Chapter 49: Chapter Forty-Eight: Nine Cauldrons Pavilion

Although Meng Su was in a half-dreaming, half-waking state, his powerful thought power almost covered the entire Ghost King Valley.

Seeing Shi Xiaoxiao arrive, Meng Su still had to receive her.

Meng Su hurriedly got up and gave Shi Xiaoxiao a hug: "Teacher, why did you only come to see me now? I've missed you to death."

Shi Xiaoxiao frowned, and Gongzi Jiao hurriedly blocked Shi Xiaoxiao.

Meng Su didn't care who was in front; he grabbed Gongzi Jiao and hugged him. Gongzi Jiao was greatly shocked, knowing that Meng Su was intentionally disgusting him. He kicked Meng Su.

Before the tip of his foot could kick Meng Su, Meng Su did an aerial roll, then fell to the ground with a *slap*, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Seeing Gongzi Jiao kick Meng Su until he bled with one kick, Shi Xiaoxiao said angrily: "I don't care about what happens outside the Demon Realm, but in my Pill Demon Sect, bullying the weak is absolutely not allowed. If you have any grudges, you can go to the Life and Death Platform. Don't play dirty tricks down here."

Gongzi Jiao: "Teacher, this brat is cheating; I didn't even kick him at all. Please, Teacher, judge clearly."

Shi Xiaoxiao: "He's been kicked until he's vomiting blood, and you say you didn't kick him? This matter ends here. Do not say another word."

Meng Su stood up, pretending to be in pain. Gongzi Jiao stared fiercely at Meng Su, his eyes looking as if he wanted to eat Meng Su alive.

Shi Xiaoxiao: "You may begin selecting your medicine."

Shi Xiaoxiao frowned when she saw the withered, half-dead medicinal herbs in Meng Su's medicine field.

"Student Meng, you should put some effort into managing this medicine field of yours. Don't look at this kind of pill as simple; you can understand the properties of various medicinal herbs and the taboos of combining them through seed alchemy. Prepare for becoming an alchemist in the future. Look, Student Yang Tianjiao can already refine low-grade spirit pills now. Although there are still many impurities, being able to refine them in such a short time means he will definitely become a master of the pill world in the future."

Gongzi Jiao puffed out his chest with a proud look.

Seeing Gongzi Jiao's arrogant appearance, Meng Su hurriedly puffed out his chest as well and said: "Teacher Xiaoxiao, don't look at how ugly the medicine in my field grows; its medicinal properties are many times stronger. If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself."

Shi Xiaoxiao shook her head: "Wait a while before selecting medicine. You should at least put some effort into it."

Meng Su patted his chest: "I guarantee with my character that these medicines of mine are the best."

Shi Xiaoxiao smiled: "Whether your medicine is good or not is another matter, but at least twenty percent or more of medicines require flowers or seeds to be used as medicine. Look at these medicines of yours; they can't even bloom or bear fruit, so how can they be used as medicine?"

Meng Su: "......"

Shi Xiaoxiao led dozens of cultivators away.

Suddenly, a young alchemist saw one of Meng Su's medicinal herbs. This alchemist stopped, pointed at that medicinal herb, and said to Meng Su: "Brother Daoist, can you give these Gathering Demon Ginsengs to me? I am currently refining a type of Demon Pill and need to use them."

Seeing that someone finally took a fancy to his medicinal herbs, Meng Su waved his hand generously: "It's good that you have an eye for quality, Brother Daoist; help yourself."

That young alchemist happily pulled out about a dozen Gathering Demon Ginsengs and followed Shi Xiaoxiao's team away.

After Shi Xiaoxiao's group left, Meng Su began to refine pills for himself.

Meng Su had no use for things like healing pills or Qi-replenishing pills; the life and death power of the Reincarnation Seed in his body and the Devouring Heaven Demon Pill were both heaven-defying divine objects, so where would he need Qi replenishment or healing? Meng Su wanted to refine a type of pill: "Teleportation Pill."

The "Teleportation Pill" belongs to the category of artifact pills and can teleport over short distances. Meng Su was currently at the True Demon stage and could not fly, and the Demon Realm was very large; relying solely on his two legs, no matter how fast he was, he couldn't run very far. If he had small-range teleportation, teleporting a hundred miles at a time, traveling in the future would be much faster.

The "Teleportation Pill" is relatively easy to refine, but the medicinal materials are hard to find. It requires over a dozen types of medicinal herbs, and crucially, it requires the origin blood of a demon beast. This demon beast is called an "Escape Rat." This rat is recorded in the Pill Scripture; there are countless of them in the Demon Beast Forest, but they are extremely strange and very difficult to catch because the "Escape Rat" is extremely timid. Once there is danger, it will escape, and this escape takes it dozens of miles away. Many Demon Hunters have no way to deal with them.

Although "Escape Rats" are rare, they are not completely non-existent. They often appear for trade in the Demon Capital market, but this thing can only be exchanged and cannot be bought or sold with gold or silver. And the best thing for exchange is pills.

As for the other auxiliary medicines, Meng Su's medicine field had them all.

Now, there were two ways for Meng Su to obtain them: first, through exchange; second, go to the Demon Beast Forest to catch one himself.

The Demon Beast Forest had been very unstable these past few years, and Demon Beast-level demon beasts would appear at the drop of a hat, which was something Meng Su could not defeat. If he only stayed at the edge of the Demon Beast Forest, he might not be able to catch an Escape Rat. Going slightly deeper would lead to high-level demon beasts, as well as packs of demon wolves. Meng Su didn't want to go and throw his life away, not to mention that this Ghost King Valley was in the middle of the Demon Realm, separated from the Northern Demon Beast Forest by two Demon Domains plus the boundless Black Demon Sea. Meng Su had no means of transportation or teleportation array and could not go.

Then he could only refine pills.

The most marketable pill in the Demon Realm is the Demon Spirit Pill. The Demon Spirit Pill is a pill that Demon Cultivators take long-term to accumulate Demon Power, and the market demand is extremely large. Then there is the True Demon Pill. The existing quantity of this True Demon Pill is very small, and there are not many alchemists who can refine it now, and the probability of success is not high. Even the Medicine King Shi Buli only has a success rate of about twenty percent. This is a type of pill that can transform a Void Demon into a True Demon. It is precisely because it is difficult to refine that it leads to Void Demons running rampant in the Demon Realm, unable to transform into True Demons. The strength of the Demon Sect cannot be greatly improved.

Meng Su decided to refine the True Demon Pill.

The True Demon Pill is an ordinary pill and can only be refined using an ordinary pill furnace. But Meng Su didn't have one. Just when Meng Su wanted to find Shi Xiaoxiao to ask for one, a Demon Cultivator ran to Meng Su's medicine field in a rush.

This Demon Cultivator was the alchemist who had pulled the Gathering Demon Ginsengs from Meng Su's medicine field last time. After seeing Meng Su, this alchemist bowed to Meng Su: "Thank you, Brother Daoist, for the Gathering Demon Ginsengs. Although Brother Daoist's medicinal herbs don't look good, their purity of medicinal properties is rarely seen in the world. I have refined Gathering Demon Pills thousands of times and never succeeded once; I couldn't even refine low-grade pills. After I exchanged for Brother Daoist's medicinal herbs, I quickly refined the Gathering Demon Pill. Sir, please accept my bow."

Meng Su laughed: "I said the medicinal herbs were good, but they didn't believe me. Brother Daoist, do you have an extra pill furnace in your pill room? Lend me one; I also want to learn how to refine pills."

That alchemist said in surprise: "Brother Daoist can refine pills without having taken a single course on alchemy?"

Meng Su: "Don't I have you? You teach me, and I'll know how."

The alchemist quickly waved his hands: "Brother Daoist thinks too highly of me, Dongfang Mao. I am only half-knowledgeable myself; how could I be your teacher?"

Meng Su: "Brother Dongfang is too modest. Didn't you refine the pill? You can teach me the method, and I will ponder it myself."

Dongfang Mao: "Brother Meng, there are many pill furnaces in the pill room; I will pick a top-quality one for Brother Daoist. I will send it to you in a while, but Brother Meng's medicine field must prioritize supplying me."

Meng Su: "Deal. I also want to ask, is there a market for buying and selling pills or magic tools nearby?"

Dongfang Mao: "What level? Low-level ones are in Li County outside Ghost King Valley. High-level ones need to go to the Nine Cauldrons Pavilion in Li City."

Meng Su: "This place is thousands of miles away from Li City; how do we go? We can't fly."

Dongfang Mao: "Our Ghost King Valley has a dedicated teleportation array to and from Li City; we can go back and forth." ===== CHAPTER 50 =====