Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

Chapter 273 Pseudo-Heavenly Profound Pill

Pseudo-Heavenly Mystic Pill

"This is perfectly normal. After all, I am the Grand Elder of Zhongyuan City—Master Dian! It is truly an honor for me to meet the experts of Zhenglan Kingdom today! Hahahaha!"

Old Dian said with a broad smile. His hearty laughter echoed in the air.

At this moment, the middle-aged man who looked like a wealthy businessman became alert, frowned, and said sternly:

"Hey Guo, what exactly do you mean by this?"

His gaze was fixed on the front, as if trying to glean some clue from the other person's expression.

The man in brocade robes standing to the side looked at Mo Yuming, who was standing in the distance, with a wry smile and said helplessly:

"Elder, can't you see it yet...?"

His voice revealed a hint of despair and helplessness.

It turned out that not long after Mo Yuming left, a group of people suddenly appeared outside the outhouse where the three men in brocade robes were hiding and surrounded them.

The leaders were none other than Lord Electric and Lord Leopard. These two were genuine Heaven-rank experts, and under their command were numerous formidable Falcon Guards. Faced with such a powerful lineup, even though the man in brocade robes and his companions possessed Earth-rank cultivation, they were utterly outmatched.

With almost no resistance, the three men, including the man in brocade robes, were easily subdued. The old man in the long robes glanced around at the imposing Falcon Guards standing atop the wall and snorted coldly:

"Hmph! You lot, with just you leading a group of Earth-rank martial artists, actually think you can stop us? You're seriously underestimating us!"

Despite his predicament, he remained defiant and attempted to salvage some face with words.

"What if I join them?" Leopard Master walked over from not far from Mo Yuming, blocking the retreat of the two old men in long robes.

"You think this will make us stay? Dream on!"

After the old man in the long robe finished speaking, he grabbed at Mo Yuming. His intention was clear: he wanted to take Mo Yuming hostage.

But just when the old man in the long robe thought he could catch Mo Yuming, his hand landed on a hard stone shield. Surprisingly, the old man's grab failed to break the small stone shield, which was only about two feet wide.

As Mo Yuming's control over his profound martial arts improved, his original earth shield was upgraded to a stone shield. The shield's size and thickness decreased, but his control over its position and strength increased several times over. The stone shield he condensed was now as hard as profound iron and corundum. Even the old man in the long robe, who possessed the strength of the second level of the Heaven Rank, couldn't break it with his grab.

Mo Yuming naturally wouldn't foolishly defend and wait for the enemy to attack again. Just as the old man grabbed the shield, Mo Yuming also moved. His cyan soul sword left a faint sword shadow in the air and appeared behind the old man in an instant, stabbing straight at the old man's back.

The old man was startled and hurriedly turned to defend against the soul sword's attack. He hadn't expected this teenager to be such a master of disguise. Although his cultivation hadn't reached the Heavenly Rank, the strength he displayed was already no less than that of a Heavenly Rank cultivator.

At the same time, Leopard's fist struck like a thunderbolt, compressing the air around it and creating a thunderous roar. The old man in the long robe hastily met the attack and was hit squarely by Leopard's fist. His body was sent flying like a cannonball, flying more than ten feet away before coming to a stop after crashing through three brick walls.

Although their cultivation levels were roughly equal, and Leopard's combat experience was even ten percent higher, Leopard's timing was impeccable. He unleashed his killing move just as the old man dodged Mo Yuming's soul sword. Caught off guard, the old man couldn't fight back with his full strength and suffered a great loss. His body, propelled by the powerful force, smashed through two brick walls, sustaining serious injuries.

Mo Yuming and Leopard Master were not going to give him time to recover. The two attacked the old man in the long robe from the left and right.

Meanwhile, the electric man and the middle-aged man were also engaged in combat. Ten Falcon Guard members stood guard on the perimeter to prevent the two from escaping.

"Despicable! You actually ambushed me!"

The old man in the long gown struggled to break free from the third brick wall.

"When you were bullying me, didn't you think of yourself as despicable as well?"

Mo Yuming said as he guided the Soul Sword to slash at the old man's waist.

The old man in the long robe had nothing to say, but simply drew a sword from his robes to block the attack of the Soul Sword. He had indeed intended to use his Heavenly Rank cultivation to capture Mo Yuming as a hostage. Now, being attacked from both sides, it was only natural that he was being caught in the middle.

Leopard Lord's fists, like the hammers of Vulcan, were his weapons. Fire-attribute spiritual energy gathered on the surface of his hands, making them resemble red-hot iron hammers. Every punch he threw would send sparks flying and molten iron spraying everywhere.

Surrounded by the two, the old man in the long robe was increasingly at a disadvantage, almost powerless to fight back. While dodging Mo Yuming's flying sword, he was struck several times by Leopard Master's fiery fist. Leopard Master's fist techniques were straightforward and impossible to dodge, leaving him no choice but to meet them head-on. While Leopard Master's fighting style was fierce and powerful, it was a method that would injure both himself and his enemy.

If it were just Leopard fighting the old man in the long robe alone, Leopard's fighting style would be at a disadvantage. But with Mo Yuming assisting him, it was a different story. The old man in the long robe was completely overwhelmed by Leopard's powerful punches. After exchanging a few blows with Leopard, the old man in the long robe was once again slammed into an earthen wall by Leopard's iron fist. Before he could even break free from the wall, he was pierced through the heart by Mo Yuming's soul sword. He died a miserable death inside the earthen wall.

At this moment, Master Dian was engaged in a fierce battle with the middle-aged Heavenly Realm cultivator. Both of them possessed fire-attribute profound skills and their cultivation levels were similar. Although Master Dian's combat experience was somewhat inferior to that of the middle-aged man, he had ten Falcon Guards assisting him from the sidelines and interfering with the middle-aged man from time to time. Therefore, Master Dian and the middle-aged man fought for a long time without either of them gaining the upper hand.

Master Electric's and Master Leopard's martial arts techniques were largely similar, except that Master Leopard used fist techniques while Master Electric used palm techniques. Although palm techniques were not as powerful as fist techniques, they offered many more variations in combat and made him much more flexible in duels. Therefore, Master Electric did not suffer the same disadvantage as Master Leopard.

After dealing with the old man in the long robe, Mo Yuming and Leopard arrived at Electric Lord's battlefield. The two did not participate in the battle, but instead stayed on the sidelines to provide support along with the Falcon Guard.

The electric man was clearly struggling in his fight against the middle-aged man. If it weren't for someone else supporting him, he would probably be at a disadvantage.

The middle-aged man was frustrated. After exchanging blows, he could clearly feel that his opponent's experience and combat skills were inferior to his own. However, he had to be constantly on guard against sneak attacks from the men in black surrounding him, so he couldn't fight freely. Therefore, he hadn't gained any advantage after fighting for so long.

After Mo Yuming and Leopard Lord joined forces to subdue the old man in the long robe, the middle-aged man panicked slightly and made several mistakes in a row. This allowed Lightning Lord to seize the opportunity and launch a fierce counterattack, leaving the middle-aged man scrambling. The two were evenly matched to begin with, and since they were both practitioners of fire-based profound arts, there was no issue of elemental advantage.

Finally, with the help of Leopard and Mo Yuming, Electric became more and more courageous and gradually gained the upper hand.

Seeing this, Mo Yuming didn't intervene. Dianye and his group lacked practical combat experience, and this was a rare opportunity. It was difficult to find a worthy opponent to fight against in battle. Such a battle could greatly stimulate his potential and improve his combat abilities.

The middle-aged man understood his opponent's intentions, but unable to escape, he could only wholeheartedly serve as his sparring partner. Although he tried every means to kill and end the fight, the outcome was already in someone else's hands, and he was powerless to change it.

The two fought back and forth for nearly an hour, until they were both exhausted and had no strength left to stand. Only then did Mo Yuming order his men to detain the middle-aged man and imprison him along with the man in brocade.

Grandpa Dian was also helped down to rest and recover.

After Mo Yuming had the mess cleaned up, he returned to the library with Leopard. Jiang Yuheng and Ji Jiahe had been waiting there for a long time.

After the conversation, it was learned that the assassin team from Uehara City had also been wiped out, but there were casualties among the Falcon Guard members and the National Security Guard members during the battle.

"It is impolite not to reciprocate. Wu Yi is making such a small move, so we should let them know that the consequences will be severe."

Mo Yuming was furious after hearing this.

After explaining the follow-up matters, Mo Yuming and Leopard went back to the weapons factory together, just in case that Electric Lord continued to stay in Zhongyuan City to oversee things.

In a small villa in the backyard of the arsenal, Mo Yuming summoned Old Huo and arranged for him and Leopard to assist in crafting the hidden dart he designed. The hidden dart contained many mechanical parts, each very small and requiring extremely high precision. Therefore, even after receiving Mo Yuming's blueprints, Old Huo was unable to replicate it, only managing to make a few quivers and some less important accessories. However, under Mo Yuming's supervision, the intricate hidden dart was quickly completed.

A day later, the three had made four sets of hidden arrow mechanisms and fifty arrows. This speed was achieved even though Old Huo had already made many of the spare parts. Many of the parts only required minor modifications to be usable. If all the components had to be made from scratch, it would have taken much longer.

Mo Yuming summoned a squad leader from the Falcon Guard who was accompanying him and ordered him to deliver the four sets of hidden darts and arrows to Sun Min, who was setting up defenses in Qi County. He then instructed Sun Min to arrange for four agile and skilled individuals to take the hidden darts to Zheng Lan Kingdom to retaliate in kind.

After the Falcon Guard squad leader left with the hidden dart, Mo Yuming contacted Sun Min and instructed him to do this and that.

The crafting of the hidden blade is too intricate and complex, making it unsuitable for mass production. Furthermore, it demands a high level of skill from the weapon refiner. Elder Huo estimated that even a level five weapon refiner would struggle to create such a complex mechanical device, because weapon refiners on this continent rely too heavily on array formations and focus too much on the weapon's power and durability, neglecting the study of technical skill. Such intricate devices that do not rely on spiritual energy are a weakness for all weapon refiners.

The next day, Mo Yuming, Elder Huo, and the other two made three more sets of hidden darts and fifty arrows. Mo Yuming estimated that if he didn't participate, Elder Huo and Leopard together could only make about one set a day at most. Even after they became more skilled, each of them could only make one set a day at most. Therefore, Mo Yuming didn't assign any tasks. Elder Huo could make them if he was interested, and put them aside if he didn't have time. After all, these things could only be used for assassinations and as a precaution, and their high cost made them unsuitable for general use. Moreover, the fewer people who knew about them, the better they would be. Therefore, Mo Yuming didn't want too many people to know.

Mo Yuming took three sets of hidden arrows to Jingzhou. He equipped himself with one set and kept the other two with him, intending to give them to anyone who might need them when the time was right.

Inside Jingzhou City, Mo Yuming purchased a batch of medicinal herbs from the Alchemist Association. He then returned to the underground training room of the castle to begin practicing alchemy. Since learning that the Medicine King Cauldron could accelerate the effects of medicinal herbs, Mo Yuming couldn't resist the urge to refine the Heavenly Profound Pill. If successful, it would be a huge breakthrough, a tremendous boost to the profound cultivation practitioners of the Great Xia Empire.

Mo Yuming summoned the Medicine King Cauldron, communicated with its spirit, and began refining pills. He selected the necessary herbs from his storage bag, cleaned and weighed them, and then categorized and arranged them in a container. He then began preparing to refine the pills according to the recipe provided by the Alchemist Association.

Mo Yuming refined the most commonly used Spirit Gathering Pill. The Spirit Gathering Pill can quickly restore the user's spiritual power and can provide good assistance to the user in both cultivation and combat. Even cultivators who have prepared the Earth Profound level Spirit Gathering Pill containing pill poison are more likely to have it in order to be ready for emergencies.

High-quality pseudo-Heavenly Profound-grade Spirit Gathering Pills are very expensive in pill shops, and due to production issues, they are often unavailable even when available.

Following his previous practice, Mo Yuming placed both hands on the furnace body and activated his fire spiritual power, instantly igniting a spiritual fire within the furnace. Once the fire stabilized, Mo Yuming withdrew his right hand and used his left hand to protect and stabilize the fire. Because he was controlling his own output of spiritual power, he could precisely control the amount of power, a skill he had developed through previous practice to the point of complete control.

Following the steps, Mo Yuming used his right hand to channel wood elemental energy to wrap the herbs and place them into the cauldron one by one.

As the last herb was added to the cauldron, the cauldron's spirit issued a warning in Mo Yuming's mind, urging him to protect the third herb with water spiritual power. It couldn't be allowed to undergo the same tempering by spiritual fire as the other herbs. Mo Yuming suddenly realized, could this be the reason why the Heavenly Profound Continent had been unable to refine the Heavenly Profound Pill?

Mo Yuming hurriedly followed the spirit's warning and used water elemental power to protect the herb, preventing its moisture from being dried out by the spiritual fire. After the medicinal components of the other herbs were separated, they were then integrated into the isolated herb. The isolated herb immediately mixed with the other herbs, producing a complex reaction. The medicinal components were extracted, impurities turned to ash and fell away, and the pure spiritual herbs began to fuse and condense into pills. Mo Yuming immediately infused them with pure wood elemental power to nourish them. As the spiritual power circulated, the cauldron emitted a 'hum' sound, and four soft, translucent pills flew out of the furnace. Mo Yuming waved his hand, and the four pills slid into his hand.

Mo Yuming took out one and tested it.

"Pseudo-Heavenly Profound Pills!" These four pills actually reached the level of pills refined by the top alchemists of the Heavenly Profound Continent! The medicinal power contained in the four pills was pure and potent. The toxic component of each pill was less than three percent. They were top-grade pseudo-profound pills.

If his technique were more refined and his control over spiritual energy more precise, Mo Yuming was confident that refining the Heavenly Profound Pill would be no problem.