Chapter 139: The Pinnacle Technology, Tempering! (1/2)
“We aren’t that incredible!”
Upon hearing the name ‘Origin Energy Pill’, Six-fingered Zhang was taken aback. This wasn’t the name of this pill inside the box. However, he soon understood what was going on.
“This is the Posterior Energy Pill! This is a newly-developed pill formula that an alchemist in the royal palace came up with recently. This thing is extremely hard to forge, and more often than not, the forging ends in an explosion. At the current moment, all of those forged are subpar products. As it hasn’t been perfected yet, we dare not present it to the Sage Emperor or the princes in the royal palace. After all, if something happens, our heads will roll.”
“Thus, in the end, they chose to bring it here. I have no choice as well. Every month, this kind of expensive but ineffective pills would always end up in circulation in the organization!”
Eventually, Six-fingered Zhang shrugged sheepishly.
“A subpar product, is it?”
Wang Chong looked Six-fingered Zhang doubtfully before turning his gaze back to the pill. Indeed, the energy emanating from the pill wasn’t pure Origin Energy. He could feel some impurities mixed within it.
Overwhelmed by his astonishment before, he failed to notice it previously.
“This… What you’re seeing is actually the outer layer of wax. This helps to conceal the impurities on the surface of the pill.”
Six-fingered Zhang said with slight embarrassment.
This was a nifty trick among alchemists. As an alchemist himself, he was well aware with such tricks.
Light shone in Wang Chong’s eyes as he stared at the pill silently. Then, he abruptly grabbed the Posterior Energy Pill and placed it into his mouth. Lightly biting down on it, the coating of the pill cracked and a slightly bizarre taste spread across his entire mouth.
“It’s the taste of medicinal herbs. Furthermore, it seems to be the extremely potent spirit herbs!”
Wang Chong suddenly understood what the alchemist was intending to do. He was probably trying to refine the spiritual energy within the medicinal herbs before using a special method to forge it into something similar to the Origin Energy Pill.
However, clearly, the matter wasn’t as easy as that alchemist thought it out to be.
Gulong!
As the thought flashed across his head, Wang Chong swallowed the entire pill. Warm energy immediately burst forth from within his body, and it soon permeated his flesh and bones.
Wang Chong felt a warm sensation embracing his body.
Under the nourishment of the energy in the pill, Wang Chong felt his strength being raised by another significant amount. The Origin Energy inside his body also increased by a bit.
A moment later, when the medicinal energy from the pill was finally fully absorbed, Wang Chong calmed down once more.
Six-fingered Zhang was right, this wasn’t the Origin Energy Pill. Origin Energy only constituted a small portion of the pill, unlike what Wang Chong thought before.
From the perspective of an alchemist, a subpar product was worthless, so Six-fingered Zhang didn’t think much of the it. However, it was different for Wang Chong.
“To think that I could buy something similar to the Origin Energy Pill with money!”
Wang Chong’s heart beat wildly, unable to be calmed.
Nothing was more valuable to a martial artist than ‘Origin Energy’. Wang Chong was honestly surprised to see that someone was capable of forging something similar to the Origin Energy Pill in the royal palace.
Wang Chong finally understood why despite the secretive nature of the organization and the expensive price of the pills, so many powers were still interested in working with them.
The objects circulating around the organization were truly treasures that couldn’t be procured outside even if one had the money.
“How much does a Posterior Energy Pill cost?”
Wang Chong asked.
“Six thousand taels!”
Six-fingered Zhang replied. By taels, he meant gold. The alchemist in the royal palace would never forge pills that could be valued using silver.
“How many pills can that person produce in a month?”
“Three!”
Six-fingered Zhang replied.
“I want them all, bring them to me!”
Wang Chong said.
“Ah!”
Six-fingered Zhang was taken aback. “But those are elementary subpar products!”
“I understand.”
Wang Chong smiled and he spoke authoritatively.
As for the final pill, it was a pill for treating one’s wounds. It looked ordinary, but how could a treatment pill forged by the alchemists of the royal palace compare to those out in the market?
Carrying the two pills with him, Wang Chong left the Falling Jade Pavilion.
…
Having solved all of his problems in a single go, Wang Chong turned his attention to his seven chi long slender-blade thick-blunt saber. This was the second weapon Wang Chong was bringing out to public view, and it meant a lot to him,
On top of that, it is only when one starts spending does he knows that expenses added up. Back then, when Wang Chong received the six hundred thousand gold taels, he thought that he would never finish spending it all.
But when he started utilizing it, money seemed to flow out endlessly. He realized that there were too many things that he needed to spend money on, and all in all, he only had slightly more than a hundred thousand gold taels left on him.
Given his current expenditure, it wouldn’t be long before he reached bankruptcy once more.
“It’s about time for me to take out my good!”
Wang Chong thought.
Sitting on the carriage, Wang Chong carefully scanned his surroundings, and only after confirming that no one was following him did he enter the Wei Clan’s forge cavern.