"Indeed... it is!"
Upon hearing the system's prompt, Ye Feng's eyes were filled with shock.
The system's prompt had just confirmed his guess.
The plant sent by the burly elder was indeed, as he had suspected, the legendary divine medicine capable of resurrecting the dead.
"Mr. Ye, what's wrong?"
Seeing Ye Feng staring blankly at the Zuzhou Undying Grass, the burly elder asked.
"You... this gift you've given me is too... too precious!"
Ye Feng looked at the elder with genuine sincerity.
"I'm glad Mr. Ye likes it!"
The burly elder smiled, relieved. "Mr. Ye, to be honest, this plant has been carefully guarded by the elders of our village for generations. However, Taoyuan Village has never produced any powerful figures, and we never knew its true use. It was like a gem gathering dust."
"Mr. Ye saved our Taoyuan Village, and now giving it to a strong individual like yourself is most fitting!"
"Moreover, a man's wealth is his own ruin. I actually think the reason the goblins made a lair near Taoyuan Village might be connected to this Zuzhou Undying Grass..."
The burly elder explained to Ye Feng with a smile.
"Then I shall accept this."
Saying so, a flash of light appeared on Ye Feng's hand, and the Yangshen Zhi along with its large pot disappeared into his spatial storage.
Afterward, Ye Feng bid farewell to the burly elder and, with Xiao Xiao, quickly headed towards the Adventurer's Guild.
He wanted to ask one last time if anyone wanted to trade complete survival coins for anything. If not, he would leave.
...
Ten minutes later,
In the hall of the Adventurer's Guild,
Ye Feng felt disappointed, as no one had yet offered to trade complete survival coins.
However, this was normal. Complete survival coins were not easy to obtain, and it had only been less than two days.
Elder Liu Tou saw that Ye Feng was about to leave and brought up the matter of quests again, but Ye Feng refused as before.
"I know the whereabouts of the Creation Lamp!"
Just as Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao turned to leave, a robust male voice suddenly rang out.
"Huh?"
Ye Feng turned his head and saw an old man who looked somewhat disheveled and seemed drunk.
Although his hair was white and he appeared very old, his eyes were bright and his voice was full of vigor.
"This person..."
Ye Feng frowned.
When he first entered the Adventurer's Guild hall, he had noticed this person. The old man seemed to care about nothing, a drunkard who only drank.
At this moment, Ye Feng was unaware that the moment he ascended to Bronze Intermediate, the old man's drunken eyes had suddenly opened, and he had been sizing him up for quite some time...
"My name is Jiu Gui. In my youth, I heard some things about the Creation Lamp."
"To find the Creation Lamp, you can only follow the guidance of arcane elements!"
Under Ye Feng's gaze, the old man spoke again.
"Follow the guidance of arcane elements?"
Ye Feng frowned, not quite understanding the old man's words.
"That's right!"
Jiu Gui nodded and took out a somewhat tattered small compass from his cloth bag.
The small compass was about half the size of a fist. Strange runes were engraved on its base, and there was a hole in the center, designed to hold something.
Above the small compass was a hollow glass sphere, which was empty.
"This small compass is called the Arcane Compass. If you place an Arcane Gemstone in the hole on the base, the Arcane Compass will absorb the arcane energy from the gemstone and generate an arcane pointer in the hollow glass sphere above!"
"By following the direction of the arcane pointer, you can find the legendary Creation Lamp!"
"This is what it means to follow the guidance of arcane elements!"
Jiu Gui pointed at the Arcane Compass in his hand and slowly said to Ye Feng.
"Hey, Jiu Gui, you're telling tall tales again."
"Exactly. Arcane Gemstones are much harder to find than Arcane Coins. Where are we supposed to find them?"
"Right, even if we had Arcane Gemstones, we'd trade them for Arcane Coins. Who would do this?"
"Besides, that arcane pointer, it always points to extremely dangerous places..."
...
When Jiu Gui finished speaking, many adventurers in the hall began to discuss animatedly.
Jiu Gui did not respond to them but fixed his gaze on Ye Feng. "Young man, do you have an Arcane Gemstone?"
"Hmm... I still have an Arcane Gemstone."
After thinking for a moment, Ye Feng nodded and took out the Arcane Gemstone he had obtained from Yan earlier from his spatial storage.
Jiu Gui's expression was one of surprise when he saw the fist-sized gray-white stone in Ye Feng's hand.
"Yours is a bit too big to fit into the hole of the Arcane Compass. You just need to cut off a piece the size of your thumb."
He paused and spoke again.
"Clang~"
After a slight hesitation, Ye Feng decided to see what this so-called arcane pointer was like.
He drew his Tang knife, cut off a thumb-sized piece of the Arcane Gemstone, and handed it to Jiu Gui.
Jiu Gui nodded and placed the small piece of Arcane Gemstone into the hole on the base of the Arcane Compass.
Immediately, the runes on the base of the Arcane Compass emitted a faint glow, and the small Arcane Gemstone also began to glow, with faint sparks visible within the light.
"Sizzle~ Sizzle~..."
As a crackling sound ensued, sparks suddenly appeared in the hollow glass sphere above the Arcane Compass.
The sparks flickered and writhed, eventually forming a small needle resembling a compass.
"This is the arcane pointer, and its direction is the direction of the Creation Lamp."
At this point, Jiu Gui spoke again.
As he spoke, he pointed to the small, continuously flickering pointer within the hollow glass sphere, which was shaped like an arrow.
"The arcane pointer is affected by arcane energy. If there are strong arcane energy fields nearby, such as during fierce battles or arcane energy explosions, its direction may deviate."
"Also, the arcane pointer will gradually fade. You will need to replenish the Arcane Gemstone after a period, or it will lose its guidance."
"The arcane pointers formed by different Arcane Gemstones will likely point in different directions. If you encounter a very dangerous place and really don't want to go, but you have an Arcane Gemstone, you can choose to change your route."
He paused, and Jiu Gui's voice rang out again.
"Different Arcane Gemstones?"
Ye Feng quickly picked up on the ambiguous part of Jiu Gui's words.
"Ah, more precisely, it's the attributes of the Arcane Gemstones!"
Jiu Gui nodded. "This Arcane Gemstone of yours is a relatively rare lightning attribute, which is why it formed an arcane pointer like a lightning bolt."
"And if it were other attributes like metal, wood, water, fire, or earth, it would form other types of arcane pointers, and their directions would generally not be the same!"
Jiu Gui seemed quite patient with Ye Feng and explained slowly again.
"Are you selling this Arcane Compass?"
For some reason, Ye Feng felt that the person before him, smelling of alcohol and calling himself Jiu Gui, was not simple.
Even though his feeling was that of an extremely ordinary old drunkard.