C17 Redeeming Products

The Cloud Pool Mountain Range, situated to the west of Cloud Forest City, effectively separates the East Victory Continent from the Pool of Marsh Continent.

This mountain range is teeming with Devil Beasts, making it a perilous place to enter. Yet, it serves as an excellent training ground for martial artists to sharpen their skills and gain practical combat experience. The blood cores of Devil Beasts are highly sought after for their utility in pill refining and medicine concoction, attracting many adventurers who brave the dangers to hunt these creatures and sell their valuable cores for profit.

Ye Feilong, with determined effort, traveled swiftly and reached the outskirts of the Cloud Pool Mountain Range in about seven hours—a journey equivalent to fourteen Earth hours.

As dawn broke on the following day, Ye Feilong found himself at the edge of the Cloud Pool Mountain Range, standing beside a vast river. The water, emerging from the deep, dark recesses of the mountains, flowed quietly by.

Despite its current tranquility, the river transformed into a raging torrent just thirty miles downstream. There, the powerful currents clashed against massive boulders, creating waves that thundered like roaring thunder.

Ye Feilong's father, Ye Yinian, had previously led him into the mountain range for training, starting from this very spot. Following the river's path ensured they would not lose their way amidst the treacherous terrain.

The Cloud Pool Mountain Range ranks among the top ten mountain ranges in this world, sprawling and wild, with numerous Devil Beasts lurking within. Getting lost here would spell certain disaster.

"To revive my family and return to Earth, I must be steadfast with every step, become stronger, and overcome each challenge. The upcoming City Lord Mansion's Chamber of Commerce is my first major hurdle in this world, and I must reach the Martial Soul Stage before facing it," Ye Feilong resolved.

With a swift motion, he drew his sword, gripping the sheath in his left hand and the hilt in his right, ready to venture into the mountain range.

At that moment, a "Ding!" rang out from his phone, and a prompt appeared: "Do you want to activate the map?"

Ye Feilong halted in his tracks, his gaze immediately drawn to the map displayed on his phone screen.

"Map..."

Ye Feilong looked thoughtfully ahead, following the river with his eyes until they fixed upon a shadowy point in the distance. "Yes!" he exclaimed.

"Activating the map requires five gold coins. Please recharge!"

Another prompt popped up.

Ye Feilong was taken aback.

The training room and Pill Room he had downloaded before were free. Why did activation suddenly require payment?

Having gold coins wouldn't be an issue, but where could he find five gold coins now? The coins he had snatched from Lee Qianfan and his crew had all been used to charge his phone.

He surveyed his surroundings.

If the Lee family's gold coins could be used for recharging, they should work for map activation as well. Regrettably, he saw no members of the Lee family nearby.

"Big brother, turns out you're a pay-to-win product after all!" Ye Feilong muttered with a bitter expression.

Indeed, a hero is nothing without money.

Reluctantly, he decided to give up for now, but inwardly he vowed to find a way to take the Lee family's money. He would take as much as he could; after all, he felt no guilt about pilfering from them.

Clutching his sword firmly, he made his way into the mountains along the river.

He had barely covered a dozen meters when he was ambushed by a Devil Beast. Although it was just a first-level, first-grade creature—the lowest tier of Devil Beasts—it still posed a lethal threat.

Drawing on his experience of "collecting" materials in the market, he had opened several pill and medicinal recipes in the Pill Room that required Devil Beast blood cores as ingredients. These recipes covered all blood core grades of the first level, ensuring that any Devil Beast blood cores he acquired would be instantly collected by his phone, eliminating the need to carry them.

His only regret was that items collected in the Pill Room were a one-way transaction; they could only be stored, not retrieved. Otherwise, he would have had a legendary treasure room at his disposal.

He continued on, slaying beasts as he encountered them.

Three hundred meters later, a pungent wind rushed at him from the side. It was a massive black-haired pig, sporting a sharp horn on its head, charging at him with astonishing speed and ferocity.

"This creature must be at least a first-tier, fifth-grade or higher..."

Ye Feilong moved with swift steps, dodging the incoming attack. Once he had a clear view of the beast, he gauged its approximate level from its aura and couldn't help but smile.

"Boom!"

The black-furred pig missed its target and collided with a tree.

The impact shattered the tree trunk, causing the tree to topple over.

Enraged, the black-furred pig turned and charged again with a furious roar, moving faster and with greater force.

"Kill!"

Ye Feilong stood his ground this time, boldly facing the charge. But just as the collision seemed imminent, he swiftly sidestepped, passing the black-furred pig by a hair's breadth. They came to a stop, five meters apart.

Drops of blood fell from the tip of his sword.

Ye Feilong turned and approached the Black-Furred Pig.

The pig attempted to turn around, but it was too late. Its body split in two. During their brief encounter, Ye Feilong's sword had already cleaved it in half.

Blood and viscera were strewn across the ground.

Ye Feilong's focus was on the Blood Core, which he promptly retrieved from the gore.

The Blood Core vanished in his grasp.

It was indeed a first-tier, fifth-grade, precisely what he needed.

"Just two more to go..."

Ye Feilong pressed on.

He encountered numerous Devil Beasts along the way, and by noon, he had collected three Blood Cores of at least first-tier, fifth-grade.

Naturally, he kept the Devil Cores that were below that grade.

After a morning of relentless combat, he lost count of how many Devil Beasts he had slain.

In just half a day, he had gone through two sets of clothes, and the ones he currently wore were in tatters.

It couldn't be helped. An encounter with a rank eight Devil Beast had left Ye Feilong with severe injuries, including two gashes that had stripped away chunks of flesh, exposing stark white bone. The situation had been perilous. In the final moments of the fight, had Ye Feilong's sword strayed even slightly, it might have been him, not the Devil Beast, lying dead.

Regardless of the circumstances, he was still alive, while the Rank Eight Devil Beast lay dead, its Blood Core now a valuable ingredient for pill refinement.

The rewards of surviving such a life-and-death struggle were immense. It honed his martial skills and real-world combat experience, as well as his courage in the face of mortality. Moreover, it seemed that the ordeal had accelerated the increase of his Genuine Qi. He had reached 81% of the Sixth Rank in the Qi Martial Stage, with the Seventh Rank nearly within his grasp.

Indeed, combat was the most effective form of cultivation.

This truth was undeniable.

Ye Feilong gathered some herbs to treat his injuries.

The information his phone had scanned was effectively committed to his memory.

He had learned the entire "Herbalism and Pills" book by heart, understanding every herb listed within. Finding the right herbs for his external wounds was a simple task.

While searching for herbs, he also found numerous materials suitable for medicine preparation or pill refining. He collected these with his phone and picked some wild fruits to stave off hunger.

The wounds were all on his front, a testament to facing his battles head-on, and within his ability to self-treat. He first rinsed the blood from his wounds with river water, then settled behind a large rock to apply the herbs.

With the medicine applied, he leaned back against the rock, closed his eyes, and began to meditate, circulating his cultivation technique while taking the opportunity to rest.

As time slipped by, a notification sound chimed from his phone.

Ye Feilong, deep in meditation, couldn't help but break into a wide smile.