Pretty Lady Herb

After picking the Lantern Heart Grass, Chu Yang hurried to return and refine his Advancement Pills.

No matter how beautiful the scenery of the Monster Mountain Range was, he had no mood to admire it. Raising his strength as quickly as possible was what mattered!

With the Medicine Emperor's miraculous system at his side, he did not need to cultivate desperately like Xiao Yan. He only needed to focus on alchemy!

The Purple Crystal Lion Wing King had wanted to invite Chu Yang to visit its lair, but Chu Yang was in a hurry to return to Wutan City.

They were already deep within the Monster Mountain Range. Next, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King would naturally continue escorting Chu Yang home.

Both it and Chu Yang understood that even though Chu Yang now had Azure Cloud Wings, some powerful flying magical beasts could still fly into the sky and intercept him!

"Damn it, something urgent suddenly happened in my cave—"

However, just as the two were about to head back to Wutan City, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King glanced at something it carried with it, something like a telepathic communicator unique to magical beasts, and suddenly cried out.

Seeing its reaction, Chu Yang immediately wondered whether something had happened to its child. He knew there was a young magical beast in the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King's cave.

Sure enough, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King soon said that something had happened to its child. It looked as though it were in a dire emergency and had to rush back immediately.

The Purple Crystal Lion Wing King instantly changed from human form back into its original beast form. Its massive fleshy wings soared into the sky. After consuming the Transformation Pill, its wings seemed much larger than when Chu Yang had first seen them.

"Come with me too—"

The instant the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King spoke, it beat its huge wings and flew in one direction, quickly turning into a tiny black dot. Its speed was astonishing.

"Damn it, did this fellow forget? How could my Azure Cloud Wings possibly compare to the Dou Qi Wings of a peak Dou Huang? How could I possibly keep up with its speed?"

Chu Yang spread his Azure Cloud Wings and followed, but in an instant, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King had left him so far behind that even its shadow was gone.

"What the hell am I chasing for? The Purple Crystal Lion Wing King is already nowhere in sight. If I keep flying, I'll definitely end up going in the wrong direction!"

Chu Yang suddenly stopped pursuing it. He had no idea where in the depths of the Monster Mountain Range he was, nor did he know the direction of the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King's lair.

However, after calming down, Chu Yang did not blame the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King. If its child was truly in urgent danger, he could not blame it for forgetting about him in the moment and leaving him behind in the mountains.

After all, the Purple Crystal Lion Wing King would probably come back for him!

"Hm? That is..."

Suddenly, as Chu Yang hovered in the air for a while, he made a discovery.

He spotted a brightly colored, graceful "immortal herb."

Recently, because he needed to refine several kinds of pills, Chu Yang had studied the manual of the Medicine Emperor's Initial Alchemy Technique whenever he had free time. Now, he could identify many herbs at a glance. Not only that, he could usually recite from memory which pills those herbs were best suited for refining.

The herb he had just discovered was graceful and brightly colored, with the entire plant resembling a miniature beauty. He remembered its name: Pretty Lady Herb.

Pretty Lady Herb was one of the main medicinal ingredients for refining Beauty Pills.

Having read the secret tome of the Medicine Emperor's Initial Alchemy Technique, Chu Yang was confident that as long as he had Pretty Lady Herb as the main ingredient, along with several ordinary herbs available in Wutan City, he could refine Beauty Pills.

Although Beauty Pills were not valuable treasures that assisted in Dou Qi cultivation, they were practically hot commodities to ninety-nine percent of women. After all, there were almost no women in this world who did not love beauty.

As long as he could refine Beauty Pills... Countless beautiful faces drifted through Chu Yang's mind—Yun Yun, Ya Fei, Little Doctor Immortal...

If Chu Yang could give any of those beauties a Beauty Pill and make her even more beautiful than before, then her gratitude toward him... There was no need to think about it. That gratitude would definitely be no less than if Chu Yang had given her a pill that helped her advance.

Furthermore, if the effects of these Beauty Pills were confirmed, refining a batch and sending them to an auction house would earn him another huge sum of money. After all, there were countless people on the Dou Qi Continent who loved beauty.

There was not just one Pretty Lady Herb in this area. Chu Yang spread his Azure Cloud Wings and flew around the area near the first one he had found, discovering around a dozen Pretty Lady Herbs.

Still unwilling to give up, Chu Yang continued expanding his search range.

He wanted to gather every Pretty Lady Herb in the area, just as he had harvested the Lantern Heart Grass earlier. He was practically trying to swallow more than he could chew.

However, after searching for a while, Chu Yang determined that there were only around thirty Pretty Lady Herbs in this area at most. He could not keep expanding the search range. Was he supposed to turn over half the Monster Mountain Range? That would be ridiculous. At most, he could search this valley thoroughly.

Besides, there was no need for him to refine Beauty Pills in unlimited quantities for now. Like Advancement Pills, Beauty Pills were not something he needed to keep refining forever.

He still had many higher-grade pills to refine in the future! Right now, he had mastered the Medicine Emperor's Initial Alchemy Technique. Later, he would master the Medicine Emperor's Intermediate Alchemy Technique, and after that, there would be the Medicine Emperor's Advanced Alchemy Technique for him to study. The higher the grade of the pills he refined, the more money they would fetch!

The Qi Gathering Pills Chu Yang had first sold to Ya Fei for one hundred thousand Gold Coins each had actually been sold cheaply, because he wanted to make a good initial impression on Ya Fei! Otherwise, if Qi Gathering Pills went through an auction, their price would soar even higher.

Fine! Even if Chu Yang was only willing to sell Qi Gathering Pills for one hundred thousand Gold Coins, the Advancement Pills he was about to refine should be worth two hundred thousand Gold Coins per pill. Qi Gathering Pills might be stronger than Qi Gathering Powder, but they only helped people in the Fighting Energy stage advance to Dou Zhe. Above the Dou Zhe level, they were useless. Advancement Pills, on the other hand, helped nine-star Dou Zhe advance to Dou Shi! Their grade was a level higher, so they should naturally be more expensive!

Now, back to the matter of the Pretty Lady Herbs—

With these thirty or so Pretty Lady Herbs, Chu Yang estimated that if he used them all and his pill-refining success rate was high enough, he could refine at least one thousand Beauty Pills.

Although Pretty Lady Herb was a main medicinal ingredient for Beauty Pills, refining Beauty Pills did not require much Pretty Lady Herb as an ingredient.

As for the proportion of medicinal ingredients, just a tiny amount of Pretty Lady Herb could be paired with many other ordinary herbs.