Chapter Ch193 - Gu Zuo’s Pill Battle
That breeze beca bigger and bigger. So people slowly discovered that its directional flow was gradually changing from chaotic to a type of specific pattern. It had beco the sa as a whirlpool.
At this mont, the whirlpool was still very weak.
But very quickly, it seed that there were many strange forces spreading from above the other pill cauldrons. They were quickly sucked into the whirlpool, increasing the whirlpool’s proliferation!
Whoosh, whoosh!
The sound of the wind grew stronger and stronger.
Although the circulation of those forces wasn’t that obvious in the beginning, it had beco clear in a very short ti. Almost simultaneously, the pill cauldron of a pharmacist on the left suddenly started to shake violently. In the blink of an eye, it loudly exploded — Boom!
That pharmacist beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately, the dicinal pill that was originally close to being ford in the cauldron had already turned to fine powder. The pill cauldron had been thoroughly ruined.
The pill refining had failed, so he could only leave.
Additionally, a few pharmacists had also found that the insides of their pill cauldrons weren’t in good conditions.
Undoubtedly, the dicinal herbs had ford dicinal balls, and all of them were producing peculiar forces. If another short period of ti had passed, they should’ve been able to smoothly condense and form dicinal pills. Yet, it seed like so external force had suddenly appeared. Unexpectedly, those dicinal balls were expanding and contracting, and the plentiful dicinal powers within the pill cauldrons also faded away at extrely fast speeds...
If this continued, their dicinal pills would be wasted. At that ti, let alone forming a pill, perhaps the pill cauldrons would also break. They’d thoroughly lose the qualifications to continue in the pill battles.
Subconsciously, these pharmacists raised their guards.
They were also intelligent people. They were fully aware that their own pills were of no use. They promptly distinguished what the force being extracted was. After that, they rapidly replenished the identical herbs in an attempt to increase the dicinal power and to delay the failure of the dicinal pills. They didn’t believe that the external force would last for too much longer. As such, so long as they endured this period, they could continue on!
As for attacking...
At this mont, they already didn’t have any thoughts of attacking. Being capable of saving their forming pills and smoothly defending was also a type of victory.
Of course, while there were so pharmacists on guard, there were also so who weren’t.
Imdiately following this, another three or four pharmacists had their pill cauldrons blow up. The dicinal pills they were refining were also completely destroyed. They lost and withdrew.
“What, what’s going on?”
“This old man has been refining dicine for over a hundred years, and I’ve never seen such strange phenona...”
“It’s just a Revitalization Pill. How could such a situation occur? Could it be the effects of those extra dicinal herbs?”
“I don’t know what the cause is, but it makes this old man very curious!”
“This old man also doesn’t know...”
But just at this mont, that resting Grand Elder, whose eyes had been shut the whole ti, suddenly opened them.
The place where his vision swept over was also where Gu Zuo was located.
“This old man had once seen a type of dicinal pill in an ancient text. When refining it, everyone else refining pills within several ters will have the qi of the dicinal spirit sucked dry or laid bare, or the pills will be wasted. It’s extrely tyrannical. rely, that pill’s prescription has long vanished. I never thought I’d get to see it today.”
During the Grand Elder’s speech, the other pharmacists had gone totally silent.
Their ears heard two crucial points. One was qi of the dicinal spirit and the other was that it was seen in an ancient text and the prescription was long gone.
Then, a high-level pharmacist asked: “Excuse , Grand Senior. What is qi of the dicinal spirit?”
The Grand Elder murmured slightly: “When any pharmacist refines dicine, dicinal power is sorted and condensed into the dicinal pill. During refinent, the essence that is continuously emitted is the qi of the dicinal spirit. The finer the pharmacist’s technique, the more abundant the qi of the dicinal spirit. With this, the qi of the dicinal spirit can purify the dicinal pill. It can also help the pharmacist to reduce the conflict between herbs that have mutually restraining properties. Ultimately, one can obtain a dicinal pill of an even higher product grade.
He continued: “However, if the qi of the dicinal spirit dissipates during the refinent, the dicinal power’s impact will blow up the cauldron or the pharmacist will be unable to continue purifying, turning the pill into a waste pill.”
After listening to this explanation, the other pharmacists all understood.
Following that, when they looked at Gu Zuo again, the radiance in their eyes was sowhat complicated.
Such a young, teenaged pharmacist had sohow obtained the prescription for this dicinal pill, and just so happened to use it at this ti. One couldn’t help saying that his luck was extrely good.
Afterwards, so long as he didn’t make any mistakes while refining, he could obtain a rather high grade on the attacking side. And if he could ultimately refine a pretty good Revitalization Pill, he’d have made considerable contributions on the defending side. His performance record would naturally be very good. Perhaps, he’d have a spot on the final rankings.
As for Gu Zuo himself, he was also sensing the effects produced by that Spirit Devouring Pill at this ti.
Not to ntion anything else, one only needed to talk about the enormous dicinal power Gu Zuo sensed while performing his hand seals. While it wasn’t as powerful as usual, this wasn’t what concerned him. What genuinely shocked him was that the forces brought into the whirlpool were very similar to the dicinal qi he’d been gathering all this ti!
Although, compared to that milky-white dicinal qi, it didn’t seem as pure or dense. However, dicinal qi was dicinal qi. No matter how thin, it was still dicinal qi.
Gu Zuo’s heart tensed up. While he refined the pill, he couldn’t help inquiring within his Tianfu Acupoint: System, is the qi of the dicinal spirit actually just unford dicinal qi?
[Yes, host.]
Gu Zuo: “...”
It was just dicinal qi. Using the qi of the dicinal spirit as a replacent... However, in the beginning, he also hadn’t given it much thought. Now that he thought about it carefully, the formation of the dicinal pill was facilitated by a special force. The more a dicinal pill’s process was perfected, the purer the qi energy it spilled out. Once it reached a fixed amount without even a trace of wear or tear, it would finally form dicinal qi. This was also a matter of course. So, wasn’t dicinal qi just an abbreviation of qi of the dicinal spirit? In fact, it also wasn’t that strange.
Soon, Gu Zuo no longer pondered over this question. He continued to use his hand seals, and gave a passing rueful sigh at the Spirit Devouring Pill’s tyranny.
That’s right. After the aforentioned whirlpool above the pill cauldron got bigger and bigger, low shouts from all around continuously echoed. Many vexed voices, angry voices, and unreconciled voices spread out.
“My pill cauldron!”
“The dicinal herbs are ruined — Completely ruined!”
“Who’s playing tricks?”
“Damn it! What kind of dicinal pill could be so terrifying?!”
“Fuck! It actually failed!”
“Really bad luck...”
Of course, the other pharmacists couldn’t be blad for their complaints.
Because, let alone the four pharmacists surrounding Gu Zuo, there were so even further away. With at least ten to twenty people within a ten ter range, most of them had their cauldrons explode under the Spirit Devouring Pill’s effects. Not even one out of ten persisted, but the ones who were persisting wouldn’t necessarily be able to hold on for much longer.
After all, Gu Zuo’s Spirit Devouring Pill hadn’t been completely refined yet.
The mbers of nurous organizations couldn’t help complaining when they saw sothing amiss.
It was stated that one would attack and defend during the pill battles, but the battles were so desperate and a little over the top...
The two Qingyun Sect people who hadn’t gone onto the field, Qiu Qian and Zhu Hong, were similarly in the middle of watching. Moreover, because the influence of the Sect was enormous, although they weren’t high-level pharmacists, they could also sit in positions near the outer circle of that crowd of high-level pharmacists. They naturally heard the previous statents of the Grand Elder and the other pharmacists.
It could be said that their moods were all over the place — At first, they thought Gu Zuo had gone through the back door and had co over to serve as a stopgap. To their surprise, he had made good achievents again and again. In addition, he had stolen the show during the finals. To the Qingyun Sect, this was naturally a good thing, but for them, they couldn’t help having a trace of jealousy.
However, in the wake of the passage of ti, the period for pill refining was approaching its end, and that side’s discussions had started up again.
The focal points of the discussions were still Gu Zuo and that dicinal pill he was refining.
A high-level pharmacist sighed with emotion and said: “This type of dicinal pill actually contains the prescription for the Revitalization Pill. It’s really beyond our expectations. It’s clear that all of our guesses just then were incorrect...”
However, at this mont, the Grand Elder said: “That’s also not necessarily the case. The Revitalization Pill is the Revitalization Pill. That dicinal pill is that dicinal pill. If this old man hasn’t seen wrongly, this should be... One pill supporting another pill. Ah, it’s really an ingenious design!”
T/N: Thanks for the corrections, Charysa.
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