Path of Alchemy Mastery-Chapter 281 - 282: Only Effective After Death

"These fruits are nothing more than tasty, and serve no other purpose."

As soon as Dongfeng Shuo said this, he saw a strange expression surface on the faces of the two people opposite him.

It was the kind of feeling where one wants to cry but can’t shed any tears.

The fruit they struggled so hard to open had nothing inside but taste; it was good to eat and that was it.

If it weren’t for the fact that they felt their strength was inferior to Dongfeng Shuo and Mu Can, these two woeful passersby would’ve lashed out in anger long ago.

"Senior, are the fruits just for eating?" The passerby, unwilling to give up, questioned. Didn’t they say that within the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm, opportunities were hidden everywhere? How could the fruits obtained through such hardships be utterly useless?

"Nonsense, what else would you do with fruits if not eat them?" Dongfeng Shuo glared and tossed a fruit into his mouth.

The moment the fruit touched his lips, a satisfied expression spread across his face, as if he were savoring the tastiest thing in the world, his old face brimming with contentment.

"What are you waiting for? Both of you should eat too." Not forgetting others while he ate, he urged them to join him.

The two passersby, previously holding the fruit in their hands like a treasure, finally steeled themselves and stuffed it into their mouths.

Oh, what is this? How can it be so delicious?

They could swear to Heaven that in all their years and throughout their cultivation journey, they had never tasted fruit so delectable.

Once the fruit touched their teeth and was cut open, the juice overflowed, filling their entire mouths, and the fragrance seemed to make all their pores expand.

"This fruit tastes so good."

After swallowing the fruits, all their earlier displeasure had vanished like smoke. Even if the fruit didn’t help improve their cultivation, it didn’t matter. To be able to taste such delicious fruit was a fortune in itself.

"Thank you, senior. These fruits are really delicious."

"Tasty, right? I’ll tell you, they have a great effect," Dongfeng Shuo said, with an I-knew-it-all-along look on his face.

"A great effect? Senior, please, stop kidding us. Please spare us brothers; we really can’t take any more shocks."

The two passersby had been full of hope upon getting the fruit, thinking it was some sort of opportunity. Then a word from Dongfeng Shuo dropped them from Heaven into Hell. Now after eating the fruit, Dongfeng Shuo claimed it had a great effect. This must be a joke.

"Do I look like someone who jokes around?" Dongfeng Shuo retorted, standing his ground.

The two passersby, including Mu Can, all thought to themselves.

"You’re not someone who looks like a joker, you are the joker."

However, they wouldn’t dare say this out loud, even under threat.

"Of course not, senior. We two are just not smart enough."

The two passersby were totally played by Dongfeng Shuo and utterly out of temper.

There was no way they could best him in a fight. They had already eaten two of the fruits, and without understanding the full picture, they couldn’t bear to simply walk away.

"Senior, please stop teasing them."

Mu Can spoke up aptly, he too wanted to know what was so special about these fruits. Upon seeing them, Mu Can had known that the fruits couldn’t just be for eating as Dongfeng Shuo had said.

"Heh heh heh, since he has spoken, I’ll tell you. Apart from being tasty, these fruits have another most important use: they add special properties to your Spiritual Energy."

"Add properties to Spiritual Energy?"

Spiritual Energy is the first concept a person must understand to become a Cultivator.

As everyone knows, Spiritual Energy isn’t a gas but a form of energy, and the first thing a person does upon becoming a Cultivator is to generate Spiritual Energy within their body.

When generating Spiritual Energy, due to differences in each person’s body, the resulting Spiritual Energy characteristics are unique to each individual.

Some people might have fiery and tumultuous Spiritual Energy, while others possess calm and water-like Energy, and some might even generate unique properties.

In short, the attributes of Spiritual Energy determine the direction of a Cultivator’s training.

And the attributes of Spiritual Energy are fixed at the moment one becomes a Cultivator.

Now Dongfeng Shuo claims that eating this fruit adds special properties to Spiritual Energy, if word of this were to get out, who knows what sort of waves it would cause in the Mortal World.

Turning ordinary individuals into Cultivators with special Spiritual Energy properties has always been a subject of study amongst the experts of the Mortal World.

Even though reason tells him not to believe, for some reason, Mu Can sincerely believes everything Dongfeng Shuo said is the truth.

"Who exactly are you, and how do you know to get such fruits from this tree and their functions? Even a fruit that can change Spiritual Energy properties is something not even the master might have seen."

The three wore varying expressions; the two passersby appeared shocked, with dazed looks as though they couldn’t believe what they had heard.

While Mu Can pondered the identity of Dongfeng Shuo, this seemingly ordinary old man from the Martial Arts Sect must have more to him than meets the eye, harboring a vast secret.

"Senior, don’t tease us now. If these fruits really could change the properties of Spiritual Energy, they would never be so unknown in the Mortal World, and besides, we’ve eaten them without noticing any change."

The two passersby thought for a moment before it hit them; that damned old man might be fooling them again. If it were true, why hadn’t they felt a single change after eating the fruit?

"Who said there would be changes after eating it?"

Sure enough, upon hearing the passersby’s question, Dongfeng Shuo countered.

"Then how will the change occur, I beg you, senior, no more cliffhangers."

The two passersby were gnashing their teeth in frustration, impotent against Dongfeng Shuo.

Regardless, they had already consumed the fruits; who knows if the unreliable old man had given them poison.

"This fruit will only show its effects after one dies," Dongfeng Shuo’s initially smiling face changed as he spoke, dark and serious.

"Holy shit, old man, are you playing us?" The two passersby finally erupted, after being toyed with by Dongfeng Shuo for so long, only to be told the fruit would serve a purpose after death.

The two looked at each other and saw the surging intent to kill in each other’s eyes, then nodded in agreement.

A man can be killed but not insulted; even though they were no match for him, having been humiliated like this left them with no choice but to fight.