The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 268: Refining the King-Breaking Pill

As Long Xuan was discussing a get-rich-quick plan with the crew, a man in white suddenly descended from the sky.

Long Xuan’s pupils contracted. This was no small matter—a peak-grade Gu King had arrived. What was he here for?

"Hello, my name is Leng Qianqiu. I am the lord of this island. I’ve come to ask for your help in refining the King-Breaking Pill!" Leng Qianqiu introduced himself directly the moment he landed.

“You can name any reward you want, and I will try my best to satisfy it!” Leng Qianqiu got straight to the point.

Upon hearing this, the crew became tense, their expressions mirroring Leng Yan’s.

Goodness, he came to ask the captain to refine the King-Breaking Pill? The captain is only a second-grade alchemist—how could he possibly refine such a thing? This is going to be difficult for the captain. Now there’s real trouble.

Why did he have to pretend to be a third-grade alchemist? Now, it’s all over—he’s attracted the Gu King, and not just any, but an island lord.

Everyone’s faces were filled with worry. They couldn’t help but wonder if the island lord would become furious and arrest them all when the captain’s true identity was exposed.

Contrary to their expressions, Long Xuan’s face remained calm.

What was there to fear? He could indeed refine third-grade pills.

Since the island lord wanted him to refine a third-grade spiritual pill, he’d just do it. No big deal.

So at this moment, Long Xuan wasn’t worried at all and didn’t give the matter much thought.

Refining the King-Breaking Pill could at least get him a free pill recipe—that wasn’t bad.

“No problem! No problem. A mere King-Breaking Pill? A small matter!” Long Xuan said nonchalantly.

“As for the reward, let’s leave that aside for now. Lord Leng, do you have extra rooms? I don’t need much, just one hundred and ten rooms,” Long Xuan stroked his beard arrogantly.

Don’t ask why he had a beard—it was because he used a Face-Changing Gu to disguise himself as an older man to appear more mysterious.

Hearing this, the crew couldn’t help but cringe. Refining the most difficult King-Breaking Pill was a “small matter”? The captain was getting too carried away with his boasting—he seemed to have really started believing he was a third-grade alchemist.

Leng Qianqiu was momentarily stunned. Wasn’t there a rule that this alchemist’s sect never refined breakthrough pills for outsiders? Why was he so easygoing?

He had expected to have to persuade him, but things were going so smoothly. Could Leng Yan’s intelligence have been wrong?

But he didn’t dwell on it and squeezed out a smile. “One hundred and ten rooms? That’s no issue at all! The Leng family has plenty of empty rooms. You can move in right away!”

At the same time, Leng Qianqiu used sound transmission to notify the steward in the distance.

“Quickly prepare one hundred and ten connected rooms for me! Evict the current occupants immediately—let them find another place to stay or make room somehow!”

Hearing this, the old steward’s mouth twitched. He quickly rushed off to carry out the order, sighing internally at the misfortune of those who would soon be homeless.

Long Xuan nodded in satisfaction, continuing to pose as an expert. “Since Lord Leng has the rooms, I will refine the King-Breaking Pill for you.”

“How many sets of materials does Lord Leng have for the King-Breaking Pill? Just to clarify, my success rate is quite low, so I may not be able to produce many before the Heavenly Wind ends.”

Of course, Long Xuan’s real intention was to gather more materials for the King-Breaking Pill while slacking off.

When the time came, he would shut the door, refine one pill to fool the island lord, and then put on an act of exhaustion.

Long Xuan’s plan was well thought out.

However, Leng Qianqiu didn’t mind his words at all. Nobody had a high success rate when refining the King-Breaking Pill. If it were easy to make, Gu Kings would be everywhere in the world by now. rАΝŏbĘS

If Big Lonely Island could produce a large number of Gu Kings before the Heavenly Wind event ended, they would have the strength to fight against the Black Dragon Pirate Group.

“In that case, Island lord Leng, please lead the way!”

“By the way, my crew intends to do some business on the island, so I’ll have to trouble the island lord to look after them,” Long Xuan added as something suddenly came to mind.

“That’s only natural. Don’t worry. As long as I’m here, no one will dare to give them trouble!”

“Please, I’ve already prepared rooms for all of you.”

After speaking, Leng Qianqiu led the way, and Long Xuan gestured to his crew to follow. The crew, still in a daze, slowly followed behind, and over a hundred people marched towards the Leng family estate in an imposing manner.

Passersby couldn’t help but turn their heads and stare.

Leng Yan, who had caught up by this time, rubbed her eyes in disbelief. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Didn’t they say there was only one room? How were there so many rooms now? Was her word so ineffective?

Did the island lord really think this guy was a third-grade alchemist?

The island lord, who was usually so shrewd, had been completely fooled by this guy? She couldn’t hide her disbelief.

Once they arrived at the Leng family estate, each person was assigned a room. Under the warm hospitality of the island master, Long Xuan was led into the most luxurious room.

After handing over a large amount of King-Breaking Pill materials and the recipe to Long Xuan, Leng Qianqiu finally left.

As soon as he left, Leng Yan sneaked in, shutting the door tightly behind her, looking guilty.

“Hey! Are you crazy? If you keep this up, someone’s going to die! Are you really planning to refine King-Breaking Pills here?”

Leng Yan rushed over, her voice low and urgent.

“Relax, relax, who said I was going to refine the King-Breaking Pills?” Long Xuan waved his hand with a smile, “It’s my master and his wife who will be doing it. You know I have the Sou Gu.”

“I’ll use the Sou Gu to send the refining materials over to them, and when my master and his wife finish refining the King-Breaking Pills, I’ll use the Sou Gu to bring them back. There’s no way I’ll slip up pretending to be a third-grade alchemist.”

“Really?” Hearing this, Leng Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief, though she still furrowed her brows slightly. Something still didn’t feel quite right.

“Forgive me for asking, but just how many wives do you have to make you boast about refining so many King-Breaking Pills?” Leng Yan asked, somewhat suspicious.

“You shouldn’t pry into such matters. Let’s just say my master has a fondness for... well, you get the idea!”

Seeing that Leng Yan was about to start bombarding him with more questions, Long Xuan, worried that he might slip up if he talked too much, hurriedly pushed her out and shut the door firmly.

“This captain is going to refine King-Breaking Pills now, no disturbances allowed!”

Long Xuan returned to the room, sat on a wooden chair, and picked up the King-Breaking Pill recipe to study it.

The recipe required a total of 1,008 expensive spirit herbs, and a full batch would produce three pills, though most ordinary alchemists could only successfully refine one.

The success rate of a breakthrough using the Peak-Breaking Pill was ten percent. Of course, this ten percent applied to ordinary Gu cultivators, as geniuses who consumed the pill would have a much higher success rate.

However, this ten percent success rate was meaningless to Long Xuan.

His Ten Absolute Body had an unbreakable bottleneck. When he needed to break through to Gu King, he would have to create an even stronger Breakthrough Pill of his own making.