HBWnovel Chapter 124 Treasures
Chapter 124 Treasures
This Elder Sun was none other than Sun Tan, the chief elder of the Qiankun Dao alchemy room. The moment he saw Zhang Yunling, that familiar memory resurfaced in his mind.
"Xu Tianli! You little rascal, you still know how to come back!" Sun Tan stood up and walked over slowly. Looking at the handsome young man in front of him, although he had been tricked out of a high-grade medicinal herb, he was even more delighted by this alchemy prodigy who had left the sect for many years and had not returned.
Dong Wan and Ren Jixing arrived later at the entrance of Sun Tan's alchemy room. Upon seeing Dong Wan's arrival, Sun Tan quickly bowed and said, "Greetings, Sect Master."
Dong Wan nodded and pulled Ren Jixing to sit down on the futon next to her. She said, "Elder Sun, there's no need to be so polite. This young friend specifically asked me to bring him to see you. He must have something important to ask of you."
Zhang Yunling took out a palm-sized jade bottle from his storage bag and handed it to Sun Tan, saying, "Elder Sun, what is this?"
Sun Tan took the jade bottle and slowly opened the stopper. Immediately, a wisp of black smoke emerged from the bottle opening, which startled him so much that he quickly put the stopper back on.
After a moment of silence, Sun Tan slowly nodded: "This is a highly concentrated source of soul essence, but it contains many impurities. It needs to be refined with alchemical fire before it can be used in medicine. Not bad, a good thing!"
Zhang Yunling smiled and rolled up the cuff of her left sleeve. Only then did Sun Tan realize that Zhang Yunling's left arm was missing.
"To be honest, I'm not actually Xu Tianli, but Zhang Yunling. I've come to ask you for a favor today," Zhang Yunling confessed.
Sun Tan didn't care much about impersonation. At this moment, he understood why Zhang Yunling had given him the jade bottle. Only alchemists knew how to utilize the power of the three souls and seven spirits.
Seeing that Sun Tan was deep in thought, Zhang Yunling continued, "Elder Sun was already a sixth-grade alchemist a few years ago, and he must have already broken through to the seventh grade by now. With your knowledge and skills, you must have a way."
With such high praise bestowed upon Sun Tan, the old man really had no reason to refuse. As if he had thought of something, Sun Tan turned to look at Dong Wan.
Dong Wan didn't speak, only nodded. Sun Tan then put the jade bottle into his storage bag, his expression turning serious. After pondering for a moment, he slowly said:
“There is a way, but it requires the left arm of another living cultivator as the core material, which means transplanting someone else’s left arm onto your body.”
"Uh...this..." Zhang Yunling was somewhat troubled. In fact, he could easily find a cultivator to cut off their arm and attach it to his own body, but with so many people present, he still needed to consider how to answer.
At this moment, Sun Tan suddenly noticed the storage bag at Zhang Yunling's waist. He pointed at the patched and tattered bag and exclaimed, "Hey! This bag of yours! Could it be...?"
Zhang Yunling looked puzzled, took off the storage bag hanging from his waist, and asked, "What's wrong with this? Isn't it just an ordinary storage bag?"
Sun Tan shook his head, took the storage bag in Zhang Yunling's hand and examined it carefully, even using his divine sense to try to scan the contents.
However, each person's storage bag is sealed by the divine sense of its owner. Even though Sun Tan has the cultivation of the Nascent Soul stage, he cannot bypass this seal to directly view and open it.
Sun Tan returned the storage bag to Zhang Yunling and said seriously, "Boy, are you sure you don't know what kind of magic treasure this is? Use your divine sense to investigate it carefully yourself."
When this topic came up, Zhang Yunling had never really looked closely at the space inside the tattered bag. After all, it was given to him by that old woman, and he didn't think it was some rare treasure, so he never paid much attention to the quality of the storage bag.
But it's not a big deal if you don't look at it; once you do, you get goosebumps all over.
Zhang Yunling quickly probed the storage bag with his divine sense and felt that there was a huge space inside. No matter how he searched for the deepest part of the storage bag, he could not sense the existence of the boundary. It was as if this small cloth bag contained another world.
Seeing Zhang Yunling's horrified expression, Sun Tan burst into laughter: "Hahahaha! I guessed right! I was wondering why I sensed such a powerful spiritual energy fluctuation in this bag. So that's why..."
Before Sun Tan could finish speaking, something flew out of Zhang Yunling's storage bag, followed by a sentence:
"This treasure is the Wuji Qiankun Bag, one of the three strongest spatial magic treasures."
"Old Master Lu?" Zhang Yunling was surprised. It turned out that the one who had just run out of the storage bag and spoken was none other than the Immortal Wine Gourd.
As soon as the gourd appeared, it emitted a strange energy fluctuation, which was clearly noticed not only by Sun Tan but also by Dong Wan, who was standing nearby.
Sun Tan looked at the talking gourd floating in mid-air and nodded in agreement: "That's right! This storage bag is indeed the Limitless Universe Bag, which can hold all things in the world! However, the source of the spiritual energy fluctuation just now was not the Universe Bag... it was this gourd!"
Ignoring Sun Tan, the wine gourd continued, "This treasure has been lost for many years. I never expected to see it on Xiao Zhangzi. But actually, I already discovered it when he put it into his storage bag along with the wooden box."
Ren Jixing and Dong Wan, who were standing next to him, stared wide-eyed. How could Zhang Yunling bring back so many strange things after going out? And when did this talking gourd appear?
After thinking for a long time, Sun Tan said, "Yun Ling, let me remind you first that what I'm about to say is not because I have any other intentions. I hope you won't misunderstand."
Zhang Yunling nodded without saying anything.
Sun calmed himself down and slowly sat down, gesturing for Zhang Yunling to sit opposite him.
After setting out several teacups, Sun Tan picked up the teapot on the table and filled the cups with tea, indicating that everyone should have a sip of tea before continuing their conversation.
"This Wuji Qiankun Bag, just from its name, you can tell it has a close relationship with our Qiankun Dao Sect." Sun Tan picked up his teacup, took a sip, and continued:
"Sect Master, you may not know this, but our Qiankun Sect was famous throughout the continent for its alchemy skills hundreds of years ago. The sect master at that time was Ancestor Wang Zhiyun, one of the few ninth-grade alchemists on the entire continent."
"Is he the twelfth generation patriarch who led the Daoist sect to one last glorious moment?" Dong Wan seemed to know something about him.
Because of his unbalanced academic background, Ren Jixing focused solely on improving his cultivation level and was largely unaware of the history of the cultivation world. Therefore, he had nothing to say and could only sit aside and listen quietly.
Sun Tan nodded in agreement and continued, "That's right. However, our sect has always aimed to pursue higher levels of alchemy, so we do not participate in worldly conflicts and battles. This laid the groundwork for the war that led to the decline of our sect."
"Wait!" Zhang Yunling interrupted Sun Tan. At this moment, he was already in a state of astonishment, holding the tattered storage bag covered in patches in his hands and lost in deep memories. He gradually remembered that the previous owner of this storage bag was the first cultivator he met in his youth after his rebirth in this life.
"Wang Zhiyun... Granny Wang?... "
Sun Tan could see through Zhang Yunling's thoughts to some extent. After all, even if a magic weapon of this level had been passed down, it wouldn't have been so easy for this kid to get his hands on. There must be some connection between them.