Chapter 179 (1/2)

Chapter 179: Returning Home

Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales

Just as the lid of the crystalline jade box was opened, a refreshing fragrance immediately fluttered, assailing their nostrils and filling the entire hotel’s room. Tang Xiu, Miao Wentang, and Shao Mingzhen’s spirits immediately startled as they felt a comfortable feeling as the pores of their bodies opened.

Inside the jade box, two scarlet-colored concocted pills were lying there. The fluttering rich fragrance was emitting out from these two pills.

“What’s this?”

Miao Wentang looked at Tang Xiu at his side. In his mind, Tang Xiu was too mysterious. He even had an Immortal cultivation technique and sold them a Beast Subduing Secret Art conveniently. So he thought that Tang Xiu was also well-informed about this thing.

But this time, he was actually mistaken!

Tang Xiu himself frowned. He shook his head and said, “I’ve seen myriads of concocted pills. But I can’t identify what kind of pill this is and what effect it has.”

Miao Wentang said with hesitation, “Since we don’t know what kind of pill and its efficacy, how would we dare to take it?”

Shao Mingzhen also nodded and said, “That’s right! From the fragrance of these pills only, I know that it’s extraordinary. But if we don’t know what effect it has and take it rashly, maybe there will be side effects. If it isn’t helpful and instead brings harm to us, what we get won’t be equal to the losses.”

“Give me a knife.” Tang Xiu said.

“Huh? What’s the knife for?” Miao Wentang asked with a puzzled expression.

“I’m going to taste this pill.” Tang Xiu replied.

Taste the medicine?

Miao Wentang stared blankly for a moment before he immediately took a sharp knife.

Tang Xiu’s control over his strength for doing any subtle motoric actions was extremely accurate. He used the tip of the knife to scratch a tiny piece of the pill and tasted it with his tongue. After that, he slowly closed his eyes and silently savored the composition of the ingredients in the concocted pills as well as figured out its efficacy.

“So? What effect does it have?”

Upon seeing that Tang Xiu opened his eyes again, Miao Wentang hurriedly asked.

Tang Xiu let out a forced smile and said, “I took this kind of pill once. It’s called Myriad Bestial Pill. This kind of pill is figuratively composed from ten thousand kinds of blood essence of spirit beasts, added with ten thousand kinds of medicinal herbs and with the time-consuming refinement of nearly a hundred years for it to become an elixir. It has the effect of improving one’s cultivation level and making their cultivation improve greatly. Even though the pills from this jade box are just like comparing the day and night with the Myriad Bestial Pill, but it should still have an excellent effect on your cultivation.”

Ten thousand kinds of spirit beasts’ blood essences?

Ten thousand kinds of medicinal herbs?

And nearly a hundred years of refinement?

Miao Wentang and Shao Mingzhen looked at Tang Xiu with a strange expression. They thought that Tang Xiu was overly supercilious. They had seen people boast, but not to such outrageous degree! They were also cultivators, and they also knew that along with the increase of a cultivators’ cultivation level, so too would their lifespan increase. But for a person who could do alchemy and refine a pill for an entire hundred years, was unheard of.

It was simply an Arabian Night’s tale!

Then, Miao Wentang asked, “This really can increase our cultivation?”

“Yes!” Tang Xiu gave a matter-of-factly answer.

“No side effects at all?” Shao Mingzhen asked.

Tang Xiu hesitated for a moment before he replied slowly, “It maybe has a little side effect for you.”

Shao Mingzhen quickly asked, “What side effect?”

A smile and yet unlike one, was revealed on Tang Xiu’s face as he replied, “Well, with your cultivation level now, if you dare to take it directly, you’ll probably die with your body exploding due to your body being unable to contain the huge energy from this pill.”

“What?” The two were astounded.

At present, their cultivation level had reached a high level. But still, they would have their bodies exploded by merely taking this pill? What efficacy could this pill have to even have such a strong energy?

Miao Wentang swallowed his saliva and asked, “Brother Tang, so, when will it be appropriate for us to take this pill?”

“Wait until your cultivation level improves at least two levels more.” Tang Xiu said.

“This…”

The two men smiled wryly in secret. With their current cultivation realm, wanting to breakthrough to the next stage would be very difficult. It would probably take a few years or even decades. If they wanted to take this pill they had to improve their cultivation at least two levels more; then, wouldn’t they have to wait for only God knows when?

“Anyways, the two of you take one pill each! This pill doesn’t have any uses for me. But I will take the jade box since I can use this thing to store concocted pills later.” Tang Xiu said.

“Is that okay with you?”

Miao Wentang and Shao Mingzhen glanced at each other as a bit of hesitation revealed on their faces.

Tang Xiu said, “I’ll take the ancient sword. This is already a good harvest. Besides, even if I take the concocted pills, I don’t know how long I’ll have to wait to take it.”

The two men thought that Tang Xiu’s words were reasonable. If they had to promote their cultivation base two stages more to take this pill, then, with Tang Xiu’s current cultivation base, it would perhaps take decades for him.

However, this concocted pill was, after all, a treasure! Even if their bodies couldn’t support it and may explode if they took it now, but all in all, wasn’t it still considered as a very valuable medicine?

_“This fellow is really neither selfish or greedy!”_

Miao Wentang and Shao Mingzhen sighed secretly inside. Even if Tang Xiu was younger and around half of their age, but they truly respected him.