Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend

Chapter 1030: Chapter 90: Advanced Cauldron Spirit

It turns out that the benefit brought by the Golden Spirit is actually the derivation of new spirit stone veins!

This is really like a pie falling from the sky, and two giants at that, which instantly dumbfounded Ye Lingyue.

Ye Lingyue suspected that the benefits brought by the Golden Spirit are just beginning. Since the Five Elements Spirits are mutually beneficial, after gathering the Five Spirits, Hong Meng Heaven is like forming a natural array.

The Five Spirits Qi will grow stronger as time goes on.

By then, it’s likely that even more spirit stone veins will emerge.

In her excitement, Ye Lingyue summoned the Cauldron Spirit.

”Cauldron Spirit, now that we have the Golden Spirit, you can have as many low-level spirit stones as you want going forward.”

Ye Lingyue suddenly felt the joy of a poor person flipping their fortune and spoke with considerable bravado.

According to the survey, the newly discovered low-level spirit stone veins in Hong Meng Heaven could yield seventy to eighty pieces a day, which is more than enough given the Cauldron Spirit’s daily consumption of a few low-level spirit stones.

As such, Ye Lingyue no longer needed to show her face at Moon City, helping others to repair Spiritual Artifacts.

Over the past year, in order to keep the Cauldron Spirit fed, she worked day and night, barely making ends meet with spirit stones from Moon City and the Refining Hall. Now, with Hong Meng Heaven producing low-level spirit stones internally, it was undeniably a huge relief for Ye Lingyue.

”Uh, Master, I also have news to tell you, there’s a good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?”

The Cauldron Spirit, however, didn’t show much emotion; instead, its voice sounded somewhat strange.

But Ye Lingyue, immersed in the joy of the spirit stone veins, didn’t notice anything odd about the Cauldron Spirit.

”Let’s hear the good news first.”

Ye Lingyue wondered what new trick this little fellow was playing this time.

”The good news is, I’ve successfully advanced after devouring the Golden Spirit; I am now a Ding Saint.”

The Cauldron Spirit said with an air of pride.

”That’s great, it appears my two years of nurturing you haven’t been wasted. So what’s the bad news then?”

Ye Lingyue felt a vague sense of foreboding.

The fact proved again that women’s intuition is often correct, as the Cauldron Spirit’s next words brought Ye Lingyue’s joy to an abrupt end.

”Master, after I advanced, I still need to consume spirit stones daily, but low-level spirit stones... are no longer enough, I will need intermediate spirit stones.”

After speaking, the Cauldron Spirit quickly burrowed back into Ye Lingyue’s palm.

”What! Cauldron Spirit, come out here!”

Ye Lingyue nearly blew up at hearing this.

Intermediate spirit stones! One hundred low-level spirit stones can only exchange for one intermediate spirit stone, where is she supposed to get so many intermediate spirit stones for this spendthrift Cauldron Spirit.

Intentionally or not, Ye Lingyue left the Heaven and Earth Array and returned to Lonely Moon Sea with the Three Realms Eagle.

Calculating the time, it surprisingly took Ye Lingyue over half a month for this trip.

Ye Lingyue’s return brought great joy to Little Di Shen, who inevitably showered her with all sorts of affectionate terms for quite a while.

As for Zitang Su, though he still bore the same Ice Mountain demeanor, Ye Lingyue noticed that lately, Master Zi had been conversing a bit more.

Well, although the increase wasn’t really all that noticeable, for instance, the words spoken during a conversation increased from ten to fifteen, but still, that was some progress, right?

With Heavenly Gang Bamboo, Ye Lingyue finally started formally attending to the fire.

Zitang Su also began teaching her how to control the heat, and gradually, Ye Lingyue’s ability to control Gray Fire improved rapidly.

However, Ye Lingyue’s psychological pressure had not decreased at all.

On one hand, she worried about an attack from Tiankui Palace Master, on the other hand, despite the Cauldron Spirit’s advancement, it did not establish contact with the Cauldron Spirit inside the Shishen Refining Demon Cauldron as it had after previous advancements.

Conversely, due to the need for a significant spiritual power supply during the early progression, the Cauldron Spirit’s appetite opened wide, consuming two intermediate spirit stones daily.

This left Ye Lingyue greatly troubled.

Since she had no intermediate spirit stones left.

Previously, Ye Lingyue’s intermediate spirit stones had been shamelessly obtained from Little Di Shen.

The little guy knew very well that what his wife liked most were ”spirit stones,” so every time he got new intermediate spirit stones, he would automatically hand them over without daring to keep any for himself.

He also racked his brains to use various means to acquire intermediate spirit stones.

But though Little Di Shen was Master Wuya’s disciple, he was still a minor and hadn’t taken on sect tasks, hence he was without a monthly salary or intermediate spirit stones, which he obtained as casual gifts from senior brothers and sisters or won them off Qin Xiaochuan in combat after defeating him.

Over time, Qin Xiaochuan caught on, refusing to fight even under duress from Little Di Shen when challenged.

As a result, Ye Lingyue had fewer and fewer chances to obtain intermediate spirit stones.

In sheer desperation, Ye Lingyue tried several times to exchange low-level spirit stones for intermediate spirit stones on the black market in Moon City.

But each time she had to stress over it.

Because the exchange rate in the black market was far higher than normal, requiring 120 low-level spirit stones for one intermediate stone.

Even though Ye Lingyue now had low-level spirit stones in Hong Meng Heaven, losing twenty stones per exchange was a number she could not afford.

What worried Ye Lingyue more was that her large-scale stone exchanges might attract suspicion from the sect.

So after exchanging two or three times, she no longer dared to exchange in Moon City.

One day, Ye Lingyue was at the Refining Hall frowning at the last two intermediate spirit stones in her Qiankun Purple Gold Bag, fearing that the Cauldron Spirit would soon go hungry after today.

Troubled, Ye Lingyue suddenly heard Manager Xiong speak.

”Seems like there’s no business today, let’s all go home early folks.”

Ye Lingyue paused and snapped back to reality.

She’d been occupied with Heavenly Gang Bamboo and fire management, neglecting matters at the Refining Hall.

In reality, for the last half a month, Ye Lingyue only made appearances at the Refining Hall, virtually doing no work.

Compared to earlier when she would be busy purifying ore all day long, the difference was like night and day.

This was because the Refining Hall’s business had worsened due to Mu Shuang’s theft incident, which destroyed its years-built reputation.

The disciples of the Outer and Inner Sects began spontaneously boycotting the Refining Hall for Artifact Refining.

As for the elders from Xuefeng and Moon Peak, they explicitly banned their peak disciples from coming to the Refining Hall. If this continued, the Refining Hall might not be able to sustain itself.

Such circumstances were already common for the miscellaneous servants at the Refining Hall.

They didn’t complain much, merely packed their gear to leave.

Manager Xiong too looked worried, understanding all too well that he probably wouldn’t be able to distribute this month’s salary.