Chapter 939: Chapter 239: Taming the White Tiger, Refining the Divine Pill
Chen Jie spoke, White Tiger didn’t say anything but stared at Chen Jie. Chen Jie didn’t say anything either, just used a knife to chop the Big Python into eight pieces and put them all on sticks over the fire.
It started to roast.
Soon, the aroma of meat spread throughout the space.
At this moment, White Tiger licked its wounds. Chen Jie, seeing him extending his tongue vigorously, thought maybe it’s thirsty.
Thinking, Chen Jie brought over a large gourd.
He stood up and approached White Tiger.
Roar…
White Tiger, seeing Chen Jie coming closer, instinctively stood up straight, looking very alert.
Seeing White Tiger like this, Chen Jie shook the gourd and said, “Sit down, I’ll get you some water to drink.”
White Tiger remained very wary, but Chen Jie had already tried coming near it, then placed the water in front of White Tiger, saying, “Drink.”
After saying that, Chen Jie waved his hand and directly sliced off the small gourd part at the top, leaving only the largest part, and placed it in front of White Tiger. White Tiger’s eyes lit up at the sight of water and it lowered its head to lap it up incessantly.
The way tigers drink water is the same as dogs, they rely on licking, not drinking with their heads up like humans.
After drinking a gourd of water, White Tiger was still not quenched.
Chen Jie took another gourd, poured the water into it, and White Tiger drank it too, quickly finishing off two gourds of water.
At this point, Chen Jie noticed that the python meat was also fully roasted.
Brought it over, White Tiger crunched on it for a bit and ate.
Once fully fed, it lay down obediently.
Its head buried in its front paws.
Chen Jie then looked at its various claw and bite wounds, with the skin and flesh turned outward.
If not treated, who knows if the tiger would catch tetanus.
Thinking this, Chen Jie said to White Tiger, “I’m going to heal your wounds, you are not allowed to bite me!”
White Tiger lifted its head, its large eyes rolling around, Chen Jie said, “If you don’t speak, I’ll take that as consent.”
Chen Jie took his leftover high-proof white wine and came to White Tiger, then poured the wine on White Tiger’s wounds.
Roar…
Instantly a sharp pain made White Tiger roar angrily, looking ready to stand and glaring furiously at Chen Jie.
Chen Jie glared back and said, “Lie down, you want to bite me~”
“You ungrateful creature, I’m healing your wounds and you want to bite me.”
Whimper…
White Tiger lowered its head directly, letting out a sound of grievance, and Chen Jie continued disinfecting White Tiger with the white wine.
It was visibly in a lot of pain, but it didn’t bite Chen Jie and whined in grievance instead.
Soon, Chen Jie disinfected all its wounds and took out Trauma Healing Medicine from his Storage Ring, applying it all over White Tiger, completely using up two bottles of Upper-class golden sore medicine Chen Jie had.
Once everything was applied, White Tiger lay comfortably.
The golden sore medicine contained antipyretic and analgesic components, perfect for easing White Tiger’s pain.
At this point, White Tiger felt its wounds stop hurting, and knowing Chen Jie was saving it, lay obediently.
After everything was taken care of, Chen Jie was utterly exhausted and patted Tiger Head, saying, “You’re lucky to meet me, otherwise these injuries of yours could easily cost you half your life.”
After speaking, Chen Jie got up and said, “Alright, you rest.”
After saying this, Chen Jie went out and then took some lime powder mixed with sulfur from his Storage Ring and scattered it outside.
This stuff has a pungent smell that can prevent wolves from smelling the blood and finding their way here.
Moreover, the sulfur would make the wolves’ noses very uncomfortable, so they wouldn’t get too close here, as long as it buys Chen Jie one or two days, it’s enough.
After handling all this, Chen Jie returned to the cave to find White Tiger had fallen asleep lying there.
Seeing this, Chen Jie shook his head and said, “You really have a big heart to sleep through all this, lucky I’m not a bad guy, or else your tiger hide would have become a dress long ago.”
Chen Jie said this as he walked further into the cave, not noticing that after he walked away, White Tiger’s eyelid twitched slightly.
Pretending to sleep!
Chen Jie was truly not planning on doing anything to this White Tiger, so he reached out and took out a heavy object from his Storage Ring, a small green pill furnace.
This was the treasure of the Chang Chun Valley, capable of greatly increasing the chances of successful Alchemy.
Chen Jie retrieved this Alchemy Furnace, then selected the vigorously burning wood from the fire and threw it into the Pill Furnace, then brought out forty-eight auxiliary ingredients for the Warm Nourishing Pill.
Chen Jie needed to first refine these forty-eight auxiliary medicines one by one before refining the three main ingredients, then refining both the auxiliary and main medicines together to create the Warm Nourishing Pill needed to break through the Wolf Smoke Realm.
This entire process takes a full two days.
And during those two days, he couldn’t afford to rest at all.
Thinking this, Chen Jie opened the Pill Furnace, then as per usual, threw in a few unimportant herbs and refined two bottles of golden sore medicine.
This is called “priming the furnace,” to get it heated up.
Then Chen Jie began the long process of Alchemy.
And so, through the night, Chen Jie focused on refining auxiliary medicine, one by one for the forty-eight different auxiliary ingredients.
At dawn, White Tiger awoke, its wounds healed quite a bit, and it turned and left.
Chen Jie did not stop it, thinking it had run away, but surprisingly, half an hour later, it returned, dragging a five to six hundred-pound wild boar in.
After entering, White Tiger pointed to the fire pit where they roasted meat the previous day.
Chen Jie felt helpless, “It has gotten a taste for roasted meat.”
Chen Jie took the knife, dismembered the wild boar, and roasted it. Refining auxiliary medicine could allow for short periods away, but refining the main medicine and the final merging process required constant attention, or else it could lead to instant failure and ruin a batch of Elixir.
Chen Jie put the wild boar on the roast, and once cooked, gave it to White Tiger, saying, “You eat first, I need to focus on Alchemy, no disturbances, understand?”
White Tiger nodded and then started biting off a piece of the tender belly meat for Chen Jie, meaning for him to eat as well.
Chen Jie replied, “I have rice, I’m not eating that, you go ahead.”
That tender belly meat was White Tiger’s favorite, but due to the wild boar’s strong gamey taste, Chen Jie didn’t want to eat it, so the whole wild boar was given to White Tiger.
And White Tiger thoroughly enjoyed itself, eating was its favorite, especially the half-cooked roasted meat.
Feeling full and satisfied, it didn’t leave, guarding the cave entrance as if standing sentry for Chen Jie.
Thus, the day and night passed, and once again at dawn, Chen Jie had refined both the auxiliary and main ingredients, with the most crucial merging process up next, demanding zero disturbance.
Chen Jie glanced at White Tiger and said, “Little White, guard the door for me, within the next half an hour, don’t allow any disturbance, understood?”
White Tiger, hearing this, didn’t quite understand how long half an hour was, but still obediently lay down at the entrance.
At this moment, Chen Jie took a deep breath and tossed the auxiliary and main medicines into the furnace. The next half hour was the most critical moment.
Begin!
Chen Jie focused intently on the Elixir in the furnace, seriously refining it, and time ticked by, minute by minute.
Chen Jie thought everything would go smoothly, but then suddenly, a series of wolf howls erupted outside…
Howl howl…
Chen Jie’s heart skipped a beat, how could it happen at this crucial time, while the docile White Tiger, suddenly stood up, looked back at Chen Jie, and resolutely stepped outside.