Chapter 109: Earth Dragon Grass
Judging from Darius’s tone, the beautiful saleswoman could discern that Darius intended to buy a quantum watch. Immediately, she respectfully brought Darius to the area dedicated to selling quantum watches. She then took out dozens of models. Not only were their designs beautiful, but they were also elegant-looking and convenient to use. They were all operated through a holographic screen, and even when carrying out vigorous activities, the clarity of the display and sound would not be affected in the slightest.
"Sir, as we are doing a promotion for the Sanctuary, you only need to pay 99.9 Gold Coins instead of the usual 100 Gold Coins to take the Quantum 3000 home."
Darius could not help but sweat at the saleswoman’s promotion. Just how was this any different from 100 Gold Coins? This price was practically unaffordable for the average cultivator if they did not possess well-paying guild missions or take a large number of missions, and even then, they would usually need to save up for half a year before being able to buy one.
However, Darius was indeed in need of the latest quantum watch. After all, it would be particularly convenient for him. Although using the system was possible, it was, after all, a very troublesome task. This was especially true when he needed to make transactions involving more and more gold, and especially Spirit Stones, in the future. The system had even told him it was a one-time thing, so doing it again wasn’t even possible in the first place.
"Give me this white one, then," Darius chose a good-looking model.
Under the beautiful saleswoman’s guidance, Darius carried out the bindings for his identity, original phone number if he had one, bank account, and so on. Darius then swiped using his new quantum watch after the system instantly transferred his one hundred Gold Coins, paying the bill for it. It was a very convenient item.
Now that he had obtained a quantum watch, Darius went on to purchase several medical herbs, spending a total of one hundred Gold Coins on them. Although it was painful to spend so much money, considering the future of his pavilion and the potential of his guardian, Darius still needed to do so. Otherwise, if he ever needed his guardian and the latter’s strength wasn’t up to par, then his pavilion would only lose reputation in the future.
Di... Di... Di...
His quantum watch rang and vibrated. He had already contacted the Apex Medicine Pavilion through the help of the communication center that provided all kinds of business numbers for free after a purchase and had asked them to secure one last medical herb.
While he had bought all the medical herbs he could from Livine City, there was still one missing called Earth Dragon Grass that he couldn’t find, so his only option was to contact Harley about it.
The reason behind his watch vibrating was that Harley had informed him about the last medical herb. There was news that a stalk of Earth Dragon Grass might have appeared in the Seven Lakes Mountains.
This pill formula had a total of four ingredients that belonged to the "extremely rare" category. Even Apex Medicine Pavilion did not have any of these ingredients in stock.
Or rather, the branch in Dragon City did not have them in stock. However, based on his current rank, Harley had no way of checking the stock of the larger branches, not to mention transferring something over. Even if that were possible, it would take several days for it to arrive from another city, which Darius wasn’t willing to wait for, especially given today’s news.
This pill formula was the one required to concoct a pill capable of healing John’s physique. The name of the pill was the Restore Origin Pill, a Tier-2 Grade pill!
Earth Dragon Grass was one of the four missing ingredients required by this pill formula. Thus, once he received this piece of news, Harley quickly went to inform Darius in person. Of course, while one reason was to inform Darius of the important news, he also wanted to seek guidance from Darius. Under normal circumstances, he would not dare to come and disturb him.
In fact, if not for Darius forgiving him, he wouldn’t even dare to show up personally, much less ask for guidance. However, he was disappointed not to find Darius inside his pavilion and could only contact him through the number he had called earlier.
Darius was naturally elated. But after carefully asking about the circumstances surrounding the Seven Lakes Mountains, he could only decide to temporarily postpone the trip.
The reason was that the person who brought the news was a strong warrior at the ninth layer of the Acupoint Qi Realm. By the time he was found by a team of herb gatherers, he was already close to death. He only managed to say "cave," "giant red snake," and "Earth Dragon Grass" before he died.
Thus, this led to the conclusion that there was Earth Dragon Grass within the Seven Lakes Mountains, yet there should also be a giant red snake standing guard over it. It had even managed to severely injure a strong warrior of the ninth layer of the Acupoint Qi Realm.
Yet Darius knew that where there was Earth Dragon Grass, there would usually be a Red Scaled Dragon Snake coiled nearby. The snake would absorb the weak Dragon Qi released by the Earth Dragon Grass to slowly evolve and complete its transformation from a snake into a dragon, wishing to become a flood demon dragon.
A mature Red Scaled Dragon Snake would possess cultivation comparable to the ninth layer of the Acupoint Qi Realm. Furthermore, because it possessed a trace of a dragon’s bloodline, its power far exceeded that of an ordinary warrior at the ninth layer of the Acupoint Qi Realm. It could be considered to have one foot in the Celestial Human Realm and was an invincible king of the Acupoint Qi Realm.
Should Darius enter the Seven Lakes Mountains at this stage... even if he managed to find that cave, there was no way he could be an equal opponent to the Red Scaled Dragon Snake—it would be useless even with John’s help, unless John also had one foot in the Celestial Human Realm.