Chapter 1308: Chapter 492: Tales of Alchemy, Part 2
Danzi thought the word "demon" was rather jarring, and couldn’t help but remind everyone.
Yun Ziliang circled around Danzi before exclaiming, "Xuanzi, oh Xuanzi, I’ve always known you to be brave, but I never imagined such boldness from you. In the presence of ’Heaven and Earth’, Bai Yujing, and the Heavenly Dome, you dared to employ this trick, and pulled a ’Golden Cicada Shedding Its Shell’ on the Dan Demon."
"Danzi..."
Danzi’s reminder had some effect, at least Zhao Wuya addressed him correctly the next time he spoke.
"Brother Xuan, is this Danzi also one of your concocted elixirs?" Zhao Wuya asked.
"Naturally," Zhou Xuan replied,
"I crafted two pills, one Qi Pill, which was the Source Power Pill sold to ’Heaven and Earth’, and one Human Pill, which is the Danzi you see before you."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Wuya disregarded his own dignity and, like a strange uncle, suddenly hugged Danzi, sniffing the scent on him incessantly.
Danzi found this very annoying and pushed Zhao Wuya away.
"Guard the child and let me savor the aroma of the elixir... I lost half a steel mill to alchemy, and all I produced were fake pills. Today, I’ve finally seen the real deal... Ah, the medicinal fragrance, indeed it’s a fragrance pure and true."
Zhao Wuya struggled to contain his excitement, but Zhou Xuan managed to pull him away with much persuasion: "Ya Zi, don’t be reckless, pay attention to your behavior, you’re acting like an idiot on a tram, or a color demon from Tuen Mun."
"Don’t disgrace our Dragon Seeking."
Yun Ziliang stepped in and delivered a knock to Zhao Wuya, pulling him away.
Zhou Xuan said to Yun Ziliang, "Lao Yun, this Danzi here claims there exists an intangible and formless Dan Mother in Jing Country’s human world. He wants us to help him find the Dan Mother, and he’s offered a price."
"What’s his price?" Yun Ziliang, having spent much time with Zhou Xuan, was becoming a bit "savvy."
Zhou Xuan said: "He said he wants to help me rediscover Jing Country."
Subsequently, Zhou Xuan recounted how he was infused with blood and flesh by Danzi and then entered a strange space.
Li Changxun, after listening, said to Zhou Xuan: "Mr., you said you entered a strange space, that must be the side effect of consuming the Human Pill, right?"
"Did you consume a Human Pill?"
Zhou Xuan asked.
"Heavenly pills come in grades, named after the twelve hours. When I stayed in the Heavenly Dome, due to my shallow experience, I only consumed Eleventh Level Xu Pills and Twelfth Level Hai Pills, primarily for maintaining youth and nourishment,
However, one year, a celestial crane also assigned me a Tenth Level Rooster Pill, that pill had a peculiar power upon consumption."
Li Changxun gazed up at the temple roof and said: "After consuming it, I observed Jing Country’s amorous human world and saw it only as decrepit, full of rotting corpses and citizens covered in sores."
"In the Heavenly Dome, I couldn’t move freely, occasionally overhearing other gods mention the human world as a ’sick village’.
"At that time, I thought the desolate world I saw was merely an illusion created by the Human Pill."
After Li Changxun finished speaking, Danzi chuckled and said: "Yet another poor soul mistaking reality for illusion."
Then he repeated "pitiful, pitiful" a few times, bowed his head to chant, his actions laden with a disdainful sentiment of "you can’t teach a child, or carve rotten wood."
Zhou Xuan asked Li Changxun: "Then my Mistaken Dreams, the dream, the Fire Tower on East Market Street, is it all an illusion?"
"Previously, I would have deemed it an illusion, but now... Mr. speaks with such detail that I hesitate."
Zhou Xuan turned to Yun Ziliang again: "Lao Yun, what do you think? Lao Yun, Lao Yun..."
Everyone immediately noticed Yun Ziliang standing in a daze, silently.
"Lao Yun, what are you thinking?" Zhou Xuan approached Yun Ziliang and shouted sternly.
The shout was quite heavy, and Yun Ziliang was startled, shivering: "What, what?"
"What were you thinking just now?"
Zhou Xuan asked.
Yun Ziliang’s eyes showed a trace of sorrow as he stammered, "I... I... seem to... have once taken a Human Pill as well."
"What?" Zhou Xuan was a bit incredulous about what he heard.
Beside him, Li Changxun scoffed: "Ancestral Master, some pills, if you haven’t taken them, you haven’t taken them. No need to pretend as if you have regularly."
"I truly took it."
Yun Ziliang said: "It was just that previously I didn’t know it was a Human Pill, but upon hearing Xuanzi’s description, I realized I had taken a Human Pill in the past."
"When did you take it?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"Three hundred years ago... before Hidden Dragon Mountain was completely slaughtered."
Yun Ziliang, recalling the experience of consuming the pill back then, said: "Before the tragedy at Hidden Dragon Mountain, I ventured traveling. During that period, I partnered with Brother Peng, traveling westward on a Dragon Seeking quest,
And within Hidden Dragon Mountain, one of my juniors was obsessed with alchemic practices. Day and night, he concocted elixirs and even loved writing some ’Alchemy Scriptures’, one of which was titled—what was it—Seeking Pill Something Something Miscellany."
"Seeking Pill Shocking Dragon Miscellany," Zhao Wuya uttered a book title.
Yun Ziliang clapped both hands, saying: "Correct, correct, it’s ’Seeking Pill Shocking Dragon Miscellany’, Ya Zi, how do you know the name of this alchemy scripture?"
Zhao Wuya gritted his teeth, saying: "I followed this alchemy scripture to make pills... and managed to turn half a steel mill into a pile of slags."
Yun Ziliang: "..."
Zhou Xuan: "..."
Zhou Xuan couldn’t help but shake his head and said this was fate; the Dragon Seeking alchemy scripture from three hundred years ago ensnared a Dragon Seeking little disciple three hundred years later,
If it weren’t for Zhao Wuya’s wealth, any other disciple would have alchemized his way to ruin long ago.
