nucmednet Chapter 14 Elixir
Chapter 14 Elixir
But Ding Yi then had a headache. After all, he still had a vague understanding of this world. This time, when facing those evil Taoists in the Taoist temple, he didn't even have the courage to make a move, let alone fight back.
"No matter what, we have to give it a try."
After a slight hesitation, Ding Yi made up his mind and then stroked his chin, thinking about his next move.
"In that Taoist temple, Baiyunzi seems to have the highest cultivation level so far, but we can't rule out the possibility that there are some evil Taoists hiding in the dark."
"That's a troublesome matter. Unless I can guarantee that I will not be defeated, once I make a move, there will be no turning back."
"And that strange wall at the village entrance, if we can find a way to break it, that would be the best way to get out of the village directly."
"But in any case, both of these approaches have one premise."
"strength."
Thinking of this, Ding Yi clenched his fist, feeling a sense of helplessness at his current weakness.
"too weak."
Thinking of this, Ding Yi stood up and began pacing around the room, lost in thought.
"Although my system can't directly add points to martial arts like other systems, it can create things out of thin air, so I have to make good use of that."
Thinking of this, Ding Yi directly rubbed a mud ball off his body, then found a piece of white cloth, and wrote the words "Enhance a large amount of cultivation, perfectly absorb the pill without pill poison" on the white cloth with a charcoal pencil. Then he placed the mud ball on the white cloth and squinted at the black mud ball quietly.
Soon after, characters appeared near the mud ball.
[Enhancement can be done by consuming lifespan. Currently, enhancement consumes 1 year and 3 months of lifespan. Enhance now?]
"!!!so much!"
Ding Yi was startled by the lifespan consumed by this enhancement, but upon further reflection, it made perfect sense.
After all, this mud pill was rubbed off his own body and had no medicinal effect whatsoever. If he were to be forcibly turned into a pill that could enhance his cultivation, it would indeed require a considerable amount of his lifespan.
"If only we could get our hands on real pills."
Thinking of this, Ding Yi suddenly recalled the scene in the Taoist temple where many people received a small medicine bottle for offering their fresh flesh and blood.
"Could there be some kind of elixir inside?"
Upon thinking of this, Ding Yi had an idea. He looked around, grabbed some dried meat, and hurriedly went out.
He first went to the door of a neighboring villager's house, and then knocked on the door.
Ding Yi's actions naturally attracted the attention of the other villagers on the road, but they merely glanced in their direction before turning away with blank expressions, seemingly unconcerned.
"Crench."
With a screeching sound, the wooden door slowly opened, revealing a thin figure.
These are villagers from the house next to Old Man Wei's. In Ding Yi's memory, he received a medicine bottle for contributing some fresh flesh and blood when he went to the Taoist temple this time.
"I want to change the contents of the immortal medicine bottle."
Looking at the lifeless, expressionless face in front of him, Ding Yi quickly took out some dried meat and said to the man.
After hearing Ding Yi's words, the man glanced blankly at the dried meat in his hand, then his yellowish eyes flickered slightly before he uttered a low voice.
"If you want to exchange for the elixir, you must exchange it with fresh flesh and blood."
"No way, this jerky..."
"boom!"
Just as Ding Yi was about to say something more, the man retreated back into the house and slammed the wooden door shut with a bang.
"Damn, they won't even take the meat that's already there. They've really been brainwashed."
Ding Yi looked at the tightly closed door and said speechlessly.
Regardless, Ding Yi did hear some good news.
The villagers called the thing in the medicine bottle a magic pill!
"If we can get our hands on it and further enhance it, it might really have unexpected effects."
Ding Yi frowned and pondered for a moment before returning to Old Man Wei's house. He grabbed a sickle and some scraps of wood and hurriedly left.
This time, Ding Yi chose the direction of the Taoist temple, since according to the icons marked on the quicksand map, there were more wild animals in that direction.
"However, this quicksand map only has icons and doesn't label the specific wild beasts. I'm afraid if we encounter those ferocious creatures, then things will get complicated."
As Ding Yi walked, he looked at the quicksand map in his hand and finally decided to find the nearest wild beast to check the situation.
After walking for about half an hour, Ding Yi finally arrived at an area with some weeds.
"It should be right here."
Ding Yi looked at the map in his hand, then looked left and right, and sure enough, he found a gray figure in the haystack not far away.
"It looks like a rabbit."
Ding Yi squinted and examined it for a while, making his own guesses.
However, even with a rabbit, Ding Yi had no way to catch it, since it was a fast runner and he only had a sickle.
But Ding Yi had already made up his mind when he arrived. He then took out several wooden planks from his package, stacked them on the ground, and carved the words "animal trap is deadly" on one of the planks.
Then he took out a piece of dried meat and wrote the words "A wide range of deadly temptations for rabbits" on a piece of rag.
Finally, Ding Yi chose to enhance both items, consuming a total of 19 days of his lifespan.
A moment later, a wooden animal trap appeared on the lawn, with a small piece of dried meat, resembling cured meat, inside.
Upon seeing this, Ding Yi quickly ran to the side and lay down on the ground to wait quietly.
Just as Ding Yi lay down, the figure who had been digging holes in the grass in the distance suddenly looked in this direction.
Upon seeing this, Ding Yi was overjoyed, thinking to himself that his plan was indeed feasible, and he was just waiting for the rabbit to come to him on its own.
Sure enough, just as Ding Yi was pondering, the gray figure rushed towards them at an astonishing speed, which startled him.
"This is a rabbit?!"
Ding Yi's eyes only caught a gray phantom before he heard a loud bang from the animal trap, followed by a series of shrill screams.
"Depend on!"
Upon seeing this, Ding Yi quickly grabbed his sickle and ran towards the animal trap. When he arrived, he found that the animal trap that had been set there was almost broken, and a huge gray rabbit was struggling among the wooden fragments!
This rabbit was enormous, with bloodshot eyes. Even though its abdomen was completely pierced by the wooden spikes of the trap, its legs still thrashed about powerfully, kicking out a small crater in the ground, demonstrating its vigorous vitality and abnormal strength.
"No way, even rabbits are this fierce?"
Seeing this, Ding Yi gritted his teeth, swung his sickle, and chopped down on the gray rabbit's head. After several blows, the rabbit gradually stopped moving.
"How can this rabbit be so strong? Luckily, I used the upgraded animal trap, otherwise a regular trap really wouldn't have been able to catch it!"
Ding Yi used a sickle to hold the motionless gray rabbit for a long time, and finally chopped it a few more times to confirm that it was really dead. Only then did he take out the package and put the gray rabbit inside.