Chapter 120 Li Yu's Sudden Enlightenment
Chapter 120 Li Yu's Sudden Enlightenment
"The damage reported by the City Lord's Mansion, plus the fat sheep of the Three Saints Gang... are enough for me to continue refining the [Sword Pill]."
"But the ingredients of the Wumin Pill are too strange. I can neither give it away nor steal it. I can only spend my 500,000 taels of wealth to make it."
After Li Yu finished muttering, he called Hongdou and went to the alchemy room.
No matter how terrible the failure rate of Jianwan Dan is, it is at the sixth level after all. Li Yu has perfect skills and needs an assistant.
Moreover, internal and external training is required.
Not long after, Li Yu disappeared from the alchemy room.
I only saw Hongdou putting spiritual materials one after another into the red-hot alchemy furnace, with precise movements and mechanical sounds constantly ringing:
"Ten parts of the essence of the five metals... five parts of the bone-melting mud... three parts of the ninth-level water... ten parts of the essence of fire..."
After releasing all of them, the fox-eyed mechanical girl stood in front of the alchemy furnace again, staring at the image on the surveillance screen.
The naked owner was slowly absorbing the "elixir" made from melted spiritual materials into his body through the pores all over his body.
If everything went normally, Li Yu would have climbed out of the furnace after a while and vomited out, or pulled a sword pill out of his throat.
Available in the next moment!
Waves of terrifying sword energy erupted without warning, and even Hongdou had no time to issue a warning.
Just as he realized that something was wrong with his master's body, a red light flashed and the alchemy furnace in front of him exploded. In the blink of an eye, it was turned into powder by balls of sword energy.
The alchemy room was also completely shattered.
But Hongdou did not retreat but advanced instead, resisting the sword energy and breaking in with the sound of clanging.
Amid the billowing smoke and dust, Li Yu, whose body was covered in blood and had holes all over, looked as if he had been cut into pieces, and was carried out by Hongdou.
During this process, the injuries on his body were visibly repairing.
There was a puzzled look on his face.
At this moment, he seemed to understand where the terrible chance of failure came from.
"When I was refining pills in the past, even when it was my first time, even when I failed, I could vaguely feel how far I was from success."
"But this time, there is no hope."
"I don't even know where the problem lies. I have activated the internal and external smelting, and the elixir fire has been amplified. Coupled with my perfect skills, the vast elixir liquid still turned into thousands of sword energies as soon as it entered my body, piercing me countless times."
"This shouldn't be the case!"
By the time he finished complaining, Li Yu's body had recovered.
But he was obviously exhausted, his face was quite pale, and he looked even more depressed after looking around.
The alchemy furnace was destroyed, and the alchemy room was also severely damaged. The walls were full of potholes and holes. The door that should have been tightly closed collapsed because it could not withstand the surging sword energy.
These losses would be fine, but what really hurt Li Yu was...
It was the first set of materials that I collected with great difficulty, but after using them up, it can be said that I gained nothing.
Just when I was speechless, the plagued bronze chicken woke up, spewing fireworks, cackling, and passed by the door of the alchemy room.
Its daybreak!
Seeing this, Li Yu had no choice but to give up thinking about it.
After quickly washing and changing into new clothes, he immediately went to the City Lord's Mansion.
On the pretext of "needing to retreat for a period of time to be promoted to the next sequence", he asked for leave from the mansion. At the same time, he used the excuse of "needing to experiment with new medicinal and spiritual foods while retreating" to emptied a large part of the supplies in the camp warehouse.
Out of trust in Li Yu, and because he had made headlines some time ago and subsequently entertained a large number of pioneer team members, no one stopped him.
This is still not enough.
Li Yu used the communicator left by the Three Saints Gang Benanshi to call over several demons and asked them to bring more supplies.
Although he did not directly ask for the entire elixir formula, he instead mixed in spiritual materials such as the essence of the five metals, bone-melting mud, nine-layer water, and soul-killing sand.
But it still doesn't look like something a cook would want.
Fortunately, Li Yu's explanation is also very reasonable:
"Normally, I don't need these weird things when I study medicinal and spiritual food, but the three gang leaders are no longer pure flesh and blood."
"In order to make them feel the taste and pleasure, the materials should be as weird as possible, and the more related to metal ores, the better."
"But it is extremely difficult to succeed. The God of Cookery path is not omnipotent. Prepare a few more ingredients. When you succeed, I will call your butler to come and get them."
As soon as this reason came out, the demons from the Three Saints Gang obediently brought in cartloads of materials.
This fat sheep that came to my door on its own initiative is so tempting.
Li Yu has made up his mind to establish medium- and long-term "cooperation".
In return, he would occasionally happen to research one or two medicinal dishes similar to the [Furnace Refining Soup] and send them to the three unlucky guys.
The same goes for the City Lord’s Mansion.
……
After stealing from the public and squeezing the fat sheep, Li Yu, unwilling to believe in evil, threw himself into the cause of alchemy again.
The next day, at midnight.
Inside the butcher's house, the scene that had happened many times happened again.
Amid the hissing sounds, the newly repaired alchemy room and the newly purchased upgraded alchemy furnace suffered damage once again.
Hongdou still held on to the sword energy and entered the ruins to carry out his naked master who looked like he was being played with and was doubting about his life.
His injuries healed on their own as usual.
But Li Yu didn't care about anything else at this time, and was completely immersed in the idea of alchemy:
"This is the sixth time... This shouldn't be the case. Why did the sword energy split into thousands and try to escape? Why can't it gather into a sword ball?"
"Hmm? No, that's not right. It's not that they want to escape, but my body can't hold them?"
"Yes, my flesh and blood body is too fragile, with too many cracks... I have refined thousands of sword qi, but I can't seal it. Each one is extremely sharp. In my body, it's like a cone in a bag, and it will naturally escape."
When the thought reached this point, Li Yu's eyes lit up, and he didn't know what he was thinking of, and his face showed a fanatical excitement.
The next moment, he suddenly jumped up from Hongdou's arms, shaking his snow-white body and the bird as he went to the pile of materials in the corner of the alchemy room. He began to pick and choose, muttering to himself:
"The Dharma body of a Sequence 7 Taoist priest cannot contain the sword energy, so wouldn't it be better to increase its strength?"
"Use the ingestion technique to swallow a large amount of hard ore... so that I can temporarily get heavy metal poisoning and condense a tough golden armor under my skin... can it be refined?"
It sounds like there are still doubts.
But Li Yu seemed to be in a state of madness after some kind of enlightenment, with a smile on his face, and he was just about to drool.
He started right away, throwing pieces of extremely hard ore into his mouth, and practicing the technique of taking food, with a crackling sound.
He started to get poisoned!
The Taoist's Dharma body is extremely resistant to poisons, and coupled with the demon body's almost abnormal self-healing ability, normally, even if Li Yu eats a dozen ores raw, nothing will happen.
But in just a few dozen breaths, he had swallowed ore dozens of times his body weight, and also actively absorbed the toxins through the art of eating, evenly spreading them throughout his body.
"Drip drip!"
"Warning, warning... The master has fallen into heavy metal poisoning... Vital signs are rapidly declining... Emergency is being activated..."
"Don't move!"
"Help me make the elixir."
When Li Yu turned around and gave the order, he had become a "miner".
Not only is his entire body colorful, but it also sparkles with metallic brilliance.
If no intervention!
As strong as he is, he can be poisoned to death within half an incense stick of time.
But the crazy Li Yu didn't care at this time. He just grinned, dragged over a new alchemy furnace, quickly heated it up, and crawled inside.
Hongdou naturally obeyed the order!
But this time, after the familiar process, there was a different result.
There was no "hissing" sound, but instead there was a low roar and a few bangs, and fist and palm prints appeared on the surface of the furnace from the inside out.
The next moment there was another muffled sound and the furnace cover was blown away.
Li Yu jumped out, his body was so heavy that he smashed a big hole in the alchemy room.
In the pit, he vomited, and an incredible scene appeared:
Various large and small metal fragments came out of his mouth. Before they hit the ground, a golden pill mixed in them suddenly emitted a terrifying sword light.
It was not violent and did not explode.
Just a light sweep of the overflow turned all the surrounding metal fragments into powder.
Finally, it slowly fell into Li Yu's palm.
After doing all this, Li Yu collapsed in the pit.
It was as if he had just come back to his senses at this moment, frowning, feeling the intense pain coming from his body.
Various heavy metal poisons were indiscriminately attacking all the organs in his body, and even practitioners of the Fatherly Path would be surprised by the numerous symptoms that followed.
Fortunately, he had excreted a large amount of toxins when he was refining the elixir, and his "demon body" was indeed abnormal, so he managed to withstand it and was slowly recovering.
He, however, endured the pain, with a perverted look on his face, staring at the golden pill in his palm, laughing and saying:
“Hahahaha… I’ve done it. I’ve done it.”
"After seven attempts, the sword pill was completed."
"Because of this sudden realization, my alchemy skills have also made a breakthrough and reached a higher level."
As if it was intentional, just when Li Yu was excited and happy.
In his mind, the long-lost cold notification sound came:
"Evil Star, listen to my orders!"
"The new expedition mission has been successfully matched and will be officially launched in thirty-six hours. Please prepare as soon as possible, Lord of the Misfortune Star."
"The basic information of this mission is as follows..."
"You can't refuse the call!"
……
"Huh, you came at the right time."
"But this time, we were given two more days to prepare?"
"It is indeed the remains of the Wo Kingdom mentioned by Shang Yang. This means the other information is probably true as well."
As Li Yu spoke, the joy on his face disappeared.
Two more days!
But unfortunately, he still had one pill to refine, not to mention other preparations.
The most crucial thing is that the preparation time suddenly tripled, which further confirmed that everything Shang Yang said was true.
The horrific difficulty of this expedition to the strange domain and the extremely outrageous death rate.
In addition to a bunch of Sequence Six, the opponent will also have a large number of terrifying monsters, as well as the ubiquitous divine pollution and curse...
Obviously, if he wasn't careful, he might really become cannon fodder and die in there.
Li Yu, who had originally thought of resting for a few hours before continuing to eat raw metal ore, suddenly got a start and shouted:
"Come on, Anko, help me up."
"I can still eat and practice."
(End of this chapter)