Night of the Broken Gliph

Chapter 571:

Currently, the room was filled with the best of the best in medicine and alchemy, each one a luminary in their domain. It would not be exaggerated to call them the world’s best medical team if Mo-Yung Yin and Ping Chi were present.

With their cultivation states, it was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

“Longevity vines!” All of a sudden, Chui Yim smacked the table and stood up. “The longevity vines are the key!”

The group glanced at each other, not knowing what Chui Yim was up to.

“Brother Chui, did you think of something?” Ping Ching probed.

Chui Yim nodded. He finally realised that he had neglected the longevity vines. “Wai Chung Yin talked to me about the longevity vines right before I entered the waterfall. He said that they were the only plants that could survive around the waterfall when other living things failed to withstand the energy of the Heavenly Silver Waterfall formed from an ancient beast’s blood and essence.”

Everyone present then remembered how deserted the mountain was around the waterfall. There were only ordinary-looking vines that grew nearby, just like any normal weed.

“Wai Chung Yin mentioned that, as time passed, not only could the vines withstand the waterfall’s energy… they even grew to be resistant.

“These are longevity vines!” Chui Yim picked up a dry-looking seaweed. “Because it’s resistant to the Heavenly Silver Waterfall, it managed to survive instead of dying under the strong energy. This vine can survive the waterfall’s energy because it’s resistant, and in fact, it now survives by feeding only on the energy of the waterfall!”

“Thus, this vine that’s used as the main ingredient of the Blood Purification Pill can also be used to store the blood poison of the waterfall!” Ping Ching continued after understanding where Chui Yim was coming from.

Chui Yim nodded in excitement. “Wai Chung Yin spoke about the longevity vines as if they were precious items of his, he must know them like the back of his hand!”

“I agree.” Ping Ching flashed him a beautiful smile. “Just as in pharmacology, everything has a relationship of mutual generation and restraint! Injecting such a large amount of blood poison into the longevity vines will also cause them to undergo another mutation!"

“Thus, they can withstand more powerful energliph to create a higher grade Blood Purification Pill. It’s the source of this entire incident, as well as the solution!” Chui Yim said, then got to work with a longevity vine.

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As mentioned earlier, every single person in the group was an elite professional in medicine or alchemy, subjects that complemented each other. Therefore, refining a grade-two pill was a piece of cake for them with their cultivation states; there wasn’t even a need for a cauldron!

Each of them had a longevity vine to research, and seeing this, the Great Wisdom City members immediately supplied them with other ingredients needed to refine the Blood Purification Pill.

Since it was their first attempt, they needed time. Advancing pills to the next grade was tough work too; the ingredient ratio would be messed up, so they needed to redefine the most appropriate ratio for everything. Amongst all Southern Ping members, Ping San Yat was the best alchemist, despite lacking in medicine.

After a few tries, he successfully created a thumb-sized red pill.

The important figures of Great Wisdom City were over the moon at the sight. “There’s hope!”

“Alchemist Ping! Please give it to my child! He’s in a critical situation!”

“Pfft! Whose child is not in a critical situation?”

Within a short moment, the entire room was in a mess.

Hung Siu sneered, which sounded like a clap of thunder, leaving the crowd quiet instantly.

“We do not have the time to do a test, thus… this is an experimental pill. None of us know what the effects will be; if the patient will recover, or be placed in an even more dangerous situation…

“As all of you know, medicines are three parts poison even when they aren’t experimental. Thus, the patient who takes it will be the experiment’s first test subject to see if this pill is useful.

“Now, let me ask – who is willing to let his child take this risk?”

Those who fought for the pill instantly looked at each other silently. Ping San Yat had made it clear, and naturally, nobody was willing to let his son become a lab rat.

“My grandson can try.” After some time, a person volunteered.

He was a guest elder of the Hung Clan and was in the three-chambered state. His grandson was in the peak two-chambered state, a disciple with very huge potential. “I might be unaware of this incident that took place in the past, but since it’s the Hung Clan who started it… we shall take responsibility for our wrongdoing.”

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The elder’s grandson was sent over. His entire body was similarly red and his veins black, which was terrifying to look at.

Ping San Yat sighed. Testing on a patient was something irresponsible for him, an alchemist, to do, but due to limited time, they couldn’t wait for the cure to be slowly perfected. It was sad to say it, but the victims would pass on eventually without a cure, and desperate times called for desperate measures.

They placed the pill in the teen’s mouth as the rest watched closely.

Shortly, the redness of the teen’s body faded, and he stopped looking like a cooked shrimp.

“It’s taking effect! It’s effective!”

“Hahaha! It’s effective!”

Ping San Yat’s expression relaxed slightly.

But just then, the teenager started trembling violently, and even Ping San Yat had to hold him down.

The teenager kept vomiting black blood, and after a minute, he passed away.

The atmosphere in the hall became even more oppressive. The most frightening thing was not despair, but seeing hope in the midst of the despair, only to be brutally thrown back into the abyss.

“Let’s continue refining,” Ping San Yat said coldly.

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Chui Yim was no longer as excited and happy as before. Currently, he wore a cold expression after failing to refine the pill twice.

But he and Ping Ching were honest about what they said concerning the longevity vine. The longevity vines were a mutated version due to the over-saturation of energy and would be able to create grade-two pills. However, the energy stored in the vines was the blood poison from the Heavenly Silver Waterfall, which was the main cause of the victims’ sickness to begin with. When both of these forces met, they would only complement each other instead of canceling.

The issue now was to eliminate the blood poison in the vines before refining them. Chui Yim tried doing so with the Heaven’s Flame, but it was too intense for the vines to take and caused them to disintegrate immediately.

As for Fury… that was a kind of spiritual flame, not an actual flame that could help refine pills.

Think, Chui Yim, think!

He patted his shiny bald head, thinking fast. How am I supposed to get rid of blood poison without damaging the longevity vines… If it was Chui Tin, he’d definitely solve this easily…

This was the first time he ever felt this helpless. He had never experienced this feeling after finally breaking through his heart chamber, merging with the Heaven’s Flame and curing his heart deficiency that had greatly bothered him since birth.

Hmm?

Chui Yim’s eyes lit up as he rapidly threw all kinds of ingredients into the Nine-Dragon Flame Gathering Cauldron.