Qin Muwan and Qin Murong were known as the twin beauties of Dinggong City.
In terms of both appearance and talent, older sister Qin Muwan had always firmly surpassed her younger sister by a notch. However, after being injured by a five luminaries realm expert four years ago, her entire cultivation level had nearly vanished. The Qin Family had tried every possible method, but to no avail, leaving countless people deeply regretful.
However, today, Gu Yi had given them hope. Although they knew it was impossible, Gu Xianglin and the others were still willing to give it a try.
Because they would not lose anything. At worst, they would merely let Gu Yi live for four more hours!
“Four hours. If you cannot do it, do not blame me for showing no mercy!”
Qin Murong had all the items Gu Yi listed on the paper delivered to the alchemy room. She gave him a deep look, her tone grim.
Gu Yi, dressed in a long black robe of brocade garments, slowly brought his lips close to Qin Murong’s ear and gently blew a breath……
Qin Murong’s delicate body trembled, and a blush instantly spread to the roots of her ears.
Gu Yi smiled faintly and stepped toward the pile of medicinal materials. “Last night, I discovered that your ears are a sensitive spot. Just as I thought.”
“Hmph!” Qin Murong glared fiercely at Gu Yi and said coldly, “You can only be arrogant for this little while longer. In four hours, I will make you understand what it means to wish you were dead!”
Gu Yi ignored her completely. He waved his hand and ordered, “You can leave now. Close the door behind you. If anyone barges in or peeks inside and causes my alchemy to fail, do not blame me.”
Qin Murong snorted coldly, then walked out with her somewhat awkward gait.
Seeing how uncomfortable she looked while walking, Gu Yi could not help but smile. Even a true essence realm martial artist would feel uncomfortable after experiencing the pain of losing their virginity for the first time……
After Qin Murong slammed the door shut, he took a deep breath and turned to look at the medicinal herbs piled across the floor.
The Qin Family was extremely wealthy and was no less affluent than the Gu Family. In just half an hour, they had somehow gathered all the medicinal materials he needed.
Azure Silver Flowers, Seven-Leaf Grass, Flame-Eating Insect corpses, Swamp Spotted Grass, Six-Winged Double-Headed Centipedes……
Gu Yi easily identified more than a hundred kinds of medicinal herbs one by one.
Some of these medicinal herbs were common and easy to find, while others were extremely rare. Added together, they were incredibly expensive!
However, to the Qin Residence, this amount was nothing.
As long as Qin Muwan’s injuries could be healed, what did it matter how much money they spent?
“Only twenty-three of these medicinal herbs are needed to treat Qin Muwan’s injuries. The rest just happen to be useful to me……”
Gu Yi also had some ulterior motives. More than half of these medicinal herbs had been prepared for him. His body was currently frail and his cultivation level severely damaged, so this was precisely the time when he needed to restore his body.
Moreover, the four hours were merely meant to deceive Qin Murong and the others. Half an hour would be more than enough to refine pills for Qin Muwan. With the remaining time, he could make good use of the Qin Residence’s alchemy room to refine pills for himself.
Sitting before an alchemy cauldron large enough for one person to embrace, Gu Yi activated the furnace fire and placed the medicinal herbs into it one by one, following the proper order.
When practicing alchemy, both the alchemy cauldron and the alchemy flame were important. The best fire was the cultivation flame. But Gu Yi’s cultivation level was currently only at the body refinement realm. Even though his memories contained a fire-element cultivation technique capable of reaching the heavens and shaking the earth, it was useless without the necessary foundation, and he could not cultivate it.
This alchemy cauldron came with its own fire-supply system, so Gu Yi only needed to control it carefully. The only imperfection was that his control over the heat could not compare to the cultivation flame at all.
However, none of this was a problem for Gu Yi. In this world, the number of people who could surpass him in alchemy could be counted on two hands.
As time passed, he methodically placed all the medicinal materials into the furnace, covered it with the lid, and focused wholeheartedly on controlling the fire.
“The Radiance-Dispelling Pill can effectively remove the Five Luminaries Poison from the body. It is more suitable for Qin Muwan’s injuries than anything else.”
Gu Yi understood how miraculous the Radiance-Dispelling Pill he refined would be for Qin Muwan. He only hoped that she would not be too shocked later.
Outside the room, the qin sisters stood side by side. Qin Muwan said:
“Gu Yi defiled your chastity. He deserves to die. It was my fault.”
“Older sister, what nonsense are you talking about? If you had not disregarded everything to save me back then, I would have died long ago. You saved my life, and your injuries were caused by me. You have no idea how guilty I feel.”
“If Gu Yi can truly heal you, older sister, then let alone my chastity—even if he wanted my life, I would not hesitate!”
Qin Murong grasped Qin Muwan’s hands and squeezed them tightly. The two peerlessly beautiful sisters were moved together.
Boom!
Suddenly, an earth-shaking roar came from inside the alchemy room, as though enormous waves were crashing against reef rocks along the shore, shaking the hearts of all who heard it.
“Could that good-for-nothing Gu Yi have failed at alchemy?” Qin Murong frowned and said in a heavy voice.
Qin Muwan’s beautiful eyes sparkled repeatedly, and she cried out in surprise, “You do not know this, younger sister. That was not the sound of failed alchemy. It was the pill resonance produced when alchemy succeeds!”
Qin Murong was greatly startled. “The pill resonance that only appears with lower earth rank pills?”
“Are you saying that Gu Yi refined a lower earth rank Pill?”
Both sisters saw shock and doubt in each other’s eyes.
“Should we go in and take a look?”
“That good-for-nothing Gu Yi said that no one is allowed inside. What if we disturb his alchemy and cause him to make a mistake?”
“Then let us wait a little longer!”
The two sisters stood restlessly, yet they simply did not dare enter the alchemy room.
Inside the alchemy room, Gu Yi had already taken a total of five Radiance-Dispelling Pills from the alchemy cauldron. Only one was needed to resolve Qin Muwan’s hidden illness. Gu Yi kept one, while stuffing the remaining four into his robes.
“What a pity that I am only at the body refinement realm and cannot use the cultivation flame for alchemy. Otherwise, the rank of this batch of Radiance-Dispelling Pills could have risen another level.”
Gu Yi sighed with slight regret. Without wasting time, he sat cross-legged again and began to refine the pills he needed: body-tempering pills and sea-replenishing pills.
For a body refinement realm martial artist, the Body-Tempering Pill was one of the most precious and effective pills. It was just what he needed to properly improve this frail body.
The Sea-Replenishing Pill, meanwhile, could repair Gu Yi’s damaged qi sea. Only then could he break through the body refinement realm and enter the True Essence Realm.
As time passed, the qin sisters outside unexpectedly heard the pill resonance again!
While they were still stunned, a third pill resonance rang out from inside!
“What exactly is that Gu Yi doing?”
The qin sisters grew increasingly astonished and suspicious, but they still did not dare step into the alchemy room.
A handful of twelve brown body-tempering pills rested in his left hand.
A single red Sea-Replenishing Pill rested in his right hand, solitary and alone.
Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Yi opened his mouth and swallowed them all at once.
These pills were all mid-grade earth rank or higher. If it had been anyone else—even Qin Xianglin, whose cultivation level was at the violet palace realm—they would never have dared swallow them all at once in such an exaggerated manner.
Because they simply could not control the eruption of the medicinal properties!
Yet Gu Yi acted without restraint!
Boom!
After the pills entered his stomach, their medicinal properties spread through his body and blazed like raging fire. Without the proper method of guidance, they could cause Gu Yi’s body to explode and kill him within a few breaths.
Instead of being alarmed, Gu Yi was delighted. He circulated his cultivation method and effortlessly suppressed that chaotic mass of raging fire, transforming it into several surging yet gentle streams of energy that traveled along his meridians and circulated throughout his body.
His body suddenly emitted a tremendous crackling sound, like beans popping in a pan!
At the same time, a layer of filthy, muddy water seeped from the surface of his skin, carrying an unbearably foul stench.
Examining himself internally, he found that the tear in his qi sea caused by Gu Feng was rapidly healing.
The entire process lasted a long time. It was nearly an hour and a half before it finally stopped.
When he opened his eyes, Gu Yi looked as though he had crawled out of a mud pit. Aside from his distinctly black-and-white eyes, nearly every other part of him was filthy.
“This body really is terrible. This body tempering has only temporarily solved the problem. Compared with my previous body, this one is simply a hundred million miles behind.”
Gu Yi furrowed his brows slightly, but there was nothing he could do. Strengthening and transforming the body was not something that could be accomplished overnight. In his eyes, this body, even after being transformed by the body-tempering pills, was still terribly frail. In reality, however, it had already surpassed those at the same realm by an unknown number of times!
If Qin Murong came at him with her sword again now, he could snap her sword in two with a light flick of his finger!
“My body has been transformed enough for now. Next, it is time to raise my realm.”
Gu Yi turned his head toward the pile of spirit stones spread out in the distance.