Chapter 103: Derek
"A thousand year thunderblitz tree for every drop of blood?" Three Peaks Mountain Lord didn't believe her ears.
She looked at Adara and scoffed. She believed that it was entirely her plan.
Three Peaks Mountain Lord knew that Adara needed the thousand year thunderblitz trees and had been troubling her for a while for them.
"Your offer is too biased. A Mystical Flame is not that valuable, especially when it is not permanent" Three Peaks Mountain Lord argued.
She was right. The Vermillion True Flame would disappear once she had burnt through a drop of blood.
As a Grandmaster artificer, her need for high rank flames for refining was very huge.
"You underestimate the Vermillion True Flame" Lu Zheng snorted. "Not only will your refining abilities rise, you can also instil the drops of blood in high grade artifacts during refining to increase the grade of the artifact"
"How do you know so much about refining" Three Peaks Mountain Lord questioned.
"That's because… I am a Grandmaster artificer!" Lu Zheng did not hide the matter.
"Grandmaster?" Adara who stood on the side-lines was stunned again.
"Hmph! Lies are easy to tell without disapprovers" Three Peaks Mountain Lord scoffed.
Lu Zheng did not reply and only brought out Mei Luan before handing her over to Three Peaks Mountain Lord.
"This…!" The moment Three Peaks Mountain Lord held the sword, she could see the expertise behind it.
The sword was unbelievably sharp and contained to opposing energies of yin and yang held in a delicate balance.
However, Three Peaks Mountain Lord's shock was just the beginning. When she sent her soul consciousness into the sword, what she saw left her speechless.
"Spirit veins!" Three Peaks Mountain Lord exclaimed.
Inside the sword were many channels that resembled the blood vessels of humans in both structure and arrangement. At the centre of the channels was a single stone revolving at unbelievable speeds.
Never in her life had she seen spirit veins and artifact cores. To her, they were the stuff of legends.
"Which force do you belong to?" Three Peaks Mountain Lord asked. She refused to believe Lu Zheng was a lone martial practitioner.
"None" Lu Zheng smiled as he collected Mei Luan and sheathed her.
Adara stared at him like he was a complete stranger.
"I believe your claim" Three Peaks Mountain Lord was exasperated. She willed a glass vial from her spatial ring and gave Lu Zheng. "Fill it up"
Lu Zheng nodded and twisted the vial's cover, opening it. From his pores, Vermillion Blood flowed and filled it to the brim.
"I'm guessing that's over three thousand drops of blood" Three Peaks Mountain Lord said. "I don't have that much thousand year thunderblitz trees but I can interest you with other cultivation materials"
Lu Zheng was surprised for a moment before nodding.
…..
Adara and Lu Zheng walked out of the temple with bright smiles.
Lu Zheng had traded one vial of Vermillion Blood for three hundred thousand year thunderblitz trees, two million vital stones and many fire path, wind path, ice path and lightning path cultivation materials.
Space path cultivation materials were incredibly rare and soul path did not exist on Earth.
In addition to the spatial rings Lu Zheng had with him originally, his spatial rings had totalled eight.
He had two from the pirate ship and he gained three from Olina during their business transactions. Now, Three Peaks Mountain Lord had given him three more spatial rings.
"I should purchase a larger spatial ring" Lu Zheng thought.
The spatial rings he had were relatively large, each containing space the size of a mansion. However, the space was not enough to cater for Lu Zheng's needs.
"I never knew you were an artificer, especially one that's a Grandmaster" Adara said, bringing Lu Zheng out of his reverie.
"Huh? Oh yeah, that's natural. We only just met the day before" Lu Zheng smiled.
In truth, even Lu Shantian did not know Lu Zheng was an artificer.
It was after all a talent he brought from his previous life as Xue Ritian.
Adara and Lu Zheng engaged in small talk as they walked on.
When they reached the market place where the road divided into three, Lu Zheng purchased a larger spatial ring and transferred the contents of the eight into the new spatial ring.
The new spatial ring was very large. The space inside was equivalent to that of a small town.
Lu Zheng sold the rest of the spatial rings in exchange for the new one.
When they eventually left Three Peaks Mountain, the sky was already dark showing that it was already night time.
Lu Zheng attempted to tear open a spatial passage when he noticed that no matter how hard he tried, space would not even budge.
It was as if space had been frozen over.
"Don't bother yourself too much" A cold voice sounded as a man appeared before the duo.
Adara's expression became fierce as she knotted her eyebrows.
"Derek"