Chapter 120 Special Materials
Benjamin was not simply strolling around, he was "gathering energy".
In the immortal cultivation system, there is a unique method that can collect the "breath of the red dust".
Of course, this is a more Taoist way of speaking. According to Jieming's understanding, it is actually a method that can condense special concepts.
This breath originates from the joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness, birth, old age, sickness, and death, and the seven emotions and six desires of the mortal world. It is the embodiment of all things in the world.
Although it cannot directly enhance cultivation and change everything like spiritual power, it is a very good "universal material".
Normal use can be used to sharpen the spiritual state of a cultivator, making him tenacious and able to overcome his inner demons. It can also be used to sharpen magical instruments to make them more spiritual. It is also an essential raw material for the arrangement of most illusion arrays.
In certain special cases, some special methods can be used to reverse its properties, thereby building a golden body, repairing the soul, and refining magic weapons or elixirs.
When Benjamin was at Nolen College, he could hardly collect any useful worldly energy.
After all, the wizards there are all research fanatics, all of them immersed in experiments and meditation, with a monotonous life trajectory and weak mental fluctuations.
Even in the entire Noren 13th plane, there is no suitable place to collect the breath of the mortal world. After all, all the Noren planes have been transformed by wizards into highly ordered "petri dishes", losing the primitive and complex "characteristics" of the mortal world.
But when he arrived in Golden Harbor, Benjamin was like a mouse in a rice warehouse.
He walked on the bustling streets, feeling the joys and sorrows, love and hate of the ordinary people passing by.
That rich and complex concept silently flowed into his body, was absorbed by the special symbol in his dantian, and finally refined into wisps of seemingly gorgeous worldly aura.
He didn't even need to talk much to others; just by feeling the pulse of their lives, he could absorb a vast amount of worldly power.
However, most of the time, Benjamin's attention is not on the refined mortal aura, but on the special talisman in his dantian that can refine the mortal aura.
"It's really magical. It's just a simple talisman, but it can independently store and create concepts out of thin air..." Benjamin "looked" at the wisp of worldly breath extracted from his dantian, and couldn't help touching his chin curiously.
Although after so many years of research, Benjamin himself knew that technology like extracting concepts out of nothing was not within his reach, he still couldn't help but feel curious.
"I can't understand it. They can even play the same role in completely different planes or even worlds. Does this mean that these things themselves contain fixed rules similar to those of a sixth-level wizard...an exaggerated level of technology."
The pace he took forward changed quietly, and the trajectory of his body movement changed, allowing him to accurately avoid the two arms that were trying to touch his purse.
After taking a look at the two frightened and thin children, Benjamin was silent for a moment, then took out two copper coins and threw them to them.
He turned around and continued to think about his own things as he walked forward: "It seems that the technical content of this special method in the world of immortal cultivation is much higher than that of most offensive spells."
"Fortunately, since most of the spells in the immortal cultivation system require leveraging the spiritual power of heaven and earth, they are not very effective in the wizarding world. I have mainly practiced this special method before, and I can focus all my attention on this aspect in the future." Jieming secretly calculated in his heart.
After all, his abilities in both combat and survival are sufficient at this stage.
If you really encounter an enemy that you cannot defeat, it is wishful thinking to rely on the spells of a monk who cannot mobilize spiritual power to escape. It is better to focus more on these special methods.
Looking up at the sky, Benjamin turned around and staggered towards the Adventurer's Guild.
In addition to collecting the breath of the mortal world, Benjamin also plans to issue a task in the "Drunk Dolphin" tavern - collecting the dew of flowers.
This thing is easy to collect. It is the dew condensed on the flower petals in the morning. The only key is to collect as many types of flowers as possible.
This dew, which is a mixture of essences of various flowers, can be condensed into "Hundred Flower Dew" with related concepts through exclusive methods.
This thing can be used to assist in refining medicine and nourishing the soul, and is considered a pretty good material.
All the plants grown in Nolen College are magic potions. It's not that they can't be collected, but the "price" is too high. It's okay to collect a small amount for experiments, but if you collect on a large scale, you're just being taken advantage of.
However, it would be too troublesome to collect these things by himself. Fortunately, he now has a stable residence in Golden Harbor, so he can finally collect them on a large scale.
The rewards for the tasks issued by Jieming are extremely generous: for every small cup (about 200 ml) of flower dew, you can get one gold coin.
This was undoubtedly a sky-high price among the generally poor adventurers, and even the orc bartender, who had never shown any expression, couldn't resist.
"Jack, are you crazy? One gold coin for a small cup of dew?!" The half-orc bartender's thick eyebrows twisted into knots upon hearing Benjamin's request, his eyes filled with unbelievable greed. "Are you planning on plucking every flower that blooms in Golden Harbor?!"
Benjamin just calmly threw over a gold coin as a deposit, and the gold coin spun several times on the wooden table with a crisp sound.
"Just issue the tasks, and don't worry about anything else." His tone was cold, with a hint of unquestionable majesty.
The half-orc bartender immediately restrained his expression, rubbed his hands, put the gold coins into his pocket, and went to post the task happily.
Once the news spread, all the adventurers in Golden Harbor were in an uproar.
A few days later, it was the day when Benjamin inspected the Baihua Lu for the first time.
A long line formed outside the tavern. Adventurers, civilians, and even some guys who looked like suburban farmers in various clothes were all holding bottles and jars of various sizes, which contained what they thought was "Hundred Flower Dew".
Benjamin sat by the window on the second floor, and the orc bartender was responsible for calling numbers.
The first one to come forward was a skinny thief who smiled obsequiously and handed over a sealed bottle.
Benjamin took the bottle with a calm look in his eyes.
A necklace quietly appeared in his hand. The gemstones inlaid on the necklace emitted a barely perceptible light, like a sophisticated magic detection tool.
In fact, this is just a cover-up. What really works is the method used by Jie Ming.
He just shook it lightly, and the liquid in the bottle instantly became turbid and emitted a faint earthy smell.
"This was dug out from the mud pit, right?" Benjamin said calmly.
The smile on the thief's face froze, his eyes flickered, and he was about to argue when Benjamin casually threw the bottle back to him.
"Next."
The next few are similar, with various dilutions, mixing with ordinary water, and even using river water directly to impersonate.
Benjamin just used his "magic prop" to shake it lightly and he could identify it instantly.
"Hmph! Why are you pretending?" The faces of several strong men who looked like farmers began to turn unfriendly.
They worked hard to collect a large jar of "dew", but the young man saw through their trick at a glance, and they were naturally dissatisfied.
One of the farmers, a muscular man with a face full of flesh, stepped forward and said in a muffled voice, "Boy, don't think you can get away with playing tricks and not paying us! We've worked so hard..."
While he was speaking, a big hand had quietly reached out to Benjamin's collar, trying to use force to cheat.
Benjamin looked at him expressionlessly, without moving an inch. Just as the other's palm was about to touch him, he kicked out like lightning, accurately hitting the farmer's shin bone.
Snap!
With a horrifying sound of bones breaking, the farmer's huge body stiffened instantly, and then he let out a heart-wrenching scream, fell to the ground holding his calf, and rolled over, his face covered with cold sweat of pain.
The faces of the remaining farmers turned pale in an instant. Their original arrogance disappeared in an instant. They shrank back one by one, not daring to even breathe or speak loudly anymore.
The tavern fell into dead silence again, and everyone witnessed Benjamin's ruthless attack.
Only some adventurers who had witnessed the ruthlessness of "Jack" seemed calm and composed, and even had a sense of pride in their own knowledge and expertise, looking down on others.
Benjamin originally thought that he might not receive any useful materials this time, but he did not expect that the subsequent acceptance gave Benjamin an unexpected surprise.
"Sir, this is the flower dew I collected from my garden."
A servant, dressed in starched, bleached clothes but still clean and tidy, respectfully handed over a small wooden bottle filled with crystal clear dew.
Compared to the large and small jars that other people buy, the amount of dew in this small bottle is really not that much.
Benjamin took it, the necklace flashed, and then his eyes lit up.
He found that the dew was of extremely high quality, and the various floral scents it contained proved its purity.
"Three gold coins." Benjamin gave him three gold coins and said calmly.
The servant showed an expression of surprise and joy on his face, and thanked him repeatedly.
Soon after, several servants dressed similarly came over.
Although the amounts of the flower dew they served varied, without exception, they all met Jieming's requirements.
Benjamin narrowed his eyes. He could probably understand that these were servants of small nobles who were originally wealthy but whose income was sharply reduced due to the urgency of the war.
In order to maintain the dignity of their master's family, the nobles were also willing to take on such high-paying tasks.
Moreover, they have their own gardens, which makes it more convenient for them to collect. In addition, as nobles, they have "self-esteem", so they are more honest than those greedy farmers.
Finally, a ragged little orphan who looked only seven or eight years old timidly squeezed to the front of the team, holding a worn-out pottery bottle covered in mud in his hand.
There is only a thin layer of extremely clear flower dew in the bottle.
The little orphan looked nervous, as if he was afraid that Benjamin would throw away his "dew" like he did to the others.
Benjamin took the bottle. Under the light of the necklace, the bottle of flower dew also emitted a pure luster.
He gave the little orphan a silver coin and a few copper coins extra: "Well done."
The little orphan stared blankly at the silver coin in his hand, his eyes instantly filled with crystal tears, and then he ran away clutching the coin as if awakened.
Looking at all this, Benjamin couldn't help but feel emotional.
In the education he received, "simple" and "farmer" were almost synonymous.
He originally thought that the poor people would give him a surprise, after all, they needed money more.
But unexpectedly, they were extremely cunning and tried every possible means to adulterate the product.
On the contrary, those who have some decency appear to be more pure.
"Moral level has nothing to do with background or occupation; it only has to do with the person himself..."
After understanding this, Benjamin felt that his soul seemed to be a little clearer.
This kind of worldly affairs is undoubtedly a different kind of tempering for him.
(End of this chapter)
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