Chapter 1776 — Suspicion, Part Two
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Old Wei had no choice but to inquire with several medicinal suppliers, but that yielded no results either. Wei Zhao had also set Fatso Lai to searching, yet even through the channels of Dr. Guan's pharmaceuticals there was still no word of the Anxie fruit. It seemed this particular ingredient really was somewhat rare.
"Could we do without this one ingredient?" Wei Zhao asked with a frown. But no sooner had he asked than he shook his head. "It should not be possible. The Anxie fruit serves throughout the prescription to suppress fire and calm the spirit — it cannot be omitted..."
With Wei Zhao's attainments in medicine, he could naturally understand the role each ingredient played in the prescription. Even if he could not have written such a prescription himself, he could certainly read it clearly.
"You already know, so why ask?" Old Wei shrugged. "I am powerless here. I found no common name for the Anxie fruit in the records — only some descriptions of its medicinal nature and principles. That proves the thing certainly exists, but where it grows, I do not know."
"True. There are many ingredients that suppress fire and calm the spirit; the Anxie fruit is hardly indispensable. If it were a rather uncommon ingredient, it would long since have been replaced by others... Wait — replaced!" Here Wei Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up. He slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "It can be substituted! Why did I not think of that sooner?"
"Hmm... as for substitution, there are indeed some ingredients whose medicinal nature and principles are close to it!" Old Wei nodded as well. "Let me look up the Anxie fruit's medicinal actions again and find one that is similar..."
"No need to look. I already know one!" Wei Zhao shook his head. It seemed he and Old Wei had both walked into a dead end. Altering prescriptions was his forte — the formula for the Golden Wound Medicine and the formula for the Life-Extending Detoxifying Pill had both been revised by Wei Zhao's own hand, and their efficacy had suffered no problem at all. So he was quite confident about this!
Over the next few days, Old Wei and Wei Zhao began preparing the body-tempering medicine. Tang Zhi, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu knew that Wei Zhao was preparing for further **, so naturally they did not disturb him. Besides, they had not yet had their fill of play — every day Ergoudan led them weaving through the mountain forests, and they were enjoying themselves immensely!
Once everything was ready and Wei Zhao had finished preparing both the internal and external body-tempering medicines, he made ready to enter seclusion. With Old Wei standing guard over his seclusion, Wei Zhao would be safest of all! Old Wei possessed attacking power not inferior to Ergoudan's — though Ergoudan was somewhat stronger, Old Wei was more than enough against ordinary foes. Moreover, Old Wei had one obvious advantage over Ergoudan: a physique akin to a master of the Golden Bell Shield, so ordinary people could do nothing to him.
The only thing was that Old Wei, like Ergoudan, could not leave West Star Village because of that spring.
Yet while Wei Zhao was in seclusion, scarcely had the Great Assembly of Clans ended when every hidden clan dispatched personages of weight to convene a grand assembly of the hidden clans, preparing to deliberate upon a momentous matter!