Chapter 117

"The Main Mansion's compensation, plus this fat sheep, the Sansheng Gang... is enough to supply me to continuously refine 【Sword Pellet Elixir】."

"But the materials for the Pityless Elixir are too strange; they can neither be compensated nor picked, so I can only consume my 500,000 taels of family fortune."

After Li Yu muttered, he called Hongdou again and headed to the alchemy room.

Regardless of how fierce the failure rate of the Sword Pellet Elixir was, it was still Sequence Six level, and Li Yu's skills were perfect, so he needed an assistant.

Moreover, it required internal and external combined refining.

Not long after, in the alchemy room, Li Yu was nowhere to be seen.

Only watching Hongdou putting one spiritual material after another into the red-hot alchemy furnace, her technique was precise and error-free, and the mechanical voice kept sounding:

"Ten portions of Essence of Five Metals... five portions of Bone-Melting Mud... three portions of Nine-Layer Water... ten portions of Fire Essence..."

After putting everything in, this fox-eyed mechanical girl stood in front of the alchemy furnace again, staring straight at the footage on the monitoring screen.

Her stark-naked Master was absorbing the "elixir liquid" after melting a large amount of spiritual materials into his body through the pores of his whole body, bit by bit.

If normal, after a while, Li Yu should crawl out of the alchemy furnace, vomit, or pull a Sword Pellet Elixir out of his throat.

But the next moment!

Terrifying sword Qi erupted without warning; even Hongdou didn't have time to issue a warning.

Just as she realized her Master's physical signs were wrong, when a red light flashed, the alchemy furnace in front of her exploded directly, and in the blink of an eye, it was swept into powder by groups of sword Qi.

The alchemy room was also swept into a riddled state.

But Hongdou advanced instead of retreating, hard-headed against the sword Qi, and amidst the ding-ding-ding sounds, she broke into it.

Amidst the rolling smoke and dust, Li Yu, dripping with blood and covered in "holes" all over, as if he had suffered the punishment of a thousand cuts, was carried out by Hongdou.

During this process, his physical injuries were visibly healing.

On his face, however, was a look of bewilderment.

At this very moment, he seemed to understand a little where that eye-stinging failure rate came from.

"In the past, when I refined elixirs, even if it was my first time, even when I failed, I could faintly feel how much was missing to succeed."

"But this time, there was no hope at all."

"I didn't even know where the problem lay. I had already enabled internal and external smelting, the elixir fire was also amplified, plus my perfect skills, but after that massive elixir liquid entered my body, it still turned into thousands of sword Qi at the first moment, stabbing me through who knows how many times."

"This shouldn't be!"

When he finished complaining, Li Yu's body had already recovered.

But the consumption was obviously not small; his face was quite pale, and after looking around, he was even more depressed.

The alchemy furnace was destroyed, the alchemy room was also severely damaged, the walls were pitted, and there were many extra holes, and the door that should have been tightly closed also collapsed because it couldn't block the surging sword Qi.

These losses were one thing, but what really made Li Yu's heart ache.

Was that after the first portion of materials he had finally gathered was exhausted, it could be said there was no gain at all.

Just as he was speechless, that plague-ridden bronze chicken had actually woken up, spitting smoke and fire, clucking, and passing by the door of the alchemy room.

It was dawn!

Seeing this, Li Yu had to give up thinking for now.

He quickly cleaned up, changed into new clothes, and then went to the Main Mansion without stopping.

Using the excuse of "needing to go into seclusion for a period of time to promote to the next sequence," he asked for leave from the mansion, and at the same time, using the excuse of "needing to experiment with new medicinal cuisine spiritual food while in seclusion," he emptied a large part of the supplies in the camp warehouse.

Out of trust in Li Yu, plus the fact that he had made headlines some time ago and subsequently entertained a large number of Pioneer Team members, no one stopped him.

This was still not enough.

Li Yu used the communicator left by Bei Nanshi of the Sansheng Gang to summon several demon Daoists, asking them to bring more supplies.

Although he didn't directly ask for the full elixir formula, he mixed in spiritual materials like Essence of Five Metals, Bone-Melting Mud, Nine-Layer Water, Soul-Slaughtering Sand...

But it still didn't look like something a cook would ask for.

Fortunately, Li Yu's explanation was also very reasonable:

"Usually, I don't need these strange things for researching medicinal cuisine spiritual food, but who made the three gang leaders no longer pure flesh-and-blood bodies now."

"To let them feel the taste and joy, the materials are of course the stranger the better, the more related to metal ores, etc., the better."

"But success is also extremely difficult; the Food God path isn't omnipotent either. Prepare a few more portions of ingredients; once it's done, I'll call your superintendent to take it."

Once this reason came out, the demon Daoists of the Sansheng Gang obediently transported cart after cart of materials.

This fat sheep that took the initiative to send itself to the door was truly too fragrant.

Li Yu had already made up his mind to establish a medium-to-long-term "cooperation."

In return, he would occasionally happen to research one or two medicinal cuisines like 【Furnace Refining Body Soup】 and send them to those three unlucky eggs.

The Main Mansion was the same.

Li Yu, who had stolen from the public and squeezed the fat sheep, didn't believe in evil and threw himself into the alchemy cause again.

The next day, midnight at the Zi hour.

In the meat shop residence, the scene that had been staged many times happened again.

Amidst the chi-chi-chi sounds, the alchemy room that had just been repaired and the upgraded alchemy furnace that had just been bought suffered again.

Hongdou still hard-headed against the sword Qi, entered the ruins, and carried out her stark-naked Master, who was full of suspicion about life and seemed to have been played to pieces.

His injuries were self-healing as usual.

But Li Yu couldn't care about anything else at this time, completely immersed in the alchemy train of thought:

"Sixth time... this shouldn't be; why did the sword Qi divide into thousands and want to escape? Why couldn't it gather into a sword pellet?"

"Hmm? No, that's not right. It's not that they had to escape; it's that my body couldn't hold them?"

"Right, this flesh-and-blood body of mine is too fragile, with too many gaps... I refined thousands of sword Qi but couldn't seal them; each one was incomparably sharp, and inside my body, it was like an awl in a bag, naturally escaping."

When the thought reached here, Li Yu's eyes lit up, and he didn't know what he thought of, but his face showed fanatical excitement.

The next moment, he jumped up from Hongdou's arms, shaking his snow-white body, swinging his bird, and went to the pile of materials in the corner of the alchemy room, starting to pick and choose, while muttering constantly:

"If the Alchemist Dharma Body of Sequence Seven can't hold the sword Qi, then just increase the strength."

"By using the art of eating to swallow a large amount of hard ore... let me have heavy metal poisoning temporarily, and condense a tough gold armor under the skin... can it be refined?"

Listening, it seemed there were still questions.

But Li Yu seemed to be in a state of madness after an epiphany, his face full of smiles, only lacking drool.

He started directly, throwing pieces of incomparably hard ore into his mouth, the art of eating operating, amidst the crunching sounds.

He started to get poisoned!

The Alchemist Dharma Body had extremely high resistance to poison, plus the demon body's almost perverted self-healing ability; normally, Li Yu wouldn't have an accident even if he ate a dozen ores raw.

But in just a few dozen breaths, he had swallowed dozens of times his body weight in ore, and actively ingested toxins through the art of eating, evenly distributed throughout his body.

"Beep, beep, beep!"

"Warning, warning... Master has fallen into a state of heavy metal poisoning... vital signs are dropping rapidly... emergency activation in progress..."

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"Don't move!"

"Help me refine the elixir."

When Li Yu turned back to give the order, he himself had become an "ore man."

His whole body was not only colorful but also flashing with metallic brilliance.

If he didn't intervene!

As powerful as he was, he would be poisoned to death within half an incense stick.

But the crazy Li Yu at this time didn't care, just grinning, dragging over a new alchemy furnace, quickly burning it red, and crawling into it.

Hongdou naturally followed the order!

And this time, after the familiar process, there was a different result.

There was no "chi-chi-chi" sound; instead, accompanied by low roars, bang-bang-bang, the surface of the alchemy furnace appeared with fist and palm prints from the inside out.

The next moment, another muffled sound, the furnace lid was slapped away.

Li Yu jumped out of it, his body didn't know how heavy it was, directly smashing a big pit in the alchemy room.

In the pit, he "vomited," and an incredible scene appeared:

Various large and small metal fragments were spat out of his mouth, and before they hit the ground, a golden elixir mixed in suddenly overflowed with terrifying sword light.

It wasn't violent, nor did it erupt.

It just overflowed and swept lightly, turning all the metal fragments around into powder.

Finally, it slowly floated into Li Yu's palm.

After doing all this, Li Yu lay paralyzed in the pit.

As if only then did he wake up and return to his soul, frowning, feeling the intense pain coming from his body.

Various heavy metal toxins were attacking all the organs in his body without discrimination; even a practitioner of the Merciful Father path would be surprised by the large number of diseases that appeared.

Fortunately, he had already expelled a large amount of toxins when refining the elixir, plus the "demon body" was indeed perverted, and he actually resisted it hard, slowly repairing it.

And he, enduring the pain, with a look of a fanatical fan, stared at the golden pellet in his palm that was one whole, laughing and saying:

"Hahaha... success, I refined it."

"Seven attempts, Sword Pellet Elixir complete."

"And because of this epiphany, my alchemy skills have also made a breakthrough, rising to a higher level."

As if on purpose, just when Li Yu was excited and happy.

In his mind, that long-lost cold notification sound came:

"Disaster Star, take orders!"

"A new conquest mission has been successfully matched and will be officially launched in thirty-six hours. Please, Disaster Star Command Master, prepare as soon as possible."

"The basic information for this mission is as follows..."

"Cannot refuse the summons!"

"Hmph, it came quite coincidentally."

"But this time, they actually gave two more days of preparation time?"

"Sure enough, it's the 【Wo Nation】 ruins that that guy Brother Brother Shang Yang mentioned. In that case, other information is also highly likely to be true."

When Li Yu spoke, the joy on his face disappeared.

Two extra days!

But he was still missing one elixir that hadn't been refined, not to mention other preparations.

The most critical thing was that the preparation time tripled all of a sudden, further confirming that everything Brother Brother Shang Yang said was true.

The terrifying difficulty of this Mystic Domain conquest, that abnormally outrageous death rate.

Besides a bunch of Sequence Sixes, the opponents would also have a large number of terrifying strange objects, as well as that omnipresent divinity pollution and curses...

Obviously, if he wasn't careful, he might really become cannon fodder and die inside.

Li Yu, who had originally thought about resting for a few hours and then continuing to eat metal ore raw, suddenly shivered and shouted:

"Quick, Hongdou, help me up."

"I can still eat, I can still refine."

(End of chapter)