Yi Yun's Reason

"I found this herb by sheer luck, and here's the thing..." Yi Yun carefully chose his words, going over the excuse he had prepared in his mind again to make sure there were no major oversights.

"These past few days, I have been diligently collecting herbs at Gengzi Medicine Mountain. Last night, on the summit of a high mountain, I saw faint flashes of lightning on the horizon hundreds of miles away, which looked like it was raining there."

"However... lightning during rain is usually bluish-purple, but this lightning had a faint blood-red hue. Although I couldn't see it clearly because of the distance, I'm sure I didn't see it wrong."

"Since I was a child, I've had an inexplicable sense and intuition about strange things. This lightning always seemed strange to me, as if something unusual was happening, so I immediately rushed there to investigate."

"I ran as fast as I could, and by the time I arrived, the lightning had stopped. I saw that the nearby soil, rocks, and vegetation clearly showed signs of being struck by lightning."

"I sensed it carefully and found that the surrounding area was filled with unusual yin and yang energy. I didn't know what was happening, but I remembered that the ancient books recorded that the appearance of rare Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures would often cause strange phenomena in the world. I thought that the strange phenomenon I was encountering might be related to Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures?"

"So I searched the surroundings carefully, practically digging three feet into the ground, leaving no blade of grass unchecked, and then I found this Blood Sun Flower..."

"It was buried deep underground and was already incomplete, with fruit pulp mixed with the soil, but I still recognized it."

"I was overjoyed to find a Heaven Tier spiritual herb. I took out the jade box I always carried with me, intending to seal the Blood Sun Flower to prevent its medicinal properties from being lost. But just then, I suddenly felt the surrounding scenery change drastically. It was as if I had passed through a time tunnel and suddenly arrived in the vast Divine Wilderness. Thunder roared in the sky again, and a large number of wild beasts rushed towards me from all directions!"

"I panicked and drew my Thousand Army Saber to fight. I felt something was wrong; how could the scene have suddenly turned out like this?"

"I've had an unusual sense of perception since I was a child. I quickly calmed myself down and focused on my surroundings. Suddenly, I realized that the ferocious beasts rushing in from all directions didn't exist; it was all just an illusion."

"I realized that something was attacking me! I couldn't find it, but I guessed it might be something extraordinary."

"Just then, I suddenly felt an unbearable headache. It felt like something had burrowed into my brain, almost making me lose my senses. I suddenly realized that if I couldn't hold on, I might be finished. I struggled to maintain the last shred of clarity in my mind and, with all my might, fired an arrow using the Great Cang Bow."

"I specially modified this arrow. The arrowhead is inlaid with a Heavenly Fiend Bead that I exchanged for before."

"The Heavenly Fiend Bead?"

Hearing this, the Woman surnamed Wang suddenly interjected. Of course, she knew the weakness of the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng. It was too much of a coincidence that the arrow Yi Yun had prepared in advance had just the right time to counter the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng!

"Yes..." Yi Yun scratched his head sheepishly, "I heard that the mortality rate in the Divine Desolation Army Camp is very high. I'm very afraid of dying, so I used the first batch of Dragon Scale Rune to prepare these self-defense items. I didn't expect them to come in handy so soon. I'm really lucky."

Seeing Yi Yun's boy-next-door demeanor and hearing him mention the word "luck," the Woman surnamed Wang's eyelids twitched. His reason for exchanging the Heavenly Fiend Bead was simply fear of death...

You're just a mid-stage Purple Blood level kid, and you want to exchange for Heavenly Fiend Bead for self-defense!

I'm speechless!

What's outrageous is that this Heavenly Fiend Bead actually came in handy; this luck is just too incredible!

Yi Yun wasn't afraid to mention the Heavenly Fiend Bead, but he naturally wouldn't reveal the Heavenly Yin Array or the Withered Cicada Array.

Zhao Qingcheng had no idea what the things he bought at the Myriad Treasures Pagoda were.

As for whether anyone will investigate later, the Myriad Treasures Pagoda is not a computer from the previous life, nor does it have any storage system or anything like that. With a million items, who knows who bought them?

"You just shot this herb like that?" the Woman surnamed Wang asked.

"Probably. At that moment, the last glimmer of clarity in my mind was like a small boat in a giant wave, ready to disappear at any moment. I shot this arrow with all my might. As for the direction I shot it in, it was entirely based on my instincts. I don't even know what I shot; I just felt that if I didn't shoot it, I might die."

"Then there was a huge explosion, and I was thrown back by the blast wave, almost passing out."

"I forced myself to stay conscious and started searching my surroundings. I guessed that something incredible had attacked me, and I wanted to see what it was."

"At that time, the area around me had turned into scorched earth, and the Blood Sun Flower had been buried underground again by soil and rocks, and had become even more rotten. I carefully searched with my senses, turning over every piece of soil and rock, and then... three feet underground, I found this thing that looked like a radish root. It looked inconspicuous, but I knew that it was that extraordinary thing!"

Yi Yun's story, a blend of truth and fiction, actually has its basis in fact.

The Woman surnamed Wang listened carefully, and when Yi Yun finished speaking, she looked at Yi Yun with a very strange expression.

Just as Yi Yun said, Yi Yun's luck is indeed extraordinary!

As Yi Yun mentioned before, seeing lightning with a faint blood-red glow descending from the sky hundreds of miles away must have been a heavenly tribulation.

Most Primordial Relic Medicine can slowly complete their evolution, but some Primordial Relic Medicine, under various strange circumstances, have a relatively small probability of causing a small-scale heavenly tribulation.

This calamity can strike at any time, often catching the Primordial Relic Medicine off guard.

If they survive the tribulation, their evolution will be more complete; however, if they fail to survive the tribulation, they will be completely annihilated.

The lightning with a faint blood-red hue that Yi Yun described was exactly the characteristic of Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng the Heavenly Tribulation, as recorded in the ancient texts.

The tribulation is also the time when a Primordial Relic Medicine is at its weakest!

At this point, the Primordial Relic Medicine's ability to conceal itself, attack, and escape will be greatly reduced.

Logically, after undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation, Primordial Relic Medicine should be hidden away to allow for slow healing.

The same should have happened to the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng, but Yi Yun happened to appear at this time and found the Blood Sun Flower that it was raising.

According to Yi Yun's description, the Woman surnamed Wang believed that the heavenly tribulation came very suddenly, and the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng must have been caught off guard, resulting in severe damage to its vital energy.

At this moment, the Blood Sun Flower, which could help it quickly recover its vitality, became extremely important to the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng.

How could it tolerate Yi Yun taking the Blood Sun Flower? That's why it attacked Yi Yun despite its serious injuries.

Originally, there was no problem with this. Yi Yun was young and had low cultivation. Even with the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng severely injured, it shouldn't have been an accident in dealing with Yi Yun.

However, this Yi Yun possessed extraordinary mental strength. Despite his young age and mere mid-stage Purple Blood cultivation, he was able to break free from the illusion, leaving Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng a difficult position. As a result, Tianyun Ziyang Cang had to intensify his mental attacks, further depleting his Pure Yang Energy.

What Woman surnamed Wang found most incomprehensible and unbelievable was that Yi Yun, under the influence of the illusion attack, was able to shoot the Heavenly Fiend Bead arrow he had prepared in advance, killing the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng, solely guided by his intuition!

This is absolutely outrageous!

However... thinking about it carefully, a Heavenly Fiend Bead refined by a master craftsman, which was already severely damaged when Yi Yun used the Great Cang Bow to shoot it with all his might, and whose Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng was also severely overdrawn, could very well capsize in an unexpected way!

The Woman surnamed Wang was stunned for a long time. Although what Yi Yun said sounded incredibly bizarre, upon closer inspection, there was nothing illogical about the story.

Moreover, there is really no other explanation as to why Yi Yun was able to capture the Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng.

Is this possible?

A boy not even thirteen years old has seized a Primordial Relic Medicine!

This is utterly absurd; what are those long-bearded alchemists supposed to think?

The only somewhat mysterious aspect was Yi Yun's intuition.

But this is not surprising. Some people in this world are born with keen intuition. When they are in extreme situations, they have an incredible sixth sense that guides them to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune.

Such intuition can save lives many times.

The Woman surnamed Wang stared blankly at Yi Yun, her lips dry as she moved. "Do you know... what you dug up?"

Yi Yun thought for a moment and said, "It should be Primordial Relic Medicine. Actually, I also have some guesses in my mind. I read some ancient texts about the Divine Wilderness before, and the description of a herb is very similar to the one I picked. I knew that this matter was of great importance, so I came back in advance..."

Hearing Yi Yun's words, the Woman surnamed Wang opened her mouth, but really didn't know what to say. She had heard Yi Yun say before that he "came back early because he had some extra gains and was worried that the medicinal properties might be compromised."

At the time, she thought Yi Yun was just making things up. She never imagined that what Yi Yun said was true, and that he actually brought back a Heavenly Auspicious Purple Sun Ginseng!!

Is this what they call an "extra benefit"?

This is called "extra"!?

Are you kidding me?!

"You... you wait here, I... I'll go report to the elder!"

The Woman surnamed Wang spoke these words with great difficulty, as if she had forgotten how to speak. To Woman surnamed Wang, the fact that the trial participants had found a Primordial Relic Medicine was an absolutely momentous event!

The Tai'a Divine City has existed for countless years since its founding, but this situation is probably the first time it has happened!

She had no idea what to do. The handbook in the errand office didn't even mention the reward for the Primordial Relic Medicine, because it was completely unnecessary!

Thinking of this, the Woman surnamed Wang suddenly remembered that when Yi Yun first came to the servants' quarters, he asked what the reward would be if he guessed the Primordial Relic Medicine.

At the time, she thought the boy was mentally unstable, like an idiot.

Now she suddenly realized that she might be the idiot.

This world is truly insane! (To be continued~^~)