One Month

Zhang Xuezhou spent ten days in the small world until he felt a faint pulling and tearing sensation in his soul, at which point he quickly switched places with the mallard duck.

He deliberately prolonged the time without guiding the tree chair to rotate and extend the shuttle cycle, resulting in a shuttle cycle of twenty-five days.

Like a bowstring stretched endlessly, the connection between him and the mallard duck was almost severed due to this deliberately prolonged period of travel.

"I can currently only delay things for a maximum of ten days outside, or two-thirds of the travel cycle time. The key to changing the travel time is likely in the tree chair area!"

Although Zhang Xuezhou Zhang Xuezhou Donghua and signed a contract with the giant tree under the guidance of the ancient tree, his understanding was not comprehensive.

He was testing the waters again and again.

This kind of extreme tension is essential for him to resolve life-or-death conflicts. Zhang Xuezhou needs to have time that he can freely adjust, rather than being stuck at a fixed time and having to shuttle back and forth. Otherwise, this cyclical shuttle capability can easily be exploited by others.

The extreme stretching also allowed Zhang Xuezhou to verify the remaining strength of the giant tree, thereby seeking some possible opportunities.

"It's been almost a month, and Dongfang Shuo is still lying there without waking up?"

Is his illness getting worse?

"Yi Shuo, is the medicine you concocted even effective?"

Only when he heard hushed conversation did Zhang Xuezhou come to his senses.

The time travel, pushed to its limits, left his head feeling tense, as if he had just recovered after a brush with death.

Zhang Xuezhou let out a deep breath, then touched the headboard with his finger.

With his fingers shorter and harder to touch, Zhang Xuezhou realized that his Four Directions Locking Technique had been broken again, and he had reverted to his twelve or thirteen-year-old form. He had to shift his body.

He took out the porcelain bottle containing the prepared pills and swallowed the Creation Pill, which was used to restore his Law Power. The Law Power that had been exhausted by the Spirit Silk Jade Lotus Root quickly regenerated in his body, and the aura of Law Power power rose like mist, constantly activating every part of his body.

"Dongfang Shuo, are you awake? Did you put the stick away? Are you mentally sound?"

The new emperor's voice came clearly from outside the room. Zhang Xuezhou pointed at his body, and his body rapidly grew and changed. He touched the spirit wood staff on the bedside table, responded, and then heard the door to the side room being pushed open.

"How are you feeling? Should we change to another imperial physician?"

The new emperor glanced at Yi Shuo, then looked at Zhang Xuezhou.

He needs a Zhang Xuezhou is healthy and has plenty of time, not a Zhang Xuezhou can only lie in bed and barely survive.

Yi Shuo brought a ten-person medical team, but these people couldn't even get close to the patients; they could only diagnose their pulses by hanging a thread outside the room.

Through the pulled threads, the new emperor knew that Zhang Xuezhou was still alive, but lying in bed for so long was indeed a problem.

"Tian Fen has been discharged from the Imperial Medical Academy these past few days, and his condition has stabilized. Li Jiao's condition stabilized, and she was taken away by Li Guang," the new emperor said after opening the door. "The Empress Dowager has taken her second 'Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pill'!"

"Refining low- to medium-grade tonic pills is easy, but high-grade and top-grade pills require luck!"

Four people suffered the blow from Daojun: the Empress Dowager, Tian Fen, Cheng Bushi, and Zhang Xuezhou, as well as Li Jiao, who was affected by the backlash while healing her injuries.

Cheng Bushi avoided the flying knife, suffering mostly physical injuries to his head; the Empress Dowager's head was pierced; Tian Fen had a flying blade remnant in his head; Zhang Xuezhou only suffered mental injuries after the flying blade was blocked; and Li Jiao's injuries were purely due to insufficient strength, resulting in some backlash and confusion.

The injuries suffered by everyone were very simple, but there was no medical solution available to cure them.

Zhang Xuezhou scratched his head. Apart from the tension caused by the extended travel period, the flying knife technique had clearly lost its effect on his killing power.

Apart from feeling a bit hungry, he was in excellent condition at the moment.

Alchemy and medicine making were not a problem for Zhang Xuezhou, but he lacked fresh Ganoderma lucidum and Polygonatum sibiricum, and Zhang Xuezhou dared not make any guarantees.

The Empress Dowager was using medicine at a rapid pace to prolong her life, clearly indicating a significant unmet demand.

After the Empress Dowager divided up the secret medicinal resources, she used them more to make the Creation Elixir, resulting in a limited supply of remaining medicinal materials. Furthermore, the processing and drying process reduced the medicinal efficacy.

For various reasons, it is now virtually impossible to achieve the same extravagant alchemy and pharmaceutical production as before.

"The low-grade Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pill is very ineffective. Do you still have any of these pills left?" the new emperor asked.

"I practice the Nine Revolutions Qi Harmony Technique of the Medical School. This technique requires a high level of elixirs. I currently have two high-grade elixirs and more than twenty mid-grade elixirs," Zhang Xuezhou said.

Zhang Xuezhou knew about the alchemy, and the new emperor obviously knew as well.

He quickly inquired about the remaining pills from Zhang Xuezhou and learned that Zhang Xuezhou had used them to practice his techniques. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

We must find another similar potent medicine!

Zhang Xuezhou had a unique characteristic in alchemy and medicine making: once he successfully made a pill and possessed similar medicinal materials, his success rate in subsequent Zhang Xuezhou making was extremely high.

However, if Zhang Xuezhou wants to change the medicinal materials, he needs to make adjustments.

This kind of adjustment doesn't just require one or two portions of medicinal materials, but involves hundreds.

Only through large-scale refining can a standard Pill Furnace like Qin Furnace No. 8 produce top-quality pills.

If time were plentiful, learning alchemy from other Alchemist would be a good option, but currently, time is limited.

The new emperor was acutely aware of the uniqueness of the choice.

Besides preparing large doses of medicine, he also had to pay attention to Zhang Xuezhou's condition. After all, Zhang Xuezhou had actually undergone surgery, and if his condition affected the alchemy, the failure rate would be higher.

"Perhaps because I took the medication and slept for a relatively long time, I feel pretty good right now, except for being a little hungry. Taking the medication again should make me feel even better!"

Zhang Xuezhou stretched out his arm, gesturing for the imperial physicians to come forward and examine his body.

The imperial physicians were somewhat lacking in their ability to treat serious illnesses, but they were quite adept at examining the body. It was very difficult for them to fake illness, and Zhang Xuezhou could not conceal his condition.

When Zhang Xuezhou looked at Yi Shuo, he saw her blink in response.

It was obvious that Yi Shuo had been getting a lot of medicine these past few days.

Leaving aside the medicinal materials needed to refine a large quantity of the Life-Creating Pill, Zhang Xuezhou and the others had no problems refining it according to the derived Pill Formula.

Zheng Wukong and others deduced as many as thirty-six kinds of materials for the Life-Creating Pill. To combine them correctly and restore the pill, they need to try again and again.

This is something that Zhou Yueyan and others often do in their research. The simple method is to combine different reagents one by one, including all the possibilities, and eventually the correct combination will be found.

If you're quick-witted enough to understand the Life-Creating Pill, you can reduce the number of times you have to try and fail.

However, this doesn't rule out the possibility of accidentally eliminating the correct answer, thus spending one's entire life on the wrong path.

"Lord Dongfang, can you feel your pulse?"

Zhang Xuezhou stretched out his arm for the imperial physician to examine.

The imperial physician Fang Zhan, who was taking the pulse, kept his right hand on the pulse point while looking at Zhang Xuezhou, who was talking eloquently.

Zhang Xuezhou's pulse was indistinguishable from that of a dead person, with almost no fluctuation, but Zhang Xuezhou muscles were warm, and he was lively, energetic, and able to speak.

Fang Zhan pondered for a long time whether he doubted his own medical skills or Zhang Xuezhou as a person. He finally concluded that the problem lay with Zhang Xuezhou.

It wasn't just Zhang Xuezhou; Yi Shuo, the chief female physician of the Imperial Medical Academy, also had significant problems.

Only problematic people can prescribe Pill Formula, and ultimately solve the problems.

Fang Zhan believes that only these people can withstand this model, and anyone else who tries to imitate it will be doomed.

He pondered the money he had received from Tian Fen's retainers, and then looked at Zhang Xuezhou, whose pulse was weak and feeble. He felt that Tian Fen could not treat him like Zhang Xuezhou.