Chapter 2742 — A Task for You
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
In the Xuandan Sect, Kang Jingming had just been made the Eighth Elder, and he had refined the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill. This ought to have been a joyous occasion, but then something major happened! Xuanzhen Ancestor had actually failed to refine the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill!
"Impossible? How could this be? With my skill in pill refinement, I actually failed?" Xuanzhen Ancestor frowned tightly, staring at the medicinal residue that had turned into a pile of black ash inside the cauldron. No matter how he thought about it, he could not understand it—even Kang Jingming, who had **come out of** him, could refine the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill, so why couldn't he?
However, after a second attempt, Xuanzhen Ancestor gave up. It was still a failure, which showed that the failure could not have been caused by some slip of his—rather, he simply could not refine it! Could it be that the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill Kang Jingming refined once again had no effect on him?
Xuanzhen Ancestor had no choice but to give Kang Jingming large quantities of rare treasures of heaven and earth that restored physical strength and true qi, enabling him to refine another Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill!
As Xuanzhen Ancestor had expected, Kang Jingming succeeded. Although the quality was still not all that good, it was indeed a success! And this time, Xuanzhen Ancestor had watched the entire refining process from beginning to end—it was no different in any way from his own refining. Yet Kang Jingming succeeded, while Xuanzhen Ancestor failed!
"Something is off. There must be a problem with this pill formula!" Although Xuanzhen Ancestor had not discovered where the problem in the formula lay, after turning it over and over in his mind, he could only ultimately attribute the problem to the formula itself.
Otherwise, why could Kang Jingming refine the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill while he could not? Yet he could also be certain that what Kang Jingming had refined was indeed the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill, because after taking it, its effects were exactly the same as the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill recorded in the ancient texts—Xuanzhen Ancestor could feel it.
This time, the Marrow-Washing Bone-Cleansing Pill Kang Jinglong had refined was not taken by Xuanzhen Ancestor again, but was carefully sent away. Still, Xuanzhen Ancestor was not quite ready to give up, so he summoned Kang Jingming.
"Zhaoming, tell me carefully—where exactly did this pill formula come from?" Xuanzhen Ancestor did not know the formula's origins; he had not given it much thought before, but now that the refinement had failed, he intended to inquire in detail about its provenance.
"This pill formula is..." Kang Jingming did not dare conceal anything. He told Xuanzhen Ancestor about kidnapping Guan Xin back then and extorting the formula from Wei Zhao, though the means had been somewhat unsavory. But none of it was a secret; even if Kang Jingming had said nothing, Xuanzhen Ancestor could have obtained the answer from the Xuandan Sect all the same.
"What? Wei Zhao gave you this pill formula?" Xuanzhen Ancestor's eyes went wide with disbelief! The conflict between Xuanchen Ancestor and Wei Zhao a few days earlier had not escaped Xuanzhen Ancestor's notice. He had had reservations about what Little One and Little Eleven had done, but fortunately neither Chief Bai nor his **Wei Zhao** had suffered anything serious, and even Han Jingyi had returned to the classroom hopping and skipping about, which had finally let Xuanzhen Ancestor breathe a sigh of relief.
"Yes. Could it be that this formula is fake?" From Xuanzhen Ancestor's tone and from what had happened before, Kang Jingming had more or less guessed some of what was going on.