FS-novel #223 - What is this? A jade slip?
#223 - What is this? A jade slip?
"Big Black! Big Black!"
"Did you hear that?"
Xu Chengxian tapped the black sheep's forehead with his tail, "My brother is awesome!"
"Two furnaces, concocting three kinds of pills!"
"Like a single oven baking buns with different fillings!"
"… Heh heh."
Big Black grunted, turning his rear towards him.
What's there to be proud of?
You have to say your brother is amazing.
As if Ling Yunzi isn't amazing if he's not your brother.
What does your brother being amazing have to do with you?
Besides, Ling Yunzi doesn't even share your surname!
"It's normal that we don't share a surname, we agreed on it," Xu Chengxian told Big Black, crunching on a shrimp claw, "Lingxiao and Yunzi will take our mother's surname."
"Then what about you?"
"My dad takes my surname."
"… What?"
Buzz—
At this moment, a violent surge of spiritual energy interrupted them.
They saw the lid of one of the pill furnaces flipping open amidst a burst of light.
Subsequently, several pills flew out of the furnace.
The gathered spiritual energy of heaven and earth condensed into a pillar of light, enveloping the pills.
After about a dozen breaths.
Mist began to form within the pale white pillar of light.
"Look, it's turning white!" Xu Chengxian exclaimed softly, very supportively.
As if he had never seen it before.
Big Black rolled his eyes, "Yes, yes, it's turning white. At least White Rank."
"Bullshit! My brother's pills can't possibly be just White Rank!" Xu Chengxian immediately retorted, "My brother would never let me eat such low-grade pills!"
"…Have some shame, Little Xu," Big Black couldn't help but say.
Even though he still hadn't received the large amount of blood energy from Flower Snake, he really couldn't stand this shameless guy.
He was demanding pills made by others with such confidence, and even complaining about the quality.
"What's the difference between you and a beggar who's picky about the food he's given?"
"Heh heh, envious, aren't you?" Xu Chengxian wasn't angry at all, "My brother is capable, you don't have a brother like that, do you?"
"…I don't have a brother, but I have a sister!" Big Black refused to admit defeat, "My sister could eat it all! She can eat an entire mountain in one meal."
"I have a sister too!" Xu Chengxian got excited, "My sister can… deduct your blood energy!"
"…"
He immediately changed the subject: "Look! It's turning green!"
Before he finished speaking, the milky white pillar of light began to take on a cyan-green hue.
"More than that, more than that! There's cyan, there's cyan!" Big Black cheered and jumped for joy, clapping his front hooves together.
While shouting, he furtively glanced behind him with a worried expression.
He was even more afraid of Lingxiao.
Who told this grandaunt to be in charge of the accounts!
Damn it, there's no justice in the world!
The debtor became Master Xu, and the one owed became Little Black.
"Wait a little longer, it's not over yet," Lingxiao's expression softened slightly.
Cyan Rank at least indicated that the pill concoction was a success.
This was a good start.
There was still another furnace of pills.
The black-gold cauldron without a lid contained the Heaven Dust Pills being refined.
"Unbelievable! It's turning yellow!" Xu Chengxian shouted again.
Lingxiao looked over and saw that the spiritual energy pillar quickly changed from cyan-green.
It gradually became tinged with yellow, and was transitioning to red!
Crimson threads!
Could it actually reach Red Rank?
This was the highest grade pill that Ling Yunzi had ever concocted.
The spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the spiritual energy pillar were extremely enticing.
Vibrant, active, and lively!
Xu Chengxian licked his lips.
He hadn't had the chance to eat a Red Rank spirit pill before.
"What kind of pill is being refined in that furnace?" he asked Lingxiao.
"Foundation Establishment Pill."
"Foundation Establishment Pill? That'll do too." He hadn't eaten it before, so it was a good opportunity to try it.
After another moment.
The spiritual patterns on the pills had finished imprinting.
But the red light didn't increase further.
And the spiritual patterns ultimately stopped at eight.
"Ah, it was almost nine patterns," Xu Chengxian said regretfully.
"…Pills below Orange Rank rarely have nine spiritual patterns," Lingxiao said calmly.
Not quite Red Rank.
Half-step Red Rank, Eight Grade.
It was already very good.
Moreover, based on visual estimation, eight pills were produced.
Fortunately, it was in the secret realm.
If it were outside, it would probably attract onlookers.
But even now, they had to guard against attracting unwelcome guests.
Next.
Ling Yunzi began collecting the pills.
Xu Chengxian's eyes also began to turn red.
Because a medicinal fragrance, a very enticing medicinal fragrance, emanated from the other furnace of pills.
Enticing creatures from all directions.
"What kind of pill is this, with such an overbearing fragrance?" he couldn't help but ask.
"It's Heaven Dust Pill," Lingxiao's expression darkened, "Xu Chengxian, be on guard!"
Foundation Establishment Pills temper the physical body, Soul Stabilizing Pills nourish the divine soul, and Heaven Dust Pills contain a large amount of spiritual energy.
They are the same type of spirit pill as Heaven Mending Pills.
Of course, they are more than one level lower compared to them.
But they are more suitable for their current cultivation level.
And this type of pill is more likely to attract the covetousness of the demon race than Foundation Establishment Pills.
Suddenly, the sea seemed to be lifted by an invisible force, with monstrous waves surging, bringing deafening roars, and sweeping violently towards the shore.
With the rising of the waves, the outlines of those behemoths were vaguely visible in the sea water.
It was unknown how many sea beasts were hiding within.
Suddenly, a bat-like fish, several dozen feet long, leaped up, carried by the waves, and charged over.
Blowing the horn of battle.
"Here I go!"
Xu Chengxian shouted and transformed to meet the battle.
Good heavens, you want to snatch our demon core?
You're courting death!
…
Not long after, the Chaos Sea was stained with a layer of rosy red.
Xu Chengxian returned with the seafood he had packed up.
"Why did you kill a big turtle?" Lingxiao asked, glancing at it.
For certain reasons, neither the demon race nor the human race would hunt giant turtles.
They were naturally born long-lived creatures, not only did they not pose any threat, but they also had nothing to covet.
It was said that killing them was unlucky.
"I didn't want to kill it either, but this guy kept provoking me," Xu Chengxian flicked his tail.
The turtle shell resounded with loud thuds.
Aside from the turtle's reasons, the turtle shell was hard, and although the size was not small, there might not be much meat after removing the shell, which was also a factor hindering various turtle races from entering Xu Chengxian's food menu.
But this turtle didn't know what was wrong with it, chasing after him to bite him.
He could only reluctantly kill it and bring it back.
Although he didn't like to eat it, it wasn't like he couldn't eat it.
"Mm," Lingxiao didn't say anything more, but handed over three jade bottles and two jade slips, "These are for you."
"What are these?"
Xu Chengxian took them and saw that the jade bottles contained the newly refined pills, which was a given.
He looked at the grade.
They were all good.
The quality was also similar to that of the Foundation Establishment Pills.
Ling Yunzi's pill refining skills were as strong as ever.
So he asked about the two jade slips.
Xu Chengxian was seeing these things for the first time.
There seemed to be many things inside that could be read with divine sense.
"Ling Yunzi and I recited our respective cultivation methods and gave you a copy," Lingxiao said.