Chapter 59: Creation Pomegranate

Master You had left the Herb Valley for more than two months. Having not returned for so long, Guo Yu was very worried, but he had to guard the Herb Valley and not let the fierce beasts in the mountains come down to harm the medicinal herbs, so he could only pray constantly in his heart that Master You would not have an accident.

Seeing him worried all day, Hua Changxi took the initiative to ask: "Do you know who Master You went to find?"

Guo Yu shook his head: "Master only said to go see some old friends and inquire about what you told him." Saying that, he looked at Hua Changxi seriously.

"Changxi, can you tell me what you actually told my master?"

Hua Changxi smiled: "Your master told me the location of the South Mountain Great Rift Valley, and I told him some secrets he didn't know. This secret I can also tell you, but what will you exchange with me?"

She was lucky to have obtained the opportunity for cultivation, but she almost lost her life because of it, so naturally, she couldn't tell others for free.

Guo Yu frowned. He also knew that he and Hua Changxi didn't have much friendship yet and weren't qualified to demand that she must tell him the secret.

Hua Changxi looked at him with a smile and continued to inquire about Master You: "Master You is a Grandmaster, so his friends are all Grandmasters too?"

Guo Yu looked at her. He didn't find out the secret he wanted to know and didn't want to talk much about Master's affairs with her, so he said vaguely: "I don't know either."

Hua Changxi didn't care and continued to inquire: "Master You is already a Grandmaster, why does he still work for the Medical Department and guard a Herb Valley every day?"

Guo Yu: "...... Master is from the Kyoto Martial Arts Academy."

Hua Changxi was puzzled: "Being from the Kyoto Martial Arts Academy means you have to work for the Medical Department?"

Guo Yu looked at Hua Changxi. Seeing her confused expression, he was somewhat strange: "You are a person from the Medical Department, don't you know that the Martial Arts Academy and the Medical Department are both under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Department?"

"Heavenly Department?"

Hua Changxi's eyes flickered. She finally heard some useful news: "I am just a laborer, and I haven't been in the Medical Department for long, so I don't know many things."

Guo Yu rolled his eyes and learned Hua Changxi's previous appearance: "These things are indeed not something a laborer can know. I can tell you, but what will you exchange with me?"

Seeing him like this, Hua Changxi found it somewhat funny and threw a bottle of pills to him without saying a word: "Heaven Gang Pill, I gathered the medicinal herbs when I was wandering in the mountains a few days ago and refined it casually."

Guo Yu looked at Hua Changxi in surprise: "Do you know that I have become an eighth-rank martial artist?"

Hua Changxi's Earth Gang Pill was simply not in the same grade as the one he had obtained before in terms of medicinal effect. He had been stuck at the seventh rank for several years, and after taking the Earth Gang Pill given by Hua Changxi, he actually broke through to the eighth rank smoothly while sleeping, which was simply incredible.

Hua Changxi smiled: "I can feel that your internal energy has become stronger."

If she said that her Third Brother and Sixth Brother were ants in her eyes, then Guo Yu was a small chicken. The small chicken's body became stronger, and she could indeed feel it.

"Now can you tell me in detail about the Heavenly Department, the Martial Arts Academy, and the Medical Department?"

Guo Yu looked at her and carefully put away the Heaven Gang Pill. Although there was no change on his face, his heart was not calm.

Although ordinary people couldn't come into contact with the news of the Heavenly Department, after entering the Medical Department, as long as you pay attention to it and know how to climb relationships, it is actually not difficult to inquire.

A Heaven Gang Pill sells for one thousand taels, and a bottle of ten pills is ten thousand taels of silver.

Silver is not the most important thing. The important thing is that the Heaven Gang Pill is priceless and has no market; it is almost invisible in the market and is mostly monopolized by the imperial court and noble families.

Hua Changxi used a bottle of Heaven Gang Pill to exchange for the news of the Heavenly Department. In his view, it was really a bit of a spendthrift.

Such a spendthrift person, but kept silent about the deal between her and Master, so how important must the thing they talked about be.

"The Heavenly Department manages the Martial Arts Academy, the Medical Department, and the Demon Suppression Department. Its status is equal to the Six Ministries and is directly led by the Emperor."

"The Martial Arts Academy cultivates martial artists. After martial artists finish their studies, they are uniformly assigned by the Heavenly Department, either staying in the Martial Arts Academy as instructors, or helping the Medical Department guard the herb farms and herb valleys like Master, or entering the Demon Suppression Department."

"Of course, if places like the Six Fan Gate, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and the Imperial Guard are short of manpower, they will also ask the Heavenly Department for excellent martial artists."

Hua Changxi didn't care much about the others, but she hadn't heard of the Demon Suppression Department before, so she couldn't help but ask: "What kind of yamen is the Demon Suppression Department?"

Guo Yu: "The Demon Suppression Department specializes in hunting fierce beasts. Aren't there often things about monster monks and monster Daoists in various places? They are also managed by the Demon Suppression Department. By the way, there is a sect in the Jianghu called the Asura Gate, which is the biggest opponent of the Demon Suppression Department."

Hua Changxi silently kept the Demon Suppression Department in her heart.

The Demon Suppression Department is responsible for hunting fierce beasts. She could encounter monster beasts, so the people of the Demon Suppression Department would only encounter them earlier than her.

The Demon Suppression Department is also responsible for dealing with monster monks and monster Daoists. She could obtain the opportunity for cultivation because of a monster Daoist, so there is no reason why the people of the Demon Suppression Department wouldn't encounter it.

Therefore, there must be practitioners in the Demon Suppression Department!

This inference made Hua Changxi somewhat excited and somewhat nervous.

What was exciting was that she knew where there were practitioners like her.

What was nervous was that the Demon Suppression Department must have come into contact with cultivation earlier than her, and their strength must be above hers.

Not only the Demon Suppression Department, but there must be other organizations that also have practitioners. She was worried that her realm was too low, and if they met in the future, if a conflict occurred, she would be the one crushed.

The sense of urgency to improve her realm quickly surged in Hua Changxi's heart again. She didn't want to put herself in danger.

"Master Guo, do martial artists from the Martial Arts Academy have to be uniformly assigned by the Heavenly Department after graduation?"

Guo Yu: "If you have a background and a backing, you don't have to."

"The Heavenly Department manages the Medical Department. Pills that martial artists can't buy on the market can be exchanged for merit points in the Heavenly Department. In order to improve their strength, martial artists who meet the Heavenly Department's employment standards will choose to stay."

Hua Changxi thought of Hua Dalang: "My eldest brother graduates this year, I don't know where he will be assigned to work?"

Guo Yu looked surprised: "Is your eldest brother from the Kyoto Martial Arts Academy?"

Hua Changxi nodded.

Guo Yu immediately asked: "What rank martial artist is he?"

Hua Changxi: "During the New Year, he was a sixth-rank martial artist. I don't know if he has broken through to the seventh rank now?"

Hearing this, Guo Yu's mouth twitched. It took him five years to break through from the sixth rank to the seventh rank. From the New Year to now, it was only a few months. Even if Hua Changxi's brother was a genius, he couldn't have risen from the sixth rank to the seventh rank in a few months.

However, thinking of the pills refined by Hua Changxi, he was not sure again.

"Sixth or seventh-rank martial artists, their strength is not low. If you have a relationship, you can make some arrangements and strive to be assigned to a satisfactory job."

"The Demon Suppression Department hunts fierce beasts every day, which is certainly the most dangerous, but the merit is also the greatest."

"Helping the Medical Department guard the herb farms and herb valleys is boring, but it is safe and won't lack medicinal herbs."

"If you want to accumulate more connections, you can choose to stay in the Martial Arts Academy."

"If you want to enter places like the Six Fan Gate and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, you need relationships and connections."

Hua Changxi thought of her good eldest brother who was quite close to the Count's Prefecture during the New Year, so she didn't think much about this matter. Anyway, her opinion had never been valued by the Hua family.

Time reached the last day of June.

【First-Rank Alchemist (Top-Grade Pill): Pill Refining 1001 Furnaces 1001/】

Hua Changxi refined more than 1000 furnaces of pills, and the quality of the pills improved again.

Looking at the top-grade Origin Spirit Pill with a halo in her hand, Hua Changxi swallowed it in one gulp. The pill entered her mouth and immediately turned into a warm current that swept her whole body.

Hua Changxi carefully perceived the smoothness of the four qualities of Origin Spirit Pills in absorption and refining.

The low-grade pill entered her mouth, and the warm current carried a clear sense of stagnation; the medium-grade pill entered her mouth, and the sense of stagnation was much less; the high-grade pill entered her mouth, and the sense of stagnation was less by a few points; the top-grade pill entered her mouth, and there was no stagnation.

The sense of stagnation produced when refining and absorbing pills would impact the spiritual veins, which would have a certain impact on the spiritual veins, and over time, it was estimated that it would hurt the spiritual veins.

At the same time, the refining and absorption of pills were also incomplete. The low-grade pill was the worst, and the top-grade pill had almost no residue.

Hua Changxi thought that the incomplete absorption left in the body would estimate to form the legendary pill poison: "In the future, when taking pills, it is best to only take top-grade pills."

As for the other qualities of pills refined, they would be sold.

Hua Changxi took out the Fire-Returning Grass found in some cracks in the fire spirit mine and began to refine top-grade Fire-Returning Pills.

The Fire-Returning Pill could instantly replenish the consumed spiritual energy, without the need for refining and absorption. The spiritual energy was replenished quickly, but it couldn't be used to increase the realm.

To improve the realm, one still had to take Origin Spirit Pills.

Afterward, Hua Changxi began to refine Fire-Returning Pills. She had just refined five furnaces when she heard Guo Yu's anxious shouting.

"Hua Changxi!"

Guo Yu couldn't find the stone cave where Hua Changxi refined pills, so he could only stand on the giant tree in the middle of the rift valley and shout loudly.

Hearing this, Hua Changxi put the pill-refining tools and herbs into the Shennong Cauldron and walked out quickly: "Master Guo, why did you come to the rift valley?"

In his dealings with her, Guo Yu had a sense of proportion and had never come to the rift valley to find her before.

Seeing Hua Changxi, Guo Yu looked like he had seen a savior: "Changxi, my master is back, and he and his friends have suffered very serious injuries. Master said that only you can save them. You hurry back with me to see them."

Seeing Guo Yu sweating profusely with anxiety, Hua Changxi didn't say anything else, walked with him rapidly toward the Herb Valley, and asked: "Tell me about their injury situation."

Guo Yu's complexion was somewhat pale: "Split open, the skin and flesh of the friend my master brought back are not intact, all split open, it seems....... it seems......."

Seeing that Guo Yu couldn't describe it, Hua Changxi replaced him: "The body seems to be about to burst."

As soon as Guo Yu heard it, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it seems to be about to burst."

Hua Changxi roughly guessed what was going on with Master You's friend: "Master You's friend should not last long. I will go one step ahead, you come back slowly."

As soon as the voice fell, Guo Yu saw Hua Changxi galloping past his line of sight, and in a few breaths, he couldn't see her figure.

Guo Yu swallowed his saliva, and a stormy sea was set off in his heart. He could guess that Hua Changxi, who was valued by Master, had some skills, but he didn't guess that she was so powerful.

His light-body technique was obtained from Master's true biography. Even if he traveled with Master, he wouldn't fall behind too much.

But now, not only could he not catch up with Hua Changxi, but he even lost her traces.

Hua Changxi's strength was far above Master's. This was something he couldn't have imagined.

Hua Changxi arrived at the stone cliff on the mountainside of the West Mountain and heard the painful roar and Master You's anxious comfort coming from the stone cave. She shouted 'Master You, I am here' and walked in directly.

"Changxi."

Seeing Hua Changxi, Master You rushed over and grabbed her: "Changxi, you hurry and see my old friend, see if he can still be saved?"

Hua Changxi flicked lightly, letting Master You loosen his hand, and then walked straight toward the blood man lying on the stone bed.

This person really didn't have a piece of intact skin, skin open and flesh torn, and the gap was still increasing.

If it weren't for the two people on the left and right who were continuously inputting internal energy to suppress the spiritual energy that was running wild in his body, this person would have exploded and died long ago

"Help him sit up."

Upon hearing this, Old You hurried forward and, with extreme caution, helped the blood-covered man sit up.

Condensing spiritual power in her palm, Hua Changxi struck the blood-covered man on the head, simultaneously telling the two people who were channeling internal energy into him to stop.

The two men looked at Old You, and after seeing him nod, they simultaneously withdrew their hands.

There was not much spiritual energy rampaging through the blood-covered man's body; in less than a minute, Hua Changxi had forced all of it out of his system.

Seeing that the blood-covered man's body was no longer cracking, Old You and the other two let out heavy sighs of relief; one of them even collapsed onto the ground as if completely drained.

Old You looked at Hua Changxi: "Is he alright now?"

Hua Changxi: "How could he be alright? His meridians are completely severed, and his internal organs are shattered. He is currently like a porcelain doll covered in cracks; if one is not careful, this porcelain doll will shatter into pieces."

Old You's face turned pale, and he looked at Hua Changxi nervously: "Is... is there still any hope for him?"

Hua Changxi did not answer, instead looking at the other two people in the stone cave. She could sense that the internal energy within these two was just as profound as Old You's—they were all Grandmasters.

The blood-covered man should have been one too, but unfortunately, after this ordeal, his entire cultivation base had vanished into thin air.

Seeing that Hua Changxi did not deny it, Old You knew she had a way to save him. Recalling that she only spoke of cultivators after he told her the location of the Great Rift Valley, he said solemnly: "As long as you can save him, we will agree to anything you ask."

The other two also quickly stated their position: "Yes, as long as you can save Yang Chuan, we will agree to whatever demands you make."

Hua Changxi was silent for a moment, then looked at Old You: "I want to see the fruit he ate."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the three men changed simultaneously.

Old You looked at Hua Changxi: "How did you know we still had the fruit he ate?"

Hua Changxi smiled: "I sensed it."

Hearing this, Old You's expression was not very good. They had sealed the fruit in a box, and he had not expected Hua Changxi to be able to sense it. He looked at his old friend on the left: "Senior Senior Zhuo Fan, give the fruit to her."

Senior Senior Zhuo Fan hesitated; this fruit was something the four of them had risked their lives to snatch.

Seeing him remain motionless, the other man spoke up: "Give it to her."

Yang Chuan had nearly exploded and died after eating the fruit; they didn't dare eat it themselves, so they might as well see what this young girl had to say.

Senior Senior Zhuo Fan reluctantly took the box from his waist and handed it to Hua Changxi.

Hua Changxi took it, opened the box, and saw a pomegranate radiating multicolored light. A piece of the pomegranate's skin had been peeled back, revealing a hollow.

Clearly, the blood-covered man must have eaten one pomegranate seed, which was why he had nearly exploded and died.

Creation Pomegranate!

Hua Changxi looked at the three men curiously: "Where did you find this fruit?"

Senior Senior Zhuo Fan frowned: "That has nothing to do with saving him, does it?"

Seeing that they didn't want to talk, Hua Changxi asked again: "Someone is hunting you down, right?" Although it was a question, her tone was certain.

Old You's expression was heavy, and the other two remained silent.

Hua Changxi: "If this fruit isn't sealed, those people hunting you will be able to track you down before long."

Hearing this, the expressions of the three men changed.

Old You asked urgently: "How can it be sealed?"

Hua Changxi laughed: "You have no way to seal it."

Senior Senior Zhuo Fan frowned and snorted coldly: "Are you trying to tell us that only you can seal this fruit?"

Seeing him act this way, Hua Changxi threw the box back to him: "If the fruit isn't sealed, not only will the people hunting you find you quickly, but in a few days, the fruit will also turn into a useless, ordinary fruit."

After saying this, she walked out of the stone cave.

Seeing this, Old You glared at Senior Senior Zhuo Fan and hurried after her: "Changxi, wait. The four of us risked our lives to snatch that fruit back, which is why my friend's attitude was a bit poor."

Hua Changxi's expression was indifferent: "What you have encountered has nothing to do with me; I have no obligation to soothe his mood."

"Old You, for the sake of our acquaintance, I will remind you: your injured friend cannot last more than a few hours. I can save him, but what will you use to extend his life?"

"Go and discuss it properly with your friends."