Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 692 - 692 218 Casting the Golden Hook (Combined 2 in

Chapter 692: Chapter 218: Casting the Golden Hook (Combined 2 in 1) Chapter 692: Chapter 218: Casting the Golden Hook (Combined 2 in 1) Leopard Elder pondered for a moment: “As for exactly how much was spent, given the former’s help to Yuezhou’s laws of cause and effect, I dare not make any rash comments about it. I’ll just give a simple rundown of the cost of the God Doctor’s treatment of me.”

“Alright!”

“Leopard Elder is very kind!”

Everyone simultaneously perked up their ears, clearly attempting to glean any hints from his words.

“As everyone knows, injuries to the source are the hardest to treat and heal. The God Doctor racked his brains for my injury. It’s common knowledge that the source of a cultivator is very precious. The damage to the source of a Human-Level cultivator is fundamentally different from that of a Heavenly-Level cultivator.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

“Furthermore, if a strong person at the Cloud Top or even a Supreme Level Nine Colors suffers damage to their source… It’s even more serious.”

“If a cultivator of Innate rank suffers damage to their source, merely a single Source Vermillion Fruit could treat it. I believe everyone is aware of this, since this is the specific healing effect of the Source Vermillion Fruit.”

Everyone nodded once more, indeed, everyone was well-aware of this fact.

However, the effectiveness of the Source Vermillion Fruit decreases significantly when used for the damaged source of a Human-Level cultivator, which everyone also knew.

For a higher level, it is completely useless.

But it can’t be denied that it is still a good item, valuable and hard to come by in daily life.

“My source injury has been longstanding and despite my substantial cultivation level, I still cannot avoid the reality of my life running out.”

Leopard Elder expressed his gratitude and said, “I’m fortunate to have had ten Yin Yang Vermillion Fruits of nearly ten thousand years of potency, and some Earth Core Jade. The God Doctor used these items as the cornerstone to extract and refine all their essences, even consuming two hundred Spiritual Pearls of seventh rank or above, including one hundred Spiritual Pearls of King Rank Demon Beasts, to power the process.”

As he spoke, most of everyone present gasped in astonishment.

The current consumption had exceeded their expectations. Was their own life worth so many high-quality resources?!

“Hiss…”

“Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss…”

The sound was almost like a gathering of snakes.

“…However, these were but the appetizers, not everything. Afterwards, the God Doctor used his miraculous methods to extract the Great Dao’s Qi from many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, transforming the pure essence into vigorous vitality. This finally eliminated the death qi from my body and brought about a new lease on life… leading to my current state, full of vitality.”

“What I need to emphasize is that the many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures consumed later on were just used to replenish vitality, and not the consultation fee for the God Doctor. The God Doctor has a benevolent heart and the so-called consultation fee was only a nominal charge. The only other request was for me to help look after the honest grocery store opposite, nothing more…”

Leopard Elder expressed his embarrassment towards the end, “To speak frankly, we are neighbors, and it’s our duty to look after each other… It certainly isn’t worthy of such a serious request from the God Doctor, but since he insisted… I had to accept it reluctantly.”

“However, after benefiting from this, I couldn’t just pocket the gains and keep silent about it. That’s something I could not do. Hence, during this period of time, I’ve been collecting all sorts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to give to the God Doctor.”

“This is absolutely not any consultation fee or anything of the sort, just a mutual exchange of gifts amongst friends. In my view, those items that contain vitality are exactly what the God Doctor needs for healing people. So if not given to him, who else could they be given to? I ask you all, wouldn’t it be absurd if after the God Doctor saves our lives, he has to provide his own medication?!”

“Whether you believe this or not, the God Doctor doesn’t care; however, I couldn’t let him bear the reputation of being greedy. Hence, I have gathered some of the leftovers from what the God Doctor used, such as those Vermillion Fruits and whatnot. Since Spiritual Fruits with deeply embedded vitality leave behind almost nothing, but things like Spiritual Pearls and Warm Jade do still have remnants after their essence is used up. One glance and you will know.”

Saying this, he had someone bring out a tray, and made a few rounds in the hall.

Everyone present was a cultivator and at one glance they could discern that those were indeed Spiritual Pearls. Moreover, they had been thoroughly stripped of their essence, and they had no idea how they had been refined to the point that they had no effect at all, yet their outward appearance was still complete.

And that Warm Jade was in the same condition: its shape was intact, but its essence was totally drained.

In other words, it had lost all of its unique properties and was just like a piece of rotten wood.

Without mentioning anything else, no one present had ever seen a Spiritual Pearl drained so cleanly. This was truly their first encounter with such a thing!

What Leopard Elder displayed was only a part of it.

But even that was enough to make many in the crowd turn pale.

They realized that their own illness… they couldn’t afford to treat it!

Leopard Elder saw the looks on everyone’s faces, and couldn’t help but smile bitterly: “Gentlemen, the appropriate medicine cures the appropriate illness. We surely can’t expect to treat fatal injuries with just some common herbs, can we? Everyone is clear about their own cultivation level, don’t fool yourself, lest you lead yourself astray!”

“Apart from this, take the hundred-year-old ginseng for example. Ordinary people know it’s good, but if they don’t know the way to use it and consume it directly, it can lead to death. Although such cases are not common, there are many recorded in medical books as a stern warning. However, any of you here, if you were to consume a thousand-year-old ginseng, would you die? No, right? On the contrary, it could nourish and replenish your vitality, whether a little or a lot, there is always some replenishment.”