Chapter 317: Public Pill Refining

Nourished by the power of vitality, it essentially infused a breath of life into the wounded, keeping them from dying at any moment, while also buying some treatment time for the medical personnel carrying out the rescue.

"Who is that female cultivator?"

High above, dozens of elders from the Central Sacred Land, Artifact Saint Palace, Talisman Saint Pavilion, and Formation Saint Sect each guarded one area, jointly maintaining the stability of the spiritual energy barrier.

"That's Hua Changxi, the peak master of Danyuan Peak of the Alchemy Saint Hall."

After hearing this, the elders of the three sacred lands—Artifact Saint, Talisman Saint, and Formation Saint—looked down at Hua Changxi with greater attention.

"She's certainly generous—she's nearly exhausted all the vitality from the Immortal Divine Wood Kindling Branch. Replenishing it will not be easy."

"Thankfully she was here; otherwise, even more people would have died this time."

"I wonder where those old fellows from the Alchemy Saint Hall are hiding? They've endured until now without showing up—they've got some nerve."

Although the people from the Alchemy Saint Hall didn't come forward to stabilize the spiritual energy barrier, the other sacred lands weren't too bothered by it.

No other reason—healing the wounded required the Alchemy Saint Hall to take the lead.

Moreover, just from the vitality Hua Changxi had consumed earlier, her contribution was no less than theirs.

"Before, those old fellows from the Alchemy Saint Hall didn't show up because they had no choice—they didn't want to be infiltrated by the imperial family or the wealthy noble clans. But now, it's probably intentional. Those old fellows likely want the younger generation to take the front line, hoping to revitalize the Alchemy Saint Hall."

"In that respect, we should learn from them too."

The exchange high in the air continued. On the ground, under the grateful gazes of many wounded, Hua Changxi walked toward the medicine stall belonging to the disciples of Danyuan Peak.

"Peak Master."

"Master."

Yu Fu and Zhou Shou quickly went up to meet her.

Seeing the two looking at her somewhat nervously, Hua Changxi immediately said, "You two did well this time by taking the initiative to bring people here to treat the wounded."

Upon hearing this, Yu Fu and Zhou Shou let out a sigh of relief.

Hua Changxi continued, "In the future, when I'm not around, if something similar happens, the several stewards should discuss and decide together. Remember, do not violate Danyuan Peak's tenet of 'saving the common people from illness and suffering.'"

Yu Fu and Zhou Shou quickly acknowledged.

Then Yu Fu started to complain: "Master, you don't know—this time the entire Medical Department came out, but neither the Qihuang Pavilion nor the Lingjing Pavilion bothered to inform Danyuan Peak."

"If our people hadn't been alert and followed on their own, the outsiders might not even know that the Medical Department has a Danyuan Peak."

After hearing this, Hua Changxi frowned and looked toward the medicine stalls in the distance.

In front of each medicine stall stood a banner, on which was written either a certain secret realm or a certain Qihuang Clinic.

Hua Changxi knew full well that the Qihuang Pavilion and the Lingjing Pavilion deliberately excluded Danyuan Peak, simply trying to isolate and sideline her this way, waiting for her to bow to them voluntarily.

"Leave them alone for now."

Hua Changxi withdrew her gaze and walked toward the Danyuan Peak apprentices who were treating the wounded.

This time, the people Yu Fu and Zhou Shou brought were all apprentices with experience in treatment and alchemy.

Among them, Ye Lingxuan, Jiang Henian, and several other Alchemy Saint Hall disciples stood out especially, having treated the greatest number of people.

Hua Changxi made a round and saw that whether it was Danyuan Peak or the other medicine stalls, the healers were receiving the wounded one by one.

Watching this scene, Hua Changxi shook her head.

With so many wounded and so few healers, even with the nourishment of vitality, most of the wounded probably wouldn't last until the healers got to them, treating them one by one.

"Yu Fu."

"Master, I'm here."

Hua Changxi looked at Yu Fu: "Go set up eight large iron pots. I'll return to Danyuan Peak right away to fetch some spirit medicines. I'll be brewing medicine soon."

Once Yu Fu acknowledged, Hua Changxi rode a cloud and left.

Yu Fu worked efficiently; shortly after Hua Changxi left, he had set up eight large iron pots beside the Danyuan Peak medicine stall.

Ever since Hua Changxi appeared, the Danyuan Peak medicine stall had been the focus of attention from all sides. Seeing them set up eight large iron pots, many people's expressions changed.

This time, the injuries of the wounded were mainly of three types: one was physical cuts from spatial fissures, another was fire poison, and the third was having inhaled demonic aura.

Injuries are easy to classify, but difficult to treat.

During this time, some medical pharmacists tried to classify and treat the wounded in batches, but unfortunately, they all failed.

The reason was nothing else but the shortage of medicine supply.

Alchemists and pill refiners were so busy they hardly had a moment's rest, yet they still couldn't supply enough for the many wounded.

Qingyao Peak Medicine Stall.

Meng Yuchuan's face turned sour: "This Hua Changxi, why does she love showing off so much? Setting up so many iron cauldrons—I don’t believe she can actually brew batch medicinal decoctions to treat the wounded."

Meng Qingyao remained silent, but in her heart she also thought Hua Changxi couldn't treat the wounded in batches.

For mortals repairing their physical bodies, brewing medicinal decoctions can still be somewhat effective; but for cultivators, they need to take body-rebuilding spirit pills—ordinary decoctions have no effect.

As for eliminating fire poison, even mortals must take the corresponding spirit medicine powder. Although spirit medicine powder is easier to refine than spirit pills, it still cannot be refined in large quantities at once.

For a first-grade pill refiner, being able to simultaneously process ten spirit herbs at once is already the limit.

And eliminating demonic and monster qi is even more difficult.

Demonic and monster qi is divided into monster qi and demonic qi; when eliminating them, they must be treated separately.

Inhaling monster qi will contaminate and corrode the spiritual qi within the body, making the spiritual qi impure. Once the monster qi in the dantian exceeds the spiritual qi, a monsterization phenomenon will occur.

Only the Jingling Pill can purify monster qi.

As for the main ingredient for refining Jingling Pills, the Jingling Flower, it only appears in the ruins of battlefields from the human-monster wars, born from the blood of humans and monsters. She had only seen a few in the Xia family's storehouse.

Currently, medical pharmacists can only suppress the monster qi inside the wounded one-on-one first, preventing it from rampaging through the body.

As for demonic qi, it mainly affects a person's mind. If too much is inhaled, it will trigger one’s desires and inner demons, leading to madness.

To eliminate demonic qi, one must either take a Qingxin Pill or bathe in Buddhist chanting—the Heart-Cleansing Mantra.

The Qingxin Pill is also not easy to refine, requiring Qingxin Bamboo as the main ingredient.

Although Qingxin Bamboo is not as rare as Jingling Flower, its growth period is too long—it takes a hundred years to mature. It only exists in the Divine Wood Secret Realm and a few blessed caves and paradises. Yet because it is difficult to refine, it cannot be provided in large quantities to the wounded.

At present, to eliminate demonic qi, they can only rely on the monks of Daxiang Temple and Dixiu Temple to chant the Heart-Cleansing Mantra everywhere.

Aside from these difficulties, plus the fact that each wounded person's condition is different, it really is very difficult to treat the wounded in batches.

Meng Qingyao looked again at the Danyuan Peak Medicine Stall: "Alright, don’t be influenced by Hua Changxi. Let’s speed up and save people."

The others had similar thoughts to Meng Qingyao; they stopped staring at the Danyuan Peak Medicine Stall and continued diagnosing and treating the wounded one by one.

Two hours later, Hua Changxi appeared in everyone's sight again.

Seeing the iron cauldrons set up, Hua Changxi had Yu Fu and Zhou Shou each take charge of four cauldrons: "Yu Fu, these four cauldrons are for repairing physical bodies; Zhou Shou, these four are for eliminating fire poison."

Afterwards, she had the two of them number the four cauldrons each was responsible for.

Cauldron No. 1 is for mortals to drink; Cauldron No. 2 is for Qi Refining Realm cultivators; Cauldron No. 3 is for Qi Sea Realm cultivators; Cauldron No. 4 is for Core Formation Realm cultivators.

Because among the wounded, there are mortals and cultivators, and the treatment for mortals and cultivators is different; even among cultivators, different cultivation levels require different dosages. That's why Hua Changxi made such a classification.

Immediately, Hua Changxi took out the spirit medicine for repairing physical bodies. With one hand controlling spirit fire and the other controlling the spirit medicine, she directly used spirit fire to refine the spirit medicine and extract its useful components.

One by one, the spirit herbs were refined by the spirit fire, turning into medicinal liquid. The useless components directly evaporated, and the useful parts fell into the iron cauldrons.

Hua Changxi refined spirit herbs not one by one, but hundreds together.

The Shennong Cauldron can refine thousands of spirit pills in one batch; she was already accustomed to processing large quantities of spirit medicine at once.

She was used to refining medicine this way, but everyone else was stunned speechless.

Whether it was Ye Lingxuan, Jiang Henian, and others as inheritors of the Alchemy Saint Hall, or Meng Qingyao, the heaven-chosen pill refiner with the fire-wood spiritual body, all were shocked by Hua Changxi's method of refining medicine.

Refining hundreds of spirit herbs together while ensuring each one is fully refined and simultaneously extracting useful components—at this moment, everyone gained an intuitive and clear understanding of Hua Changxi's level of medicine refinement.

"Hua Changxi truly deserves to be the number one of the Alchemy Saint Hall!" someone exclaimed in admiration.

Before long, Cauldron No. 1 for repairing physical bodies was filled with medicinal decoction. At the same time, a rich medicinal fragrance spread through the air.