Magic Core Weapon, Crimson Flame Berserk Blade

Those who had gone to the Xiao Family market had not wasted their efforts. They had indeed bought Rejuvenation Powder at a hundred gold coins for ten bottles.

For the past three days, the Xiao Family had not rushed to sell the medicinal liquid. Instead, they had focused on arranging the sales process—how to enter the market, how to line up to buy medicine, how to pay and leave—putting every detail in perfect order.

The mercenaries barely paused after entering. As a result, the market's capacity for customer traffic greatly increased. With such a good shopping experience, the Xiao Family's Rejuvenation Powder quickly established its reputation and became famous throughout Wutan City.

The market's foot traffic plummeted off a cliff. Jia Lie Bi raged for two days before another terrible piece of news followed close behind.

Blood-Clotting Powder—the Xiao Family had begun selling a medicinal liquid even more effective than Rejuvenation Powder, yet it was not expensive either: only a hundred and twenty gold coins for ten bottles.

When Jia Lie Bi heard the news, he flew into a furious rage.

Misfortunes never came alone. At that very moment, the Spirit Gathering Liquid that had initially seemed miraculously effective became almost useless when the second bottle was used.

Overcome by fury, Jia Lie Bi spat out a mouthful of blood. In his rage, he had nearly gone to smash up the Mittel Auction House.

After persuasion from his clansmen, Jia Lie Bi forcibly calmed himself. The Mittel Auction House was the business of one of the Empire's three great families. Before its deep foundations, the Jialie Family was no more than an ant.

Unless he could find concrete evidence, the Mite'er Family would never allow anyone to freely destroy its auction house without paying the price.

Jia Lie Bi had several young clansmen test it, and they soon reached a conclusion. The new Spirit Gathering Liquid was not fake; its effects simply had an upper limit.

After his son broke through, he had surpassed that limit. He had merely consumed a large amount of medicinal power all at once and failed to realize it.

Jia Lie Bi's face turned ashen. This result was even harder for him to accept than buying counterfeit goods.

He had spent more than three hundred thousand gold coins mainly to nurture his son into a genius. Now that he had just experienced its miraculous effects, he could no longer enjoy them. Few people could bear such a tremendous gap.

Moreover, he had dared to spend so lavishly because the family's medicinal liquid business had been doing well, and he had been confident they would earn it back soon enough. But now that business had been seized by the Xiao Family, making up such a huge sum became a headache.

What gave Jia Lie Bi some consolation was that the alchemist Han Bo was still with the Jialie Family. As a Second-Grade Alchemist, he possessed more than just the formula for Rejuvenation Powder.

Although they encountered some problems purchasing medicinal ingredients afterward, compared with the string of bad news before this, Jia Lie Bi accepted reality rather easily.

Xiao Yan did not manage every detail of the market dispute. Other than spending his mornings refining medicine under Xiao Yu's company, resting at noon, and practicing Dou Techniques in the afternoon, his life barely changed.

In an area of strange, towering rocks on the back mountain of the Xiao Family, Xiao Yan gripped a steel saber as Dou Qi within him surged wildly into it. Golden light blazed brightly.

After the attack, cultivating the Mad Lion Roar Dou Technique had also been placed on the agenda.

Since Mu She, a Dou Practitioner, had mastered Mad Lion Roar within several months, it was clear that this Advanced Profound Rank Dou Technique was not difficult to learn.

Now that Xiao Zhan and the three elders had cultivated it, they quickly compiled a detailed record of their insights.

After Xiao Yan obtained it and read through it, he soon gained an understanding by combining it with his own comprehension.

However...

Amid the flashing golden light, vast Dou Qi gathered on the blade, and a ferocious energy lion slowly took shape.

Xiao Yan raised his saber and was about to swing it when the long blade forged from refined steel began trembling uncontrollably. With a crack, it suddenly shattered into several pieces.

The golden lion flashed away, turning back into golden light as it swept up the shattered fragments and shot outward. In the blink of an eye, they struck the surrounding boulders and embedded themselves within them with a hiss.

"Broken again..." Xiao Yan casually tossed the hilt onto the ground. This was already the thirteenth weapon he had broken.

Although every saber had been carefully forged, the quality of his Dou Qi was exceptionally high due to his cultivation of an Advanced Profound Rank technique. In particular, the fusion of Beast Flame had further increased its power. Mere steel weapons simply could not withstand the release of even one Advanced Profound Rank Dou Technique.

At that moment, Xiao Yan readily understood the value of the Black Heavy Ruler, which could be used all the way to the late Dou Zong stage. Made of Flame-Meteorite Black Iron, it was truly durable.

Xiao Yan's cheat was now the Palm-Heaven Bottle, so naturally he no longer had such a divine weapon at the start. Fortunately, he already had some leads on his weapon; he just did not know when it would arrive.

"Ya Fei, Ya Fei..." Xiao Yan leaned against a boulder, feeling as restless as someone waiting for a delivery.

He had not leaned there for long when a servant led someone up the mountain and said, "Young Master, Miss Ya Fei is here to see you."

Because of the market dispute, Xiao Yan feared that someone might be unable to find him in an emergency, so unlike before, he no longer disappeared without a trace whenever he entered the back mountain.

Xiao Yan waved his hand, dismissing the servant. Then, looking at Ya Fei in her striking red dress, he exclaimed in delight, "Are you Cao Cao?"

"Which family is this girl Cao Cao from?" Ya Fei frowned, somewhat displeased. "That name doesn't sound like it belongs to a respectable person."

Cao Cao was a girl? Xiao Yan froze completely. Unable to respond at all, he raised a hand and rubbed his nose before asking, "Has the weapon been forged?"

Seeing Xiao Yan's brief embarrassment, Ya Fei could not understand why she resembled Cao Cao, but she guessed it was not what she had imagined. She removed the Storage Ring from her hand and nodded with a smile.

Xiao Yan casually brushed the Storage Ring, and a thick, blood-red saber immediately appeared in his palm.

It was roughly four feet long. A fiery-red Magic Core was embedded in its hilt, while its guards were made from ghastly white bones. The blade was vividly colored, as though it exuded a bloody aura. A special spinal bone formed its core, covered with metal.

Seeing the treasure light contained within it, Xiao Yan praised, "What a fine saber."

Ya Fei introduced it, saying, "This Crimson Flame Berserk Blade uses not only the Magic Core of the Blazing Male Lion, but also that magical beast's bones. Combined with materials such as black iron and geng metal, it was tempered with the Blazing Male Lion's flesh and blood when it was completed, giving it a baleful aura. When fighting others, it can affect the enemy's mind."

Xiao Yan smiled. "Beast Flame, Magic Core, bones, flesh, and blood... Almost all the materials from that Blazing Male Lion ended up in my hands."

Ya Fei smiled as well and continued, "An ordinary Magic Core weapon can increase its user's strength by ten or twenty percent. But the Crimson Flame Berserk Blade in your hand is made almost entirely from one magical beast. If activated with a large amount of Dou Qi, it can unleash the Blazing Male Lion's attack, Flame Burst Impact. Its power should be no weaker than an Intermediate Profound Rank Dou Technique."

"Is that possible?" Xiao Yan was somewhat surprised. With a thought, he immediately poured a large amount of Dou Qi into the Crimson Flame Berserk Blade in his hand.

As Dou Qi flowed into it, the red Magic Core within the hilt flickered with light. A streak of golden radiance flowed out from it and gradually spread across the entire blade. Flames surged wildly, and before Flame Burst Impact was even unleashed, its imposing power was already extraordinary.