blogombal Chapter 7 The Heaven-Seizing Bottle
Chapter 7 The Heaven-Seizing Bottle
Upon returning to his cave, Wen Tianren could not contain his joy.
Despite having a system, he doesn't lack any elixirs these days.
However, he has no shortage of spiritual herbs that are easily traded in the market. He lacks many rare spiritual herbs, either because he has only collected the seeds or because the herbs are too young. For his cultivation level, it would be useless to replicate them.
If the "little green bottle" could be replicated, then as long as the seeds and roots of those medicinal herbs were available, there would be no shortage of medicinal herbs.
Wen Tianren calmed himself down and began to examine the small green bottle template burned into the system.
【Name】: Heavenly Bottle (Fragment) (Mysterious Heavenly Treasure)
[Efficacy]: This is the first Xuan Tian treasure born from the chaos when the world first appeared. It contains the remnants of chaos and the law of time. It draws the essence of heaven and earth, sun and moon to form spiritual liquid, which can accelerate the growth of spiritual plants. It also has various incredible supernatural powers under the law of time.
[Remaining Psionic Points]: 50000.
[Current psionic points can be copied]: 0.03%, containing a small amount of time law, can absorb the power of moonlight to form spiritual liquid, one drop is gestated every hundred days, and one drop can increase the medicinal age of the elixir by ten years.
[Note]: Due to interface suppression, it cannot be completely copied within the same realm, and it contains less of the chaotic remnants and time laws.
Upon seeing this template information, Wen Tianren couldn't help but gasp.
These 50,000 spiritual energy points are equivalent to 50,000 spirit stones, yet they can only replicate 0.03% of the power. It truly deserves to be called the number one Xuan Tian treasure in the world.
The last thing that appeared was something Wen Tianren had never seen before since acquiring the system. It seemed that even if he had enough spirit stones in the future, he would not be able to replicate the complete version of the Palm Heaven Bottle. Only a weakened version would be possible, due to the limitations imposed by the rules of heaven and earth.
This also reminded Wen Tianren that the Xuan Tian Immortal Vine that Han Li obtained later withered immediately after the fruit ripened, and the Palm Heaven Bottle was unable to grow another Xuan Tian Immortal Vine.
The interface suppression mentioned in this note is probably the case; there are too many heaven-defying treasures like the Heavenly Bottle that are not allowed in the world.
"I wonder how many Palm Heaven Bottles this system can replicate at most?" Wen Tianren looked at the small green bottle that could be replicated with 50,000 spiritual energy points. The spiritual liquid produced by it was far inferior to the original small green bottle in the human world in terms of both time and quality.
He stared at the data, pondering: "In the human world, the genuine Little Green Bottle can produce one drop every seven days, and one drop adds a hundred years of medicinal age. My 0.03% version is dozens of times less efficient; there's simply no comparison."
The Heavenly Bottle produces spiritual liquid of varying concentrations based on the spiritual energy concentration and size of the interface. In this mortal realm, it absorbs the power of moonlight and can produce one drop every seven days. Each drop can increase the medicinal lifespan of a spiritual herb by a hundred years.
Seeing this, Wen Tianren took out a storage bag and converted all the spirit stones inside into spirit energy points.
The information on the template also changed accordingly.
[Remaining Psionic Points]: 500000.
[Current psionic points can be copied]: 0.1%, containing a small amount of time law, can absorb the power of moonlight to form spiritual liquid, one drop is conceived every sixty days, and one drop can increase the medicinal life of the elixir by thirty years.
"This isn't just spending money, it's throwing money into a bottomless pit! Five hundred thousand spirit stones have been spent, and the power only increases by 0.1%. Moreover, the higher you go, the more spirit stones you need to upgrade."
Seeing that even 500,000 spirit stones could only produce one-thousandth of its power, Wen Tianren couldn't help but gasp. He sighed, marveling at how worthy it was of the Heavenly Bottle. Even though it was incomplete and lacked a bottle spirit, replicating it still required such a huge price.
"The spirit stones I've been saving up are meant to be used now. Since it's not enough, I'll add more." Wen Tianren gritted his teeth and took out several more bulging storage bags.
Every single one of them was filled with spirit stones. It could be said that in order to replicate this scaled-down version of the little green bottle, Wen Tianren had spent over 90% of the spirit stones he had carefully traded for spirit medicines, demon cores, and rare spiritual materials over the years, and had only kept a small amount of spirit stones for daily cultivation and for reselling spirit medicines.
After all the spirit stones were converted into spirit energy points, the template information changed.
[Remaining Psionic Points]: 5.2 million.
[Current psionic points can be copied]: 0.5% --- Contains a small amount of time law, can absorb the power of moonlight to form spiritual liquid, one drop is gestated every ten days, and one drop can increase the medicinal life of the medicine by ninety years.
"It's done!" Wen Tianren's eyes lit up.
One drop every ten days, one drop lasting nearly a hundred years—this is very close to the maximum efficacy that the genuine Little Green Bottle can exert in the mortal realm.
At this moment, Wen Tianren had almost used up all his spirit stones and had no more left. So he decided to just copy it to this extent for now. Anyway, the template was kept in the system, and he could copy an even stronger Little Green Bottle when he ascended to the Spirit Realm in the future.
Fortunately, the system can recharge everything containing energy except spirit stones, and the system can also recycle half of the spirit energy points when it is copied. In this way, when there are enough spirit stones in the future to copy better ones, the existing ones can also be recycled, resulting in more than two million spirit energy points.
With a thought, Wen Tianren's balance in the Spirit Energy Points column instantly reached zero, and at that moment, a slender-necked, emerald-green bottle quietly lay in Wen Tianren's palm.
Upon closer inspection, the bottle's shape was identical to Han Li's small green bottle.
It was a verdant green, unlike the dark green of the small green bottle, and brighter than Han Li's dark green palm bottle. It also had fewer leaf patterns, and a small cap tightly sealed the bottle opening at the top.
Wen Tianren twisted the bottle cap hard, but the top cap did not loosen at all.
He knew that this bottle, like the little green bottle, would be difficult to open with brute force if it did not absorb enough moonlight to produce spiritual liquid.
"Not bad, not bad, good treasure. From now on, I'll call you the Heaven-Seizing Bottle. Seize the creation of heaven and earth and use it for my own purposes!" Wen Tianren was so fond of his newly acquired youth version of the Heaven-Seizing Bottle that he immediately gave it a domineering name.
Then, Wen Tianren turned around and connected his current cultivation chamber with the adjacent herb garden. In his cultivation chamber, he specially created a hidden spiritual spring that could receive moonlight.
Although the Heaven-Seizing Bottle wasn't his biggest secret, it was a heaven-defying artifact in the cultivation world. If outsiders knew he possessed such a treasure, he would likely face endless pursuit.
Wen Tianren had no intention of letting anyone know about the existence of the Heaven-Seizing Bottle, not even his loyal subordinate Qingyu.
He wouldn't test someone's heart in something so detrimental to him, not because he didn't trust her, but because people's hearts can change. Sometimes, not testing loyalty is the best protection for each other.
After creating the spiritual spring, Wen Tianren carefully placed the Heaven-Seizing Bottle in the center, waiting for night to fall and the moonlight to shine down so that the Heaven-Seizing Bottle could absorb the moonlight and produce spiritual liquid.
Instead of waiting idly in the cave, Wen Tianren recharged the remaining spirit stones into the system and then, after a series of operations, copied another batch of rare spiritual herbs and demon cores.
He then quietly left the sacred mountain, changed his appearance, and infiltrated Tianxing City.
For the next nine days, he moved like a ghost through various markets and underground trading venues, controlling the quantity he sold each time and never being greedy. After selling everything, he would change locations, appearances, and identities—he was extremely cautious.
After all, if he is targeted by the Star Palace or the forces of good and evil, and it is discovered that he frequently sells rare resources, he will be questioned at best, and at worst, he will be hunted down as a "mobile treasure trove".
Nine days later, under the cover of night, Wen Tianren returned to his cave in the sacred mountain.
"Phew, this reselling business is really tiring, even more tiring than cultivation. I've only earned a little over 400,000 spirit stones in nine days. I wonder when I'll be able to earn back all the spirit stones I've already spent."
If cultivators from the outside world heard this, they would be furious. Hunting demonic beasts not only involves risking their lives, but also the costs of traveling back and forth via the Star Palace teleportation array, the talismans used, and the magical artifacts destroyed—all of which cost spirit stones.
After killing demons and obtaining their cores and materials, one still has to haggle with the shops. After all that hard work, the spirit stones earned are used for cultivation and purchasing cultivation resources, so one can't accumulate many spirit stones.
Wen Tianren, after performing a series of copying operations, only spent some time and effort and obtained spirit stones several times their wealth, yet he was still complaining about being tired.
"No, this won't do. We might get caught if we continue like this. I need to think of a way to find someone to help me sell these things in the future, preferably to other islands in the Chaotic Star Sea."
It's just that Tianxing City is too big, with many markets, and Wen Tianren changes his form and moves to different places after each transaction. This sudden appearance of so many rare spiritual herbs and demon cores has already raised suspicion.
As the number of transactions increased, Wen Tianren grew increasingly worried. This place was right under the nose of the Star Palace, teeming with high-level cultivators and numerous informants. He realized he couldn't just sell his goods in Tianxing City anymore, or he would be discovered sooner or later.