(PS: Added 8/8, the fourth update of the day.
He had finally made up for some of the extra updates he had owed earlier. He felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his heart.
Still, this did not mean that he had relaxed just like that. There were no more updates.
Instead, he had regrouped and set off once more.
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The numerous diagrams that appeared within the pupils of the Northern Ocean Clone merged amidst space, finally forming a three-dimensional image.
The scene displayed within the image guided Yan Zhaoge's path.
Amidst lofty mountains and perilous peaks, within a secluded mountain stream that virtually never saw the light of day, there was a lone cave that was concealed by strange rocks and moss.
Xiao Ai realised, "After snatching the jade necklace from that Sun Zhongda and handing it over to the Head of the Xie Family, Young Master's clone already successfully analysed the secret of the necklace?"
Yan Zhaoge smiled, "Precisely so. While it is rather complicated, it is still not difficult for me."
"The original owner met with a tribulation after leaving the Jade Sun Mountain Range and died very quickly. The necklace was a hint he left for his descendants. Sadly, his descendants were unable to discover the secret within, even selling it to the Xie Family of the Setting Sun Archipelago."
He pointed at the image, "This cave should be where the original owner of the jade necklace discovered the miraculous medicine."
Feng Yunsheng asked, "Are we leaving immediately?"
Yan Zhaoge nodded, "We will search for mother's whereabouts in Whale Fishing City. If we do not find anything, we will leave this place and head to the Jade Dragon Mountain Range's Solitary Heart Peak."
From the news he had heard earlier, Solitary Heart Peak was a place where Heavenly Flame Trees rarely grew in the southeastern Yang Heaven Territory.
Analysing the clues left behind in Qi Wei's notebook, he had obtained the Encompassing Abundance Golden Pill in relation to this place.
If he had still not been able to confirm this earlier, now that he had seen Sun Zhongda's reaction and the information left behind by the jade necklace, Yan Zhaoge believed that the Jade Sun Mountain Range's Solitary Heart Peak was precisely where his target was.
Yan Zhaoge had planned to head to the region of the Jade Sun Mountain Range's Solitary Heart Peak next after Whale Fishing City.
Now that he had this diagram, he would be able to save a great deal of time as he headed directly to that cave.
"It's actually the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace?" Yan Zhaoge pondered as some distant memories surfaced within his mind.
While he had not personally come into contact with the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace before, Yan Zhaoge also knew that it was a supreme treasure of the dao of alchemy.
In pre-Great Calamity times, it had been a top-ranked Divine Artifact for concocting pills.
The Internal Crystal Furnace that Yan Zhaoge was currently using for artifact forging was actually a variant of this supreme treasure, changing pill concoction into artifact forging.
At the cost of reducing the efficiency of the Internal Crystal Furnace to a certain extent, it was exchanged for the ease of operation and popularization of its manufacture.
From Yan Zhaoge's point of view, this could be considered as a good deed benefiting the masses.
Of course, the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace was still the Profound Sky Purple Gold Furnace. It was unique and difficult to replicate.
As an important treasure of the Heavenly Court's Divine Palace, the cauldron had always been kept in the Pill Hall. It would only be opened once in a while.
The medicinal pills refined by him had miraculous effects, causing one to gasp in amazement.
Compared to a powerful Immortal Pill like the Encompassing Abundance Golden Pill, there was a limit to how many of them could be refined.
But when it was used to refine other inferior pills, the output was extremely shocking.
The Heavenly Court's Divine Palace's Pill Hall had a huge amount of elixirs. It wasn't as simple as it seemed.
Moreover, this so-called inferior pill was only relative to the Encompassing Abundance Golden Pill. In the current post-Great Calamity era, these pills were all supreme treasures.
In the World beyond Worlds, just a single one of them would cause people to fight over it.
While it was often said that cultivating in a diagram and relying on pills would cause one's foundation to be unstable, the path of ascension becoming increasingly narrow, this was only relatively speaking.
While an oceanic amount of elixirs could not guarantee that a mediocre person would definitely become a peerless expert, it could guarantee that those who were already geniuses would be able to ascend to the peak faster.
Whether or not their foundation would be unstable depended more on personal factors.
As he pondered, Ah Hu who had left earlier reentered, smiling, "Young Master, the Xie Family's Head Xie Liang and the others have come to pay a visit to you."
Yan Zhaoge shrugged, "There's nothing to see. I obtained the clues within the jade necklace from him, but also returned the jade necklace to his hands. Whether or not he can discover the secret within will depend on his own abilities."
"To him, if he can't discover it, it would just be that today's matter never happened and those fakes never came knocking. It would be the same as before, with nothing to gain and nothing to lose."
Yan Zhaoge said, "The matter of finding the clues to my mother should be done in private. There is no need to rely on the help of the locals, causing a huge uproar in the end."
Ah Hu answered, "I know what to do."
He paused for a moment before slapping his head, "Right, that kid whose wife was abducted earlier has also come."
Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge remained seated as he swivelled his head and gazed towards the entrance of the winehouse.
His gaze directly penetrated through the obstruction of objects, seeing that other than Xie Liang and the others, that young Martial Scholar whose wife had been abducted earlier was currently dragging his wife along as they arrived at the entrance of the winehouse together.
The youth who had refused to submit to the fake Yan Zhaoge who was also a Martial Saint earlier was now kneeling on one knee, bowing deeply towards the winehouse.
He did not even know where exactly Yan Zhaoge was within the winehouse.
However, after bowing together, the husband and wife did not remain behind, not even attempting to meet Yan Zhaoge again as they just directly turned and left.
Seeing this, a look of praise instead appeared within Yan Zhaoge's gaze.
Watching the other party gradually leave, Yan Zhaoge nodded slowly, "He indeed has some backbone."
That black-clothed fake who had abducted his wife should be a solitary practitioner of the Jade Sun Mountain Range.
While the possibility of him having relatives or friends was rather low, those who had killed him might still face retaliation.
While his death had been due to Yan Zhaoge, it had been that young Martial Scholar whose wife had been abducted who had personally killed him.
While the other party could not afford to offend Yan Zhaoge, he might have killed this youth to vent his anger.
Under such circumstances, this person had still dared to viciously kill him, only thanking Yan Zhaoge afterwards as he had no intention of seeking protection and relying on Yan Zhaoge's group.
"His talent is actually not weak, being above average. It is just that he started cultivating a little late. Still, it is not impossible for him to become a late bloomer." Yan Zhaoge said to Ah Hu, "While his personality is a little rash, his will is not bad. Just give him a chance, letting him stay or leave as he wishes."
Ah Hu understood, "I will point out a clear path for him, also preparing some travelling expenses. Whether he is willing to head far away to the Royal Reed Sea and attempt to enter our sect or not will be entirely up to him."
Yan Zhaoge nodded and Ah Hu immediately retreated, going outside the winehouse to deal with Xie Liang and the others.
The Northern Ocean Clone left the winehouse, continuing his search for Xue Chuqing's whereabouts.
Sadly, it seemed like Whale Fishing City really did not have much to show for it.
Yan Zhaoge's group thus took their leave, leaving the city and heading to the Jade Sun Mountain Range.
The Head of the Xie Family, Xie Liang, was unable to meet Yan Zhaoge at the end of the day. While Ah Hu spoke politely, he was actually feeling uneasy as he did not know if Yan Zhaoge really did not care about what had happened earlier.
Logically speaking, Yan Zhaoge was not often active in the Setting Sun Archipelago. It was not a big deal for him to miss it.
Still, Xie Liang just felt that he and his family seemed to have missed out on something important. (To be continued.)
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