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The Phoenix Aspect - Chapter 38

Published at 31st of January 2019 10:11:57 PM


Chapter 38

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For the next ten days, Jayde continuously moved in the direction of the small cave, collecting herbs that she needed, if she found any herb listed on the inter-dimensional exchange she would carefully dig it out, and then replant them into pots she had whittled out of wood. She had a plan — that as soon as could afford to — she would purchase the garden upgrade available in the Pavilion and then replant these herbs. Exchanging herb on the inter-dimensional market was a secure way for her to earns, until such time as she could start to take on missions through the inter-dimensional mercenary board.

Thankfully from the old guy's notes on herbology, she had picked up quite a bit of knowledge about taking care of herbs, and to her delight, she had found that she had quite the green thumb when it came to growing things.

At the last river she had camped at, Jayde was lucky to have found over five dozen lily pods, lily pods were one of the treasures of the Dark Forest, they were a type of plant, that grew in the rivers and lakes of the Dark Forest, no-one knew where they came from, but legend says that a visitor from the Upper Realm brought it with him when he visited the Lower Realm.

Lily pods were shaped like a gourd, with a plug at the top of the lily, which you could open and close, and inside was filled with spiritual water, not only was the water excellent for replenishing a person's qi, but it also had a mild healing effect and could help with one's cultivation, but for Jayde the most interesting benefit of the lily pod, was that if one was to place a cutting of a plant within the pod, the plant would start to produce roots.

Jayde spent two days at the river edge, making herself a couple of shelves from trees that she cut down, then opening fifty of the lily pods, she kept ten for herself to use, she made cuttings of all the herbs listed on the inter-dimensional market. After throwing the plug lids back into the river, as the plugs were actual seeds, so if placed back into a body of water, they would produce a new lily pod, Jayde then dined on some delicious fish that she had caught and carried on with her journey.

During these ten days besides from picking herbs, Jayde ran into quite a few spirit beasts, at the beginning of her adventure, the creatures were quite difficult to kill and each battle was drawn out, with Jayde sustaining quite a number of injuries, although these beasts were nothing compared to the nightmare creatures she faced in White's "assessment test", still each time she would take a healing potion as she didn't want to waste time, during this time she had collected quite a hoard of beast skins and spirit stones.

Through all her battles, not only was her fighting prowess increasing, but she was also becoming more familiar with her fire magic and this helped her cultivation which was increasing in leaps and bounds, Jayde could feel the threshold of the barrier to the second rank.

Worried that she would have to delay her cultivation as she was still two weeks away from the cave, Jayde confirmed with Isha if she could use the Pavilion to break through again. Getting his confirmation that it would fine and that she wouldn't be breaking the rules, Jayde set her mind at ease and went all out in the next two days to reach the barrier.

It was on the night of the twelfth day that Jayde made her breakthrough to the second rank, after leaving the small room, she handed over all the herbs and spirit stones that Isha needed to repair her dantian to copper state.

While Isha left to concoct the potion needed, Jayde activated the inter-dimensional market. Quickly going to the herb section, Jayde managed to make over twenty trades with the herbs she had available.

While waiting for her trade goods to arrive via the exchange system, Jayde spent that time transplanting her seedlings in the lily pods to the newly vacated wooden pots. Using some of the spirit water she watered her new plants, as according to the books she had read this would speed up the growth of her plants.

After she spent some time sorting out her space ring, the inter-dimensional market pinged her that her goods were ready.

Collecting just over a hundred pills, Jayde immediately traded these for points, as well as some of the skins, beast blood and spirit stones that she collected.

As alchemist where rare in quite a number of dimensions, Jayde was able to earn quite a number of points and while spirit stones were not that valuable, the beast skins and beast blood were pretty valuable as they were used to create runes.

Once all her trading was done Jayde had earned herself two hundred and twenty-five points, and with her five points saved she now had two hundred and thirty points.

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