Sui Shanfu, was a graduate of the Repairing Heaven Institute, and Chen Mobai could not fully control him, so he chose the locally unaffiliated Wen Ping instead.

While Wen Ping did not know why Chen Mobai was asking these questions, he tactfully did not pry and informed him that there was a semi-private company responsible for auctioning Spirit Wood in Yu Wood City, which had collaboration ties with big auction houses in different Blessed Lands. If Councilor Chen needed it, he could have the legal representative of the company personally come to Danxia Mountain to clarify any doubts.

Were it not for the fact that leaving his jurisdiction as the City Lord of Yu Wood City would require reporting and leaving a record with his superiors, Wen Ping would have liked to personally bring people over.

Even though his superior was Chen Mobai, to stay low-key, Chen Mobai still declined.

As it had been over two years since he last visited Yu Wood City, and as another jurisdiction under his command, it was time for him to make an inspection visit.

As soon as Chen Mobai made a move, Sui Shanfu, the City Lord of Red Sandstone City, received the news. Although he was surprised by the sudden visit of his typically hands-off superior to Yu Wood City, he did not delve deeper into it but simply recorded it as per routine.

After arriving in Yu Wood City, Chen Mobai met with representatives from the Immortal Gate bank and the auction house under Wen Ping’s arrangement.

Under a confidentiality agreement, the bank’s staff appraised the “Pearls” that he had opened from the Void Blind Boxes and offered him a buy-back price at a 4% discount, based on the Immortal Gate’s price list that had been in place for two thousand years.

After assessing the number of Pearls he had left, Chen Mobai felt confident.

If he wasn’t worried about being high-profile, he could exchange all his Pearls with the bank and instantly gain nearly seven billion Good Deed Points.

He could save some for retirement, and with the rest, he could open fifty Void Blind Boxes, laying the most lasting foundation for whitewashing the resources of the Tianhe Realm for his future.

After getting an evaluation from the bank’s personnel, Chen Mobai met with the legal person of the auction house, a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance named Bao Zhiyong.

However, when Chen Mobai took out the Pearls to hand over to him, Bao Zhiyong shivered all over and didn’t dare to reach out to take them.

The items were too precious, and he was afraid that his hands would not be steady.

If he damaged them even slightly, selling his entire company would not cover the loss.