Chapter 143 - Connate Elixir (2/2)

“I need the herbs written on it urgently. Gather them and send them over as soon as you can,” Zhou Donghuang said.

“Yes, Master.”

As he respectfully acknowledged the words, Su Mo glanced discreetly at the long list of herbs written on the paper. Just that glance was enough to give him a shock.

“Master, you are intending to formulate the Connate elixir?”

As the Valley Master of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Su Mo was not only accomplished in the martial way, his knowledge and abilities in medicine were also considerable.

Su Mo was a genuine earth-level medicine master.

As such, Su Mo was able to formulate a qi-gathering elixir that increased the sense of qi by two hundred percent, double the qi-gathering elixir that the superior-level medicine master of the imperial court of Yunyang could formulate.

The importance of Connate elixir to a Connate-stage adept was the same as the importance of qi-gathering elixir to a Qi-gathering stage adept.

Of course, even the best qi-gathering elixir was almost useless to a Connate-stage adept, because qi-gathering elixir was a medicine used only by qi-gathering stage adepts to aid their practice.

After attaining the Connate stage, the method of practice would change since the sense of qi would be almost at its maximum limit and would not increase no matter how much qi-gathering elixir one used.

“Mm.”

Zhou Donghuang nodded. “I have just attained the Connate stage, and I don’t have any Connate elixir yet, so I am preparing to brew some.”

“Master, if these are all the herbs you need to brew Connate elixir, I fear that your Connate elixir will not be right.”

Su Mo looked again at the herbs written on the paper in his hand with a slight frown.

“There’s nothing wrong with it,” Zhou Donghuang replied casually.

“Master, quite a few of the herbs you have written here have conflicting medicinal properties, and I fear that rashly pairing them together in the same formulation will cause great harm to the body.”

Su Mo’s frown deepened.

“As the Valley Master of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, don’t you know that for herbs with conflicting medicinal properties, you only need to control their balance and not only will they not harm the body, they will even produce outstanding results?” said Zhou Donghuang, giving Su Mo a sweeping glance.

Shocked at what Zhou Donghuang said, Su Mo was unable to stop himself from exhaling a breath of cold air. “Master, you… you mean that you can control their balance?”

From what he knew, controlling the balance of even just two herbs with conflicting medicinal properties, never mind balancing many herbs with conflicting medicinal properties, was something that only heaven-level medicine masters were able to do.

“Mm.” Zhou Donghuang replied once more, then said somewhat impatiently, “That’s all. You can go. Prepare these herbs for me as soon as you can. I need them urgently.”

Since attaining the Connate stage, Zhou Donghuang had been wanting to formulate Connate elixir to aid his practice.

In the country of Yunyang it was very difficult to gather all the herbs required to formulate Connate elixir; therefore, he had delayed it till now.

The reason for coming to the Valley of the Medicine Masters was that the Valley of the Medicine Masters could provide him with the herbs to formulate Connate elixir, while at the same time he could better understand the circumstances of the planet of Ziyun.

In his previous life, although he had returned to Ziyun after attaining the Primal Core stage and leaving Earth, he had not visited anywhere else, and had returned directly to the country of Yunyang.

He knew only that the country of Yunyang was one of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, and that the area surrounding the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley was the territory of a sect called the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

He knew absolutely nothing else about the circumstances of the planet of Ziyun.

“At once.”

Seeing that the youth had begun to grow impatient, Su Mo hurriedly retreated, although he was still shocked.

“If he can really control the balance of several kinds of herbs with conflicting medicinal properties, the Connate elixir that he can formulate can yield a ratio of up to three hundred percent of additional remaining qi.

In any case, although the sense of qi of Connate-stage adepts had reached its limit and they could absorb the spirit energy, the efficiency of transforming their qi was less than ten percent.

But by consuming Connate elixir, the effectiveness of preserving qi could be increased from the original of less than ten percent to a hundred percent or more, even up to two hundred percent.

As for Su Mo, as an earth-level medicine master, the Connate elixir that he formulated could preserve an additional sixteen percent of qi.

This was already an extremely high preservation rate.

…

After Su Mo left, Zhou Donghuang returned to the wooden house and prepared to practice.

The furnishings in the wooden house had obviously been cleaned not long before, and there was only a small amount of insignificant dust.

Sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, Zhou Donghuang muttered to himself, “Relying only on the Lord of the Four Supremes to practice, only fifty percent of the qi converted from spirit energy can be preserved…

“But once I formulate that Connate elixir, I can increase the preservation of qi by an additional forty percent, which will allow the preservation of qi to increase to more than ninety percent when I practice!”

There was a look of longing in Zhou Donghuang’s eyes at this thought.

“However, I did not expect that the Connate-stage portion of the Lord of the Four Supremes would be so potent that I could preserve fifty percent of qi.”

“The Thousand Star Sword Technique, the Fiery Thunder Training Regimen, the Manual of Unruffled Sage, and the other top techniques in the universe can only preserve forty percent of qi at the Connate stage.”

“As for techniques that are able to preserve fifty percent of qi at the Connate stage, I had heard of them in my previous life… but those methods usually exist only in legends.”

“I never imagined that I would be able to find just such a legendary technique in the Kunlun Mountains on Earth.”