novelraw Chapter 227 : Gaining the Beast's Heart
Chapter 227 : Gaining the Beast's Heart
The mirror image completely replicated Mu Chihuai's genius pill-refining techniques, successfully refining a heaven-grade pill, even completing it a quarter of an hour faster than Mu Chihuai.
It confidently hooked the corner of its lips, believing it had surely won this competition, when Mu Chihuai's pill was also completed—
The smile on the phantom's face instantly faltered. It was actually a heaven-grade Realm-Breaking Pill!
The Realm-Breaking Pill, true to its name, had a 50% chance of helping cultivators at bottleneck periods break through!
The mirror image suddenly sensed something was amiss. Its heart panicked, and without any sense of honor, it immediately moved against Sixth Senior Brother, this fragile pill cultivator, directly going to snatch the pill.
Chu Sang shook her head. Indeed, the mirror image was ultimately just a mirror image, just a mirror puppet wearing a human skin. The real Sixth Senior Brother would certainly never do something like robbing in broad daylight, like some hooligan.
Not good, the pill was snatched by that mirror image!
She frowned.
After triumphantly snatching the pill, the mirror image swallowed it without a second thought. Outside the scene, Chu Sang and Su Chen'an also tensed up, fearing that the mirror image would break through its realm with the help of the Realm-Breaking Pill. If that happened, Sixth Senior Brother would be completely finished.
She and Mo Qingchen had relied on forcibly breaking through their realms to exploit a bug and eliminate their mirror images. Sixth Senior Brother was actually doing the opposite. They hoped he wouldn't be eliminated by the mirror image, otherwise they would have to buy a good plot of land for Mu Chihuai's grave in advance.
The event the two were worried about didn't occur. The mirror image's cultivation didn't change at all. Instead, it suddenly fell ill, foaming at the mouth, its eyes rolling back... This, this didn't look like the signs of taking a pill, but rather the symptoms of poisoning.
Did Sixth Senior Brother refine a medicinal pill or a poison pill??
"You—you despicable person, you actually poisoned me!" The mirror image, with its last breath before death, angrily said.
"Ah, poison? How could I use poison? We were having a proper pill-refining competition, and you were watching on the side. Don't falsely accuse a good person." Mu Chihuai righteously said, "It's just that I might have made a small mistake while refining the heaven-grade pill, such as adding an extra ingredient, or getting the timing wrong. Alas, there's never been a 100% success rate for pill refining in this world. Even a genius like me occasionally makes mistakes."
He crouched down, propping his face with his hand, smiling as he looked at the mirror image, "But fortunately you helped me by eating it, otherwise the one lying on the ground now would be me. You're truly a good person......"
These words seemed to deliver the final blow to the mirror image, killing the body and destroying the spirit!
The mirror image's eyes were wide open, its bloodshot eyeballs almost protruding, glaring at Mu Chihuai like a vicious ghost. A few seconds later, it completely expired.
With that, the mirror surface shattered.
As soon as Mu Chihuai came out, he saw Chu Sang and the others waiting outside. Slightly surprised, seeing the confusion on his little junior sister's face, he crossed his arms and explained, "The pill formula wasn't wrong, I just 'accidentally' added an extra herb, Netherfire Leaf."
"When refined together with Biluoshui, an original ingredient in the pill, they react and become incompatible, turning into a deadly poison. It doesn't affect the pill's aura or quality from the outside, but once ingested, the two incompatible substances act simultaneously in the body. If someone with a weak constitution accidentally takes this pill, they're very likely to die suddenly."
He knew his own weak body too well. Taking such a pill would definitely kill him.
The phantom was naturally no exception.
Of course, Mu Chihuai wasn't omniscient and couldn't be certain that the mirror image would definitely snatch the pill, so he had made two preparations. While refining the pill, he had already taken an herb that could counteract the effects of Netherfire Leaf. If the mirror image hadn't snatched the pill, he would have taken it himself, gambling on successfully breaking through the mirror and then defeating the mirror image.
But if that mirror image was foolish enough to actually try to snatch the pill, then he would 'accidentally' give the pill to the other party, sending it on its way.
This mirror image imitated quite well, but its brain was still a bit lacking, being secretly manipulated by Mu Chihuai.
"Only you three? The others haven't come out yet?" Just as Mu Chihuai finished speaking, another breakthrough sound rang out. The three turned to look and saw it was Shang Ziling, that senior sister from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect. Her condition wasn't good either, clearly having gone through a fierce battle.
In the latter half of the day, several more disciples came out successively, including sword cultivator disciples and pill cultivator disciples.
Chu Sang's attention had been focused on her own sect's senior brothers and sisters. She leaped into the air to look at the situation on Third Senior Sister Wen Renyue's side.
The mirror image on the opposite side had also copied Wen Renyue's appearance, but unlike the others, this mirror image Wen Renyue was clearly not the Third Senior Sister in Chu Sang's memory.
The mirror image wore a somewhat provocatively stylish purple robe, with deliberately heavy smoky makeup, red lips and alluring eyes. The clothing was so scant it made one blush, revealing a slender waist. Around the waist was wrapped an exaggerated snake-shaped long whip. A femme fatale, but...... why did this outfit look so much like the demon race??
In Chu Sang's impression, such a flamboyant and slightly gaudy style was completely the taste of the demon race. For example, even Yan Wangxing, a dignified demon lord, didn't usually dress properly, exposing half his chest muscles, simply outrageously flamboyant.
Chu Sang recognized the mirror image and the real Third Senior Sister at a glance.
The real Third Senior Sister was dressed much more normally, exactly as she remembered.
Wen Renyue was also covering her face, looking utterly mortified, as if unwilling to acknowledge this as her mirror image.
The mirror image copied was indeed Wen Renyue, but not as she was now, rather as she had been in the demon realm.
Wen Renyue had been expelled from the demon race when she was in her teens and came to the cultivation world.
The mirror image woman before them, more accurately, was not the Wen Renyue of those years, but rather that lingering demonic side remaining in her heart.
The beast demons on both sides were fighting fiercely, one side's beast demons filled with brutal demonic energy, while the other side's beast demons were righteous and upright. It was difficult to determine a victor.
Beast tamers' combat strength wasn't strong; they generally controlled their subordinate beast demons, commanded beast demons, or assisted in battle.
This was the first time Wen Renyue had encountered such a thorny situation. Her beast demons had suffered quite a few injuries and didn't want to fight anymore.
"There, there, come back." She stepped forward, lovingly stroking the head of that Heaven-Devouring Python, taking out a pill to feed it before returning it to the beast pouch.
In contrast, because the beast demons on the mirror image's side hadn't achieved victory, they were loudly scolded by the mirror image. It even pulled out the snake whip from its waist, viciously lashing those beast demons, "Bunch of useless things, you can't even kill a woman. What's the use of keeping you!!"
The demonic beast demons under her command didn't dare to resist, but their gazes towards Wen Renyue contained a hint of envy, especially when they saw Wen Renyue actively helping the injured beast demons heal. The eyes of those demonic beast demons clearly changed.
The stark contrast between the two sides.
It was enough to make the beasts envious and jealous!