Chapter 192: The Map And The Mask
The senior sister, who introduced herself as the current representative of the mountain, similar to Qing Hua, eventually gave him a quick tour after he badgered her incessantly.
"Since the rules against sightseeing were placed to protect secrets of pill making from being leaked, why don’t you take me to those pill projects that are too advanced and complex to learn through mere observation alone?"
She had no retort against that logic, except for insisting on abiding by the rules. So Han Xuhan had switched tactics by showing off his wealth and ’future potential’.
"I’m not bragging, but if I dare to claim that I’m the richest disciple in my generation, no one will dare to contest that claim. Naturally, I can afford to show interest in these secondary skills while everyone else is busy improving their basic cultivation levels!"
When she tried to ignore his request, he also became uncooperative, refusing to go to her hut to get the fog report materials. Faced with the childish tantrum, the senior sister could only acquiesce to the demand, not that she looked too displeased with the opportunity to show off the awesomeness of her mountain peak.
Half an hour later, Han Xuhan walked out of the Frost Pill Mountain’s entrance in a daze. There was a thick beast-hide scroll in his right hand, and a wooden mask in his left hand.
Both items were novelties; magical apparatuses that one couldn’t buy unless their wallet was overflowing with money. But Han Xuhan’s awe after witnessing the process of making pills was so overwhelming that he could not move his thoughts away from the fresh memories.
The ’cauldrons’ he had stumbled across at the lower part of the mountain were already pushing the borders of absurd designs. But after that senior sister had taken him uphill, his mind had been completely broken by the things he saw.
Cauldrons were formed out of pure qi and visible bright array light, innumerable symbols rotating in the air at the speed of an electric drill.
Alchemic spells turned materials into lava, plasma, and vapor simultaneously, creating balls of gas that distorted all elements of nature around them.
Monstrous crystalline constructs burned like palaces of hell as they spewed out waste, byproducts, and semi-transformed clumps of materials.