The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 337 The Extraordinary Treasure Chest and the Grandmaster's Arrival from the West
The rooftop of the Chiyue Building.

As soon as Mond and the human woman in silver-gray clothing disappeared from sight, the people of Tianhe City were in an uproar.

"Who exactly is that female disciple from the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy? Why are the people of Misty Mountain City so respectful to her?"

"I see that the woman is at the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, and she is not even twenty-five years old. There are not many geniuses like her in our four major domain cities. Could she be the daughter of that elder from the Misty Mountain Domain City?"

"Impossible! Even if she is the genius child of that elder in Misty Mountain City, Lord Mond is a half-step Celestial Being. How could he be so respectful to the genius child of an elder?"

"That's impossible. Could this woman be the deputy city lord of Misty Mountain City, or perhaps the city lord's genius daughter?"

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For a time, everyone in Tianhe City was speculating about the identity of the woman in silver-gray clothing, filled with curiosity and doubt.

Mond of the Misty Mountain Domain City, as a half-step Celestial Being, and a half-step Celestial Being with deep accumulation, has reached the best age to break through to the Celestial Being Realm. It can be said that no one in the four domain cities knows him.

His status and position in the city are second only to the city elders; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him a quasi-elder.

It's clearly impossible for such an important figure to treat a Blood Condensation Realm disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy with such respect. The only possibility is that this Obsidian Martial Arts Academy disciple has an extraordinary identity; there is no other possibility.

"Senior Brother Yinghu, they went to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Shall we go and take a look?" The young man, who was at the high level of the Blood Condensation Realm, suggested to Yinghu with great curiosity.

The talented men and women from Tianhe City present couldn't help but look at their leader, Yinghu, their eyes filled with undisguised curiosity, hoping that Yinghu would agree.

The fact that even the dignified prospective elder Mond of the Misty Mountain Domain City treated this woman with such respect made everyone curious about her identity.

If it really is the genius child of some big shot, then it's a rare opportunity to get to know them.

The big shots in the four major cities all have many children, some with more than a dozen, and some with more than a hundred. However, the only children who can truly be valued by these big shots are those with high talent, like Rexxar. These are the real children.

As for the other children, they were not cared for at all. Apart from providing basic resources, they were left to fend for themselves. Only if they gave birth to children with high talents would their status in the family be improved.

The talented children of these powerful figures, especially the talented children of the city lord and deputy city lord, possess resources that are unimaginable to the super geniuses of the domain city. If one can get to know such people, even just helping them with a few things can bring resources that are normally impossible to obtain.

For example, the Elder's Cultivation Room, which only the most outstanding geniuses in the Domain City could painstakingly apply for, was something these people didn't need to apply for at all. They could simply use the City Lord's or Deputy City Lord's room. Moreover, the Elder's Cultivation Room was only a small part of the Domain City's cultivation resources. Some truly valuable items were difficult for even the most outstanding geniuses to obtain, but these people could get them directly without making any contributions.

Just like being led by the deputy city lord or the city lord into some special ruins deep within the forbidden zone, something that many elders envy.

“Alright, let’s go take a look too.” Shadow Tiger nodded.

His original goal was to collaborate with the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy to explore the forbidden zone together, searching for a way to quickly reach the third level of perfection in the third sequence of extraordinary martial arts skills, or a treasure that could enhance physical strength, so as to achieve the half-step Celestial Realm as soon as possible. After all, it is extremely difficult for a half-step Celestial Realm cultivator to break through to the Celestial Realm, and the sooner he achieves the half-step Celestial Realm, the better.

In addition, every ten years, the four major cities release a few special relics in forbidden zones. These are things that even half-step Celestials in the four major cities would fight tooth and nail for. If one cannot become a half-step Celestial as soon as possible, one will not even have the right to compete for them.

Moreover, he was indeed curious about the female disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts School who commanded Mondstadt's respect, and now that everyone wanted to go, it would be a good opportunity to find out.

Immediately afterward, Shadow Tiger led the group of Blood Condensation Realm geniuses to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Obsidian Martial Arts School, the master's lounge.

Wu Zhuoqun, who had just returned from Tianhe Domain City, reported to Lin Qi with a face full of shame.

“Master, although that Deputy City Lord Aris is very interested in the Fruit of Life, considering the attitude of the Red Moon Merchant Guild, he is unwilling to trade the manufacturing equipment for Energy Blood Essence. At most, he will exchange one Energy Blood Essence for three Fruits of Life, making it an exclusive purchase.” Wu Zhuoqun took out the Fruit of Life that Lin Qi had given him earlier and placed it directly on the table.

He had hoped that his trip to Tianhe Domain City would not only allow him to see the city but also to discuss this cooperation with Tianhe Domain City. However, after waiting for more than ten days in Tianhe Domain City and finally being received by Deputy City Lord Aris, the cooperation failed to be reached, which was a disappointment to Lin Qi.

"At most, you'd just buy it exclusively with Energy Blood Essence, and you're unwilling to trade it using the Energy Blood Essence manufacturing equipment?" Lin Qi glanced at the Fruit of Life on the table, slightly surprised.

Based on his understanding of the four major domain cities, they should not have any items that can regenerate severed limbs. Furthermore, the geniuses of the domain cities, who are honing their skills outside, are bound to get injured, and it is quite normal for them to become crippled.

He thought Tianhe Domain City would be very willing to agree to such cooperation. After all, geniuses are rare, especially those with high talent. If they become crippled and unable to make any progress, it would be a great loss to the domain city. However, Tianhe Domain City was unwilling to trade for the Fruit of Life, which was beyond his expectations. He did not expect that the Red Moon Chamber of Commerce would be so important to Tianhe Domain City.

As for the exclusive purchase of exchanging one Energy Blood Essence for three Life Fruits, this deal is too uneconomical. Although Life Fruits can be obtained simply by using monster blood, there is a limit to the number of Life Fruits that the Tree of Life can produce in a day. Currently, it can produce a maximum of thirty Life Fruits per day.

These Fruits of Life are not only of great use to him, but also to the local disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. Thirty a day is not enough for their own use, let alone for trading with Tianhe Domain City.

Furthermore, the amount of energy blood essence produced by Tianhe Domain City each year is limited. Even if he were willing to sell it to Tianhe Domain City, how much energy blood essence could Tianhe Domain City use to purchase it?
Spending ten or twenty energy blood essences a year is probably the upper limit, but ten or twenty energy blood essences are just a drop in the ocean for the huge Obsidian Martial Arts School, and are not even enough for one person.

He cultivates three training methods, and having already become a pseudo-transcendent life form, the consumption of his blood during each tempering is more than ten times that of an ordinary Blood Coagulation Realm cultivator. Twenty pills a year are really not enough for him.

However, although the consumption is great, the tempering speed is really fast. The advantage of advanced training methods is really incomparable to ordinary training methods. With the energy and blood essence guaranteed, those who cultivate ordinary training methods need several years or even more than ten years to reach the high-level limit of the Blood Condensation Realm. His three training methods probably don't even need half a year, which is like cheating.

However, correspondingly, anyone who cultivates these training methods consumes an exceptionally large amount of energy and blood essence. Not to mention a large number of players, even if you sold all the energy and blood essence of Tianhe Domain City for the entire year to the local disciples, it probably wouldn't be enough.

The Obsidian Martial Arts School of today is not the same as it used to be.

The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy now boasts over 50,000 players and nearly 3 million native disciples. The weakest of these disciples are apprentices, while the most powerful, like Ino, have already reached the Blood Condensation Realm. There are also many disciples at the mid-to-high level of the Bone Forging Realm.

Those who joined the martial arts school's guard team earliest, such as Xia Ling, are now at the Bone Forging Realm. Not long ago, Dona and Xiong Yuedie, who joined later, even reached the advanced stage of the Bone Forging Realm.

Currently, the martial arts school's garrison alone has over 800 disciples at the Bone Forging Realm. These are all geniuses who are 100% guaranteed to reach the Blood Condensation Realm in the future. Five hundred energy blood essences wouldn't be enough for these people for the next two months, let alone the players.

“It seems we still need to open up the market in the four regions as soon as possible.” Lin Qi thought for a moment and said, “Zhuo Qun, you should send people to send invitations to the major forces in the four regions, inviting them to participate in the next Crimson Moon Auction. We should focus on promoting the Fruit of Life and have it auctioned off with energy blood essence.”

"The auction is mainly promoting the Fruit of Life?" Wu Zhuoqun said with concern after hearing this. "Master, the Fruit of Life may be insignificant to Domain City, and it may not matter to those at the Blood Condensation Realm. However, if we promote it in the Four Domains, many forces in the Four Domains will likely have their eyes on the Fruit of Life. If these forces secretly plot against us, things will probably get uneasy." It can be said that most of the major forces in the Four Domains, except for the top-tier forces, are generally founded by Blood Condensation Realm experts. These Blood Condensation Realm experts are not exactly safe in the Four Domains. Injuries are commonplace. Once these people are crippled, their forces will decline instantly. Conversely, if a Blood Condensation Realm expert recovers, their forces will greatly increase. It is conceivable how much they value the Fruit of Life.

If we tell these forces now that there is a treasure that can regenerate severed limbs, they will definitely try to get their hands on it.

With the strength of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, it is indeed easy to wipe out these forces, but it is difficult to stop their clandestine actions, especially the private actions of experts at the Blood Condensation Realm. If they steal and run in Red Moon Town, or hide their identities in various places in the wild to target the disciples of the academy, forcing the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy to compromise and hand over the Fruit of Life, these are all very troublesome problems.

"Furthermore, auctioning the Fruit of Life to the major powers of the four domains so quickly might displease Deputy City Lord Aris of Tianhe Domain City." Wu Zhuoqun recalled Deputy City Lord Aris's uncompromising attitude during their conversation. If they were to suddenly auction the Fruit of Life for a high price using energy blood essence, it would undoubtedly be a slap in the face to Deputy City Lord Aris. Therefore, he suggested, "Master, why don't we put the matter of the Fruit of Life on hold for a while and introduce it at the next auction?"

"Let the deputy city lord be dissatisfied. He's unwilling to pay a high price, but I can't just refuse to sell my Fruit of Life, or sell it at a low price, can I?" Lin Qi shook his head, not intending to listen to Wu Zhuoqun's suggestion.

Although the four major domain cities are high and mighty, Tianhe Domain City has no jurisdiction over the Wushan area.

Wu Zhuoqun could only leave helplessly, hoping he had overthought things. Following Lin Qi's instructions, he sent people to notify the major forces in the four regions.

As Wu Zhuoqun left the lounge, Meng De, Luo Wushang, and others were standing at the main entrance, which surprised Wu Zhuoqun greatly. He couldn't understand how the gray-robed disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts School could be mingling with such a big shot as a half-step Celestial in Mist Mountain City.

"Master, I have something to hand over," Luo Wushang said respectfully as she looked at the open door.

Lin Qi looked at the two people outside the door who shouldn't be together, and then looked at Mond, a half-step Celestial, with a strange expression: "Are you together?"

“Master Lin, you misunderstand. I just had something to discuss with you and came here with this leader on the way.” Mond looked at Lin Qi, who had a puzzled expression, and said respectfully, “Master Lin, you can finish what you need to do first. My matter is not urgent.”

"Alright, please wait a moment." Lin Qi looked at Mond strangely, not understanding why this half-step Celestial from Misty Mountain City was so respectful. However, since Mond had said so, he naturally wouldn't refuse, and then let Luo Wushang in.

As she closed the heavy door to the lounge, Luo Wushang brought forward a metal box the size of a basketball.

"Master, this is a treasure chest I obtained in the restricted area. I wonder how much contribution points this can be exchanged for?" Luo Wushang looked at Lin Qi with anticipation, as if she were handing over some kind of treasure.

"You got this in the restricted area?" Lin Qi looked at the black box on the table, not understanding why these players always liked to present these things as treasure chests.

"This thing was dropped by an anomaly within the restricted area. I tried everything but couldn't open it or destroy it, so I think it might be helpful to you, Master," Luo Wushang said truthfully.

She actually wanted to open the treasure chest herself, but no matter what methods she used, she couldn't open the small, dark metal box. This reminded her of the treasure chests she had obtained before, which players couldn't open, but who could get a considerable reward by handing them over to the curator, Lin Qi. That's why she made a special trip back.

"You can't even open it?" Lin Qi looked at Luo Wushang, who was in the Blood Condensation Realm, and couldn't help but pick up the black metal box to examine it.

Once Luo Wushang enters her extraordinary state, she can mold C6 grade alloy like mud, but she can't do anything with a metal box the size of a basketball, which is enough to show that this box is not simple, at least the alloy level exceeds C grade.

After Lin Qi clicked a button on the black metal box, a strange yet familiar logo appeared directly on the palm-sized display screen.

A ball of golden flame!

Hou Fei had seen this logo in the materials about First City that he had given him; it was the logo of First City!

"Items from the First City?" Lin Qi looked at the black metal box in his hand, feeling a surge of excitement.

He sent the players to the forbidden area of ​​the Dead Mountain in order to find the First City. Although they did not find the First City, they did find its items. Moreover, the material of the black metal box was extraordinary. If it wasn't something good, it would never be contained in metal that even Luo Wushang couldn't destroy.

However, the excitement was only fleeting.

The fact that the entire metal box cannot be opened by external force indicates that a password is required, and deciphering the contents of First City is clearly not an easy task.

Just as Lin Qi was thinking about how to reward Luo Wushang, an indescribable surge of energy suddenly descended, suppressing the entire room.

At the same time, not only Lin Qi's rest room was filled with terrifying blood energy, but the entire Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and even the entire Red Moon Town, felt it at the same time.

Even before entering the main hall of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, Shadow Tiger and the others were struggling to move due to the powerful aura emanating from the training ground.

"This blood and qi!"

"This is the blood and qi of a Grandmaster! How could there be a Grandmaster in Crimson Moon Town?"

Yinghu and the others were all shocked to feel the same aura they had sensed from the elders of the Domain City.

"Over there! Someone's coming!"

The young man, at the high level of the Blood Coagulation Realm, pointed to a blurry figure in the distant sky, causing everyone to look in the same direction.

The figure in the distant sky could be vaguely identified as a Crystal Clan man. His flight speed exceeded ten times the speed of sound. In just one second, the blurry figure stood directly above Crimson Moon Town, overlooking the entire town.

"how come!"

"Why would the vice-captain of the Smiling Skull be here?"

"Doesn't the Fog Mountain Domain City prohibit any member of the Smiling Skull from entering the Fog Mountain area?"

Yinghu stared in disbelief at the Crystal Clan man standing proudly in mid-air.

The three vice-captains of the Smiling Skull are all Grandmasters of the Celestial Realm, and the Crystal Clan man above Crimson Moon Town is one of them.

Ghost hands!

(End of this chapter)