Seeing the two porcelain bottles in Ning Tian's hands, Lu Yu felt the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's abundant sincerity.
He had sent his request last night, and they had it ready this morning. They were far more sincere than Shrek.
He was currently a level 22 Soul Grandmaster. Two Mystic Water Pills meant two levels, one Soul Ascension Pill meant two levels, and one Seven Treasures Pill meant one level. Taking them would instantly raise him five levels. Combined with his cultivation speed from twice the Innate Full Soul Power, he could ascend from planet Soul Grandmaster to planet Soul Elder this year.
No wonder the children of great clans cultivated so quickly. Taking pills really did pack more punch than going all-natural.
Times were advancing. Things really were better ten thousand years later. Back ten thousand years ago, how could they have had so many good pills? Aside from the chosen one picking up Immortal Herbs that appeared once in ten thousand years, everyone else had to bury their heads and slog away at cultivation.
He had to find a way to get those two pills.
"I do have something, though I don't know whether it'll satisfy you..."
Lu Yu thought for a while and came up with something. He had not originally intended to bring it out. After all, he might not be able to make it at this stage, and even if he did, he might not be able to sell it.
But Young Sect Master Ning Tian had shown plenty of sincerity during their several meetings, so it was not as though he could not bring it out.
This Soul Tool was called the Dragon Clan Martial Soul Enhancement DLC. It cost 120 on the Steam platform, and buying it stuffed a Thunder blueprint into your inventory. Its materials were scattered all over the Douluo Continent, and gathering them alone took nearly half the game. It claimed you could use it early on, but by the time you made it, you were already level sixty or seventy...
Sorry, his resentment ran so deep that he had mixed things up.
The Soul Tool was called the Dragon Bloodline Purifier, a Soul Tool that could increase the concentration of dragon bloodlines within dragon-type Soul Masters.
It could give Soul Masters with dragon Martial Souls the physical strength of dragon-type Soul Beasts at the same level.
Its concept drew on how the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon continually absorbed Sub-Dragon Soul Rings to increase the degree of Dragon Transformation in its body.
The Soul Tool's Core Array imitated the innate ability of a rare evil Soul Beast, allowing it to extract Sub-Dragon blood and inject it into a Soul Master with a dragon Martial Soul.
Compared with the slow, steady enhancement of absorbing Soul Rings, directly injecting concentrated dragon blood this way had only a few tiny side effects.
These included, but were not limited to, Beastification, going berserk, weakened Spiritual Power, and intermittent pain throughout the body.
But it could purify bloodlines and bring about Martial Soul Evolution! It was power through and through, with permanent Dragon Transformation to boot.
As for being afraid of the side effects, that was just something people said online. In reality, who wouldn't want to inject dragon blood in a red-faced frenzy, go berserk in the city now and then, get hunted down by Spirit Hall as an Evil Soul Master, have no choice but to hide in Slaughter City hoping to obtain the God King-level Asura God's God's Trial, only to be interfered with by the Rakshasa God and become a useless second-tier God of Slaughter, then emerge to be chased and beaten by the Angel God, Rakshasa God, Sea God, and Asura God?
Fortunately, he had won in the end.
The prison-like misery of that route had left such a deep impression on him that Lu Yu would only sell this thing, never touch it himself.
As for whether the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would be hunted down as Evil Soul Masters after getting it?
What a joke. Shrek held the right to define an Evil Soul Master. Just look at that reckless fool Tang Ya, parading her purple-tinged Blue Silver Grass right in front of Mu En's face. Hadn't Mu En still paid her no mind?
"Please, go ahead, Master Lu."
Ning Tian smiled. She had brought the pills specifically to persuade Lu Yu to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. If he truly had something worth as much as these pills, a straightforward trade would be fine too.
"I have a Soul Tool, but I haven't finished developing it yet."
"Who do you think you're fooling?"
The moment she heard Lu Yu's opening, Wu Feng, who had been listening at the side all along, could no longer hold back. She stepped directly between the two of them.
"Don't think we're easy to fool. Those Soul Engineers in the sect all say the same thing. Do you take us for three-year-olds?"
Wu Feng had been displeased with Lu Yu for some time.
Ever since meeting Lu Yu at the school gates the day before yesterday, Ning Tian had been gathering information about him like mad. Even when Lu Yu asked her to handle something, she lowered herself like an outer sect disciple and personally chased up the goods.
Wu Feng had whispered in her ear that Lu Yu was only a Soul Ring consultant, and that Xiao Xiao had defeated her because Xiao Xiao was formidable, not Lu Yu.
But Ning Tian said Lu Yu's knowledge was absolutely genuine. The Soul Ring recommendations he had provided alone were enough to earn him free food and drink at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
Wu Feng merely thought that knowledge was nothing more than the lingering shade of his ancestors.
Now that she had heard his opening pitch, Wu Feng could not help jumping out, determined to personally tear away this fraud's cloak of mastery.
"See? Getting worked up again."
Lu Yu waved a hand.
"This Soul Tool of mine can make dragon-type Soul Masters' Martial Souls evolve. Miss Wu Feng, as far as I know, there are some other Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples with dragon-type Martial Souls in the upper years. If you keep getting in my way, I'll have no choice but to discuss it with them instead."
Wu Feng froze at Lu Yu's words.
Although the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was united, it still had internal factions. Everyone in each faction wanted to climb their way to Ning Tian's side and gain the main family's support.
Naturally, she had become Ning Tian's personal guard because she had the best talent and the highest Soul Power Level among the sect's younger generation.
If someone surpassed her in strength, they would naturally replace her as Ning Tian's guard.
If that person were male, Wu Feng simply dared not imagine it.
Ning Tian having a man? No, anything but that! At least wait until ten years after my menopause!
He's lying. He's just tricking me.
Remembering how Xiao Xiao had beaten her down the day before yesterday, Wu Feng obediently shut her mouth and stepped aside.
"If such a Soul Tool truly exists, never mind these pills. Having the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect supply you with the same quantity every year would be no problem."
Hearing Lu Yu's information, Ning Tian immediately beamed with joy. Upgrading Martial Souls—this was a Secret Art worthy of becoming a treasure passed down through the clan.
"Of course, if you have any other requests, Master Lu, please feel free to raise them. I'll give you my full support."
Ning Tian was not worried about being deceived. To deceive the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, one first needed the strength to withstand its retaliation. Besides, the information Lu Yu had provided yesterday proved that he truly possessed a family legacy.
"You're certainly generous, Young Sect Master Ning Tian. First, your sect will cover all research and development costs. Second, making this Soul Tool requires the intact corpse of an evil Soul Beast."
"A 10,000-Year Dragon Blood Bat. If you want fewer side effects, you'd best provide a Dragon Blood Bat of the corresponding attribute." Lu Yu glanced at Wu Feng beside them as he spoke to Ning Tian.
Blood Bats were evil Soul Beasts. They could suck the blood of other Soul Beasts to improve their own cultivation and inherit some of their racial abilities.
Dragon Blood Bats were Blood Bats that had continually absorbed the blood of Sub-Dragon Soul Beasts. Blood Bats were rare to begin with, let alone Dragon Blood Bats.
Because they continually absorbed Sub-Dragon blood and were evil Soul Beasts, even a ten-thousand-year-old Dragon Blood Bat required a Soul Saint to take action. Obtaining an intact corpse might require a Soul Douluo or a Titled Douluo.
"Of course, I can't guarantee success. If I can't develop it in the end, consider the resources consumed during that period a loan to me. I'll repay it according to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's lending rules. Of course, if I do make it, I only ask that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect let me choose one 50,000-Year Soul Bone from its inventory."
As Lu Yu spoke, he also gave himself a safety net. After all, that Soul Tool was a product of the game in his previous life. Whether he could make it was unknown.
If he really could not make it, he would have no choice but to take the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect route this run, marry into Ning Tian's family, live off her, and become the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect's top dog in the future... yeah, right.
A mere bit of research funding-Lu Yu felt that the information gap he possessed would still let him pay it back.
"Since you've shown such sincerity, Master Lu, our Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect naturally cannot be stingy either. These pills are yours as a gift."
"Of course, to ensure neither side reneges, we'll still need to sign a contract."
"Naturally."
Lu Yu smiled and accepted the pills.
Both parties were trading in good faith, and the contract's terms were concise and clear. Lu Yu and Ning Tian signed their names, reaching an amicable agreement.
After leaving Class Nine, Lu Yu immediately sought out Elder Yi, who was lying inside the Gold of Life, resting.
"Teacher, I'm weak. Carry me."
After explaining the terms of the deal to Elder Yi, Lu Yu also condensed a rough blueprint with his Spiritual Power and asked Elder Yi to help research it.
Elder Yi feigned anger.
"You unfilial disciple! You want your teacher to work for you for free!"
"Teacher, you can't put it that way. As they say, research is research-how could there be no expenditure? You need herbs to recover your energy, don't you? Setting up a magic array requires special ores too, doesn't it? How could that be called working for free? At worst, I'll give all those expendable materials to you."
"Hmph. Just this once."
With a sweep of his hand, Elder Yi blasted Lu Yu out of the Gold of Life, then picked up the construction blueprint Lu Yu had condensed with Spiritual Power and began examining it.
He had nothing to do every day inside the Gold of Life but wait for his memories to recover. All he could do was sleep, wake, and sleep again; he was almost turning into that ten-thousand-year-old maggot next door. With so much free time, he might as well study this world's power system.
"Hmm, the concept behind this blueprint is still too vague. How could this little material possibly be enough?"
So he took up his Spiritual Power and began making revisions. As for exactly what he changed, the beginning was forgotten, the middle was forgotten, and the end was forgotten. In short, the estimated cost gained another zero.
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