Uncle-Master, Please Help Us - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: The Demon King Who Wants To Be Free

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Let’s start!”
The parrot picked up an Aconitum and stuffed it into the Demon King’s mouth. It lifted his chin with one wing and held his crushed head with the other wing to help him chew.
Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!
The aconitum was chewed up, its juices flowed all over the Demon King’s neck. Two of his teeth were shattered from the force of chewing.
“Why is his mouth swollen?”
The old tortoise spoke after a while.
The parrot looked down to see that the Demon King’s mouth was indeed swollen.
They looked like two sausages.
“It’s effective… It means there are still signs of life!” The parrot thought for a while and said.
The old tortoise suddenly realized. “Continue feeding then!”
The herbs were stuffed into the Demon King’s mouth once more. When it was full, they pushed the herbs down his throat mouth with a stick.
After a while…
“His face seems to be turning black…”
“It’s okay. It should be from the fire before. It doesn’t matter.”
“His body is convulsing!”
“If he’s moving, it means he’s recovering! Continue feeding!”
Both pets were sweating profusely.
The more herbs they fed, the more excited they got.
It was the first time that they had saved someone since gaining intelligence.
They felt a sense of fulfillment in their hearts.
It was no wonder that when Master learned to treat, he was happy every time he managed to save an animal.
It really felt good to heal the sick and save lives.
The guy in front of them was initially still like a corpse. Now, not only was he convulsing, but he was also sweating and grinding his teeth. He even stuck his tongue out. At one glance, he seemed to be getting closer to recovery.
“There’s no more medicine…”
“Get more!”
After half an hour, all the herbs they gathered had been stuffed into the Demon King’s stomach.
His body was now rounder than before.
The wooden stick seemed quite effective.
A bird and a tortoise tried their hardest to save him.
The comatose Demon King regained his consciousness.
He felt the changes in his body and tears almost streamed down his cheeks when he saw the two beasts that were trying their best to “save” him.
What kind of grudge do you have against me?
I only said that I wanted to eat you once! But I was beaten up twice as a result, and now that I cannot move. You’re stuffing poison down my throat… Will you only be happy if I died?
“This won’t do. If I continue staying here, I will really die…”
With his strength, he could recover from even more serious injuries. But these three demonic beasts were just too terrifying… it seemed that they would not stop until his soul was destroyed
I better escape if I want to survive!
“Although poison greatly damages my body, Devourer in the demonic cultivation method can restore my mobility using the help of the poisons’ latent strength.”
Human cultivators were indeed unable to expel poison. But his demonic cultivation method worked by devouring strength. The strength of poison worked the same way.
Except that after using the strength of poison…
The side effects were great, and he would bleed uncontrollably from his mouth and nose.
However, this was no longer important at this moment.
He might really die if he continued to stay here.
Boom!
He took action immediately and after digesting the poisonous herbs, their strength was immediately turned into power that would nourish his whole body.
He was now able to control his previously immobile body.
Although he was still weak, this was still better than dying here.
Seeing that the two beast pets had flown away to gather more herbs and that there was no one around watching him. The Nirvana Demon King gnashed his teeth and he struggled to climb out of the compound.
Freedom, here I come.
…
Su Yin traveled fast on the donkey.
After one hour, a big city appeared before his eyes.
Dayan City!
There were people coming and leaving through the city gate, it was very lively.
This was originally a small village. Under the protection of the Immortal Guardian Sect, it gradually developed and grew into a large city ranked within the top ten in the entire Great Yan Prefecture.
After asking for directions, both donkey and Su Yin soon arrived at Dayan Market.
The place was a huge complex that covered dozens of acres of land. Before he could even the market, he could already feel its bustling atmosphere.
The wide variety of goods were dazzling, and countless people shuffled in and out. The scene gave him the illusion as though he had returned to his previous life.
After Su Yin left Big Black at the stables by the entrance, he walked in and soon arrived at the front desk.
“May I know if you have elixirs like Spiritual Aura Elixirs, and Spirit Gathering Elixirs for sale?
The girl at the front desk looked like she was about his age.
She looked amicable and quiet.
When she heard the inquiry, a smile appeared on her face. “There are Ordinary-Grade and Pure-Grade elixirs. Which one do you need?”
“What’s the difference?”
“Ordinary-Grade Spirit Gathering Elixirs are refined by an alchemist’s apprentice…”
“This kind of elixir needed to be refined by the person taking it since the spiritual power inside of it is not so easy to absorb. The Pure-Grade elixirs, on the other hand, are refined by a real alchemist. The spiritual power is pure and easier to absorb, just that the price is a little higher!”
The girl explained.
Su Yin asked instantly. “What are the prices?”
“The Ordinary-Grade ones are 100 wen each…”
“The Pure-Grade ones are 500 wen each.” The girl said.
Qianyuan Continent didn’t only have sects throughout its lands.
The continent also had a royal family and a dynasty.
The so-called Daqian—was the common currency used by mortals and cultivators alike.
1000 wen was 1 tael of silver, 10 taels of silver were 1 tael of gold.
“It’s not that expensive!” Su Yin nodded.
Perhaps it was because it was too low-leveled. One Pure-Grade Spirit Gathering Elixir was less than 1 tael of silver. It was not expensive indeed.
“Give me ten Pure-Grade elixirs!”
Su Yin took out 5 taels of silver and handed them over to the girl.
Although he had never gone out, he still had some money. Otherwise, he would not have come here directly. The money was given by that “cheap Senior” ten years ago.
But because he was always in the Forbidden Grounds, he had no chance to spend it.
He paid and took the jade bottle from the girl. Su Yin saw that there were indeed ten elixirs inside, emitting a strong medicinal fragrance. If he took them, perhaps he would be able to break his current situation and successfully cultivate to immortality!
“Young Master, if you want to cultivate. We have quiet rooms for rent. It’s 10 wen for one hour.” Seeing his excitement, the girl politely suggested.
“I’ll take one!”
Su Yin answered without any hesitation, and the girl led Su Yin to a quiet, medium-sized room that was about seven or eight square meters in size.
He sat down on the straw mat in the middle of the room and poured all ten elixirs out.
He placed them under his nose and took a whiff.
“Half a mace of dried leaf grass, 1 mace of rosa banksiae, one-fifth mace of aged willow wood, and one-sixth qian for royal incense…”
He closed his eyes and mumbled to himself.
He had systematically learned to distinguish medicinal herbs.
No matter what, as long as it was made with medicinal herbs, he could accurately distinguish all the ingredients and their proportions with a sniff.
Chopping wood to train the eyes, using the nose to distinguish medicine.
In order to train in these, the soul remnant who imparted these skills to him had set up countless barriers. Su Yin had to spend a lot of effort to successfully master these skills.
Back at the Forbidden Grounds, he felt that such skills were not of much value.
Now, it seemed useful that he was able to distinguish the ingredients that made up the elixir.
“The ratio seems to be a bit problematic, the nature of Dry Leaf Grass is warm, Rosa Banksiae’s nature is moist. It’s easy for the medicinal properties to deviate if they are combined…”
“If one-third mace of Fire Green Moss is used to neutralize it, the effect will be much better.”
“It’s a pity that instead of using that, Royal Incense was used. The medicinal properties of royal incense are too complicated. Although it also has a neutralizing effect, it greatly weakened the medicinal properties of the first two herbs…”
Su Yin frowned, he could not understand the thought process of the alchemist who made these elixirs.
The so-called medicine identification must be the lowest requirement of the alchemy profession.
Even he—who was not even an apprentice—could detect that there was something wrong with the elixir…
How can a real alchemist not know about it?
“I must be over-thinking it. Cultivators who can refine elixirs are all very powerful. They can’t be worse than an ordinary person like me!”
Throwing these complicated thoughts aside, he gently took one elixir and placed it in his mouth.
Su Yin felt that these elixirs were badly mixed and of poor quality, but since they were refined by cultivators. He thought that they must be effective.
He could only try it!
Hu!
The elixir melted into his throat, and Su Yin immediately felt a warm current blow up in his abdomen.
“It’s effective…”
Su Yin’s eyes lit up as he tried to control the warm current in his dantian, according to the way recorded in the cultivation techniques he had read.
Then, he felt his body swell up…
The acupuncture points throughout his body that were closed previously opened at the same time.
Pu! Pu! Pu!
As though his body had eaten something disgusting, the spiritual aura in his abdomen was forcefully squeezed into a mass of air current that came out of his acupoints in an instant.
The effect of the medicine immediately disappeared just like that.
“…”
Su Yin trembled.
What he had eaten was expelled… It shouldn’t be like this!
Was it really so difficult to cultivate?