Chapter 177: Boiling Blood Pill

The peaches were finished; aside from being delicious, there seemed to be no other special sensation.

But the characteristic of being extremely delicious was already worth it.

Having eaten the Noble Consort's peaches, he now prepared to begin refining pills.

In the pill refining chamber, Li Lin cut the White Elephant Divine Flesh into twenty portions, each piece of divine flesh being roughly the same size.

Next, he mixed each portion of divine flesh with alchemical materials in different proportions and poured them into the furnace for tempering.

Blue flames roared fiercely.

As time passed, the furnace fire rose, then the furnace fire died.

One by one, pills were produced from the furnace.

Li Lin examined them one by one.

Then he kept shaking his head.

Although these pills looked quite good, displaying yellow, green, blue, purple, and black—every color imaginable—they were all waste pills, some even poison pills.

The fusion effect between the White Elephant Divine Flesh and the medicinal herbs was not that good.

There was even a sense of rejection.

By now, he had already used seventeen portions of White Elephant Divine Flesh, leaving only three chances.

Although chances were few, as the experiments progressed, he had vaguely grasped the 'medicinal nature' of the White Elephant Divine Flesh.

This substance could greatly increase one's blood qi... but it was not permanent.

Because ordinary people could not absorb it, drugs were needed to solidify it.

Therefore, Li Lin specially designed a pill formula, trying to permanently fix this blood qi.

After the final three portions of White Elephant Divine Flesh were used, three pills were produced.

Two of them were perfect, indeed capable of permanently solidifying the blood qi of this White Elephant Divine Flesh; they were transparent red beads, looking extremely beautiful.

The last one was also a success, but it had some... flaws.

This pill was a vivid red, capable of increasing blood qi, but it was temporary, though the effect was extremely fierce.

It could be regarded as a 'stimulant' for use.

Li Lin estimated it could cause the user's cultivation power to surge explosively in a short time, but the side effect was that after the duration of about a quarter-hour ended, the user would suffer from disordered blood qi, feeling extremely uncomfortable in the body.

Li Lin named it 'Boiling Blood Pill'.

And this pill formula inspired Li Lin; he replaced the White Elephant Divine Flesh material with other medicinal herbs.

He produced an improved version of the 'Boiling Blood Pill'.

The temporary growth effect was not that strong, but the side effects were much smaller, almost having no impact.

Provided one didn't swallow a dozen or so pills in a row!

As for the two pills that perfectly increased blood qi, Li Lin named them 'Solid Blood Pill'; he also wanted to improve them by replacing the White Elephant Divine Flesh with other materials, but after trying many kinds of precious medicinal herbs without success, he had to temporarily give up.

At this moment, Li Lin was quite satisfied.

After experimenting with one portion of White Elephant Divine Flesh, he not only obtained two new pill formulas, but his own pill refining art had also greatly improved.

Now, when he refined a furnace of medicinal materials, the success rate was much higher than before.

The effects of the pills were also much stronger.

Taking this opportunity, he refined another furnace of Youth-Preserving Pills, Body-Strengthening Pills, and a smaller amount of Life-Nourishing Pills.

Although Li Lin had already switched to cultivating the Foundation Establishment method, absorbing spiritual qi, and seemingly no longer needed the primordial qi produced by the Life-Nourishing Pills.

But how could cultivation be so inconvenient? The primordial qi produced after ingesting the Life-Nourishing Pills could be condensed into spiritual qi; it was just that the efficiency was average—a large mass of primordial qi could only be condensed into spiritual qi the size of a fingernail.

Although the efficiency was poor, a mosquito is still meat, no matter how small.

That was spiritual qi... For Li Lin to obtain spiritual qi the size of a fingernail, he would also need to stay in the 'Lin Yuan' temporary small spiritual vein for three or four double-hours.

So... swallow the Life-Nourishing Pills.

He swallowed pills while practicing dual cultivation, and after the two women fell asleep, he sat cross-legged to absorb spiritual qi.

One could say he was extremely busy.

According to reason, under such high-intensity diligence and effort, he should have been very tired.

But in reality, his spirit was very good.

His body felt light and his qi full; he could feel the gradually strengthening spiritual qi changing his body.

Although not fast, he could feel it every moment.

It was another early morning.

Li Lin came to the main hall for breakfast.

Now he rarely shared breakfast with Huang Qi and Hong Luan together.

It was not that he didn't want to, nor that the three had any conflict, but that the two women were too tired to wake up at all.

There was no way; although the two women's physiques were far better than before, and they had even started practicing fist techniques and sword methods, one could say they had entered the threshold of martial arts, they still could not compare to Li Lin's current physical constitution.

Li Lin, on the surface, seemed not much different from before; his muscles were not very visible, only his skin was better.

But his strength and speed had both greatly improved.

On the surface, he was an Eighth-Rank Spirit Hunter, but in actual calculation, he possessed the combat power of at least a Seventh-Rank Spirit Hunter.

After finishing breakfast, Li Lin put on his official robes and went to the county government office for work.

At the entrance of the Military Office, he met Xiao Chunzhu wearing a patrol captain's uniform.

A few days ago, he had become a patrol captain and could now independently lead about twenty government office Runners to patrol the streets.

According to reason, Xiao Chunzhu could already lead people out to patrol on his own, but he still waited for Li Lin at the Military Office, and only after confirming he had no 'mission' would he lead his subordinates out to patrol.

"Good morning, Patrol Captain Xiao."

"Greetings, County Commandant," Xiao Chunzhu said with a smile while bowing: "The County Magistrate said that when you arrive, go to the public hall to see him."

Li Lin nodded and came to the court.

Because the county magistrate had not yet taken office, at this time it was still the assistant magistrate temporarily taking on the magistrate's duties.

Jiang Jili saw Li Lin and stood up.

In front of Li Lin, he did not quite dare to sit and talk.

"County Lieutenant Li, do you still remember the matter a few months ago when Taowu Zhenjun was surrounded and hunted?"

Li Lin nodded.

Taowu Zhenjun was killed near Luofeng Ridge in the western suburbs of Jin Prefecture; this matter was actually secretly orchestrated by his father-in-law, Huang Yan.

"Some eerie things have appeared there recently — probably scattered shards of Yin Qi stones that have nurtured many small apparitions, and we need a large number of people to suppress and kill them."

Li Lin frowned.

"That has nothing to do with me." Jiang Jili shrugged and said: "This is an order from your father-in-law, Prefect Huang. Also going with you to suppress them are the county lieutenant of Beiliu County, as well as several Spirit Hunters."

A document was placed in front of Li Lin.

After Li Lin picked it up and looked it over for a while, he nodded, signed and fingerprinted it, and said: "I'll set out tomorrow."

"Be careful on the road." Jiang Jili said with a smile.

"You watch out too." Li Lin said with a smile: "Those people from the Immortal-Slaying Society might come looking for trouble with you as well."

"That's why I say, why did you have to provoke them for no reason."

"They were the ones who provoked me — slaughtering common folk for no reason. Once there are no people left, what's the damn use of us officials?"

Jiang Jili said with a smile: "What you say does make some sense, but although the Immortal-Slaying Society sounds quite mysterious, they may not dare to make a move against our Jiang family."

"You're impressive."

Li Lin gave a thumbs-up, then left.

Jiang Jili sat back down in the main seat. Looking at the order document on the table, he sighed helplessly: "Strange — how could Huang Yan value it so highly… Li Lin is clearly just the husband of his own concubine-born daughter, yet at a time like this he's still paving the way for him."

(End of chapter)