Yun Ze was first stunned, then let out a bitter laugh.
Forget it.
They were all people on the verge of death, why bother with so much? Perhaps she just wanted to free him.
As long as she remembered to avenge his parents!
Just as Yun Ze was about to close his eyes and bid farewell to the world, he suddenly felt something within him begin to re-condense!
Burning hot.
As if a scorching sun hung in his heart!
"Calm your mind, and learn to extract the Earth Soul Liquid again, condensing it in your Qi Sea."
Bubu's voice echoed again.
Yun Ze was first startled, then immediately reacted!
That's right!
Earth Soul Liquid!
This feeling was exactly like Earth Soul Liquid!
He hadn't expected the Immortal Jade to have such a function, to be able to re-condense liquid that had already been digested!
Yun Ze sank his consciousness into his Qi Sea, using the power of the Immortal Jade to gather the remaining Earth Soul Liquid in his body!
With the drop that Bubu had helped condense initially, the remaining Earth Soul Liquid was extremely easy to gather.
In less than fifteen minutes, Yun Ze had condensed at least 99.9% of the Earth Soul Liquid, and the spiritual energy in his body had completely returned to normal, no longer impacting his flesh, bones, blood, and internal organs.
"Hoo..."
Yun Ze let out a long sigh, a relaxed expression slowly appearing on his face: "Bubu, thank you!"
"Don't thank me just yet."
Bubu's face was expressionless, and she said calmly, "This thing cannot be taken out. It will have to hang in your Qi Sea from now on.
Unless you successfully achieve Dao Foundation Establishment and use other things to neutralize its effects... otherwise, when you establish your foundation, this thing can still take your life!"
"...This is also a last resort."
Yun Ze pondered for a few breaths, then spoke: "It's good enough to save my life. As for what happens later, we'll see later."
"You are quite optimistic, but this thing has both disadvantages and advantages."
Bubu pointed to Yun Ze's lower abdomen, the location of his Qi Sea: "From now on, when you cultivate, you can absorb a little Earth Soul Liquid to activate your spiritual energy, which can at least double your cultivation speed!
After cultivation ends, or when you can no longer bear it, just gather the Earth Soul Liquid again."
"It can be like this!"
Yun Ze's eyes widened in surprise!
It truly was a blessing in disguise!
"Don't get happy too soon, there's still some bad news."
Bubu said as she withdrew her hand, leaving the Immortal Jade on Yun Ze's chest: "Look here, you still have a fatal wound!
With your Qi Refining third-level physique, you can only last for another fifteen minutes at most, after which you will die of sudden collapse!"
Yun Ze paused.
That's right!
But this was just a superficial wound, not an incurable disease. It only required one step to fix!
He turned to look in the direction where everyone was, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Brother Shan! Sister Shang! Help!!"
...
Fifteen minutes later.
Yun Ze was sitting by the tent, alive and kicking, recounting the events of the previous night to everyone.
But whether it was Ji Shan, Fu Yue, Luo Shang, or even Ming, they were not concerned with these things. They only cared about how Yun Ze had survived a fatal illness!
Ji Shan and Fu Yue were fine, and Ming only asked a question, but Luo Shang was different.
She had a minor in medicine and clearly knew the reactions of consuming Earth Soul Liquid at the Qi Refining stage.
Although the saying "even gods cannot save" was an exaggeration, such a condition could only be resolved by a Nascent Soul ancestor!
And it had to be before the spiritual energy impacted the spiritual platform and soul, for there to be a glimmer of hope!
Could this little girl named Bubu be a Nascent Soul ancestor?
Everyone had doubts and suspicions, but Yun Ze did not explain.
He had promised Bubu that he would never reveal the matter of the Immortal Jade to anyone.
Seeing that her repeated inquiries yielded no results, Luo Shang simply stopped asking. Although curious, she could only suppress it.
"Oh, right."
Yun Ze looked at Fu Yue and asked the question he cared about most: "Sister Fu Yue, how much was the news sold for last night?"
"Oh, you only remember to ask about this now."
Fu Yue smiled charmingly: "I thought you had forgotten and planned to embezzle this huge sum!"
"Sister Fu Yue is joking, you wouldn't do that?" Yun Ze knew she was joking and replied in kind.
"Alright, I won't tease you anymore."
Fu Yue held up two fingers: "This much."
"Two thousand?"
Yun Ze frowned.
If it was only two thousand spirit stones, after deducting the portion given to the Immortal Association, there would be one thousand nine hundred and eighty left. If half of that was taken out, it would only be nine hundred and ninety spirit stones.
Adding the one thousand spirit stones he had saved, it wouldn't even be enough for the starting bid!
"It's twenty thousand!"
Fu Yue raised her hand and patted Ji Shan: "Little Yun, you have to thank your Brother Shan properly. If he hadn't helped with the bidding, your news would have only sold for four thousand spirit stones at most."
"Twenty thousand!"
Yun Ze exclaimed in surprise.
With this distribution, he would have nine thousand nine hundred spirit stones! That was enough to buy that spirit pill!
He quickly stood up and cupped his hands towards Fu Yue and the others to thank them: "Thank you all, brothers and sisters, for your help! If you ever need my help in the future, just say the word!"
"Hey! Why are you saying such things!"
Ji Shan said with a smile: "You consider us all your brothers and sisters, so this is what we should do, right?
Fu Yue, give him the spirit stones."
"Here, take it, don't drop it."
Yun Ze took the pouch thrown by Fu Yue and opened it to find two dazzling spirit stones inside.
The grade of these spirit stones was exactly the same as the one Yu Xian had given him last time!
Each one represented ten thousand spirit stones!
But why were there two?
Yun Ze held the pouch and looked at Ji Shan: "Brother Shan, this..."
"Just take it if I give it to you!"
Ji Shan knew what he wanted to say: "This is something you earned with your life. If we took it, would we still have any face?
You've got a good head on your shoulders and you're quick-witted!
If you truly mean it, then when your brothers and sisters fall on hard times in the future, it won't be too late for you to help them."
"...Yes!"
This was the first time Yun Ze had felt such warmth since leaving Han Shan Village!
Unlike the care from Elder Xiao, Ji Shan and the others treated him more like a unique brotherhood in the martial world, which made him feel a surge of warmth!
As for Yu Xian...
That lazy fish didn't count!
With his personality, if he were his brother, he would either be cheated to death, or worked to death, or tormented to death!
Moreover, up to this point, Yun Ze still couldn't figure out what he wanted to do. Perhaps he had his own agenda?
Two days later, he spent seven thousand spirit stones to auction for the Qi Casting Pill, which was the spirit pill that could expand the Qi Sea.
After consuming it, his Qi Sea expanded again, reaching five times its original size, still a distance from the fourth realm Qi Sea.
At this rate, who knew how many spirit stones it would take to achieve a fifth realm Qi Sea!
Yun Ze still had over fourteen thousand spirit stones left. At this price, he might not even reach the fourth realm!
In the following days.
Yun Ze continued to wear that gray cloak and collect various fees within the Immortal Association, with an income of over two hundred spirit stones per day.
By the last day of the Immortal Association, the spirit stones in his pocket exceeded seventeen thousand!
This amount was far higher than other Qi Refining cultivators, but it was still incomparable to some Foundation Establishment cultivators.
It was said that they all used second-grade spirit stones, with one piece equivalent to one hundred first-grade spirit stones!
The ones Yu Xian had taken out, and the few spirit stones Fu Yue had given Yun Ze at the time, were all third-grade, one piece equal to ten thousand first-grade spirit stones!
He exchanged sixteen thousand spirit stones for second-grade ones, keeping only one thousand first-grade spirit stones as a backup, so they could fit into his cloth pouch.
After a simple farewell, he, with Bubu, left the Immortal Association again and headed towards the capital of the Tangshan Dynasty, with only the image of the person sitting on a donkey, carrying a wooden board on his back, in his mind.
Yu Xian.
It was time for us to meet again!