Chapter 2641: Are You Kidding Me?
"Say whatever you want, you’re just drooling over my Emperor Elixir!"
Wu De shook his head like a rattle-drum, assuming a stance like he was ready to bolt, and said, "No! Absolutely not! There’s only one Emperor Elixir—if I give it to you, what am I supposed to do?"
Fang Bai laughed "haha", hooked a finger toward the Space Immortal Ring on Wu De’s finger, and Wu De only felt the Space Immortal Ring tremble slightly. Then he saw that Emperor Elixir actually shoot out of the ring on its own and fly into Fang Bai’s hand.
"This..."
Wu De looked at the Emperor Elixir in Fang Bai’s hand, then at his own Space Immortal Ring. He opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
The Emperor Elixir he had chased for many days, crossing tens of thousands of miles, suffering countless hardships to obtain—who would have thought Fang Bai only needed to crook his finger and the Emperor Elixir would fly over by itself.
This gave Wu De a rather unreal feeling.
The next moment, when he confirmed that the Emperor Elixir in Fang Bai’s hand was indeed the one he had gotten, Wu De’s mouth twitched and his face scrunched up like he was about to cry.
He knew that with the Emperor Elixir in Fang Bai’s hand, he didn’t dare curse, couldn’t beat him, and could forget about snatching it back.
"Wow, Fang Bai, how did you do that?"
Zhuge Lian looked at the Emperor Elixir in Fang Bai’s hand, eyes shining with excitement as she asked.
"Can... an Emperor Elixir also recognize a master?"
Xiao Ying asked timidly.
Fang Bai looked at the Emperor Elixir spinning round and round in his palm, feeling the surging immortal power contained within, and said with a smile, "It’s not recognizing a master. I was its master to begin with!"
As soon as he said that, Wu De, Great Sage Sun, Zhuge Lian, and Xiao Ying all froze.
"You mean... the Emperor Elixir was refined by you?"
Wu De blinked his small eyes and asked.
Fang Bai said, "What do you think? If this Emperor Elixir wasn’t refined by me, would it listen to me?"
Wu De sighed, "So that means, the reason I managed to grab it before, was all because of you?"
Fang Bai nodded and said, "I was already nearby at the time. Otherwise, even if there were ten Wu Des, you still wouldn’t have gotten that Emperor Elixir!"
Wu De pulled a long face and said, "I knew it... So many High Rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts couldn’t catch that Emperor Elixir, yet it just flew right up to me so I could get it easily... Sigh, and I was counting on swallowing it to break through. Turns out it was all for nothing!"
Fang Bai said, "If you had really swallowed this Emperor Elixir, there’d be no chance of a breakthrough—being annihilated in both body and soul, though, would be guaranteed!"
Wu De was stunned, then his expression changed slightly, and he stammered, "Y-you... you’re joking, right..."
Fang Bai said, "If an Immortal Emperor punched you, what outcome would you face?"
Wu De scratched his head and said, "Well... probably... maybe... I wouldn’t survive!"
Fang Bai said, "You might have a Dual Attribute Innate Spiritual Root and a very powerful physique, but the medicinal power of this Emperor Elixir is too strong. If you got hot-headed and swallowed it whole, it would be very hard for you to withstand the impact of that medicinal power, and then your body would explode and you’d be annihilated in both body and soul."
As Wu De imagined the terrifying outcome Fang Bai described, a layer of cold sweat instantly broke out all over his body.
He raised a hand to wipe his sweat, swallowed a few times with difficulty, and said, "Is the medicinal power of the Emperor Elixir... really as formidable as you say?"
Fang Bai lifted his eyelids and said, "This Emperor Elixir was refined by me at my peak. No one in the Immortal Realm knows its medicinal power better than I do. Those immortals think failing to seize the Emperor Elixir is a pity, but in truth, they dodged a calamity!"
"Sigh, I thought that with the Emperor Elixir I could break through faster, but I never expected I almost went looking for death..."
Wu De’s face was full of dejection. Suddenly something occurred to him, and he stared at Fang Bai with hopeful eyes, saying, "Uh... Palace Master, we haven’t seen each other for over ten years—what realm is your cultivation at now?"
His cultivation level was only at the early Immortal Emperor Realm, and he couldn’t see through Fang Bai’s cultivation; he only knew Fang Bai was much stronger than him.
Great Sage Sun cut in, "I heard some immortals say before that the Palace Master is now at High Rank Immortal Emperor Realm!"
Wu De’s spirits lifted; he rubbed his hands together and said joyfully, "High Rank Immortal Emperor Realm... With Palace Master’s alchemy skills, you can refine Superior Immortal Emperor Level Immortal Pills now, right? Since the Emperor Elixir isn’t suitable for me, how about you help me refine, say, a hundred thousand or eighty thousand Superior Immortal Emperor Level Immortal Pills?"
"A hundred thousand or eighty thousand?"
Great Sage Sun let out a strange screech, jumped to his feet, and shouted, "Old Taoist Wu, are you crazy? You think alchemy is as easy as you stealing Cultivation Resources?"
"Stealing Cultivation Resources isn’t easy either! Last time I stole some Immortal Elixirs from Wind Fire Sect, I was almost caught. If I had been, I’d have been done for..."
Wu De muttered, then sighed, "I’m doing this for our Emperor’s Palace! Think about it: if I use a large number of Immortal Pills to assist my cultivation, my strength will become much greater. Once I grow strong, I can contribute more when we rebuild the Emperor’s Palace and take revenge on those eight top powers! Tell me, doesn’t that make sense?"
Great Sage Sun scratched his head. Although he felt Wu De’s words were just farting, they somehow sounded quite reasonable.
Zhuge Lian and Xiao Ying, seeing Wu De’s self-righteous expression and Great Sage Sun scratching his ears and cheeks, couldn’t help but giggle.
Fang Bai couldn’t be bothered to respond to Wu De’s greedy request; he only promised that when he had free time in the future, he’d help refine a few bottles of Superior Immortal Emperor Level Immortal Pills for him.
"Xiao Lian and Xiao Ying are both still Ninth Grade Immortal King Realm... Hmm, I’ll lend you a hand and help you break through to Immortal Emperor Realm!"
Fang Bai released his Divine Sense, swept the surroundings, and felt this was a good place for closed-door cultivation, so he said that to Zhuge Lian and Xiao Ying.
Once an immortal reaches the Immortal Emperor Realm, their strength undergoes a qualitative leap, and their status in the Immortal Realm can be considered upper tier. Hearing this, Zhuge Lian and Xiao Ying’s beautiful eyes lit up, and their gazes toward Fang Bai carried a few more shades of longing.
Wu De, however, felt a bit dissatisfied and shouted, "Palace Master, you can’t play favorites! You’re helping Xiao Lian and Xiao Ying break through—what about me and Great Sage Sun?"
Fang Bai said, "You two just broke through to Immortal Emperor Realm not long ago. Wait until your realm is fully consolidated before we talk."
As he spoke, he pointed at a Stone Forest up ahead and continued, "I’ll take Xiao Lian and Xiao Ying over there for closed-door cultivation. You two stay here and keep watch! Don’t let any idle immortals come over and disturb us!"
With that, he took the hands of the two Female Immortals and flew into that Stone Forest. They sat cross-legged on three neighboring stone pillars, and he waved his hand to lay down an Isolation Formation, preventing any disturbances from the outside world from coming in.
Zhuge Lian and Xiao Ying had already been at Ninth Grade Immortal King Realm for some time, and the Immortal Qi accumulated in their Qi Sea had reached a certain level. Fang Bai thought that since he had quite a few Superior Immortal Emperor Level Creation Pills on him, plus the aid of Chaos Immortal Qi, helping them break the barrier and advance within a few days shouldn’t be a problem.
Wu De and Great Sage Sun didn’t dare slack off. They flew to the top of a nearby mountain, their Divine Sense sweeping in all directions from time to time, guarding Fang Bai, Zhuge Lian, and Xiao Ying.
In the blink of an eye, five days passed. Fang Bai and the other two in the Stone Forest were still in closed-door cultivation with no movement, but several powerful auras were rapidly approaching this area.
Wu De and Great Sage Sun immediately tensed up, shot into the high sky, summoned their Immortal Artifacts, and assumed battle stances.