Volume 6: Overseas Chapter 316: Seizing the Medicine
Three living people were reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.
"What an amazing medicinal power."
Pharmacist Li was skilled in poison and also understood pharmacology. He was horrified to see that a single pill could cause three people to explode and die.
The others also had pale faces and were speechless with shock.
The giant man carrying the axe said in a deep voice, "It seems you have failed."
"Nonsense! I clearly succeeded, I succeeded." The calmness on Zhu Da's face had disappeared, replaced by a madness as crazy as a demon. He stared at the bloodstains on the ground with his eyes fixed, and roared almost hoarsely, "I have clearly eliminated all the poison in this pill. The efficacy of the medicine is enough to make me immortal... immortal... for sure..."
Pharmacist Li stood beside Li Muchan and said calmly, "Medicine is also poison, and poison can also become medicine. This elixir of immortality is both miraculously effective and strangely poisonous, yet they are combined into one. This means that the medicinal properties either complement balance each other, and they must never be broken. But if you increase the efficacy by removing the poison, it's no different from increasing the toxicity in disguise."
"That's not necessarily true," Venerable Ashura said flatly. "We've all witnessed the miraculous effects of this pill; it's enough to bring the dead back to life. This happened only because the people testing the pill were just three low-ranking individuals with limited internal energy and frail bodies. It's understandable that they were crushed to death by the drug's effects. It's better to try with someone else."
Substitution?
Who to change?
Venerable Ashura looked at Pharmacist Li. This woman was the weakest among all the people present, and yet she was also proficient in pharmacology...
While thinking in his mind, Venerable Ashura moved his lips and tongue and was about to speak, but suddenly a voice floated into his ears.
"Are you tired of living?"
The person who spoke was Li Muchan.
Venerable Ashura's cheek twitched slightly, "What did you say?"
Li Muchan raised his eyelids slightly, his eyes gloomy and intimidating, and said softly: "Old ghost, others may be afraid of you, but in my eyes, you are nothing more than a stray dog."
He ignored the other person's ugly expression and said to himself, "If it's as you say, then the more powerful one is, the more qualified they are to test the medicine. In my opinion, you are the most suitable. You are a hundred years old and still have such extraordinary aura. You are not living young, you are almost living from a man to a woman. You are much more powerful than the rest of us. You will definitely be able to maximize the effectiveness of the medicine."
Venerable Ashura looked at Li Muchan expressionlessly and said quietly, "Youngster, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you've made a name for yourself. When I was dominating the world, you were nowhere to be found. And the woman next to you is also considered my successor. Based on seniority, she should respectfully address me as Grandmaster."
"Oh?" Li Muchan sneered coldly, "Then may I ask why you have ended up living overseas and haven't dared to show up for so many years? Haha, you're really old, and outdated. You're still concerned about seniority, so why bother practicing martial arts? You might as well just go home and lie down and compete to see who can live longer."
Venerable Ashura was dressed in a long robe, as black as ink, but his face was extremely white, with a green hair hanging in the air. He was about to explode when he heard this, but suddenly said calmly: "No matter how much you say, in the end, strength will speak."
Shangguan Xiaoxian finally spoke at this time, saying: "Yes, to be called the Master Daozu, you must be qualified. Do you have it?"
After a few words, the situation on the field immediately became tense again.
If it were in the past, Li Muchan and the others would never have talked so much nonsense.
And the reason why it is like this now is all because...
Venerable Ashura's expression suddenly changed. He turned his gaze quickly and looked around, only to find that one person was missing from the cave without him noticing.
who?
Flying swordsman.
"Where did the flying swordsman go?"
No one actually noticed that a living person left right under their noses.
But soon everyone else also discovered that one of the four masters from Monte Cristo seemed to be missing. The swordsman who called himself "Greedy Killer" was gone.
Almost at the same time, there was suddenly no wind in the cave. Two strong gusts of wind swept in from the corner and echoed around. In an instant, all the lights in the cave went out. Only the red fire in the alchemy furnace was left, but it was suppressed and the flame kept swaying and changing, making a hissing sound.
"not good!"
"You dare!"
"Put down the elixir!"
…
As darkness fell on all sides, only figures could be seen leaping and moving in the dim light of the furnace. In the chaos, a series of fights broke out around the furnace.
Li Muchan's eyes trembled slightly, and in the blink of an eye, he saw several pills in the furnace suddenly float in the air. They were picked up by someone through the air with Qi, and then a palm force was sent out.
Unexpectedly, someone in the chaos did the same thing as him, and his internal strength surged, pushing forward gently.
"call!"
In an instant, the fire in the furnace seemed to be blown by a strong wind, and it rose up several feet in an instant. The red flames overflowed from the furnace like dragons and snakes, climbed onto the top of the cave, and the area within a radius of three feet turned into a sea of fire.
The fire wave swept over. Li Muchan narrowed his eyes and stood steady, his clothes were still. His right palm was like a stubborn stone in the turbulent waves, splitting the fire wave in front of him and forcing it to both sides.
The other two did not retreat even a single step, allowing the waves of fire to hit them, and snatched the pills floating in the air with one hand.
However, as the three powerful true energies clashed and collided, the fire in the furnace rose higher and higher, and burned bigger and bigger. Even the alchemy furnace slowly left the ground and floated one or two feet in the air. The elixir hovering above it was circling and spinning rapidly in the air, condensing in the fire.
Li Muchan's black hair flew up. He had already seen who was competing with him in the air. They were the Asura Venerable and the Sword Evil.
The three men stood in a three-way standoff, gradually pushing forward amidst the stalemate. In a split second, the furnace seemed to be crushed by some immense force, its gourd-shaped body instantly slumping inward. After the three took two more steps, the furnace finally buckled under the weight and exploded with a loud bang, fragments scattering and snakes of fire leaping out. It was unknown what fueled the alchemy fire, but a strange black, oily substance suddenly gushed out from beneath the furnace, igniting wherever it touched fire, instantly transforming the entire cave into a sea of inferno.
"Ah, this is the Western Region Fire Dragon Oil!"
One or two exclamations were heard in the chaos.
What made them change their expressions even more was that a sudden crackling sound came from above the stone door. When everyone looked in the direction of the sound, they saw a huge rock weighing at least ten thousand pounds pressing the stone door into pieces, about to block the entrance.
"not good!"
The group of people were startled and wanted to stop it, but it was too late.
There is indeed a mechanism.
At the same time, the alchemy furnace exploded, flames scattered, and the pills were also swept up by the aftermath of the qi.
Li Muchan didn't think twice and pushed out with his left hand to take on the two fierce energy forces coming from a distance. With his right hand, he used the suction power created by the dead wood Zen to wipe and grab from the air, then retreated several steps.
The remaining two also stepped back, each holding the pills they had obtained in their hands, their faces changing from gloomy to extremely ugly.
And at this time.
"boom!"
The boulder sank to the bottom, completely blocking all escape routes.
Li Muchan looked at the two of them across the blazing flames, his expression calm. He gently spread out his right hand, and in his palm were four scarlet pills.
Looking at Asura Venerable and Jianxie again, both of them opened their five fingers and each got two, and the winner was immediately apparent.
Before anyone could catch their breath, they saw the three identical old men jumping up and down in panic, saying, "Oh no! Zhu Da is missing."
