After temporarily settling things with Dingzhen, Wang Hao headed to a huge cave, where the Mount Heng Sword Sect stored medicinal herbs.
This cave is extremely large. It was originally a natural cave hidden in a rocky mountain, but it was later expanded and carved out by the ancestors of the Mount Heng Sword Sect. Hundreds of huge secret chambers were carved out to store medicinal herbs.
The Mount Heng Sword Sect is located deep in the mountains, where medicinal herbs are abundant for hundreds of miles around. In addition, the Mount Heng Sword Sect has a tradition of alchemy, so they deliberately harvest medicinal herbs. Furthermore, in addition to herbs collected from outside, the variety of medicinal herbs is not only rich, but the quantity is also extremely astonishing.
After glancing at the medicinal herbs piled up in the hundreds of cave chambers, Abbess Qingmiao abandoned her plan to retrieve them and instead invited Wang Hao over, allowing him to rummage around inside as he pleased.
Of course, her fear of trouble and her trust in Wang Hao were factors, but the most important reason was that she simply couldn't spare that many people right now.
In order to effectively assist Wang Hao's next plan, she dispatched more than 90% of the sect's manpower, and even asked the seven senior uncles to go out of the mountains to investigate the intelligence of the grassland alien army.
Although the Mount Heng Sword Sect had its own intelligence network in the border martial arts world, by this time she no longer trusted these outsourced intelligence networks.
After all, it's obvious that this incident involved collusion between someone and the nomadic tribes of the grasslands; otherwise, the nomadic army would never have been able to take over several important military cities on the border so quickly.
In the beginning, they received no information whatsoever, and only learned of the matter when various powerful forces sent letters condemning her.
Clearly, their intelligence personnel had either betrayed them or been blocked, so they needed to rebuild their intelligence network to at least know the exact movements of the alien army and prepare to destroy their ships.
Although they didn't know what methods Wang Hao had to deal with that million-strong alien army, since he had such ability, the Mount Heng Sword Sect would do its best to cooperate. That was the only thing they could do at the moment.
While Abbess Qingmiao was out mobilizing her disciples to go down the mountain to investigate the movements of the alien army, Wang Hao, who was sealed in a cave, began his alchemy business. However, after seeing the astonishing reserves of medicinal herbs of the Mount Heng Sword Sect, he had an even more insane idea.
Instead of directly refining medicine, he had the nun guarding outside the cave bring hundreds of large vats and place them inside the huge cave, filling the entire space.
The Mount Heng Sword Sect was built on the top of Mount Heng Mountain, where obtaining water was extremely difficult. Therefore, the Mount Heng Sword Sect had long prepared hundreds of large vats for water storage, and these vats were convenient for Wang Hao at this moment.
While the nuns were preparing, Wang Hao was not idle either. He activated his Dao Comprehension Function and used his medical knowledge to deduce a brand-new and perfect prescription.
War often leaves severe trauma on civilians, not only psychologically but also physically, making medicine the most urgently needed aid at such times.
Therefore, he needed to refine a large number of medicines, especially medicines for infectious wounds and medicines for colds, which were the most common illnesses after the war.
Wound medicine is naturally used to treat external injuries, while medicine for wind-cold has an even wider range of applications.
After the war, many people lost their homes and had no shelter. A heavy rain could easily cause most of the weaker people to catch a cold, which is what we now call the common cold.
In modern times, a cold is not a serious illness; it can usually be cured with some effective medicine. But in ancient times, it was a life-threatening disease.
Therefore, he needs to develop some traditional Chinese medicine versions of effective remedies.
He was also a highly accomplished figure in traditional Chinese medicine. He not only acquired the medical skills passed down from Eastern Heretic, but also discovered the medical and poison books of Hu Qingniu and his wife in Zhao Min's tomb. He had previously received the medical books and classics collected and summarized by the Mount Heng Sword Sect over the generations.
From a purely theoretical standpoint, he asserted that this was undoubtedly the world's best.
With this medical foundation, plus some biological knowledge learned in Huaxia before transmigrating, it wasn't difficult to come up with some medicinal formulas.
After a long while, Wang Hao finally deduced several prescriptions.
After writing down the prescriptions and handing them over to the dozens of busy nuns who would then collect the medicine and prepare it themselves, he went into the innermost and largest stone chamber.
The precious medicinal herbs that had been collected to replenish qi and nourish the spirit were already arranged inside. Without daring to delay, Wang Hao threw them all into the two large vats in front of him and increased the heat to slowly boil them.
He then began to collect and refine the medicine according to another prescription, but this prescription was not a good medicine to cure diseases and save lives, but a poison to harm people.
This is a prescription he deduced from Wang Nangu's book of poisons. Its effect is extremely simple, with only one function: to stimulate organs such as the eyes and nasal cavity.
Simply put, it's similar to modern tear gas smoke bombs.
It wasn't that he didn't want to create even more potent poisons, but rather that the Mount Heng Sword Sect, as a righteous sect, basically didn't collect those poisonous herbs. Even if he wanted to start refining them, it would be like a skilled cook trying to cook without rice!
Furthermore, these poisons are mainly used to restrict the besieging alien army and prevent them from scattering and escaping. If they were to spread throughout the Guanzhong region and wreak havoc, Wang Hao, being only one person, would not be able to stop them no matter how powerful he is.
Faced with an army of millions, concocting even a tiny amount of deadly poison would be utterly useless. It would be better to settle for a less effective method and create a restrictive drug that, when ignited, would create smoke that could trap the enemy for a period of time.
That little bit of time is enough.
Of course, the most important thing is that the main raw material for this derived tear gas is very easy to find, and a large quantity can be produced immediately, which is all kinds of drug residue.
Simply collect the dregs after boiling the medicine, stir them in some auxiliary medicinal materials to make a large quantity of tear gas, which can be considered a way to make use of waste.
To deduce such a cost-effective prescription, he consumed over a thousand Fortune Points, which was no less than deducing that Cihang Sword Codex.
He spared no expense in this regard, but as long as he could wipe out the Huaxia grassland army, it would all be worth it.
After preparing the necessary medicinal herbs, Wang Hao returned to the innermost stone chamber. Ignoring the fact that the medicinal food inside was not yet fully cooked, he picked up the large vat and began to drink it down.
Although preparing medicinal cuisine is time-consuming, most of the medicinal power is actually extracted within the first Tokiomi. The remaining time is spent extracting the small portion of medicinal power from the herbs.
If this portion of the medicinal power is not extracted through decoction, it will be difficult for the body to absorb it.
This was also to maximize the value of the medicinal herbs, but he doesn't care about this waste at all.
After all, the alien army is currently stationed on the banks of the Yellow River for rest and recuperation. Once they have finished resting, they will disperse and rampage across the Guanzhong, engaging in what is known as raiding and pillaging.
The local people would suffer heavy casualties, so he had to act quickly and had no intention of going to Dan Pavilion for the sake of such a small amount of medicinal value.
Wang Hao wrapped the seven thousand-year-old ginseng roots and six thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms accumulated by the Mount Heng Sword Sect in a bundle, gave an instruction to the nuns who were still busy refining medicine in the cave, and strode out.
Upon arriving at the training ground where the battle was to take place, the first thing that caught my eye was a huge pile of longswords, some old and some new, and even different in style.
These longswords, by sight, numbered well over ten thousand; they were the very ones that Abbess Qingmiao had ordered people to collect.
At that moment, Abbess Qingmiao's master Abbess Weiyu, was sitting in a wheelchair guarding the batch of longswords. She finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Wang Hao arrive. She had been under a lot of pressure during this last period.
Wang Hao seemed to sense something, glancing at the distant mountains and forests, his brows furrowed, and a cold glint flashed in his starry eyes.
He could sense that there were more than a dozen Half-step Innate experts secretly observing him from the outside of the Mount Heng Sword Sect. These people were obviously after him, and it was even very likely that the southward march of the alien army was related to them.
Wang Hao wished he could rush out and kill this traitor who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals and had no moral bottom line.
Fortunately, he knew what was really important and didn't waste his time on these people.
" Wuming benefactor, these are longswords collected by my Mount Heng Sword Sect over the past two hundred years. Some belong to our Mount Heng Sword Sect, while others belong to others. Please take a look and see if they are suitable for you."
With a long sigh of relief, Abbess Weiyu briefly explained the origins of these longswords.
Sword One were used by the ancestors of the Mount Heng Sword Sect and were stored in the Sword Tomb after their deaths. Others were swords that the disciples of the sect obtained from their enemies in battles and were then stored in the Sword Tomb.
The last part consists of the swords left behind by swordsmen who challenged the Mount Heng Sword Sect in the past, and these swords were also stored in the Sword Tomb.
After all, the Mount Heng Sword Sect is considered a member of the Buddhist Order. While it's wrong for someone to challenge them, they can't very well just wipe them out, can they?
They weren't from Shaomu Temple, which was entirely populated by female disciples, so it wasn't appropriate to keep the person there to guard and chant sutras. Therefore, they could only leave the person with their sword and let them go.
After all, the Mount Heng Sword Sect is one of the Five Mountains Sword Sect. When it was founded, it faced many challenges from swordsmen in the martial arts world, and even from people from other Five Mountains Sword Sect.
Over time, a large number of longswords accumulated in the Sword Tomb, numbering in the tens of thousands.
Unfortunately, most of them were of average quality and had long since decayed and rusted over the past hundred years. The tens of thousands of longswords in front of them were specially selected by their people, and the lowest quality were all top-grade swords made of Thousand-Forged Refined Steel.
"Clang!"
"What a fine sword!"
He picked up a longsword, drew it, and looked at its clear blade and restrained sharpness. Wang Hao nodded in satisfaction.
As a Grandmaster in the forging industry, his appraisal skills are naturally excellent. The longsword he just used was second only to the counterfeit Hero Sword in his hand, almost reaching the level of Ten-Thousand-Refined True Steel.
A sword of this size is perfectly capable of supporting the magnetic force of two to three hundred thousand catties that he adds to it.
Of course, this is only the very top-tier batch, and there are only five of them, but it's still quite good.
There are nearly a hundred of other swords of slightly lower quality, over a thousand of the next level, and nearly Thousand-Forged Refined Steel.
With these longswords as his support, he was confident that he could annihilate the entire alien army here!
"Time is of the essence. I would be grateful if you could find some horses to carry these longswords, and I will refine them slowly along the way using the secret techniques of Sword Control Technique."
Wang Hao glanced at the steed he had ridden on the way here, which was tied to the side, and then looked at the mountain of longswords piled up on the other side. Clearly, these longswords were not something his mount could carry on its own.
This magnificent horse was obtained by Xie Feng from who-knows-where. It was extremely spirited, standing ten feet tall at the shoulders, and capable of carrying nearly three thousand catties of weight. Even when carrying him, it could move freely.
However, the longswords here weigh over 100,000 jin (approximately 50,000 kg) in total. Even Wangcai in China) couldn't carry them, let alone a horse like the one in front of him.
"Rest assured, benefactor, the matter concerning the horses has Dingzhen been taken care of, and they should be back soon."
Abbess Weiyu replied with a smile, and as soon as she finished speaking, a series of cheerful barks came from not far away.
Upon hearing the sound, Wang Hao turned his head to look at a section of the training ground wall. After seeing the things that had jumped in from outside the wall, he couldn't help but curse.
"Holy shit!"