
Just before the spiritual senses re-entered Mu Lian's body, the cauldron stopped shaking. Mu Lian was stunned, her spiritual energy was already at its lowest level so it had to be rested before it could be reused.
Mu Lian looked at the cauldron that started to drift down fixedly. The pill fire in his right hand began to dim as the cauldron descended.
"Aren't you curious about the results?" said Mu Haocun smiling amusedly.
"Ah, fine. I'll open it," Mu Lian said as she nervously opened the cauldron lid.
The fragrance of the firefly entered into Mu Lian's nose when the cauldron was opened and at the bottom of the cauldron were four green pills that were extremely turbid.
Mu Lian took the pill and showed it to Mu Haocun. The color looked very unconvincing to Mu Lian.
"Is this a life pill? Did I fail?" said Mu Lian.
"It's really a life pill. Congratulations on your success, Lian'er, " Mu Haocun said as he rubbed Mu Lian's head.
"REally?!" said Mu Lian.
He could not believe that he could finally make a life pill as well. After a month of training his spiritual energy, Mu Lian felt lucky for successfully making a life pill in one try.
And it was indeed not wrong for Mu Lian to feel so. Because a new apprentice Alchemy expert would successfully concoct a pill after ten tries. Or there are also those who after months of practice.
But since the first time he met, Mu Haocun had never doubted Mu Lian's ability in Alchemy.
That time indeed Mu Lian's dantian did not feel at all but to Mu Haocun, Mu Lian's spiritual energy felt so pure that anyone near Mu Lian felt comfortable.
Mu Haocun guided Mu Lian to sit on the edge of the bed as her face looked pale. He took the cauldron and the life pill from Mu Lian's hands.
"rest. We'll take a holiday tomorrow. Grandfather also had to harvest the mature Siwang Mogu," Mu Haocun said.
"really? Then please explain again in more detail the task that grandfather gave me," Mu Lian said.
"The explanation can wait. Now you rest first. After all, we will not directly conduct experiments on Siwang Mogu. There are some things that grandfather must do first," Mu Haocun said.
"Alright," said Mu Lian finally lying down and closed her eyes.
Although he felt very excited to hear that Siwang Mogu would soon be harvested, but his body was so tired that it was unconscious, Mu Lian closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Mu Haocun smiled looking at Mu Lian then turned his gaze towards the life pill that Mu Lian had made.
Its cloudy green color signifies its low quality. Even so Mu Haocun felt that the structure of the pill was very dense and its shape looked perfect.
Mu Haocun took the pill and felt that the quality of the pill was close to medium quality.
The color did show low quality but in terms of the quality of the ingredients, the pill was half a step away from being of medium quality.
Mu Haocun felt the entire ingredients mixed well and the pill flame controlled very well causing the ingredients to have good maturity.
The catalyst material managed to bring out the effectiveness of Danggui and Si Cao even made its effectiveness at a higher level.
Mu Haocun approached his desk and retrieved a porcelain bottle from the drawer. All three of Mu Lian's artificial life pills were put into the porcelain bottle.
Mu Haocun made sure the bottle was tightly sealed and kept the bottle like the most precious treasure.
He smiled and looked forward to Mu Lian's pills. Mu Haocun would make sure to keep all of Mu Lian's pills in good stead.
...
That morning Mu Lian woke up with aches all over her body. He got up from the bed then stretched for fifteen minutes.
After feeling his body better, Mu Lian directly descended into the grounds and looked for Ling Zizhou.
"Congratulations on your success in making pills, Lian'er," Han Tengfei said .
The black-clothed Han Tengfei was in stark contrast to the snow that lay around the grounds a few inches from the reception hall, where the dining table was placed. Han Tengfei sat down gracefully waiting in front of the dining table.
Mu Lian enjoyed the sight before her while praising Xiaoxiao's cleverness in choosing a partner. Senior Han is very handsome and has no reproach, if only he had talked more, Mu Lian thought.
"Where do seniors know?" mu Lian said curiously.
Originally Mu Lian had wanted to show her homemade pills to Liang Zizhou and Han Tengfei but after searching in the entirety of Mu Haocun's room, the pills could not be found anywhere.
"So the old man showed off your pill and said he wouldn't give it to anyone!" ling Zizhou said furiously while putting some side dishes on the table.
Mu Lian patted her forehead. It was only fitting that he could not find the pill, it turned out that his pill had already been claimed by Mu Haocun as his.
Seeing Ling Zizhou had finished cooking and putting the dishes on the table, Mu Lian decided to sit down.
Ling Zizhou handed out a clean bowl to Mu Lian and Han Tengfei then distributed the rice.
Mu Lian looked at Ling Zizhou putting rice into Han Tengfei's bowl. Although Ling Zizhou was angry when Han Tengfei said that his rice was lacking, Ling Zizhou still added a few spoons of rice into Han Tengfei's bowl.
It seemed like the relationship of the two grew even tighter after spending time together. Ling Zizhou said, Every day he trains with Han Tengfei. But Mu Lian did not know exactly what their training was like.
Every time he returned to training, Ling Zizhou was always full of dirt and wounds. When his wounds healed. There must be another wound.
Originally Mu lian was about to tell them not to over-train, but seeing Master Yi and Mu Haocun saying nothing, Mu Lian so did not say anything.
Mu Lian could only help make dyes and concoction tea to support the training of Ling Zizhou and Han Tengfei.
"Add more," Han Tengfei said.
"You eat like a b*bi. Fortunately I cooked more, otherwise Lian'er wouldn't have parted," Ling Zizhou said as he gave Han Tengfei what he wanted.
Mu Lian coughed due to choking on the rice. Somehow it seemed like Ling Zizhou was still the same as the first meet. His mouth still says rude things.
...
[In the area of Siwang Mogu cultivation]
Within the forest, several kilometers from where Mu Lian hid the four Mu Haocun disciples, a sea of carcasses of various sizes was scattered.
Black smoke billowed around the pile of carcasses. Seemed a dozen *Egui floated where the black smoke was the thickest. Some smoke plumes are still in the process of forming Egui.
The area originally had trees growing close to each other. Now, it turned bald because the trees were cut.
This is done to increase visibility. In addition, in order to be able to keep an eye on Egui so that no one is missed in the extermination process.
If there are some Egui who managed to escape and enter the residential area, there will be many casualties.
"Krieee!"
An Egui with a loud voice roared as it realized the arrival of Mu Haocun, Meng Zhi, Master Yi and Chu Minishen.
The carcasses absorb water from the snow but do not decompose because the temperature is below zero degrees Celsius.
Causing the carcasses in a preserved state. And make the death energy easily collect.
Thin layers of ice flowers spread across the body of the carcass resembling roots. Right at the top, it looks like a block of ice in which grows a bunch of blackish-colored mushrooms.
Siwang Mogu, a mushroom that gets its nutrients from the energy of death. So when coated with ice, Siwang Mogu still thrives as usual.
It is different with plants in general. When the plants were covered in ice, they fell asleep. All growth and photosynthetic activities stop until the ice sheet melts in the spring.
Mu Haocun boldly approached Egui while holding a paper spell. Meng Zhi, Master Yi and Chu Minishen followed behind.
The three of them seemed to be preparing with their respective weapons. Their weapons tread differently than usual.
On the surface of the jian and qiang they are coated with characters that have a protective function.
Egui cannot be physically attacked, so if it does not have enough spiritual energy, usually this method is used as one of protection.
Or it could also use a shield made with their respective spiritual energy. Wrong, they had to protect Mu Haocun who was activating the spell to eradicate Egui.
When Mu Haocun activated the incantation, he would exhaust such a huge amount of spiritual energy that it could not protect him. Meanwhile, Egui who is affected by the spell will be aggressive and try to hurt the spell holder.
This was the role of Meng Zhi, Master Yi, and Chu Minishen. They were in charge of protecting themselves and preventing Egui from harming Mu Haocun during the extermination process.
Mu Haocun activated the incantation paper. The paper on its surface was packed with brightly shining characters and then started to burn.
The spell used to exterminate Egui is one of the longest spells in the world so one needs the help of spell paper to use the spell.
"Kriee!"
Egui went berserk and attempted to attack Mu Haocun but was repulsed by Master Yi who suddenly appeared in front of Mu Haocun.
Meng Zhi and Chu Minishen positioned themselves to the left and right of Mu Haocun so that Mu Haocun stood in the middle of the three.
"Kriee!"
The eleven Egui tails heard their friend roar and came to attack Mu Haocun when they felt the extermination spell sweep over their bodies.
Egui's body was formed from a solidified death energy. Egui is very dangerous because his consciousness is formed from very strong feelings.
Feelings that are so strong that they have their own awareness of hate, anger and resentment.
Usually, a living creature that dies with a terrible or does not accept himself dies who has such feelings.
Therefore, the bodies of victims of war can be used for the cultivation of Siwang Mogu.
This was done when the time of the great war occurred several hundred years ago. It is believed Siwang Mogu is used as a treatment in patients who have sleeping sickness.
The patient had been fighting for months on the battlefield without rest. Unknowingly, the death energy that was gradually absorbed into the body accumulated causing the qigong deviation.
Every time the patient tries to sleep, nightmares that are as dangerous as reality come. When the patient is injured in a dream, his soul will be injured.A patient with end-stage symptoms will die in sleep.
Siwang Mogu is added as one of the ingredients in making pills that can help the process of detox energy death. The death energy coming out of the patient's body was purified with the help of the array.
"Today even these parasites are no less numerous than yesterday the day after," Chu Minishen said as he swung his qi firmly.
"I became more and more convinced to use this spell on myself whenever my bad feelings came," Meng Zhi said.
Hatred, anger and resentment are bad feelings that damage the soul of a man.
Usually a person chants prayers to purify his heart. It is often found in a monk on Earth.
"Kriee!"
An Egui bounced off after being struck by Master Yi. His translucent body began to flicker as it ran out of power.
After ten minutes have passed, the spell begins to work in eliminating the collection of bad feelings. Some Egui are unable to maintain their body shape anymore.
They turned back into a wisp of black smoke that floated in the air. Some Egui could still attack but his attack was not as strong as the first one.
"It seems that this wave is done," Chu Minishen said as he struck with the origin of an Egui who was still stubborn even though his attack felt like a wind past.
"We must remain vigilant, Master Chu," said Master Yi finally speaking as well.
"Kr, that,"
The last Egui returned into a wisp of smoke along with the endless burning of incantation paper that Mu Haocun was holding.
"Alright let's take a break first," Mu Haocun said as he stretched his hands together.
Meng Zhi, Master Yi and Chu Minishen agreed to Mu Haocun's idea. The four entered into the area with trees close to each other.
The four sat under one of the trees and planned to harvest Siwang Mogu after eradicating a group of third wave Egui at sunset.
Since the Siwang Mogu shoots grow, in a day, they must eradicate about four Egui waves. Precisely every 4 hours in a period of 24 hours.
It was different when the first time the death energy accumulated. In a day, Egui only appears twice or in certain days only appears once.
Mu Haocun always took the time to go home to guide Mu Lian at night. Whereas if Mu Lian knew that every midnight Mu Haocun had to eradicate Egui, surely Mu Lian would not trouble Mu Haocun.
"Look, Yi, Zhizhi, this is Lian'er's artificial life pill. But I won't share it with you if you get hurt later. After all this is a life pill, so it will not be able to purify the wounds of Egui," Mu Haocun said.
Master Yi shook his head, whereas Meng Zhi could only smile amusedly seeing his best friend continue to flaunt Mu Lian's pill-making.
It had been three times that the two of them had heard Mu Haocun boast of Mu Lian's artificial pill. But at the end of the sentence, Mu Haocun always said he would not hand out the pills to them.
So, what is it discussed for?! If indeed the pill would be stored by Mu Haocun, why did he continue to discuss Mu Lian's pill to make the two curious?
Unlike the case with Master Yi and Meng Zhi, Chu Minishen simply nodded and agreed on every compliment Mu Haocun gave Mu Lian.
When Mu Haocun said the pills would not be distributed, Chu Minishen did not dare to think of possessing them, as the pills were definitely of high quality to *professionals like Mu Haocun kept the pills well.
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Note:
*In the previous chapter unknowingly author using the word preta. Starting this chapter the author will use Egui.
*In the previous chapter, Mu Haocun was a grandmaster of the field of Alchemy. But considering that Mu Haocun was one of the best ALchemists and someone who managed to reach the top of the ALchemy field, the author decided to switch his level to professional. The highest level this world has ever had.