The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 1499 Stealing Love with a Sword?

Lin Chen sat by the window in the restaurant, drinking his wine and looking at the dense crowd on the wide street below, looking relaxed.

He had been in Flying Phoenix City for several days. As the date of the Cloud Soaring Pill King Gathering approached, more and more cultivators flocked to Flying Phoenix City, and the inns in Flying Phoenix City were already overcrowded.

The vast majority of cultivators who enter Flying Phoenix City are not alchemists; most of them come here to watch the spectacle. Of course, some cultivators have a need for pills or elixirs and want to take this opportunity to satisfy their needs.

The competition hasn't started yet, but the West City Trading Market is already bustling with activity, attracting a huge crowd of cultivators who come to trade and stroll around.

After finishing his meal, Lin Chen went to the trading market again to browse for goods.

The trading market was a temporary conversion of a military training camp. It covered a large area and was divided into several zones, including trading in magical artifacts, elixirs, and immortal medicines. There was even a dedicated alchemy zone.

The alchemy area will have alchemists of various levels stationed there. Cultivators who need alchemy can bring their own materials and ask the alchemists to help them refine the pills. If the pills are successfully refined, the alchemist will give the alchemist a certain handling fee. If the pills fail, the alchemist will compensate for the value of the medicinal materials according to a certain percentage.

Lin Chen strolled leisurely through the pill sales area, searching for the pills he needed.

Previously, at the birthday banquet of the Donghua Ancestor, I received more than ten good things, including three immortal medicines: the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lingzhi, the Black Jade Bamboo Shoot, and the Buddha Heart Wood.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lingzhi can be used to refine Snow Ling Pills, and the Black Jade Bamboo Shoots can be used to refine Black Jade Pills. Both of these pills can rapidly enhance one's strength. Meanwhile, the Buddha Heart Wood can be used to refine the antidote, the Buddha Heart Pill.

Lin Chen didn't have the skill to refine pills before, and for the next five years he was busy improving his alchemy skills and had no time to cultivate, so he never refined any pills. In addition, he was also afraid that his strength was not up to par.

The immortal medicines that can be given by sects as birthday gifts to peak Golden Immortals are absolutely rare and precious. It would be such a waste to ruin them in the process.

Lin Chen's current strength is still some distance from the late stage of Human Immortal. Lin Chen plans to take this opportunity to purchase all the medicinal materials, refine them, and then break through to the late stage of Human Immortal in one go.

Lin Chen needed a lot of precious medicinal materials, but fortunately, he already had the main ingredients for refining pills, so he didn't have to worry about not being able to gather them all.

Lin Chen walked up to a stall and his eyes suddenly lit up.

A handwritten tag hung on a rune box.

Pure Yang Wood.

Pure Yang Wood is an important auxiliary material needed to refine Snow Spirit Pill. It is second only to the main material, the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Spirit Mushroom. Its value is not very expensive, but its quantity is not very large. Lin Chen had been searching for several days without finding it, but now he has come across it.

Lin Chen stood in front of the stall and pointed: "Pure Yang Wood, can I take a look?"

The stall owner, an old man with white hair, smiled and picked up the rune box, handing it to Lin Chen.

"Fellow Daoist, feel free to look around. This pure Yang wood is top-grade. I spent a lot of money to get my hands on it..." Lin Chen ignored the old man's boasting, opened the rune box, and a fierce and scorching aura rushed out.

Inside the box lay a piece of wood, but it was not burning; instead, it was glowing red, like embers.

Lin Chen's eyes lit up. This pure yang wood was indeed of good quality and could be used in medicine.

Lin Chen looked up and asked, "How much?"

The white-haired old man smiled and said, "One hundred thousand immortal spirit stones."

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow. He could afford the price, but it seemed a bit high for pure Yang wood.

"Your price isn't honest. Give me a fair price."

The white-haired old man laughed and said, "Fellow Daoist, I know this price is slightly higher than the market price, but there's nothing I can do. I paid a high price for it before, so you have to let me make some profit, right?"

The white-haired old man was obviously talking nonsense. This piece of pure yang wood was worth about 50,000 immortal spirit stones. He was selling it for double the price. But it was his property, so he naturally had the right to set a price. Moreover, there were huge numbers of cultivators coming to buy medicinal herbs every day, so he wasn't worried about not being able to sell it.

Just as Lin Chen was about to agree, someone suddenly spoke up: "I'll take the 100,000 Immortal Spirit Stones."

Lin Chen frowned and turned to look. Not far behind him stood a man and a woman, their gazes fixed on the Pure Yang Wood. The man looked to be in his thirties, and the woman was in her late twenties. They both exuded an extraordinary aura.

The two were dressed in white robes with a pattern of an alchemy furnace on them. Two golden dragons coiled around the furnace, spewing real fire from their mouths to the furnace floor, where a raging fire burned beneath the furnace, creating a lifelike scene.

It seems to be an alchemy sect?

Lin Chen couldn't figure out where they came from for a moment, so he ignored them and took out 100,000 immortal spirit stones and threw them to the stall owner.

"One hundred thousand."

The stall owner blinked, glanced at the two people behind Lin Chen, and said nothing, his eyes showing a hint of fear.

Lin Chen casually closed the lid of the rune box and then put the box into his spatial ring.

First come, first served, that's the rule!
The couple's expressions turned cold as they watched Lin Chen's actions. The woman said coldly, "What are you doing? Take out the Pure Yang Wood. Didn't you hear me say we wanted it?"

(End of this chapter)