Chapter 588: Potion #4

Chapter 588: Potion #4Zhang Lie snapped Yun Bing out of her daze. "Well, let's start work."

Yun Bing nodded and departed immediately, arranging for the remaining fighters in the vicinity to begin searching through the rubble immediately.

There were quite a few casualties, and a significant number of people had gone missing in the aftermath of the conflict between Zhang Lie and the asura.

Fortunately, most of the core personnel of Renhuang had survived safe and sound. The Yeluo chieftain, Chu Feng, and the others had all remained behind, making rebuilding a far less daunting process than it would otherwise have been.

Yun Bing asked, "What should we do next?"

"We have no other choice but to rebuild atop these ruins." Zhang Lie surveyed the ruins of the city. The asura had gone easy on them, in principle—he didn't deign to target anyone, but his indiscriminate attack on the city was sufficient to level it whole.

None of the buildings in the city had survived intact, and there were quite a few people sobbing by corpses that had been excavated.

Because the majority of the human fighters had left with Team Zenith, there were relatively few human deaths compared to alien ones, but Zhang Lie was upset regardless. If he had seen the emergency notice that Sun Mengmeng had sent him just a bit earlier, if he had rushed back to Renhuang an hour or two beforehand, this tragedy wouldn't have happened.

Beside him, Yun Bing gently patted him on the back. "Zhang Lie, you did what you could. No one could have expected the sudden arrival of the asura. Furthermore, you've already managed to get revenge for them. Compared to the worst that could have happened against an asura, I think this was already quite a mild outcome."

Zhang Lie didn't know how to console those who had lost loved ones. Instead, at the very least, he could meet their material needs.

"Do we have enough construction materials and food to begin rebuilding immediately?"

Yun Bing nodded. "The rock spirits have survived unscathed, and we certainly have plenty of construction material. As for food, we still have a significant portion remaining in our storehouse.

We can make up the difference from the frontline troops. Sun Mengmeng and the rest of Team Zenith have made significant headway in usurping sura territory, and they'll certainly be returning with supplies.

With a wave of Zhang Lie's hand, a veritable mountain of lifeforms appeared before Yun Bing, causing her eyes to bulge. Most of these lifeforms were peak-grade.

She had no idea how Zhang Lie had managed to acquire such a large supply of peak-grade lifeforms, considering how rare a resource they usually were.

She swallowed a gulp of saliva. "Zhang Lie, did you kill all these lifeforms?"

He was able to remove the rubble studding Renhuang with just a wave of an arm, quench the flames with a press of his palm, and conjure a mountain of peak-grade meat out of nowhere...

"You haven't become a god already, have you?"

From Yun Bing's perspective, only a god could accomplish such miraculous feats.

Zhang Lie only smiled. "Is this enough? If not, I still have more meat in my supply." Sᴇaʀᴄh the NʘvᴇlFɪre.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

Yun Bing's eyes widened. She continued pursuing her train of thought. "Zhang Lie, have you really become a god?"

Zhang Lie shrugged. "No. Gods don't exist in this universe. These supposed gods are just stronger hunters or stronger fighters. I'm not a god, just stronger than average. When you get to my level, you'll understand that these miraculous acts aren't as miraculous as they seem."

During his adventure in the sea, Zhang Lie had not only finished maxing out his disaster gene fragments, but also found a large number of important herbs that had never been harvested.

Now that he had his own peak-grade farm, he could also obtain as many peak-grade lifeforms from his whirlpool-tyrant extradimensional space as he needed.

"Make sure you're not falling behind on your cultivation, do you understand?"

"Y-Yes, Zhang Lie!"

After delegating Yun Bing with a number of responsibilities, Zhang Lie left. He wouldn't be of much help with reconstruction, and he had tasks that he needed to accomplish himself. His subsequent objective was to produce a vial of Potion #4, which would allow him to enhance his peak gene capacity.

Before concocting the potion, however, he wanted to check in on Team Zenith. As Yun Bing had reported, the members of Team Zenith were doing very well, and they were particularly excited for Zhang Lie's return.

The alien races and forces of Renhuang had been taking down sura city after sura city, but they had been worried about the possibility of encountering a sura monarch.

Upon hearing from Zhang Lie that he had killed the rest of the monarchs, the members of Team Zenith brightened up. They no longer had any threats to be worried about—they could claim the entirety of the sura territory for themselves!

Once everything was settled, Zhang Lie found a quiet, secure location where he began to brew Potion #4.

He retrieved all the fruits and herbs he had obtained throughout his travels in the second realm—one of which he had found in Hong Tianqi's personal treasury, another which he had uncovered from Xueju's quarters, and a third, blessed by the wind, in Mt. Wanren after helping out the crag eagles. He had acquired these ingredients at no small expense, and they represented records of his journey through the second realm.

The last and most important ingredient was an asura's thorn.

The other ingredients were rare and precious, but they could be found again at great cost. However, these were likely the only six asura thorns he would ever be able to acquire in the second realm.

Unless he were able to find a substitute ingredient, he had to handle those thorns with utmost care—it was looking very likely that he would only be able to produce at most six such potions in this realm.

As far as he knew, only one asura had remained in the sura realm, and Zhang Lie had already hunted him down.

The four fruits that he had collected, which formed the basis of the potion, represented the four base elements of alchemy: earth, water, wind, and fire.

Zhang Lie had been ruminating over how to complete the recipe almost as soon as he entered the second realm. The higher the grade of these limit-breaking potions, the more taxing their concoction became. The preparation for these ingredients was so intricate that no ordinary hunter could imagine its like.

Furthermore, he didn't have complete information about Potion #4, so he had had to research, contemplate, and work out a refined recipe given what little he knew of it. Even if he were to complete every step perfectly, Zhang Lie didn't know whether his concoction would be a success, but he would surely try his very best.

He carefully retrieved the ingredients he had prepared, meditated for half an hour, and then began the concoction process in earnest...