novelHire Chapter 898: Carving a Dragon with One Hand, Forming a Phoenix Flame into a Pill
Chapter 898: Carving a Dragon with One Hand, Forming a Phoenix Flame into a Pill
"You?" Bixixi looked at Chen Huaian with a skeptical gaze. To be honest, the fact that a Battle Soul could think and speak was already a very creepy thing. Now this Battle Soul was saying it could help lure out a hundred-thousand-year World Beast?
Even if this Battle Soul possessed a million-year World Ring, Bixixi still found it rather unlikely.
"Are you planning to create an even bigger commotion?"
She asked curiously, "I estimate the World Beasts deep in this Starry Forest are already on alert. Creating more commotion will only make them more suspicious. That way, they definitely won't come out. If it really doesn't work, we'll just have to force our way in."
Chen Huaian rolled his eyes.
Force our way in, my foot.
Li Qingran was still here.
Who would guarantee Li Qingran's safety?
Although he had unlocked a portion of his strength thanks to the million-year World Ring, he couldn't be absolutely certain he could protect Li Qingran under the desperate attacks of a hundred-thousand-year World Beast.
This matter required strategy, not brute force!
"Do you have any rare medicinal herbs from the Canglan Realm on you?" Chen Huaian asked.
Bixixi was taken aback. "No, but I could have some. I have a Medicine Battle Master under my command who specializes in researching these herbs. He has many herbs on hand. But, what do you need these herbs for?"
Moreover, the way this white-clothed swordsman spoke was strange too.
He directly called it the Canglan Realm.
Could it be he wasn't from the Canglan Realm?
"This Venerable One needs to create an incense that can attract World Beasts."
"Incense?" Bixixi was even more confused. "What's that?"
Chen Huaian was speechless.
So, the Canglan World didn't have the concept of a stick of incense?
"Is it this?" Li Qingran took out a candle the length of a chopstick from her bag. "Husband, here this kind of thing is called an incense candle. It can be used for making wishes, but its main purposes are for calming the spirit and keeping the environment fragrant."
"An incense candle can also attract World Beasts?"
Bixixi didn't believe it.
The other Battle Masters around also exchanged glances, feeling this white-clothed swordsman was boasting.
Although Bixixi had doubts in her heart, out of respect for Li Qingran, she still waved her hand.
From the crowd behind her,
an old man wearing a dark green robe and with a head full of silver hair stepped forward.
He was a Level 95 Medicine Battle Master of the Battle Soul Hall. Due to his special Battle Soul and unique abilities, capable of both killing and healing, he held a very high position within the Battle Soul Hall and was usually arrogant.
Now, looking at this "Battle Soul" before him who didn't even have a physical body, his wrinkled face was filled with contempt.
"You want herbs?"
The Medicine Elder casually waved his hand, and dozens of jade boxes materialized in the air, opening.
A bizarre array of herbs was revealed, some shaped like ghost claws, some colored like crimson fire, emitting various medicinal fragrances and pungent smells.
"Since Your Excellency speaks with such grand confidence, then this old man would like to test you."
The Medicine Elder pinched a strange herb with two fingers. It was deep blue all over with serrated leaves. A mocking smile hung on the corner of his mouth.
"This herb is called 'Blue Silver Ghost Vine Companion Leaf.' Extremely poisonous. Since Your Excellency wants to refine... whatever 'incense,' do you recognize the properties of this thing?"
Chen Huaian didn't even lift an eyelid.
He didn't need to know what cat or dog name this herb went by in this world.
A sweep of his Divine Soul.
The herb's fiber structure, the flow of its medicinal properties, its yin-yang attributes—in his eyes, it was as clear as looking at the lines on his palm, holding no more secrets.
"Cold nature, grows accompanying corpses. The roots and stems contain toxins that paralyze nerves, but the leaf veins have hallucinogenic effects."
Chen Huaian spoke indifferently, his tone matter-of-fact.
"If cooked with fierce fire, the toxicity transforms into an extremely strong... addictive fragrance."
The mockery on the Medicine Elder's face instantly froze.
A perfect hit.
This was obscure pharmacological knowledge he had spent ten years researching to fully understand...
And this "ghost" knew it all with just a glance?
"What about this one?" The Medicine Elder, unwilling to accept it, picked up a crimson-red root.
"Fire attribute, dry and hot, can stimulate the surging of qi and blood, often used in berserker-type potions."
"This one?"
"Earth attribute, neutralizer, sweet taste, but the root has an earthy smell, needs to be peeled."
...
The Medicine Elder's hands moved faster and faster, and cold sweat on his forehead grew denser.
No matter how obscure or bizarre an herb he took out, that white-clothed man didn't even need to stretch out a hand. With just a glance, a sniff, he could accurately state its medicinal properties, pharmacology, and even the appropriate heat for processing it.
This was no amateur!
This was clearly a grandmaster who had been immersed in the medicine path for a thousand years!
Finally, the Medicine Battle Master's hand froze in mid-air, unable to take out another herb. The way he looked at Chen Huaian was like looking at a monster. That earlier contempt had long transformed into deep reverence.
"Bring them here."
Chen Huaian had no time to appreciate the old man's expression.
He pointed with a finger, selecting seven or eight types from that pile of herbs.
Some were hallucinogenic, some aphrodisiac, some stimulated qi and blood...
All potent medicines.
"I also need a medicine cauldron."
Judging by this Medicine Battle Master's bumpkin-like demeanor, he probably didn't know about pill furnaces either.
Then he'd just have to make one on the spot to make do.
Chen Huaian turned and walked towards a huge bluestone by the riverbank.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
He simply used his hand as a knife, casually sweeping through the air.
Stone shavings flew like falling snow.
The hard granite was like tender tofu in his hands, being peeled away layer by layer.
In just a few breaths.
A stone cauldron with three legs, two handles, and ancient dragon patterns carved on its outer wall took shape. The dragon patterns weren't intricately carved, just a few simple strokes, yet they exuded a majestic, boundless charm, as if they were about to break through the wall the next second.
"Condense."
Chen Huaian sat cross-legged, lightly flicking his fingertip.
Whoosh—
A cluster of golden-red flame leaped out at his fingertip.
The flame wasn't large, only the size of a candle flame.
But the moment this flame appeared, the surrounding air seemed to be instantly sucked dry. A kind of nobility and pressure originating from the soul level abruptly descended.
Not far away, the Flame Battle Master under Bixixi's command, who was in charge of fire, changed expression dramatically.
The "Blazing Demon Lion" Battle Soul within his body was now trembling uncontrollably, letting out fearful whimpers, as if a subject had seen their monarch. It was a submission originating from the depths of its bloodline.
"This... what kind of fire is this?!"
The Flame Battle Master cried out in shock and fear.
Bixixi narrowed her beautiful eyes, staring intently at that cluster of golden-red flame. She could sense that what the flame contained wasn't just high temperature, but also a kind of... nirvanic vitality and world-incinerating destruction.
Just how many trump cards did this white-clothed swordsman have?
Chen Huaian paid no heed to everyone's astonishment.
He crooked a finger and guided.
Those herbs flew like baby swallows returning to the nest, entering the stone cauldron one after another.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
The golden-red Phoenix True Fire instantly enveloped the herbs.
There was no smell of burning.
Only the faint sound of impurities being instantly vaporized and sublimated.
Under the incredulous gazes of everyone, those herbs transformed into clusters of crystal-clear medicinal liquid, tumbling, fusing, and compressing under the roasting of the flame.
Chen Huaian's hand seals flew, fast as afterimages.
With each seal he formed, an arcane power of rules integrated into the cauldron.
It was an alchemy method never before seen in the Canglan Realm.
It belonged to the "Pill Dao" of the cultivation world.
Hum—
The stone cauldron trembled.
An indescribable, extraordinary fragrance began to spread across the riverbank.
The fragrance wasn't strong, yet it was extremely penetrating. With one whiff, one felt their qi and blood grow hot, their heartbeat accelerate, as if the most primitive desires deep within their hearts had been stirred.
Bixixi's pretty face flushed slightly, and she instinctively circulated her battle energy to suppress the restlessness in her heart.
If even humans couldn't withstand this smell, how much more so those World Beasts that acted purely on instinct?
"It's done."
Chen Huaian's eyes suddenly brightened, and he slapped the stone cauldron forcefully.
Bang!
The heavy stone lid shot skyward.
A dazzling, pale golden pillar of light, carrying a pill fragrance so rich it seemed tangible, instantly broke through the canopy's obstruction and shot straight into the clouds.
Chen Huaan reached out and grabbed.
A pill the size of a thumb, crystal clear like red jade all over, with golden pill patterns flowing on its surface, lay quietly in his palm.
The pill was beating slightly, as if alive.
This was because a pill spirit had already been born within the pill.
If he didn't grab it, this pill would truly run away.
Chen Huaian looked at this unique [Celestial-grade Myriad Beasts Pill] in this world, a curve lifting the corner of his mouth—not bad, the old blade hasn't dulled.
He turned to look at Bixixi, who was already dumbstruck, and said calmly,
"Get ready to work."
"This..." Bixixi looked at the pill in Chen Huaian's hand, instinctively feeling this little round ball he had refined wasn't simple. "Didn't you say it was like an incense candle?"
"Incense candles are made into incense candles merely for the convenience of burning, allowing the fragrance to spread longer and stronger." Chen Huaian tossed and played with that Myriad Beasts Pill, saying with a smile, "But this Venerable One's doesn't need that. Just activate the medicinal properties, and the fragrance will waft for ten thousand miles. By then, what comes won't just be a hundred-thousand-year World Beast."