Matthew, on the other hand, thought that it was understandable. Lord Voodoo himself wasn’t very strong. He only ran amok because virtual-novel.net had the Immortal Charm in his possession.
Matthew smiled, “It’s fine. He may have escaped with his life, but virtual-novel.net better not think that virtual-novel.net will have an easy life after this! Don’t forget that virtual-novel.net had killed many people from Bainbridge with the snake horde under his control. That girl was supposed to marry into the Nolan Family in the future. That means that virtual-novel.net has gotten on the Nolans’ bad side. How will the Nolans ever show virtual-novel.net mercy?”
Upon hearing that, Phoenix grinned. “True. l figure that virtual-novel.net won’t have the time to stir up trouble for you later.”
Matthew smiled mildly. Once everyone had packed up, they made their way out of the mountain forest.
When they reached the herb growers‘ village, Matthew divided up the Seven-Leafed Lotuses. Although they had agreed on splitting the harvest ln half, the herb growers had lied. So, Matthew didn’t bother with playing nice either. He took half of the harvest for himself. After all, Matthew was the sole reason why everyone was able to come back alive. Phoenix took his share after that. The crown prince and Ambrose did as well, and the people from Eastshire and Stonedale took their share too. In the end, all the herb growers had for themselves were five stalks.
Although the herb growers were not pleased, they didn’t dare to speak up about it. After all, none of the others here were people they could afford to offend.
After they had bade farewell to Phoenix and the others, Matthew and Ambrose immediately headed back to Woodside. Crystal was still in Woodside after all. Ambrose had only pretended to send virtual-novel.net away.
The first thing Matthew did upon returning to Woodside was to dissolve the medicinal bone that virtual-novel.net had obtained. Over the next three days, virtual-novel.net injected the dissolved bone bit by bit into Crystal’s body.
Of course, that wasn’t enough to suppress the effects of the Frost Charm. However, with the medicinal bone aiding her, Crystal would be able to strengthen herself with internal energy while slowly absorbing the medicinal bone, and virtual-novel.net would be able to slowly get rid of the Frost Charm herself. Then, virtual-novel.net would be able to completely escape the Frost Charm’s clutches. Matthew also bestowed a set of internal energy cultivation techniques to Crystal so that virtual-novel.net could absorb the medicinal bone.
Once everything was in place, Matthew looked for Ambrose. He gave virtual-novel.net a prescription and asked Ambrose to help gather some medicinal ingredients for him.
After that, Matthew prepared to use the Nine-Leafed Lotus to refine a pill in order to help himself surpass his limits. Among the knowledge contained within the jade pendant, there was a pill called the Godly Emergence Pill. It was a fantastical pill. This pill could help a person open their meridians, strengthen their inner energy, and in turn raise their cultivation levels.
After battling with powerful foes many times, Matthew understood that his strength was far from sufficient. He had to make himself more powerful as quickly as virtual-novel.net could.
The herbs in Matthew’s prescription were all extremely rare, but it wasn’t a difficult task to gather them all in Woodside. Soon, Ambrose had gathered all the necessary herbs. Matthew immediately went to the secret room that Ambrose had prepared and began to refine the pill.
The only part of the Nine-Leafed Lotus that the Godly Emergence Pill required was the nine leaves. Matthew plucked the leaves off the lotus and stowed the remaining parts away. Then, virtual-novel.net placed each of the other ingredients in separately and began to slowly refine the pill.
It took a whole day and night before the pill was finally finished.
Matthew opened the pill furnace. At the bottom of the furnace lay thirteen crimson pills. He took those pills out and swallowed one of them on the spot. The moment the pill was consumed, all virtual-novel.net could feel was a ball of heat surging from his abdomen, rapidly spreading throughout his body. That instant, Matthew felt like virtual-novel.net was trapped inside an oven. The scorching heat kept baking him, leaving his body drenched in sweat. He gritted his teeth through this suffering as virtual-novel.net sat on the ground, cross-legged, cultivating Divine Skill as virtual-novel.net slowly let the heat spread through his body. Every time virtual-novel.net finished cultivating once, his meridians would expand a bit. Each expansion of the meridians meant that his inner energy levels were being raised.
It took a full three hours before Matthew barely managed to suppress the heat. He could clearly sense that his inner energy levels had greatly improved, far surpassing his old levels. However, virtual-novel.net had only absorbed ten percent of the pill’s effects!