Chapter 304: Destroying the Conciousness
When they entered the ancient palace, they didn’t immediately go to their rooms.
Instead, they called Hongzhu and held a meeting in the main room.
"Nianzhen, this is for you and Jiang Yue." Yang Xu said and handed over the soul beast core.
Yu Nianzhen took the core and casually inspected it with his divine sense.
However, when his divine sense touched the soul beast’s core, he couldn’t help but frown.
’There is a strand of consciousness in the core.’ He thought.
"Have you noticed it?" Yang Xu asked and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"The soul beast cores can’t be used casually. If we want to use them, we must find a way to remove the consciousness within."
"Consciousness?" Jiang Yue asked and Yu Nianzhen gave him the soul beast core.
A moment later, a thoughtful look clouded his face and he continued to stare at the grey core.
"I may have a way." Jiang Yue suddenly said.
"A way to remove the consciousness?" Bing Lan asked.
"Hmmm." Jiang Yue nodded before he continued.
"We previously collected a lot of lightning liquid and thunder pool liquid. Generally, lightning is detrimental to the soul and evil spirits. We can try soaking the soul beast cores in lightning."
"That may work." Yang Xu said excitedly.
"We can try it." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
Since the matter of soul beast cores was solved for the time being, the meeting shifted towards other things.
"Hongzhu, are you able to refine soul replenishing pills?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"I know the recipe but I have never refined the pills." Hongzhu asked.
Because soul gathering herbs were rare, she had never had a chance to refine soul replenishing pills.
However, Hongzhu was confident in her craft.
Even if she couldn’t refine the pills on the first try, she was confident she could do it on the second or third tries.
"Can we leave the matter of soul replenishing pills to you?"
"Okay, I am willing." Hongzhu said.
If she could help the group, Honghu was naturally willing.
After all, there were no changes in Li Futian’s condition and she hoped the brothers would work harder to get the things she needed for the nine-turn rebirth pill.
"Please give me a list of all the herbs you need." Jiang Yue said.
Before they entered the secret realm, they prepared a lot of herbs and planted them in the jade box.
It was not an exaggeration to say that they had most of the herbs in the Cangxing world.
As long as it was not an extremely rare herb, it could be found in the jade box,
"Good." Hongzhu agreed.
"This time, we found a puddle of soul marrow." Jiang Yue said and turned to look at every one.
Technically, they found the puddle together.
However, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen took the lead in killing the soul beast that guarded the soul marrow.
In that case, the soul marrow belonged to the two of them.
Fortunately, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue were not greedy.
If they could share, they would share.
"None of us is proficient in soul power attacks. We should share the soul marrow equally to improve our strength. What do you think?" Jiang Yue asked.
"This is not good." Bing Lan disagreed.
She and Yang Xu didn’t contribute anything to capturing the soul marrow.
If they got an equal share, she felt they would be taking advantage of the younger generation.
"I don’t need a share of the soul marrow." Yang Xu said.
"Master..." Yu Nianzhen started but was interrupted by his master.
"The grade of the soul marrow isn’t enough to affect my soul." He clarified.
"Brother Yu, brother Xuan, I also didn’t contribute anything." Xuan Ke said with an embarrassed look on his face.
In fact, he also wanted a share of the soul marrow.
However, he didn’t like taking advantage of others even if the other side were his sworn brothers.
"There will be a time to repay the favour. For now, we all need to improve our soul strength. Otherwise, it will be difficult to leave the soul beast forest." Jiang Yue said.
After saying that, he stared at Bing Lan and Xuan Ke until they nodded in agreement.
Soon after, they divided the soul marrow and retreated to their rooms.
"Azhen, let’s treat the soul beast core." Jiang Yue said as soon as they entered their room.
"I also have that idea." Yu Nianzhen nodded and pulled Jiang Yue toward a stone wash basin.
A moment later, he poured some lightning water into the wash basin and then placed the soul beast core in the basin.
Almost instantaneously, the soul beast core released a white fog which was quickly decimated by the lightning water.
"I didn’t expect it to work so well and so quickly." Jiang Yue said excitedly.
His original thoughts were logical but they were only theories.
It was not until his ideas were proven that he was relieved.
"My XiaoYue is a genius." Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue rolled his eyes.
However, he was still happy to receive the praise.
"We should experiment with more soul-beast cores. The lightning water may not work for higher level cores." He said.
"That makes sense. However, our priority is to recover our soul power and then refine the soul marrow."
"Good."
After that, Yu Nianzhen removed the soul beast core from the wash basin.
When he confirmed that the lingering consciousness had been eliminated, he heaved a sigh of relief and followed Jiang Yue to the practice area.
"Let’s do it together." Jiang Yue suggested.
"Alright."
A moment later, the two sat cross-legged and placed the soul beast core between them.
They then closed their eyes and placed their hands on the soul beast core while running their soul-refining techniques.
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After receiving her share of soul marrow and a batch of herbs, Hongzhu returned to her room.
She immediately walked to Li Futian’s coffin and carefully examined it to make sure that nothing had changed while she was away.
When she was sure, she sighed heavily and caressed the coffin tenderly.
"Master, when can you wake up? Hongzhu misses you very much." She muttered under her breath.
While speaking, her eyes were filled with an overwhelming longing and deep-set desperation.
However, these emotions were momentary.
She quickly suppressed them and resolutely left the room.
Hongzhu walked across the hall and entered the opposite room.
This was her alchemy room.
Originally, it was just another training room.
However, when Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen discovered she was an alchemist, they changed it into an alchemy room.
It had everything that an alchemist needed and Hongzhu found nothing to complain about.
’It’s been a while since I refined pills.’ She thought and felt a little nostalgic.
With a happy smile on her face, she walked to an empty work table and removed herbs from her storage ring.
The soul replenishing pill required seventeen different kinds of herbs.
Among the seventeen, one was the primary herb while the remaining were auxiliary herbs.
As the primary herb, the soul gathering herb was the most delicate and difficult to prepare.
However, Hongzhu didn’t need to worry too much.
Yu Nianzhen gave her more than a dozen soul gathering herbs for practice.
With her talent, Hongzhu felt she didn’t need a dozen herbs to practice.
If things went as usual, she would be able to refine the soul replenishing pill after the third try.
"The first thing is to adjust my state." She said and sat cross-legged.
She closed her eyes and quickly entered a meditative state.
When her mind was free of all distractions, Hongzhu opened her eyes and glanced at the material on the work table.
"I will prepare the soul gathering herb first." She said and reached for the herb.
The soul gathering herb was about fifty centimetres tall and had a white flower at its highest point.
This flower was the most important part of the soul gathering herb and contributed the most to the effect of the soul replenishing pill.
However, the rest of the herb wasn’t useless.
Although the white flower could be used alone, the effect was better if the rest was also used.
Thinking of this, Hongzhu began to prepare the entire herb.
"The first step is to extract the medicinal component from the herb." She said and immediately began to do it.
A moment later, her hands began to move and dozens of seals fell on the herb.
Soon After, a green substance detached from the herb while the remainder began to disintegrate.
"The first part is a success." She said and collected the green liquid in a small bowl.
After taking a moment to adjust her state, Hongzhu began the second preparation step.
This step was the first tempering of the herb essence.
According to the recipe, the soul gathering herb had to be tempered nine times before it could be used.
However, this was easier said than done.
