Realms In The Firmam Chapter 10 – The Supreme Dan?

Chapter 10 – The Supre Dan?

“This egg... Could it be so mythical creature’s egg? What if it hatches... heh heh heh...”

All of a sudden, Ye Xiao’s eyes filled with an endless desire.

Such happiness!

“Hahahahahaha... How could I’ve ever thought that anything inside this quirky place would be ordinary?!

Only a super mythical creature, would be able to brazenly leave its egg here, wouldn’t it?

Look at the table... Hmm, obviously all the qi in this space is gathering here to feed this egg. Only a fraction of the qi arriving at this egg got rejected and was thrown back out after entering the egg...”

“It turns out that all the purple qi I was using for cultivation is actually the inferior qi which this egg doesn’t care about...” Ye Xiao was left speechless.

“I wonder when this egg will hatch...” After so imagination, Ye Xiao checked around the purple table carefully, expecting so other surprises to show up.

It must have been his lucky day because yet another surprise dawned upon him.

There was a small delicate purple box under the table. Inside this box, there were about a dozen round beady pills with the size of soybeans. They were all enveloped by a weak white halo of light.

“This is Pei-Yuan Dan [1].” Ye Xiao was knowledgeable and clear-sighted. How could he not know this stuff?

However, Pei-Yuan Dan was nothing extraordinary in the Qing-Yun realm...

But these Pei-Yuan Dan were at a very high level – they could very well be of the highest quality. When they were made, there wasn’t any efficacy lost due to it being restrained by spiritual energy. They had almost broken through the limit of dan!

Anyway, Ye Xiao had never been able to produce sothing at such a high level in his prior life.

However... even if it was of the highest level, it was still just Pei-Yuan Dan.

The cheapest of the dans!

“And this is the only benefits I can get?” Ye Xiao felt speechless as he put the Pei-Yuan Dan beads into a jade bottle and left the space with a loud sigh and a groan.

“The qi I get is the discarded qi from that strange egg and the extra profit I get are actually so cheap dan beads. I really can’t think of a word to say!”

......

“Steward, how much money do we have in the family? How much can I use?” Ye Xiao asked the steward.

“Uhh... Well...” The steward seed to feel awkward, “The money in this family naturally all belongs to you my lord, but the salary of the general and the spoils of war are all for so certain uses. As for those left for you to use, they are... are all in your own closet.”

What he ant was obvious: For those given by the general, he could use them freely; those that wasn’t given to him, he’d better not plan on touching them.

Ye Xiao stared, and then he sighed feebly.

He knew about his father. General Ye was really an uncommonly/extrely nice boss to the soldiers. Most of his incos were used to pension the relatives of the soldiers who had sacrificed themselves in battles, as well as those left disabled after wars...

This family really didn’t have much money left for their own use...

Thanks to the departed Lord Ye Xiao, who had saved so gold and silver by acting recklessly. However, it was only about 500 gold bars [2]. Last ti when he lent so to Zuo Wu Ji, it had taken him 250 gold bars already.

He also took another 500 gold bars from Lan Lang-Lang by blackmailing him...

“Poor! Truly poor!” Ye Xiao was struggling.

“Forget it. Go on with your own business. Just leave

alone.” Ye Xiao waved his hand instructing the steward to move away.

Ye Xiao collected his thoughts for a long ti and eventually decided to change his appearance. For him, who used to be the world-renowned Xiao Monarch, it was child’s play to change his appearance by transferring his spiritual power. Besides, now he was... an expert of the Grade of Diyuan.

Although the Pei-Yuan Dan wasn’t good stuff in Ye Xiao’s eyes, it should still be considered one of a kind of tonics in this mortal world... So it would be better not to be found out that he was the one who released them to the public...

Otherwise, there would be endless troubles for him.

A face with a dark and rough look, whiskers that seed to have been growing for over 30 years and an extrely muscular body.

That was exactly what Ye Xiao looked like after disguising himself. After checking himself out in the mirror over and over, he eventually nodded with satisfaction and then put on a bamboo hat as an extra form of insurance to keep his true identity hidden.

“The Ling-Bao Hall Salesroom!”

Ye Xiao was standing in front of the biggest salesroom in town. It was where tomorrow’s auction was scheduled to be held. It was already bustling with people concerning themselves with decorating this salesroom in preparation for the auction that would take place the following day.

What Zuo Wu-Ji wanted, would appear at this auction...

“Well the na of the salesroom... is truly decent.” Ye Xiao was looking at the busy staff and thinking deeply, murmured in his head, “Wasn’t there a Heaven Attaining Salesroom in... I wonder if all these salesrooms are connected to each other, perhaps they’re just branches?”

He threw his thoughts aside for now and stepped through the door.

“Please hold on, warrior.” A man with a goatee from the salesroom ca up to him and smiled fawningly, “The auction will not start till tomorrow...”

It was an obvious statent: Don’t co before tomorrow.

“I co bringing business.” With a raucous voice, Ye Xiao talked chillily, “How can I not know that the date for the auction is tomorrow? That is exactly why I am here today. Go fetch

your boss. Ask him if he wants so supre dan on his auction. If you don’t do this quickly, I will turn around and leave!”

“Supre dan?” The man with the goatee frowned lightly.

In the Land of Han-Yang, there would only be one in every one thousand people capable of making drugs. For a drug-maker to be able to reach such a level that he can create a dan, not even one in ten thousand drug-makers would reach such a level! As for dan, it was a wonderful thing that even an unfathomable cultivator couldn’t easily obtain!

Moreover, it was the supre dan!

But this guy...

“If you don’t mind

asking sir, the dan you are talking about... Could you show it to ?” This goatee-beard man changed the term of address at once, from warrior to sir.

Ye Xiao let out an annoyed grumble and without further ado shook the bottle in his hand, before taking its lid off.

Suddenly, a dense wave of wonderful scent was released.

The governor could only manage to get a asly sniff of it before Ye Xiao had decided to reseal the bottle. Even so, with just a sniff, the governor felt his entire body relax and a comfortable feeling entered his heart.

“Please follow . I will bring you to our most capable connoisseur imdiately.” Only with a sniff, the governor could judge: This supre dan was very likely genuine!

As the governor of the salesroom, he was naturally well inford, but today was still the first ti that he got to appreciate this wonderful scent.

All the ordinary tonics, even other valuable materials that were nearly upper-grade, were unable to be as precious as this!

Ye Xiao sat on a fauteuil as if he was a warrior carrying a golden sword and riding a giant horse. He tasted the tea unhurriedly with a certain calm and confidence showing on his face.

In front of him, the governor had returned in haste, “Sir, Master Guan from our salesroom is here. Master Guan is the number one connoisseur in our Heaven Attaining Salesroom! He’ll definitely be able to tell, if the dans you’re intending to sell are authentic or not.”

Behind him, there was a white-bearded old man radiating vigor.

“May I have your noble na please?” The white-bearded Master Guan smiled gently, “And your title?”

Ye Xiao smiled flatly, “Old gentleman, are you considering... the possibility that there is a dan-maker in this kingdom? Or should we say... That there hasn’t been a dan-maker of such a high level for many years in this kingdom??”

Master Guan laughed, “I didn’t say that. There is always a smarter person and there is always a higher heaven. There is always what we cannot imagine, but nothing that can not be done... However, I have been staying here in the Chen-Xing City for 20 years. If you, sir, have actually brought so real dan... it would only be the third ti that I would have the opportunity to auction dan in these 20 years! That is not only a great honor for the salesroom, but also for !”

Ye Xiao was deeply shocked by his words!

He had still underestimated the value of dan in this mortal world!

Although dan was sothing ordinary and common in the cultivation field, that was when it was in the Qing-Yun Realm!

A dan with the efficacies of fortifying and nourishing the body was almost the sa as rubbish in the Qing-Yun Realm. Who of all those elite cultivators in the Qing-Yun Realm would need such a thing? They wouldn’t even have bothered to bend over and pick it from the ground!

But in the mortal world, a dan like this was enough to be called the immortal dan!

Only one portion could cure hundreds of illnesses!

Only one portion could bring fitness!

Only one portion could heal all wounds!

Moreover, the Pei-Yuan Dan brought by Ye Xiao was actually the top-quality supre dan!

“Here I congratulate you on having such great luck today. You can be sure that this is your third ti to auction dan.” Ye Xiao said flatly, “Besides... If I can get a good deal this ti, maybe you will... have the fourth and the fifth great honors like this one!”

Master Guan trembled as he stroked his white beard and started to observe Ye Xiao. He carefully went over Ye Xiao’s characteristics, his dark skin and the bamboo hat which he had worn despite being indoors, and then he said solemnly, “I am Guan Wan-Shan. I dare ask how I should called your honor?”

Ye Xiao smiled, “I am... Feng Zhi-Ling.”

“Greetings, brother Feng.” Guan Wan-Shan nodded and smiled with a fist and palm salute. [3]

Ye Xiao calmly nodded while retaining his previous posture. He would have never thought that the false na he had just now casually picked would turn out to beco world-famous and universe-renowned... Many, many years later, it would beco a legend in this world: The most honorable, the most handso, the most unrestrained, the most elegant and the most magnanimous... The perfect-five [4] dan-maker in the world. (Eh-hem, let

play the role... I should be handso and unrestrained sohow...— words from the author)

“However, I should still see the dan first.” Master Guan straightened his clothes and sat properly. His words might be mannerly, but what he ant was unavoidable.

Ye Xiao wasn’t surprised. He took out the jade bottle from his clothes and casually put it on the table.

Guan Wan-Shan looked surprised. “If it is really supre dan, how can he keep them in such an inferior bottle?” He suddenly started to question the authenticity of these dan. But the next mont, when he took over the bottle and opened it, a dense stream of qi flowed out, which made Guan Wan-Shan’s expression change instantly!

His hands were shaking vigorously as he tried to seal the bottle very cautiously. It seed as if he was afraid to let the scent flow away even just a little bit!

Guan Wan-Shan took a deep breath to calm his fast beating heart down. When the dense scent had only barely reached his nostrils and he had felt the qi of life [5] which was the most potent qi he had ever seen in a dan, he realized...

As of now, even the thought of suspecting or disdaining the items taken out by this man in front of him had turned into a massive joke.

This was the most valuable dan he had ever co across in his entire life!

The very next mont he started giving a quick sequence of orders, “Sobody, anybody, quick! Bring

my Purple Crystal Plate quick, and my Purple Jade Bottle... Bring

my Dan-Yang Mirror, hurry!. Quick quick quick...” Then he turned around and asked Ye Xiao in a straightforward manner, “Brother Feng... The urh... How many pieces of this kind of high quality dan are you looking to sell? Just one? Or maybe two? Or...”

His voice was quivering. A 50, maybe 60 years old man, had his face reddened all over and his eyes filled with earnest eagerness and even a little craze.

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[1] Dan: One kind of dicine, mostly with miracle efficacy. Pellet-shape pills.

[2] Gold bars: we have decided to change the monetary system from kilograms to bars. 1 bar of gold = 1 kg of gold. We will make changes in the earlier chapters soon.

[3] Fist and palm salute: To cup one’s hands in obeisance or greeting. The right hand is clenched in a fist. The left hand thumb is bent, and the four fingers are stacked and straight. The palm of the left hand is placed over the fist.

[4] Perfect-five: Used to describe Ye Xiao because he has five qualities maxed out- The most honorable, the most handso, the most unrestrained, the most elegant and the most magnanimous

[5] Qi of life: A form of qi which is found in all living beings.