txolops Chapter 127 Beast-Feeding Pills and Speculation
Chapter 127 Beast-Feeding Pills and Speculation
Li Ping is currently a third-tier, low-grade alchemist.
Using his unparalleled talent, he learned two alchemy inheritances: Lü Caibai's first-tier high-grade alchemy inheritance and Xu Pingsheng's third-tier low-grade alchemy inheritance.
Neither of these two alchemist lineages contains the method for refining Beast-Feeding Pills.
Therefore, before Li Ping could refine the Beast-Feeding Pill, he also needed to carefully study the refining method, just like other alchemists, before he could start refining the pill.
Moreover, since the Tree of Inheritance does not record the Beast-Taming Pill, he cannot refine it with the same 100% success rate as when refining other pills.
Of course, once he succeeds, he won't fail again in the future.
With the knowledge of a third-level alchemist, studying a first-level pill formula was naturally a piece of cake. After pondering it carefully for half a day, Li Ping was already confident in his approach.
He took out the alchemy furnace and placed it in the center of the alchemy room. Then he mobilized the innate true fire within his body and spat out a line of fire that landed below the alchemy furnace.
Instantly, the temperature inside the alchemy furnace soared.
Li Ping kept throwing the spiritual herbs at hand into the furnace to purify and refine them. One by one, the spiritual herbs disappeared... In less than half an hour, a strange fragrance wafted from the furnace.
Upon seeing this, Li Ping couldn't help but smile, but the next moment, a burnt smell entered his nose, instantly freezing his smile.
After emptying the waste pills from the alchemy furnace, Li Ping carefully pondered the steps and techniques he had just used to refine the Beast-Feeding Pill.
Half an hour later, he started refining again. This time, the Beast-Feeding Pill turned into charcoal just as it was about to be taken out of the furnace.
Li Ping sighed. He had failed twice in a row to make a first-grade beast-feeding pill, which meant that his talent for alchemy was not very high.
Fortunately, the third attempt at refining went smoothly. Learning from the lessons of the previous two failures, he successfully refined a batch of first-tier beast-feeding pills this time.
Once successfully refined, the experience of this success is instantly and deeply imprinted into the tree of inheritance, into the branches representing the art of alchemy.
With the blessing of the Tree of Inheritance's "One Certificate, Eternal Proof," his success rate in refining Beast-Feeding Pills is now 100%!
……
It took a day and a night to use up all the first-tier beast-feeding pill materials they had purchased.
Back in the training room, Li Ping gently patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, startling the Wildfire Sparrow that was sleeping inside.
"Waaah~"
A crimson figure flew out of the spirit beast pouch, circling Li Ping at high speed and making joyful noises.
Li Ping looked at the wildfirebird that kept showing him affection and couldn't help but smile.
After devouring and digesting the eggshell, the Wildfire Finch was much larger than when it had just hatched.
Now its overall height is a full foot and a half, the distance from its beak to its tail feathers is nearly three feet, and its wingspan is about two and a half feet.
Li Ping took out the beast-feeding pills he had just refined and flicked one into the air.
"Whoosh!"
The fire streaked across the void, and the Beast-Feeding Pill had vanished without a trace.
Wow! Wow!
Having consumed the Beast-Feeding Pill and sensing its benefits, the Wildfire Sparrow flew back and forth in front of Li Ping, emitting ingratiating chirps as if to say, "More! I want more!"
"You greedy little thing!" Li Ping chuckled, then sprinkled the entire bottle of beast-feeding pills into the air.
swoosh~
The Wildfire Sparrow's eyes revealed anthropomorphic joy. It instantly flapped its wings and accelerated, a line of fire circling in the air as a bottle of Beast Feeding Pills fell into its belly.
It then landed on the ground to the side, folded its wings, and began to refine the medicinal power.
Li Ping shook his head, sat down cross-legged, and began to meditate and cultivate diligently.
……
They had just stepped out of the area covered by the formation of Immortal Peach Mountain.
Ji Shuxuan couldn't help but ask, "Hengchuan, didn't you say you found He Yunyi acting strangely, suspecting he'd committed a serious crime and was on the run? Why didn't you tell the senior?"
Yan Hengchuan hesitated for a moment: "These are all my guesses. It's not appropriate to tell Grandmaster before I'm sure."
Because he suspected that He Yunyi was an undercover agent sent by other restaurants to steal their techniques, Yan Hengchuan had kept a close eye on him over the past year, constantly observing his behavior.
But gradually, he noticed that something was wrong with He Yunyi.
He Yunyi lived a secluded life, rarely venturing out except for the occasional trip to the market to buy elixirs. He almost never left the restaurant area, and he had no friends. Even when he spoke with other apprentices in the restaurant, he never exchanged more than three sentences.
He seemed to be deliberately hiding his whereabouts, trying to make himself inconspicuous, as if afraid of being discovered.
Based on this, Yan Hengchuan concluded that He Yunyi was not an undercover agent from another restaurant, but a criminal who had committed a crime and was on the run from capture!
He originally intended to inform Li Ping about this matter and ask Li Ping to take action against He Yunyi.
But when the words were about to come out, he thought of how He Yunyi was bullied by Chef Mo Ling every day in the restaurant, and how he just silently endured it. He also did his best to obey his orders without complaint.
He felt a pang of reluctance.
After all, no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.
Judging from He Yunyi's appearance, he has clearly reformed.
Moreover, he had done a lot for me, so it seemed a bit unfair of me to report him.
Therefore, in the end, Yan Hengchuan did not tell Li Ping about his discovery.
Upon hearing this, Ji Shuxuan panicked: "Hey Hengchuan, how could you be so foolish? If he really is a criminal, then you're in danger! You're only at the second level of Qi Refining, while he's at the third level!"
Yan Hengchuan felt a little flustered when he heard Ji Shuxuan say that.
Despite his panic, he couldn't lose face, so he pretended to be nonchalant and said, "What are you saying, Xiao Xuanzi? I'm skilled in magical combat, and I also have a talisman bestowed upon me by my master. Am I afraid of him?"
We've already left Xiantao Mountain; it would be a huge loss of face to go back and tell our master now.
"I'll bring this up again when I come to pay my respects to my master next year!" he thought to himself.
……
Something's not right!
After meeting He Yunyi, Gu Musheng walked out of the restaurant, his smile vanishing instantly, replaced by a serious expression.
Because he had made a promise to Li Ping, he left Xiancheng after the New Year and personally went to Tengfeng's village.
The purpose was to investigate He Yunyi.
The investigation revealed that everyone in the village praised He Yunyi as a lively and kind child.
His parents and other villagers all understood why he hadn't returned to the village for several years.
They believed that cultivating immortality was not easy for the child, and that returning home might delay a lot of his cultivation efforts, so they couldn't disturb him.
However, his parents missed their child very much, so they specially asked Gu Musheng to write a letter for He Yunyi.
Having obtained a satisfactory result, Gu Musheng returned to the city and went to see He Yunyi.
He planned to have an open and honest conversation with He Yunyi during this meeting, clearly telling him that he needed to take care of the other people in the village after he achieved success in his cultivation.
But as soon as Gu Musheng met He Yunyi and asked him about his recent situation, he realized that something was wrong.
Because the He Yunyi he met was a completely different person from the He Yunyi described by the villagers' parents!
The He Yunyi his parents described as youthful, lively, and kind, was actually mature, composed, and taciturn. Their personalities were worlds apart!
As the saying goes, "It's easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one's nature."
A person's character cannot change so much in just a few years.
Moreover, this isn't a change; it's clearly a transformation into two different people!
Gu Musheng was an extremely shrewd person. After sensing that something was wrong, he never mentioned anything about the village again. He didn't even take out the letter that He Yunyi's parents had asked him to pass on to He Yunyi.
She simply offered He Yunyi a few words of comfort and told him to cultivate diligently in the Immortal City before turning and leaving without making a sound.
"Why is this happening?" Gu Musheng walked along the streets of Xiancheng, still completely baffled. "Could it be that He Yunyi doesn't look like this? Did I pick up the wrong person?"
After carefully recalling the scene when he brought He Yunyi to the Immortal City several years ago, Gu Musheng quickly ruled out this possibility, as he had taken He Yunyi directly from the village at that time.
There's no way I could be wrong.
"Moreover, he seemed to be taciturn at that time, and after arriving in the Immortal City, he did not show the shock and longing that ordinary young people would have when they see the Immortal City!" Gu Musheng pondered silently and discovered more and more suspicious points.
At the time, he thought that He Yunyi had come to the Immortal City while fleeing the beast tide. That's why he remained calm after seeing the magnificence of the Immortal City.
But now it seems that things are clearly not that simple.
"Could it be that he has been possessed?" Gu Musheng was startled by his own guess when he thought of this possibility.
But the more he thought about it, the more reasonable his guess seemed.
He Yunyi was likely possessed by someone before he was brought to the Immortal City.
He hurriedly headed towards Xiantao Mountain: "I need to go talk to my older brother!"
……
They saw Gu Musheng walk out of the restaurant.
Yan Liming gave his retreating figure a long look before heading towards the kitchen.
He also closed the door to the kitchen passageway.
"You really can't underestimate anyone!" Yan Liming muttered to himself as he walked, a strange light flashing in his eyes. "In the end, it's because I don't have the experience of living as a low-level rogue cultivator that my disguise is full of flaws, and I was easily discovered by a Qi Refining cultivator."
He shook his head and muttered self-deprecatingly, "And that rebellious disciple, he found me so quickly. Looks like he really 'respects' me, his master!"
As a powerful figure in the demonic path, he took on disciples to cultivate them into tools, so he placed restrictions on the consciousness of each disciple.
He noticed Liu Wusheng the moment he appeared in the Immortal City.
As Yan Liming entered the kitchen, a strong smell of blood immediately filled his nostrils.
Looking around at the corpses strewn across the kitchen floor, he grinned and said, "This place is no longer safe. Let's leave as soon as possible."
Walking past a field of terrified corpses, Yan Liming stood before Mo Lingchu, looking at his wretched state, a mocking glint in his eyes: "How does our sect's 'Heart-Eating Curse' taste?"
Mo Lingchu's facial features were almost contorted in pain, and she kept clutching her chest with both hands, as if she wanted to rip her heart out!
"Fine, fine, you won't live much longer anyway, I won't dirty my hands." Receiving no reply, Yan Liming shook his head and walked to the unconscious Yan Hengchuan.
"Let's take this kid with us. If his Foundation Establishment backer comes after us, I'll have another bargaining chip."