After sneaking out of Ai Si’s house, Yang Hao felt the urgency of time. According to Hun Yuanzi’s instructions, he had to officially start consuming the pills for cultivation within three days, or he would face life-threatening danger.
Therefore, Yang Hao needed to seize every second, striving to quickly produce the so-called pills. The first pill that Hun Yuanzi asked Yang Hao to produce had a terrible name: Dragon and Tiger Great Rejuvenation Pill.
Just by listening to the name, one could tell it wasn’t anything good—it sounded like fake medicine sold by warriors at roadside stalls.
However, the requirements for herbs to produce this pill were extremely strict. Yang Hao spent half a day searching meticulously on the back mountain and finally found the three required herbal ingredients. These three special crops were actually unique to the planet Laimeng. Recently, the Elder Council had been purchasing large quantities of these very three special crops.
Hun Yuanzi was truly a chaotic master. When Yang Hao had finally gathered all the materials and was contemplating how to start the pill-making process, Hun Yuanzi suddenly appeared.
“Oops!!”
Yang Hao was startled. “What’s wrong? What trouble have you gotten into this time?”
“This… hehe…” His laugh was quite ambiguous, clearly indicating he had messed up again. Yang Hao inwardly sighed in despair. With a master like this, his life was surely doomed. Who knew when, at a critical moment of life and death, this master might forget something or make a mistake.
“Just tell me what happened,” Yang Hao resignedly asked, already expecting the worst.
“I forgot one little thing… hahaha.” Hun Yuanzi looked particularly annoying.
Yang Hao’s face turned as hard as iron. “What did you forget?”
“It’s really not that big of a deal, just… making pills usually requires a furnace.”
Yang Hao let out a big sigh of relief. He had been so scared just now, thinking it was something serious. “So it’s just a furnace. I have an electric stove and an iron pot in my dorm. I can just use one of them.”
“It’s not that simple,” Hun Yuanzi, who had completely forgotten that he was the one who had made the mistake, started lecturing. “In our Dan Ding Sect cultivation practice, every step must be precise beyond error. The pill furnace is especially important. Each different pill requires its own specific furnace for refining.”
“What do you mean?” Yang Hao didn’t understand.
“It means you must go find a special pill-making furnace.”
“How special does it need to be?” Yang Hao patted the credit card in his pocket. “Where can I buy one, and how much does it cost?”
“This… this…” Hun Yuanzi hesitated.
A bad feeling started to rise in Yang Hao’s heart, as if he was being led into trouble again by this old man. “Speak up! What’s going on!!”
“The furnace required for the Dragon and Tiger Great Rejuvenation Pill is called the Refined Steel Fire Melting Furnace. It’s definitely not available for sale—you have to make it yourself.” Hun Yuanzi gulped, which looked very strange. “But, the problem is, making this kind of furnace is quite troublesome. It would be great if we could finish it in seven days.”
“Then let’s just make it,” Yang Hao replied, not yet realizing the problem.
“…”
After a long pause, a sudden thought struck Yang Hao, and he suddenly realized. “Damn it! Old man, come out here!”
“Umm… yeah…” Hun Yuanzi was clearly feeling guilty.
“You previously told me that I must take the pills within three days or my life would be in danger, right?” Yang Hao roared. “Now you’re telling me that building the pill furnace will take seven days. So what am I supposed to do before the furnace is ready?”
“This… indeed, this was the master’s oversight.”
“Of course it was your oversight!” Yang Hao was furious. “So what do we do now? Is there any other way to keep me alive before the furnace is done?”
“It doesn’t seem like there is.”
Yang Hao was stunned. He hadn’t expected death’s shadow to suddenly loom over him, leaving him at a loss: “So… there’s no way to fix this?”
“There is one way, of course there is.” But Hun Yuanzi didn’t sound happy at all.
“What way?”
Hun Yuanzi’s tone was solemn and sorrowful: “After you die, when my soul leaves my body and I go looking for a new disciple, I will definitely remember this lesson. I won’t let the next disciple follow your tragic path.”
“…”
“Don’t worry. I will preserve your title as the first disciple of the Spring Medicine Sect. When our sect becomes powerful and prosperous, future generations will always remember that you sacrificed yourself honorably for the sect!”
“You! Why! Don’t! You! Just! Die!” Yang Hao said through gritted teeth. He was truly furious.
Yang Hao sat heavily on the ground, staring at the full pockets of herbs. These things were now useless. He had been driven nearly to the brink of mental breakdown by this old ghost’s repeated mistakes.
Just as the two were at a loss, Yang Hao’s communicator suddenly rang.
“Big Head Hao, where the heck have you gone? Come and pick up your hover device already,” Amanda’s voice was as fierce as ever.
Yang Hao was already in a bad mood and responded impatiently: “I’m busy. You can just dismantle the machine and sell it.”
“You…” Amanda was clearly surprised. “Did Ai Si dump you? Why are you so angry? I spent three whole days making this hover device for you.”
Still furious, Yang Hao was about to argue when a sudden realization struck him, and he remembered an important point: “Three days? You said you spent three days making the hover device?”
“What about it?” Amanda was clearly upset that Yang Hao didn’t appreciate her efforts.
“But in engineering class, the teacher said that even in big factories, it takes five days to assemble a hover device.”
“That’s just stupid factories,” Amanda said proudly. “I come from a genius engineering family. Do you think we need that long?”
Yang Hao still found it hard to believe. “The hover device has so many complicated parts. No one could possibly install it in just three days.”
In fact, during engineering class at school, the teacher had used the hover device as an example to briefly explain some principles of anti-gravity devices. Therefore, Yang Hao knew how complicated the construction of a hover device was. Although he himself wouldn’t be able to assemble one even after a hundred years of study, even experts shouldn’t be able to finish it that quickly.
Amanda, however, was confident: “Of course it would be impossible if starting from scratch, but I renovated a used anti-gravity device, replacing all the parts so it’s as good as new. That’s how I finished it so quickly.”
“So you’re saying you can make anything faster than others?” Yang Hao asked eagerly.
“Obviously,” Amanda replied angrily. “At least twice as fast. I put in so much effort, and you still don’t appreciate it.”
“I do appreciate it! I really do!” Yang Hao quickly said. “I’m coming to you right away. Wait for me!!”
Amanda was startled. “What’s wrong? Why are you suddenly in such a hurry?”
But Yang Hao had already turned off the communicator. He focused all his energy on the flying technique and quickly flew toward Amanda’s nest-like dwelling.
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