The Geared Immortal

The Soul flower

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A beautiful and serene place untainted by the dark purple mist around it is what one can say upon looking at the blue lake surrounded by the dark purple mist.

When Shin Jiao reached this place he was truly astounded at the scene that he could not describe what he is currently feeling.

However, the ghost, Hun Jingan found that he is unable to move as if rooted to his place. His ghostly body suddenly started to turn into smoke.

"I don't feel good." Hun Jingan said as if he can feel that his ghostly body is starting to vanish.

When Shin Jiao heard his words, he immediately realized something. The lake is a strong source of holy Qi.

With a wave of his hand, he sent, Hun Jingan backward using simple wind magic using the natural energy in his mind dantian.

Hun Jingan's already disappearing ghostly body slowly recovers as he absorbed the death Qi in his surroundings.

"That was close, thank you, senior." He said while cupping his hand towards Shin Jiao.

With just a nod of his head, Shin Jiao acknowledges and turns his gaze back to the lake.

"I need you to stay here. I'll be back soon." Shin Jiao said as he took a step towards the lake.

Now that he walked closer to the flowers, Shin Jiao immediately realized that the place is unique and the atmosphere and Qi near the lake are a combination of holy and death Qi. And from these two extremes, the nourishment on the herbs and flowers of the place is truly a treasure beyond his imagination.

"This is an alchemist's dream and paradise." Shin Jiao muttered as a smile appears on his face.

"You are right young one."

Suddenly an old man's voice interrupted his train of thoughts.

Shin Jiao immediately became on guard as he tried to look at these surroundings trying to find the source of the voice. However, no matter how hard he tried to look he could not see anyone.

"Your aura seems weird young man. Within your body, there is Qi and natural energy… How can this be? How is this accomplished." The old voice said as he suddenly appears in front of Shin Jiao with a curious look on his face.

When Shin Jiao suddenly saw an old man appearing in front of him out of thin air, he was startled and immediately jumps back while activating his shield.

"Haha… What a nice reflex. If I were an assassin I won't be able to kill you that easily. Truly amazing! Truly amazing! This old man is curious about your body. I won't be too rude and want to ask you some questions."

Shin Jiao didn't answer and just keeps up his vigilance. From what he can see the old man is a very powerful being. He might be stronger than a nascent realm cultivator, or from his brilliant and almost oppressing aura, he might even be a heavenly nascent realm cultivator.

This is the first time that Shin Jiao was able to see such a powerful being in this world. It is known that heavenly nascent realm cultivators didn't care about the world anymore. Unless the world is in danger, they would not care. They are sometimes called demi-gods or half steps to being a true god. With only a single realm until they became a deity, most heavenly nascent realm cultivators are just waiting for their chance to become a saint immortal.

This is because being a saint immortal can only be obtained by chance, and not through cultivation. This only means that heavenly nascent realm cultivators are already at the peak of the cultivation level realms.

"Senior, this junior is just here looking for the Soul flower which I need." Shin Jiao would not tell the old man everything just in case he poses a threat to the prince.

The old man didn't say anything and just turn his eyes towards a clump of flowers with black stem and golden white buds.

When Shin Jiao followed his gaze and saw the flowers he was stunned at its beauty.

Though he is not someone who would appreciate flowers, right now the aura and the flower somewhat hypnotized his heart into liking it.

"Hmm… This flower's effect is not something that the likes of you, lower cultivators can handle. You have…"

The old man didn't finish his words when he saw Shin Jiao shaking his head as if trying to keep his mind awake.

"This young lad has a strong mind and will ain't he? Hehe… Well, if he can overcome this, then I would just let him have his way in this small low tier garden." the old man thought as he suddenly vanished.

If any cultivators could hear the thought of the old man, they might hit themselves in the head in disbelief. It is clear that every herb and flower surrounding the lake is something that can push a cultivator to reach the nascent realm if turned into a pill. Even if it is casually eaten, then the effect is no less.

But the old man treats this garden as if a normal one and didn't even care. Actually this place is something that the old man casually built because of the death and holy Qi in the surroundings. This way, he is expecting to gain some good karma and maybe change his fate and be able to give him a chance to step into the saint realm.

And right now, he found his target to have a chance with fate.

Shin Jiao's mind is too hazy and everything is blurry as he tried to keep himself awake. He can immediately feel his Qi getting out of control inside his body. Luckily for him, his dantian is an artificial one and has the auto stabilizing control of his Qi. This is one of the functions of the artificial dantian so that Shin Jiao could absorb the Qi in his body without any problems.

But his mind dantian is the one being affected too much hence the dizziness of his surroundings.

"Common focus!" shouted Shin Jiao in his mind.

Then suddenly he noticed that it is not actually the Qi or the natural energy in his body is affected, instead, it is his soul.

Once he realized this, Shin Jiao immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and began to condense his Qi. Then with a swipe of his fingers, he drew out a formation using this Qi. This formation is a soul suppressing formation which is used by some priest to suppress evil spirit. This is also included in the formation which he learned from Ling Ya while they were traveling towards the Snow Peach town while under the zombies' attack.

Not long later, Shin Jiao can now feel his soul stabilizing and is not affected by the Soul flower anymore.

This time, Shin Jiao realized something.

He could not take an intact Soul flower out, or else it would cause many casualties to normal beings. This is the horrifying fact that surrounds the Soul flower, and this is also the reason why there is no available Soul flower in the market.

Then suddenly Shin Jiao has a thought, an epiphany. He didn't know where the idea came from but deep in his mind, he suddenly thought of making pills out of the Soul flower. Because according to what is in his mind, if one can see a Soul flower and have their soul be almost taken from their bodies, then how about eating a Soul flower pill?

It could only have one result, and that is the complete nourishment of the soul.

This idea didn't come from Gubu, but what confuses Shin Jiao is where this thought came from.

But he didn't dwell on it much longer as he quickly moves to make a pill out of one.

Shin Jiao focused his mind to maintain the formation as he flew towards the other side of the lake where the Soul flower is.

Then while floating about the lake, Shin Jiao noticed something deep in the middle. There is a golden light coming from deep within. He wanted to investigate, but he has no time for this. The situation with the 2nd prince is very important.

So Shin Jiao didn't hesitate any more and landed near the large patch of Soul flowers. From the looks of it, there are more than a hundred stalks of Soul flower in the area.

"Well, here goes nothing…" Shin Jiao muttered as he grabs a stalk and but it.

Then as quickly as he can, he immediately uses his natural energy to control a blue flame and slowly refined the Soul flower.

This is another skill that has entered his mind, refining medicinal herbs without a furnace.

In no time, a black colored pill and almost transparent appear floating above his hand. Shin Jiao immediately took out a pill bottle and kept the pill inside.

However, this did not end because right now. Shin Jiao could not help himself as dozens of medicinal herb combinations are entering his mind and he suddenly unconsciously began refining and making pills like an unstoppable machine.

As a research maniac, Shin Jiao was truly curious about the formulas in his mind and their uses. And since there are plenty of herbs around the lake, he began to pick, refine, combine, and then form pills.

Two days later, Shin Jiao is now in an exhausted state and the once beautiful garden in front of him is now almost barren with only those budding herbs and flowers left. Shin Jiao has refined almost all of the herbs in the garden into thousands of different pills and was put in bottles. The stack of pill bottles around Shin Jiao is numerous that it is almost impossible to have been produced by a single alchemist.

However, Shin Jiao did it like a machine and used thousands of his demon core and spirit stones. So, right now he has exhausted himself and is currently sleeping.

"Wake up!"