Chapter 4760 — What on Earth Does That Mean
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Huo Yudie and the others exchanged glances, watching Wei Zhao with anxious faces. Fortunately, this time no dangerous arcs of lightning came crackling out—only Wei Zhao's reaction was rather strange. He had simply frozen in place, motionless.
"Wei Zhao?" Huo Yudie ventured cautiously, afraid he might be in danger again. But Wei Zhao paid her no heed, giving no response at all.
At that, Ning Xuefei and the others could not help growing nervous too. They exchanged a look and were about to rush over to see what was wrong when Wei Zhao finally raised his head, his expression as he looked at the women strangely inexplicable.
"How is it? How is it?" Shangguan Lan'er asked hastily.
"Well, I originally thought this batch of materials would be enough for at least one Thunder Profound Pill, and with some luck, two wasn't out of the question. But..." Wei Zhao's gaze came to rest at last on Huo Yudie, and he hesitated, swallowing back his words.
"Don't tell me it failed?" Huo Yudie's face went white at once. Still, this was what she had expected, so she forced a smile and said, "It's all right. If it failed, it failed. Actually, this is for the best—the Thunder Profound Vine has already been used up by me anyway, so Master won't have to go make that deal with Ren Zhongyuan."
Ning Xuefei and the others exchanged glances. That was easy enough to say, but this way Huo Yudie would surely incur heavy punishment from her master—this was no small matter, after all—and in the end Ren Zhongyuan might still get his way.
Wei Zhao shook his head, his expression unreadable, and instead asked, "Yudie, about what you said before—with this much Thunder Profound Vine, how many Thunder Profound Pills could Ren Zhongyuan's father guarantee to refine?"
"Four." Huo Yudie thought it over, then added, as if to console herself, "But that's only what Ren Zhongyuan himself said. Who knows whether he was talking nonsense—maybe they can't refine any at all. Maybe he just made it up to deceive people."
"Four? I don't know whether he was lying, but it's not impossible." Wei Zhao shook his head with a peculiar look. He reached into the Divine Farmer's Cauldron and pulled out a handful, and when he opened his palm, there lay several crystalline deep-blue pills, faint traces of lightning flickering within them.
Even if the women had never seen such a thing with their own eyes before, with such obvious characteristics how could they fail to understand? That was right—these were the legendary Thunder Profound Pills!
"Four?!" Huo Yudie took a careful look and was instantly dumbstruck—Wei Zhao had refined four Thunder Profound Pills in one go. That was a level only a top-tier seventh-grade alchemist could reach! With such skill, he could walk into any Yellow-Rank academy in the Eastern Continent and be its chief alchemist!
"Look again." Wei Zhao shook his head with a half-smile, then reached into the Divine Farmer's Cauldron with his other hand and pulled out another handful. When he opened it, Huo Yudie nearly fainted on the spot—four more!
Now even Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er were staring wide-eyed, speechless for a long while. From that tiny piece of Thunder Profound Vine, Huo Yudie had gotten eight Thunder Profound Pills at once—was this not a dream?!
Even for those top-tier seventh-grade alchemists, producing four at once was already extremely rare. But eight—double that amount—any fool could tell you it was simply impossible.
Yet no matter how unbelievable, the fact could not be changed: eight neat Thunder Profound Pills lay right before them, and there was no denying it!
Huo Yudie was utterly stunned. She rubbed her eyes desperately until the corners of her eyes twitched, and only then was she finally sure she was not seeing things. Dazed, she walked over to Wei Zhao's side and said, "Pinch me, will you? I want to see if I'm dreaming. It's been so long since I had such a vivid dream..."