Chapter 2885 — The Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Yes, this disciple dares not do it again. Thank you, Master, for covering for me!" Kang Jingming said hurriedly.
"Mm, that's right. You used to be full of nasty tricks, didn't you? Tell me, could we find another way to deal with Wei Zhao?" Elder Ancestor Xuanchen happened to have nothing else to do, so now that Kang Jingming had come, he might as well discuss a plan with him.
"This... the methods I can think of are only these..." Kang Jingming scratched his head, unable for the moment to come up with any good idea. "We've already promised to refine a Qi-Gathering Pill for him, and now there's the Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill too. He's really getting off easy... Hm? Wait, Master, could we tamper with the pills? For instance, make a poison pill and kill Wei Zhao with it!"
"A poison pill... that's hardly likely. Wei Zhao is no fool; if you slipped him poison, could he fail to notice? Don't forget what he relied on to stand up to your Kang family back then. He is a formidable physician and alchemist in his own right. There is essentially no chance of you using poison on him," Elder Ancestor Xuanchen said, shaking his head.
"True enough... then..." Kang Jingming truly could not think of any other way.
"Wait—your reminder has just put a pill formula into my head. This method really might work!" A sudden inspiration struck Elder Ancestor Xuanchen. "I have a most vicious pill formula called the Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill! It is a kind of Qi-Gathering Pill as well. My own patriarch, Zhang Lifeng, improved it from the ancient True Qi-Gathering Pill back in the day, turning it into a third-grade pill, but it came with one fatal flaw! So it was cast aside afterward and never used again."
"Oh? What flaw?" Kang Jingming asked at once.
"It is like this: this Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill possesses the Qi-Gathering Pill's power to advance one's cultivation, and at the same time it can draw out a cultivator's latent potential. While the cultivator absorbs the pure energy within the pill, he must also absorb a vast amount of the world's spiritual qi. The effect it brings far exceeds that of a normal Qi-Gathering Pill—one can break through and advance again and again!" Elder Ancestor Xuanchen explained.
"Ah? Forgive this disciple's dullness, Master, but this Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill sounds like a top-grade wonder pill. How can you call it a bad pill? There's nothing bad about it at all. After taking it one can advance repeatedly—how could we give something so precious to Wei Zhao?" Kang Jingming asked in puzzlement.
"Heh heh, I haven't finished yet!" Elder Ancestor Xuanchen waved a hand, motioning for Kang Jingming to hear him out. He went on: "I said that after taking this Limit-Breaking Qi-Gathering Pill, one must absorb a vast amount of the world's spiritual qi. If the absorption is insufficient, it will backfire—at best, all one's meridians are severed; at worst, the body bursts and one dies!"
"This... but what if Wei Zhao does absorb the world's spiritual qi?" Though Kang Jingming felt the pill did indeed have a flaw, that was only one possibility.
"Do you think there is still any place left capable of absorbing that much spiritual qi? Even in my patriarch's day it was already impossible, and even the true qi density of the Five Baleful Wilds is no longer sufficient. Where is Wei Zhao supposed to go to absorb all that spiritual qi? If he can't absorb it, heh heh..." Elder Ancestor Xuanchen chuckled darkly.
"Exactly! Master, you are truly formidable—to think of such a venomous method in a flash. It seems the older the ginger, the spicier!" Kang Jingming praised excitedly after hearing it. "Master, your idea is simply brilliant!"