Chapter 2247 — You'd Better Run
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Wei Zhao had refrained from taking it all this time because he could not bear to use it. Unless he reached the brink of life and death, he would never deploy it lightly! Although this Ultimate Stamina Golden Pill was merely a first-grade pill and Han Jingyi's current alchemical skill was more than sufficient to produce it in batches, the reason Wei Zhao treasured it had nothing to do with how difficult it was to refine. It was because one of its ingredients was exceedingly rare!
Of course, that rarity was relative. To the Hidden Tang Clan, it might amount to nothing, but to Wei Zhao, it was precious indeed! The reason was that this particular medicinal ingredient was monopolized by the Xuan Dan Sect. What found its way onto the market was only the dried herb, never the seeds; even Old Master Wei himself could not cultivate it in quantity.
Selling heavenly treasures, medicinal herbs, and finished pills was the Xuan Dan Sect's greatest source of wealth. The sect had grown steadily larger precisely because of this. It monopolized numerous resources in the cultivation world, and with that kind of advantage, it would have been difficult for it not to prosper.
Thus, once this Ultimate Stamina Golden Pill was used up, Wei Zhao would have no more. And if he wanted to obtain the raw materials for more, he could hardly approach the Xuan Dan Sect and ask for them outright!
Thinking of this, Wei Zhao felt somewhat regretful. When he had traded with You Panhu for the information, he should have exchanged for more of the herbs needed to refine the Ultimate Stamina Golden Pill.
But at the time, Wei Zhao had never imagined that even a first-grade pill would contain an ingredient monopolized by the Xuan Dan Sect. It was only when he left this time and was sorting through the belongings he carried with him that he remembered to look up the pill formula. He had not expected the result of his search to be this.
Yet under the present circumstances, no matter how rare the Ultimate Stamina Golden Pill was, he had to take it. If he did not, death was his only road!
"Furious Sea, Raging Tides - Twelfth Form!"
With the Heaven-Rank Madman sprawled on the ground and the Grand Protector's true qi freshly replenished and fully charged, he once more unleashed the Twelfth Form of Furious Sea, Raging Tides. Wrapped in azure true qi, the soft whip lashed mercilessly at the Heaven-Rank Madman again!
Wei Zhao was frantic, but he did not intervene at this moment. Instead, he rapidly refined the pill and continued circulating his inner cultivation method, compressing the true-qi energy bomb. The Ultimate Stamina Golden Pill truly was effective. Wei Zhao suddenly discovered that the speed at which his cultivation method circulated had been forcibly increased by more than twofold. No wonder it was called the Ultimate Stamina Golden Pill. It truly drove the body's vitality to its absolute limit!
"Bang!"
The soft whip struck the Heaven-Rank Madman, erupting once more in a thick cloud of blood mist. With a howl of pain, tinged with fury and unwillingness, the Heaven-Rank Madman staggered up from the ground, only to spit out a mouthful of blood. Clearly, he had been badly injured!
This time, the Heaven-Rank Madman had been unable to block the Grand Protector's Twelfth Form of Furious Sea, Raging Tides. The blow had landed squarely on him. How could he possibly have emerged unscathed? His trembling body swayed again and again before he finally managed to steady himself. His face was ashen, his entire appearance wretched.
"Old madman, how does that feel? Quite satisfying, isn't it?" the Grand Protector sneered. "A renowned expert at the peak of the late Heaven Rank, beaten into this miserable, pathetic state by a mere early-Heaven-Rank cultivator like me! Hahahahahaha!"
The Grand Protector's laughter was unbridled. Even he had never imagined that he could beat the Heaven-Rank Madman into such a sorry state.