Shocking the Nine Heavens With My Sword
Chapter 543 - 522 Bone Talisman Master (1/3)

"Please allow Yuyan to broaden her horizons, sir!" Mo Yuyan said. Though she was one realm higher than Evil Cloud Pharmacist, her tone was still very polite, showing great regard for him.

Zhou Heng had talked at length with Yang Lanxin before and had gained a certain understanding of the Immortal Realm. He knew that the scarcity of pharmacists in the Immortal Realm meant that even those with modest achievements would be highly sought after by various powers.

A pharmacist’s status is not represented by their cultivation level.

In the Immortal Realm, pharmacists are divided into ten levels, with One Star being the lowest and Ten Stars the highest. Starting from an Eight Stars Pharmacist, they are respectively known as Earth Pharmacist, Heavenly Pharmacist, and Holy Pharmacist. Earning such a title is something all pharmacists dream of.

It is said that the Forty-Nine Immortal City has a Pharmacists Association and that only those certified by the Pharmacists Association can be considered true pharmacists. Otherwise, anyone declaring themselves a pharmacist would be met with the collective hostility of all pharmacists in the forty-nine cities.

If any power dares to protect such a person, that power would also be regarded as a public enemy by all pharmacists!

Pharmacists hold an extremely esteemed position in Immortal City, and no force would ever want to make an enemy of the entire Pharmacists Association, as that might cause their own power to crumble instantly.

But it was unknown which star the Evil Cloud Pharmacist belonged to.

"Cackle cackle cackle, Miss Four will certainly not be disappointed!" Evil Cloud Pharmacist took out a dose of Mind-losing Powder and forced Zhou Heng to swallow it.

Yang Lanxin cursed a few times before despairingly falling silent. What use was the screaming of a mere ant? She used to stand in Mo Yuyan’s position, treating human lives as grass, and she too showed no compassion and did not take the reactions of others to heart.

Such is the Cruelty of the Immortal Realm.

"Ah—!" Zhou Heng emitted a scream of agony, the potency of the pill had started to act, circulating within him and cutting through his viscera like knives.

The pain reached deep into his heart!

The power of the Mind-losing Powder grew stronger with each dose, and even just this first stage made Zhou Heng wish for death.

What was worse, the last two remaining columns in the cage had been refined by him in the morning, extracting their essence. Now he truly had nothing left to rely on!

This improved Mind-losing Powder reduced its initial phase duration significantly. In just under two minutes it began affecting Zhou Heng’s brain, as if ten thousand ants were simultaneously gnawing at his mind. The agony was beyond words.

Having not yet recovered from the pain of the morning, his Divine Sense was weak, and he became even more sensitive to the pain. In less than a minute, his whole body trembled violently, and he was covered in a rolling cold sweat.

Seeing this, Mo Yuyan couldn’t help but show a disdainful expression, saying, "Sir, this person is nothing more than this!"

The Evil Cloud Pharmacist’s anger swelled, but not towards Mo Yuyan—it was directed at Zhou Heng. How could this boy fail at this moment and cause him to lose face in front of Mo Yuyan!

Zhou Heng’s body shook tremendously. Though he resisted with all his might, human strength sometimes has its limits, and he eventually reached his breaking point.

Boom!

The power of the medicine surged, breaking through his last line of defense and began to erode towards his Sea of Consciousness.

The obliteration of Divine Sense was imminent!

The Mind-losing Powder’s potency began to completely dominate Zhou Heng’s mind, but just then, a medicinal force struck the top of his head.

Normally this would be insignificant, for how could a skull bite someone? A regular person’s skull indeed wouldn’t, but Zhou Heng’s skull... still had a corner of a Rune left by Huo Tian!

This Rune was only a corner, and given Zhou Heng’s realm, he couldn’t possibly activate it himself.

But there are no absolutes. His inability to actively trigger it did not mean that the Bone Talisman ceased to exist! Like Huo Tian, it would activate when attacked. Except that Zhou Heng’s Bone Talisman was just a small part and could not compare to Huo Tian, where every bone had a Rune.

Huo Tian would automatically trigger the Rune upon being attacked, while Zhou Heng was far from that powerful, only activating it when the top of his head was under attack.

And now was just such a moment!

Boom!

The Bone Talisman went berserk, a Golden Light surged out, violently striking back at the medicinal force. The might of the Bone Talisman could not be measured by common sense—everything it swept through was obliterated like snow under boiling water, utterly unstoppable.

Be it Mind-losing Powder or Mind-losing Madness, all were annihilated!

Zhou Heng’s originally vacant eyes instantly brightened, and amusingly, as the Bone Talisman wiped out the medicinal force, Black Sword, the great master, gave a slight stir. The medicinal force was completely absorbed and transformed into streams of Spiritual Power, assailing the Restriction imposed on him by Mo Yuyan.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Time after time, as the medicinal force was totally consumed, although the restriction on Spiritual Power wasn’t broken, it did create a crack!

Using this as a gap, with just a few more instances like this, he would surely be able to regain his Spiritual Power and Deities!

How refreshing!

Zhou Heng said in his heart, but his face showed an expression of unbearable pain, he deliberately screamed incessantly, but each cry was lower than the last, each separated by longer intervals of time.

After dragging on for two full hours, he said with a look of utter exhaustion, "Is this little bit of power all there is? Truly unimpressive. Bring on something more powerful!"

The Evil Cloud Pharmacist was both shocked and delighted, and said, "Fourth Miss, this kid actually held on again! I was right, wasn’t I? This kid is truly an extraordinary drug tester!"

Mo Yuyan also showed a trace of surprise. She had thought that Zhou Heng would surely fall, but to her astonishment, he had once again staunchly pulled through!

This guy is a bit weird!

But why would she, with merely a drug tester, take him seriously? She scanned Zhou Heng and said, "Since the gentleman has acquired such a drug tester, please feel free to proceed and concoct the medicine I need!"

"Fourth Miss, rest assured, I will not let you down," the Evil Cloud Pharmacist guaranteed, patting his chest.

Mo Yuyan nodded and turned to leave.

"Hehehe, kid, you’ve performed well, so starting from tomorrow, I will prepare many feasts for you, and it won’t just be Mind-losing Powder!" The Evil Cloud Pharmacist laughed heartily. He could do his testing to his heart’s content now.

"Just bring it on!" Zhou Heng said "weakly," yet his tone was not without bravado.

Yang Lanxin, however, was filled with concern. Having been protected by this man all along, she had been restrained in her cultivation but had not suffered the slightest, how could she not feel moved?

She had originally seen Zhou Heng merely as a subordinate worth recruiting, but after sharing adversity over these past few days, she had begun to regard Zhou Heng as a friend.

The saying goes, adversity reveals true friendship, and it was indeed so.

"I’m fine! I’m really fine!" Zhou Heng waved his hands and said. A few days earlier, he had been comforting Yang Lanxin, but this time it was the truth. Not only was he fine, but he had also gained some benefits.

Yang Lanxin was touched. This man still didn’t want her to worry up until now; he truly paid attention to the smallest details!

Although Zhou Heng’s strength was still not on par with her own, given his terrifying talent, as long as he could survive this catastrophe and return to the Yang family, leveraging the Yang family’s resources to cultivate him, he would definitely reach or even surpass her father’s level in less than a thousand years!

Such a man might indeed be worthy of her!

Pah pah pah, what is she even thinking about at a time like this! She’s actually pondering such matters!

Yang Lanxin sighed to herself. Although Zhou Heng was still holding on, their future was inevitably doomed to darkness, would the Mo Family ever let them go? It was absolutely impossible without even thinking about it.

If death was certain, why not be a bit kinder to Zhou Heng?

In that moment, Yang Lanxin put away her ambition, her ruthlessness, and even if it was just to comfort Zhou Heng, she wanted to make sure he felt some affection at the end of his life, rather than only pain.

This was the only way she could repay Zhou Heng.

Looking at him with a "deeply affectionate and pitiful" gaze, Zhou Heng was all tangled up.

Please, you’re not a bewitchingly charming beauty right now but rather a super off-putting fat lady. Could you please be a little more reserved and not make all my skin crawl with goosebumps.

He very decisively pretended to faint, since every time he endured past the effect of the Mind-losing Powder, this was his reaction, and there was no need to worry about raising Yang Lanxin’s suspicions.

Sure enough, after that night passed, the Evil Cloud Pharmacist seemed to have started a battle with Zhou Heng, bringing out drug after drug to push Zhou Heng to his limits!

Heartbreaking Pills, Darkening Pills, Blood Yang Ointment—this old pervert revealed one after another of his proudest skills, all carefully measured; he didn’t want to kill Zhou Heng, but rather to test for deficiencies in the drugs’ properties.

Zhou Heng, too, had gained experience. After resisting slightly, he deliberately guided the drugs’ power to the top of his head, thus provoking a counterattack from the Bone Talisman, instantly neutralizing the drug’s power, which was then transformed into pure energy by Black Sword to assault the restrictions set by Mo Yuyan.

If Mo Yuyan’s restrictions were a dam, then by now Zhou Heng had quietly carved a breach which continued to widen. Given enough time, he would definitely be able to smash through the dam.

Mo Yuyan came by several more times, and Zhou Heng’s persistence finally left a deep impression on her heart. But that was all. She was more concerned about the pills concocted by the Evil Cloud Pharmacist.

On the seventeenth day, during Mo Yuyan’s fifth visit, the Evil Cloud Pharmacist proposed an idea to her.

"Fourth Miss, this kid may just be the Medicine Man I’ve been dreaming of!"

"Are you sure, sir?"

"Absolutely, otherwise how could this kid have withstood so many poisons!"

"...Then please proceed to refine him into a Human Pill," Mo Yuyan coldly demanded, without the slightest bit of mercy on her face, as if she were talking about stir-frying a plate of mushrooms and greens.

"Hehehe, Fourth Miss, rest assured, I can’t wait to refine a Human Pill too!" The Evil Cloud Pharmacist cackled, even licking his lips as if he were salivating over it.

After Mo Yuyan left, he approached the cage and said, "Kid, you haven’t disappointed me! To thank you for the surprise you’ve given me, I’ve decided to immortalize you by refining you into a Human Pill!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast recommendation votes and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)