Chapter 2708 — A Peculiar Result
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As for why he called it similar rather than identical, that was because Wei Zhao's memory of it had blurred somewhat; he could no longer recall the exact appearance of the medicinal cauldron.
Be that as it may, whether identical or not, Wei Zhao understood one thing clearly: he had missed out on something truly extraordinary. That cauldron was unquestionably a treasure, and someone had carried it off.
Shaking his head, he set the matter of the cauldron aside for the moment and turned to Yu Xiaoke. "Apart from that cauldron, was anything else taken from here?"
"Nothing else that I could find..." Yu Xiaoke shook her head.
Just then, White Leader let out a cry of surprise. "Found it! The treasure is at the very bottom of this shelf!"
At his exclamation, Wei Zhao and Yu Xiaoke followed the direction of his pointing finger. There lay a large round pearl, ashen and dull in appearance, looking nothing at all like a treasure. Most likely even tomb robbers would have overlooked the thing, mistaking it for an ordinary stone.
"How is this used?" Wei Zhao asked, glancing at the great pearl before him.
"The method is actually quite simple. You need only place your hand upon it and circulate the incantation of your cultivation art," said White Leader. "The colors the pearl displays will reveal the attributes of your constitution."
"Oh? All right!" Wei Zhao nodded, placed his hand on the great pearl as instructed, and began to circulate the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. In an instant, the formerly drab pearl was utterly transformed!
Seven bands of color took shape upon it, though none of them shone with particular brightness, and each band was hollow at its core.
At the sight of these colors, White Leader's face contorted into an expression of utter astonishment and wonder. For a long while he was speechless. Only after quite some time did he manage, in a voice of dread, "A Five Elements Sevenfold Constitution—but every single attribute is a Void attribute. Within your body there is not one True attribute, nor even a False one!"
"Oh? Five Elements Sevenfold Constitution? All Void attributes? What sort of constitution is that?" Wei Zhao was stunned, and White Leader's words had shaken him badly. He himself possessed a Five Elements Sevenfold Constitution, yet all of it was Void, with not a single True attribute?
"Indeed. According to the records here, each attribute corresponds to one color, and this Five Elements Pearl can display seven colors in all, representing metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as the ice and mist attributes derived from the water element," White Leader explained. "A fully solid, bright band of color indicates a True attribute. A half-solid band indicates a False attribute. But a hollow, dim band such as these indicates a Void attribute... And a Five Elements Sevenfold Constitution means that your body possesses the five elemental attributes and at the same time the three water-derived constitutions of water, ice, and mist—seven in total. Hence the name Five Elements Sevenfold Constitution!"
Wei Zhao's eyes went wide at White Leader's words, though he was left somewhat speechless as well. His constitution was indeed remarkable—a true Five Elements Sevenfold Constitution would surely be a rarity unmatched in the world. But as fate would have it, his attributes were Void, and the five elements could not form a cycle within him, locking instead into a state of mutual suppression. That alone made it impossible for him ever to become an alchemist.
"Then... this constitution of mine... what is it exactly?" Wei Zhao stood there dumbfounded for a long moment before he finally managed to ask.