"If Master Zuo says so, then I am relieved."
Zhang Ning bowed again.
"However, there is one more thing that I need to tell Master Zuo. Earth-grade pills are restricted by the laws of nature. At most, only three to five pills can exist in this world. As an Earth-grade pill, the Asahi Pill will also be restricted by this restriction. Even if I can successfully make the Asahi Pill, I will need to consume it in time before I can make the next pill. I need to report this to Master Zuo first …"
When Zhang Ning said this, Yang Rui thought that she was trying to shirk the responsibility, but to his surprise, Zuo Feng nodded in agreement!
"I know this principle, so you don't need to worry about it. Just focus on making the pill."
Hearing Zuo Feng's words, there really was such a setting! Yang Rui couldn't help but be surprised. This was something that Yang Rui had never heard of before.
In fact, there were many similar hidden settings in the game. Players had to slowly explore them. If they didn't know the rules, even if they used the correct method, they would often end up with a futile result! For example, when leveling up a territory, even though all the conditions for leveling up had been met, if one's official rank hadn't reached the required level, they still wouldn't be able to complete the leveling up.
Zhang Ning and Zuo Feng discussed the details of making the Asahi Pill. The next day, under Zuo Feng's urging, they started making the Asahi Pill. Yang Rui's original plan of farming Fifth Grade Warriors fell through.
However, Yang Rui didn't stay idle. He took advantage of the time when Zhang Ning was making the pill to capture wild horses.
The process of capturing wild horses was slightly different from taming livestock. If it was a herdsman or a shepherd boy, they could capture and tame wild horses with their bare hands. For example, the child of Molin in Mountain Town was a shepherd boy. This time, Yang Rui didn't bring him along because he was in a hurry.
If it was an ordinary player or NPC, they could also capture and tame wild horses. However, they had to purchase a special tool provided by the system – a Horse Lasso. Only then could they complete the process of capturing and taming horses. Before Yang Rui tamed the hundred wild horses, he had purchased a considerable amount of Horse Lasso from the system. He had always kept them in his bag.
Yang Rui took all twenty beginner generals and forty-two Fifth Grade bandit leaders with him and started searching the surrounding areas of Joy City. At the same time, he prepared six to seven hundred soldiers in his storage ring so that he could ride the tamed horses back to Joy City. As capturing and taming Wild Horses required a high level of agility from players and NPCs, Yang Rui only allowed Basic Generals and Bandit Leaders to participate. The rest of the soldiers were left to wait in the storage ring.
With the Flying Carpet's high speed, it wasn't hard to find the tracks of a herd of wild horses. Yang Rui had already discovered quite a few wild horse herds when he was traveling around Western Liang. However, due to his busy schedule, he didn't have the time to stop and capture and tame wild horses.
Now that he was focused on finding horses, Yang Rui quickly discovered a herd of around two hundred wild horses a few hundred kilometers away from Yue City. After calculating the time, Yang Rui released the beginner Generals and bandit leaders from the storage ring where the herd of wild horses would pass by. By the time the herd of wild horses approached, Yang Rui and the others had already made their preparations and were hiding in the bushes.
Whoosh whoosh … whoosh whoosh whoosh …
"Neigh neigh …"
As soon as the herd of wild horses reached a nearby location, Yang Rui and the others had already thrown out their lassos. Accompanied by the neighs of the wild horses, less than half of the lassos managed to snare a wild horse, while the rest of the lassos missed. One could immediately see the difference. Out of the twenty beginner Generals, only one or two failed, while only ten or so of the bandit leaders managed to snare a single horse!
Even if they managed to snare a horse, it was only the first step. The beginner Generals and bandit leaders used the force of the lassos to gallop wildly for a while before jumping onto the horse. At this moment, the task of capturing and taming the horses was only half completed. What they needed to do next was to stick close to the horse's back. Until the horse gave in.
At this time, those who didn't manage to snare a single wild horse took advantage of the chaos in the herd to throw out the lassos in their hands again until they managed to snare a wild horse! During this process, more than half of the people managed to snare a horse. The remaining ten or so bandit leaders couldn't keep up with the speed of the herd and were left behind by the panicked horses. They could only wait for the next opportunity to attack.
The horses in the lassos struggled incessantly. After about an hour, all the horses in the lassos were finally tamed. The first wave of capturing and taming horses ended. Yang Rui had captured a total of 49 wild horses.
Yang Rui had already tamed the horses in his lassos long ago. While the others were busy, he counted the number of horses in the lassos and released the corresponding number of soldiers from his storage ring. After taming a horse, he handed it over. After the handover, the beginner Generals and bandit leaders were placed back into Yang Rui's storage ring, while the tamed horses were handed over to the soldiers that were released beforehand.
After the first wave of capturing horses was over, Yang Rui used the Flying Carpet to catch up with the horses and started the next wave of capturing. After repeating this process for four to five times, the herd of 200 wild horses was completely captured by Yang Rui!
Yang Rui gathered the 200 plus soldiers who had obtained their horses, and sent 5 Junior Generals to lead and escort them back to Yue Capital. Under the leadership of the five beginner Generals, the 200 plus soldiers were all equipped with horses. As long as they didn't encounter a large group of Western Qiang Cavalry, returning safely to Yue Capital was naturally not a problem.
Capturing the 200 plus wild horses took a total of four hours. After that, Yang Rui used the Flying Carpet to search for more wild horses in the surrounding area. After a day of smooth sailing, Yang Rui managed to capture a total of four groups of wild horses, totaling over 650 horses!
In fact, the last group that Yang Rui encountered had a total of 500 wild horses. However, Yang Rui didn't have enough men with him and Yang Rui decided to end the day's capture early.
When Yang Rui returned to Yue Capital, Zhang Ning still hadn't made any movements. She had been refining the "Asahi Pill" without stopping. Zuo Feng had also been waiting anxiously. Although on the surface, he looked like he was fiddling with the tea with interest, but in his heart, he was more anxious than anyone else!
After a busy day, Yang Rui naturally used the night to practice his beginner level inner force cultivation technique. After adjusting his inner force, Yang Rui couldn't help but choose to consume the Mortal Transformation Pill together with the remaining Qi Nurturing Pill.
The Qi Nurturing Pill was also a Yellow Grade Middle Grade Pill. Although its effect wasn't as strong as the Soul Gathering Pill, there wasn't much difference. With the Mortal Transformation Pill, the two pills exhibited double the medicinal effect of the Qi Nurturing Pill. It directly raised Yang Rui's beginner inner force level by another level, reaching 99% of the third level of beginner inner force. His inner force had reached over 13000 points, just a little bit more and he would break through the beginner inner force realm!
When the opportunity to break through arrived, he would be able to use the Middle Grade Inner Force Cultivation Technique. After that, Yang Rui would become a High Grade Martial General. His strength would definitely receive another substantial increase! However, Yang Rui's skill level was still relatively slow. He had only learned the advanced special skill a while ago. There was still a long way to go before he could learn a new skill.
On the second day, Zhang Ning still didn't show any signs of completing her refinement. Yang Rui once again brought his subordinates to search for wild horse herds. He captured and tamed horses, and this continued for the next three days. In these three to four days, Yang Rui had already captured over 2100 horses. He had also captured over half of the wild horse herds within a few hundred li radius of Joy City.
Every time Yang Rui's subordinates brought the horses back to Joy City, Yang Rui would place them on the market at a price several times higher than the market price. He only had to wait until he returned to Big Mountain Town to take down the order. After paying a certain fee, the system would send the horses to Big Mountain Town! This was also the main reason why Yang Rui had chosen to open up the market in Joy City back then.
With 2100 horses, he had already completed the 2000 horses that Yang Rui had agreed with the CU Alliance. He only had to wait for the right time to complete the transaction with the CU Alliance. However, Yang Rui wasn't in a hurry. He was prepared to wait until the two month deadline to complete the transaction with the CU Alliance.
On the morning of the fifth day, just as Yang Rui was about to set out to capture more horses, he saw that the sky above Joy City was suddenly covered in dark clouds. Large patches of dark clouds suddenly gathered in the direction of Joy City's three Manors, causing the soldiers in the Mayor's Mansion to become restless.
"This is … this is … it's going to succeed! It's going to succeed! "
Zuo Feng was also alarmed and came out. However, his expression was different from the others. Compared to the confusion and even panic of the others, Zuo Feng's face was more excited. He couldn't help but mumble something that no one else could understand.
Yang Rui also quickly reacted. This was the celestial phenomenon caused by Zhang Ning refining the "Asahi Pill".
Before Zhang Ning refined the pill, she had said that the "Asahi Pill", as an Earth Grade pill, could cause a certain celestial phenomenon when it was refined. This was also one of the reasons why Zhang Ning had refused to follow Zuo Feng back to Luoyang Imperial City.
"Sizzle! Boom! "
While everyone was still confused about the truth of the matter, they saw that after the dark clouds gathered, a thunderbolt lit up half the sky. Immediately after, a thunderclap landed in a corner of the Mayor's Mansion.
Yang Rui was immediately shocked. His figure madly ran in the direction of the thunderclap. Because the thunderclap landed in the direction of where Zhang Ning was refining the pill, how could Yang Rui not be worried? Zhang Ning was Yang Rui's treasure. She was currently the only historical celebrity that the players had subdued. If anything happened to her, Yang Rui couldn't accept it no matter what.
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