My Master Knows It All-Chapter 509 - 182_6

"When you truly can’t win a fight, it’s time to stop. Have you forgotten what your master has taught you? ’So long as the green hills are there, one need not worry about firewood.’

The reason master told you to focus on reinforcing your armor and cultivate protective divine skills first is precisely to ensure your own safety. Look at your third senior brother, no matter how reckless he seems. But do you know why master agreed to let him leave the mountain without hindrance? It was because his protective divine skills were strong.

Remember, safety is the first priority. To be able to bend and stretch, to advance and retreat—that is true wisdom, that is true courage."

Yi Qiancheng, hearing this, agreed repeatedly: "Peak Master Cao is right. Preserving one’s own safety is the most important thing."

As he spoke, he reached into his chest and took out a jade bottle: "I know that you all are going to participate in the Immortal Sects’ Martial Contest, so I specifically sought out this bottle of pills. If anyone gets injured, you can take them.

However, time is tight, and I was only able to procure five pills in this bottle."

His words were directed at Yi Sheng, but in the end, he handed the pill bottle to Cao Zhen, the subtext clear: he was giving Cao Zhen the authority to distribute the pills as he saw fit.

Cao Zhen took the pills and gently sniffed them, then smiled at Yi Qiancheng: "The Guiyuan Yiqi Pills are indeed healing pills used in the Golden Core Stage. The effectiveness is decent, but the speed of healing is too slow, and moreover, if the injury is due to some special divine skills, I’m afraid these pills won’t be able to completely heal the wounds.

If it were the Tianyuan Yiqi Pills, that would be much better. Those could cure even the gravest wounds, the most unusual injuries. As long as it’s an injury inflicted by someone of the Golden Core cultivation base, it can be healed."

As Cao Zhen spoke, he sighed gently: "It’s a pity, though I know how to refine Tianyuan Yiqi Pills, I don’t have enough of the necessary ingredients on me."

"Ingredients? What ingredients do you need?" Yi Qiancheng eagerly asked: "Our Xing Kui Trading Company also deals in all kinds of ingredients. Peak Master Cao, please tell us what you need, and we will provide."

"Well, the list of required ingredients is rather extensive, and I will need..." Cao Zhen looked around and asked, "Do you have pen and paper? I’d better write it down."

"Of course, we have them," Yi Qiancheng quickly provided the necessary writing materials. Then he realized that the rumors he had heard were indeed true—the calligraphy of Peak Master Cao was genuinely peerless.

Peak Master Cao’s writing speed was already very fast, yet every character and even the strokes of each character were like works of art.

These characters...

Why are there so many of these characters?

Yi Qiancheng grew more bewildered as he watched, questioning whether alchemy really necessitated so many different ingredients.

Cao Zhen filled no fewer than five pages of paper before he stopped writing and said: "These are all the materials needed for alchemy. I’m troubling the Family Head Yi with this. Considering the possibility of injuries in each round of the Immortal Sects’ Martial Contest, if possible, please have the materials delivered by today. With them, I can start refining the pills as soon as possible."

He truly wasn’t trying to swindle Yi Qiancheng—these were indeed all ingredients required for refining Tianyuan Yiqi Pills, merely with a few extra types to accelerate the formation of the pills.

Under normal circumstances, refining a batch of Tianyuan Yiqi Pills would take at least fifty days, which was far too long since the Martial Contest would be over by then, and perhaps even the Grand Preceptor could have fallen into a deep slumber.

So, to speed up the maturity of the pills, more ingredients were needed. If he didn’t need so many varieties, he wouldn’t have bothered shaving wool off Yi Qiancheng by requesting materials he could have just bought and refined on his own.

"Rest assured, Peak Master Cao, I’ll send my people to collect the ingredients immediately, and ensure they are delivered posthaste to your residence," Yi Qiancheng pledged.

"Also..." Cao Zhen continued, looking at Yi Qiancheng: "Family Head Yi, I require a Pill Furnace, one large enough to accommodate a person. Besides that, I need some more ingredients..."

As he said this, he turned to Yi Sheng, speaking with a touch of guilt: "Speaking of which, I’ve been too busy lately and have somewhat neglected Yi Sheng. Most of the divine skills Yi Sheng has been cultivating are those of the Hundred Peaks Sect.

However, I have a special divine skill that is actually suitable for Yi Sheng to cultivate. It’s just that this particular divine skill requires some ingredients for cultivation..."

"Peak Master Cao, whatever ingredients you need, please write them down, and I shall accommodate," Yi Qiancheng hastily stepped aside, his excitement undisguised.

The implication of Peak Master Cao’s words was crystal clear.

His daughter had been practicing the divine skills from the Hundred Peaks Sect, which, despite being one of the top ten Immortal Sects, provided techniques accessible to everyone.

Now, Peak Master Cao was about to impart divine skills that he himself knew to his daughter.

Peak Master Cao—known for his great ability—his divine skills would surely shake heavens and earth, stir up ghosts and gods!

Why hadn’t Peak Master Cao imparted this particular skill to his daughter before, but chose to do so today?

What did this imply?

It suggested that Peak Master Cao might not have fully accepted his daughter as one of his own before, but today, he clearly did.

Could it be that the stock ownership he had given played a role?

Indeed, even cultivators covet wealth, perhaps even more so than ordinary people. Even a great ability reincarnated valued riches. He had once heard that the higher the cultivation, the more resources it required!

As a reincarnated great ability, he must be eager to regain his past cultivation base, hence needing even more resources.

After Cao Zhen had written down all the ingredients needed for Yi Sheng’s cultivation of divine skills, he had a brief conversation with Yi Qiancheng and then returned to the Yi Mansion with Yi Sheng. Subsequently, he replaced Gu Chengyu at the Pill Furnace and began his own pill-making process.

Gu Chengyu was only capable of watching over the Pill Furnace, but to speed up the pill-making process and ensure the pills would form quickly, Cao Zhen had to do it himself.

The list of ingredients Cao Zhen gave to Yi Qiancheng wasn’t comprised of just commonly found items—some were rare and not easily purchasable, even with ample wealth.

This was another reason he hadn’t procured the ingredients and refined the Tianyuan Yiqi Pills himself.

Yet, when he returned to the Yi Mansion, roughly four hours later, Yi Qiancheng had sent someone to deliver all the required ingredients for both the Tianyuan Yiqi Pills and those for Yi Sheng’s cultivation.

"This... the wealthiest indeed show their prowess, assembling all the ingredients the same day."

Handling two tasks at once, Cao Zhen brought out another Pill Furnace, set the fire, and started refining the Tianyuan Yiqi Pills. Additionally, he had Yi Sheng prepare a third Pill Furnace. Once Yi Sheng had lit the fire in the furnace, Cao Zhen pointed to it and said to Yi Sheng, "Jump in."