Chapter 116 Spirit Seizing Pill
Some distance away from Fang Mu"s position, Su Ming walked in haste within the rain forest. Although his calm expression gave off no hint of emotions, caution brimmed inside him. Any sign of movement will not escape his detection.
In actuality, he did not realise that Fang Mu"s father had followed them. His words and action earlier were done out of caution. He had a similar encounter back in WuShan with Si Kong. Back then, Su Ming did not weigh the consequence of harming Si Kong. A tribesmen of the latter"s status would not left unguarded by someone powerful. It was only when Grandpa pointed out that he realised his negligence. Back in WuShan, under Grandpa"s watch, he would not in danger.
However, in this foreign place without Grandpa"s protection, Su Ming had to rely on himself and make no mistakes. Even though he did not sense that someone was tracking Fang Mu, his intelligence allowed him to deduce this situation that seemed full of questions.
An adolescent of the fifth layer of blood condensation whom had a permanent injury. How was it possible he made numerous trips to this vicinity of the rain forest in the span of a few months? Not to mention he was safe on every occasion. Even if the teen had intended to do so, his kin would have realized, thus it was not difficult to conceive that they might be tracking him in the dark.
Also, the adolescent"s injury had turned for the better, and was previously abducted by him. Even if he had kept mum about it, the tribesmen whom ventured into the forest with him on that occasion would have reported the incident.
It was not difficult for Su Ming to figure this out from various traces of clues. Someone had definitely been following Fang Mu, with the goal of finding himself. It was because of this that Su Ming did not hurry to leave, only doing so after a few months.
The blade presented by the teen was not ordinary, which made Su Ming even more sure that the An Dong tribe was by no means a small one, it had to at least be a middle tribe, and given the teen"s superior status, it was all the more impossible that he had been travelling alone.
Having deduced that he was being observed by someone hidden in the vicinity, Su Ming did not act rashly after receiving the blade. By igniting the scorching flames of the NightWing"s soul, he gave off the impression of an Awakened cultivator.
Coupled with him using the NightWing"s souls to step into the skies and using his nuanced technique to leave the tree bark for fifty breaths of time. This was enough to make any observers feel cautious.
Su Ming knew that even when he left this message, he had to at least help that youth once more out of his own initiative such that when coupled with his mysterious cultivation level, he could ensure his own safety to some degree.
Su Ming"s expression was calm as he did not immediately retreat to his cave, instead he circled the area several times all the way till the skies darkened and the moon hung high. Only after he was certain no one was tailing him did he return to his cave.
Sitting cross-legged in his cave, Su Ming lightly waved his palm, sending several invisible NightWing souls towards the cave entrance, in the past year, this had been his method of preventing unexpected intrusions.
"If all goes well, the day I leave this place should be arriving soon." Sitting there, Su Ming fell into deep thought, carefully planning his next course of actions, his blood qi slowly circulating as his body let out a glow.
This kind of long term cultivation where one has to boringly healing his injuries is not something anyone can easily endure, yet Su Ming slowly got used to this new lifestyle all alone in his cave, silently healing his injuries without uttering a single word.
Constantly refining the Southerner"s Pill and then using it to treat his wounds allowed the hidden internal injuries within him to slowly recover.
After one more month, in that forest the voice shouting for senior was back once again, this time Su Ming once more waited several days before heading out at night.
After slightly treating Fang Mu, he took the Sieved Cloud Gra.s.s with him and at the same time requested for another herb.
Fang Mu"s expression was very respectful and tried his best to satisfy all of Su Ming"s demands, he even told Su Ming about many matters of the surrounding tribes giving Su Ming a better understanding of the area and the special techniques of the nearby Mán-Tribes.
After this exchange between them, this became the norm for them.
Although there were many different herbs in this rain forest, using them to refine pills led to all sorts of complications, but with Fang Mu helping him deal with his deficiencies, Su Ming"s speed with refining pills gradually improved.
Even the lambent twigs were obtained by Fang Mu"s father from the nearby Han Mountain City and offered to Su Ming. Occasionally, they also brought various necessities for Su Ming like a set of extraordinary clothes.
These few sets of clothes were something Fang Mu"s father thought about after taking into account of Su Ming using animal hide to cover his face, and thus were incorporated into these clothes.
There was a total of three sets, completely incomparable to the ordinary coa.r.s.e linen.
"Senior Mo, these clothes were obtained with great difficulty from the Han Mountain City, this is something that only our Mán-Elder and Patriarch wears." Fang Mu"s hospitality was also recognised by Su Ming and improved his impression of him, but even so Su Ming remained cautious. He still choose to appear only some time after being sought out, and he never ever told Fang Mu about his hiding spot.
Under such a situation time had slowly pa.s.sed, and soon half a year pa.s.sed. Su Ming had already spent two years in this rain forest, his injuries too have fully recovered in the past month, his two hundred and forty three blood veins filled with the power of the seventh level of blood condensation.
Even the Mountain Spirit Pill was refined by him numerous times after he obtained the required herbs, allowing his cultivation to slowly raise after he had fully recovered.
After obtaining enough pills, Su Ming meditated inside the cave pondering as he held two separate pills in his hand, the Mountain Spirit Pill and the Southerner"s Pill.
In his hands were actually quite a few of them, more than ten of each in fact. As he looked at those pills Su Ming finally let out a determined sigh.
"I should probably go take a look at what i can find after i open the second door!" Su Ming put away those pills as he touched the black fragment hanging from his neck.
This mysterious black fragment gave Su Ming several pill recipes previously, allowing his cultivation to rise and to treat his injuries, and now he had enough pills to open the second door. Decisively, Su Ming shut his eyes and as he tried to enter into the mysterious s.p.a.ce, within the relatively safe cave, Su Ming"s body was surrounded by a black glow which enveloped Su Ming before disappearing with a violent flash as even Su Ming"s body disappeared along with it.
In the misty world of darkness, Su Ming quickly acclimatised as he ran forwards towards the familiar mountain and the pa.s.sage beneath it.
Gazing at the mountain Su Ming silently walked into the pa.s.sage, the same unchanging drawings surrounded him as he pushed open the first door, and before too long he had arrived in front of the second door.
Following the same process as opening the first door, Su Ming retrieved the Mountain Spirit Pills and Southerner’s Pills from his bosom and placed them into the holes of the door one by one.
After the holes were filled with medical pills, Su Ming took a few steps back as he focused on the door.
The holes on the door slowly glowed with a dazzling radiance, along with the light"s radiance a band reverberated from the front before transforming into a dull vibration as the second door slowly slid apart forming a crack which continually grew as the door opened with a boom, exposing the pa.s.sage behind it.
Su Ming calmly waited without rushing forth until the doors had fully opened, silently looking at the surrounding walls flashing red.
After half a beat Su Ming"s feet finally moved as he slowly walked into the pa.s.sage, instead of rushing through, he slowly observed the engravings on the walls which as before reflected various scenes of refining pills. As with the first pa.s.sage, Su Ming sensed that if he could gain understanding of these images, it would greatly benefit his pill refinement skills.
He walked without fear onwards as he slowly engraved the images on the wall into his mind, after a long time he reached the end of these drawings as well as a small chamber.
The third door laid within this small chamber.
On the door was only a single pill"s image, as well as the required herbs which Su Ming had mostly previously encountered, his eyes flashed as he looked at the small hole below the diagram.
From the two previous doors, Su Ming could tell that the number of pills required to open the door, reflected the difficulty of refining them.
The more pills required generally meant the easier it was to refine them,
As Su Ming looked down, his brows furrowed as beneath the diagram were just two small hole.
"This pill…… I am afraid that other than the Divinity Pill, this is the hardest pill to refine so far." Su Ming"s walked forward with his brows furrowed and placed his right hand on the door, the familiar pain in his head once more making an appearance as the door slowly glowed, while the steps to refining this pill slowly surfaced in his mind.
After a long time, Su Ming"s hand trembled as he was knocked backwards, talking several steps before he could stabilize himself, his eyes filled with shock as he lifted his head.
"Spirit Seizing Pill!" Su Ming gasped as information filled his mind, other than the refining method and name, for the first time there was a description of its effect.
"Seize and consume spectral spirits into the pill, inflicts harms when broken, nurtures the soul when absorbed." Su Ming"s eyes flashed as he carefully memorised the herbs required to refine this pill, his face filled with complicated emotions as he shut his eyes.
"To refine this pill, the herbs I need are very……
Not only can I not use an ordinary furnace, I have to use a dead body as the furnace along with these herbs to refine……
I also cannot use a normal flame, rather i need to use the corpse"s qi to incite havely thunder which after refining it can also be used to avoid the heavenly phenomenon from the pills existence." Su Ming thought for a while longer before deeply gazing at the third stone door and then heading back outside.
"Although this is a hard pill to refine and its success rate is low…… but once it is successfully refined, its power is……" In Su Ming"s mind the explanation of the pill"s effect surfaced once more.
"Seizing the spectral spirits, this should be referring to the thing formed by one"s Mán-Tattoo, for example the Hei Shan Patriarch"s Blood Bear, or Shan Hen"s blade…… it is something that no one under the awakened realm should be able to deal with…… even in the awakened realm. It is not something that can be easily stopped, how could this pill……" Su Ming"s eyes flashed as he slowly walked out.
Inside the cave in the rainforest, along with a gentle glow Su Ming"s body slowly appeared, seating there in the dark with the black shard in his hands he fell into deep thought.
"A total of nineteen ingredients are required, most of which I am familiar with. In the diagram Grandpa previously gave me, only one is missing…… but that is not the main problem, the main problem is that of the nineteen, three are not so common as they have to be planted by powerful wild beasts along with their bones.
From the information transmitted to me, these so called wild beasts have power rivaling an awakened cultivator……"