Magic Doctor CEO Lady's Humble Husband (Fade Chen)
Chapter 1427

Sighing, Galeno patted Fade on the shoulder as he said, "Now that the Martial Arts Convention is over, let's prepare for the award presentation ceremony." "Okay!" Fade nodded, then jumped out the ring with Galeno and returned to the VIP seat.

Next was the award ceremony for each competition. Without the complication of any formalities, the organizer directly distributed the awards to the winners.

Among them, the category that garnered the most attention was naturally the Earth Level. After all, they were the strongest and won the most awards to boot. Moreover, one of the awards was obtaining the long-awaited access to the Dragon Mausoleum.

Under everyone's attention, Galeno retrieved several palm-sized black cards and distributed them to the contestants who made it to the top ten spots. Then he said, "The black card is the entry ticket to the Dragon Mausoleum. You will be notified about the time and venue when it is open. You can travel there on your own by then. Am I clear?"

"Yes!" Everyone nodded and immediately tucked their black cards away.

Although the Martial Arts Convention was officially wrapped up at that moment, that was only referring to the official event by the host. The convention, however, was still proceeding.

The audience and many other contestants were not in a hurry to leave. Instead, they took it upon themselves to gather in the venue. Some of them were catching up, while others were exchanging martial arts experiences. There were also some who had set up stalls to sell some objects.

The Swallow Lake ushered in a crowded market for the martial artists. They started shopping around. Some martial artists would even rush over to the venue after the convention was done for the sake of participating in this bustling market.

After all, there weren't many opportunities for such an assembly of the elite martial artists of the nation. Regardless of what their intentions were, whether it was to learn from some other masters, to share experiences, or to sell their products, this was a great opportunity for all.

Fade had intended to bring Jasmine back to treat her wounds as soon as possible, but she insisted that she was fine and was more interested in looking around the market instead. Therefore, he stayed behind and began roaming around with her and Tom.

As for Tom's so-called "friends", after witnessing Fade winning the fight, they left dejectedly and didn't bother to stay for another second more.

The three of them walked along the banks of the Swallow Lake. Their main purpose was to shop around the stalls set up by other martial artists and see if they could come across any bargain.

Due to the fact that Fade had won the match, more people in the crowd were familiar with him, and people started discussing him.

Some people even compared Fade to Moore, who had suddenly risen to fame more than 20 years ago. They said that Fade and Moore were both lucky to make their names out there by winning the championship.

Thinking of this, Fade was reminded of Joey. If the message he had received was true, Joey was most likely Moore's daughter.

Thinking of this, a strange emotion emerged in Fade's heart.

He was deep in thoughts when a crowd started gathering around a stall right in front of him. The lively ambience pulled his attention back.

Striding towards that direction, he got to listen clearer to the noises around.

"To actually trade a herb of the Heaven Level, this is one hell of a bargain!"

"Heaven Level herbs are too precious. Is it genuine? You're not trying to deceive us, are you?"

"Several masters have all checked it out but they couldn't find any fake traces. It should be genuine."

"If I can get my hands on the herbs, I'll be filthy rich."

"Boy, you'd better solve the formation first!"

"Heaven Level herbs!" Hearing this, Fade's eyes narrowed slightly as he ambled towards the stall.

When the crowd saw Fade coming, they naturally made way for him.

It was an ordinary stall. There was a linen cloth laid out on the ground. On top of the linen cloth, there was a withered branch with a few withered red flowers on it. It looked nothing special. However, as soon as Fade's gaze swept over the branch, he froze. His gaze couldn't help but stare at the branch, and his heart began to beat violently. He murmured, "This, this is the branch and flower of the Frost Plum Blossom."

The Frost Plum Blossom was a rare plant of the icy and cold nature. It was one of the coldattribute materials that Fade needed to cultivate the Nine Suns Flaming Skill.

The Frost Plum Blossom Fruit was on par with the Nine Leaf Ice Flower and the Ice Lotus which Fade had already cultivated before. If he could refine and take it in, his strength would improve further. He could also learn an additional unique skill other than the Blazing Vision and Ice Lotus Flame.

Although the stall was not selling the Frost Plum Blossom Fruit, even getting hold of it would highly benefit Fade's cultivation.

Therefore, he was almost determined to purchase the Frost Plum Blossom at first glance.

Although he was inundated with sheer excitement, Fade didn't let it show. There was not much emotion on his face when he continued observing. On the other side of the linen cloth, there were a few lines of words written with ink. Glancing at it, Fade found that it was the rules dictated by the stall owner.

It turned out that the vendor wasn't selling the Frost Plum Blossom for money, but would rather exchange it under some condition. His exchange condition was also unique, for he wasn't exchanging it for the same level of precious herbs, cultivation techniques, or weapons.

His request was to break through the three

formations he had drawn. If anyone could break through all of them, then he would willingly hand over the Frost Plum Blossom.

If the challenger could only break through one or two formations, the stall owner would exchange something else as a complimentary gift.

"Break the formation," Fade looked curious as he read further down.

Below the words were three pieces of white cloth. On the cloth were three Tai Chi Eight Diagrams and all of them looked roughly similar, but upon closer inspection, you could find that the arrangement and lines inside were different. They were complementing but also restricting each other, which formed a complex yet closely-knit formation.

According to the vendor's request, they needed to look for the three openings in the formation and crack it.

At this moment, there were already many martial artists who had been staring at the three formations for quite some time, but the frowns on their faces indicated that there wasn't any clue.

A few people pooled together and began to confer with each other to find a solution to this.

"Judging from the pattern on the formation, it seems ancient."

"Yes, there is a lack of information about the ancient formations. It is difficult to understand, but it is even more difficult to crack it."

"These three arrays ought to all be defensive type arrays. Each one is more rigorous than the previous one, and each is more difficult to break than the other. They have got us now."

"Of course. If it wasn't difficult, would anyone bring out a Heaven Level herb like the Frost Plum Blossom as a reward?"