14 Crystal Surgeon Knife +5! (1/2)
”Junior brother Ninth, let me know if you need any help!” the eldest and also their first senior brother came to his side and express his gratitude. Being the oldest and strongest among the nine of them, he has the responsibility to take care of them and mediates their misunderstanding whenever it happens. It wasn't too difficult at all, based on each of their attitudes, but sometimes, the argument still happens.
And since it was an opportunity to do so, except stating his position as their big brother, he also tried to pull both eighth and ninth together to forget about their previous misunderstanding, because no matter what, they were still brothers and sisters in the same faction under their teacher.
Especially when he used the quote ”The fingers can only bend inwards but not outwards. We're all the fingers and flesh of the headmaster, thus no matter what happened, the finger will only bend together to form a fist”. Holding no grudge in him at the first place, Zhang Wu Ji agreed. Politely, he bowed to his eighth senior brother and greets him before they give each other a hug.
”We're brothers.” eighth says. But after that, a call from their fifth sister and sixth sister summoned the seventh and eighth brother away, as the four of them does have a prior plan to visit the Southern Bamboo Forest for a short few days expedition.
This time, the four of them will stay in the forest for a total of four days before they left with whatever treasure they able to harvest. Zhang Wu Ji interest to join heightened when he heard their plans, but without any preparations, it was impossible for him to join their party. Left with no choice, he can only promise to join the other four senior's expedition next time.
Since there was nothing else for him to do, he returned to his courtyard to monitor the progress of his small farm. It seems that after a great effort, the farm is now carrying an appearance closer to how it supposed to look like. With only 75 Qi Sensing in his hand, Zhang Wu Ji left another new batch of 25 Qi Sensing Pill to Tang Yuan before he left to complete his own task.
Looking at the salary paid upfront without any words, this action caused Tang Yuan to feel more appreciation towards Zhang Wu Ji. ”Is this what they call magnanimous?” he thought and continued with his farm works once again. With his amount of experience, Tang Yuan help Zhang Wu Ji to decide the three other kinds of plants to be planted.
Taixia Condensing Plant, a medicinal ingredient that produces a Taixia Condensed Dew that can attract Natural Qi in the surrounding air. If it was taken prior to meditation, it will increase the strands of Inner Qi creation speed. If the Taixia Condensed Dew is used to concoct the difficult to succeed Taixia Qi Pill, it's worth will be increased by at least a hundredfold, because the Taixia Qi Pill is said to have the ability to create an additional Strand of Inner Qi in a cultivator's body.
Yantai County's Mandrake Plant, a medicinal root that possesses the medicinal worthiness stronger by the hundred year ginseng by ten folds. Used to concoct the Yantai Pill, they were a much more difficult situation, such as during a deadly fight in a war, or during the clash between two strong cultivators. The Yantai Pill can effectively remove all injuries and increase the strength of a cultivator by 50% strength, allowing him to have the second chance to fight before he falls.
Although the Yantai County is no longer exist in this Ping An Continent due to the Beast Infestation attack, a few of their products still managed to remain through the passage of time, and still in use until now. This was the one of the three product in the world still carrying the Yantai County's name on them, with another one martial art and one fighting weapon.
As for the third plants, it was actually the Kind Heart Grass, which Tang Yuan use in an attempt to fertilize and revitalized the last plot of the soil in the farm. Although it was unknown why this part of the soil is lack of nutrients, based on his experience in Botanist and Gardening, he has enough confidence to turn this plot of land into a useful one.
Just like this, another three days pass very quickly, his effort was slow, but with 36 strands of Inner Qi with him now, the 32 pages of Bone Strengthening Art was one fifth completed, with 6 pages were rewritten, and another 26 pages remained.
10.1%, 9.7%, 9.1%, 9.4%, 9.6%, and 9.9%. This was the accuracy of his rewrites, but still, he dares not to compile the six pages together in afraid of it end up as an incomplete copy of Bone Strengthening Art. With only almost two pages were completed every single day, Zhang Wu Ji expects that he will need another 13 days more before he can complete the rewrites of the whole manual.
But from the positive changes he did see in each of the pages he completed, their differences are pretty significant. Even if the completed result were only a quarter better than before, this was still a proper experience for him and allowed him to redo the same thing all over again, only in the next time, he will strive for results, and not only the answer of his test to understand his [Upgrade].
With a mind full of rewriting the Bone Strengthening Art manual again, he returned to the writing table, but a heavy knock came into his courtyard door, shocking the two only people staying within this courtyard.
”What happened? That knock is too hard, correct?” Zhang Wu Ji was stunned by the sudden knock that sounds so hard but still came to the entrance to see what happened. Without any delay, he took away the plank blocking the Main Door to see what was waiting for him outside.
”Shit!” he was greeted with his eighth senior brother that covered with blood all over his body.
”Junior brother, quickly, come to Reflecting Pagoda now! The seventh brother is heavily injured! We have materials in hand, but even our Pill Masters and Physician failed to help!” his eighth brother pull him over quickly, without letting him have the opportunity to grab some of his belonging.
The two of them ran in a hurry and entered the Reflecting Pagoda without any obstruction. Inside the room, their seventh brother was surrounded by two physicians, two pill masters, which was continuously inspecting his condition while their master, Liang Tian is using his Inner Qi that went through the Sheng Tian Process to keep his life intact with the body.
A coagulated blood was extracted by one physician with a special container tool before he left that by the side, and return to remove all the coagulated blood.
When Zhang Wu Ji looked at his seventh brother's situation, he was speechless. No matter how it looks, his brother should be poisoned right? What is wrong with the two physician and pill masters? But when he looks at their method of medication, it was understandable. Coagulating Blood is a rare occasion, only seen sometimes when it came in contact with the toxin that can take life in a matter of hours.
Sneakily, he moves his hand over to the small container of blood, and inspect the item.
Coagulate Blood of Wen Yue
-Usage: a temporary antibody created by the body itself to reject the poison attack of Jade Toothed Bat
-Durability: 2/3
”Jade Toothed Bat?”
”Senior, did you people met with a Jade Toothed Bat before all this happened?” Zhang Wu Ji immediately noticed the origin of the issue, but before he can rashly act, he will need to know more information about this before they continue.
”Yes, we were attacked by a couple of Jade Toothed Bat when explores a cave, but as I know, Jade Toothed Bat does not possess any poison and weren't a deadly Wild Beast at all...” the fifth sister answered the question, but based on her experience, it was not something to be worried about.
”This is why! We are all not paying attention to the main reason why his situation become like this! The Jade Toothed Bat is not a poisonous creature, but it doesn't mean that their teeth are completely free from poison too! I suspect that the Jade Toothed Bat's cave is filled with poisonous Wild Beast, am I correct?” Zhang Wu Ji immediately shares his hypothesis in this matter and stops the physician from taking out the coagulated blood too much.
Sneakily, he upgraded the bottle of coagulated blood before he slaps a Wound Mending Pill into powder and mixed them together.
Wound Mending Pill with Coagulated Blood
-Usage: increase the poison resistance of Wen Yue
-Durability: 1/1
-Special: removes the Jade Toothed Bad Poison by 7%
”Please, senior, allowed my senior brother to consume this mixture, it will give him more time to struggles while we were looking for a cure.” he delivered the cube formed after mixing the Wound Mending Pill and Coagulated blood to the physician and turn his attention at the fifth and sixth sister.
”Senior sister, let me see the corpses, if they were still inside the Southern Bamboo Forest, we have to go there quickly before the item to removes the poison is gone!” Zhang Wu Ji hurried the two senior sisters to help him, but their eighth brother took five dead bodies of the Jade Toothed Bat and placing them on another table.
”This one should be the bat that bitten the seventh brother earlier! Help me to drain the blood and fill them into a container, I will return to prepare some medicine that can helps seventh brother recovery. Two physicians, I beg you to maintain my senior brother's heartbeat and stops the blood coagulating on his chest from entering his liver and heart.” Zhang Wu Ji did not wait for their answer but left in a hurry.
His quick response received a nod from all the elders inside the room, and while the fifth senior sister is still in confusion, their eldest brother came to urge her to hurry up. Immediately, they look for the container to fill the blood from the Jade Toothed Bat and bring the container to his courtyard.
When the sixth sister entered his courtyard, she finally realized the reason this youngest brother of theirs returns to his own courtyard. With the Furnace is fired at their full force, Zhang Wu Ji took the one and only ingots of Crystal Iron to be cut into eight pieces before he proceeds with the hammering.