Chapter 67: Disgusting Ways to Make Pills

Chapter 67: Disgusting Ways to Make Pills

Chapter 67: Disgusting Ways to Make Pills (Please Read!)

South District, Taiping Guishi City.

Li Yu, who had disguised himself as a white-haired old man, was looking around the extraordinary gathering he was in with a look of surprise.
It’s nothing, the changes are just too great.

The original Gui Market was not small and was very lively. Now it is very similar to a mortal market. The phrase "huge crowds" may be an exaggeration, but there are indeed a lot of people.

Most of them are second-rate practitioners.

Once the threshold was lowered, they swarmed in from all four districts, and from their clothing, accents and manners, one could tell there was all sorts of people.

The pretentious Qian Guo guys, the monks and nuns in the West District, the barbarians in the North District, and all kinds of perverts in the South District.

At first glance, there really was an atmosphere of a market, even though it was midnight.

"Very good. The more lively the better."

"Not only will it make things easier for me, but it will also help lower prices."

Muttering to himself, Li Yu smiled slightly and blended into the crowd.

The nose twitched slightly, searching for the target.

If other people don’t know the name of the thing they want to buy, or even the shape may be wrong, it is almost impossible to buy everything.

But as a "tutor of alchemy", Li Yu is naturally very different.

There were a myriad of strange smells mixed together in the market, but as long as a related smell appeared within the range, he would be aware of it immediately.

Soon, he smelled the scent of the first rare elixir ingredient. Li Yu turned around and saw the source of the smell.

It was a street stall, filled with all kinds of miscellaneous items. The stall owner was a middle-aged man who looked honest, with wrinkles all over his face, a silly smile, and was dressed like a poor old farmer.

Everything else is garbage in Li Yu's eyes.

Only the stone urn with thick patina in the middle caught Li Yu's attention.

Because the jar was filled with incense ashes of various colors.

But there was no "fire", no fragrance, or the breath of devout faith, nothing.

If you get close and smell it, you can smell a faint cold odor, which has an ominous meaning and makes people feel nauseous.

"It's the ashes from the meat of Gui Yun's sacrifice."

"According to what I saw when I transformed into the Skinning Forbidden Monster, these incense ashes were actually made by those weird 'wild people' in the tundra. They were used to worship various weird creatures in the tundra to bless them or give them strength."

"Those tribes of barbarians were able to survive tenaciously in the Wangui Tundra. They must have some racial secrets to rely on."

With that thought in mind, Li Yu stepped forward.

At first he just didn't want to be ripped off, so he used the bargaining skills from his previous life and chatted with the stall owner.

But soon, Li Yu heard the following sentences.

"Brother!"

"The things I have are all rare. I found them on the tundra on my way into the city. Each one is priceless, especially for cultivators like me."

“Perhaps some strange object contains the inheritance of becoming a god?”

These words have no value in the ears of others.

But for Li Yu, who was determined to escape from Wanfu City, he captured some information.

His eyes moved, and he stepped forward and said:

"Let's not talk about the business for now. I grew up in Wanfu City and I am very curious about the outside world."

"Which country are you from, fellow Taoist? How did you enter the city? Are there any special customs in your hometown?"

The stall owner looks honest, but he is actually as cunning as a devil.

When Li Yu asked the question, he immediately chuckled and began to evade the question.

Seeing this, Li Yu understood immediately.

He picked up a few things, including the stone urn.

Not long after, Li Yu left the stall with a smile on his face and went to the next one.

In the end, he spent two hundred taels of silver to buy the stone urn filled with incense ash, which was considered a big bargain.

What really satisfied Li Yu was the information he got from the stall owner.

Of course, verification from multiple parties is still needed.

……

An hour later, Li Yu mixed in the crowd and slowly walked out of the disbanded Ghost Market. With a smile on his old face, he boarded a night monster bus heading to Tianjifang.

Tonight, his luck was particularly good.

He actually bought all the ingredients needed to refine the [Skinning Ghost Pill], such as the incense ashes of the wild folk, the frozen meat and broken bones of the ancient ghost creatures, the bronze fragments that were completely submerged and contaminated by the ghost aura, the mysterious ghost blood... and so on.

The total cost didn't even exceed five thousand taels.

In other words, if Li Yu could succeed in refining the "Skinning Ghost Pill", its power would far exceed any previous elixir, and its raw material cost would even be the lowest.

Of course, this is based on the premise that the strange sacrificial meat is removed. If it is added, the cost will skyrocket by more than ten times.

This was enough to satisfy Li Yu, not to mention that he had other gains.

One is the eighth Bubble of Truth, which is half-charged.

The second is some special information.

Most of these rare medicinal materials were bought from the refugee citizens. Every time, Li Yu would turn into a talkative old man and extract information from them.

In the end, he had a vague guess about how Wanfu City recruited refugees and how the refugees entered the city:
"These so-called 'refugees' are actually some villains, marginal figures or people with other aspirations from the three countries of Qian, Li and Jing."

"They passively or actively came into contact with the people sent by the Wanfu City Lord's Mansion and the four district overlords, and went to the border of the three countries. There must be more than one extremely mature smuggling route."

"Then they passed through the forbidden area. It seems that the four districts divided up all the refugees in advance, and then used various methods to transport them into the city."

"For example, the Fallen Buddhism in the West seems to be an extremely secret and quick path through the Wangui Tundra. On the way, the ears, nose and mouth of all refugees will be sealed, and high-sequence experts will carry them out collectively. Afterwards, the relevant memories in their minds will be cleared... Only a few practitioners will remember some vague fragments, and those who are lucky can even touch something on the way."

"As for the southern area, it is even simpler and more brutal. It is a huge mechanical slave ship, euphemistically called the "Slave Ship". It transports them to the station outside the city and erases their memories afterwards."

“The City Lord’s Mansion may also participate in the profit sharing, but it may not look down on ordinary refugees and only focus on high-level strong people or talented people with potential.”

When thinking this through, some thoughts emerged in Li Yu's mind.

Since there are so many safe paths?
Then there must be many ways to leave the city, but I didn’t know it before because I was at the bottom of the society and couldn’t access them.

It would be better to ask those six people indirectly tomorrow to see if there is a faster and safer way.

If you can get out of this damn place as early as possible, try to do so. The longer the night, the more dreams you will have. If you wait too long, something unexpected will happen.

Having made up his mind, Li Yu returned home.

When I opened the door, I still saw the same beautiful scene: Hongdou, who had been waiting, was holding an electric eel lamp, lighting up the dark and gloomy courtyard, and shouting, "Welcome home, master."

"red beans!"

"Let's go and start refining the elixir."

……

In the alchemy room, Li Yu looked at the pile of spooky things from the Wangui Tundra, including the Guiyun sacrificial meat, and turned to look at Hongdou, and said with some concern:

"Hongdou, repeat the command I prepared." "Yes, Master!"

"Hongdou must raise the temperature to the highest level as soon as the master enters the alchemy furnace... No matter what happens during the process, the master's body must not be allowed to leave the alchemy room. Extreme measures can be taken if necessary... If the master enters a special state, Hongdou can light a strange candle to stop it... If the above methods fail, Hongdou can contact the City Lord's Mansion through the Wanfu Emblem to handle it."

"very good!"

Li Yu nodded with satisfaction, and then walked towards a pile of alchemy materials.

The reason why he set so many orders was naturally because the [Skinning Ghost Pill] he created this time was extremely dangerous.

Even though he felt that his skills as an alchemist had reached a high level, even if he failed, it would not lead to any serious consequences.

But it is always better to be prepared for the worst.

Li Yu speculated that the most serious consequence of refining this pill would be that he would directly degenerate and mutate into a new "Skinned Forbidden Monster", which could kill all the citizens below Sequence 7 in this old street and even other adjacent streets overnight.

Of course, after he had made perfect preparations, this kind of thing would never happen again.

With this thought in mind, Li Yu began.

To be on the safe side, this time we will still practice internal and external training together.

He opened his mouth wide and began to devour the ingredients for the elixir like a starving ghost. He even stuffed a stone jar of incense ash into his mouth, until the last ball of cold and sticky sacrificial meat slid down his throat into his stomach.

He once again experienced the horrific feeling of being stripped of clothes, skinned, and buried in the permafrost.

Without wasting a second, Li Yu jumped into the red-hot furnace again.

If it were any other time, the moment he entered the furnace, all his clothes would be burned to ashes.

But this time, it didn't happen.

With a "hissing" sound, the horrifying cold air that surged out of Li Yu's body actually resisted the high temperature of the alchemy furnace. Streams of icy and smelly steam gushed out, very much like the stench from ancient times after the permafrost melted.

What’s even more terrifying is that the cold air continues to surge and its power increases rapidly.

Even though the temperature of the alchemy furnace was at the highest, it still went out after a dozen breaths.

The furnace that could even refine fine iron into molten iron was frozen by the coldness in Li Yu's body, and even exploded the next moment, revealing Li Yu's dark blue body that was almost the same as a "frozen corpse". The color was still deepening, gradually changing towards a state of nothingness.

I don’t know what Li Yu’s heart and soul are experiencing?
His body automatically floated up at this moment, and tried to go out of the alchemy room. It seemed that his skinning instinct was triggered.

Just as I stood up, I heard a "bang".

The cute maid appeared in front of him and kicked him back.

Fortunately, Li Yu was not sober at the moment, otherwise he would have suspected: Is this maid taking revenge on him for refusing the Soul-Replenishing Technique?
Fortunately, it was this kick that seemed to have touched Li Yu.

Suddenly, clusters of flames appeared without roots in his body, pulling him back to reality.

So, what follows is a cycle of the above scenes.

Every time when Li Yu's body was about to turn into nothingness and he tried to peel off the skins of his neighbors, Hongdou would kick him back and the color of his flesh and blood would be pulled back by the Danhuo.

After repeating many times!
Finally, Danhuo began to gain the upper hand.

The blue void fades away bit by bit.

When the last trace of "smelly cold air" overflowed from Li Yu's head, an extremely strange and terrifying scene occurred:

Li Yu!

He began to shed his skin.

It was as if an invisible hand in the void pinched Li Yu's scalp and pulled it upwards. In the blink of an eye, a whole piece of "human skin" was pulled out.

But underneath was not naked scarlet flesh, but the tender and pink new Li Yu.

The human skin rolled up automatically, and in the flickering blue light, it slowly condensed into a magic pill, which was taken by Hongdou who had prepared it in a jade box.

This is not over yet.

After just one breath, the second human skin began to fall off.

Then, the third skin.

When Li Yu opened his eyes as if waking up from a nightmare, what he saw were three elixirs that looked excellent, like dark blue ice pills.

After all, he was the one who made it himself. Just by smelling the elixir, he knew the full effect.

"Three? Done!"

"The Skinning Ghost Pill stole the cold and mysterious essence from the Ten Thousand Ghosts Tundra, as well as some of the power of the rules of the forbidden ghost."

"After taking it, I will possess [Ethereal Body] and [Skinning Power], and it will be difficult for cultivators below Sequence 7 or other creatures to resist me, even those of the Sorrowful Corpse Sequence. This is because I am not a forbidden creature from the Ten Thousand Twilight Plains, and the Sorrowful Corpse's abnormality cannot deceive me."

"As for the side effects, you will feel cold for a while afterwards and have a slight urge to peel your skin, but it's harmless."

"This pill is simply perfect."

As soon as Li Yu said this, Hongdou followed his advance order and replayed the whole process of his "shedding skin into pill" in front of him.

Every detail is clearly visible.

Hongdou, the mechanical maid, naturally didn't feel anything.

But Li Yu felt a little uncomfortable at this time.

His face turned pale, and he complained with difficulty and comforted himself:

"Actually... it's not that bad. After all, the inspiration and main material of this pill all come from the Skinning Forbidden Ghost."

"Besides, many people have the habit of biting their nails, which is essentially no different from me taking this pill."

"I, Li Yu, am a very normal person."

"There is something wrong with the Spiritual Venerable Path itself. It doesn't look like it belongs to the evil god camp, but I'm afraid it's not a very serious god either."

"Of course, it is possible that this is the case with Sequence 8 Dan Tu. The next one, Sequence 7 [Alchemist], has a very impressive name, and the style should be much better..."

Although the way the Skinning Guidan was made was a bit disgusting, he quickly convinced himself and adapted to it.

With these three elixirs, Li Yu's combat power skyrocketed.

He no longer takes Sequence Eight of the same level seriously, unless it is some extremely special sequence.

……

The next day, Li Yu, wearing new clothes and carrying a pass, looked like a real office worker in Wanfu City, and a regular employee at that.

After getting on a monster bus, a few stops away we arrived at the complex and majestic buildings on the main street of the city.

He nodded to other "colleagues" passing by along the way, and soon appeared in the camp of the Ninth Pioneer Team on the steam elevator.

He has not yet met his six teammates and colleagues: Zhan Kui, Luo Sheng, Sang Zhu, Zhu Wu Gou, Shu Fu, and Mi Wu Niang.

The first thing I saw was a large number of medicinal materials, strange objects, rare ingredients, etc. neatly arranged in front of me.

Greed and possession emerged almost instinctively in Li Yu's eyes.

And he actually had the power to control these things, so the thought of corruption and embezzlement came to his mind, and he decided to do it without any guilt.

"Tsk tsk, since no one is supervising me, and I won't be punished if I reach out."

"Zhan Kui, the leader of the pioneering team, also encouraged me to report the losses... Then there is no reason for me not to accept them, hehe."

　ps: Four thousand words, so there will be two chapters tomorrow as usual.

　　
　
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