Chapter 632 (1/2)
AST 632 – The Limitations of Medicinal Pills, Five Hundred Thousand Silver Per Cup
In the end, Qing Shui received ten Yang Pellets, ten Pure Jade Pellets, and thirty Meridian Clearing Pellets!
Qing Shui was extremely pleased with the medicinal pills on his hands. He also had a undescribable superior feeling and a sense of self-satisfaction for creating these pellets.
He took half of those pellets for himself because he didn’t feel the need to keep most of them, regardless of the success rate for refining the pellets. On that account, Qing Shui decided to leave half of the pellets for Yuan Su instead.
Since he had successfully refined the three types of pellets, he decided to test the effect of each type. Qing Shui didn’t feel like it was necessary to test out the Yang Pellet, but he felt that he must first tryout the Pure Jade Pellet.
Having had the experience of consuming a Five Dragon Pellet before, he wanted to know if the Pure Jade Pellet would be as miraculous as it was claimed to be. He walked towards the side of the pond that he had dug up earlier using his special skill. On the edge of the lake, there were already a few poisonous beings that had grown to a proportionate scale.
Qing Shui reached into the hole and picked up a poisonous scorpion. Then he pricked himself with the scorpion’s tail, allowing himself to be poisoned. However, he wasn’t too worried about his body reacting to the poison adversely, because this was a normal procedure for testing the toxicity of a poisonous substance. For this procedure, it was necessary to prepare beforehand antidotes in the form of medicinal pills or at the very least have someone on standby, just in case of accidents.
And because of these testing procedures, a lot of martial warriors who specialized in using poisons would inevitably die from testing poisons on themselves if they were not careful enough. Qing Shui, on the other hand, had already prepared a plan to get rid of the poison completely by using his current Nature Energy.
After a while his dominant arm of Kung Fu had turned black, and he was beginning to lose his consciousness. Fortunately, his Ancient Strengthening Technique kicked in and began circulating his Qi swiftly to protect the heart area from being tainted. At the same time, the Yin-Yang Image in the sea of consciousness had also begun its circulation in a faster motion. This was surprising as his arm had stopped turning black at a certain point even without any resistance from Qing Shui.
Qing Shui was ecstatic to know that his Ancient Strengthening Technique and Yin-Yang Image had the ability to display such a miraculous feat to get rid of the poison. In the past, he had to use his Nature Energy or consume the Five Dragon Pellet immediately once he had been poisoned.
The poisonous beings in the Stellar Horse lake were still very toxic regardless.
Qing Shui took out a ‘Pure Jade Pellet’ and consumed it!
As soon as the pellet went down his stomach, he immediately felt a sense of coolness in his aura. The cooling effect could also be felt throughout the body in an instant, which dispersed and spread the aura through every meridian in his body.
In that exact moment, Qing Shui could feel a cooling sensation around his arm – his blackened arm had gradually recovered its original color.
Even after the poison was removed completely, he could still feel the pleasant cooling sensation inside his body. Qing Shui decided to test out the toxicity of another poison and went to grab a poisonous jellyfish from the lake.
After he attempted to poison himself with the poisonous jellyfish, he noticed that the poison could not enter his body……
Qing Shui could affirm that it was due to the cooling aura in his body that the poison was completely restrained and could not penetrate into his body.
After half an hour later, the cooling sensation had finally faded away slowly. Despite that, Qing Shui felt as if something about his body had changed. He thought that he probably had gained a higher level of resistance to the poison, but whether the resistance level could be increased further by consuming a few more ‘Pure Jade Pellets’ was still unknown.
All in all, Qing Shui was satisfied with the ‘Pure Jade Pellet’, but he was still skeptical whether his body could resist any kind of poison within the 30 minute timeframe after consuming a ‘Pure Jade Pellet’. Even though it was just for a brief moment, he was able to feel the high resistance level of the cooling aura inside his body against the potent toxicity of the poisons.
After he was done, he then proceeded to analyze the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’.
Although the success rate of refining the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellets’ was quite low, the amount yielded in the end was the most of the three types of pellets. He had succeeded in refining the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellets’ ten times, producing three pellets each time. The other two types could only yield one pellet at a time, so Qing Shui had 30 ‘Meridian Clearing Pellets’ but only 10 each of the other two types.
He took one of the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellets’ and consumed it before he started to focus on feeling the effects of the pellet and the changes associated with the effects. Gradually, the ‘Meridians Cleaning Pellet’ had turned into a stream of milky white Qi, which seemed vast due to the high density of the Qi.
The milky white Qi then streamed along the meridians by going through the main meridians first. Qing Shui felt comfortable with the Qi along his meridians as he felt the Qi going through some of the smaller meridians that were still blocked. Surprisingly, the milky white Qi seemed to have an ability that unblocked these smaller meridians as if it slowly melted the blockages clogging the meridian pathways. After a while, the smaller meridians in one point were all cleared, and the effects of the pellet gradually dissipated.
In an instant, Qing Shui’s smaller meridians that had been cleared quickly filled with the Ancient Strengthening Technique that could increase the energy and the strength of his body by a slight amount. Despite the slight boost, Qing Shui could still feel the change in his body quite clearly. He then focused on the smaller meridians on the other parts of his body and thought that he could gain a decent amount of strength if he could unclog them as well.
He also thought about Canghai Mingyue, who already had her meridians completely unblocked, and how her speed of cultivation had reached a terrifying level. Qing Shui was nevertheless unfazed because Canghai Mingyue was a true prodigy, whereas he had become one due to the aid of his ungodly treasures. Otherwise he would never have made it this far. To put it bluntly, he would have still remained a useless cripple if it hadn’t been for those treasures.
Qing Shui decided to consume one more ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’ to see if the other smaller meridians would be unblocked. However, as soon as the milky white Qi was released from the pellet, it didn’t move anywhere and stayed still inside his body. Qing Shui tried to move the Qi around but it was futile. He also tried many other ways to move the Qi, but they were all fruitless. In the end, he had no choice but to give up and stop consuming another Meridians Clearing Pellet for the time being.
After he had some food, Qing Shui began cultivating his Combination Sword Technique. Over Qing Shui’s time in the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal, his Combination Sword Technique had improved by a decent amount. He had also become adept in the Three Move Combination Sword Technique due to his strong understanding of the basic skill of the technique. Much like a building, additional levels could be added in the future with a more solid structure if the foundation of the first level was built precisely and sturdily.
However, the Four Moves Combination Sword Technique was ten times harder to master than the previous Three Moves Combination Sword Technique. Qing Shui had a hunch that he would not be able to master the Four Moves Combination Sword Technique successfully in such a short period of time.
He continued to immerse himself in the training diligently. Inspiration with a bit of willpower and opportunity would eventually lead to success!
After a day had passed in the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal, Qing Shui noticed that the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’ he had consumed the second time had begun its circulation inside his body and cleared another point of smaller meridians.
Qing Shui took another ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’ and found that it was storing inside his body again. It was the same thing that happened a day before. After that, he finally realized that the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’ could only be consumed once per day, and he could only stop consuming the pellet until all the meridians in his body had been cleared completely.
There was a limited time for the full absorption of the pellet, which means the pellet would only be consumed after a period of intermittence. Nevertheless, Qing Shui was still satisfied with it.
Qing Shui still had a lot of remaining medical herbs that he had received from Yuan Su the other day, so he decided to consume one ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’ a day in the Realm of Violet Jade Immortal, and then refine some more in his spare time. For the remaining hours, he would continue his cultivation.
This period of time was full of progression yet uninteresting, and it passed by quickly. He had about a hundred of the ‘Meridians Clearing Pellet’ in his hands, and he had already eaten about thirty pellets during his time in the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal.
This meant that he had cleared a total of thirty points of the smaller meridians inside his body. It wasn’t a small amount when he thought about it, because only about a hundred pellets were needed in order to clear every meridians in his body. Soon all the meridians inside his body would be cleared, just like Canghai Mingyue.
The thirty points that had been cleared had also increased his strength by almost the strength of one country, which was still a considerable amount. Qing Shui also did not use the crystals produced by the Crystal Lion to strengthen his refinement of the medicinal pills. Although he had accumulated a large amount of these crystals, he felt that it wasn’t the time to use them yet. After all, these crystals were all too valuable and precious. He planned to use them when he was able to acquire a better medicinal pill or poison recipe for refinement.
However, Qing Shui was saddened that the ‘Great Revitalizing Pellet’ had a costly limitation. The pill could lead to a temporary increase of his strength by one fold, but at the cost of weakening the effect by one month.