Chapter 4140 — The Sixth-Grade Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core
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He was intensely curious how Wei Zhao had suddenly raised the two women's strength to such a frightening realm, but he knew without asking that this must be the greatest secret Wei Zhao possessed, and the fewer who knew of it the better—after all, however one looked at it, this matter was simply too outrageous.
Before this, he had wondered whether it was unfair to Tian Chan and Xue Li that the two of them should serve Wei Zhao together; for fine as Wei Zhao was, both women were peerless beauties of heavenly beauty, the kind around whom all others gathered like stars around the moon wherever they went.
But now it seemed that following Wei Zhao was no indignity at all for them—rather, it was their tremendous good fortune!
Indeed, at this moment Di Xingdao could not help but feel a certain absurd sensation welling in his heart. He had always thought himself formidable enough, legendary enough; but compared with this Brother Wei Zhao, the deeds he had done in his day were mere child's play, not worth mentioning at all.
"Defy heaven" was no casual sigh of admiration from Di Xingdao; at this moment he truly felt that this fellow Wei Zhao was a monster capable of defying heaven itself!
As they were speaking, Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan arrived as usual on their daily visit of inquiry. Catching sudden sight of three top-tier Golden Core experts in Wei Zhao and the two women, their reactions were even worse than Di Xingdao's—their jaws dropped on the spot, and for a long while they could not say a word.
"A monster, you really are a monster—even our revered master, I fear, could not match you!" This was the unanimous conclusion everyone finally reached.
Wei Zhao could only smile bitterly at this, thinking to himself: that revered master of yours is my cheap master as well. If I'm a monster, then isn't the old gentleman a monster too?
Since the breakthrough had succeeded and they were out of seclusion, the Tian Dan Pavilion's business naturally had to reopen, and Tian Chan and Xue Li promptly fell back to their busy work—Xue Li, as ever, the chief manager of trade, while Tian Chan devoted herself to elixir refinement.
Now that her strength had surged to the early Golden Core stage, her speed of refinement, the quality of her elixirs, and her success rate had all risen markedly by a great margin compared with before; she even had a chance now of refining fourth-grade elixirs of top-tier quality. For the Tian Dan Pavilion, which relied solely on her and Wei Zhao to refine elixirs and supply its stock, this was naturally excellent news.
As for Wei Zhao, for the time being he could not attend to the Tian Dan Pavilion's business, for the reason was simple: he was busy refining the Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core for Di Xingdao!
Di Xingdao had the pill formula, and Hou Guanqi and Cai Zhongxuan supplied the materials; what remained for Wei Zhao to do was to attempt the refinement of this sixth-grade Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core.
He entered seclusion once more to refine elixirs. This time, sure enough, it was just as Wei Zhao had expected: once his strength reached the early Golden Core stage, the intensity of his true qi was already sufficient for refining sixth-grade elixirs. As for how to refine them, with the Shennong Cauldron, that automatic elixir-refining divine artifact, Wei Zhao did not need to worry overmuch.
The only thing he had to do was control the intensity of his true qi well, and thereby let the Shennong Cauldron govern the heat properly, then quietly wait for the refinement to finish.
After a full day and night, Wei Zhao did not disappoint the others: his very first attempt succeeded at one stroke, and he refined a Spirit-Infant Gathering Golden Core. When it finally reached Di Xingdao's hands, the way everyone looked at him had already turned to taking it all as a matter of course.