Longevity through Upgrading Buildings-Chapter 277 - 164: Canglan Sword Embryo, Complete!

Chapter 277: Chapter 164: Canglan Sword Embryo, Complete!
Ji Yuan sighed when he saw this.
"Senior, this is my biggest secret. You have to keep it for me, alright?"
"Where in the world did you get this thing? Elixirs that assist with body foundation establishment—this is basically defying the heavens..." Isle Master Tie Chui really couldn’t figure it out.
Ji Yuan took out the speech he’d prepared in advance. "I’m an alchemist myself, and I happened to inherit the legacy of an ancient pill master. In his inheritance, there was the method for refining this elixir. Now that I’ve completed my body foundation establishment, I thought I’d give senior a hand."
"Your luck sure is something."
Upon hearing this explanation, Isle Master Tie Chui didn’t have any doubts.
Inheriting a predecessor’s legacy is a perfectly normal thing. The only difference is the size of the inheritance, that’s all.
"These elixirs definitely don’t come cheap. Just the fact you’re giving this to me, I’m already getting a huge favor from you. I won’t say anything else—at least let me pay for the herbs."
Isle Master Tie Chui paused to think, "Fifty mid-grade spirit stones for one elixir, is that enough?"
Fifty mid-grade spirit stones... Ji Yuan did a quick calculation. The blood essence comes from the pigsty, basically zero cost, and the quenching acupoint pearl also comes from the pigsty, but each spirit pig can only produce one, so at most it costs about ten spirit stones, and that’s low-grade ones.
Now, Isle Master Tie Chui was offering fifty mid-grade spirit stones straight up.
Isn’t that one buck of cost, turning around to sell for five hundred?
"That’s too much, senior. Just give me thirty spirit stones, that’s plenty."
Ji Yuan didn’t want to take too much from the guy. After all, you can’t solve the quenching acupoint process with just one or two pills.
He estimated that even if Isle Master Tie Chui was fast, he’d still have about two hundred acupoints left to temper.
"You sure that’s enough?"
"Absolutely enough."
"Fine then, these are the spirit stones for the elixirs."
Isle Master Tie Chui tossed over a storage bag, then without missing a beat, swept up the bottle of elixirs from the table.
"Alright, kid, get outta here."
"Huh?"
"What are you looking at me for? Hurry up and go refine pills for this old man! Damn, once I get my body foundation established, let’s have another rumble—you’ll see what ’robust in old age’ really means."
"Heh, then I’ll hold back the last pill, only give it to you after I’ve beaten you down."
Isle Master Tie Chui: "..."
"You win, you win—fine, you’re the only one I’ll ever admit defeat to."
Ji Yuan pocketed the spirit stones and left, laughing heartily at the sky.
But as soon as he left Hammer Island, he switched back to his low-key and cautious self, even keeping his head down piloting the flying boat.
This trip back only took about a month.
He soon received a transmission from Du Wanyi.
Han Feiyu successfully reached foundation establishment!
Nowadays, in the technically-defunct Water Dragon Sect Mutual Aid Association, he became the second person after Ji Yuan to succeed at foundation establishment.
Mentioning the Water Dragon Sect Mutual Aid Association reminded Ji Yuan of something he’d heard not long ago.
When Han Feiyu first took over as the association leader of the Water Dragon Sect Mutual Aid Association, a bunch of people gave him the cold shoulder—some even skipped the gatherings every time.
But once he came back from the Nine Nether Cave Heaven and became the disciple of Master Xuan Shui at the Golden Core stage—
Everything changed.
The folks from the mutual aid association practically wanted to have small meetings every three days, big meetings every five, showing up at his door for every single one, calling him "Association Leader" at every turn.
Han Feiyu went to a few at first, but once he realized all these people were scheming to wring some benefits out of him, he stopped going entirely.
As soon as Ji Yuan heard the news, he sent his congratulations to Han Feiyu without delay.
Han Feiyu seemed to have already picked out his island, and Master Xuan Shui had even helped him prepare it in advance. The only thing left was the opening celebration.
Ji Yuan didn’t do this, but Han Feiyu had to.
And not just do it—he had to go all out.
The main reason was because he’d become the sect leader’s disciple, and Master Xuan Shui even seemed to want to turn his island opening celebration into a big "networking event."
Rumor had it quite a few Golden Core Zhenren would show up.
So this island opening celebration was no longer something Han Feiyu could call the shots on—even the date got pushed back by a few months.
No rush for the celebration.
Han Feiyu came to find Ji Yuan.
With advance notice, Ji Yuan had already come to wait for him at Wuyou Island.
A day later, when Foundation Establishment cultivator Han Feiyu arrived at Ji Yuan’s Wuyou Island, he gave a round of praise as expected.
"When Brother Han’s Luo Hun Island has its grand opening, it’ll be way more impressive than my Wuyou Island."
"Don’t even mention it, sigh."
Han Feiyu waved his hand and shook his head. "Living in the jianghu, you don’t get to make your own choices. Honestly, I envy you, Brother Ji—free and easy, you get to cultivate every day and ignore all the worldly mess."
Ji Yuan just listened.
Back when they were still in Zengtou City, Han Feiyu was never the type who could sit idle.
"You have no idea, Brother Han—there’s plenty of people who envy your life right now too."
"True that."
Han Feiyu didn’t put on airs and admitted it readily.
After a bit of polite chit-chat, Ji Yuan got curious and asked, "So, Brother Han, what brings you here today?"
A few days earlier, Han Feiyu had sent Ji Yuan a message to check if he was in the sect.
Ji Yuan had no idea what Han Feiyu wanted.
But thinking that Han Feiyu had just reached foundation establishment, it was probably nothing major—most likely just wanting to share the joy—so he agreed.
And then Han Feiyu said he’d come today, so Ji Yuan returned from Mist Island to Wuyou Island early to wait for him.
"Actually, it’s nothing big, just wanted to ask if you’ve got some free time in the next couple of days?"
Han Feiyu chuckled as he asked.
"Oh?"
Ji Yuan didn’t answer right away since Han Feiyu hadn’t said what it was about.
It’s like when someone just asks "You there?"—it’s never straightforward whether you say yes or no.
But luckily, Han Feiyu got to the point quickly.
"We’re both from Cloud Rain Marsh, hometown friends from Zengtou City, and now we’ve both made it to foundation establishment. So I was thinking—do you have some time, so we can go back to Zengtou City for a visit?"