Chapter 6: Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill is more precious than he thought
"These people are fighting for a pill and getting bloody, just because they have poor talent." Gu Xingzhi said contemptuously.
But he is gifted and does not need these pills at all.
If Ye Zhao’s teaching method had not been wrong, he would have broken through to the Golden Core Realm long ago.
Thinking of this, Gu Xingzhi left the arena and wandered aimlessly around the mountain behind the inner gate. Finally, he found a quiet stone cliff and sat down cross-legged to practice.
He closed his eyes and began to practice the mantra of his mental method.
Everything went smoothly at first, but not long after, his brows slowly furrowed.
“Hmm!”
A sharp pain exploded in his body like thunder. Gu Xingzhi suddenly opened his eyes, cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and he almost bit his tongue to suppress the pain.
But after only half a breath, he arched his body in pain, feeling as if his internal organs were being crushed alive.
“Hiss…Ah!!”
The severe pain seemed to tear the soul apart.
Gu Xingzhi curled up on the ground in pain. He gritted his teeth and took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve. He turned it over in his palm with trembling hands, but found that the bottle was empty.
“Damn it…”
He has a single fire-attribute spiritual root, and his cultivation speed far exceeds that of ordinary people, but there is a very serious problem.
When other cultivators absorb spiritual energy, the spiritual energy can flow naturally along the meridians and nourish the whole body.
But he couldn't do that. Once the spiritual energy entered his body, it was like water rushing backwards into a water pipe. Not only could it not help him practice, but it made him feel as painful as if he was burned by fire.
Fortunately, this was just a small problem, and it could be solved by the pill that Ye Zhao casually made for him. He had been taking this pill continuously over the years, but he was in a hurry to leave this time and forgot to bring it with him.
Gu Xingzhi didn't have time to think about it. He used his hands and feet to get up from the ground and staggered towards Qingyue Peak.
A cold wind was blowing on Qingyue Peak, and Ye Zhao was sitting quietly on a stone platform on the cliff.
The spiritual energy around her surged like a tide, but not a bit of it dissipated, and all of it condensed into her body.
Gu Xingzhi rushed up the stone steps panting, his face looking anxious and embarrassed.
"Master...Master Ye Feng." He stopped panting.
Ye Zhao opened his eyes and looked at him, "What's wrong?"
Gu Xingzhi took a breath and said, "The Fire-Fixing Pill you gave me is gone."
He used a matter-of-fact tone, thinking that Ye Zhao would give it to him without hesitation as before.
But Ye Zhao looked at him without any warmth, "You are now an inner disciple, not my disciple. I have no obligation to refine pills for you."
Gu Xingzhi has a special physique. When she first discovered that he had such a physique, even the elders of the sect's Dan Pavilion advised her to give up.
But Ye Zhao just didn't believe it.
Despite others' opposition, she insisted on accepting Gu Xingzhi as her personal disciple.
Later, she consulted hundreds of volumes of classics and finally found a pill that could change Gu Xingzhi's physique.
In order to collect materials for refining elixirs, she rushed to the Southern Wilderness Fire Region, risking her life to collect the Red Lotus Karma Fire. The injuries she suffered in the battle with the guardian spirit beast caused her cultivation to stagnate for a full five years.
But what in the end?
In the end, Gu Xingzhi said that the reason his cultivation progressed so slowly was because he had taken those random pills she had given him...
Oh, how ridiculous.
She herself was reluctant to eat the elixir made with the red lotus fire, but Gu Xingzhi despised it.
Since that’s the case, she just stopped caring and let Gu Xingzhi figure it out on his own.
Ye Zhao took out a jade box from his sleeve and took out an elixir that emitted a faint golden light.
Gu Xingzhi's eyes lit up slightly, and what Ye Zhao took out was his Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill.
He subconsciously took a step forward, but Ye Zhao raised his head and swallowed the pill into his throat.
Golden light flowed along her meridians, and her body was surrounded by spiritual light, and her aura rose steadily.
Gu Xingzhi was stunned. Even if Ye Zhao's cultivation was not high, she was still at the Golden Core stage. Why did the Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill have an effect on her?
But Gu Xingzhi still didn't think too deeply about it. He covered his abdomen and felt as if there were fire ants biting in the cracks between his bones. The familiar and terrifying burning pain was spreading in his body at an uncontrollable speed.
I can’t wait any longer…
I must get the Fire-Fixing Pill...
Gu Xingzhi struggled to walk down Qingyue Peak and headed towards Dan Pavilion.
After finally reaching the Dan Pavilion, Gu Xingzhi's lips were already pale from the pain, and there seemed to be a flame burning in his spiritual veins, which was a sign that the strange fire in his body was out of control.
He walked into the Alchemy Hall with a staggering step. Several disciples were quietly queuing up in the hall. Sitting behind the counter was the Pharmacy Elder. The old man looked arrogant and was flipping through the jade book.
"Elder... Elder, I urgently need a Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill. Can you give me one first..."
Elder Siyao glanced at him and saw that he was wearing a coarse gray robe and the spiritual light on his waist badge was dim. He frowned immediately and asked, "Are you an outer sect disciple?"
"Yes..." Gu Xingzhi gritted his teeth and agreed.
Elder Siyao snorted coldly, flipped over the spiritual power mark on his waist badge, and then said with even more disdain: "...points, zero."
"You don't even have a single point, and yet you dare come here and ask for the Fire-Fixing Guiyuan Pill?"
He raised his hand and waved, and the two deacons guarding beside him immediately stepped forward, pretending to drive Gu Xingzhi out.
Gu Xingzhi was in so much pain that he almost fell to his knees. He said in a hoarse voice, "Elder, please give me one. I'll give it to you when I have enough points. Besides, it's just a Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill... I only need one..."
Elder Siyao narrowed his eyes and stared at him for a few breaths. "Just a Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill? Do you know how rare that pill is?"
Gu Xingzhi was breathing heavily, his mind filled with pain, and he didn't hear what Elder Si Yao said for a while.
Si Yao continued, "The Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill was specially refined by Ye Zhao for you. Apart from you, which disciple in the sect has such a blessing?"
"This pill can only produce one pill per furnace, and the success rate is less than 10%. Your master spent almost a year refining only a dozen pills, and you ate them all like candy beans!"
"Back then, she nearly lost half her life for this elixir! And yet, you actually kicked her out and ran off to join the inner sect. You're really... ahem!"
Elder Siyao was so angry that he started coughing. Gu Xingzhi stood there in a daze, and his head exploded with a buzzing sound. Dinghuo Guiyuan Pill was actually so precious?
But he always thought that the medicine was just made by Ye Zhao casually, and there was plenty of it in the sect.
He even thought the taste was bitter and secretly threw away a few bottles.
Now someone actually told him that those pills were made by Ye Zhao at a huge cost.
How is this possible?
Gu Xingzhi felt a little stuffy in his chest. He dragged his body in great pain out of the Dan Pavilion, but his mind was in a mess, with two completely different voices fighting in his head.
In his previous life, he met Ye Wange by chance at Lingquan Terrace. That day, he had just broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and was a leader in the sect. Fairy Wangyue talked to him for a while.
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