Chapter 736: Yuan Ci Tells of the Treasures
Yuan Ci bitterly sighed, deeply recognizing Gui Teng’s shrewdness.
He now felt very regretful, how could he be so blind to bring in Gui Teng and conspire for the Wisteria Cache with them?
Even worse, Gui Teng had roped in, no, more like subdued Jiu Jin, Cong Mang, and Shi Liu.
“How did he accomplish this?”
“This is impossible!”
“He has a backer, he must have a backer!”
Yuan Ci was angry and bitter, but due to the pressing circumstances, he was forced to reply, “I only know about three of them.”
He pointed his finger towards the golden magic storage bag, “That is the Time Gold Purse, over time, gold will condense inside the bag.”
“It is an alchemy creation from the goblin era.”
“To my understanding, most of the gold coins come from that purse.”
“I was also involved in the arrangement of the Wisteria Cache.”
“All of the gold coins condensed in the purse are marked with the symbol of the goblin empire. Therefore, if we want to use them and not expose this treasure, we will have to recast them.”
Shi Liu was expressionless, while Cong Mang’s eyes lit up.
Elder Jiu Jin knew the ropes, and looked astonished, “What is the principle of this alchemy treasure? Don’t tell me it turns time into metal? Does it touch on the endless transformations of alchemy materials? Isn’t that one of three ultimate pursuits of alchemy?!”
What was referred to as the three ultimate pursuits of alchemy was the golden touch, the elixir of eternal life, and the universal dissolving compound.
Alchemy was founded and was initially developed to turn based matter into gold, for massive economic benefit. Nowadays, this field of research had many results. Turning base matter into gold was achieved, and even be said to influence other fields. Druids and magicians had their respective divine and arcane spells that could turn matter into gold.
But the ultimate pursuit of the golden touch was never attained, or in other words, it served a greater purpose in symbolism.
Technology was always failing and succeeding, always going a step forward. Small objectives were attained, and large objectives rose to the occasion.
At first, when master alchemists were able to turn things into gold, it took materials and energy far in excess of how much gold was produced.
They began to delve into how to decrease expenditures, costs, and increase earnings.
Then, master alchemists, during the process, learned how to turn materials into new materials, which automatically caused them to ponder, what other materials could be turned into gold?
Finally, gold was no longer the universal pursuit of alchemists, they began to study other substances meticulously, and how to turn things into those materials. At this step, the meaning of the golden touch had deepened to mean “endless transformation of matter”, that was an immense proposition.
The golden touch, as alchemy developed, constantly deepened in meaning, and was always one of alchemy’s three ultimate pursuits.
And the time coin purse Zi Di just gained was an immense achievement from the research into the golden touch.
This magic purse could turn time into gold, then refine them into gold coins. The refined gold coins were not exceptional. The true core secret had to do with “time”, turning an immaterial concept into tangible gold!
Zi Di was also rather shaken, thinking to herself: So long as this alchemy technology is researched, and appeared in this year’s Warm Snow Cup, they would dominate everyone and take first place!
“I fear reverse engineering the technology of this purse is not something the average person can do.” Zi Di shook her head and sighed.
Jiu Jin also nodded and lamented, “Yep. However, this achievement can absolutely save a lot of research and development, and trialing costs. This is a readily available pointer.”
“If we wanted to develop this research project, the royal family and the guild would energetically support it, and research funds would come promptly. But this is a product of the goblin empire, we would need to hire a goblin empire historian, a senior goblin language scholar, and a goblin spell researcher.”
But Zi Di suddenly thought of War Merchant.
Unfortunately, the legend level goblin magician War Merchant was dead.
Zi Di’s thinking couldn’t help but diverge, “If this treasure was given to War Merchant, they would be considerably interested in it.”
“At least, I haven’t found any data in the tower spirit’s database on War Merchant researching into this field.”
“To him, this would be a new task.”
With that in mind, Zi Di looked closely at the Wisteria Merchant Alliance’s former collaboration with War Merchant again.
Previously, she believed that when the Wisteria Merchant Alliance was in a dependent state, they decided to work with War Merchant. But now, just the sight of this Time Gold Purse changed her perception.
“The Wisteria Merchant Alliance was once massive, possessed astonishing wealth, and got ahold of a huge volume of materials or rare treasures, all of this was within the scope of their capabilities.”
“My Father sought War Merchant, and War Merchant likewise could use the Wisteria Merchant Alliance to find things he needed.”
Zi Di pondered, then looked at Yuan Ci, “Continue.”
Yuan Ci stated, “I recognize the second item, the crown. The Ice Crystal Crown is saint level equipment, one of the components of the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s armament [Ice Sculpture Monarch].”
Most didn’t react to that sentence, but Elder Jiu Jin was once again shocked, crying out, “You’re not mistaken?”
“[Ice Sculpture Monarch] is a saint level magic construct armament. When a saint level transcendent equips it, their battle strength soars and they will be able to fight a legend level to a degree. It is one of my country’s legendary foundations.”
“How did your…our Wisteria Merchant Alliance obtain it?”
Yuan Ci shook his head, “This I do not know.”
Yuan Ci then pointed at the small wooden box, “That is the Gem Wish Box. It is said that when a gem meteor fell from the sky, a Grandmaster Alchemist used it to create a foundation altar. During the Wishing God’s grand religious festival, said stone evoked divine blessing and was shaped by the Wishing God.”
“It is also a saint level item, and it can exchange and synthesizes gems.”
Yuan Ci’s words were brief, but this time, the other four were staring at this mediocre looking wooden box.
With no exception, Jiu Jin, Zi Di, the coarse fellow Cong Mang, and Shi Liu deeply realize the worth of this small wooden box.
With gem exchanging, one could turn the gems one had into rarer gems.
One must know, that although both were gems, the price of a sapphire and a ruby was different on the market. For example, the Ice Sculpture Kingdom was a source of white gems, so rubies were more expensive than sapphires here. In the Main Plane, stardust gems were the rarest and most expensive and frequently weren’t available to purchase.
If this small wooden box’s output was big, and didn’t consume much energy, then it was unto itself a top notch gem business.
The greatest value of the Gem Wish Box was not that, but gem synthesis.
It could use inferior gems, and through quantity, produce high level gems.
Since it was a saint level item, in other words, it could use gold level gems to produce saint level gems.
“This is a steady way of obtaining saint level alchemy materials! Heavens, the value of this.” Elder Jiu Jin lamented.
Yuan Ci painfully closed his eyes.
He coveted the Gem Wish Box.
“What about the other two treasures, do you three recognize them?” Zi Di asked Cong Mang, Jiu Jin, and Shi Liu.
The three shook their heads.
Zi Di replied, “Then let’s take them away first, and depart this place.
“Be careful.” Elder Yuan Ci promptly reminded, “This tabletop has a concealment and aura restraining effect. If we take them out without any appropriate measures, then these treasures will leak their transcendent aura.”
“I fear saint level transcendent aura will be detected by the large formation outside.”
Those words caused Elder Jiu Jin to look worried, “Elder Yuan Ci is correct!”
Zi Di smiled, “Don’t worry, I will act.”
After the door was opened, the dragonman youngster and Cang Xu followed in. The dragonman youngster was already in the secret room, while Cang Xu was left outside as support.
The two had deception divine spells on them, and Cong Mang and the other four didn’t perceive them at all.
Zi Di put the five level zero secret orders in the corresponding notches in the circular tabletop, activating it.
The locks inside issued a metallic click simultaneously, then the five treasures popped out slightly.
The moment the aura was about to leak, Zi Di lightly waved her hand, and the dragonman youngster used a deception divine spell.
The divine spell could mask aura, truly demonstrating that specialization had outstanding effects!
The minds of Yuan Ci, Jiu Jin, and the rest shook.
They didn’t sense anything when Zi Di used some transcendent method. On the face of it, Gui Teng simply waved their hand and the five treasures’ transcendent aura was totally concealed.
No one could tell!
Incomprehensible!
For a moment, Yuan Ci and others were more fearful of Gui Teng (Zi Di).
The five people worked together to take all of the suitcases out of the secret chamber.
The dragonman youngster personally used divine spells to test everywhere, and after confirming the secret room was empty, he told Zi Di.
After Zi Di received the confirmation, she had Yuan Ci close the secret room again.
“The Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s formation is getting stronger, Yuan Ci, it is getting more dangerous to stay in the Ten Millenia Ice Lake, come with us.” Zi Di issued her plan.
Yuan Ci had no other choice and just nodded.
Before leaving, the dragonman youngster gazed into the depth of the ice lake.
The Wisteria Cache’s treasure room was established in the century ice layer, and below it was the millennium ice layer and the ten millennium ice layer.
When the dragonman youngster entered the lake and used many detection methods. After personally practicing them, he noticed that these detection methods performed uniformly terrible.
“The Time divinity suppresses all other powers.”
“Only the Ice Sculpture Royal Family’s super-formation is strong enough to push back against the divinity’s power and be able to investigate the Ten Millenia Ice Lake on a wide scale.”
“It’s a true pity.”
“If I could use the Bloodcore to absorb the Time God Dragon’s corpse in the ten millennium layer, that would be amazing!”
But the dragonman youngster only thought about it.
Doing this was too difficult.
There were saint level aquatic magic beasts in the millennium ice layer.
In the ten millennium ice layer, there were many more saint level aquatic beasts, even groups of them together.
Not only that, but the closer one got to the dragon corpse, the stronger the time divinity was, the more it eroded and transformed the environment. Without special methods to break in, a short hundred meters might take someone ten years to walk across.