Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend

Chapter 876: Chapter 745: Treasure Vault

All the materials must be found in this storehouse!

The Dong Envoy’s words were nothing short of a bolt from the blue for these competitors who had struggled to enter the top fifty and gain entry to the competition!

Not only was Ye Lingyue stunned, but everyone present was also taken aback, with some looking as if they had lost their mother.

Nobody knew how large the storehouse at the City Lord’s Mansion was, but one thing was certain: the top fifty competitors would need diverse materials to refine spiritual artifacts, and no matter how stocked a storehouse might be, it couldn’t contain everything.

Everyone cursed inwardly and complained that they should never have handed over their materials.

When Ye Lingyue first heard this news, her heart turned cold. She had poured her heart and soul into this World’s First Refining event; just preparing the dragon blood had almost cost Feng Xun his life.

She wanted to refine the Heaven Rank spiritual artifact ”Nine Dragon Chant,” requiring extremely rare materials, which some might never gather in a lifetime.

Was there dragon blood or a Phoenix Tail Feather in the storehouse? She wasn’t sure.

But if she didn’t enter, where would she find the materials?

Ye Lingyue struggled internally.

To enter or not to enter?

The wide-open door ahead was like a sneering mouth mocking Ye Lingyue and the others.

Just as Ye Lingyue hesitated, an image flashed through her mind.

It was the scene of the Divine Doctor Yun Sheng treating a patient during their chance encounter.

Like saving a life, Yun Sheng had his own methods, opening the skull and using a scalpel. If it were Jade Hand Poison Master, it would undoubtedly be the Ghost Sect Thirteen Needles, using poison to treat poison. But for her, Ye Lingyue, possessing Cauldron Breath, she would undoubtedly use it.

If saving a life could involve various means, why couldn’t artifact refining?

Could it be that a spiritual artifact would be subject to stricter requirements than a human life?

All materials have substitutes, even Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, Ye Lingyue realized in a flash.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

”Long Baobao, let’s go in together. If there aren’t the best materials, we’ll have to find substitutes,” Ye Lingyue suddenly said.

She had already made up her mind. If she couldn’t find them, neither could anyone else. Instead of waiting, she might as well take the initiative and find the most suitable materials first.

Long Baobao nodded, and with Ye Lingyue, Feng Xun, and Little Wuya, they entered the storehouse.

The other artifact refiners, including the Mu siblings, shook their heads in disapproval.

”Foolishness. Trying to find substitute materials for refining above Earth Rank spiritual artifacts is sheer nonsense. Does that Hei Yue even know about artifact refining?” Artifact refiners, including Lie Xuyang, scoffed from within the crowd.

Unlike Ye Lingyue, these noble family heirs from the various sects had been taught by family elders to use the best materials to create the best spiritual artifacts.

But Ye Lingyue was different; she started late and never received systematic artifact refining education. To her, as long as the quality was similar, materials could be substituted.

As for Long Baobao, even though he came from an Artifact Refining Family, he was too young to have fully formed ideas about artifact refining.

No one anticipated that at a single thought, Ye Lingyue and Long Baobao chose a path entirely different from the other competitors.

The actions of Ye Lingyue and Long Baobao became a joke.

No one followed them; they all entered the storehouse directly.

”Everyone, how about we join forces and demand the return of our earlier materials from the Dong Envoy? There is strength in numbers, and even if we can get only a portion of the materials, it’s better than finding random substitutes,” Long Sixuan, the oldest among all competing artifact refiners, suggested, and many immediately echoed his proposal.

Everyone gathered around the Dong Envoy and began to argue.

After three or four hours, the discussion’s final outcome alarmed the Sifang City Lord. The final decision was that if they didn’t enter the storehouse, they could take back their materials, but only half. If they couldn’t accept this, they would have to enter the storehouse to find materials.

Most competitors were dissatisfied with this outcome of half the materials.

But it was better than not having suitable materials at all. Weighing their options, the remaining competitors could only accept half the materials, while the remaining half was forfeited to Sifang City for free.

Meanwhile, Long Baobao and Ye Lingyue, who entered the storehouse, hadn’t emerged even after several hours.

”Long Baobao, this time you’re doomed to lose. Half of the materials are enough for me to craft a spiritual artifact that will defeat yours,” Long Sixuan boasted.

He had known about the City Lord’s Mansion withholding materials long before the competition began from the confidant Housekeeper Qin of the Sifang City Lord.

Long Sixuan had prepared double materials and, with the help of the Evil Cauldron Spirit, had a one hundred percent refining success rate, far better than Long Baobao and Ye Lingyue searching for substitutes.

Inside the City Lord’s Mansion, the Sifang City Lord was listening to the Dong Envoy’s report on the competitors’ situations.

”Except for the Hei siblings, everyone else chose to retrieve their original materials.”

”Oh? It’s them again? Who would’ve thought that those two kids are quite shrewd?” The Sifang City Lord smiled.

”City Lord, you’re the one who’s being sly. You hid the truth by withholding the competitors’ materials. Those competitors brought Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and each piece is priceless.” Luo Sansheng, sitting beside, remarked sarcastically.

Sifang City might just be a small and remote place without abundant resources, but the Sifang City Lord was a person whose wealth could rival an entire nation on the mainland.

Even the wealth of Three-Life Valley, one of the Nine Sects, paled before the Sifang City Lord.

Besides the Sifang City Lord himself being an artifact refiner, who could sell any refined spiritual artifact at a high price, another reason was that he was astute and excelled at management.

Every time he hosted the World’s First Refining, besides the entry fees, each competitor and merchant spent significantly in the city.

Rumors say that the Sifang City Lord recently partnered with the wealthiest Feng Residence, earning a fifty percent profit from the city’s businesses and inns.

With the unprecedented impact of this World’s First Refining, these competing participants weren’t ordinary; they were supported by their sects and families. The materials they produced were invariably priceless.

The profit the Sifang City Lord could gain from this was obvious.

Luo Sansheng thought sourly that if he had known, he should have pursued artifact refining instead of martial arts. In front of the wealthy Sifang City Lord, he was just a poor man.