"All of this? All for me?" Sha Hu's eyes went wide as he stared at the jade bottles arranged before him, asking in shock.
"Mm." Yang Kai smiled and nodded.
"Weren't we supposed to split fifty-fifty? This..."
"This IS the fifty-fifty split!"
Sha Hu froze, his face full of disbelief.
Over the past few days, he had provided Yang Kai with over a hundred silver lotuses in total — practically his entire stockpile.
He had thought that receiving two hundred Chaos Heaven Pills would already be excellent, but the jade bottles now filling his view told him the reality far surpassed his expectations.
There were at least sixty or seventy jade bottles here, each filled with ten pills, which meant Yang Kai had given him six or seven hundred Chaos Heaven Pills!
How had he refined so many Chaos Heaven Pills? As the former island master of Ghost Island, Sha Hu had seen plenty of incompetent alchemists attempting to refine Chaos Heaven Pills. When a single Chaos Heaven Lotus ended up in their hands, producing two or three pills was already considered good — how could they possibly match Yang Kai's prolific output?
This could only mean that Yang Kai's alchemy skills were countless times superior to those mediocre alchemists!
"Kid Yang, I'm making you my friend!" Sha Hu composed his expression and regarded Yang Kai solemnly. "If the day ever comes when we escape from this place, I promise the gates of the Sea Palace will always be open to you."
Yang Kai's straightforwardness and adherence to his word moved Sha Hu. Yang Kai's strength was something Sha Hu had personally verified. Such a person was worth associating with humbly, so his words came straight from the heart.
Yang Kai chuckled lightly and said with equanimity: "Since Elder Sha says so, then this junior humbly accepts."
Being able to recruit such an ally on Ghost Island was naturally something Yang Kai welcomed. It was far better than roaming here alone. Moreover, Sha Hu was the former island master of Ghost Island — he knew it inside and out. Moving forward together would only bring benefits in the future.
Sha Hu laughed heartily: "Pity there's no fine wine here, or I'd share a good drink with you — that would be one of life's great pleasures! Never mind, let me first see if these Chaos Heaven Pills are of any use to me!"
He hadn't taken a Chaos Heaven Pill in nearly a hundred years. His strength hadn't grown at all in that time, which greatly troubled him. Now that he had obtained so many pills, he naturally couldn't wait to put them to the test.
He casually picked up a jade bottle, tipped a spirit pill into his palm, and without any hesitation, popped it into his mouth right in front of Yang Kai.
The next moment, Sha Hu's body shuddered, and a look of disbelief appeared on his face. He cried out: "A Void Grade pill? Yang Kai, you're actually a Void Grade alchemist?"
This time he was truly stunned.
When Yang Kai had previously claimed to be an alchemist who could refine Chaos Heaven Pills, Sha Hu hadn't thought much of it, assuming the young man simply had some proficiency in alchemy. But now that the Chaos Heaven Pill had entered his mouth, he realized something was different.
The Chaos Heaven Pill refined by Yang Kai was completely different from any he had taken before. The biggest difference was the grade of the pill!
Sha Hu could instantly tell that this Chaos Heaven Pill was Void Grade — at least Void Grade, middle quality, and possibly even upper quality!
This meant Yang Kai was absolutely an alchemist of at least Void Grade!
He didn't dare imagine Yang Kai as a Void King Grade alchemist, for that was merely the stuff of legends.
The spirit pill dissolved the instant it entered his mouth, transforming into a warm current that flowed into his lower abdomen. From his dantian as the center, it surged into his limbs and bones.
Sha Hu's weathered face instantly flushed red — a clear sign that his blood vitality was increasing. His muscles swelled high, and veins writhed beneath his skin like earthworms.
He no longer had any attention to spare for conversation with Yang Kai, and hurriedly focused on absorbing the medicinal power of the pill.
Yang Kai smiled faintly, chose not to disturb him further, and left the wooden house. He found a quiet spot on the small island for himself and similarly began taking the Chaos Heaven Pills.
The Chaos Heaven Pills he had refined himself were entirely different from the ones he had previously obtained from the two dead men.
The pills obtained earlier had been improperly refined, their medicinal efficacy incomplete — they were defective products. But on Ghost Island, this kind of thing was unavoidable. The alchemists' skill levels, the inability to use Sacred Origin, the quality of the earthfire, and various other reasons forced the island's alchemists to crudely manufacture Chaos Heaven Pills, wasting vast quantities of Chaos Heaven Lotuses.
Yang Kai had addressed every one of those shortcomings, so it would have been strange if the pills he produced weren't vastly superior.
And through his experiments over these past days, he had reached a conclusion: pills refined from silver lotuses were Void Grade, those from green lotuses were Saint King Grade, and those from pink Chaos Heaven Lotuses were Saint Grade. The effects that each grade of pill could produce were worlds apart.
He hadn't used golden lotuses for refining, as their quantity was too small — he only had around ten in his possession.
But he believed that pills refined from golden lotuses should reach Void King Grade.
The medicinal power coursed through his meridians and flesh, transforming his body — his meridians and the cells within — making his physical constitution increasingly formidable.
This was essentially his first time taking Chaos Heaven Pills, and the benefits were practically unimaginable.
Moreover, because he had previously consumed large quantities of Life Nectar, his physical body had already been refined to near perfection, allowing him to absorb the Chaos Heaven Pills' medicinal power even better and faster.
In merely half an hour, the medicinal power of a single Void Grade Chaos Heaven Pill had been completely absorbed by Yang Kai.