"Low-level energy detected: 85 points. Absorb?"
"Yes/No."
Mo Tang's face darkened.
Although he had specifically requested a rare medicinal herb, the Mitel Auction House lacked its own system and was unable to determine whether the herb met the intermediate energy standard. Therefore, this situation was unavoidable.
Looking at the Seven-Star White Orchid before him, it was one of the key auxiliary herbs for refining the fourth-grade Zhenyuan Pill. Could you say it wasn't rare?
As for the Zhenyuan Pill, it was a precious elixir that aided Douling cultivation.
Mo Tang currently possessed two, rumored to have flowed from the Alchemist Guild headquarters. Each one was worth nearly a million yuan, and each could be exchanged for over 400 intermediate energy points.
Of course, even though the Seven-Star White Orchid was useless to him, that didn't mean Mo Tang was at a loss.
After all, Mo Tang had the Yunlan Sect behind him...
The Seven-Star White Orchid was also a rare medicinal herb. Since he couldn't use it himself, couldn't he just take it to the Yunlan Sect and exchange it for useful herbs?
If I could find a few herbs that weren't too rare in the real world but could be evaluated by the system as intermediate energy, I might even make a killing!
It took him a full half hour to sort through all the herbs, sort them by category, and then store those with low energy back in his ring. He absorbed the rest, along with the magic cores and elixirs, and converted them into intermediate energy points...
"Intermediate energy detected: 5820 points total. Absorb?"
"Yes/No."
"Yes!"
Adding the remaining 932 energy points, Mo Tang now had 6752 intermediate energy points...
Honestly, that was a truly enormous number, comparable only to his gains from acquiring all the precious herbs left behind by the Wind and Thunder Emperor.
But this, in turn, left Mo Tang feeling a bit uneasy, as if the number didn't meet his expectations.
After all, he'd only been able to obtain over 5,000 intermediate energy points in a single ruin, yet now, after years of toil and a massive fortune of 70 million gold coins, he'd only managed to obtain this little...
After all, people are always insatiable!
Mo Tang, completely bewildered by what he saw, hadn't considered that Feng Lei Huang, a peak Dou Huang from the Zhongzhou world...
someone who mastered several Earth-level martial arts and possessed ancient artifacts like the Moon Chasing Bow, commanded resources far beyond the reach of the mere Mo family, or even the Mitel clan...
Even the mere legacy he left behind was, in the entire Jia Ma Empire, only comparable to the imperial family and the Yun Lan Sect.
Therefore, to be able to obtain so many intermediate energy points at once was truly a blessing!
After a long pause, Mo Tang's emotions finally calmed.
Recalling his recent thoughts, he let out a helpless smile.
It seemed he was still immature, nearly losing his mind over such a small thing...
He opened his system interface and looked at the numbers displayed, instantly dispelling all his previous frustration and resentment.
Over 6,000 intermediate energy points, Mo Tang estimated, would be enough to raise his cultivation to the Nine-Star Dou Ling level...
and even Dou Wang wouldn't be far off!
Furthermore, he still possessed dozens of rare medicinal herbs that hadn't met the system's standards. Returning to the Yunlan Sect and exchanging them with the sect, he could earn at least a few hundred energy points. Perhaps, then, he could truly become a Dou Wang!
"Dou Wang..."
Mo Tang couldn't help but sigh.
"Only at this level will I return to the Black Horn Territory without returning empty-handed..."
Although he was going to the Black Horn Territory to seek out Medicine Emperor Han Feng and request his help in refining medicine, how could he leave empty-handed in such a place?
Compared to the Gama Empire, the Black Horn Territory, this sinister land on the continent, possessed the high-level resources that Mo Tang truly needed.
Of course, Mo Tang's plans didn't stop there!
Ever since he used the system to absorb and transform the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire and gained his first source of energy, Mo Tang had been plotting to acquire more exotic fires...
The ones closest to him, and the ones he had the greatest potential to access, were Yao Lao's Bone Spirit Cold Fire, Han Feng's Ocean Heart Flame, and Canaan Academy's Fallen Heart Flame.
Of these three, only the Fallen Heart Flame was unowned, yet it was also the most difficult to obtain!
After all, Canaan Academy was too powerful. With Mo Tang's early strength, attempting to forcibly snatch the Fallen Heart Flame from them would be tantamount to seeking death.
As for following Xiao Yan's path, infiltrating first and then finding an opportunity to infiltrate the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower...
while feasible, it would be too time-consuming.
At least with Mo Tang's current strength, becoming a student was out of the question.
As for becoming a mentor, he will definitely not gain the trust of the academy in a short period of time. He may not even be able to enter the inner courtyard, let alone sneak into the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower...
As for Yao Lao's Bone Spirit Cold Fire and Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame... these two people are not easy to mess with.
Even without his body, Yao Lao, with the Bone Spirit Cold Fire, was no match for an ordinary Dou Emperor. Therefore, if Mo Tang wanted to obtain his alien fire, he would need to employ some cunning tactics.
This trip to the Black Horn Territory was conveniently intended to meet the Medicine Emperor, and Han Feng and Yao Lao were undoubtedly feuding, so there was plenty of room for maneuver.
With a sinister smile on his face, Mo Tang thought to himself, "The Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire is only nineteenth among the alien fires, while the Sea Heart Flame is fifteenth, and the Bone Spirit Cold Fire is eleventh. These three different levels of alien fire should yield varying amounts of source energy.
I just wonder how many energy points are needed to ascend to Dou Emperor status. Does it really require gathering all the fires, like Xiao Yan in the original novel? That would be quite a hassle!"
With a sigh, Mo Tang stared at the solitary point of source energy displayed on the system interface.
For some reason, a thought struck him, wondering if he could extract this source energy.
What he didn't expect was that the moment he had this idea, a ball of gray air suddenly appeared on the tip of his right index finger...
"This...!"
Mo Tang was startled, and then he was overjoyed.
Unexpectedly, this source energy could actually be taken out of the system!
Looking at the gray air mass in front of him that contained a mysterious aura, the first thing that came to Mo Tang's mind was the "chaos aura" that appeared in many fairy tales in his previous life.
It felt that the setting of this source energy was similar to the chaotic aura in many fairy tales...
Just when Mo Tang wanted to continue studying how magical this source energy was, he suddenly felt a movement in his chest, and then a colorful light flashed and passed through the gray air mass in an instant!
(End of this chapter)