293 Pleasant Surprise (2/2)
”Uncle Chu, I want him dead!”
Qi Rui's eyes were burning with hatred, eager to kill.
Normally, in the royal family of the Qi Dynasty, he was used to being looked down upon by his elder siblings. They had royal blood just like him and were the direct descendants of Emperor Qi. They were more talented in martial arts than him, so it was acceptable for them to look down on him.
But this little disciple of the Lightning Sword Sect, someone of lowly inferior blood, also dared to look down on him like that?
He could not take that lying down!
”Fourteenth Prince.”
As compared to Qi Rui's irrational rage, Chu Wei was much calmer as he said, ”You should not have said those words in front of Yu Yucheng just now... by saying that, both he and Zhou Donghuang will be prepared.
”Things like this will alert the enemy to the danger instead,” explained Chu Wei.
”So what if they are prepared? Can Yu Yucheng possibly stick by Zhou Donghuang's side all the time, such that wherever Zhou Donghuang goes, he will also follow?”
Qi Rui laughed with disdain as he said, ”The whole Lightning Sword Sect, including Yu Yucheng, has just two Divine Transformation adepts... even if I threatened Zhou Donghuang in front of Yu Yucheng today, he and the other mid Divine Transformation adept of the Lightning Sword Sect cannot possibly be at Zhou Donghuang's side every single minute to protect him.
”Besides the Divine Transformation adepts, is there anyone else in the Lightning Sword Sect who is your match, Uncle Chu?”
As he spoke, Qi Rui looked at Chu Wei with a confident gaze.
A faint smile appeared on Chu Wei's face. He clearly liked what he had just heard. ”Fourteenth Prince is right, they are just a small sect, I was worried about nothing.
”However, I cannot always hang around the Lightning Sword Sect to wait for Zhou Donghuang to walk into my trap... later, when we get back, we will still need you to talk to Seventh Prince to ask him to order the spy that we have in the Lightning Sword Sect to stalk Zhou Donghuang and provide us information about his movements.”
The Qi Dynasty had spies in each of the sects of the Alliance, who regularly reported information about the various sects to them.
Now, the seventh prince of the Qi Dynasty was in charge of the spies in the various sects of the Alliance. With just an order from him, the spies in the various sects would act accordingly.
”Sure! I will look for Seventh Brother once we get back!”
QI Rui's eyes flashed excitedly as he nodded eagerly. He looked at Chu Wei and said, ”However, as for the act itself, we'll have to trouble you, Uncle Chu.”
”No problem!” Chu Wei agreed without a second thought.
...
After spending half a day hard at work, Zhou Donghuang finally produced the Sky Sun elixir, using the Sky Sun fruit.
”Who would've thought... who would've thought... looks like using the Vermilion Bird Dharma Power as fire to produce the elixir really has some special effect, such that five elixirs were produced!”
Zhou Donghuang had decided not to produce the Sky Sun elixir in one batch, but did it in two attempts.
The first attempt, he had used the inner Yuan from the White Tiger Dharma Power to produce the fire used to make the elixir. He thought that the White Tiger Dharma Power was the first to reach the late Dharma stage, and the inner Yuan in it would surely be the purest and most effective.
Using half a Sky Sun fruit as the main herb, mixed with the other ingredients, he managed to produce a total of two Sky Sun elixirs.
This was not surprising to Zhou Donghuang, as it was exactly what he had expected.
The second attempt, he had used the inner Yuan from the Vermilion Bird Dharma Power to produce the elixir. He had done this because he wanted to test a hypothesis that he had, but even if it failed, he would probably produce at least one elixir.
In this universe, some beasts or life forms that naturally had the element of fire were more capable at producing elixirs than humans.
They were often able to produce more effective elixirs than humans.
Precisely because of this reason, Zhou Donghuang had thought of his Vermilion Bird Dharma Power. As one of the four great mythical beasts, the vermilion bird naturally possessed a special kind of fire. Using the fire produced from its Dharma Power to produce elixirs could possibly have a better effect.
With this idea, Zhou Donghuang had split the Sky Sun fruit into two portions and made two batches of Sky Sun elixir.
Once the result was out, it showed that his hypothesis was right.
Using the fire forged from the inner Yuan of the Vermilion Bird to produce elixirs was more effective than using the fires from the inner Yuan of the other Dharma Powers!
In fact, it was not just slightly better in effectiveness.
Zhou Donghuang had produced a total of five elixirs in the second batch when he used the Vermilion Bird Dharma Power.
As compared to the two elixirs that were produced by the White Tiger Dharma Power, this batch had three more elixirs!
A total of seven elixirs were produced.
This meant that if he had used the Vermilion Bird Dharma Power from the beginning, he could have been able to produce more than ten elixirs in the end!
Of course, all of this was in hindsight, so Zhou Donghuang was not hung up about this wasted opportunity. There was no place for regret.
”I did not think that I would be able to produce seven Sky Sun elixirs, what a pleasant surprise... seven Sky Sun elixirs, the medicinal effect is no less than seven whole Sky Sun fruits!”
As for what to do with the Seven Sky Sun elixirs, Zhou Donghuang already had a plan.
One each for He Mengxi and Da Zhuang. They would not benefit from more, because for medicines like this, the first elixir would be the most effective, but the effect would be much less from the second one and so on and so forth.