HPDBC Chapter 281 Cheated Once, Cheated Twice
Chapter 281 Cheated Once, Cheated Twice
chapter 281 cheated once, cheated twice
translator: borntobe
this time, long chen and elder sun decided to go to a small valley a bit further from the monastery for their transaction.
long chen noticed that elder sun seemed to have lost a great deal of weight. he hastily congratulated elder sun on his weight loss.
elder sun didn’t say a single thing. throwing a spatial ring to long chen, his eyes were completely red, looking like they might spit flames at any moment.
elder sun really was pained enough to die. long chen had requested only extremely precious medicinal ingredients, and there had even been requirements on their age. although in terms of quantity it had been only a third of the first list, its price had been even greater than the last time.
to obtain these medicinal ingredients, he had used up the rest of all his merit points that he had saved for decades.
elder sun even suspected that long chen precisely knew how many merit points he had had. these two sets had cost him practically everything. of his tens of thousands of merit points, less than five hundred remained now.
his heart was practically dripping blood. if long chen dared trick him again, he wouldn’t care about any price to kill long chen.
seeing the piles of medicinal ingredients in the spatial ring, long chen smiled brightly. he immediately handed over a black zirconium.
elder sun received and saw there was another ancient character on the back: superior.[1]
“how domineering!”
elder sun delighted. but then when he flipped it over, his expression changed and he roared, “why is there nothing on here?!”
this black zirconium only had a single character written on its back. there wasn’t the slightest thing written on the front.
originally, long chen had been planning on putting something there, but he hadn’t had the time. back in phoenix cry, he had gone to the huayun pavilion and bought four black zirconiums.
although black zirconium was ancient, it wasn’t very valuable. long chen had bought them just to cheat elder sun.
that old fellow had targeted him several times for his nine star hegemon body art. the last time, he had even drawn over a corrupt elder to kill him. if it hadn’t been for chu yao’s help at the end, he would have died.
although tu fang had then planned on punishing him for long chen, long chen knew that the worst punishment tu fang could give was to expel him from the monastery.
just being expelled from the monastery was far from enough to allay long chen’s hatred. if he wanted his technique, then he could have it.
long chen had drawn in the meridian circulation method of the nine star hegemon body art. originally, he had been planning on splitting the full diagram over four rocks.
it was said that black zirconium was something that required the carver to be at least at the xiantian realm.
however, that wasn’t a problem for long chen. although he couldn’t directly carve anything onto black zirconium, he could draw onto it.
long chen had used an extremely bizarre pill formula in his pill god memories to make a mysterious stone-rotting extract.
this stone-rotting extract came from ancient times. large sects had huge stone steles and monuments. some were so large they were thousands of meters high.
in order to carve words into them, it not only required a great deal of power, it also required a powerful tool.
but not only that, the carver couldn’t make a single mistake when carving. a single monument might require tens of thousands of words. if the carver made a mistake, wouldn’t the entire monument be ruined? it wasn’t as if the carvers were god. no one would do something so foolish.
“the prescription has already been prepared. all you need to do is gather all the medicines on this list.” long chen sent a piece of paper floating towards elder sun.
when elder sun saw that page, he immediately coughed up blood. that was the third ‘prescription’ page.
elder sun grabbed it and didn’t even glance at the medicinal ingredients on the sheet before tearing it to pieces.
“do you think i’m an idiot? you think i’ll be cheated by you again and again?” raged elder sun.
“young people shouldn’t get angry so easily. stay calm, stay coolheaded! this time i swear that if you can obtain all the medicinal ingredients on that list, i will definitely hand over my entire cultivation technique to you! did you hear? the whole thing!” another page appeared in long chen’s hand and he sent it flying to elder sun.
it was as if he had long since known that elder sun would go crazy. this second page was the exact same as the first one elder sun had torn up.
elder sun took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the urge to tear this page to pieces again. his hands trembled as he took that page.
the reason he used both hands to receive that page wasn’t because of any respectful two-handed etiquette, but because his hands were trembling too hard.
“bastard, i really will kill you! the qilin fruit went extinct in ancient times! let alone the monastery, not even the supermonastery could possibly have it! you’re clearly doing this on purpose!”
“so it really is like that...” long chen was disappointed. as he had thought, the alioth pill’s main medicinal ingredient, the qilin fruit, was the most difficult one to find.
“fine, then you don’t need to get the qilin fruit. just gather the other six medicinal ingredients.”
“i can’t buy these. i’m broke.”
“well then, i can only regretfully tell you that our trade is over.” long chen shook his head with great regret.
“you...!”
“don’t try acting like you’re suffering such a loss. i, long chen, will swear to the heavens to hand over my cultivation technique.
“there are a total of four stones that my cultivation technique is split over. i don’t know why one of them was just nothing, but my guess is that this stone was required in order for the cultivation technique’s name to be complete.
“your luck was just bad that day. i just randomly took out that one, and you actually said you had to have it, so i also couldn’t say anything.
“but even so, you won’t lose out. you’ve already obtained the majority of the cultivation technique. perhaps with your schemes and plotting, you can figure out the whole thing one day.
“if one day isn’t enough, then try a year. if a year isn’t enough, try a lifetime. if you can’t figure it out, you can leave it to your descendants to figure it out. in any case, you’ll definitely never be bored. you can just treat those stones as toys for your children.”
listening to long chen’s ridicule, elder sun was about to explode. looking at that page, he took a deep breath.
“you swear that you’ll hand over your complete cultivation technique without hiding the slightest bit?”
“i swear,” said long chen solemnly.
“fine, then i’ll believe you one last time. if you dare trick me again, then even if i die, i’ll definitely bring you down with me.” elder sun clenched his teeth.
“then don’t worry, i really don’t feel like dying with an idiot like you.”
over the next few days, long chen really was busy. he had to abide by his promise and finish carving the rest of his cultivation technique.
but this time elder sun was much slower. it was only over ten days later that he came to find long chen again.