Chapter 999: Sign-in to the Alchemy Peak
Principal Wu Zhou had accompanied the three brothers to find a location to their liking, one for living and the other for their future cafeteria. Principal Wu Yao also worked fast. A school wide announcement had been declared this afternoon saying that the Hong Brothers had joined the Black Cloud Academy as guests and they would be opening a cafeteria that sells dishes made of seafood. Upon hearing this, the students and teachers were all delighted. The seafood dishes in the first cafeteria only appear once or twice a month which didn’t reach the demands of the students.
Moreover, a lot of people already knew about the Hong Brothers and despite being Blood Demon Halflings, they would secretly help people of their academy whenever they got lost at the Blood Sea Tribe’s Territory. The students all knew it was because the Holy Saintess was ordering seafood that these three brothers were looking after the people from their academy. Some teachers had also witnessed how they had ignored the other outsiders who were killed by some Blood Demons at the Blood Sea Shore. The Hong Brothers didn’t have the heart to warn them after they called them monsters.
Upon the arrival of the Moon Goddess at the Alchemy Peak, the sound of the system had rung in her head once again. After all, ever since the system had upgraded this is the first time it records this location for sign in attempts.
[Ding! A new location, Alchemy Peak, had been detected as a sign in location. Would the Host want to sign-in?]
"Sign-in," said Yue Xuexia.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host. You have received the reward, Divine-grade Nine Dragons Cauldron!]
"Not bad. With it I should be able to make pills much more easier," said the Moon Goddess while looking at the small golden pot with nine revolving dragons around it. "Qiuqiu, can I use a rebate voucher for a treasure of this level?"
[...] The system was speechless. Cloning a treasure of this level though it is not impossible getting a whole hundred is not possible.
[Xue’er, this is Divine-grade treasure! It’s one of a kind. If you used a rebate voucher in it, it would only give you a lower grade than it. One divine-grade treasure is equal to 5 Semi-divine grade treasures. A Semi-divine grade treasure is equal to 10 king-grade treasures. One king-grade treasure is 50 Spirit-grade treasures. One Spirit-grade treasure is 100 Gold-grade treasures. One gold-grade treasure is 150 silver-grade treasures. One Silver-grade treasure is 200 bronze-grade treasures.]
The Moon Goddess thought for a moment and asked, "At what grade of treasure can an average student from the Black Cloud Academy be bound by blood?"
[The weakest among the students is at Mahayama Realm, the strongest is at least Peak Mahayama or Quasi Godking realm. Their souls can only bear Gold-grade treasure for soul contracts anymore and they would explode.]
The Holy Saintess asked, "How about the teachers of the academy and the people of the Pill Tower?"
[For the young disciples of the Pill Tower, their level is a bit higher than those at the academy. They can bear a Spirit-grade treasure connected to pill refining. As for the seniors, they are at least in the God King realm. Early grade can contract with King-grade treasures and specially talented ones like that from the Han Clan can contract a Semi-divine grade artifact.]
The Goddess of the Moon fell in her deep thoughts for a while as if calculating something and asked, "Like the first time I’ve used the rebate voucher, the original item will not disappear after using it right?"
[Y-Yes. Xue’er what do you plan to do?] The system called Qiuqiu nervously asked.
Yue Xuexia said, "I want to use a rebate voucher on the Nine Dragon Cauldron. But I don’t want everything to be a Semi-grade clone of the item. Convert one each grade to something lower and stop only at Gold-grade one. Is it possible?"
[You want that much cauldron? With the level of your natal flame, a heaven grade fire would require at least semi-divine grade cauldron. You already have the Nine Dragons Cauldron, the rest didn’t matter to you!]
"No worries. I plan to give it away. That should be fine right? They are my people," said the Moon Goddess. "After getting the rebate rewards I will get a five-semi divine grade Cauldron. Converting one of them would give me ten king-grade cauldrons, converting one king grade cauldron will give me 50 spirit-grade cauldrons and converting one spirit-grade will give me 100 gold-grade cauldrons."
[Are you serious, Xue’er?] The system asked dumbfounded. Except for the few usable semi-grade cauldrons, the other low level ones would just explode if Yue Xuexia used it for her alchemy refinement.
When the system saw the Goddess of the Moon nod her head, he realized that she truly wanted that much junk. He can only sigh in his heart and accept her request.
Sigh~
[Alright. You can use a Rebate Voucher and I will handle the recycling of items.]
The Moon Goddess pulled out one of the 400+ rebate vouchers in her system and pasted it on her cauldron. Then the system’s announcement rang once again.
[The Host had used the Rebate Voucher on the Divine-grade Nine Dragon Cauldron.]
[Since the item is at Divine-grade and is considered one of the kind, the system will compensate the host with something lower grade than the original item. As for the host’s request, one of each grade item will be recycled for something lower-grade.]
[Congratulations to the host for using the Rebate Voucher. You have received 4 semi-divine grade, 9 king-grade, 49 spirit-grade and 100 gold-grade cauldron artifacts.]
[Everything had been stored in the system’s storage. You can check it anytime.]
The Goddess of the Moon checked her system storage and realized that her rebate voucher had become one less and numerous cauldrons were piled up as per her request. After getting what she wanted, she went to the Alchemy Peak where the Pill Refining Hall is located and began her lesson on alchemy. People from both the Pill Tower and Alchemy Peak had long been waiting for her arrival. Yue Xuexia taught Alchemy all afternoon after reaching the Alchemy Peak.
The things at the Black Cloud Academy are the same as usual with each peak busy with their own things and the ordinary class ongoing with the ordinary students learning the basic things among the other peaks.
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On the other hand at the Core Haven...
A new rumor had spread which almost made the whole haven explode in disbelief. They said that the Yue Family after returning from the Inner Haven, people had seen that the Eldest Moon Princess had also returned with them. At the docks of the Everlasting Moon Empire where flying vessels landed, people who were there at that time had seen the Eldest Moon Princess descending with their Everlasting Moon Empress. Leaving everyone shocked and dumbfounded. Moreover, when someone in the palace had called the eldest princess, Yue Xuexia, they were instantly corrected by the princess.
"You called the wrong name. I am not Xue. I am the former Moon Empress and my name is Yue Xuehua, not Xuexia."
People at the palace, the ministers and royal guards were all stunned. They stare at their eldest princess and realize that this young lady truly looks exactly the same person as the paintings from decades ago.
In the end, rumors like this spread all over the Immortal World and the Everlasting Moon Couple had to make an official announcement explaining who is the Moon Princess who had come back with them. When they heard that she is indeed stupid moon princess decades ago, and that she is not the same person as the Moon Goddess from the late rumors who cursed the Fairy Queen, everyone was shocked to their core.
After all, how can there be two people with similar faces yet possessing different names? However, this announcement came from the Everlasting Moon Emperor himself. It cannot be openly questioned as a lie and no one dares ask him to his face. Eventually, the fact that the former Moon Empress had come back to life left the whole Immortal World in chaos. They couldn’t understand how two Goddesses of the Moon exist in this era and why the Ancient Moon Clan is too welcoming of the fact that their eldest daughter had split into two people.
This news is simply unbelievable that others couldn’t easily accept this. This is especially true for some people who had connections to Yue Xuehua in her previous life. Like the Immortal Star Emperor, Xing Xieju.
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At the Immortal Star Empire...
After the news of the previous Moon Empress’s return had spread in the whole Core Haven, the moment this reached the ears of the Immortal Star Emperor, Xing Xieju was shocked to their core. He had always believed that the Moon Goddess who called herself Yue Xuexia is the same woman he had fallen in love with in the distant past. Even though Yue Xuexia always denies their past, she will always be the reincarnation of the former Moon Empress, Yue Xuehua and that her name had only changed.
Now the rumors had flipped over this belief of his. The fact that there is someone in the Moon Palace who dares to use the name of Yue Xuehua, Star Emperor Xing Xieju, has almost gone insane. He simply couldn’t believe that in this era, the woman he loved had split into different people. One that represents the past and the other the present.
"NO! This is impossible! How can there be two Goddesses of the Moon!" The Immortal Star Emperor denied with all his being as he tried to calculate and divine the truth about these rumors.