Chapter 3650 — A Failure?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Gulp! Miserable Senior Brother swallowed hard. At first he could scarcely believe his eyes; once he was sure, he was beside himself with joy. "It actually worked? You're something else, Junior Brother Lin! No wonder even Senior Brother Lu praised you for keeping your light under a bushel!"
Truth be told, though he had set all his hopes on Wei Zhao's success, deep down miserable Senior Brother had still felt Wei Zhao might not measure up to the Pill Hall's refiners. After all, those people were the mainstream of North Island, and though Wei Zhao was a refiner too, he had come up from the secular world—hardly on the same level as they were.
If even North Island's native refiners had such a low success rate, one could well imagine that Wei Zhao, a refiner from the secular world, would fare even worse. Yet in a single night, Wei Zhao had produced two Barrier-Breaking Foundation Pills at once—it was simply like a dream!
This was not miserable Senior Brother looking down on the secular cultivation world; it was simply the truth. In cultivation heritage, the secular world and Cloud Terrace Island had never been on the same plane to begin with—and pill refinement was precisely the field that demanded heritage most of all.
As far as miserable Senior Brother knew, only one person from the secular cultivation world had ever come up and looked down upon Cloud Terrace Island's native refiners in the art of pills—the Divine Physician and Pill Sage, Zhang Lifeng. What he did not know was that the Wei Zhao standing before him now was none other than Zhang Lifeng's betrothed disciple.
Wei Zhao grinned and handed the two pills to miserable Senior Brother. "Two Barrier-Breaking Foundation Pills—this ought to guarantee your breakthrough, Senior Brother Ku!"
To his surprise, miserable Senior Brother took only one of them. "One is enough for me," he said gratefully. "Keep the other for yourself, Junior Brother Lin—you'll surely need it sooner or later."
Seeing that Wei Zhao meant to insist, miserable Senior Brother hurried to persuade him: "If it were the Pill Hall, and they refined two in one go, they'd not only keep one for themselves, I'd have to pay the two hundred spirit jades up front as well! Counted that way, I've already come out far ahead! So please don't refuse, Junior Brother Lin—otherwise I'll never feel right about it!"
"Heh heh, Senior Brother Ku, when did I ever say I only refined two Barrier-Breaking Foundation Pills?" Wei Zhao asked with a smile.
"Huh? More than two? Don't tell me it's three?" Miserable Senior Brother's brain promptly seized up.
He had supplied only three portions of materials, and Wei Zhao had succeeded in refining three Barrier-Breaking Foundation Pills in one go—did that not mean a hundred percent success rate? Even if Wei Zhao had said before that using waste jade to assist in refinement could raise the success rate, this was simply too outrageous!
If word of this got out, those so-called refiners of the Pill Hall would be shamed to death!
Even now, in his wild elation, miserable Senior Brother had not yet noticed that the two Barrier-Breaking Foundation Pills Wei Zhao had given him each bore rings of pill halo!
Even for the same kind of pill, one with a pill halo and one without were worlds apart.
A pill halo meant the very finest of its kind, its effects far beyond the ordinary run. Such things were rare finds that could not be sought, only encountered—and no amount of spirit jades could necessarily buy one!RS