Chapter 0007: Miracles

Huang Long had prepared the Foundation-Building Pill, and the first to enjoy it were naturally his younger brothers and sister, Huang Liang and Huang Yi.
What Huang Long didn’t expect was that after the two kids tried the first Foundation-Building Pill, they asked, “Second brother, what kind of candy is this? Where can we buy it? It’s so delicious! We want to buy some too.”
Sweat. So the precious pills he had painstakingly crafted were regarded by these two as ordinary candies sold in snack shops. If such candies really existed, the snack shop owners would surely become the richest people on the continent.
After much persuasion, Huang Long finally managed to convince them that no one else sold such things and that they shouldn’t eat too much, as it would cause stomach pain.
Still, as they left, the two kept smacking their lips, relishing the taste of the Foundation-Building Pill.
Since they would set off to the Zhao family in the Blizzard Empire to celebrate their grandfather’s birthday in three days, Huang Long spent the next three days in the courtyard, cultivating in seclusion.
While cultivating, he asked Ling Zhi to buy some medicinal materials and crafted a bottle of healing pill called “Revitalizing Pill.”
However, the three pills—“Vitality Pill,” “Foundation-Building Pill,” and “Revitalizing Pill”—along with the iron ore needed to forge the Five Pits Divine Cauldron, cost nearly a thousand gold coins, almost depleting Huang Long’s savings from these years.
Nearly a thousand gold coins was an astronomical amount for ordinary people. Continuing to craft pills like this, even as the second young master of the Huang family, he couldn’t afford it. He couldn’t keep asking his parents for money, right? Moreover, the medicinal materials needed for the “Divine Restoration Pill” at the Qi Transformation stage would be even more precious, costing dozens of times more than the “Vitality Pill.” A single bottle contained only a dozen or twenty pills, and the medicinal materials alone would likely cost around ten thousand gold coins.
Having lived for countless tens of thousands of years, this was the first time Huang Long had been troubled by the money of the mundane world.
In his past life, in his immortal cave on Erxian Mountain, spanning millions of miles, he had endless amounts of medicinal materials and rare herbs, yet now he was stuck without materials to craft low-grade pills like the “Vitality Pill” and “Divine Restoration Pill.”
“It seems I need to get some gold coins first,” Huang Long thought after realizing the importance of worldly wealth.
How to make money? After much deliberation, he decided to focus on crafting weapons.
On the Hengyuan Continent, an elite magic staff equipped with a sacred-grade magic core could sell for a million gold coins! The magic staff given to him by Ouelier a few days ago, with a ninth-grade magic core, was worth 100,000 gold coins in the market.
Immediately, Huang Long began studying the magic staffs and combat weapons in this world.

Huang Long discovered that magic wands, regardless of the rank of the magic core embedded in them, shared the same function of enhancing a mage’s mana. However, the enhancement rate varied depending on the core’s rank. For example, a wand with a seventh-tier magic core could increase a seventh-level mage’s mana by 30%, while one with an eighth-tier core could increase it by about 70%. Of course, for a seventh-level mage, a wand with an eighth-tier core still only provided a 30% boost, meaning that wands of the same rank offered a 30% mana enhancement for mages of the same level. The same applied to combat energy weapons. With this discovery, crafting became much easier. Enhancing mana and combat energy? That was simple—just inscribe a few basic spirit-concentrating arrays using spirit stones during the crafting process. If no spirit stones were available, higher-quality jade could be used, though the effect would be weaker. When the first magic sword of the artifact class emerged from the Five Hells Divine Cauldron, Huang Long took it in his hands and immediately used the Earth Escape technique to flee to the outskirts of the royal city to test its power. Seeing a several-meter-wide pit about a hundred meters ahead, Huang Long nodded. Although the effect wasn’t as strong as expected due to the use of jade, it was still decent. According to his estimates, this magic sword of the artifact class could boost the mana or combat energy of warriors and mages below the Holy Realm by around 50%. It worked for any level below the Holy Realm, without being restricted by the rank of the magic core like other magic wands and combat energy weapons. Now that the magic sword of the artifact class was created, the next step was to find a way to sell it for money. After much consideration, Huang Long decided to take it to an auction house. After all, auctions involved fewer complications, were easier to promote, and could help fetch a good price through bidding. In the backyard of the George Family Auction House, Eid was calculating the profits from this month’s auctions. Frowning, he realized that there had been no rare items to attract buyers these past few months, resulting in a significant drop in profits. As the head of the auction house, he feared he would inevitably face reprimand from the family head. Eid rubbed his temples, feeling a headache. Suddenly, a light cough came from behind him. Startled, he jumped up quickly and turned around, shouting, “Who’s there?” As an eighth-level warrior, he had been approached silently from behind, which made him break into a cold sweat. A figure, enveloped in a layer of white mist, stood a few meters away. His face was invisible, but it seemed the person was short, likely a dwarf.

A dwarf assassin? An idea flashed through Aide’s mind, but he shook his head immediately. The person before him couldn’t be an assassin; otherwise, with their ability to silently appear several meters behind him, he would likely not be standing here talking now.
“Don’t be nervous. I’m here to ask you to auction a magic sword through your auction house,” came a deep voice from within the white mist. Then Aide saw a heavy sword appear out of thin air in the person’s hands.
A space ring? On the Continent of Hengyuan, space rings were extremely difficult to craft, extremely rare, and beyond the reach of most nobles. Wearing a space ring was a symbol of status, so Aide concluded that the person before him must be of high status.
Huang Long didn’t waste time either. With a wave of his hand, the magic sword floated in front of the other person. “Try this magic sword for yourself to gauge its power and estimate its value,” he said.
Aide took the magic sword. To his surprise, he saw no magic core imbuing it with power or any magical beast materials to enhance its combat strength—it looked just like an ordinary sword.
Was this really a magic sword? Still, he followed the other person’s instructions, channeling his internal combat energy and swinging the sword at the ground of the courtyard. Suddenly, to his astonishment, a sword aura over ten meters long shot out, accompanied by a loud explosion. Everything in its path was shattered.
A crack several meters wide appeared in the courtyard floor—stunning!
Aide was stunned, staring at the terrifying crack in the ground and then at the seemingly ordinary heavy sword in his hands. Had he really swung that sword just now?
How was that possible? He had only used 50% of his combat energy—there was no way it could cause such destruction! Even if he had used all his strength, it still wouldn’t have been possible!
Aide’s throat moved slightly.
At that moment, Huang Long’s voice came through: “Below the Holy Realm, no matter which level of expert uses it, the enhanced power is around 50%. Magicians and warriors can both use it.”
What?! Aide stared at the heavy sword in his hands, stunned. Did that mean even a ninth-level expert would get the same enhancement effect?
50%! A magic staff embedded with a ninth-tier magic core could only enhance a ninth-level magician’s magic power by 30%, yet this heavy sword achieved 50%! And it could be used by both magicians and warriors!
Aide could no longer remain calm. If what the other person said was true, what did that mean?
He could already imagine countless families bidding fiercely for this sword at his auction house.
This heavy sword could truly be called a “miracle” in the history of weapon-making on the Continent of Hengyuan.