Ch114 - Finding the Necklace

Edited by Zaki

Warning – gross description of wound and infection

After buying the magic sword in the merchant’s shop, Liu Mufeng took Jiang Xu to select many second and third level teleportation talismans. After that, the two of them left together and started shopping in the town’s general store. Liu Mufeng remembered that Hua Jintang’s Southern Pearl Necklace was bought in the town’s general store. He didn’t know if the necklace was in Hua Jintang’s hands now, he needed to find the necklace quickly.

Following his lover to one general store after another, Jiang Xu could feel that his lover was looking for something, but he was very curious about what his lover wanted to buy. “Mufeng, what do you want to buy?”

“Oh, I don’t have anything in particular that I want to buy. I am just taking a look casually. Don’t they say that sometimes there are unexpected genuine spiritual treasures in the general stores?” Liu Mufeng said with a smile.

“Oh, okay.” Nodding, Jiang Xu understood what his lover meant. His lover trying to find a treasure that was misplaced in a general store? However, it was not easy to find such a thing. First of all, you must have the ability to recognize treasures, and be able to see the treasures that others could not find. Second, you have to use spirit stones. Of course, Mufeng needed both, and at this moment they had no shortage of spirit stones. Moreover, Mufeng had read more books and knew more spiritual treasures than the average person.

After strolling around the East Street for a long time, and looking in more than a dozen general stores, they couldn’t find the necklace. Liu Mufeng immediately took Jiang Xu to the West Street and started to search again. There were not as many general stores on West Street as on East Street, and there were only eight of them altogether, but Liu Mufeng’s search did not yield anything.

Standing by the street, Liu Mufeng pondered. He was calculating the timeline. Now, he andXiaoXu were both twenty-nine years old, the second heroine was thirty-four, and the second heroine received the necklace when she was thirty-six, which was two years later. Could it be that in the past two years, there were other general stores that opened in Xianghe Town, or did he not search carefully enough and missed a certain general store?

“Mufeng.” Looking at his partner, Jiang Xu called out softly.

Looking at his lover, Liu Mufeng smiled. “XiaoXu, I want to go around the town again, go back to the inn to rest first.”

“No, I’ll stay with you.” Shaking his head, Jiang Xu refused outright.

“Alright then.” Seeing his lover’s insistence, Liu Mufeng didn’t say anything else, and continued to search on the West Street with his lover. There were not as many shops on the West Street as on the East Street, so it was easier to search. Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu searched two streets. Finally, their painstaking efforts paid off, and they found another general store at the end of the street. However, the front of the general store was very small, and the plaque was also very small. If one didn’t look carefully, it was really easy to be overlooked.

Taking his lover’s hand, Liu Mufeng led Jiang Xu into the general store together. Walking into the store, Liu Mufeng discovered that this store was not only small in appearance, it was small in the interior as well. The wooden counters were littered with clutter. Sitting behind the counter, an old man with unkempt hair and bare feet was sleeping soundly on a rocking chair.

“Mufeng, this store is too small, there shouldn’t be anything good, right?” Smelling the sour scent in the room, Jiang Xu frowned and covered his nose. He inwardly thought:The cultivator sitting on the chair was obviously in the Spiritual King Realm, why couldn’t he even do the basic Dust Purification Technique? And the sour smell – even if you don’t know how to clean the dust, you can find some water to wash yourself right? You opened a store but the smell is so rancid. Customers who come would obviously be turned off and run away. Who would patronise you?.

“XiaoXu, go wait for me at the door, I’ll see if there is something I want.” Looking at his lover, Liu Mufeng gestured to his lover to go wait at the door.

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Upon hearing this, the old man lying on the rocking chair opened his somewhat cloudy eyes. “I don’t want spirit stones, as long as you can get what I want, you can take everything in this house.”

Hearing this, Liu Mufeng frowned and carefully looked up and down at the old man in front of him.

“Then what kind of things do you want?” Looking at the old man, Jiang Xu asked bluntly.

Hearing this, the old man glanced at Jiang Xu lightly. “If you don’t even know what I want, then you can put things down and leave.”

“This…” Hearing this, Jiang Xu’s face had an astonished expression. He thought to himself,‘What’s wrong with this old man? This was a business establishment and the old man was willing to give everything. But how would they know what he wanted?.’

Liu Mufeng’s gaze swept across the old man’s black and red face, and then looked at the old man’s black and smelly feet. Taking a breath, he smelled a bit of a fishy smell within the rancid smell of the general store. Not the same as the normal smell. He guessed that the old man was poisoned. “Senior wants to make a deal with an antidote pill, right?”

Hearing this, the old man was overjoyed. “Yes, you have a bright mind.”

Putting down the brocade box in his hand, Liu Mufeng walked over to the old man. “Can I take the Senior’s pulse?”

“En.” Extending his arm, the old man did not refuse Liu Mufeng’s request to check his pulse.

Taking the old man’s pulse, Liu Mufeng’s brows sank. Afterwards, his eyes scrutinized the old man carefully again.

“How is it?” Seeing Liu Mufeng’s unsightly face, the old man asked.

“Senior, I want to see your blood.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng took out a bowl and a dagger.

“Okay.” Nodding, the old man took the bowl and dagger. After cutting off a piece of rotten flesh from his own smelly, festering, pus-filled foot and dripping a few drops of black blood into the bowl, the old man handed it to Liu Mufeng.

Looking at the rotten flesh and dark blood in the bowl, Jiang Xu couldn’t stop the retching sensation.

“XiaoXu?” Putting down the bowl, Liu Mufeng hurriedly supported his partner.

“No, it’s okay, I’m going outside to get some air.” Jiang Xu immediately turned around and left.

“Okay, you can wait for me at the door.” Looking at his lover’s back, Liu Mufeng said with a smile.

Looking at Jiang Xu who ran out, the old man snorted coldly. “Boy, love is dangerous and colors our judgement. The most trustworthy person in this world is yourself. Cultivating the Ruthless Dao is the right way.”

At these words, Liu Mufeng smiled bitterly. “Thank you for the reminder, Senior.”

The old man glanced at Liu Mufeng who was not interested in advice and was instead observing the flesh and blood in the bowl. He just shook his head. He couldn’t help thinking,‘You will suffer if you don’t listen to this old man, and there will be a time when you regret it.’

Liu Mufeng studied the rotten flesh and black blood in the bowl for almost half an hour, during which time, he also released the three Water Spirit Insect Princes to communicate with him. In the end, the poison that the old man was poisoned by was determined. “Senior was poisoned by a snake venom, a rare red-tailed snake venom, right?”

Hearing this, the old man nodded. “Yes, it was the red-tailed snake. Do you have an antidote?”

“I am a third-level alchemist, and I can also refine fourth-level medicinal pills, but the success rate is not high.” While at sea, Liu Mufeng used the fourth-level spiritual herbs found by wood spirit insects to refine fourth-level medicinal pills. However, most of the spiritual herbs had been ruined by his experiments, and now, he only had three low-grade medicinal pills of the fourth level in his hand.

Although he had obtained the inheritance of a fourth-level pill technique from the heroine, the difficulty of refining level four pills was very high, so Liu Mufeng’s current level of refining level four pills was really not good.

“It’s impossible for any alchemist to be 100% good. You are an alchemist and know what poison I have been affected with. I think you should have a way to help me. If you can detoxify me, everything in this shop will belong to you. You’ve seen what’s in the box. Everything is a good item. They will be very useful for you and your sweetheart.”

Hearing this, Liu Mufeng nodded. “Thank you Senior for your trust in me. Then, please give me three days. After three days, I will bring the refined medicinal pills to exchange with you. However, within these three days, you cannot sell the things in your store to others. Especially the things that I want.” Saying that, Liu Mufeng pointed at the necklace.

“Okay, this old man will wait for you for three days.” Nodding, the old man agreed to the deal. He directly waved his hand and put the necklace Liu Mufeng had seen in his storage ring.

“Okay, this junior will take my leave now.” Bowing his head in a salute, Liu Mufeng turned and left the shop.

“Mufeng.” Seeing his lover come out, Jiang Xu greeted him with a smile.

“Let’s go, let’s go to the Spiritual Plant Shop to buy spiritual plants.”

“Okay.” Jiang Xu left with Liu Mufeng without any further comments.

Liu Mufeng took advantage of one afternoon to visit several spiritual plant shops in the town, bought twenty sets of the fourth-level spiritual plants that he needed, and spent all the spirit stones that he had. Helpless, Liu Mufeng sold some of the third-level medicinal pills. He gave the 50,000 spirit stones he had earned to his lover.

After returning to the inn, Liu Mufeng went directly to the bracelet dimension to refine medicinal pills. Jiang Xu took on the job of protection.

In fact, it was not difficult to refine an antidote to detoxify the red-tailed snake poison. However, the antidote required a medicinal primer that is – Withered Bone Flower. Withered Bone Flower was a highly poisonous flower, so many alchemists would not touch this kind of thing, and naturally they would not be able to refine an effective antidote.

However, Liu Mufeng was different. Liu Mufeng was both an alchemist and a Poison Master, moreover, there were a lot of Withered Bone Flowers planted in his bracelet dimension, which just came in handy.

For others, three days was just three days, but for Liu Mufeng, three days was equal to thirty days. Therefore, Liu Mufeng had plenty of time to refine the antidote.

Three days got over in a blink of an eye. Seeing his lover appear in front of him, Jiang Xu smiled. “Mufeng, how did the pill refining go?”

“Alas, twenty portions of spiritual plants, only five pills could be refined, and all of them were of lower grade.” Speaking of which, Liu Mufeng sighed lightly, feeling that his level of refining level four pills was really a bit low.

“It’s okay, I believe you can do it, when you become a Spiritual King Realm cultivator, you will be the most powerful fourth-level alchemist.” Jiang Xu felt that Mufeng’s low success rate in refining level four pills was not the fault of his lover. Rather, it was because his lover’s strength was not enough, if his lover was at the Spiritual King Realm, then there would be no problem refining level four pills.

“I hope so, let’s get going or else the good stuff will be bought by others.” Saying that, Liu Mufeng hurriedly took Jiang Xu with him and left the inn.