Chapter 2662 — The Energy Stone Again
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"Oh, right!" Yu Dake nodded, then said, "I rose from the lowest rung of cultivators all the way to a mid-Earth Rank expert. True, in return for serving the You family, I was rewarded with some elixirs and rare natural treasures for cultivation, but that was only a small part of it. If I hadn't already been an early Earth Rank expert back then, the You family wouldn't have taken me in. And my early Earth Rank came not from elixirs, nor from burying my head in bitter solitary cultivation, but from another method entirely!"
"Another method?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback.
"This thing right here." Yu Dake pulled an antique little box from his pocket, carefully opened it, took out a small white stone, and handed it to Wei Zhao. "Mr. Lin, have a look..."
"Oh? A white energy stone?" After taking what Yu Dake handed him, Wei Zhao was briefly stunned—because this object in Yu Dake's hand was the same kind of thing as the great treasure he and Sun Jingyan had found in the Wulonghaote Mountains!
"Oh? Mr. Lin knows what this is?" Yu Dake was startled for a moment, then it dawned on him. "No wonder—Mr. Lin must have one of these too, otherwise your cultivation speed couldn't possibly be so rapid..."
"Not exactly. A friend of mine has one, but it's already used up." Wei Zhao said, "Yours should be used up too, shouldn't it? The great treasure you're giving me—it's this?"
Wei Zhao could not sense any true qi fluctuation within the energy stone, so it seemed it was like Sun Jingyan's, its energy already spent. What puzzled Wei Zhao was what use Yu Dake giving him this thing could possibly have.
"No, that's not it. This one of mine has been used, but I know a place where there should be some unused energy stones of this kind!" Yu Dake said.
"Oh? There's actually a place that produces these energy stones?" Wei Zhao's heart stirred. Though this energy stone was of little use to him for the time being, it should be of some use to other cultivators—at the very least, it could fetch a high price and be traded for some good things, so Wei Zhao was still quite interested.
"Indeed. Years ago, I obtained this little box in a cave. Inside the box was an energy stone, and also a treasure map. The location marked on that treasure map is said to hold a great many energy stones..." Yu Dake said. "But I went there once and couldn't find it. That place is simply too vast—endless desert as far as the eye can see. I couldn't pin down the coordinates and location on the treasure map..."
"So that's how it is..." Wei Zhao nodded. "This is that treasure map you mentioned before, the one you wanted to give me?"
"Yes. I know this treasure map is rather illusory—if you can't find the place, it's no better than a sheet of waste paper. But the most important and precious thing I have to offer is only this..." Yu Dake spread his hands somewhat helplessly and said with a bitter smile, "This is also the only way I have to repay you for saving my life."
"Heh, in that case, I'd be disrespectful to decline." Wei Zhao smiled, took the map Yu Dake handed over, and glanced at it. He found that this map was drawn very similarly to the one Sun Jingyan had held back then. He hadn't expected that these cultivators all liked to draw their maps so vaguely, marking no specific place names, only sketching a shape and then dotting the treasure's location on it. "This sketchy?"