Chapter 4921 — You Really Can Refine Pills?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Oh, so that's what you meant!" Only then did Ni Caiyue catch on. She thought for a moment and said, "I heard my master mention it before—it seems you give them half once the pills are formed, and if the refinement fails, then you get nothing at all."
"Then how many Nurturing Mystery Pills can this stalk of Nurturing Mystery Grass of yours be refined into?" Wei Zhao asked again.
"That..." Ni Caiyue tilted her head and thought for a long while, then carefully took out the Nurturing Mystery Grass from her bosom and measured it with her hands for a good while. Finally she raised her head and looked at Wei Zhao foolishly, saying with little certainty, "It seems like enough for four portions? If we're lucky, maybe we could refine four Nurturing Mystery Pills!"
"Four portions of materials and you expect to refine four Nurturing Mystery Pills? Is your academy's pill refiner so confident in refining seventh-grade pills? Could it be guaranteed success?" Wei Zhao asked doubtfully.
"What's guaranteed success?" Ni Caiyue tilted her head and thought for another long while, then roughly guessed what Wei Zhao meant and shook her head again and again. "That's definitely impossible. You'd need great luck to refine four. Ordinarily even one or two would be quite good."
"In that case, let me refine them for you. I guarantee you three Nurturing Mystery Pills—what do you say?" Wei Zhao proposed.
"Really? You're fooling me, aren't you?" Ni Caiyue was startled at once. She was not truly stupid; even the academy's chief pill refiner would not dare make such a boast, and no normal person would rashly believe a stranger they had met only once.
Could this fellow be trying to trick her out of her Nurturing Mystery Grass? Ni Caiyue hastily clutched her chest once more and stared at Wei Zhao warily.
"Why would I fool you?" Wei Zhao gave her a helpless glance and said mildly, "If I really had my eye on that stalk of Nurturing Mystery Grass, I'd just snatch it outright. Why go to all this trouble? Think about it yourself—a few measly weaklings chased you into such a sorry state. If I truly wanted to rob you, how much effort do you think it would take?"
"That..." Ni Caiyue thought earnestly for a moment and seemed to feel there was indeed some sense in it. Then her little face suddenly turned stern. "Even so, you can't snatch it!"
"I never even thought of snatching it!" Wei Zhao said with a dark face. If not for the need to get a few Nurturing Mystery Pills for himself and his companions, he swore he would never waste words on this silly girl—it would honestly worry a man to death.
"Oh, that's good then. But can you really refine Nurturing Mystery Pills? You don't even have a beard!" Ni Caiyue questioned again.
"What connection is there between whether I can refine Nurturing Mystery Pills and whether I have a beard?" Wei Zhao could not help but stare blankly at this.
"Of course there is! Seventh-grade pill refiners are all white-bearded old grandpas. You're not!" Ni Caiyue said, as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
Good heavens! Wei Zhao nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood. Holding a conversation with this silly girl truly broke through the heavens—even facing that vengeful spirit's primordial spirit earlier had not given him such a headache!
To be honest, he now had the urge to simply turn and leave. To hell with Nurturing Mystery Pills, whatever they were!
In the end, however, Wei Zhao held his temper in check and forced out a smile that could just about pass for amiable. "I am a seventh-grade pill refiner. If you believe me, then give me the Nurturing Mystery Grass to refine, and when it's done I guarantee you three Nurturing Mystery Pills. If you don't believe me, that's fine too—we'll part ways here. You know the way out yourself anyway, so let's meet again someday."