Demoness, Stop! - Chapter 28 - Chapter 28 – Meridian Clearing Pill

Feilai Peak.

The voice coming from a corner of the trading platform was so abrupt that it seemed out of place in the otherwise quiet area, but the effect was immediate—it instantly caught everyone’s attention.

“Top-grade hemostasis pills?”

The item the seller was offering made many disciples frown with suspicion. hemostasis pills were something they all needed to some extent—even those who didn’t go on missions carried one bottle just in case.

But the hemostasis pills they usually bought were mostly mid-grade, and the better ones available through official sect channels were only high-grade at best. As for top-grade hemostasis pills—forget about seeing them, most hadn’t even heard of them. These low-level pills were generally just practice tools for pill-crafting apprentices, and the quality those apprentices could produce was quite limited. This made top-grade hemostasis pills even rarer than some higher-level pills.

Most people scoffed at such boasting. Coincidentally, a disciple who actually needed hemostasis pills approached the cloaked, masked stall owner and asked skeptically, “Do you really have top-grade hemostasis pills?”

The stall owner handed a pill bottle to the young disciple with a smile: “Senior Brother, you’ll know once you see it.”

The young disciple took the bottle, poured out a pill, and froze on the spot when he saw the perfectly round pill, marked with five elegant pill sigils.

“Damn, this really is a top-grade pill…”

“Give me one bottle!”

This young disciple was frequently on missions and considered hemostasis pills an essential item. He was very familiar with them. The effectiveness of a top-grade hemostasis pill was more than double that of a mid-grade one, but the price was roughly the same as a mid-grade pill. How could he miss such a deal?

Li Yu happily accepted the spirit coins and thought to himself, it really pays to have a skill.

He and Jiang Li hadn’t saved up even a hundred spirit coins after two years at Baiyun Temple, but this one bottle earned him that much. No wonder they said high-level pill crafters were dripping with wealth—there was no more lucrative profession in the cultivation world.

With one buyer, a second quickly appeared.

Though hemostasis pills were low-level pills, adding the label “top-grade” naturally changed their value.

More and more people gathered around the stall, exclaiming in surprise.

“Five pill sigils—this really is a top-grade hemostasis pill!”

“This is the first time I’ve seen a pill with five marks.”

“I’m enlightened! I always thought top-grade pills were just a legend…”

“I—I’ll take one bottle.”

“Me too!”

…

Hemostasis pills were very popular among disciples who frequently went out on missions. The few bottles Li Yu had made sold quickly, with only one bottle left after a short while. The last bottle even caused two disciples to fight over it.

“I saw it first.”

“What? You do know the rule ‘highest bidder wins,’ right, fellow Daoist? I offer 110 spirit coins.”

“Aren’t you an alchemist yourself? Why do you need hemostasis pills?”

“These are top-grade pills—I want to collect them, is that a problem?”

A disciple and an alchemy apprentice started competing for the last bottle. In the end, the alchemy apprentice bought it at 150 spirit coins, clutching it like a priceless treasure.

Crafting top-grade pills with five pill sigils was the highest pursuit of any alchemist’s lifetime.

He didn’t believe this young disciple could produce pills of such quality; there must be at least one third or even fourth-tier pill master behind him. This bottle was a masterpiece from a grandmaster, and he would keep it forever as motivation for himself.

Li Yu didn’t care what the buyers thought—his pouch was already filled with spirit coins.

At that moment, he was extremely grateful to Senior Sister Xu. Choosing the pill-crafting path was definitely the right decision.

After selling all nine bottles, Li Yu left immediately. Carrying such a large sum of money, he didn’t worry about being robbed—this was inside Kunlun Cave Heaven, an extremely safe place.

Still, to be cautious, after leaving Feilai Peak, he wandered around for a while before finally returning to Danding Peak. There he changed clothes, then set off again to another mountain peak.

This peak was called Zixiao Peak, where the sect’s marketplace was established.

Unlike the cheap knockoffs sold on Feilai Peak, the Zixiao Peak marketplace was located halfway up the mountain, filled with grand, well-maintained shops selling genuine resources. Here, one could buy Kunlun sect’s pills, Maoshan sect’s talismans, Qingcheng sect’s artifacts, Tianji sect’s mechanical puppets, and if there were any issues with the goods, after-sales service was available…

Of course, items here were also more expensive.

For second-tier pills like the Meridian Clearing Pill, Li Yu felt safer buying here. If inferior pills caused problems, he would regret it too late.

Danxin Pavilion.

Li Yu stood in front of a building shaped like a pill furnace, hesitated for a moment, then stepped inside.

The shop’s interior was spacious, with a dozen counters, each busy with attendants.

After Li Yu entered, a figure came out from one counter, smiling and politely asking, “Senior Brother, what kind of pill do you need?”

The person speaking was a young girl in Kunlun disciple robes. She was quite pretty but spoke timidly, clearly a new disciple who had just joined.

Looking around, other attendants were also handsome young men and beautiful women. Li Yu guessed that if it hadn’t been for Senior Sister Xu’s arrangement, he and Zhou Zixuan might have been assigned here when they first joined.

Clearing his throat, Li Yu said, “I want one Meridian Clearing Pill.”

The girl gently replied, “One high-grade Meridian Clearing Pill costs one thousand spirit coins, mid-grade is only eight hundred. Which would you like?”

Li Yu didn’t hesitate long. “The high-grade one.”

Though mid-grade was two hundred coins cheaper, it contained more pill toxins and required extra time to detoxify. Li Yu chose the safer high-grade.

After counting the spirit coins, the girl said, “Please wait a moment, Senior Brother.”

She returned behind the counter and entered a room. Shortly after, she came out holding a delicate jade bottle and handed it to Li Yu: “This is a high-grade Meridian Clearing Pill. Please keep it safe.”

Li Yu opened the stopper of the jade bottle and was immediately greeted by an intoxicating fragrance of pills.

Inside the jade bottle was a thumb-sized milky white pill, perfectly round with three pill sigils on its surface—undoubtedly a high-grade pill.

Putting the pill away, Li Yu eagerly returned to his small courtyard on Danding Peak.

He took out the jade bottle and poured the pill out.

On the bottle was a small imprint of a pill furnace, marking it as a Kunlun production. Without hesitation, Li Yu swallowed the pill.

The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth, transforming into a clear stream that began flowing inside his body.

Feeling the flow of the stream, Li Yu’s expression suddenly changed, and he blurted out, “Hey, no no no, not there, come back!”

Unfortunately, the clear stream ignored his command and rushed straight into his Water Spiritual Vein.

The Water Spiritual Vein had seventy-two acupoints. After unlocking the Yufu acupoint, the energy now unsealed the Yuzhong acupoint.

This left Li Yu wanting to cry but not knowing whether to be happy or sad.

The acupoint was opened, but not in the way he imagined.

Li Yu intended to unlock the fourth acupoint of the Fire Spiritual Vein, but the Meridian Clearing Pill chose the second acupoint of the Water Spiritual Vein instead. Although unlocking any acupoint increased his spiritual power equally, he was trying to establish his Foundation…

Until all seventy-two acupoints of the Fire Spiritual Vein were opened, he could not establish his Foundation. For the purpose of quick foundation-building, this pill was basically wasted.

At this moment, Li Yu understood why others only cultivate one spiritual vein.

Taking the Meridian Clearing Pill was like opening a blind box. If you only had one spiritual vein, naturally only that one would be unlocked to the end. But with multiple spiritual veins, there were more choices. Others only needed seventy-one Meridian Clearing Pills to unlock their last acupoint; Li Yu, however, had to rely on luck.

He had unlocked three spiritual veins. If the effects of the pills were evenly distributed—one for Fire, one for Water, and one for Wood—he would have to take more than two hundred pills…

One Meridian Clearing Pill cost one thousand spirit coins—how much was two hundred of those again…

Li Yu suddenly felt everything go black before his eyes…