Chapter 2038
byAlthough these herbal medicines placed in the grooves of the stone platform had no smell when smelled, their toxicity was so fierce that Yang Kai couldn’t help but click his tongue again and again.
But if he wanted to leave this damned place, he could only complete the requirements described by the small characters on the stone platform. Yang Kai gritted his teeth and tasted those unknown herbal medicines again.
It took him a full half a day to taste all the medicinal materials that he didn’t recognize and couldn’t determine whether they were poisonous or not.
The various pains and tortures among them were simply indescribable to outsiders. If it weren’t for Yang Kai’s robust physique and powerful recovery ability, even if he wasn’t poisoned to death, he would have lost most of his life.
Even so, he still couldn’t gather the number of fifteen.
“Why is it only thirteen kinds？” Yang Kai stood in front of the stone platform, his brows furrowed into a ball, with a confused expression on his face.
Since the owner of this cave left such a difficult problem for those who enter to solve, he definitely wouldn’t deliberately play tricks on people. In other words, among these twenty-five kinds of medicinal materials, there are indeed fifteen kinds that are poisonous.
But Yang Kai has used the three methods of looking, smelling, and tasting, and can only determine that thirteen kinds have toxicity. The remaining two can’t be found no matter what.
Why is this？ His gaze swept over the grooves on the stone platform one by one, and he just couldn’t find the remaining two from them no matter what.
Just when Yang Kai was at a loss in front of the stone platform, all the martial artists who entered this cave were facing the same difficult problem.
The martial artists of the Blazing Fire Palace basically all practice fire-attribute skills, so the first stone room simply couldn’t stump them. Like Yang Kai, they also poured fire-attribute power into the stone platform and were then teleported to the second stone room.
Even Kang Siran easily passed the test of the first stone room.
And now, everyone has been stumped by the difficult problem in the second stone room.
In a certain stone room, a disciple of the Blazing Fire Palace looked at those twenty-five kinds of medicinal materials and scratched his ears and cheeks for a while.
He, who is not an alchemist, doesn’t even recognize what these herbs are, let alone how to distinguish whether they are poisonous or not. After looking at them for a long time, he finally selected several kinds of medicinal materials that he was sure were poisonous. The rest, however, he could no longer distinguish.
Watching the time pass by continuously, the disciple of the Blazing Fire Hall gritted his teeth and randomly took out a medicinal herb from the groove.
And the moment he took out this medicinal herb, the entire stone chamber suddenly hummed. The stone platform in front of him sank at an extremely fast speed and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The martial artist’s complexion changed in surprise, and he hurriedly drifted backward, with all his strength operating in case of accidents.
The buzzing sound came out. In the stone chamber, little lights suddenly flickered. The lights were dense and full of all directions. Youdaoplaceholder0 there were actually hundreds of them. At first glance, they seemed like the eyeballs of fierce beasts making people shudder.
The next moment, these flickering lights trembled slightly and bombarded the martial artist together. The terrifying and horrifying energy fluctuations fluctuated leisurely.
Seeing this, a look of despair immediately appeared on the face of this martial artist of the Blazing Fire Hall. He only had time to roar in his mouth before being drowned by the countless lights.
After a while, when the light dissipated, this disciple of the Blazing Fire Hall had disappeared in place. Only a pool of crimson blood and torn pieces of cloth on the ground proved the existence of this person before.
Not only this disciple of the Blazing Fire Palace met with misfortune. All those martial artists who chose the wrong medicinal herbs had triggered the restrictions within the stone chamber and were instantly killed on the spot within a single breath. Their bones and corpses did not remain.
In another stone chamber, Kang Siran’s expression was solemn as he took out a medicinal herb from the groove on the stone platform in front of him. After waiting for a moment and finding that he was safe and sound, he couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of relief.
Although he was not an alchemist, as the shopkeeper of the Spirit Pill Workshop and a native martial artist of the Star Boundary, in terms of his knowledge and experience of medicinal herbs, he was much better than Yang Kai at present. After all, he could be considered a person who dealt with medicinal materials all day long.
Therefore, although the test in this second stone chamber was also somewhat difficult for him, it was not without hope of passing.
In yet another stone chamber, Lian Yuming, the Deputy Palace Master of the Blazing Fire Palace, Youdaoplaceholder0 at the twenty-five types of medicinal herbs on the stone platform in front of him. His approach was extremely fast and smooth as he selected more than ten of them in one go. Then, after some pondering, he selected several more to make thirteen in total. Moreover, the types of medicinal herbs he chose were exactly the same as those that Yang Kai had painstakingly determined.
There were only two kinds left.
Lian Yuming’s gaze was like electricity, shuttling among the remaining medicinal herbs. In his mind, he searched for the knowledge he had mastered about herbs. After an incense stick of time, he suddenly smiled slightly and calmly took out the remaining two types of medicinal herbs from the groove.
And when he took out the last two types of medicinal herbs, the place where he was standing suddenly lit up with light, and a teleportation array emerged leisurely teleporting him elsewhere. At the same time the stone platform in the stone room slowly sank down.
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In the stone room, Yang Kai still had a worried look on his face. During the previous period of time, he carefully identified the remaining medicinal herbs again, but still couldn’t determine which two were poisonous.
Just when he was at a loss, suddenly, as if he remembered something, his eyes lit up.
Immediately, he quickly took down a part of each of the remaining herbs and then combined them two by two, carefully rubbing and grinding them.
After a while, when he combined two of the medicinal herbs and rubbed them together, a pungent and spicy smell suddenly spreads out from his fingertips. Thissmell makes people feel dizzy when they smelled it, and there was also a burning sensation on the fingertips.
Yang Kai circulated his profound energy to disperse the discomfort in his heart With a happy expression on his face he laughed and said, “It’s you two for sure.”
In this world, some medicinal materials are originally non-toxic, but if they are used in combination with some special medicinal materials, they may become highly toxic substances. This kind of common sense is not only applicable in the alchemy world, but also quite common in the lives of some ordinary people who have not cultivated.
Yang Kai didn’t think of this aspect at first, but the current situation proves that his idea is correct.
With a determined look on his face, he took the two medicinal materials that had a reaction out of the grooves and placed them aside.
The next moment, a teleportation array appeared at his feet. After a flash of light, Yang Kai’s eyes went dark and the feeling of teleportation came again.
When he stabilized his figure again, he turned his head and looked around, and immediately showed a nonchalant look, nodding and saying, “Sure enough！”
The place where he was located was still a stone chamber, and there was no difference from the previous stone chambers. In the middle position, there was also a stone platform.
At this point, Yang Kai already had a vague guess about the function of this place in his heart, and judging from the various clues before, there was a high probability that this was really the cave of the alchemy master Gongsun Mu.
He suppressed the joy in his heart and stepped forward to come to the stone platform.
Looking closely, he found that there were three exactly the same medicinal materials placed on the stone platform. Judging from the aura emitted by these medicinal materials, their quality should not be high, probably only at the Void Return level.
Reaching out and brushing away the dust on the stone platform, Yang Kai looked at the thing on the stone platform and immediately understood the test content of this stone room.
It was actually to condense the medicinal liquid.
As long as the purity reached a certain level, the teleportation formation in the stone room could be activated.
Condensing the medicinal liquid was not a difficult task for Yang Kai at all. Since he started refining pills, he had done this job thousands or even tens of thousands of times. Moreover, he also had the special power of the Divine Sense Fire, which could make it easier to condense the medicinal liquid and remove various impurities in the medicinal liquid.
And it was not very difficult to condense the medicinal liquid from a Void Returning-level medicinal herb.
With this thought in mind, he no longer hesitated and activated his Divine Sense Fire to wrap one of the medicinal herbs.
A moment later, that medicinal herb was transformed into a drop of green liquid, and various impurities kept flying out of it, making the green liquid even clearer and more transparent.
Because he already had some guesses about the various tests here in his heart, Yang Kai spared no effort when condensing the medicinal liquid and performed extremely perfectly.
When he completely condensed the three medicinal herbs into medicinal liquid and placed them back into the grooves of the stone platform, the familiar teleportation formation emerged again.
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For the next several days, Yang Kai spent them in one stone chamber after another. The tests given in each stone chamber were all different. There were tests on engraving spirit arrays during alchemy, tests on refining spirit pills, tests on grasping the heat… The tests were all kinds of strange things.
But all the content couldn’t get away from the word alchemy.
By this time, Yang Kai could completely confirm the guess in his heart before.
This was definitely Gong Sunmu testing the successors’ mastery of the alchemy technique. He himself was an alchemy master, and it was not surprising that he would test in this area.
As a generation of alchemy master, naturally he hoped that his relics could be obtained by those who were also alchemists, rather than being taken away by some irrelevant people. The many tests before could completely determine whether a person was a qualified alchemist.
Perhaps, Gong Sunmu also wanted to find an heir to his mantle for himself.
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In the stone chamber, Yang Kai put a newly refined spirit pill into the groove of the stone platform. After a while, the familiar teleportation feeling came, and with a flash of light, he disappeared again.
When Yang Kai regained his vision and looked around, his face couldn’t help but show a hint of joy.
Because the place where he was now was finally not that kind of unchanging stone chamber, but in a corridor.
The passage was extremely dry, and there was a faint glimmer of fire and strange gurgling sounds coming from the front. The scorching breath filled the surroundings, giving one an inexplicable feeling of falling into a magma.
Yang Kai circulated his strength to protect himself and walked step by step towards the source of the fire.
Moments later, he entered a karst cave.
It was unknown how many zhang deep this karst cave was underground. There were no artificial traces, and it seemed to be naturally formed.
In the front, a ball of red fire was shining. Yang Kai narrowed his eyes and looked over, only to find that the fire was actually a flowing magma！ The magma converged into a pool, and from time to time, one or two bubbles would emerge from below, burst open, and splash.
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