Vital broth

Enraged by his behavior, in anger the experts of the Eastern Alliance used all sorts of techniques to inflict more damage on the blood Demon king , with his blood littered on the ground and his maniacal smile it made a gore sight.

Fear crept through their hearts as they watched the Demon king's smile even as  they inflicted injuries on him.

Then for the first time since centuries he had been sealed he moved , standing from the kneeling position he was bound to.

In response the whole Qingmeng Mountain shock as the Demon sealing formation pulled it's huge chains in attempt to bring the demon king back to his kneeling position.

Angry at the formation trying to push him down, thick demon qi erupted from him as he resisted the pressure from the demon sealing formation and he spoke, " I understand your defiance , when the King descend and attempted to subjugate this world ".

Above the Qingmeng Mountain, the massive blood cloud shook , " After all even ants would fight back after being cornered".

The Demon sealing formation kept pulling it's chains , angry at it's repeated antics he roared towards the sky.

The entire Qingmeng Mountain shock as he roared," How dare you , how dare you , how dare you vermins make this king kneel ! ".

Grabbing the huge chains that bound him to the Qingmeng Mountain he pulled it , his muscles bulged as he took a step forward.

The Alliance experts kept unleashing their strengths to inflict damage on him yet he still had the same wicked grin on his face but unlike before grabbing the massive chains that bound him he crept forward slowly.

After about ten steps he stopped with a frown appearing his face , looking at the vermins in his front he said " soon ! " and closed his eyes except he wasn't kneeling again , this was the limit he could go.

The Experts sighed in relief, it looked like the Sealing formation could still kept him at bay for a while.

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Zhan Wei swept his broad Sword, slashing the demon beast in his front into two a frown appearing on his face, he had killed lots of beast like this in the past few days.

Not just him , the rest of the alliance experts under the leadership of the three remaining experts had hunted thousands of this beast , yet they still numbered more.

The demon king was very powerful, under his demonic influence even ordinary docile weak wild animals now possessed wild strength and viciousness.

Naturally they weren't opponents for most cultivators , they weren't even proper demonic beasts yet their massive numbers and blant disregard for their lifes when fighting proved to be an issue.

In just few days although they had killed thousands , hundreds of cultivators had also fallen, it was a gory site.

Sighing, he used a wet clothe to wipe the blood on his face as he continued killing.

At first he was using too much strength when dealing with these beasts but now he only used necessary force.

Control was also as important as strength as it guided against wastage of energy and preserved his stamina, unlike cultivation battle made him more attuned to his body and strength and improved his control.

Using his so called " innate strength"  he had killed a large number of beasts, unlike qi cultivators who had to rest and replenish the energy after a while , Zhan Wei could kill for longer without getting tired.

Restrained by the limit of himself he could show outside, Zhan Wei could only battle these beasts one by one while Qi cultivators could unleash spells that decimated them in large numbers

Yet what he lacked in efficiency, he made in numbers, he was always killing and while others switched turns and rested they came back to meet him.

That didn't mean his kills were the highest, although the most powerful experts had left for the Qingmeng Mountain and apart from the three main experts left. some relatively powerful experts still lingered among their ranks.

the Eastern region was vast , all sorts of clans , smaller sects and rogue cultivators and geniuses and even members of the four main sects and the imperial army were amongst their midst.

These people's few minutes of killing equalled hours of his , some equalled days.

Even Yunzi was very powerful, Zhan Wei felt without using his true strength, she could beat his so called innate strength five times over.

After a while when the sun was setting, Zhan Wei took a large sled from his storage ring and pilled a large amount of beast corpse on it.

Feeling the usually amusement on the people around, Zhan Wei sighed, every time he did this people always looked at him wondering why but he had no choice.

his body requirements was massive and he ate a lot , apart from eating and preserving , he also planned to use the rest to make vital pills.

Well his own version of it , after complaining to Yunzi about how embarrassing it was eating everytime , she had taught him how to make vital pills.

Although it sounded fancy it was very rudimentary,  using it he could congeal the vital essence contained in beast meat into small pills, there was a lot of wastage in the technique and it wasted a lot of essence but it was feasible for him.

Alas even with using fire stones as a source of heat and a cauldron, he could only make vital soup or broth.

Zhan Wei had only opened 4  of his human meridians so the amount of spirit in his body was pitifully low, in fact his control was worst.

he remembered practicing after she taught him, although Yunzi was a sweet , patient girl , she was clearly frustrated at his control , according to her even kids could control spirit qi better.

After trying for a while, he could only give give up and continue cooking his vital broth in shame.

Everyday , he would pile large amount of beast on his sled , go to his tent and cook in a large cauldron.

He kept the vital broth in big and small jars in his storage ring , the large was saved for later while the small was for drinking.

He couldn't eat while fighting but he could drink some soup except the his vital broth looked a bit bloody and anytime he drank it when fighting, a bit would smear on his lips making him a bit scary.

His usual antics had earned him a bit of reputation, he was even nicknamed " Wei taotie ".

He couldn't hide after all , he had to pack and he had to cook.

Even the people of the barren wastelands that people looked down on as barbarians looked down on him.

Zhan Wei felt embarrassed after all although he looked huge and all he was still a kid , in anger he could only practice his Qi cultivation in hope that he could one day make a proper vital pill.

Everyday apart from fighting and cooking he spent most of his time practicing Qi cultivation, although his talent was low Zhan Wei found out he could absorb qi better after exhausting his spirit qi making vital soup.

Of course not everybody liked his antics, he noticed Chen Hong looking at him strangely like he was taking something from him anytime he pulled out his sled.

Although he remembered him from the banquet, Zhan Wei couldn't understand why the usually calm Chen Hong always looked pissed especially when it was time to do his daily routine, looking at the large number of beast littered around, he had only taken a few hundred out of thousands.

Pilling his huge sled higher than usual to spite Chen Hong, Zhan Wei pulled his sled and dragged it to his tent, although he couldn't eat it all , saving more wouldn't hurt, it wasn't his business how Chen Hong felt so why would he care.

Chen Hong grit his teeth in anger after seeing Zhan Wei pill up more beast meat, he vowed to show him a lesson, what a gluttonous bastard.

On getting back , Zhan Wei saw Yunzi outside his tent.

Looking at Zhan Wei dragging a huge sled, Xia Yunzi blushed in embarrassment

, " look at my fiance! ".

The war was a bit depressing so most people looked for any source of entertainment to take their minds of it.

After the day one of their favorite past time was to talk about how many beast he pilled up today, or laugh anytime they saw him using his pitiful qi to make vital soup.

Zhan Wei was simply a local celebrity, although she was the one that taught him how to make vital pills and she knew he only switched to vital broth after trying to no avail, she still felt embarrassed.

Zhan Wei felt his eye twitch seeing the blushing Yunzi, even he felt embarrassed talk less his fiancee.

He didn't know if it was to tease him or out of spite , everyday the Empress would make Yunzi come take a few jars of vital broth claiming it was good for replenishing energy.

Yet he hadn't seen them replenish their energy on the battlefield, only he was infamous for drinking it.

Probably they ate theirs in their tent but this was the royal family they came to the war with a few chefs to handle their feeding, why was the Empress playing with him.

Look at the blushing Yunzi and the fact they had to go through this everyday who wouldn't be embarrassed, at times he would look through his memories to kind when he had offended the Empress but he couldn't find any.

Even if she wanted to punish him she wouldn't also punish Yunzi so he could only conclude she was playing with them.

Zhan Wei sighed in his heart , " can't a person cook in peace !".

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