Chapter 1081 1041: News of the Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo

"Mm, that's true." Zhen Jingkong nodded and said calmly, "Before this, two people who claimed their surname was Pei came to apologize and gave me this treasure map. I saw this Magical Treasure has a Fourteen Layer Prohibition, and it's both offensive and defensive, very good, so I took it."

"As for this Octagonal Mystic Tower… with my Gem Radiance Formation, I'm afraid I won't have many chances to use it in the future either. Since that's the case, it's better if you take it and keep using it."

"Like this?" Chen Fei nodded and, without being polite, took the Octagonal Mystic Tower and the Wind Rain Thunder Lightning Map back.

"Senior, then when will you…?" After putting the items away, Chen Fei asked again.

"Right now. I originally came here to say goodbye to you." Zhen Jingkong said.

"Right now?" Chen Fei was slightly stunned, then still shook his head and laughed, saying, "In that case, be careful on your way."

"Mm." Zhen Jingkong nodded again and said, "I'll be waiting for you in the Inner Region. Don't make me wait too long."

As he spoke, Zhen Jingkong's figure flickered, and he left directly.

Seeing this, Chen Fei stood there in silence for a while, then finally shook his head and laughed.

Under this sky, there is no banquet that never ends. Besides, Zhen Jingkong was only going to the Inner Region.

That is indeed the place he most ought to go.

"You want to take this back?" Once the sadness in his heart faded, Chen Fei handed the Wind Rain Thunder Lightning Map to Pei Wanning and asked.

"No." Pei Wanning shook her head without the slightest hesitation and said, "Since the two Old Ancestors gave it to you, it's yours now. I don't want it."

"Silly girl." Chen Fei reached out and pinched Pei Wanning's nose, smiling as he said, "What's mine is yours. Why draw such a clear line?"

"I, I…" Pei Wanning's pretty face flushed red again, deeply moved, and she said in a soft, tingling voice, "I don't care! I just don't want it. You keep it."

"All right then." Seeing that Pei Wanning didn't want it, Chen Fei no longer insisted and put away both the Octagonal Mystic Tower and the Wind Rain Thunder Lightning Map. He had to admit, although he no longer had the Lizhen Furnace, this Wind Rain Thunder Lightning Map, which was both offensive and defensive, might suit him even better.

"When are we leaving?" Pei Wanning asked.

"Let's wait a bit. There's still something I need to ask the Floating Immortal Pavilion about." Chen Fei said.

...

A short half-day later, inside a resplendent, gold-and-jade palace within the Floating Immortal Pavilion.

"Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo?" When one of the three great power figures of Ghost Wolf City's Floating Immortal Pavilion, Li Dongquan, heard Chen Fei's question, his brows jerked fiercely, and he said in great shock and doubt.

Their Floating Immortal Pavilion was in business; there was no way they'd be unfamiliar with a peerless, world-shocking treasure like the 'Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo'! A peerless Treasure Medicine.

In fact, if you used value as a measure, even a Golden Level Magical Treasure with nineteen or Twenty Layer Restrictions might not be as precious as that Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo!

Precisely because of that, after hearing Chen Fei's words, he was so shocked and lost his composure like this.

"Daoist Chen, if you're looking for Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo, I'm afraid this will be troublesome." He then said.

"Oh?" Chen Fei's brows faintly furrowed and he said, "How so?"

"We do indeed have Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo in the Outer Domain, but the last time it appeared was at the 'Shengwu Auction' in Earth Martial City over a hundred years ago! That's the grandest, largest-scale auction we have in the Outer Domain every hundred years. Aside from that, I've never heard any news of a second stalk of Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo."

Li Dongquan explained, then couldn't help but shake his head. "Our Qiannan Ancient Kingdom may be powerful, but we still can't attract those truly powerful Dragon-blooded races…"

"Is that so?" Chen Fei's brows were knitted; he could only feel helpless. He had been mentally prepared that Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo wouldn't be easy to obtain, but that it would be this difficult still made one's head ache.

It seemed he could only wait until he returned to Earth once, then come back and slowly investigate the news.

"Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo? I know of a place where Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo exists."

A vigorous voice suddenly came from outside the palace.

"What… Vice President, my lord? You, why are you here?" Li Dongquan's brows furrowed; he was about to rebuke the intruder, but when he saw the newcomer's face clearly, the hairs all over his body stood up, and he cried out in shock.

Because the newcomer was none other than one of the five Vice Presidents of the Floating Immortal Pavilion's Earth Martial City headquarters, Lord Muf Junhe!

And Muf Junhe had another identity—he was Muf Leiyun's grandfather.

"Brother Chen, long time no see." Behind Muf Junhe, Muf Leiyun greeted Chen Fei with a complicated expression.

Previously, he had doubted that Chen Fei didn't take their Earth Martial City seriously, but now the truth had come out: behind this man stood such a terrifying existence! A Great Formation Master…

Thinking of it that way, it made sense that Chen Fei wouldn't hold Earth Martial City in much regard.

"Indeed, long time no see." Seeing this 'acquaintance,' Chen Fei chuckled, then his gaze fell on Muf Junhe. His eyes tightened, his heart gave a jolt, and he couldn't help but grow solemn as he said, "And this is…?"

"Let me do the introductions, let me do the introductions." Li Dongquan immediately stepped forward and said, "Daoist Chen, this is Vice President Muf Junhe of our Floating Immortal Pavilion headquarters. Vice President, this is Daoist Chen Fei. He has a senior, who is a Great Formation Master…"

It seemed Li Dongquan was afraid Muf Junhe didn't know Chen Fei's background and might cause trouble, so he hastily reminded him, disregarding even the difference in their status. That alone spoke volumes.

"I know." Muf Junhe gave a friendly smile, looked at Chen Fei, and said, "Little brother, if you don't mind this old man overstepping a bit, just call me Muf Junhe. In our Floating Immortal Pavilion, I'm like that lord."

"Senior Mu, you're joking. With your cultivation level, I wouldn't dare call you by name." Chen Fei smiled and shook his head, then his gaze sharpened as he said, "But just now you said you know where there's news of Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo?"

"Yes." Muf Junhe nodded and said.

"Where?" Chen Fei's eyes heated up and he asked in a hurry.

This Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo was the key to his True Body of Purple Firmament. He had to get it; there was no room for failure.

"As for where this Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo is, allow this old man to sell you a bit of suspense first." Muf Junhe smiled mysteriously and asked, "Little brother, may I ask, have you ever heard the name Jianng Wanli?"

"Jianng Wanli?" Chen Fei was slightly stunned, then shook his head and said, "Never heard of him."

"Never heard of him?" Now it was Muf Junhe's turn to be stunned. He hadn't expected that with a Great Formation Master backing him, Chen Fei actually didn't know Jianng Wanli, the Jianng Pill King!?

This was really a bit strange.

"Lord Jianng Wanli is known as the Jianng Pill King. The old man is an existence at the Primordial Core True Lord Realm, and at the same time, he's also a King Level Alchemist… Brother Chen, with your alchemy technique reaching such a miraculous level, you actually don't know Pill King Jianng Wanli!?"

Muf Leiyun explained briefly, his tone full of surprise.

In this Outer Domain, for an alchemist not to know Pill King Jianng Wanli was like a cultivator in Ghost Wolf City saying they didn't know Duan Henghe—that really would be very strange, right?

"King Level Alchemist?" Chen Fei muttered in surprise, then calmed down and said, "Mm, I don't know him. So what? What about this person?"

One had to know, for someone who had inherited the legacy of that expert from the Cultivation World, let alone a King Level Alchemist, even if it were a level of alchemist above that, he still found it so-so, nothing special.

So now he was starting to get a bit impatient. What he cared about was the Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo, not some King Level Alchemist…

"It's like this, little brother, listen to me first..."

Muf Junhe's eyes flashed with a trace of astonishment, then he stopped wasting words and carefully recounted how Pill King Jianng Wanli had joined forces with the major powers of Earth Martial City to organize the 'Pill and Martial Arts Tournament'.

"The purpose of my visit this time is to invite you, little brother, to represent our Floating Immortal Pavilion and take part in the Pill and Martial Arts Tournament." In the end, Muf Junhe finally laid out his intention.

"No." Chen Fei shook his head without the slightest hesitation and refused, "Not interested. If it's just about this, you'd better go find someone else. I'm really not interested."

Muf Junhe's expression changed; he hadn't expected Chen Fei to flatly refuse. He hurriedly said, "Little friend, rest assured, if you're willing to represent our Floating Immortal Pavilion in the Pill and Martial Arts Tournament, the remuneration will definitely satisfy you..."

"It's not a matter of remuneration. I have absolutely no interest in this kind of monkey show. You'd better go find someone more suitable." Chen Fei cut him off and said.

"Mon… monkey show!?"

Muf Junhe was dumbfounded, staring blankly at Chen Fei.

Obviously, he had never imagined that such a grand event, a Pill and Martial Arts Tournament jointly organized by Pill King Jianng Wanli and all the major powers of Earth Martial City, would actually be dismissed as a 'monkey show' in Chen Fei's eyes!?

"Looks like this Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo won't be found in a short time… Forget it. Since that's the case, we'll talk about it later."

At this moment, Chen Fei rose from his seat in the palace hall, glanced around, slightly raised his hand, and said, "Everyone, in that case, I'll take my leave first. Goodbye."

Without news of Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo, he couldn't be bothered to stay any longer. Better to go back to Earth first.

"Wait!" Only then did Muf Junhe snap back to his senses and he stepped in front of Chen Fei.

"Senior Mu, what do you mean by this…?" Looking at Muf Junhe blocking his way, Chen Fei frowned and spoke.

"Don't you want Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo? I know where it is!" Muf Junhe said.

"Where?" Chen Fei's pupils flashed as he asked slowly.

"It's inside that Mysterious Tomb that Lord Jianng Wanli discovered!" Muf Junhe said.

"Hmm?" Chen Fei's gaze tightened and his brows furrowed. He looked at the other man in silence for a long time before finally saying, "You're not lying to me?"

"I'm not!" Muf Junhe shook his head, his expression turning serious as he said, "In fact, you and Pill King Jianng Wanli are looking for the same thing! He also needs Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo and has been searching for many years. But earlier, in that tomb, he discovered traces of Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo..."

"What!?"

Upon hearing this, Muf Leiyun and Li Dongquan both had a change of expression.

Their two goals had crashed into each other—didn't that mean…

Chen Fei also fell silent.

If his target really was the same as that Pill King Jianng Wanli's, then this was indeed going to be a bit troublesome.

Zhen Jingkong had just left, and as he was now, he really couldn't compete with an existence at the Primordial Core True Lord Realm.