Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 574 - 6: Divine Court and the Huge Sum

If Yan Fu finds the road to the Divine Court too difficult, one must give up most of the Yan Fu Heritage, retaining only one aspect, and deduct all Awakening Degrees. Only then can one start anew.

According to Yan Fu’s intention, the ordinary journey to embark on the Divine Court Road requires a substantial amount of points to transform the body’s strength, but Li Yan’s physical quality was so abnormally developed that this expense was saved.

Special Yan Fu Trial: Divine Court Road

Difficulty: Above Great Extreme

The requirements for the Yan Fu trial are as follows:

First, it is impossible to obtain any Yan Fu Heritage outside of the Chu Territory Divine System.

Second, it is impossible to advance to the Seven Palaces in any way, as well as all the titles corresponded to this realm within the fruits.

Third, complete all the stages of requirements for the Divine Court Road.

The first stage of the Divine Court Road: Make Yun Zhongjun, Wu Zhiqi, and Gu Huo Bird reach 100% Awakening Degree, and collect all the components of the three heritages!

Yun Zhongjun: 1/3

Gu Huo Bird: 1/7 (evolving to Nine Phoenixes would be 1/4)

Wu Zhiqi: 1/4

The second stage will be visible upon the completion of the first stage.

"Do you accept this special Yan Fu Trial?"

"..."

Li Yan hesitated for a moment.

Was it really a sensible decision to walk the Divine Court Road without looking back?

Why insist on following the Divine Court?

Because of greed.

This, Li Yan knew very well.

It started with curiosity, and then the brief encounter with Mo and Zhao Jianzhong made Li Yan truly entertain the idea of undertaking the Divine Court.

Mo had said in person that once one becomes a Proxy Traveler, other heritages could no longer grow. Some past relies on fruit enhancements also had to act as supplements or even be given up to make way for the Proxy Heritage.

Destiny Yak, Wu Zhiqi, and the Seven Great Strokes of Spear and Sword—Li Yan, who had soared to this day at an explosive speed, had too much that he couldn’t bear to part with.

Asking him to give up his studies of these things for some top-tier heritage was unlikely.

The Divine Court was undoubtedly Li Yan’s best choice for the moment, even if the cost of failure was severe.

Of course, why did Human Master Zhao Jianzhong have a detailed understanding of the Divine Court, even publishing internal publications to study it specifically? Without a doubt, he likely walked the Divine Court when he was younger.

Perhaps he failed, but that didn’t prevent him from becoming the Human Master.

Even if Li Yan failed, it would just mean giving up most of his heritage.

With 100% specialization in Ancient Martial Arts, the Seven Great Strokes of Spear and Sword, Destiny Yak, and Quanlang Sea Ghost, Li Yan had the confidence to face failure.

"Accept!"

Li Yan experienced a brief, splitting headache in his mind, but as he concentrated, he quickly adapted.

"You have initiated the special Yan Fu Trial: Divine Court Road!"

"In your personal data, all descriptions of skills related to Yan Fu Heritage have changed."

Name: Li Yan

Status: Quanlang Sea Ghost, Destiny Yak (merged into the new status [Hua Cai]).

Specialization: Ancient Martial Arts 100%, Hot Weapons 38%, Military Skill 50%, Magic Motion Technology 60%.

Divine Court: Gu Huo Bird 100%, Wu Zhiqi 79%, Yun Zhongjun 9%

Expanded skills: A Fleeting Glimpse...

Self-enlightened skills: Tiger Rises, Swallow Through the Curtain, Dragon’s Craned Neck, Seven Great Strokes of Spear and Sword.

Inherited skills: Gu Huo Bird Form! Wu Zhiqi Form! Yun Zhongjun!

Divine Court effects:

Taiyi Shengshui (incomplete): Significantly increased control over Dragon Mist, Tentacle-Shaped Disaster Water, and Soul-forgiving Water.

Literally, it didn’t seem like there was much information, but Li Yan tried beckoning with his hand, and saw a thumb-sized black tentacle-shaped calamity water flexibly twisting back and forth in his hand, without any sign of losing control. Following Li Yan’s concentration, the mass of tentacle-shaped calamity water first swelled into a mass of highly corrosive black mist, then condensed into a pale black ice block. Suddenly, Li Yan furrowed his brow and hurriedly threw the Disaster Water into the Water Lord Palace, hearing only a faint explosion inside.

"If it’s not too intense, it can still be controlled."

Afterwards, Li Yan picked up the teacup from the table, stilled his mind, and held his breath. After a while, a drop of golden Soul-forgiving Water emerged from his fingertips.

This was not from his stock, but rather refined directly from ordinary water.

It took him roughly half an hour.

In the past, it would have taken him a whole day to refine a single drop.

The exact speed of this process was now many times faster.

The urgent matter at hand was still to enhance his Awakening Degree.

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Outside the door, Bao Buping paced back and forth until finally, the door opened and Li Yan walked out from inside.

"Did everything go smoothly?" Bao asked with a beaming smile.

The total estimated value of the items traded between the two parties was thirty-two thousand points, and Wan’an was to charge each party an 8% commission on the estimated value, which amounted to over two thousand five hundred points. Such business had low costs and high returns, but it was difficult to set up. Once a reputation was established, there was no worry about making money.

Bao Buping was a local bigwig in Jinhai and also the person in charge for Wan’an Engineering Consulting in the Jinhai area, the kind who handed out business cards to everyone.

"Smoothly," Li Yan nodded. "There’s another matter for which I need your esteemed company’s assistance."

"No problem, Xiaodao is also an old client of ours. No need to be so polite."

"I would like to ask Wan’an to collect for me some unusual items that can increase Awakening Degree, or lower-tier Yan Fu Heritage."

"Ah, that’s a frequent business for us. What’s the ballpark figure?"

Li Yan gestured a one with his hand.

"Ten thousand? That’s a big deal."

"One thousand is just the deposit," Li Yan said. "Wan’an can collect in abundance equal to fifty thousand Yan Fu points. I know it’s harder to find in larger quantities. I’m not demanding much, only 200% of the Awakening Degree is enough."

According to market prices at the auction house, an item that could increase Awakening Degree by 10% could sell for more than two thousand points. By that calculation, fifty thousand Yan Fu points could be exchanged for 250% of the Awakening Degree.

But such items never lacked buyers, they would be snapped up as soon as they appeared on the market, and to acquire a large amount in a short time would definitely incur a premium. Moreover, to make this transaction through an auction house was also unlikely. In a sense, the circulation of free Awakening Degree trades on the market would not exceed 500%.

Li Yan’s offer to use fifty thousand Yan Fu points to purchase 200% of Awakening Degree was a very fair price.

"You can produce fifty thousand Yan Fu points?"

Bao Buping’s gaze towards Li Yan was filled with astonishment.

Fifty thousand Yan Fu points, if spent slowly, could fill up a whole Yan Fu Heritage from nothing.

"Are you taking the job?"

"Of course."

Bao Buping swallowed but still calmly said, "However, we’ll still follow the rules. I’ll take only a 10% deposit from you, five thousand points. Three days later, I’ll bring my people over, money and goods exchanged hand-to-hand."

"It’s settled then."

With all fairness established, Li Yan made a transaction with Wan’an Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., under Bao Buping’s name, for five thousand Yan Fu points. And then he left cleanly and swiftly.

"An independent trader nonchalantly tossing out fifty thousand Yan Fu points. Word had already spread that after this man with the surname Li returned from Red Mountain and met Si Wenji, he had already joined Third Eye Global. But even Third Eye Global wouldn’t just give him such a large sum of money for no reason. I can’t figure it out, can’t figure it out..."

Question marks filled Bao Buping’s mind.

Li Yan had earned fifteen thousand points from Gu She, and with what he already had on hand, he had just under eighteen thousand points. He dared to boast about having fifty thousand Yan Fu points because for a long time, he had a huge sum of money that had been sealed away...

The South Seas silver exchange!

In fact, each time Li Yan completed a Yan Fu event, he would stay on Lantau Island in the South Seas for at least ten days. Occasionally, he would also go to sea with the Red Flag brothers. Xiaodao spent even more days in the South Seas. She would spend at least half of the two months after completing an event handling Yan Fu affairs and catching some fresh ingredients.

In all honesty, when this terrifying income first came to be, Li Yan contributed much more than Xiaodao, but when it comes to maintaining the situation in the South Seas for more than half a year, it was indeed Xiaodao who had exhausted herself in service.

In most people’s eyes, the Tianbao Dragon Head of the Red Flag Gang was reclusive but also beyond suspicion. Some praised the Tianbao Dragon Head for stepping back and pushing Zheng Xiu’er to the forefront to temper her.

However, the Five Flags Alliance had laid low for over a year, yet the turbulent undercurrents of the South Seas never ceased. Even within the Five Flags there were hidden ripples; it was just that nothing had erupted yet. Right now, Li Yan also had no time to concern himself with these matters.

It had been over seven months since his last trip to the South Seas, as calculated by Heavenly Jiazi-Nine’s flow of time. After today, it would be a full eight months! In these eight months, Li Yan had withdrawn a total of six hundred thousand taels of silver from his account in about ten installments. Most of this was the spoils from the last great battle, the rest came from the fleecing Red Flag Gang had done over the years from passing merchant ships.

Six hundred thousand taels of silver, when converted to Yan Fu points, amounted to a full sixty thousand points!

Even though thirty thousand of those should belong to Xiaodao, Li Yan had notified her beforehand, so it wasn’t an issue.

He was determined to acquire the remaining two heritage skills of "Yun Zhongjun" before the funeral of the Lou Master.