Chapter 12
He was a man who fought with fists. But even he could tell.
Jiang Chen felt a basin of cold water being poured on him. His blood was freezing cold.
He didn’t know why, but when he was brandishing his sword he felt awkward and clumsy. His movements were not coordinated. Hardly did he exert the first movement when he almost hurt himself.
“Well, I might not be talented. But this is ridiculous.” Jiang Chen looked at the sword in his hand, unwilling to be resigned to such a result. He had had a high expectation for himself due to his achievements in the winter hunt.
“Don’t be frustrated, Young Lord. Just try some other weapons. I’ll carry the weapon rack here.” Fan Tu couldn’t bear to see his young lord’s frustrated look, so he intended to carry all kinds of weapons to him.
Hardly did he get an answer from Jiang Chen when he rushed away.
Jiang Chen sat onto the ground, feeling extremely anxious. Failure is not easy to accept.
“If you adopt a weapon, you have to change it into your third hand. We lack talents, so we can only focus on the two hands we have.”
“Young Lord, you have different talents, but you have limited time. So you should focus on only one thing, otherwise you will become adept in nothing.”
“Don’t worry, Uncle Fan. I know that.” Jiang Chen smiled.
He wanted to enhance his swordsmanship by practical fights. But soon he recalled that the most urgent thing at the moment was to achieve the Gathering Yuan State. The swordsmanship was only icing on the cake.
“It’s impossible to achieve the Gathering Yuan State without any help. Father taught me to be patient, but people should make appropriate adaptations.”
Jiang Chen decided to find an opportunity to help achieve the Gathering Yuan State.
To refine panaceas!
Hua Yuan Pill.
It’s a panacea dedicated to help people break through to the Gathering Yuan State from the Condensing Qi State. It didn’t have a high class. Its materials are not rare, either. But it’s monopolized by various powerful forces in the Sacred Zone.
After all, this panacea helps people achieve the Gathering Yuan State easily, which will threaten those forces, so it’s necessary to have it under control.
Of course, those forces allow a certain amount of Hua Yuan Pill to circulate in the Sacred Zone.
As one of the top three forces, the Over Cloud Palace certainly had lots of Hua Yuan Pills.
So he went to the main hall with Fan Tu to talk to his mother. He wanted some money from her to buy medicine.
Arriving at the main hall, he saw all of the servants standing outside, and the door was closed. Jiang Chen walked over as Cher walked to him. He asked, “Cher, what has happened?”
Jiang Chen knew from her, who could never keep a secret, that it was the west courtyard’s trick. The spring festival was close. The four courtyards usually paid extra bonus to their servants at the end of every year. The east courtyard used to store many medicinal materials for the alchemist to work on panaceas. Part of the panaceas would be handed out to the servants, while the others would be sold. Without these medicinal materials, it was impossible for the east courtyard to have a peaceful spring festival. Otherwise, if the loyal servants of the east courtyard didn’t get any bonuses for the spring festival, they would feel not only disappointed, but also inferior to those of the west courtyard.
Now that the west courtyard realized this, they would take every opportunity to give the east courtyard a big blow. They even made the alchemist who had been collaborating with the east courtyard refuse to refine panaceas for them.
He would refine panaceas for them only if they increased his payment from the previous 30% to 50%.
At the moment, Gao Yue was discussing the prices with the alchemist inside.