Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 983: Mid-grade Elixir

Chapter 983: Chapter 983: Mid-grade Elixir

When it came to formations, Fang Bai was truly an expert among experts, a master among masters. Although he only used a few thousand Essence Stones to set up a Mini Gathering Array, the effect of gathering Essence Energy was much stronger than that of the Gathering Essence Array the mysterious old man had set up during his lifetime.

"I may have taken your Essence Stones, but I also set up a better Gathering Essence Array for you, so I’ve done right by you."

Fang Bai collected the few thousand Essence Stones into his Spatial Ring. Seeing a slight bulge at the waist of the mysterious old man, his heart stirred and he walked over to crouch before him, feeling several jade bottles from the man’s waist.

These kinds of jade bottles were usually used for storing elixirs. As Fang Bai opened the lid of the jade bottles, he immediately sensed streams of Essence Energy emanating from within them.

There were a total of eight jade bottles: four contained Gathering Yuan Pills, two Explosive Essence Pills, and two Healing Pills.

The Gathering Yuan Pills could be used to gather Essence Energy and were indispensable auxiliary resources for a martial artist’s cultivation.

Explosive Essence Pills could provide martial artists with an instantaneous boost in power, playing a surprising and vital role in combat.

However, the Explosive Essence Pills also had significant side effects. After their effects ended, martial artists would feel almost drained for a period of time, and if strong enemies were to attack, they would find themselves in a dangerous situation.

As for the Healing Pills, as the name implies, they were very effective for healing the injuries of martial artists.

Therefore, these three types of elixirs were necessary for martial artists.

What delighted Fang Bai was that these three types of elixirs were all of mid-grade quality, far surpassing low-grade elixirs in both value and medicinal effect.

In the True Martial Realm, a single mid-grade elixir could certainly provoke a frenzy among martial artists.

For a fourth-tier Sect like Bitao Martial Academy, the elixirs they usually used were low-grade, and mid-grade elixirs were considered a luxury that remained tantalizingly out of reach for the disciples of Bitao Martial Academy.

Even for low-grade elixirs, every year Bitao Martial Academy had to bring a large amount of Cultivation Resources to Thousand Lakes Capital City to seek the help of pharmacists to refine them or to exchange them at the Cultivation Resource Exchange Market.

The Thousand Lakes Capital City was home to not only third-tier Sects but also gathered some pharmacists and artifact refiners. If martial artists in Thousand Lakes Country needed elixirs or Spiritual Artifacts, they would make their way there.

However, the pharmacists and artifact refiners in the Thousand Lakes Capital City were not of high level, only capable of producing low-grade elixirs or low-grade Spiritual Artifacts.

Although mid-grade elixirs were for sale at the capital city’s Cultivation Resource Exchange Market, the prices were exorbitant and beyond what ordinary Sects or martial artists could afford.

This demonstrated just how precious the eight bottles of mid-grade elixirs that Fang Bai had acquired were.

Of course, with Fang Bai’s current cultivation realm, as long as he had mid-grade Spiritual Medicines, he could refine mid-grade elixirs, and they would be even more outstanding than those refined by pharmacists of the same level.

While Bitao Martial Academy did cultivate some Spiritual Medicine, they were all low-grade. Even if Fang Bai wanted to refine mid-grade Spiritual Medicines to aid in cultivation, it would be equivalent to a skilled cook with no rice.

Fang Bai put the eight bottles of mid-grade elixirs he had collected into his Spatial Ring. However, after thinking for a moment, he took out two bottles of Explosive Essence Pills and two bottles of Healing Pills, planning to give them to Huang Miao and the other three.

Because whether it was Explosive Essence Pills or Healing Pills, they weren’t very useful for Fang Bai, but for Huang Miao and the others, they were extremely beneficial.

Even if they didn’t need it for themselves, in the future, they could take it to the Cultivation Resource Exchange Market in the Thousand Lakes Capital City to exchange for the Cultivation Resources they needed.

When Fang Bai left the center of the Stone Forest and returned to Huang Miao and the other three, he found that each of them was seated in front of a stone pillar, eyes slightly closed, True Yuan flowing around their bodies—they had already entered a Cultivation State.

Fang Bai didn’t disturb them and flashed out of the Stone Forest.

Outside the Stone Forest, those dozens of Antlered Silver Lions had still not left.

The Antlered Silver Lions were very intelligent; they knew that although Fang Bai and the others had hidden in the Stone Forest, they couldn’t possibly stay inside for too long. Thus, they patiently waited around the Stone Forest, biding their time until their prey was driven to leave due to hunger and thirst.

When Fang Bai’s figure appeared outside the Stone Forest, the Antlered Silver Lions became extremely excited, thinking that the human Martial Artists had been unable to endure staying within the Stone Forest.

However, when they realized that only Fang Bai had come out, they became furious.

So many Antlered Silver Lions, but only Fang Bai as prey—how could that be enough for them to share?

The enraged Antlered Silver Lions roared to the sky, but not one advanced to attack Fang Bai. They planned to first surround Fang Bai, preventing his escape, then patiently wait for the other four human Martial Artists to appear, and feast on their flesh together.

But what was unbearable for those Antlered Silver Lions was that the human Martial Artist not only showed no fear of them but also walked toward them with a face full of scornful, mocking smiles.

The human Martial Artist walked until he was only about a dozen meters away from them then stopped, lifting his right hand and casually flicking his fingers at them.

This provocative gesture immediately agitated the dozens of Antlered Silver Lions. Their eyes flashed with a cold light as they took on a charging stance, ready to launch an all-out assault at the signal of their leader, to kill and devour the despicable human Martial Artist.

"Roar!"

The strongest of the Antlered Silver Lions, the leader, let out a deep roar. Then one of the Antlered Silver Lions beside it shook its large body, bowed its massive head down, and aimed its antlered horns straight at Fang Bai.

"Whoosh!"

Like an arrow released from a bowstring, the Antlered Silver Lion launched itself at Fang Bai with high speed, bringing with it a wailing and stirring wind.

With the speed of that Antlered Silver Lion, the dozen-meter distance was closed in the blink of an eye, almost reaching Fang Bai.

Fang Bai stood as straight as a javelin, facing the fierce charge of the Antlered Silver Lion without a trace of fear or attempt to dodge. Suddenly, he lunged forward with both hands, and just as the Antlered Silver Lion was about to slam into his chest, he firmly grasped its two sharp antlers on top of its head.

Originally, the Antlered Silver Lion had not taken Fang Bai seriously at all, thinking that its charge would easily pierce through his body. But when Fang Bai’s hands gripped its antlers, the beast felt as though it had collided with a small mountain.

The small mountain stood unmoved, and the momentum of the lion’s charge came to an abrupt halt, while it felt that the hands of the human Martial Artist, clasping its antlers, were like incredibly tough steel ropes and iron locks, firmly binding them and rendering its struggle futile.

The Antlered Silver Lion, feeling humiliated, became extremely furious. It tossed its head upwards fiercely, hoping to fling Fang Bai up into the sky, but instead, Fang Bai used the momentum of this flick to leap up, flipping through the air before landing on its back.

Mounted by a human Martial Artist, the Antlered Silver Lion grew even more enraged. It spun in place, madly bucking and shaking its body in an attempt to fling Fang Bai to the ground, before viciously crushing him beneath its paws.