I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 82 - 81: Glazed Pearl

Leaving the Red Hall, Chu Yunyi was pulled by Jiang Yuesheng and others to a high-end club, drinking, dining, playing cards, and chatting, returning to the Chu Family only in the deep of night.

He waved away the servant who came to help him change clothes, and Chu Yunyi went straight into his bedroom.

The moment the door closed, his face, slightly flushed from alcohol, instantly turned pale. The intense headache overwhelmed him, and Chu Yunyi slid down to sit on the floor against the door.

"Cough—!"

He coughed up a mouthful of clotted blood, but before the bloodstains hit the ground, the Wind Blade rolled it into a blood mist, flying out the window and dissipating in the cold moonlight without leaving a trace.

"Hoo—" Chu Yunyi took several deep breaths until the faint feeling subsided a bit, then took out the Divine Return Drink from the space button and gulped it down.

The medicine entered his abdomen, a cool sensation rose in his mind, and Chu Yunyi closed his eyes, enjoying the momentary comfort brought by the Divine Return Drink.

Due to forcibly mobilizing spiritual power at the auction, he was injured further, pushing his Spirit Sea to the brink of collapse.

At this moment, his spiritual power was like raging waves in the sea, uncontrollably tossing and ravaging, causing Chu Yunyi much suffering. Fortunately, the Super Grade Medicine worked quickly, and after drinking the potion, Chu Yunyi’s breathing gradually steadied.

In the dark room, the handsome young man sat leaning against the door, as if asleep, the moonlight falling on his face through the window, adding a sense of fragmentation.

Time ticked away, until the moon ascended to the zenith, and Chu Yunyi finally opened his eyes slowly, a trace of vitality returning to his gaze.

Looking at the empty medicine bottle in his hand, Chu Yunyi sighed lightly.

Ever since his first Spirit Sea upheaval in childhood, he regularly consumed Ning Yu’s Divine Return Drink, though its effectiveness diminished with time. It’s not the medicine’s fault, but that his spiritual power would inexplicably surge explosively every so often.

The Spirit Sea repaired by the Divine Return Drink would be burst by the surge, then he’d drink the potion to repair it, and the cycle repeated. His overwhelming spiritual power compared to others entirely stemmed from this constant cycle of destruction and recreation.

He coincidentally encountered a spiritual power surge on the day of visiting the Second Legion’s fortress; otherwise, he wouldn’t have had the capability to construct the super-large Killing Array.

Though the surging spiritual power was consumed, his Spirit Sea still suffered backlash from the Killing Array, resulting in cracks. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Lately, most of the spiritual power replenished by consuming Spirit Fruits has leaked away through the cracks in the Spirit Sea. And the consequence of continuous medication intervention is that the spiritual power becomes more violent and uncontrollable.

If not for timely acquiring the Divine Return Drink, Chu Yunyi would soon have been driven completely insane due to the agitation of his spiritual power.

The interval between the spiritual power surges is becoming shorter, and Chu Yunyi estimates the next surge won’t exceed two years.

Ning Yu can no longer refine Super Grade Divine Return Drinks, and the last remaining potion was just consumed by him. If a substitute medicine cannot be found within two years, he’d rather end himself than become a madman who loses all reason.

Chu Yunyi raised his hand, tossing the medicine bottle, and before it hit the ground, shattered it into powder with Wind Blade, a decisive cold smile forming at his lips.

If life can’t be sustained, let it freeze at its most glorious moment!

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Once Li Xing confirmed with Divine Sense that Ye Qingting, Cui Tianxiao, and Qi Ming were asleep, she swiftly set up dual Shielding Arrays in the room and took out the Glazed Hand Bracelet.

Eighteen pearl-sized beads lay in the girl’s fair palm, appearing dirty and unseemly. Each bead emitted a rich Chaos Qi, and Li Xing’s Top Grade Spiritual Pendant responded with a buzzing hum, suggesting similarity in material and crafting method.

Li Xing boldly speculated that this bracelet was a magic artifact from the same era as the Top Grade Spiritual Pendant of the cultivation world, for some unknown reason ending up in the Qianyuan Continent, found by someone like her also stranded here.

With the example of the Top Grade Spiritual Pendant before her, Li Xing cautiously released a bit of Chaos Qi to envelop the bracelet.

Phenomena occurred, the bracelet suddenly soared, suspended in mid-air, the eighteen beads quivering together, emitting a buzzing sound.

The golden thread binding the beads broke first, then the accumulated grime on the beads rapidly peeled away under vibration, revealing the bracelet’s true appearance.

Eighteen emerald green semi-transparent Glazed Pearls emitted a lustrous glow. Without the binding of the golden thread, the beads didn’t scatter, but instead more compactly coalesced into a ring, appearing much more natural than before.

It seemed the bracelet’s original form was self-aggregating, not forcibly bound by external means.

With its true form revealed, the bracelet fell into Li Xing’s palm. She turned the beads, murmuringly reading small, antiquated characters engraved atop:

"Thousand Leaf Search Kill Array Pearl."

It’s precisely because of these exclusive cultivation world characters that Li Xing could determine the bracelet as a treasure left by a cultivator, going to great lengths to secure it without Divine Sense inspection.

As the name suggests, these eighteen Glazed Pearls constitute the core of an array named Thousand Leaf Search Kill Array. One pearl bore two particularly faint characters that Li Xing had to recognize with Divine Sense.

"Cliff Hidden?"

In the Qianyuan history lessons Li Xing learned, there was never any mention of Cliff Hidden, so is it the creator’s name, or an organization or sect?

The bracelet was unearthed from an ancient tomb dating back over nine thousand years, from the Celestial Departure era, and it’s uncertain if there’s any historical record left.

Carefully probing the Glazed Pearls with Divine Sense, unexpectedly upon contact, a terrifying suction force emerged from the beads, pulling Li Xing towards them. Li Xing barely had time to think "bad," before everything went black before her eyes.

When she regained consciousness, she found herself surrounded by mist, unable to discern directions, with no sight of sun, moon, or stars, yet some strange faint light allowed her to see the scenes clearly.

Suddenly, a beast’s sorrowful roar sounded behind her, and Li Xing spun around in shock, only to see a colossal horned rhinoceros beast emerging from the mist centimeters away, its horn instantly piercing through her chest.

Li Xing shut her eyes in despair, but the expected pain did not come. It was then she realized her body, like the rhinoceros beast, was ethereal.

Countless Star Beasts emerged from the mist, like the rhinoceros beast, charging forward recklessly, and Li Xing, curious about what lay ahead, tightly followed the rumbling beast pack, desperately sprinting ahead.

She didn’t know how long she had been running when suddenly the mist cleared, revealing a vast prairie. Countless misty Star Beasts emitted terrifying roars, launching an all-out attack on an area of open ground.

With keen vision, Li Xing spotted a graceful woman in white, dwarfed like an ant before the massive Star Beasts, in the center surrounded heavily by the beasts.

Despite the immense size disparity, the woman facing the beast tide showed no fear, eighteen green beads whirled in front of her like a tornado, shielding her and keeping the Star Beasts at bay a hundred meters away.

Any Star Beast attempting to breach the boundary had its head crushed by the beads.