Chapter 50 – Blazing A New Trail
Translator: Mr Voltaire
Editor: Master Shadow
After taking out the Antidote Pill, Xiao Yun immediately went to find Yan Shi Fei.
“What? You refined an Antidote Pill?” Hearing this, Yan Shi Fei’s beautiful eyes widened as she looked at the youth in shock. Back then, when he had declared that he would make an Antidote Pill for her, she had not taken it to heart. Not only had he fulfilled his promise, but he had also delivered it so quickly.
“Mm,” Xiao Yun said. “These days, I’ve been refining pills day and night, and I’ve finally made some progress. Try this pill and see if it can cure the poison in your body. If it can, you won’t have to suffer from the poison breaking out in future.”
“Alright.” Yan Shi Fei suppressed the excitement in her heart and took the Antidote Pill. She then sat cross-legged on her bed and put the Antidote Pill in her mouth. As soon as it went into her mouth, a cool fragrance spread throughout her body, passing through every cell and pore.
“What a fragrant medicinal aroma.” Yan Shi Fei’s heart trembled, feeling that the cool fragrance was cleansing the poison within her.
Very soon, the medicinal pill turned into a stream that entered her blood and meridians.
“This really is an Antidote Pill!” Yan Shi Fei was delighted and started to circulate her Essence Qi to guide the medicinal stream towards where the poison was. The poison had already permeated into her bones, and was difficult to extract. However, under her guidance, the medicinal stream also permeated into her bones.
Following this, the medicine and poison started to battle within Yan Shi Fei’s body. A massive wave of pain spread out from her body, causing her to tremble.
“What’s wrong?” An anxious look appeared on Xiao Yun’s face, afraid that something bad was happening to the beauty.
“It’s fine. I can feel the poison in my body being gradually cleansed.” Yan Shi Fei’s voice sounded ethereal and was very pleasant to listen to.
Evidently, her condition had taken a turn for the better. This allowed Xiao Yun to sigh in relief.
As time passed, Yan Shi Fei could feel that the lethal poison within her body was continuously being expelled. Her clothes against her back became saturated with a poisonous liquid, giving off a repulsive smell. This smell was pungent enough to make anyone feel dizzy just by smelling it – it was evident how strong this poison was.
Xiao Yun felt an ache within his heart. It wasn’t difficult to imagine just how much pain Yan Shi Fei had suffered over the past two years. Finally, after one whole hour, the young woman opened her eyes, which had a clear and refreshed look within them.
“I don’t need to suffer from this poison anymore!” Yan Shi Fei deeply breathed in, a look of delight in her eyes.
“That’s good.” Xiao Yun nodded, feeling that a great burden had been lifted off his shoulders.
“Thank you, Xiao Yun.” Yan Shi Fei got up and smiled, and kissed the youth.
“Err, I think I deserve more rewards from big sister Shi Fei,” Xiao Yun said as he chuckled.
“What other rewards would you like?” Yan Shi Fei asked the youth as she looked at him with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.
“Such as taking your body!” Xiao Yun said as he laughed.
“You wish.” Yan Shi Fei blinked enticingly as she looked at the youth.
“Aiya, this smells so bad. I need to go and wash off this poisonous liquid.” After saying this, she walked off with a brilliant smile.
Seeing how happy and relaxed the young woman looked, Xiao Yun also felt quite jubilant. Over the past two years, he had very rarely seen big sister Shi Fei smile in such a way!
For the next few days, Xiao Yun continued to devote all of his time to refining pills. After he finished refining all of the medicinal ingredients, he began to refine a Mysterious Congealing Pill.
Mysterious Congealing Pills could assist True Essence realm cultivators in making a breakthrough. Every one of the medicinal ingredients were incredibly rare and valuable, and Xiao Yun only had 3 portions. As such, he couldn’t afford to make any mistakes when refining. Otherwise, he would lose this opportunity, and it would be difficult for him to refine another pill.
When he first began, Xiao Yun was extremely careful, but still failed.
He tried another time, but because the medicinal strength was too powerful, he couldn’t control it, which in failure once again.
“I only have a single portion left,” Xiao Yun said with a frown.
“In order to refine this sort of pill, your spirit energy needs to be at the point where it can rival a blow from an Essence Core cultivator. Otherwise, it would be difficult to control such berserk medicinal strength, and you’ll only be able to watch as the pill explodes,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said. “This medicinal pill is too difficult for you to refine right now. You should wait and try again in future.”
“No, I must refine this pill,” Xiao Yun said with a stubborn expression. “The Martial Competition is coming soon, and if I place first, I’ll be going to the Imperial Capital and taking the examination to enter the Heaven Origin Sect. I won’t be able to stay here, so I need to refine a Mysterious Congealing Pill for grandpa and help him step into the Essence Core stage. That’s the only thing I can do for him.”
After hearing about his father, Xiao Yun knew that he was destined to travel far away from his home, but he couldn’t help but be worried about his family and grandpa. However, if his grandpa was able to break through to the Essence Core stage, he would be able to hold the fort, allowing Xiao Yun to travel outside in peace. This was why he was madly refining pills, and had barely rested.
“Do as you will,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow calmly said, evidently having very little faith in Xiao Yun.
The Mysterious Congealing Pill was not something that anyone could simply refine, and Xiao Yun had been refining pills for a very short period of time.
“I’ll definitely work something out.” Xiao Yun racked his brains, unwilling to give up.
“The medicinal strengths fight against each other… is there no way to moderate the medicinal strength?” Xiao Yun muttered to himself. “There must be.”
After thinking for a while, he began to read through the Violet Flame Pill Principles.
“Heaven Spirit Grass can moderate medicinal strength and can increase the success rate of forming pills.” Finally, Xiao Yun happened to read a page about ‘Heaven Spirit Grass’. However, it was a pity that he didn’t have any – this sort of spirit grass was extremely rare, and couldn’t be found so easily.
“Moderation, moderation,” Xiao Yun muttered to himself. Suddenly, his eyes lit up as he came to a realization, “The medicinal properties come from the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi being condensed. My Martial Spirit can absorb and refine any type of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi – not only fire, but also Chilling Qi and Poisonous Qi. In that case, I wonder if the dewdrops can achieve the moderation effect?”
As he reasoned with himself, Xiao Yun felt that he could try this.
“It’s difficult to refine this pill anyways, so I might as well give it a shot.” After making this decision, Xiao Yun started to refine the pill.
He successfully refined the medicinal ingredients, and finally reached the step of forming the pill. Looking at the medicinal paste containing berserk energies, Xiao Yun sent his mind into his sea of consciousness. He brought out a drop of jade-green dew, and dropped it into the medicinal paste.
When the jade-green dewdrop landed, it gave off a jade-green light, as if it was trying to absorb the medicinal paste’s medicinal strength.
“The dewdrops formed by my Martial Spirit are indeed quite domineering,” Xiao Yun thought to himself. Under the absorption from the dewdrop, the medicinal strength within the medicinal paste decreased.
“I wonder if this will alter the effects of the medicinal pill.”
“Boy, what did you add?” The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow felt quite surprised. It had never seen anyone refine pills like this – could you randomly add whatever you wanted? If one wasn’t careful, they could stimulate the medicinal strength of the pill, causing an explosion.
As such, when refining pills, countless Pill Refiners had always followed the recipes and instructions that were passed down to them. And yet, this youth had put in whatever he wanted? As the saying went, newborn calves don’t fear tigers!
Just as the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow started to sigh, it suddenly stared in shock.
“What’s going on?”
Within the cauldron, the medicinal paste had taken the form of a pill, and surprisingly, it didn’t contain the berserk strength that was expected. Instead, it was like a normal medicinal pill.
“Did I fail because I added that dewdrop?” Xiao Yun thought.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow felt utterly confused.
However, Xiao Yun soon started to rejoice. This was because underneath its serene exterior, there was a hidden layer of berserk energy.
Soon, a jade-green medicinal pill was formed.
“I wonder how good this pill’s medicinal effects will be.” Xiao Yun held the medicinal pill as he smiled.
This was something that he had come up with!
Within the medicinal pill, he could feel a hint of vital essence of life left behind by the dewdrop.
“I hope this can help grandpa step into the Essence Core stage,” Xiao Yun said as he smiled in satisfaction.
“Boy, surely you’re not going to give this medicinal pill to your grandpa,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said.
“What’s wrong?” Xiao Yun replied. “I took great pains to make this medicinal pill, so naturally, I’m giving it to my grandpa.”
“Mysterious Congealing Pills shouldn’t be such a colour. You’ve changed the recipe at a whim, and you don’t know what sort of side-effects there are. In fact, it’s possible that it could cause qi divergence, turning him into someone useless,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said. “There are many of these cases!”
Xiao Yun shrugged and ignored the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow. He knew best the effects of his Martial Spirit’s dewdrops.
Previously, when Ling Xi’s foundations had been damaged, he was able to recover her Essence Qi with those dewdrops. Even if she had unlimited Essence Stones, it was unlikely that she would have been able to recover so quickly otherwise. The dewdrops created by the Martial Spirit definitely were not ordinary, and could be said to be a miracle medicine.
Xiao Yun took the medicinal pill and excitedly walked out.
“Yun’Er!” Just as Xiao Yun walked out, a resounding voice suddenly sounded out.
“Second Uncle.” Xiao Yun looked over and saw his second uncle striding towards him.
Xiao Hai gave off a powerful air, that was as domineering as a mountain.
“You broke through?” Xiao Yun asked in surprise.
“Mm.” Xiao Hai nodded as he laughed, “Haha, your medicinal pill was quite extraordinary. After Second Uncle consumed it, I felt signs of breaking through, and finally stepped into the True Essence realm. From now on, if anyone dares to offend you, Second Uncle will smash them into meat paste. We’ll never be bullied again. Haha, in future, you’ll definitely be much greater than Second Uncle.”
“It’s great that Second Uncle was able to break through.” Xiao Yun felt quite delighted. He never thought that his medicinal pills would be so effective.
“Where are you going?” Xiao Hai asked as he smiled.
“I refined a Mysterious Congealing Pill and I’m going to give it to grandpa,” Xiao Yun replied.
“What?! You refined a Mysterious Congealing Pill? A-Are you the reincarnation of some Pill Master?” Xiao Hai’s expression was filled with shock. He had only given the youth three portions of the ingredients. Even a great Pill Refiner would not necessarily be able to succeed!
“I really did refine it,” Xiao Yun replied.
“Good, good, Second Uncle will come with you to talk to your grandpa. He’s been in closed-door training, and will definitely be extremely happy to hear about this. If he can step into the Essence Core realm, who would dare to bully our Xiao family in the Violet Cloud County?” Xiao Hai felt incredibly excited.
As such, the two of them went to where the old patriarch was doing closed-door training.
“What? Yun’Er learnt how to refine pills?” After coming out, the old patriarch stared at the youth in shock. It had only been a short period of time since he had last saw him, and he had already become a Pill Refiner?
“That’s right, father,” Xiao Hai responded. “It was because of a Pure Essence Pill that Yun’Er refined that I was able to step into the True Essence realm.”