Chapter 560: Great Medicine Snow Bud Pill

After the Lantern Festival, Zhou You appeared less frequently at the martial arts hall; he even turned down the opportunity to observe the Jueguang Sect's Sword Discussion Ceremony.

Outsiders all assumed he was obsessed with beauty, spending his days dallying with his beautiful concubines, to the point that the public reputation of Qi Fengzi was not very favorable.

Regarding this, Qi Fengzi expressed:...

From Zhou You's parents down to Hua Youxing, Qi Fengzi, and trusted confidants like Zuo Shier, it was also difficult to see him in person.

A row of houses in the backyard was designated a restricted area; apart from him, no one else was permitted to step inside.

Zhou You stayed immersed within, burying himself in research, and declared to Hua Youxing and Qi Fengzi that the apothecary did not wish to see outsiders.

In reality, only he was busy running back and forth, handling the entire process of compounding medicine.

Refining Great Medicine was different from Secret Medicine; not only did it spend money like water, but Experience Points could not be saved either.

With Zhou You's current income, if there were no Trial Projects, the Experience Points contributed by the apprentices and Disciples of the martial arts hall amounted to about 50,000 to 80,000.

This figure was already quite considerable!

In order to overcome the difficulties in refining medicine, it was sometimes unavoidable to activate an accelerator, and the Experience Points would be spent in a flash.

"Hmm?"

On this day, Zhou You had just successfully extracted one of the components of the Blood-Dripping Pearl when he suddenly sensed a subtle change in the sound of the wind outside the room.

At this time of year, the cold winter was gradually fading, and everywhere was a scene of spring snow melting; ice water dripped and trickled from the eaves.

However, at the moment when all things were Dormant and waiting to emerge, a surge of vigorous vitality did indeed break through the earth.

"It's done!"

Zhou You felt a flash of inspiration and already knew the source of this change.

Qi Qingdi had broken through to become a Primary Martial Master.

This child had previously participated in fist-fighting, and after experiencing tempering and occasionally gaining inspiration from observation, had returned to the martial arts hall to practice in seclusion.

Finally, after passing through the winter, he broke through the final threshold before the start of spring, becoming an official Martial Master Disciple.

With this, Zhou You's Tiger-Crane Dual-Action Fist lineage finally had a successor at the Martial Master level.

After Qi Qingdi became a Martial Master, he was qualified to act on behalf of his master, receive guests, and assist in managing the apprentices under the sect.

More importantly, from this point on, the lineage of the Daqian Martial Arts Hall was stable.

Before this, of the three Martial Masters in the martial arts hall, besides Zhou You, the other two were old-timers, making it difficult to command respect.

Qi Qingdi was upright and pure, Zhou You's only personal Disciple, and the one he valued most, having received the Instruction of the Tiger-Crane Dual-Action Fist.

His breakthrough this time caused a sensation in the martial arts hall and was the first happy event since the beginning of the year.

"Qingdi, congratulations, congratulations; the Hall Master will surely be very happy when he hears this news."

Qi Qingdi calmly dealt with the fellow disciples, "Master still has matters to attend to; as a disciple, I cannot disturb him at this critical time, so I ask everyone to please remain quiet."

Such bearing and magnanimity made everyone even more amazed and convinced.

Truly a good disciple!

After Zhou You sighed twice, he continued to immerse himself in his research; this pharmaceutical project, which had cost nearly a million, was gradually entering its best stage.

He not only integrated his knowledge and experience, moving from armchair theory to the point of commanding troops on the battlefield, but through practical operation, he seemed to have thoroughly grasped the properties of various medicines, his ten fingernails stained with medicinal ash.

The body of an Intermediate Martial Master, having experienced the roasting of furnace fires and the chilling of cold water, with various warm, cool, cold, and dry medicinal materials entering and exiting the body through breath, seemed like a medicine furnace capable of a hundred transformations.

"Incredible, refining medicine also helps in tempering the physical body."

Zhou You observed directly that his physical strength had increased, and his Qi and Blood value had also grown by 200-300.

Changing his perspective, spending all day refining and compounding medicine, with his breathing all contained within it, invisibly incorporating various medicinal properties into his body and passing through environments of alternating cold and heat, could also be considered a form of refining and consuming medicine.

The Great Medicine had not yet been refined, but he had already gained such a harvest, which could be considered an unexpected joy. The Blood-Dripping Pearl placed in the jade scoop shimmered in the dim light, like a gemstone condensed from fresh blood, quiet and precious.

Processing with medicinal water was indeed useful; Zhou You had previously conducted experiments where Blood-Dripping Pearls that had not been processed would vanish into thin air the moment they were illuminated by scattered sunlight, without even needing to be brought out of the ground, just by rising to a height of a thousand meters in the rift valley.

The characteristics of this heaven-sent treasure were very strange, and Zhou You had also tried using a Hunger Pouch to hold a few, isolating them from external light.

After bringing them to the martial arts hall and entering a room with sealed doors and windows, covered in black cloth with all gaps blocked, not a single ray of light could penetrate.

As a result, the Blood-Dripping Pearl still melted; the reason was that it had been gazed upon by Zhou You's eyes, turning into a wisp of blue smoke.

All things in the world that receive light contain sunlight, and human eyes are the same; there is no solution!

Only by processing with medicinal water could the Blood-Dripping Pearl be brought to the surface without fearing the irradiation of sunlight.

During these days, Zhou You had consumed more than half of the Blood-Dripping Pearls, using them to extract various components and observe their reactions with auxiliary medicines, further mastering the conflicts and fusions of various medicinal properties.

Now, it had finally reached the final stage.

"Things combine with each other; although their natures differ, the Dao is the same; medicine and poison share the same source..."

Zhou You recited a few lines from the general outline of the Medicine King Canon, feeling more and more that it was infinitely profound; textbooks were always like this, written for those who could understand, with no expectation that those who knew nothing could learn anything.

It was only after he had leveled up to Lv50 and gone through practical operation that he further realized that these seemingly plain words contained the essence of refining medicine, and were even equally effective when applied to fist techniques.

"Refining Medicine Lv53."

Zhou You glanced at the panel prompt, knowing that through his hard work these days, his refining medicine had improved by two levels again.

Thus, his confidence in refining the Great Medicine Snow Bud Pill was even greater.

He tied up his hair, rolled up his sleeves, tightened his belt, and rubbed his hands together, "Let's get to work!"

The backyard...

Hua Youxing and Qi Fengzi were keeping Zhou You Niang company with her needlework, chatting with her as they did so.

"You'er, this child, has been married for so long without a child; you should persuade her more."

Hua Youxing blushed and explained, "This matter cannot be rushed; my father has checked, and neither of us has any issues."

Qi Fengzi, who was on the side, was just feeling relieved, but unexpectedly, Zhou You Niang called her name, "Feng Zi, you must help too."

"Uh?"

In front of the Gong Ding in the Inner Courtyard, Qi Qingdi bowed respectfully to the square cauldron, his attitude pious.

In the shadow beneath the Gong Ding, a pile of snow that had escaped disaster remained, curled up in the center of the area within the four legs.

A touch of green emerged from a crack in the stone slab to the side, the tenacious little blade of grass stretching its tender leaves against the cold wind.

Further out in the Outer Courtyard area, Zuo Shier, Tie Niu, and even the one-armed Zhuang Tie and others were directing hundreds of Apprentices in practicing punches and martial arts in different training ground areas, their shouts like waves and tides, rising straight into the clouds.

Today was also a very ordinary day, with everyone busy along their own trajectories, waiting for the arrival of night.

A wisp of smoke rose slowly from that row of houses, changing shapes with the wind, and under the sunlight, it transformed into colorful forms, only to be blown away by the wind a moment later, disappearing without a trace.

There were ten thousand households with cooking fires in the city; no one would imagine that someone was refining medicine in such a complex environment, including the Medicine King Sect.

The traces of Zhou You refining medicine easily blended into the cooking smoke, leaving no mark behind.

Snap!

The sound of a vessel cracking came from inside the house.

Immediately after, the joyful voice of Zhou You rang out, "It's done, it's finally done."

A pale green medicinal pill lay in the palm of Zhou You, the Great Medicine Snow Bud Pill, of authentic quality, round and flawless.

The smoke, dust, and medicinal ash in the environment were swept away, and a fragrance as refreshing as spleen-cleansing emerged; it could actually influence the surrounding environment, and this Great Medicine was clearly no ordinary item at first glance.

(End of this chapter)