Chapter 1369: Chapter 1369: Senior, Save My Life
“The poison of the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ flares up every six months, and each attack feels as if ten thousand ants are devouring the heart, causing unbearable agony.”
Decades ago, those dozens of Innate Experts were forced to consu Zu Hanjiao’s ‘Heart-Eroding Pill.’ Unwilling to let their fates be controlled by her, they secretly took various elixirs in hopes of curing the poison. Yet, their efforts yielded no results whatsoever.
After nurous attempts, the dozens of Innate Experts finally fell into despair, giving up on detoxification and resigning themselves to becoming Zu Hanjiao’s subordinates, obeying her commands and directives.
Zu Hanjiao had once boasted that the poison of her ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ was utterly incurable within the True Martial Realm, and the dozens of Innate Experts had co to believe this deeply.
Thus, when Fang Bai killed Zu Hanjiao, it was tantamount to indirectly stripping those dozens of Innate Experts of their lives. Enraged, they imdiately resolved to fight Fang Bai to the death.
However, Fang Bai’s single statent—”I can cure the poison of the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ plaguing you”—was akin to a clap of thunder, shaking the dozens of Innate Experts to their core. Although difficult to believe, even the slimst thread of hope was sothing they desperately wished to seize.
“If the senior can cure the poison of our ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’, you will beco our benefactor. From this day forth, we are willing to follow your lead and heed your commands. But…”
A white-haired elder, whose cultivation reached the high rank of the Innate Realm, stepped forward from the group, glaring at Fang Bai with eyes bloodshot and bellowing fiercely, “If the senior deceives us, even if it costs our lives, we will fight you to the very end!”
“Heh…”
Fang Bai naturally paid no mind to the white-haired elder’s threats. He smiled faintly and said, “It’s rely the poison of the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill.’ How difficult is it to cure?”
“My Brother Fang here is an incredibly formidable alchemist!”
Li Chenzhou suddenly interjected with this remark.
Upon hearing the term “alchemist,” the eyes of the dozens of Innate Experts lit up, and the faint flicker of hope in their hearts grew stronger.
“Senior is able… able to refine high-grade elixirs?”
The white-haired elder, who had spoken earlier, asked Fang Bai tremulously, his hostility toward Fang Bai significantly diminished and his attitude far more respectful than before.
The other dozens of Innate Experts also fixed their gazes on Fang Bai, their eyes brimming with hope.
Earlier, Fang Bai had effortlessly slain Lei Hong, showcasing his imnse strength. If he were truly an alchemist, his rank must be exceptionally high, providing a glimr that he might indeed be capable of refining an antidote for the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill.’
Li Chenzhou chuckled and said, “High-grade elixirs? re trifles! My Brother Fang is none other than the greatest alchemist under heaven. When he refines pills, they’re exceptional; when he doesn’t, well—oh wait, here, let show you sothing!”
Li Chenzhou retrieved a jade bottle from his Spatial Ring, pouring out a few elixirs onto his palm.
“See this? This bottle of high-grade, superior Fire Yuan Pills was recently refined by Brother Fang himself!”
Li Chenzhou proudly displayed the Fire Yuan Pills to the dozens of Innate Experts.
After devouring the Red Silkworm Spirit Fire at the core of the Eternal Death Zone, Fang Bai’s alchemical abilities had soared. Subsequently, he used fire-attribute spirit dicines obtained from the Eternal Death Zone to refine nurous Fire Yuan Pills.
As Li Chenzhou said, Fang Bai’s pill refinent was unparalleled; not only were the pills high-grade and superior, but they also had a remarkably high success rate. Even the occasional “waste pills” that erged were of considerable grade.
Given Fang Bai’s current level of alchemical expertise, if he possessed Holy Grade Spirit dicines with an age of five thousand years, he could even refine Holy Grade elixirs.
Monts earlier, Fang Bai had swept his Divine Sense over the bodies of the dozens of Innate Experts, confirming the poison they bore from the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ was crafted as a high-grade, superior poison elixir.
The failure to neutralize the elixir’s poison stemd from two factors: the rarity of alchemists capable of refining high-grade, superior elixirs, and the scarcity of spirit dicines suitable for antidote refinent.
Yet, Fang Bai t both conditions.
Within Fang Bai’s Spatial Ring were abundant high-grade spirit dicines, so of which had detoxifying properties that could cure all poisons. Hence, cleansing the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ poison was naturally no great challenge.
“They truly are high-grade, superior elixirs… Truly…”
The white-haired elder stepped up to Li Chenzhou, sensing the Essence Energy fluctuating within the elixirs in his palm with an emotional trembling, his excitent growing.
“Thud!”
Just then, a mid-tier Innate Martial Artist from among the group rushed forward urgently, kneeling before Fang Bai and repeatedly kowtowing, shouting, “I, Yu Wei, swear here and now: if the senior saves my life, I will follow every call to action, whether climbing a mountain of blades or braving an ocean of fire—never hesitating! Should I break this vow, may I be pierced by ten thousand swords and die a wretched death! Please, senior, save my life!”
The mid-tier Innate Martial Artist Yu Wei, clad in a black robe, was slender and appeared to be about sixty years of age. As he spoke, his pupils reddened, his face showed signs of anguish, his features twisted grotesquely, and his voice quivered.
“Yu Wei, is your pill’s poison… starting to flare?”
The white-haired elder glimpsed Yu Wei’s agonized appearance and recognized it as the prelude to the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’s’ flare-up. Thinking of the excruciating, life-destructive pain it brought, he couldn’t help but let out a cold gasp.
Then, recalling his own poison’s flare was closely tid to Yu Wei’s, the white-haired elder shuddered involuntarily.
“It’s… It’s starting to flare…”
Yu Wei gritted his teeth tightly, beads of sweat pouring from his forehead as he desperately resisted the mounting pain, his body trembling like a leaf in the wind.
“Brother Zhao, I need to ask a favor: if I perish, please deliver my Spatial Ring to my wife and children.”
Trembling, Yu Wei removed the Spatial Ring from his finger and handed it over to the white-haired elder.
The white-haired elder and the other dozens of Innate Experts, hearing Yu Wei’s request, knew he was making arrangents in light of potential misfortunes, hoping to avoid suffering for his family in the aftermath of his demise. Their hearts were deeply burdened, feeling a shared sense of sorrow.
After all, when the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ poison flared, without tily antidotes, death followed, accompanied by pain unbearable even to immortals or deities.
To the Innate Experts, refining a batch of elixirs would take at least one to two days, at most ten days to half a month. Even if Fang Bai could refine an antidote for the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill,’ they feared Yu Wei wouldn’t survive long enough to see it, a lantable reality.
Seizing the mont while his mind was still clear, Yu Wei busied himself with arranging his affairs, lest his family suffer due to his untily demise.
“Brother Yu, you’ve entrusted the wrong man!”
The white-haired elder did not take the Spatial Ring Yu Wei handed over but instead remarked bitterly, “Don’t forget, all of us consud the ‘Heart-Eroding Pill’ around the sa ti, and the intervals between its flares are extrely brief. Once you’re gone, I’ll be next.”
Yu Wei’s eyes reddened, large beads of tears pouring forth as he clutched his head and cried out in sorrow, “My death is insignificant, but my wife and children haven’t reached the Innate Realm in their cultivation. They might suffer harm and humiliation in the future…”
After crying for a while, his body abruptly convulsed violently. Clutching his chest, he writhed and rolled across the ground, letting out blood-curdling wails of anguish.
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