Ding Hao thought that only his Power Absorption Skill had the capacity to help him achieve his best constitution. Having a lot of money proved otherwise. The goods in this world were incredible!
But of course, the price of the prohibited medicine was shocking!
The medicine called Break Through The Sky was used to break through the bottleneck of Innate Stage level three and get to level four. One pill costed 200 Yuan Stone! That’s 2,000,000 in banknotes! He had helped so many people in Wuzhou break through their bottleneck, and he only charged them 1,000 taels of silver each!
“I should have charged more!” Ding Hao scolded himself.
There were drawbacks to the prohibited medicine. Many of them had side effects. Thus, Ding Hao wouldn’t consume them.
He walked further and saw a restaurant ahead.
He decided to go in.
“Two catties of braised woolly monsters, three catties of White Wuzhou.” The customer in front ordered.
Ding Hao imitated, “Two catties of braised woolly monsters, three catties of White Wuzhou.”
Not long after, the braised meat and wine were placed in front of Ding Hao. These cost one-fifth of a Yuan Stone. Ding Hao didn’t break the stone on the spot. The restaurant had them cut into equal portions. There were halves, quarters, and even smaller ones. The restaurant used them for change.
After Ding Hao sat down, he picked up a piece of braised woolly monster and dipped it into some sauce. It was mouth-watering. The more you chewed it the better it tasted. It was delicious. They say this was good for the body. But Ding Hao thought that the spiritual energy that it possessed was limited, and it had limited benefits. One had to continuously consume it for a long time before there were any visible results.
White Wuzhou was a local wine. It had a kick. It was stronger than the wine on earth.
Ding Hao took a sip, and the waiter came in and talked to a young man in the hall. The young man seemed happy after that and the waiter went into the kitchen.
After a short time, the waiter came in again. Ding Hao waved him over.
“Waiter, the gentleman and you…”
The waiter didn’t try to hide it and said, “The gentleman ordered a bowl of spiritual rice just now.”
“Is that so.” Ding Hao asked again, ” But isn’t this the outside territory already, why are you acting secretively?”
The waiter clicked his tongue, “This is a border village. The officers will come and inspect anytime. We have to be more cautious.”
Just as he finished that sentence, a general brought a few soldiers into the restaurant and shouted, “Routine inspection!”
Ding Hao was shocked to see a familiar face. The general used to be the governor of Wuzhou Zhou Genwei.
After Zhou Genwei was demoted, he was assigned to this village.
The owner quickly welcomed him with a smile and led them to the private room upstairs.
Ding Hao was wearing the black cloak, so Zhou Genwei didn’t notice him.
After they went upstairs, Ding Hao said, “It’s a tough business.”
The waiter said, “Yes. These people come here to eat and drink, and we have to give them some money before they leave.”
Ding Hao thought Zhou Genwei had always enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle. He asked, “Waiter, how much is the spiritual rice?”
The waiter said, “Mister, the spiritual rice is very expensive and difficult to transport. You must make reservations in advance. But it is your lucky day today, some just arrived and there is some extra. The spiritual rice is two Yuan Stone for a bowl of cooked spiritual rice.”
Boss Shange said that the spiritual rice cost two Yuan Stone per bowl. Now it costs two Yuan Stone per bowl of cooked spiritual rice. The price was very different.
Ding Hao said, “I don’t want cooked spiritual rice. I want uncooked spiritual rice. How much for a bowl?”
“Just the uncooked spiritual rice?” The waiter said, “I’ll go and ask the shopkeeper.”
The shopkeeper, who was upstairs, came down. The waiter spoke to him. He walked over with a smile and asked, “Do you plan to smuggle it? You must be very careful. Heaven’s Will is very sensitive to spiritual rice. You can only bring a small amount every time. I advise you not to do that.”
Ding Hao said, “You don’t have to worry about that. All you need to do is sell it to me.”
The shopkeeper laughed, “It is not that I’m worried. But it is rather difficult. You see what if it fell into the hands of my competitor, and they use it to compete with me?”
Ding Hao said, “Don’t you worry about that. At the price that you are selling. Others won’t be able to make a profit out of it. Furthermore, I was only going to grind them into powder and consume it. I will need to use your private room later. I will leave after I have consumed it.”
The shopkeeper heard that and said, “Alright!”
After haggling for a while, they settled at five Yuan Stone for a bowl, and it was a small bowl. It was only selling for two Yuan Stone in Tu City. The profit margin was quite high. But this was rather precious, and the transportation process was dangerous. Many people must have died in the process.
They went to the private room on the second floor. Zhou Genwei and the others were making lots of noise next door, while Ding Hao bought two small bowls of spiritual rice with ten Yuan Stone.
“Get me a small stone grinder.”
“Yes.”
The waiter went and grabbed a stone grinder that was used to mash the garlic. They cleaned it well.
Ding Hao said, “Grind these two bowls.”
“Alright.” The waiter, who had never seen someone consume the rice in this manner, thought it to be very peculiar. As it was the request of the customer, he did as he was told.
The two bowls of spiritual rice were ground to powder. The shopkeeper and the waiter need not worry that he was a competitor. No one would want it now.
The shopkeeper and the waiter left the private room.
Ding Hao wasn’t going to eat it. He took off the black cloak and pressed his hands on the spiritual rice powder. He looked excited.
“The ten Yuan Stone that he spent was worth every penny. The spiritual energy in these two bowls of spiritual rice is far greater than thousands of Ex Pills!”
“Power Absorption Skill, absorb!” Ding Hao looked overjoyed.
He used both hands to absorb the energy from the two bowls of rice, and at the same time, he closed his eyes and tried to sense the yuandan.
He had placed the power absorption ring into the storage pouch. No one would fight over the spiritual energy with him.
His Black Cyclone Celestial Gene would absorb a portion of it, but it was not as greedy as the absorption stone. Most of the spiritual energy was flowing in the yuandan.
The spiritual energy was like a white cloud that wrapped around the yuandan.
Ding Hao had asked around before. The yuandan that others possessed was about half of his size, some were even as small as fingertips. But his yuandan was the size of a child’s fist. It can be rated as massive.
This was because when he was awakened the amount of spiritual energy that shot to the sky was too great. Thus, the spiritual reward from Heaven’s Will was greater too. That’s why he got a massive yuandan!
The bigger the yuandan the better it was, as after it was refined, the sea of energy would be greater too!
If you had great aptitude, you would receive a large yuandan, a vast sea of energy, a speedier cultivation process, and great strength. Your Innate Stage level one was equivalent to a level two of another; your Innate Stage level two was equivalent to the level two of another; and thus, you were able to achieve greater heights on the road of cultivation!
Hence, the world placed a great importance on aptitude, and it is why they admired geniuses. There was absolutely nothing wrong with that. Having a great aptitude had a domino effect on everything else!
Ding Hao allowed the Power Absorption Skill to aid him in his course is as follows. His palm drew in the spiritual energy from the spiritual rice. For many who consumed the spiritual rice, the rice would enter the digestive tract and only a portion of the energy would be sent into the meridians. The remainder was secreted out of the body.
Thus, with the Power Absorption Skill, he was able to absorb almost all of the spiritual energy in the spiritual rice!
Other cultivators had to absorb the energy from the air and refine it into spiritual energy in a lengthy process. All he had to do was use the Power Absorption Skill to absorb the spiritual energy in the rice. It was ready for him to use. It was a straightforward and spectacular process. He didn’t have to spend the time and energy on an extra step!
In Ding Hao’s dantian, the white spiritual energy mist was growing, and it wrapped around yuandan. You could see a multi-colored yuandan through the thick layer of mist. The chemical transformation had started.
You must know that the white mist was spiritual energy. Yuandan was also spiritual energy. When you have the two spiritual energies together, it would melt the yuandan. Then as the mist became lessened, a stream of water formed on the yuandan, and there would be water droplets seeping out from the yuandan. In the end, the water droplets gathered and formed a stream of water and fell on the yuandan.
This was the beginning of the sea of energy.
When one became a strong cultivator, the sea of energy was an ocean of spiritual energy! The formation of an ocean started with the first drop of water!
There were nine layers in a yuandan. The outer layers were thinner. The first layer is the easiest to be refined.
Of course, when they said it was easy to refine it usually took months for other cultivators to refine it. When Ding Juncai took a month, the young prince said that was fast.
No one knew that Ding Hao took only half an hour to refine the first later of the yuandan.
Half an hour to refine the first layer, that was an incredible speed! It would cause a commotion if others knew about it!
Zhou Genwei was drinking and having fun next door. They wouldn’t know that in a very short time Ding Hao had almost achieved Innate Stage level two!
After a while, Ding Hao opened his eyes and looked at the two bowls of spiritual rice that had lost their energy. He frowned, “All the spiritual energy has been absorbed! I almost achieved Innate Stage level two!
“Should I leave now or buy more spiritual rice?” Ding Hao pondered, “I am right next to some officers. The shopkeeper doesn’t know that Zhou Genwei and I have grievances. Even if the shopkeeper has bad intentions, he wouldn’t dare to do something when the officers are here! I might as well take this opportunity to upgrade!”
He donned his cloak, opened the door, and summoned the waiter. “Here is fifty yuan stone. Give me ten bowls.”
The waiter was taken aback when he heard that. He had never seen anyone eat that much spiritual rice in a single sitting. ‘Was he mad?’
Ding Hao saw that the waiter was in shock. Sarcastically he said, “Would you like me to repeat that?”
“Mister?” The waiter guessed that Ding Hao was quite young by his voice. He did not voice his suspicions as there were many strong individuals in Jiuzhou. Many old devils had youthful sounding voices, and there were many ways of altering one’s voice.
The waiter thought that Ding Hao was probably an old devil. ‘No wonder he could eat so much.’
“Yes, yes, yes. I’ll be right back.”
After the waiter went down, the shopkeeper came in to explain to Ding Hao. They had limited quantities of spiritual rice. And there were many people that had made reservations. They could only provide him eight bowls of spiritual rice!
“Eight bowls it is, be quick.”