Chapter 56: Four Pills on Body

"I made a big splash in the Taiping Mystic Market last night, and today they announced lowering the threshold for entering the market, allowing a large group of non-stream cultivators to enter. It must be very lively, so I won't take risks for now."

"Apply one by one tomorrow to see if I can find a serious job, with safety protection, stable income, and generous treatment... it's much better than me taking risks to sell medicinal cuisine."

"Hmm, why didn't I think of this earlier."

"However, that extraordinary mystic market still needs to find an opportunity to go again in the future. Besides selling things, it is estimated to be a shortcut to charge the Truth Bubble, but it was ruined by those lunatics last night..."

In Li Yu's thinking, Tianji Workshop soon entered the night.

A surprise came unexpectedly.

It was the Tiangong Sect salesman Shi Dazhu, who delivered the transaction items 24 hours ahead of the scheduled time.

Regarding this, Shi Dazhu's statement was that "he wants to make progress too much."

He had stayed at Sequence 8 【Carpenter】 for a while, always coveting Sequence 7 【Puppet Maker】.

During this period, he worked hard, took part-time jobs, just to save enough property and contribution to exchange for a complete Sequence 7 secret medicine directly from the sect.

Although there was still a distance, there was a goal, and he was full of energy.

This is the benefit of having a big power backer!

The path ahead is clearly visible.

Unlike Li Yu, if it weren't for the "Demon Star Order," he wouldn't even know the next sequence name, let alone save money to buy secret medicine.

And those loose cultivators who are not in the stream are even more miserable.

When the transaction was completed!

The savings of more than 20,000 taels that Li Yu had just cheated from the gimmick medicinal cuisine were almost exhausted.

Of course, the harvest also made him very satisfied.

A brand new basic pill furnace, various recipe materials, as well as food and weird things for cooking medicinal cuisine, plus some daily necessities, such as various clothes for his mechanical maid Hongdou.

Originally, he was very tempted by various "biomimetic skins." Indeed, as Hongdou said, the Tiangong Sect has deep attainments in this regard, and just looking at the categories is particularly tempting.

Unfortunately, his pockets were empty, so he had to exchange them for various beautiful clothes.

Perhaps infected by Shi Dazhu's energy, perhaps because the Compassionate Heart Pill was gone and his reliance was weakened.

As soon as the pill materials arrived, Li Yu didn't delay even for a breath, and went directly to the pill refining room.

"Hongdou!"

"Go, let's refine pills."

"Okay, Master!"

……

Not long after, in the pill room.

"Bang"

Accompanied by a muffled sound, the newly purchased pill furnace exploded, and it was a furnace explosion different from any previous one.

The refined iron lid was directly lifted, and then strands of sword-shaped Qi light that were incomparably fierce rushed out of the furnace.

As if every sword light had eyes, it didn't look for others, but chased Li Yu, the main person, and began to slash.

Fortunately, the sound of the chainsaw sword trembling rang out in time, and Hongdou, wearing new "Warring States robe" clothes, flashed in front of Li Yu, blocking and eliminating the sword light one by one.

"Fortunately, fortunately."

"If there were no Hongdou, this pill refining would not only waste money but also waste life."

"It seems that the ordinary external refining method cannot handle this 【Sword-Evil Pill】. I still can't escape suffering."

"Waste money, waste life, waste body... who can stand this? No wonder the inheritance was cut off."

Li Yu muttered and complained in his mouth, then resignedly took the second copy of pill materials.

Stuffing various sharp, mouth-cutting gold and iron minerals into his mouth, although he activated the Art of Consumption in time, he couldn't avoid a mouth full of blood in the process.

The furnace explosion was within his expectation.

Although his Alchemist Apprentice skills were already very proficient, after all, he was not refining simple basic pills, but the contributions from the predecessors of the Spirit Venerable path exchanged from the Demon Star Order.

This Sword-Evil Pill, as the name suggests, is a spirit pill that allows the user to release sword evil.

As for which path to pretend to be after eating it, there is no need to say.

Not long after, he had stuffed the second copy of pill materials into his stomach.

Then, he stripped off his clothes and climbed into the red-hot pill furnace.

Counting it, this was already the third time.

Originally, Li Yu thought that the 【Spirit Venerable path】 might be a righteous god-like ascension path, just accidentally entering Wanfu City.

After all, from the painting style, it is not the same kind as the crazy and perverted ones like Jinshen, Merciful Father, and Yiwang.

But as the cultivation of the Alchemist Apprentice deepened, he was a little unsure.

Which righteous god believer would jump into a red-hot pill furnace every day?

Fortunately, this kind of ghost-like crazy pill refining method finally had a harvest.

About half a stick of incense later, when the temperature reached its peak, the pill furnace exploded again, and a figure like a fire charcoal jumped out wrapped in high-temperature smoke and fire.

At the moment of landing, Li Yu flashed to one side and took a pitch-black refined iron small gourd.

Then he leaned back sharply, reached deep into his throat with one hand, grabbed something, and began to pull it out bit by bit.

In the blink of an eye, a sword-shaped pill light with a murderous glow was pulled out by Li Yu. Regardless of his throat and mouth being cut, he stabbed it directly into the iron gourd.

It seemed to be filled with more than half of the wine. Accompanied by a "hissing" sound, this weird evil sword seemed to have completed some kind of quenching ritual, and the rich pill Qi was about to overflow, but was blocked back by Li Yu with a gourd stopper.

After completing all this!

Li Yu's tense face relaxed, and while letting Hongdou treat his wounds, he showed a brilliant smile.

"Finally!"

"The first Sword-Evil Pill, done."

"In the future, if I encounter danger and take it directly, within 100 breaths, I can have a small part of the Sword Hero's means. Although I can't be compared with a real Sword Hero at all, it should be no problem to pretend to be a Sequence 8 【Qi Refiner】 of the Great Luo Golden Immortal path under the Dangmo Heavenly Venerable."

"Does this mean that when I enter the Mystic Realm or Spirit Realm next time, I have a chance to mix into the six major righteous god camps?"

"At that time, in white clothes, sword Qi soaring into the sky, wouldn't it be happy?"

When the thought reached here, a joyful smile appeared on Li Yu's face.

This kind of good thing made him completely forget the side effect of the Sword-Evil Pill: after quenching with wine, it will become a sword pill, and when taken with wine, it will suffer the torture of sword Qi wandering through the body. The pain may not be as good as being sliced, but it is definitely not something ordinary people can bear.

Li Yu naturally knew, just temporarily didn't want to think about this annoying thing.

He was now in a fanatical state.

After the mouth and throat wounds improved, he took another copy of pill materials, and was too lazy to continue using the ordinary external refining method, grabbed various sharp gold and iron minerals and stuffed them into his mouth. Besides that, there were also some Bodhi seeds carved with Buddhist scriptures.

It was obvious that what he wanted to refine this time was the 【Jin Gang Pill】 related to Buddhism.

It was the same process! 【56-7

It was the same process!

Crawling into the elixir furnace, fueling the elixir fire within his body, refining both inside and out.

About half an incense stick later, when he leaped out again.

He didn't open his mouth to spit out a new elixir, but instead showed a face of struggle and pain.

Li Li Xuanji, he took the Compassionate Heart Blade, stabbed it into his abdomen without ceremony, and reached two fingers inside to dig around.

Before long, his two fingers pulled out a golden, relic-like bone pill from within his body, stained with his own blood.

Despite being covered in blood, a sandalwood fragrance permeated from it, making one's heart and soul peaceful, as if smelling Buddhist incense.

"Jin Gang Elixir!" "I don't know what the predecessor who created this elixir formula had in their head."

"The place where the elixir comes out—calling it a relic is fine, but it's more like a kidney stone, isn't it?"

"And in the future, when I need to take this elixir to impersonate a Sequence 8 【Novice】 of the Buddha pathway, I can't do it through my mouth, but must force this relic into any bone in my body."

"Only then can I generate a Jin Gang Body that lasts for about a hundred breaths."

When he reached this point of complaining.

Li Yu naturally recalled the two elixir formulas he was about to refine next, their refining methods, the elixir-delivery process, and the future method of taking them.

His face stiffened, and he immediately wanted to curse in a low voice: "Are the predecessors all perverted ghosts? Is their brain still okay?"

But soon, he remembered the only elixir formula he had created himself so far: the Compassionate Heart Elixir.

By comparison, the refining method, the delivery, and the consumption process were slightly better, but it didn't seem much more normal, so he had to swallow his words back.

Resigned, he called Hongdou over to treat his wounds, while taking out a new set of elixir ingredients.

=9+Shu_Ba

And this time, even he, Li Yu, almost retreated and gave up on the spot.

It took a full hour to prepare himself mentally.

And only after deliberately shutting off his sense of taste and smell did he show a face of resolute bitterness, looking at the strange, filthy materials one by one, and resignedly grabbed them to stuff into his mouth.

They were all mystic objects, coming from some strange creatures within the three forbidden lands outside the city.

Although from the source, they weren't disgusting.

But their common trait was a foul stench.

Perhaps Li Yu himself hadn't noticed.

He had already been contaminated by this world, this Wanfu City, to the point where his actions had become somewhat uninhibited.

Not long after, Li Yu came out of the elixir furnace again.

This time, he had returned to the elixir-delivery method he used for the Compassionate Heart Elixir.

Accompanied by a "retch," a pitch-black elixir with an incredibly rich stench, coated in Li Yu's saliva, fell into the box.

Even though the elixir was out, Li Yu was still retching uncontrollably on the side.

That's right!

This time he refined the 【Hundred Filth Elixir】; after taking it, one can disguise themselves as a Sequence 8 【Unclean One】 of the Plague God pathway.

Of course, the side effects were not light.

Afterward, one would suffer from vomiting and diarrhea; the more medicinal potency absorbed and used, the more severe the side effects, lasting up to seven days.

"Damn thing, damn Wanfu City."

"If I were in the three kingdoms of Gan, Li, and Jing, I would definitely not refine this thing; it wouldn't be needed at all."

"Here, it's better to keep one prepared."

"And these ghost things too..."

While Li Yu was cursing, his gaze also turned to the last portion of elixir ingredients.

They were also mystic objects, bottles upon bottles of liquid—the tears of various humans, demons, beasts, and mystic creatures.

At first glance, it didn't seem like much, but thinking about it carefully, it was still quite perverted.

However, it was clear that Li Yu had already gone all out; he closed his eyes and started chugging.

Halfway through, his whole face was already full of bitterness, his eyes red, wishing he could hold his head and cry.

But when he finished the process, came out of the elixir furnace again, and vomited out an elixir that looked quite normal in shape but had a crying face on it.

Li Yu's face was clean.

It was unclear whether he couldn't cry anymore, or if his tears had been dried by the elixir furnace fire.

But his eyes were full of sadness.

"Sorrowful Crying Elixir!"

"After taking it, one can briefly gain a portion of the abilities of a Sequence 8 【Sorrowful Corpse】 of the Hanged King pathway, disguising oneself without any obstacles."

"The side effect is that during that period, one will maintain a sad and desperate mindset and develop an urge to hang others."

When the relevant information surfaced in Li Yu's mind.

He had already broken free.

Looking at the four types of extraordinary spiritual elixirs neatly arranged before him.

Li Yu's courage, which had weakened due to the loss of the 【Compassionate Heart Elixir】, immediately began to swell and expand again.

Deep down, he also changed his view on the Elixir Apprentice sequence once more.

"Although these four elixirs will make me transform into four sequences of other pathways after taking them, they were all refined by me personally using the power of an Elixir Apprentice, so they should be able to pass the judgment of the Demon Star Command without obstruction."

"In terms of the duration of the effect, all four elixirs are inferior to the Compassionate Heart Elixir I created myself."

"However, in terms of the expression of supernatural means, the Sword Evil Elixir should be stronger than the Vegetable Person; the Jin Gang Elixir focuses on defense, and the Hundred Filth Elixir disguises one as an Unclean One, possessing group attack power."

"As for the Sorrowful Crying Elixir?"

"It can release Sorrowful Qi through a crying face and crying sounds, infecting bystanders, making them fall into negative emotions, while simultaneously causing the opponent's body to stiffen, with flesh and organs unable to function... It can also turn one's own body into a lifeless walking corpse, thereby exempting oneself from various negative pollutions... The liquid secreted from the eyes contains highly toxic poison; one drop can poison a person's brain, making them lose interest in everything and choose to hang themselves... The above spiritual effects are somewhat reduced against formal Sequence 8 cultivators."

"Hiss!"

"The abilities of this Hanged King pathway are indeed strange."

Li Yu carefully considered the abilities the Sorrowful Crying Elixir could bring, and couldn't help but be shocked.

In his mind, he immediately recalled a piece of news he had seen earlier in the "Wanfu Daily":

A person named Gongsun Qi, an evil cultivator who was a Sequence 6 【Merciless One】 of the Hanged King pathway, had silently and easily made hundreds of people choose to hang themselves overnight.

The reason was simply because he was passing by, felt some desperate thoughts in the depths of these people's hearts, and so sent them on their way.

It was fortunate that on the night Li Yu was reborn, this guy didn't pass by the Heavenly Craft Workshop, otherwise, he would have had to hang himself on the rafters of the meat shop courtyard.

He had originally thought the Sword Evil Elixir was the strongest, but at this moment, Li Yu felt.

If used well, this Sorrowful Crying Elixir might have more astonishing destructive power than the Sword Evil Elixir.

"Hoo."

"With these four elixirs on my person, my combat power might be comparable to some Sequence 7 cultivators who have had errors in their advancement."

"In the short term, as long as I don't encounter any major trouble, my life should be safe."

"Taking advantage of the remaining time, I'll develop some portable medicinal cuisine so I can go for an interview tomorrow."

"Speaking of which, in my past life, I used to scoff at the craze for civil service exams. I didn't expect that in this horror otherworld, I would take it to heart and prepare in advance. It seems no one can escape the 'true fragrance' of it."

Li Yu uttered these two sentences in his heart, clearly already having a preference for the job options tomorrow.

But it was no wonder!

Although jobs like the Xiaohun Society or being a private chef for a big shot's wife were quite tempting.

They ultimately still carried risks and uncertainty.

The exclusive medicinal cuisine chef for the City Lord's Mansion's pioneer team—this position was different.

Generous benefits, no need to go to forbidden lands, absolute safety protection, the ability to pull the tiger's skin to prevent extortion and covetousness, and the opportunity to come into contact with many powerful cultivators and the upper echelons of Wanfu City... It was simply the iron rice bowl he had dreamed of.

(End of chapter)