Chapter 27: The Wish Fulfilled

A full half hour after Rosia left, Li Mochen finally let out a sigh and slowly sat up from the bed.

The Divine Firmament Sect was still waiting for his return, and the calamity of the Primordial Vault Realm had not yet been fully resolved. He couldn't really let himself sink into despair and never recover, could he? Even the original owner of this body had obsessions he couldn't let go of.

Li Mochen quickly composed himself and turned to pick up the gift box beside him, flipping through it. In an instant, surprise appeared in his eyes.

Inside was first a thick stack of cash, totaling exactly two thousand gold shields, followed by four sealed medicine bottles. Li Mochen looked closely and found they were初级橡树药水 (primary oak potions) manufactured by the 'Anyi Medical Group'.

In the Western cultivation world, the oak tree holds a lofty status, regarded as a mystical tree and the king of the forest. It is seen as a symbol of robustness and strength, representing glory, power, and indomitability, linked to authority. It possesses extraordinary majesty, unique bearing, and mystical power.

In Western mythology and legend, the ruler of this tall, sturdy tree is the Greek chief god Zeus, the Roman god of love Cupid, and the goddess of the hearth Vesta. The rustling of oak leaves is Zeus's oracle to the Greeks.

Moreover, early magic-energy mages were called Druids. This name comes from Celtic, meaning 'those who know the oak'.

These 'knowers of the oak' regarded the oak as a sacred tree and its fruit as sacred fruit.

In Druidic rituals, the oak was placed as an axis, symbolizing male wisdom; the fruit was believed to aid fertility, longevity, and freedom from disease.

Also, the mistletoe that parasitizes the oak was regarded as a panacea, possessing divine power and the best curative effects, though it had to be harvested through particularly solemn rituals.

Thus, the efficacy of these four bottles of potions named after the oak was easy to imagine.

According to what Li Mochen knew from the original owner's memories, this should be one of the more precious among all primary potions in the Western alchemical system, second only to the 'Sacred Oak Potion'.

Li Mochen was not polite at all; he directly opened one of the potions and drank it. The taste was actually sweet, but unfortunately mixed with a bit of fishiness, leaving an uncomfortable feeling after ingestion. Li Mochen guessed that the formula must have included some animal entrails.

He smacked his lips, savoring the taste, trying to identify other ingredients, but ultimately gained little. So, while the potion's effects had not yet taken hold, he looked thoughtfully at the gift box before him.

The black-haired girl in the dressing room was undoubtedly of distinguished birth. Just from the fact that she casually gave away items and money worth at least twelve thousand gold shields, one could see her financial power. Being able to enlist a high-level holy healer from the church to treat him also required sufficient status.

What concerned Li Mochen, however, was not this aspect, but the wish he had made to the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda'—to obtain a sum of extra money as quickly as possible, by legal means.

So, were these things the result of his wish? Obtained in this way?

Although this gain was quite good, especially these four bottles of perfect-grade primary oak potions—such good things, even with the original owner's status and money, might not be easily bought—the process of obtaining them was extremely unlucky, even involving a bloody disaster.

This was just like his experience in the Primordial Vault Realm. In the early days when he first obtained the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda', the wishes he made were always fulfilled, but always in strange and peculiar ways. Twice, he even faced near-death calamities.

Later, Li Mochen figured out that a person's fortune has a certain fixed quantity; luck and misfortune generally maintain a balance. If luck is a bit better now, misfortune might dominate the next moment. If today is lucky, tomorrow might be unlucky. The so-called 'extreme prosperity leads to decline, extreme adversity leads to good fortune' is nothing more than this.

And the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda', though a supreme treasure with great powers that could grant wishes by disturbing fate, also brought almost equal misfortune while bringing good luck. When a wish was fulfilled, he would inevitably lose something of nearly equal value.

This situation only gradually improved after he accumulated enough strength, merit, and power.

But ever since understanding the rules, Li Mochen still dared not make overly excessive wishes to the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda', nor would he set a specific quantity that must be achieved when making a wish.

Just like today, his wish was only to obtain a sum of extra money as quickly as possible, without specifying whether the amount was one thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, or twenty thousand.

This was because he had long realized that wishes beyond the capacity of one's own fortune would only bring equal disaster.

Li Mochen thought that his supreme treasure was probably still effective. But judging from the events before and after this time, the current function of the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda' was not much stronger than when he first obtained it.

This made him somewhat disheartened. He had originally thought that although the pagoda was damaged, the merit accumulated inside should still have some remnants.

In the Primordial Vault Realm, he had repelled the demonic calamity, not only saving billions of living beings from demonic suffering but also freeing the Primordial Vault Realm from the disaster of decline.

This was no less than the merit of recreating heaven and earth. Li Mochen guessed that the merit he had gained should be considerable. But now it seemed that the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda' didn't even have a trace left.

Was it because merit couldn't be used across realms? Or had it been completely consumed while drifting through the boundless void?

Or was it that after the 'Divine Firmament Fortune Purple Gold Pagoda' was damaged, it couldn't temporarily store merit power?

While Li Mochen was making random guesses, the effect of the oak potion gradually took hold. Streams of heat began to spread from his chest and abdomen, expanding and extending to his limbs and bones. Li Mochen then stopped his thoughts and sat cross-legged, assuming a posture with five hearts facing the sky, and began to circulate a secret technique.

The Divine Firmament Sect had a secret technique called 'Blood Origin Spirit Refinement', which could perfectly absorb the medicinal power of various pills.

Li Mochen thought that although the oak potion was a product of Western alchemy, the so-called 'different paths lead to the same goal'; the essence of Eastern pills and Western potions should be similar.

And indeed, after just ten minutes, Li Mochen felt the heat streams inside him gradually subside.

Correspondingly, he felt that his limbs, which had been sore and swollen, were now unusually comfortable. The weakness from significant blood loss also disappeared afterward.

When Li Mochen opened his eyes again, his gaze was as bright as stars.

—This primary oak potion really had some tricks!

The medicine not only generated a large amount of fresh blood in his body but also nearly half-replenished the physical deficiency caused by his earlier forced breakthrough to magic energy level four while optimizing the Binary Profound Transformation Method.

He even felt a long-lost coolness in his spirit soul.