Chapter 254: A Small Problem in Pill Refining

After saying that, Fang Yue turned and left, but his pace was extremely fast, and in no time he was about to vanish from sight.

"Wait, wait! Explain it to me clearly first! Hey! Stop! Why are you walking so fast!"

Lang Mo chased after Fang Yue and shouted twice, but couldn't catch up with him, glaring in frustration.

After he calmed down a little, his heart was suddenly filled with shock.

As the third young master of the Chief Captain's household, and one of the Deputy Captains of the Guard Team, Lang Mo still had some breadth of vision.

That kind of speed—could it be that that guy... is already a post-heaven Second-rate Realm expert?!

A post-heaven Second-rate Realm expert among the Drifters? Terrifying beyond belief!

For the first time, Lang Mo was genuinely shocked by Fang Yue's aptitude.

Drifters, as far as he knew, were an entirely new kind of lifeform that had only appeared a little over ten days ago.

On the surface they looked no different from humans, but the way they appeared was extremely bizarre, with traits like going blank-eyed during hibernation and having short lifespans.

Fortunately, they could still absorb Yang-shou, so as long as one truly had the ability, they wouldn't actually die from Yang-shou issues.

But in terms of aptitude, it was truly monstrous!

Advancing to post-heaven Second-rate Realm in just over ten days? That's even more heaven-defying than a sect's genius!

Jealousy and envy welled up in Lang Mo's heart, finally turning into a deep sigh.

Aptitude is heaven-sent—no use envying it!

……

An Fu.

Fang Yue was once again a guest at Divine Doctor An's home.

But Divine Doctor An was in his research room, tinkering with something, and was not available for the moment.

So Fang Yue could only wait in the main hall.

And this wait, well, that was where the trouble started.

Fang Yue glanced awkwardly at An Dong'er beside him, blinking her big, cute eyes.

She herself wasn't the problem—just curious eyes, sizing Fang Yue up.

But the older sisters behind her were a different story.

Their gazes looked like they wanted to devour him whole, and what they were wearing was more and more alluring, one after another—an unknowing passerby would think some kind of gathering party was being held here.

"Captain Ye is so shy! So cute!"

"Captain Ye, come eat some grapes, I'll feed you!"

"Captain Ye, my legs are so sore, could you give them a rub for me?"

Such white grapes! No wait... looking around, it's a sea of snowy-white legs!

Drowned in an ocean of pale legs, at a complete loss!

Too torturous, too torturous—better to stay at the Hua Family, at least everyone there is proper and well-behaved.

Earlier, Fang Yue had handed over the letter Hua Wuye had given him to the second-in-command of the Hua Family.

After delivering the letter, Fang Yue realized that Hua Wuye's distant relative didn't seem to be just a simple distant relative—at least within the Hua Family main branch, they placed great importance on Hua Wuye's branch.

Upon learning that Hua Wuye's family had been nearly wiped out, the atmosphere grew heavy.

After asking in detail about the specifics of Hua Wuye's clan-annihilation incident and certain finer points, they had come to fully trust Fang Yue.

In fact, the moment they saw that Fang Yue held a letter in Hua Wuye's own handwriting, they had already believed him; the subsequent questioning was just to understand how things had unfolded.

Upon learning that Fang Yue had gone to great lengths for the matter, and even taken revenge on their behalf, their trust in him rose to a whole new level.

Next, Fang Yue naturally brought up the matter of 【Moon Village Grass】.

"Since this is for Captain Ye's curse, we won't make things difficult for the Guard Team. Um... no! Our Hua Family is willing to sell the 【Moon Village Grass】 to the Guard Team at half the market price. We only hope that after Captain Ye recovers, he can take one item belonging to the Hua Family and deliver it to Hua Wuye on our behalf."

Though he spoke these words, the Hua Family's second head did not hand the item to Fang Yue, because that item was on the person of Mo Village's village chief Hua Qiuqiu, and Hua Qiuqiu had not yet returned to the village. So they could only offer Fang Yue this convenience, meaning they wanted Fang Yue to stay in Mo Village a while longer.

But when Fang Yue would return to the village depended on the escort team's procurement progress, so he could only promise to try to delay things as long as possible. Coincidentally, this lined up with Chief Captain Lang Wu's requirement that Fang Yue stay in Mo Village for some time before the new Mo Village Captain took office, so agreeing to their request had no real impact.

"Brother Ye, Grandpa is calling for you."

Just as Fang Yue was lost in thought, his newly acknowledged sworn younger sister An Dong'er, who was beside him, suddenly spoke up.

Only then did he notice that someone was standing respectfully ahead, there to lead him to see Divine Doctor An.

Setting everything else aside, everyone in An Fu truly treated him well.

Following the person out of the main hall, passing through a corridor, Fang Yue quickly arrived before Divine Doctor An's research room.

He knocked on the door, and a voice quickly came from inside.

"Come in."

He pushed the door open, and before he could make out the situation inside, Fang Yue caught a whiff of a pungent medicinal smell.

Not the kind of fresh, fragrant herbal scent, but a stinky, foul medicinal reek with a sewer-like stench.

"Did it fail?"

Fang Yue couldn't help but cover his nose with his hand and ask.

"Mm, there's a small problem."

Divine Doctor An gave a look to the An Family staff member behind him, who immediately withdrew and closed the door.

Once only Divine Doctor An and Fang Yue remained in the room, Fang Yue immediately pressed, "What exactly went wrong?"

"It's a problem with my own technique. I thought this prescription was too simple... I figured that with my skills, as long as I followed the steps on the prescription exactly and did things in order, I could easily refine the Feibai Pill. But once I actually got hands-on, I found this thing was more complicated than I thought—many of the finer points, I still hadn't mastered after several tries..."

Listening to Divine Doctor An's words, Fang Yue's face darkened.

"Damn, Divine Doctor An, don't mess with me here. If you fall through, I can only go beg Ni Dongmei to step in and help refine the pill. How embarrassing would that be—handing over the prescription and still needing someone else to do the refining."

"It won't come to that!"

Divine Doctor An's face flushed slightly: "I can do it! A brand-new prescription naturally requires some fumbling around—that's unavoidable. But with the experience I've accumulated over the years, I'm sure I can quickly get the hang of it and refine the very first Feibai Pill!"

"That's good, that's good. Go for it, Divine Doctor An. Don't let it happen that before you've finished refining the pill, my curse time runs out. When that happens, the Sheep Hollow Wraiths will swarm around the village in a dark, pressing mass, and no one will have an easy time of it."

"Don't worry, I won't let you down. Also, if things really do come to that, I'll suggest that the Guard Team go out and catch a few Sheep Hollow Wraiths for you to kill, to maintain the cursed state for a few days. That can also buy us more buffer time."

Damn it! Treating me like a tool to keep the buff going?

Fang Yue said, a little sullen: "Anyway, let's just refine the Feibai Pill first. By the way, since you haven't refined the pill yet, why did you call me here?"

"Doesn't Yeye want to learn medicine?" Divine Doctor An said, puzzled.

"Right, and then?"

"Then, of course, you stay right here and watch how I compound medicine. You can learn the theoretical knowledge from my medical notes, but when it comes to hands-on practice, no one can teach you — you can only research it yourself.

After all, you're a person of Gu Yue Cun. We don't have much business between us, so meeting a few times a year is already pretty good. That's why I wanted to take advantage of your still being in Mo Cun to teach you a bit more.

Don't underestimate the experience of observing hands-on practice on the spot. Within our An family, this kind of treatment is only given to those who have made tremendous contributions to the An family, or to juniors I have a very high opinion of."

So that's how it is.

Fang Yue understood at once — this was Divine Doctor An giving him private tutoring.

Unfortunately, he was a man who hadn't even gotten started in medicine. Even though he stood right there watching Divine Doctor An light a fire under the medicine cauldron, add the herbs, mix, experiment, and research, Fang Yue couldn't make heads or tails of any of it.

(End of this chapter)