Almighty Genius

Chapter 2305 - 1799: Snow Domain Spirit Ointment

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The puppet person was forged from metal, and there were some very peculiar mechanisms inside its body that could effectively protect its body from damage. Even Qin Fang's flames couldn't hurt it, so he really didn't need to worry about it!

However, that zombie was a different story...

"Roar, roar, roooar~~"

Qin Fang's flame was actually somewhat similar to the flames produced by Western magic. It wasn't an open flame or anything like that; once it started burning, unless the time limit ran out, it simply wouldn't go out...

Of course, if it completely burned the target object, then the flame would keep burning on its own.

Like right now...this zombie had been completely ignited by Qin Fang's flame.

"Hisssss~~~"

Such a scene fell into everyone's eyes, and while it horrified them, it also made them feel a bit relieved.

The zombie's defense was terrifying. Even the Strength of the puppet person, which was enough to kill a Great Grandmaster Peak Level expert, couldn't do it any harm. Yet its body seemed to have become extremely flammable; Qin Fang lit it up with one burst of fire, and it started burning just like that.

"It actually really caught fire..."

Seeing the zombie on fire, everyone couldn't help exclaiming. This was a very good sign, far better than when they couldn't find any opening at all...No one wanted to fight an opponent with no weak points. Even if you could tie it down, you wouldn't get any benefit out of it. It was too much of a loss.

"Should we pour some gasoline on it?"

Compared to Song Yi and the others' excitement, Qin Fang was more focused on studying whether he should go a bit more ruthless, maybe squeeze out even greater gains from this!

"Forget it, I can't take a slap from it..."

Only, looking at that thousand-year-old zombie, which had gone completely berserk because its body was on fire, Qin Fang had no choice but to give up on that idea...This zombie was way too dangerous. He could only strike from range with Sword Qi; if he got close, it'd be too easy for it to lock onto him.

The zombie's Attack Power was on par with the puppet person's. With just a light punch, even Qin Fang's currently strengthened body wouldn't be able to withstand it; after all, there was still quite a gap between him and the body of a Supreme Realm Powerhouse!

Not to mention, there were flames burning on the zombie's body...

This Flame wasn't just the one Qin Fang had released; quite a lot of it was Flame that had ignited the corpse Qi on the zombie and mutated. Its lethality might be even more frightening than Qin Fang's own Flame, and it certainly didn't recognize Qin Fang as its master.

If the zombie pounced and dragged Qin Fang into the flames along with it, then Qin Fang would've died way too unjustly...

In fact, this didn't have much to do with it being flammable or not. The main point was the mutual restraint of Yin and Yang. After turning into a zombie, while it indeed possessed endless life, it had also become a different form of life—one whose life form was primarily composed of Yin Qi and corpse Qi.

That determined that zombies could only exist in places where Yin Qi and corpse Qi were extremely heavy, and they were very wary, even fearful, of anything with strong Yang Qi...

Qin Fang's Flame and Destruction Sword Qi were both items of utmost hardness and pure Yang, which was why the moment he struck, he immediately attracted this zombie's attention...

It was just that Qin Fang's cultivation was too weak. Even though the Destruction Sword Qi boosted his cultivation, he was still far, far from the Supreme Realm. He couldn't even break the zombie's flesh, so naturally it had no effect.

Who would've thought that at this moment the Flame Sword Qi would be far more effective than the Destruction Sword Qi...Not only did it ignite the zombie's body, those strands of Sword Qi even forced their way into the zombie's body and wreaked havoc inside!

Qin Fang had been paying close attention to the zombie's movements the whole time. He was throwing out his Scouting Skill like it was free, constantly observing every change in the zombie...Even though the zombie had no Life Points to look at, all kinds of negative status effects on its body could still be seen.

There was a status of being burned by flames that kept persisting, and at the same time there was an even stranger status...It seemed to be caused by the Sword Qi's damage to the zombie's flesh. Since this was Qin Fang's first time discovering it, he wasn't too sure.

All in all, that mass of flame just kept on burning. The thousand-year-old zombie that had been rampaging wildly just moments ago could now only let out low, hoarse roars in the flames. It tried to slap out the fire on its body, but the more it slapped, the bigger the flames got, and even its hands caught fire!

Once its hands were ignited, it couldn't help but keep waving its arms to pat at the flames...That only caused the fire to slowly spread all over its body. Originally the burning speed hadn't been that fast, but after the old zombie messed around like that itself, its whole body was ablaze!

A huge fireball appeared just like that...

At this point, Qin Fang basically didn't need to intervene anymore. After giving the puppet person an order, he walked over to that stone coffin that had been opened...Just now he'd been so focused on watching this thousand-year-old zombie that he really hadn't paid any attention to what was inside the coffin.

Now that this thousand-year-old zombie had been ignited by the Flame, it could barely protect itself, so of course it had no time to care about Qin Fang. Qin Fang, on the other hand, could calmly walk over to the stone coffin.

"Hiss!! How damn extravagant..."

He hadn't known before he looked, but once he looked he got a huge scare. Qin Fang couldn't help but suck in a cold breath, and only after a long while did he let out a soft sigh.

"Young Master Qin, what's all this stuff in here?"

Song Yi and the others had been staring at the other stone coffins. Seeing that nothing was moving over there for the moment, they couldn't help wandering over to take a look. But all they saw in the stone coffin was some black, sticky, jelly-like stuff. They had no idea what it was, so they asked.

"Snow Domain Spirit Ointment!"

Qin Fang's eyes never left those black things; he just casually said a name.

"Snow Domain Spirit Ointment? What the hell is that?"

However, Qin Fang had obviously overestimated Song Yi and the others. When they heard this name, the three of them just looked at each other blankly. None of them had ever heard it before, much less knew what kind of wonder it was supposed to perform.

"It's an extremely rare, extremely hard-to-get ointment… It's not an Elixir, but it's far more terrifying than the vast majority of Elixirs. It's refined with three kinds of Superb Spiritual Medicine, plus ten kinds of Superior Elixir, twenty kinds of Middle Grade Spiritual Medicine, and forty kinds of Low-Grade Spiritual Medicine, all blended together using an extremely special Secret Technique!"

Qin Fang merely froze for a moment, then briefly explained to Song Yi and the other two the origin of this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment and how precious it was. "Just from the fact that it requires so many kinds of Spiritual Medicine, you can imagine how valuable this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment is. Its medicinal power is so strong it's downright terrifying…"

This was why, when Qin Fang saw all this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment, he couldn't help blurting out, "Too damn extravagant."

"Hiss~~~"

Song Yi and the other two were also shocked when they heard this. One by one they couldn't help sucking in a cold breath again. When they looked at that black, jelly-like Snow Domain Spirit Ointment, their gazes completely changed. The value of this ointment was just too astonishing.

"Fuck, who's this crazy, actually spending that much Spiritual Medicine just to refine some ointment like this, all for… letting these zombies keep living?"

He even couldn't help muttering under his breath.

Bear in mind, with the world's great changes nowadays, Spiritual Medicine was getting scarcer and scarcer, more and more precious. Pretty much only those unbelievably powerful forces could possess even a single stalk of Spiritual Medicine. As for what grade of Spiritual Medicine they might get, that all depended on their luck!

For example, the Qing Gang Six Great Families naturally had some Spiritual Medicine in their hands. That was the result of more than a hundred years of scheming and effort by The Green Gang, slowly accumulated bit by bit. Yet they only had two stalks, and even those two were carefully guarded by the Six Major Families, terrified that anything might happen to them!

And the place where those two stalks of Spiritual Medicine grew was an absolute forbidden ground of the Six Major Families. Without the permission of the Six Major Families, it was absolutely forbidden for anyone to appear there. Otherwise, they would immediately be hunted down jointly by six Great Grandmaster Level Experts…

Why, in this expedition into this Underground Palace, did each Family only send one Great Grandmaster Level Expert?

First, because such experts were very few in number. Second, because they had to leave one Great Grandmaster Level Expert to guard the Spiritual Medicine at the forbidden ground…

Given that even just two stalks of Spiritual Medicine required so many top experts to guard them, you could imagine how much face Spiritual Medicine had in this day and age… And it was said that the grade of those two stalks was only Low-Grade at best; at most one of them could be considered top-tier among Low-Grade Spiritual Medicine.

But compared to this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment, they were basically just two lumps of tofu residue…

"Young Master Qin, this stuff… is it still usable?"

Now that they understood how powerful this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment was, and seeing that some still remained in the stone coffin, Song Yi and the others couldn't help asking curiously. For something this good, since they'd already run into it, there was no way they were just going to look and not touch!

"Not right now..."

Qin Fang just shook his head.

"This Snow Domain Spirit Ointment was refined to slow the aging of these zombies, so that they could keep living until now… But because it's been tainted by corpse qi for over a thousand years, it turned this pitch-black color! Unless you can withstand the thousand-year corpse qi contained within, otherwise… it's a dead end!"

Qin Fang naturally understood what Song Yi and the others were thinking, but this was something he was quite helpless about as well…

Inside this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment, about thirty to forty percent of the medicinal power was still preserved. Its efficacy was much stronger than that of an ordinary Superior Elixir. But after absorbing highly toxic corpse qi for over a thousand years, this Spiritual Medicine had effectively become poison.

If someone rashly swallowed this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment, and could withstand the invasion of the highly toxic corpse qi, then naturally they could gain an extremely powerful effect… It might not be enough for a Great Master Peak Level expert to directly step into the Supreme Realm, but for someone at Grandmaster Level Peak to break through into Great Grandmaster Level, there would basically be no problem.

And while the medicinal effect of this Snow Domain Spirit Ointment was ferocious, because it fused dozens upon dozens of kinds of Spiritual Medicine, its medicinal nature had actually been harmonized to be very gentle. Even if you swallowed it, you wouldn't need to worry about your body exploding from the power… You could say this was the most effective Spiritual Medicine for a Grandmaster to冲击 Great Grandmaster Level! (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to go to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)