The Desire to Be Eternal

Chapter 104: I Guarantee ….

Bai Xiaochun walked back to his eternal cave, where he sat irritated with melancholy.

Finally, he sighed. “It's not a good thing for someone to be too prominent.I'm a perfect example. The sect leadership was so worried about how extraordinary I was that they freed me from doing missions for ten years, but would still send me achievement points every month. " He sat there, had a little fun being able to worry about things like this, and wondered what he should have done given that he was so amazing ….

"Ah, I don't think that's a problem. Since I can't go on a mission, I might as well concoct medicine. After all, the reason I did a mission in the first place was to earn merit points. ” With such thoughts in mind, Bai Xiaochun resigned to sacrifice his own gains for the advancement of the sect, and walked into the work place concocting medicines.

"I must master all methods of concocting 3rd level spirit medicines!" With that, his expression turned grim.

Time pass. Semiannual.

In addition to cultivating the routine, he spent all his time concocting medicines. When he lacked materials, he cashed in achievement points. As time went on, he became more frenetic, seemingly unwilling to slow down until he mastered everything related to tier-3 spirit medicines.

Since he did not undertake the mission, the sect slowly returned to normal. Many people heaved a sigh of relief, especially Sect Leader Zheng Yuandong, who could finally feel at ease inwardly. At this moment, he was convinced that freeing Bai Xiaochun from mission duty was the right thing to do.

He's not the only one. Li Qinghou, as well as the other rulers and the top elders of the southern bank, all felt much more comfortable. In fact, at one of the usual southern bank board meetings, the founders of the Foundation Establishment happened to raise the issue.

“Bai Xiaochun has been focusing on concocting medicine lately. The sect has really calmed down. "

“You medicine is a good thing. Ask him to keep practicing. After all, it was the safest option. With him focused on it, he would not cause any trouble for the people outside. " The whole group were all smiling; the last half year of peace and tranquility made them all sigh with joy.

However, just a few days after their meeting, a huge explosion echoed in Fragrant Cloud Peak. It came from the direction of Bai Xiaochun's immortal cave, and caused everything in the area to tremble violently. Many of the Inner Sect disciples were greatly shocked, and the Outer Sect disciples were left trembling in fear.

"What just happened?!?!"

"Paradise! Can the Spirit Stream Sect be attacked!?!? ”

As everyone turned to the commotion, Bai Xiaochun came out from his workplace concocting medicine, coughing, his face stained with ashes, nose flowing and tears streaming down his face. He quickly bathed in the hot spring, and then frowned.

"Why did it explode?" he thinks. The pill furnaces provided for the disciples of the Inner Sect were all standard matters, exactly the same as those in the Medicine Making Pavilion. In general, even if spirit medicines were made incorrectly, they would not explode. [1. In the previous few chapters I misinterpreted some of the drugs exploding as the furnace exploded. I've come back and changed those parts. Up to this point, there should be no blast furnace in AWE]

But that's what just happened. It had even activated the defensive spell formation of the cave.

After pondering over the matter at length, he could not give an explanation. Sighing, he re-cultivated the Mammoth Dragon Shaping Holy Scriptures for several days. At this point, his cultivation was only a short distance away from a breakthrough.

However, he was in no hurry. After completing his cultivation, he consumed some spirit medicines to replenish his vital energy, then began to work on the Eternal Life Technique. The silver light rising from his skin was now so dark that it was bordering on gold.

That afternoon, Bai Xiaochun proceeded to his next task. Standing there in his immortal cave, he slowly raised his hand into the air as he practiced the mnemonic of the Waterswamp Kingdom. After enough time had passed to burn half an incense stick, he opened his eyes and let out a powerful cry.

A powerful energy burst out from within him, causing everything around him to suddenly change. A field of water vapor appeared, which only lasted once before disappearing.

Bai Xiaochun slumped in place, wiping the sweat from his brows. Despite training Waterswamp Kingdom every day since he had obtained it, that was all he could achieve.

"I have to keep working harder!" he thinks. After resting for a moment, he ended his daily cultivation routine and once again pondered the matter of the exploding pill furnace. During the past half a year of practice, he had succeeded with some tier 3 spirit medicines, but for the most part, his efforts had ended in failure.

He sat there in frustration for quite some time before finally coming up with a theory.

"Perhaps after the power of the medicine increases to a certain point, it becomes unstable, which causes an explosion?" Soon after, he rushed out and exchanged some merit points for another pill furnace, then went back to concocting.

Gradually, word spread that the previous explosion had come from Bai Xiaochun's immortal cave. Strange expressions appeared on the faces of the disciples. Although they did not know for sure what caused the explosion, at least they now knew Bai Xiaochun was the cause.

Later then…. A few days later, Bai Xiaochun was there at his concocting medicine work station, fully and completely focused on controlling the spirit medicine within the pill furnace. Unfortunately, tier 3 spirit medicines were extremely difficult to work with. Most others, with enough experience and luck, would succeed three out of ten and consider it a high success rate. But Bai Xiaochun wanted everything to be perfect. He will not rest until he has solved every problem. Since he wanted even the smallest details to be perfect, it meant that he would have to test all those details a few times before finally solving every single problem.

This time, his eyes widened when he realized that he had lost control of the spirit medicine. Then the pill furnace started to emit cracking sounds. Bai Xiaochun flinched, and two wings suddenly appeared behind him as he dashed out of the medicinal herb workshop.

Fragrant Cloud Peak was once again thrown into the fray for some time before everyone managed to calm down. Three days later, Bai Xiaochun ran screaming out of the work station concocting his medicine, and a third shocking explosion tore through the air.

After seven days, he appeared again, confused, fleeing at high speed when the fourth deafening explosion nearly destroyed the work station concocting medicine.

Fragrant Cloud Peak was in total chaos, and the eyes of countless disciples were completely red. After the questions were made, people learned that Bai Xiaochun was concocting medicine. However, no one knew exactly why a huge explosion would occur.

"i asked Spirit Medicine Pharmacy, and they said that she had just bought eight pill furnaces!"

“That sound must have been a pill furnace that exploded. What was Bai Xiaochun concocting? Goddamnit! Wasn't he worried about blowing himself up !? ” Anger is building, but the explosion. They continue.

Over the next month, seven explosions shook Bai Xiaochun's immortal cave, each more intense than the last. The final explosion actually caused all of Fragrant Cloud Peak to tremble, and Bai Xiaochun's entire immortal cave was nearly destroyed.

As Bai Xiaochun fled outside, trembling in fear, the outer and Inner Sect disciples of Fragrant Cloud Peak were driven into madness. Over the past month, none of them had been able to safely focus on cultivation practice. Constantly being startled by the explosion had made them restless in fear. Now, they were completely distracted, their eyes red as they struggled to control their anger.

Apparently, even the sound-damping spell formation was unable to stop the sound of the explosion. The anger of the disciples grew, and even the elders were shocked and hard to believe what Bai Xiaochun was doing.

"What did Bai Xiaochun concoct caused the pill furnace to explode like that? What .... what medicine is he working on ?! ”

Things don't end. Over the next month, the frequency of explosions increased. More than a dozen occur, almost every day. Finally, the Fragrant Cloud Peak disciples could not stand it anymore, and charged into Bai Xiaochun's immortal cave en masse to vent their anger.

Feeling extremely aggrieved, Bai Xiaochun rushed out to give an explanation. When he saw the horde of over a thousand disciples, his face paled slightly, and he was finally forced to slap his chest and make sure that there would be no more explosions. That was when the crowd started to calm down.

After seeing everyone leave, Bai Xiaochun returned to his immortal cave, pouting the entire time. Looking towards his mostly destroyed medicinal herb workstation, he sighed, took out another pill furnace, and looked at him with a blank look.

A few days later, he slapped his thigh, and his eyes began to shine.

"Good! This must be because I didn't heat the pill furnace properly! " Excited, he began to concoct again…. Three days later, in the middle of the night, everyone at Fragrant Cloud Peak.

An Inner Sect disciple was so frightened that he almost fainted. Her hair was messy, she shouted, “Bai Xiaochun !! I don't care if you're chosen, I'll beat you black and blue! "

He's not the only one. Immediately, all the Inner Sect disciples had emerged from their immortal cave, even the exhausted Zhou Xinqi. Bai Xiaochun rushed out, smiling apologetically as he guaranteed that it would not happen again. The disciples gathered a little quiet in response. They could not find fault with his attitude, and therefore, had no other recourse. If he was even a little challenging, they would definitely give him a crushing blow. But right now .. they could only grit their teeth and accept his promise.

Tired, Bai Xiaochun returned to his eternal cave, wanting to cry but finding no tears. He came to find that it was a difficult thing to pursue his dream.

"I'm not the type to give up!" he thinks. Gritting his teeth, he produced another pill furnace, which he studied for half a month in a row. Finally, after analyzing all aspects of the situation, he was sure to have identified the problem.

"Earthlinen. This is definitely an earthflame! " Red eyes, he once again began to compose …. Five days later at dawn, explosions could be heard that were so loud that it shocked Li Qinghou, and could even be heard on Violet Cauldron Peak and Green Crest Peak.

The Inner Sect disciples who lived near the immortal cave of Bai Xiaochun were astonished, especially Zhou Xinqi. They all feel like crazy people. The birds of Elder Zhou let out high-pitched screams, and were so frightened that their feathers fell down. The spirit-tailed chicken trembled and frothed in the mouth, and many Inner Sect disciples struggled to stay sober ….

All of the spell formations in Bai Xiaochun's cave were activated the moment the earthflame erupted, and even the grand Fragrant Cloud Peak spell formation was affected. When Bai Xiaochun crawled out of the rubble, he was pitch-black, yet clearly excited. He was now convinced that he had finally found the source of his problem.

"It's not an earthflame, it's a technique of adding and pressing each other! They cause unexpected variables. Tier-3 spirit medicine .. should be made by adding and pressing each other! "

Everyone on Fragrant Cloud Peak, from the elders to the Outer Sect disciples, rushed towards Bai Xiaochun's cave, furious, a stone in hand to throw it if necessary. When faced with such a furious horde, Bai Xiaochun fiercely slapped his chest.

"I guarantee–" However, before he could finish, the crowd started throwing their stones. After all, fighting magic against fellow sect members was forbidden, but throwing stones was not….

"Guarantee your ass!" Countless stones were closed, driven by burning fury.