When a Fanfic Protagonist Transmigrated into the Original Novel

Chapter 27: Return of the Heaven’s FlameChapter 26: Heaven's Flame Chapter 25: DeceptionChapter 24: Eavesdrop BugChapter 23: Beast EggChapter 22: I'm Just Scaring HimChapter 21: Special MoveChapter 20: Yao Budu's Secret Chapter 19: Twilight Love Chapter 18: She’s Secretly In Love With MeChapter 17: Draw Lots 

Yao Budu didn’t come to see the battle, so Yi Xichen and Zhangsun Zijun thought that he would be in his cabin. But when they arrived, they didn’t find him, and there wasn’t the usual smoke coming out from it either.

“Master!”

Yi Xichen yelled, but no one answered, so he pushed open the door and went in.

Yao Budu was nowhere to be found, instead, a pill refining cauldron attracted Yi Xichen and Zhangsun Zijun’s attention. The two of them went over, and Yi Xichen picked the cauldron up.

The pill refining cauldron was only the size of a palm and could be fitted perfectly on one’s hand. The holes on the cauldron had smoke coming out of it like it was still refining something inside. But what could it be? It was so small that it could at most fit one or two pills inside. That would be such a waste of time if only a couple of pills could be produced every batch.

Yi Xichen asked curiously, “What’s this? A toy”

Zhangsun Zijun said, “Would it be Master’s spiritual tool that he made for you?”

Yi Xichen paused for a second and said, “No way…”

As they were talking, Yao Budu’s loud roar came in, “Zhangsun Zijun! TIME TO TAKE YOUR PILLS!”

The two of them jumped from the yell, and Yi Xichen quickly put the pill refining cauldron back onto the table. However, after a while, they didn’t see Yao Budu coming in, and the sound just then… seemed to be coming from the small cauldron.

“Puff!”

A Yao Budu’s special Awaken Mind Pill popped out.

Both of them: “…”

“What?!” Yi Xichen grabbed the small pill refining cauldron and flipped it over. Sure enough, it was his Black Fire Stone inlaid at the bottom. He screamed distressingly, “My precious firestone!”

For the past two days, Yi Xichen has been dreaming about what Yao Budu might have made for him. It could create something particularly powerful for him, such as weapons that could change forms or launch hidden weapons, such as traps that could capture spirit beasts. But in the end, the mysterious firestone has been made into a small alchemy furnace that would automatically spit medicine.

“Yi Xichen! TIME TO TAKE YOUR PILLS!”

The little cauldron spat out another pill.

“Ahhhhhhhhh!” Yi Xichen grabbed his hair in frustration. Black Firestone! His Black Firestone that worthed twenty high-grade spirit stones! If he knew this earlier, he definitely wouldn’t have come to give it to Yao Budu! Now it turned into a cauldron that played his brain-washing yell!

Zhangsun Zijun picked up the little cauldron, studied it for a second, then used his fingernail to open the cap. Looking inside, the pill refining cauldron wasn’t as thin as he had expected: what he saw was an endless black void. “This… could this be made with Qiankun Jade?”

Yi Xichen also leaned over to take a look.

Qiankun Jade had the capability to store objects. Spiritual tools and objects that were made of Qiankun Jade could store countless hidden mysteries. The price of Qiankun Jade was also not cheap, most people would use it to craft traps and hidden weapons. With a tiny one on your ring, it could store and launch hundreds or even thousands of poisonous arrows. This thingy was many Demonic cultivator’s favorites.

So that meant, this little cauldron, not only could it produce Yao Budu’s yell and spit out pills, it could also store a lot of pills? How interesting!

–No shit!

Yi Xichen, as a broke man, after discovering more about the pill refining cauldron, did not grow happier by the slightest, and instead became more heartbroken. “Is Master crazy? Ahh! Black Firestone, Qiankun Jade, and this is the result? What the heck is even the purpose of this!!!”

Sure enough, if it was just to store pills, a Qiankun bag would be plenty. As for the ability to send out reminders from time to time… this must be solely for Yao Budu to enjoy!

Zhangsun Zijun only cared about earning money, but not about where it was spent, so he didn’t care where these precious materials were used. He felt like this was quite interesting, and said, “We’ll be leaving for practical training next year, I believe he is just worried that we forget to take our pills on time, that’s why he made this thing.”

Yi Xichen was stunned for a second.

Ever since he became a cultivator, he has already stopped eating grains and crops. Eating those would increase the amount of impure gasses in his body, which would be bad for his cultivation. But eating pills wouldn’t cause that effect. Therefore, Yao Budu always liked to refine all sorts of nutritious and beneficial pills for them, and he must watch them eat them with his own eyes. Then he must hear some good compliments on how good they were before he would be satisfied — Very similar to parents from a normal family who spent a lot of effort preparing dinner for their children.

Next year, they would be leaving the mountain, and would only return once every year or two. The purpose of going out was for practical training. Of course Yao Budu couldn’t follow them. Watching his hard-raised children leaving him, how could he not prepare something for them to bring along? Unlike other elders, he couldn’t give his disciples riches and spiritual materials, so he did what he was good at, and refined a bunch of pills to act as a parting gift.

“Little brats!” The pill refining cauldron roared like a great bell again, “TIME TO TAKE YOUR PILLS!”

“Puff! Puff!” Two more spiritual pills were spat out.

Yi Xichen rubbed his head helplessly, “Is Master trying to test our conscience?”

By using a Qiankun Bag, a whole lot of pills could be stored. But without Yao Budu beside them to make them take it, would they take it? Of! Course! Not! Yet now that Yao Budu made a spiritual object that would spit out a pill on time and also a reminder, every time it spoke, it was a test to their conscience. If they didn’t eat it, then would it count as disliking their master right after they left? Welp, no other choice than to take their pills it seemed!

Yi Xichen cried with no tears. What other choice did they have? Take Yao Budu’s spiritual object apart? They could never do such a thing.

Either way, it was a gift from Yao Budu, Yi Xichen couldn’t wait for Yao Budu to return and so just placed the pill refining cauldron into his bag. After looking around and making sure Yao Budu wasn’t in the cabin, they determined that he was probably at the medicine fields.

The two walked through the portal and searched around the medicine fields as well, but Yao Budu was still nowhere to be found.

Yi Xichen wondered, “Did Master leave the mountain again?”

Zhangsun Zijun glanced at him, “Again?”

The two landed beside Tongxiu Spring, and Yi Xichen mumbled with dissatisfaction, “Normally, all he does is sit around and refine pills, but when we actually need him, he always disappears!”

He was still annoyed about the small pill refining cauldron, and so he tried venting his anger by yelling into Tongxiu Spring, “Yao Budu! Come out! Your favorite disciples are being bullied!! We’ll be chased out of the sect if you don’t come to help us!!”

Of course, there was no response.

Zhangsun Zijun sat down beside the spring, and said calmly, “Don’t worry, the matches won’t be over ’till a few more hours.”

Yi Xichen also sat down beside him with anger. He stared at Tongxiu Spring and recalled when Yao Budu came running back in a panic. To not make his master sound bad, he didn’t ask all the way last time, but what made Yi Xichen so hurt? Did he get hurt from finding the materials for the pills? But there were already so many herbs and plants in the medicine fields, what was it that made him go risk it outside?

At this moment, Yao Budu’s figure finally appeared in Tongxiu Spring. And just like last time, he was running towards his cabin in a panic, as if there was a monster chasing him.

Yi Xichen was stunned in place and rubbed his eyes with disbelief, doubting what he was seeing.

Zhangsun Zijun had already stood up beside him, “Master’s back!”

But suddenly, through Tongxiu Spring, a red beam of light appeared by the horizon, and landed on Yao Budu’s head! Yao Budu was immediately surrounded by scarlet flame, he was burning!

“Heaven’s Flame!” Zhangsun Zijun and Yi Xichen yelled out together!

The two got onto their swords and flew over immediately. Through the portal, they saw the scene of their master being surrounded by fire. Before he was burned, his expression was full of panic, yet the second the fire touched him, his face didn’t show any pain. He looked very peaceful, and with his eyes half-closed, he seemed like he was about to enter a sweet dream.

Yi Xichen’s eyes widened, he felt as if his body was struck by lightning. This was his second time seeing this. Over ten years ago, his parents also fell asleep in such a fire, and then never woke up.

Zhangsun Zijun released a tremendous amount of sword aura as he rushed towards Yao Budu. He wanted to use his sword aura to extinguish the fire and pull Yao Budu out of there. But before he even got close, Yi Xichen had already held onto him tightly.

“No! You can’t!” Yi Xichen said with his shaking voice, “You can’t touch that fire!”

Zhangsun Zijun pushed Yi Xichen onto the floor and continued to rush towards the fire. But before he got much further, Yi Xichen pounced towards him and held onto his leg for life, “Don’t go!”

Yao Budu, who was already in a state of complete serene, took a step back. He didn’t have much energy left, and his movements seemed to require a lot of effort. He used the last bit of his consciousness to tell his disciples not to approach him. His lips moved slightly, “Go… leave…”

Zhangsun Zijun has never been so irrational and out of his mind before! He was pressed onto the floor tightly by Yi Xichen, so he could only use his entire body’s spiritual energy to form a giant wall of water, pouring towards Yao Budu!

The wave crashed over, and the fire on Yao Budu decreased by a little. This was not from Zhangsun Zijun’s water technique though, it was because there wasn’t much soul left to burn.

“Leave…”

Yao Budu slowly closed his eyes.

“Master!!!” Zhangsun Zijun screamed at the top of his lungs.

His sword was trembling, then suddenly, the sword broke into three pieces! His state of mind has already fallen apart!

Yi Xichen was also trembling as he tried to control the boiling blood in his chest. Can’t approach that! We can’t approach that fire! The only thing he could do was to just watch his family slowly get burned away! This was his second time experiencing such pain! For a second, he really wanted to rush into the fire as well and to end his suffering, but he couldn’t! He still had Zhangsun Zijun!

Then at this time, countless figures suddenly appeared, the leading one being Yu Ying and the other three elders. When they saw Heaven’s Flame again, they immediately arrived to check.

And when they saw Yao Budu burning in it, almost everyone was submerged in shock and anger.

“Zhangsun Zijun! How dare you! To kill your own master!!!” Yu Ying was furious. He released his sword aura, and in a split of a second, the sky was covered with black clouds, with thousands of rays of golden light attacking towards Zhangsun Zijun!

Prison of Sword!