272 Return to the Soul Tower (1/2)
It wasn't long before Xue Wei began to concoct pills. He had received a large number of herbs from the deal, particularly all the ones he needed to make many Sky Knight Pills.
The Sky Knight Pill was something he would never consume of course, but others were not as talented; thus they would benefit greatly from this pill.
Since this was the case, Xue Wei expected that each family would have quite a few experts who would be willing to consume the Sky Knight Pill—some of them might not even have bad talent but would be blinded by the tremendous rise in strength.
All of these experts were from Yan Dalu, they had previously been incapable of breaking through to the Knight rank in Qi cultivation, and to suddenly be given the choice of an instant rise to the Sky Knight Rank, it was obvious that they would be willing to take the sudden, but limiting rise in strength as it was just a secondary energy to them.
Xue Wei felt that it was a shame to give up future prospects for a momentary gain but he was not in a position to argue about the decision made by the two families, especially as their current decision suited his interests. They had a pleasant agreement right now, so Xue Wei didn't find it necessary to hold their hands and make decisions for them.
This was also why he was only interested in working with intelligent people—the ones he would not have to guide.
The Sky Knight Pill was not easy to concoct, but it was not overly complicated either. Each batch produced five to eight pills, and these pills were all of the best quality, ready to be given to the Gu and Yuan families.
Xue Wei concocted for a full night; by the time he finished, he had filled many jade bottles with batch after batch of pills.
When dawn broke through, Xue Wei finally stopped his pill-concocting spree and rubbed his eyes. Although he was no longer a normal mortal in need of sleep, he still felt exhausted after producing that many pills.
”Take a rest for now,” Lin Xiao said as he saw the dark circles around Xue Wei's eyes, ”we will find Gu Bing'er and Yuan Bailong when you have rested enough. Even if they are eager to get the pills, they should accept waiting a bit.”
In fact, neither Gu bing'er nor Yuan Bailong has expected that the pills would be ready already. Both of them had expected that it would take Xue Wei at least a few weeks to create enough pills for their entire families—they had forgotten or were just unaware that each concoction of pills produced more than one pill each, making it much quicker to create the pills needed.
When Xue Wei heard Lin Xiao's words, he nodded his head and went to his room. Kicking off his shoes, he did not even remove his outer robes but allowed himself to collapse on the bed. Practically the moment his head landed on the pillow, his eyes were closed, and he had quickly drifted off into a restless, troubled slumber.
Xue Wei started having a strange dream as he slept through the daylight. In the dream, he was standing on a massive battlefield but was all alone as there was no one else alive.
The ground was littered with corpses as far as he could see, both the corpses of humans and beasts alike. Blood was flowing like muddy rivers through the trampled ground, and rain was dripping from the grey skies.
Xue Wei was the only living creature within the dream, and he stood above all others. His body was restless; bloodlust was invading his body, and the roar of a dragon was reverberating through his mind, though not only the roar of a dragon resounded there, there was also the sound of an intimidating and unfamiliar bird screech.
His body was beyond his control; it was constantly changing from his human shape to the azure dragon shape and back to his human form. Sometimes it was as if it was changing to another shape as well—a gigantic bird, but he was unable to make heads nor tails out of this strange shape and even though his body tried to take on this form, it never fully succeeded, as if it was sealed by something.
Xue Wei felt pain within his body. It was as if something was being torn, but he was unable to determine what exactly was going on.
When he finally could no longer bear the pain, his body jolted, and he awoke with a shock. Sweat had beaded on his forehead, and his hand was trembling.
He stroked his chin, unsure of what could have happened to him. Usually, when he slept, he did not dream, but this time he had a strange dream that he could not control and that even shook him to the core.
He exited the room and found Mo Yi going past at the right time, ”please draw a bath for me,” he requested, and Mo Yi quickly nodded his head in acceptance.
It was quite a coincidence that Mo Yi was outside at the exact time that he needed him, but he did not think too much of it.
His clothes were drenched in cold sweat, and his mind was in disarray. He could not help but feel that something was off about the dream he had earlier.
He could understand his transformation to the azure dragon but what was happening with the bird shadow that he had seen?
Frowning, Xue Wei considered all his clues, but there were really too few; he could not determine what was right and what was wrong anymore.
In the end, he sighed and shook his head. He would not forget the dream, but now was not the time to begin pondering the meaning of a dream, he had a lot of things he needed to do so that he could get to the Demon Phoenix continent.
The sleep had not caused him to feel rested as he wished but the warm bath relaxed his taut nerves, and he finally managed to unwind and recover some energy.