Chapter 65

For a large-scale attack by the enemy country, the Iron Armor Corps defending the city would notice it. However, for a single expert entering the city, they simply wouldn't bother to manage it. In front of an expert, the guards were just a formality.

Ye Jun Tian brought Bai Yi into the city smoothly. Afterward, they found an inn and settled in. After a round of cultivation, feeling hungry, Ye Jun Tian headed straight for the old lady's noodle stall.

Because Ye Jun Tian had already found out. The old lady's noodle stall was located in Xizi Alley. Xizi Alley was a place where a variety of snacks were concentrated, with no less than a hundred stalls of various sizes lining both sides of the alley.

It was a mix of the good and the bad, as the "snacks" here had a pretty good reputation. Not only did ordinary people patronize it, but also the young masters and misses of the Qianhe City's prominent families came to taste the snacks. They would also subtly flirt with each other.

Ye Jun Tian finally found the old lady's noodle stall, and it was indeed quite desolate. At the moment, there was not a single person at the noodle stall, while the neighboring vermicelli and glutinous rice stalls were filled with diners, who were eating enthusiastically. Compared to the old lady's noodle stall, the difference was like heaven and earth.

In front of the noodle stall, an old lady, thin as a bamboo pole, with chicken skin and crane-like hair, wearing a blue linen dress, sat helplessly, watching other stalls make money. Ye Jun Tian's pupils flickered, and he quietly used his透视 (piercing vision) to see through. At a glance, he saw that the old lady indeed had no blood qi overflowing, and there was no bloodline vibration. He could be sure that she was just an ordinary person.

Could it really be as Ye Li said, that she was indeed an ordinary person? Ye Jun Tian couldn't help but feel a bit depressed. After traveling such a long distance to end up with this result, it was impossible not to feel disheartened.

"Old lady, a bowl of noodles," Ye Jun Tian decided to try the supposedly terrible noodles.

"Hmm," the old lady glanced at him and started making the noodles with nimble hands. Ye Jun Tian noticed something peculiar from the corner of his eye. The old lady added many things that looked like pollen to the noodles.

Soon, a steaming bowl of noodles was placed on the table. Ye Jun Tian started eating, and it was indeed terrible.

However, not long after, a warm qi began to vibrate in the black hole in his stomach. Ye Jun Tian was instantly startled. The black hole began to rotate in reverse, absorbing this mysterious warm qi. Then it started to refine and analyze it.

It was clear that the noodles contained something that could cause bloodline vibration. Moreover, it was likely the result of a combination of various pollens. After eating only half a bowl of noodles, Ye Jun Tian felt the effect of swallowing half a Blood Replenishing Pill.

Now he understood why the noodles were so terrible. It was similar to using herbs to stew an old duck soup. Because of the medicinal powder, and these powders were all pollens, they didn't have a strong medicinal taste, but they were bitter and hard to eat. Of course, the old lady had used some other drugs to mask the pollen taste, so ordinary people couldn't taste it.

What was the old lady trying to do?

A bowl of noodles only earned her a broken low-grade blood crystal coin, but the medicinal content in a bowl of noodles was equivalent to a first-grade Blood Replenishing Pill. Even the cheapest first-grade Blood Replenishing Pill would cost several hundred low-grade blood crystal coins. The old lady was essentially doing a losing business.

Why was the old lady doing this?

Was she mentally ill?

Was she foolish?

Ye Jun Tian didn't think so, and his interest grew.

"Old lady, why are these noodles so terrible?" Ye Jun Tian deliberately frowned and asked.

"If you think they're terrible, don't eat them," the old lady replied with a faint hum.

"I won't eat them, they're too damn terrible. No wonder your business is so bad. I'm not a fool to spend money on such a miserable experience," Ye Jun Tian slammed a broken blood crystal coin on the table and stormed off.

As he walked away, he noticed the old lady looking at his back with a disappointed expression. This was getting stranger and stranger. He didn't know her, and he just didn't eat her noodles, why was she so disappointed?

Since he had nothing to do, he decided to wander around Qianhe City. He found that there were many weapon and medicinal shops in Qianhe City. Moreover, there were few ordinary people walking on the streets, mostly bloodline cultivators. He walked into a few shops and found that the weapons were astonishingly expensive. He couldn't find a suitable weapon after a long search.

As for the medicines, he wanted to buy them, but Ye Jun Tian had no money, so he could only look at them.

He needed to earn money!

Ye Jun Tian deeply felt the truth that without money, nothing could be done, and money was supreme.

At dinner time, Ye Jun Tian went to the old lady's noodle stall again.

"Two bowls of noodles," Ye Jun Tian said.

"Even if they're terrible, you still want two bowls?" The old lady raised her somewhat blurry eyes to look at him.

"Just take your money, why so many words? What's it to you if I like it?" Ye Jun Tian hummed, and the old lady stopped talking and started making the noodles.

After finishing, Ye Jun Tian wiped his mouth, left the blood crystal coin, and walked away. He noticed that the old lady was looking at him with a strange expression, different from the disappointment at noon.

In the evening, Ye Jun Tian entered a meditative state.

The strange positive and negative qi currents were running smoothly, and Ye Jun Tian's motor theory of creating qi currents was becoming more and more proficient. At this moment, the black hole in his eyes was like the motor casing, the bloodline was like copper tubes, and the blood qi was the driving force.

Ye Jun Tian found that the yellow granular substance in the blood qi formed after being processed by the black hole in his stomach was a bit more than before.

Of course, even though there was a bit more, compared to the large amount of red granular blood particles, it was still very rare, with a ratio far less than one in ten thousand.

Ye Jun Tian's piercing vision focused on the yellow granular substance, and he tried to focus on a single yellow granule. However, the yellow granules were very slippery, and it was impossible to focus on any one of them. They were like yellow ghosts, impossible to grasp.

Ye Jun Tian was angry and played hide and seek with his vision and the yellow granules. Back and forth, he kept chasing them.

Capturing such rare granules in a large amount of blood qi particles, with a ratio of less than one in ten thousand, was not easy. After three hours, he still couldn't focus on a single one.

Because the blood qi was flowing intensely and quickly, it was like a raging river, and finding a pebble the size of an egg in it was extremely difficult.

In the end, Ye Jun Tian's focused capture failed. Just as he was quite depressed, something unexpected happened. While trying to capture the yellow granules, his vision accidentally hit something in the blood qi.

At a glance, Ye Jun Tian was stunned. Because those things were actually the "pollen" the old lady had put in the noodles.

At this moment, various colors of pollen, as fine as dust, were swirling in the blood qi, as if they were part of it. These should be the broken pollens.

Because they were only one percent the size of the pollens the old lady had put in the noodles. If it weren't for Ye Jun Tian's mysterious double pupils, he wouldn't have been able to discover them.

Could it be that after eating the noodles with the pollen and being processed by the "black hole," they turned into this form?

These pollens should be the essence of the pollen, and a different kind of energy. Ye Jun Tian's double pupils focused on a single pollen grain. Instantly, he felt an itch and pain in his eyes, and a painful sensation like a fine thread spread.

Damn, it felt like he was poisoned.

Ye Jun Tian was furious and immediately activated his blood force, causing the blood qi to surge. The black hole rotated rapidly in reverse, and Ye Jun Tian wanted to completely refine these pollen grains. The pain became more intense, but Ye Jun Tian gritted his teeth and persisted. He also took another Blood Replenishing Pill to enhance his blood force.