He ignored those guards who usually tried to curry favor with him—they would all be dead soon anyway. Just now, he had suddenly remembered that his Foundation Establishment Pill was still in his Hundred Treasures Pouch. But then he realized that there was a seal on it; both William Carter, that useless fool, and Tommy, that girl, were ordinary people and couldn’t use spiritual energy, so naturally, they couldn’t touch his Foundation Establishment Pill.

“Hmph!”

“Just endure for a few more hours, damn bastard, just wait and see how I deal with you in a bit.”

David Bolton snorted coldly to himself, but in the end, he didn’t rush forward. He just felt the anger in his heart burning even more fiercely.

Meanwhile, inside the room, after being busy for an hour and a half, William Carter had already handed over all the medicines he could find and use to Tommy, instructing her to throw them all into a cauldron that had been placed in the room after dismantling the bed.

“Youn—huff—young master, is there… is there any more?” Tommy was already drenched in sweat, her hair looking as if she had just taken a bath, her body swaying as if she could collapse at any moment.

“That’s about all we can use.” William Carter looked at the mostly useless medicines left around and spoke with a hint of helplessness.

“Ah… then… is that enough?” Tommy looked at William Carter with great anticipation.

“Even counting the ones that barely make the cut, it’s just a bit over seventy percent.” William Carter dragged his heavy steps toward the large cauldron.

“Ah…” Upon hearing this, Tommy swayed and sat down on the floor. She had only been holding on by sheer willpower, and now she truly felt deflated.

“It’s over… it’s over. Young master, if it doesn’t work, you should hide first, or try to make your way to Xiguan City, or… ah, young master, why are you going in…” Tommy muttered in despair, only to suddenly see William Carter dragging a chair over to climb into the cauldron, already inside it.

Didn’t the young master just say that even a small shortfall would be dangerous? Now they were so far from enough—how could this possibly work?

“It’s fine. I just discovered this—a Foundation Establishment Pill. Although David Bolton put a really lousy seal on it, he couldn’t even fully block the medicinal power from leaking out. With this, I can try to extract the medicinal power from inside the pill. Alright, time is tight. Go stand guard at the door and don’t let anyone in.” As William Carter spoke, he was already sitting inside the cauldron.

“Is… is it okay?” Tommy was stunned, but since William Carter said so, and she didn’t understand anyway, she could only follow his instructions. She staggered to the door and leaned against it, but her eyes remained fixed on the cauldron.

This cauldron had been brought here by soldiers under William Carter’s strict orders from a temple in the nearby camp. It was originally an incense burner. As Tommy paused to look, she suddenly realized something—wait, there was no fire here. The young master had piled the medicines inside and sat in it himself, but what could he possibly do?

Could just sitting on a pile of medicines really work?

Ah, right, the young master said there was a seal from David Bolton on the Foundation Establishment Pill. The young master, like herself, was an ordinary person without spiritual energy—how could he break the seal or use it?

At this moment, Tommy was completely bewildered. Ever since the young master had come back to life, everything he did was simply unbelievable. But now that William Carter had gone inside and fallen silent, she had countless questions in her heart, yet didn’t dare to speak.

Sitting inside the incense burner, the thick scent of incense ash still lingered. William Carter couldn’t help but give a wry smile.

Looking at the pile of medicinal herbs that nearly buried him, he couldn’t help but shake his head slightly. Perhaps, throughout the ages and in all the countless cultivation worlds, only he could do something like this. But he had no other choice. Refining them into pills would of course be best, and even melting them with true fire and soaking in them to slowly absorb would work, but none of those conditions were available now.

In fact, what he’d told Tommy—that with the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, there would be no problem—was mostly just to reassure her.

Now he was being forced to the edge, and whether he lived or died, he had to give it a try.

With these thoughts, William Carter took out the best few thousand-year-old medicinal herbs he had just found and started biting into them directly: thousand-year black ginseng, seven-colored spirit fruit, Buddha’s spirit wood…

“Crunch… crunch…”

“Uh…” Hearing the crunching and chewing sounds, Tommy, leaning against the door, nearly slid to the floor. Her mind went blank for a moment. Oh heavens, was the young master really going to eat that whole pile of medicine?

William Carter was now completely focused on eating. Even when the tough herbs made his mouth fill with blood, he didn’t stop for a moment.

His arms were already numb, his mouth full of blood, but compared to everything he had been through before, this was nothing.

These were medicines that even those at the Qi Gathering stage wouldn’t dare take lightly, yet William Carter, a mere mortal, was consuming them directly. Very soon, blood began to trickle from his nostrils, his whole body felt unbearably hot, as if he were about to burst into flames.

But by using this nearly insane, almost terrifying method, William Carter managed to fill his ordinary body with spiritual energy—though it was wild and uncontrollable. Moreover, the powerful medicinal effects were constantly destroying his body.

“It’s here. It all comes down to this—hiss!” William Carter immediately pulled out a small knife he had prepared long ago and slashed his own wrist. Instantly, blood gushed out like a spring.