Blood Lotus Pill Trade

The next day, Lu Bu tossed a pristine white jade bottle in his hand as he pondered in secret. He had not prepared the ingredients for a Sixth-grade Pill, so he had not begun experimenting.

Besides, the pill formulas Yao Lao had given him were utterly ridiculous. He could not find a single normal Sixth-grade Pill whose ingredients could all be gathered within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Thus, Lu Bu had no choice but to put his plans to refine Sixth-grade Pills on hold.

Meanwhile, Xiao Yan's gaze rose and fell with the jade bottle in Lu Bu's hand. A Blood Lotus Pill—this was a Blood Lotus Pill, an essential safeguard on the road to devouring Heavenly Flames.

Yet by this day, he had only obtained a third-tier magic core, and even that had required Yao Lao's help.

As for Blood Lotus Essence and Ice Spirit Flame Grass, there was not even a trace of them. No matter how he searched, he could not find them.

"What? You want it?" Lu Bu chuckled, shaking the jade bottle in his hand.

"Cough, cough. Of course." Xiao Yan nodded. "Name your price."

That was what Yao Lao had said in his mind. In the cultivation plan he had set for Xiao Yan, the Tagor Desert was their next stop. According to information Yao Lao had obtained while traveling the continent in his younger days, there was supposedly a Heavenly Flame in the Tagor Desert.

Therefore, they had to obtain the Blood Lotus Pill. Otherwise, if they encountered a Heavenly Flame, they would be left helpless.

He would rather have the pill ready and wait for the Heavenly Flame than find a Heavenly Flame first and rush to refine the pill afterward.

"Return the map to me, and I'll give this to you." Lu Bu said with a grin.

"You think that's possible?" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes and snorted.

"Then I want thirty pill formulas." Lu Bu handed over a slip of paper with a smile. "The list is on here."

Xiao Yan picked it up and his face immediately darkened. "Po Wang Pill, Dou Ling Pill, Huang Ji Pill, Po Zong Pill, and even the seventh-grade Hua Xing Pill..."

"Damn it, who bargains like such a greedy lion?" Xiao Yan cursed furiously.

"Hmph?" Lu Bu snorted through his nose. "Kid, you should know that the difficult part about these pills isn't refining them, but finding the ingredients."

"Blood Lotus Essence may be rare, but it isn't nonexistent. But Ice Spirit Flame Grass... you understand." Lu Bu chuckled. "So these pill formulas aren't actually expensive. They're all relatively common formulas. Precious, yes, but not rare."

"It's not just you who have these things. Other people have them too."

Xiao Yan was rendered speechless by those words. At that moment, the Ring trembled lightly, and Yao Lao floated out.

After glancing at the Blood Lotus Pill, he said, "But we are the only ones who need the Blood Lotus Pill. Your argument does not hold."

Lu Bu rolled his eyes. "Do you want it or not? You think it's expensive, but I think it's expensive too!"

"We do, but we can only give you fifteen pill formulas," Yao Lao said.

"Twenty-five!" Lu Bu immediately snorted.

"Twenty!"

"No problem, deal!" Lu Bu chuckled at once. He picked up a pen and crossed out several items before handing the paper over.

Yao Lao glanced at it, then flicked his finger. Twenty scrolls flew out, all containing the pill formulas Lu Bu wanted.

"As expected of Venerable Yao—straightforward!" Lu Bu gave a thumbs-up and grinned. Then he tossed the pill over while putting away the twenty pill formulas.

Patting his Ring, Lu Bu smiled in satisfaction. He had basically accomplished every purpose he had come to the Magical Beast Mountain Range for.

With the things he had traded from Yao Lao, the road ahead would be very, very smooth...

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao smiled in satisfaction as well. They had obtained the Blood Lotus Pill, and beyond that, they had unexpectedly gained a fragmentary map to a Half-Emperor inheritance. The haul could not have been more satisfying.

"Alright, Little Yan, continue cultivating." Yao Lao clapped his hands. More than half the time for the Three Year Agreement had already passed. They did not have much time to waste.

But at that moment, a violent energy fluctuation and an earth-shaking lion's roar suddenly exploded through the sky like thunder striking flat ground, shaking their minds.

Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao and Lu Bu with alarm on his face. "There are actually powerful experts fighting?"

Lu Bu rolled his eyes. "It's just people fighting. What's so unusual about that? Is there a single day on the Dou Qi Continent when no one fights?"

"What a fuss," Yao Lao said irritably.

Xiao Yan smiled awkwardly. That was true. The battle scene when his teacher had controlled his body to fight Lu Bu had been quite impressive too. There really was nothing to be surprised about.

"Then... shall we go take a look?" Xiao Yan rubbed his hands together and asked expectantly.

"It would be good to broaden your horizons," Yao Lao said with a smile, not objecting.

"Going to have a look wouldn't hurt," Lu Bu said. He had not yet seen the combat strength of proper powerful experts on the Dou Qi Continent.

By proper powerful experts, he meant living people. Unlike himself and Yao Lao, one relied on soul power and formations, while the other relied on soul power and Heavenly Flames.

"Let's go!" Lu Bu shouted softly. He pushed off the ground, black light surging across his back as the Purple Cloud Wings slowly emerged. With a gentle flap of the hawk-like wings, he shot away amid a gust of wind pressure.

Xiao Yan looked enviously at Lu Bu's Flying Dou Technique. That thing was really nice.

"Go!" Yao Lao slipped into the Ring and controlled Xiao Yan's body as it sped toward the center of the battle.

High in the azure sky, purple and cyan lights clashed fiercely. The booming explosions caused by their energy were deafening, while waves of beast roars and the crisp ringing of swords resounded through heaven and earth.

"Purple Crystal Winged Lion King?" Xiao Yan said in surprise. "Someone actually dares to target her?"

Within the purple sphere of light was a gigantic magical beast seven or eight meters long. Her fur was made of translucent purple crystals, and from afar, she looked as though she were covered in a layer of crystal.

A dark-red spiraled horn rose from her head, while her broad, heavy lion wings trembled lightly, holding her massive body aloft.

Within the cyan sphere of light, the person fighting her was a powerful human woman. Cyan Wind Attribute Dou Qi swirled around her body. Her exquisite, curvaceous figure was clad in a plain white dress, and her features were delicate and captivating, her bearing graceful and noble.

Cyan Dou Qi wings spread from her back, and she held a strange longsword that shone brilliantly in her hand.

Lu Bu frowned slightly. "Huh? Why doesn't that lion have a mane?"

Xiao Yan rolled his eyes. "Brother Lu, your focus is really strange. Shouldn't you be looking at that beautiful young lady?"

"And you still deny that you're a lecher!" Lu Bu said disdainfully. "Now your true nature is exposed, isn't it?"

Besides, it was just Yun Yun. What was there to look at? Another woman teased by a scumbag and then abandoned... Wait, why did I say another?

That instantly made Xiao Yan blush red. Damn it, he had accidentally let the cat out of the bag.

"Human woman, why do you disturb this king's rest?"

At that moment, a sharp cry descended from the sky. It was sexy with a hint of magnetism, magnetic with a trace of huskiness—the standard voice of a mature beauty. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King lowered her eyes slightly, cold glints flickering within them.

"I wish to borrow the Lion King's Purple Spirit Crystal." Yun Yun parted her red lips, her voice as crisp and pleasant as pearls falling upon a jade plate.

Lu Bu raised a brow in surprise. "Huh? This lion... is actually a lioness!?"

The original story seemed not to mention its gender, but the comic had defined it as a male lion.

"The Purple Crystal Winged Lion Kings have always had more females than males. What's so strange about that? Besides, only female Lion Kings can produce Purple Spirit Crystals," Xiao Yan said indifferently, though his voice was aged. It was clearly Yao Lao speaking.

"Ah... right." Lu Bu came to a realization. Only lionesses had cubs around them. As for male lions... just think of stray dogs with no fathers.

"So that means... she's a married lioness!?"

Lu Bu's eyes immediately lit up. A surge of heat rushed from his heart through his entire body, and something called the spirit of Cao Wei was coursing within him.

The more he looked at this lioness, the more pleasing she seemed. If he could make her into a mount, that seemed like quite a good option. He just wondered whether her cub was a daughter. If so... hehehe, that would be even better!

Wonderful!

"Wonderful!"

Huh? Who said what I was thinking out loud?

He turned his head and found Xiao Yan staring fixedly at Yun Yun. Lu Bu rolled his eyes, but then his eyes shifted and a wicked grin appeared on his face. He reached out and hooked an arm around Xiao Yan's neck.

"Hehehe, Little Yan, look at that woman. Want to know who she is?" Lu Bu grinned, letting out a sinister cackle.