Almighty Genius

Chapter 2494 - 1988: Nirvana Pill

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Bang bang bang~~~

Snow Wuchen's speed was already quite fast, but Qing Xu and Chu Feiyun were clearly both furious as well, no longer caring about anything else. In the blink of an eye they had exchanged several palm strikes, their tempers only growing hotter and hotter as they fought!

However, both of them were at the mid-stage Supreme Realm. Before either used their trump cards, their Strength wasn't that far apart… at least within these few brief exchanges, it was impossible to tell any clear winner.

"All of you, stop for me…"

Snow Wuchen finally managed to rush into the middle of the two. His snow-white Beard and brows flared, and he roared in fury…

"Old ghost Xue, this is between me and old ghost Qing Xu, don't stick your nose in…"

Chu Feiyun called out quite rudely. Just now it was Snow Wuchen who had stepped in to stop him from killing Qin Fang, so he still felt somewhat angry in his heart. He just didn't want to make more enemies, so he had forcibly held back from venting his anger on Snow Wuchen.

"Good, good, very good… Chu Feiyun, you sure are capable! Going after the benefactor of your Tianwai Tower is one thing, but you even want to take out your benefactor's master along with him. Truly worthy of the bearing of the number one Sect under heaven!"

Snow Wuchen was so enraged that his Beard and eyebrows were fluttering. His tone turned mocking and dripping with sarcasm, the derision in his words growing even stronger!

"Uh… benefactor? What benefactor?"

Chu Feiyun had still wanted to keep fighting with Qing Xu, but upon suddenly hearing Snow Wuchen's words, he was slightly stunned and asked in puzzlement.

At the same time, his gaze also turned toward Li Wuhua and Qin Fang's side.

He naturally understood Snow Wuchen's words… the "benefactor" he spoke of was clearly referring to Qin Fang.

But the problem was, Chu Feiyun had absolutely no idea what he meant by that, because what he had seen was Qin Fang taking advantage of Li Wuhua having lost all ability to fight back, and still wanting to kill Li Wuhua and eradicate the grass and roots!

Only now, looking again at Li Wuhua's condition, Chu Feiyun was also dumbfounded.

"This… just what is going on?"

Li Wuhua's injuries were very severe, severe enough to threaten his life… Tianwai Tower would have to pay an enormous price if they wanted to preserve Li Wuhua's life.

But now?

Li Wuhua was still sitting there, but his face was no longer that bloodless, deathly pale from before, the heavy aura of death already thick upon him… instead, a bit of color had returned to his cheeks, and a tough, tenacious vitality was even emerging from his body.

Forcefully unleashing the Bloodthirsty Wild Dragon Slash of the Wild Dragon True Gang was absolutely not something Li Wuhua at his current stage could do… for that, he had to pay a terrifying price.

Yet Li Wuhua's current condition proved that although he had indeed suffered extremely serious wounds, right now… he was in the process of recovering.

"Hmph…"

Snow Wuchen gave a cold snort, his expression extremely ugly, but he couldn't be bothered to respond to Chu Feiyun.

"Qin Fang…"

Qing Xu was also greatly surprised, but after hearing from Snow Wuchen that Qin Fang not only wasn't in the wrong, he had even done something that was a great favor to Tianwai Tower… he no longer cared to quarrel with Chu Feiyun, and immediately flashed quickly to Qin Fang's side.

In fact, when Chu Feiyun flew into a rage and ruthlessly struck at Qin Fang, at that critical moment Qin Fang's first reaction was actually not to dodge, but to block in front of Li Wuhua. Li Wuhua's condition was simply too bad; he couldn't withstand even the slightest bit of palm wind from Chu Feiyun.

And Snow Mountain Sect Leader Snow Wuchen had also made a move at the most dangerous moment to help Qin Fang… this already proved that what Qin Fang had done just now was definitely not trying to kill Li Wuhua.

Li Wuhua's situation was already so tragic that even if Qin Fang didn't act, the chance of Li Wuhua surviving was very small. There was no need for him to make such a redundant move… yet he still acted anyway, unless what he wanted was… to save someone!

In truth, Qin Fang really was trying to save him…

"I'm fine…"

Seeing the worry on Qing Xu's face, Qin Fang's pale face forced out a bit of a smile. Pretending to be calm, he said with a smile… but the more he did so, the more it made Qing Xu feel furious.

"That kid Qin Fang gave that brat Li a pill to take…"

Snow Wuchen had already returned to Li Wuhua's side. Chu Feiyun, wearing a very embarrassed look, followed along, and only then did he understand what had actually happened just now.

"An Elixir?"

Hearing Snow Wuchen's explanation, Chu Feiyun froze for a moment, then couldn't help but look over Li Wuhua's condition, a flash of surprise appearing in his eyes.

Li Wuhua's situation was extremely dire; even Chu Feiyun himself didn't dare guarantee he could definitely keep Li Wuhua alive…

But now, after taking Qin Fang's Elixir, although Li Wuhua was extremely weak, a powerful surge of vitality had taken root inside his body and was beginning to grow vigorously... to describe it in one phrase, that would be "rebirth through destruction."

Yes, it really was rebirth through destruction...

Li Wuhua, who had forcibly used a forbidden Strength, had almost been pushed into a hopeless dead end, but with the injection of this Elixir, a sliver of life was forcibly wrested from that absolute despair... this allowed Li Wuhua to enjoy one of the rarest breakthrough opportunities a Martial Artist could ever encounter.

Of course, all of this, everything, came from that Elixir.

"Yes, the Elixir..."

Xue Wuchen nodded, which could be considered an acknowledgment of this point.

Li Wuhua's condition was terrible; there was simply no way he could rely on himself to achieve rebirth through destruction... perhaps, having survived by sheer luck this time, he might have had such an opportunity in the future, but definitely not now!

"If I'm not mistaken, the elixir Qin Fang fed that kid Li should be... the legendary Nirvana Pill!"

Among the countless Elixirs, the number that could produce such an effect was truly extremely small; only now, after calming down, did Xue Wuchen manage to recall the name of that pill just now... Nirvana Pill.

"Nirvana Pill..."

Chu Feiyun was stunned, unconsciously repeating the name of the Elixir, while the expression on his face also became wonderfully complicated.

Glancing again at Li Wuhua's current state, Chu Feiyun knew that what Xue Wuchen had said was very likely true...

It seemed that only the legendary Nirvana Pill could both leave a life for Li Wuhua, who had fallen into a desperate situation and was almost certainly doomed, and at the same time allow him to achieve rebirth through destruction!

And this Elixir naturally did not belong to Li Wuhua himself... even if it had, Li Wuhua wouldn't have had the strength to take it.

Nor did it belong to Tianwai Tower... if they really had such a precious Elixir, Chu Feiyun would never have been so worried.

So it could only have been Qin Fang who fed it to Li Wuhua...

The timing was naturally when Chu Feiyun had just made that sudden strike...

In other words, Chu Feiyun had indeed just done something "worse than a pig or a dog"; if Qin Fang had really been killed by him, then Tianwai Tower's reputation would have been utterly ruined, and Chu Feiyun himself would have become Tianwai Tower's eternal sinner!

The Nirvana Pill, taking its name from Phoenix Nirvana, already explained to some extent its function and its level of preciousness...

This kind of Elixir, like the Azure Dragon Pill, was a rare pill that had long since been lost to time.

Not only had the recipe been lost long ago, the materials needed to refine the Nirvana Pill had also long since become impossible to find... the most important ingredient was a Spiritual Medicine called Huangxue Grass.

Huangxue Grass, like Qinglong Wood, was an extremely rare Spiritual Medicine; in terms of grade, it was at least at the Superb Spiritual Medicine level, perhaps even higher... it was said that Huangxue Grass appeared in only one place—that was beneath the Wutong Tree where the Divine Beast Phoenix resided.

It was extremely difficult for a Phoenix to lay eggs, and in many cases it would even lead to Nirvana... but every time it laid eggs, the Phoenix would cry blood.

And when this phoenix blood dripped down from the Wutong Tree, it would nurture this incomparably precious Spiritual Medicine, Huangxue Grass.

Divine Beasts had long since disappeared from Earth, and the Phoenix was naturally among them... without the Phoenix, there could be no Huangxue Grass, so the Nirvana Pill had likewise been lost for countless years!

If one wanted to find a Nirvana Pill, one could only go to some ancient ruins with extremely long lineages; there might still be a chance to find one there...

Ordinary ruins wouldn't do; it would at least have to be some ancient relic over two thousand years old before there was any chance of such a stock... and on top of that, it would have to have been preserved with extreme care for over two thousand years for the medicinal potency to remain intact.

So, the value of a Nirvana Pill today was simply incalculable...

Even with Tianwai Tower's vast wealth and deep foundations, if they truly wanted to purchase a single Nirvana Pill, they would have to pay an extremely, extremely heavy price.

But now, this Kunlun Sect disciple Qin Fang had used a Nirvana Pill to save Li Wuhua's life, while he, the Sect Leader of Tianwai Tower, had not only failed to repay the favor, but had instead returned kindness with murderous intent, trying to kill him...

"Th-this... Old Ghost Xue..."

Thinking of this, Chu Feiyun broke out in a cold sweat all over; even though he was already a Supreme Realm Powerhouse, he couldn't help feeling a tremor of lingering fear at this moment—Tianwai Tower's thousand-year reputation had almost been ruined in his hands.

"What's the use of calling me? Go apologize yourself..."

Xue Wuchen slanted him a look and snapped in great displeasure.

Although he kept cleaning up the mess, he'd also been holding in a bellyful of resentment... now that Chu Feiyun finally realized the trouble he'd caused, Xue Wuchen couldn't be bothered to keep wiping his ass; this was the time to thoroughly Repair this Fatty.

Besides, Qin Fang had really been willing to put in the capital for Li Wuhua, even taking out a Nirvana Pill to save him; just for that thought alone, Xue Wuchen couldn't allow Qin Fang to suffer too great a loss, and this was him deliberately putting the screws to Chu Feiyun.

As for what Tianwai Tower would use to compensate Qin Fang for the Nirvana Pill, that could be discussed later—after all, the Nirvana Pill was too precious, and even Tianwai Tower's foundations might not be enough to bear it—but at the very least, he had to make Tianwai Tower owe Qin Fang this favor, and as for an apology from a Paramount Expert like Chu Feiyun, that was non-negotiable...(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)