The Tale of the Void Emperor

While others were fishing, Athan took a look at the golden orb near his order eidos.

Once he poked it with his soul sense, Athan felt some profound zen order sets and saw some imagines.

'This...Hmm, mystic zen order sets?'

He closed his eyes and looked through those mystic zen order sets.

'I see...so these zen order sets might help me if I want to combine or create an order technique myself.'

There were a total of twelve mystic zen order sets, but he didn't intend to comprehend them right now since Tiana and others were catching a fish one by one.

...

An hour passed as everyone enjoyed and ate food fishes.

Each of them ate two three fishes, and along with benefits, everyone received at least one side-effect as well.

The benefits were varying as some had their body strengthened, while some benefits stayed in their body since they couldn't be used in their current level of strength.

Whether coincidence or not but one benefit that everyone received was the same, this benefit strengthened their soul like how it would strengthen after passing a soul order catastrophe. This entailed that they would have to survive one less soul order catastrophe.

Tiana at the last fish as everyone watched but shortly afterward, her breathing turned heavy and her face red.

Seeing that, Lady Fu frowned as she understood what this side-effect was. After all, she also got this same side-effect a very long time ago here.

"Give me the antidote," Lady Fu said as she turned to the staff.

The staff hurriedly nodded as he took out a pill and gave it to Lady Fu.

"What's that side-effect?" Linci asked curiously, and others were also confused.

Athan didn't understand at first, but it didn't take him long to guess the side-effect, and he smiled wryly.

Avelia blushed because she also guessed the side-effect.

On the other hand, Tiana was feeling very hot, and her bottom had also gotten uncontrollably wet.

Lady Fu hurriedly went to Tiana and fed her the pill since she knew that this aphrodite side-effect in the fish was very strong.

She was at Zen order grandmaster realm when she ate the fish and got the same side-effect, and she also couldn't resist that in the slightest.

After eating the pill, Tiana felt better as the antidote removed the effects.

At this time, Hings's sister, Feina, arrived and told them that Hings had finished picking up the stones.

"Finally? Although I said he could take his time, he really took more than an hour, hahaha." Athan laughed out loud as he grinned, "I think it will be really embarrassing if he were to lose after taking his time to pick the stones."

"We'll see about that," Feina said indifferently before turning around.

Athan and others also went back to the stone-cutting treasure gambling place.

While walking, Tiana pinched Athan's hand and whispered, "Athan, you better take responsibility for that incident after this."

Athan looked at her and grinned, "Alright."

...

"You go first," Athan said as he looked at Hings with a smile.

Hings smirked as he pointed at the bronze stone and said to the staff, "Break it."

The lady staff member nodded as she took out a small hammer and lightly tapped on the bronze stone.

With that light tap, the bronze stone shined before cracks appeared on it before it broke and revealed a ring.

The staff picked up the ring and evaluated it.

" This...it's a high-grade elite-tier accessory with the effect to boost physical strength. Its additional ability can be activated if you infuse an order to force in it, which will increase the penetrative aspect of your offensive order technique. Value-wise...

"It should cost five thousand high-grade chaos stones," The staff member concluded.

"Hahaha, great," Ingeal laughed and said to his son, "You are good at this as always, Hings."

Hings nodded with a smile and looked at Athan, "Your turn."

"Alright, open it," Athan carefreely said to the staff.

The staff lady's lips twitched slightly and thought, 'Damn...is he some uber-rich young master or what? Does he not care about one hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones?'

While thinking that, the lady lightly tapped her mystical hammer on the bronze stone selected by Athan.

The stone glowed and shattered before half a meter tall pair of flowers came out. The pair of flowers were bigger than stones, but the stones had similar properties as storage rings.

But seeing the pair of flowers, everyone was shocked except Athan and the group since they didn't know about the flowers.

Even though they didn't know, the expression on the staff lady's face confirmed that these flowers, which were like a silent night filled with stars, were anything but simple. The strange thing was that these flowers didn't radiate any energy at all.

'T-they are Neon-vortex flowers! What the...And two flowers at that! how?' The staff lady thought in shock.

These stones were collected from special-grade chaos phenom dimensions and then processed into three types based on their outer energy radiation detected by the management here using a particular method.

But the Neon-vortex flowers were strange since they didn't exude energy or force in the first place due to their mystical properties.

"Ahem, can you all stop gawking and tell us about those flowers?" Sen spoke with a speechless expression.

Tiana and others also wryly smiled.

Ingeal was the first to snap out his thoughts as he waved his hand hurriedly and created a barrier around them, preventing other people from seeing in their area.

Athan raised his eyebrows at that, 'It looks like these flowers are a pretty big deal. Interesting...'

Lady Fu's hand trembled as well because these flowers...are just too valuable. Especially for those at Evagon realm.

"Young man...," Ingeal looked at Athan with a serious face and said, "Forget this bet since there's no point anymore. Now the real matter is...how about you sell those two flowers to me? Two hundred thousand high-grade chaos stones for each one."

A string of shocking sentences came out from Ingeal's mouth, which dumbfounded Tiana, Avelia, Sen, and all others.

Lady Fu snorted and said, "Mr. Ingeal. Don't forget that I am here as well, and I know the true value of those flowers."

Ingeal smiled but didn't say anything and just looked at Athan.

Athan cracked his finger and said with a faint smile, "First, I want to know about the flowers. What are they used for? what's their effect?"