The Lazy Cultivator
Part 13: Alchemist Tokens
Ji Han and Lin Zhu Returned to travel after feeling sufficient with the information they received while at the restaurant, the two decided to go to the capital after hearing that there would be a young swordsman competition that was held every year.
The competition was also a place for young warriors to show talent, if lucky they could attract the interest of sect elders and academies and be recruited to be part of the sect as well as academy students.
Ji Han had no interest in coming to the capital but Lin Zhu was interested to see a competition that according to rumors would be held one more month, it was quite a long time but it was a blessing for Lin Zhu because the distance from Yang village to the capital was very far.
“Sister Han, were you previously a student of an academy?” asked Lin Zhu.
“Not yet, I wanted to enter this competition” replied Ji Han.
“Aren't you a famous genius? Was there never an invitation from the academy?”
“No, whether you are a genius or an ordinary person you have to prove yourself worthy of being an academy disciple through the competitions held every year, many say that this competition is deliberately done to find new talents to be recruited by the academy and sect” explained Ji Han.
“Is sister still interested in entering the competition?” asked Lin Zhu.
“You don't see how I am? If I force to join it means suicide, now I am as weak as ordinary humans” said Ji Han.
“Sister, didn't I ever say that I could restore your power? You think I'm kidding? I can do it as long as you trust me” said Lin Zhu seriously.
“Not that I can't believe, so far I've never heard of anyone being able to recover an already ruined dantian. Once a cultivator's dantian is destroyed then he will become disabled” Ji Han said.
Never had anyone been able to recover a broken dantian, the alchemists alone raised their hands when faced with a case of broken dantian. Ji Han couldn't know Lin Zhu's level of strength because he was now the same as an ordinary human, which distinguished only his stronger physique from having practiced martial arts since childhood.
“Sister, I won't ask you again. Do you believe me or not?” said Lin Zhu firmly, looking at Ji Han with complete confidence that he was able to restore Ji Han's strength.
Ji Han hesitated, he looked at the girl who was a year younger than him with a doubtful look. As a cultivator of course he wanted his strength back, the breakdown of his dantian made Ji Han so hard that even his family threw himself away for being rendered useless. If his powers return he wants to prove to the world that he is not trash that can be picked up or thrown away at will, he will show his family that the abandoned child is not a useless child.
“Alright, I trust you” break up Ji Han, she will try to believe in her foster sister. If his strength returns he will feel very happy and will never forget the services of his sister and even if his strength cannot return He will not be disappointed because Ji Han knows that it is impossible.
“Good. Just trust me and I will do wonders for you. First I need a quiet place to make pills, do you know such a place to be?” asked Lin Zhu.
“Eh you're an alchemist?” ji Han asked in surprise.
“Let's just say I can, so where is the place?” said Lin Zhu indifferently.
“If you want to make a pill instead of better if you do it at home? There the facilities are complete and have a pill room that can be rented, every pill room has a formation that dispels any kind of interference from the outdoors and usually every alchemist who wants to make pills will rent that room” explained Ji Han.
“Oh really? Then where's the drug house? Is far?” Ask Lin Zhu.
“Homes of medicine there are many, in every village and city there must be and the most famous is the Long drug house belonging to the Long” family, replied Ji Han.
“Alright, usually the most famous is the best. Brother, show me where Long's medicine house is, I will directly make pills because our time is limited then we must do it immediately” said Lin Zhu.
“But do you have any alchemist tokens? The room was only rented to alchemists” ah apparently Ji Han still doubted Lin Zhu.
“I don't have it, why would want to rent a room just so hard?” lin Zhu Protest.
“Because the pill room is built using a large resource, if not an alchemist is afraid that the equipment inside is actually wrongly used and can damage the pill room so the drug house makes a rule that those who want to rent a pill room must have alchemist” tokens explained Ji Han.
Repot, Lin Zhu could have made it in the space ring but he had not been willing to show the space ring to Ji Han and he also had no intention to tell others about his space ring, enough he alone knows.
“In the treatment hall but the treatment hall is only in the capital” said Ji Han.
“It takes 3 weeks to get there while the competition is held 1 month away, the time will not be enough” complained Lin Zhu.
“Actually there is a quick way to get to the capital” said Ji Han.
“Why didn't you tell me from the beginning?! So, how do you do?”
“Teleportation, it's just that to use the portal we have to pay quite expensive depending on rarely what we want to travel, we want to travel, the distance from the nearest portal to the capital portal is quite far and I think we need 1,000 gold coins per person to be able to use it, since we both then we need 2,000 gold coins. The rest of my coins are no more than 1,500 gold coins, only enough for 1 person” said Ji Han.
“Sister, you don't have to worry about money. Even though I look like a commoner but I have more money than you can imagine so it's better now brother shows the way to the nearest teleportation portal because the time we have is not much” said Lin Zhu's.
“Alright, the nearest portal is in Chen village and the distance of that village can be reached in 2 days” said Ji Han.
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“Send your treasure or die?”
Good, just now that Lin Zhu and Ji Han crossed the border between Yang village and the forest, they were already in the head of the bandits. They were surrounded from all sides, 2 against 20 people the number of enemies was even 10 times more but Lin Zhu still looked relaxed in contrast to Ji Han who was already deathly pale from fear.
“You're kidding me? If you want to be rich, yes work, it's good to ask for treasure in us” said Lin Zhu haughty.
“You want to die huh?” jolt the bandit as he brandished his sword and pointed it at Lin Zhu.
“I think you're the one looking for dead”
“Zhu, we'd better hand over our treasure. We won't win against them, we're outnumbered and I can't fight” Ji Han said palely.
“Although your dantian is broken doesn't mean you can't defend yourself, right?” said Lin Zhu, even now he felt lazy to waste time by fighting those old bandits.
Ji Han was speechless, he could still use martial arts even though the results were not as strong as when he was still a cultivator but they were still outnumbered, Ji Han was very confident that he was only able to fight against 3 of them.
“Much talk, attack them!” said the bandit leader who had exhausted his patience. The men charged forward brutally, looking down on Lin Zhu and Ji Han.
But alas, it had not been possible for the attack to reach Lin Zhu and Ji Han, the bandits fell down with their heads detached from their bodies without knowing what the cause was, they died in tremendous shock.
Besides, Lin Zhu only needed to shake his hand and the lives of the bandits instantly floated, leaving the bandit chief that Lin Zhu had deliberately set aside. Lin Zhu had just turned his Qi into a thin blade, he fused his Qi with the wind until the blade was invisible to the eye. As soon as He flicked his hand the blade instantly cut through whatever it was going through quickly, there were even some trees that had fallen down as a result of Lin Zhu's attack.
Ji Han beside him just stared in horror at Lin Zhu and the lifeless bandits, Ji Han never knew that his foster sister was so strong. Was it not possible that the person who helped him back then was Lin Zhu?
“Ti-impossible” the bandit chief was hysterical with a body that was entirely vibrating due to the overwhelming demeanor that attacked him.
“Hm already many people have bad intentions for me but they all ended up worse than me. So... What kind of death do you want?” lin Zhu asked coldly and at once Ji Han felt that the temperature that had been warm turned cold in an instant made Ji Han shiver at once.
Who is the real identity of the girl he raised as this little sister? Its power too....horrible! Even if Ji Han was a genius, he also needed a long time to defeat the bandits while Lin Zhu was able to eradicate them all in just the blink of an eye.
To Be Continued
