Chapter 4922 — Seven Nourishing Mystery Pills
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
The group sat at a distance to wait. Three hours later, Ni Caiyue had already become thoroughly familiar with Wang Xinyan and the others, and they were addressing one another as sisters. Both Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao were very close to her—after all, her adorably foolish nature was quite endearing. Of course, these people certainly did not include the repeatedly exasperated Wei Zhao.
"Oh, you're already eating. Give me some!" Wei Zhao suddenly squeezed in and plopped himself down among them.
Lu Xiaozhong hastily and most obsequiously handed over the roast meat in his hand. It was from a small spirit beast he had just caught nearby; the meat was fresh and tender, with an excellent texture. He had assumed Wei Zhao's pill refinement would take a long time, so he had simply set up an open-air barbecue. He had not expected Wei Zhao to finish before they had even started eating.
"You're done refining already? You're fooling me, aren't you?" Ni Caiyue jumped to her feet at once, wearing the expression of someone whose intelligence had been gravely insulted. "Even if you're going to fool me, at least put some effort into it! How could refining Nourishing Mystery Pills be this fast? The alchemists at our academy all take several days!"
Wei Zhao paid her no attention at all. While eating his roast meat, he freed one hand and extended it toward Ni Caiyue.
"What are you doing?" Ni Caiyue was startled and hurriedly assumed a self-protective posture with her arms wrapped around her chest, pitifully begging for mercy. "So you fooled me, fine, but could you please not hit me?"
Wei Zhao choked on hearing this and nearly choked to death on the spot. He struggled for quite a while before he recovered and, in exasperation, opened his palm. "Who's hitting you? Look for yourself!"
"Oh." Ni Caiyue gave a weak response. Then, once she had clearly seen what was in Wei Zhao's hand, she was instantly struck dumb, stammering, "Th-this... this is Nourishing Mystery Pill? Three Nourishing Mystery Pills?"
"At least you're not hopelessly stupid. Here, put them away yourself. If you lose them, I won't take responsibility." Wei Zhao casually tossed the three Nourishing Mystery Pills to Ni Caiyue, which flustered the silly girl quite badly; after a frantic scramble she finally caught them, then looked them over again and again in surprise and delight before carefully putting them away.
There had clearly been only one stalk of Nourishing Mystery Grass, enough at most for four portions of materials, yet in a mere three hours he had refined three Nourishing Mystery Pills. This result truly stunned Ni Caiyue. But what left her even more shocked and speechless was that Wei Zhao then gave one to Wang Xinyan and one to Huang Xiaotao.
That was not all—Wei Zhao still plainly had two left in his own hand. In other words, he had actually refined a full seven Nourishing Mystery Pills in one go!
Ni Caiyue was practically going mad. However unworldly she might be, she knew what that meant. Four portions of materials refined into seven Nourishing Mystery Pills—what kind of person was this?!
By now she was looking at Wei Zhao entirely as though he were a monster. It was true that she had not seen Wei Zhao's actual pill-refining process, since she had been rather far away and talking with Wang Xinyan and the others the whole time, but that did not matter—because the result of the refinement alone was enough to shock the world and overawe the vulgar!
"Young hero, who exactly is your master? How are you so formidable?" Ni Caiyue could not resist asking.