Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 712: Recruitment Successful (III)

Chapter 712: Recruitment Successful (III)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"Many thanks, Lord Marquis!"

Although he was still a little doubtful, the Wushang Chief courteously gave his thanks. Whether or not this was all caused by the rock salt, his greatest concern and the more pressing task lay elsewhere.

"In addition, in addition… Although Lord Marquis has said that there is no more of this pill… can this decrepit one ask if Lord Marquis can tell us the recipe for this medicine and allow us to make it ourselves?"

It was the greatest taboo to ask a medicine master for the recipe of their pills, and the great clans would also rarely divulge their precious recipes. The Wushang Chief had just wanted to make an attempt, but to his surprise, Wang Chong's reply was extremely straightforward.

"Okay!"

Wang Chong smiled, apparently having already predicted the Wushang Chief's question. Without the slightest hesitation, he began to recite a large list of ingredients.

"The refining of this medicine isn't very difficult, but the ingredients are rather troublesome. It requires mansha fruit of at least thirty years of age, sixty-year Goguryeon ginseng, one-hundred-year purple coral obtained from the seabed, three-hundred-year sandalwood pith, Arabian dates, pomegranates from the Western Regions, palm tree leaves from overseas ground into powder…"

Wang Chong gave out seventy or eighty different kinds of ingredients, and as the elders of Wushang listened, their faces grew more and more unsightly, their complexions ghastly pale by the end.

If it were possible, they had planned to take Wang Chong's recipe and make the pills for themselves. But none of them had expected the recipe to be so complicated and troublesome.

They had not even heard of many of these things, much less seen them. Moreover, Wushang Village had been cut off from the outside world for many years and didn't have any wealth to speak of. Even the simplest ingredients, the dates and pomegranates, were enough to make them despair, let alone the

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