“Ling Han!”
“What!?” Yun Yong Wang exclaimed in spite of himself, and almost jumped up. This person actually shared the same name as his master who had passed away? Previously, he had felt as if Ling Han was familiar to him, and now added with this name, ripples involuntarily rose up in his heart.
Unfortunately, no matter how he looked, he did not discover what similarities this Ling Han in front of him had with his master. Moreover, before he had headed to the Immortal Realm, his master had already vanished for a few hundred years. He should have indeed died.
‘It is probably just a coincidence,’ he thought.
Yun Yong Wang could not help but ask, “Ling Han, where are you from?”
“Joint Peace Planet,” Ling Han answered.
He did not reveal his identity. Firstly, there were too many eyes and ears here. If he revealed that he had come from the Lower Realm, then it would very possibly reach the ears of the Five Sects, who would target him ahead of time. Secondly, now that 10,000 years had passed, he did not know if there had been any change in these two disciples.
This change was referring to the bottom line of good and evil.
He had to observe them first.
Yun Yong Wang was slightly confused. The Immortal Realm was too big. If they weren’t traders, the majority would stay on a single planet for their whole lives, what more when the Joint Peace Planet was a whole two years’ journey away from this place at the normal speed of a starship. It could not be more natural that he had not heard of it before.
“Oh!” He nodded, and showed a hint of disappointment. However, his heart was now at peace. He focused on watching the competition between Liang Jinbo and Kang Xiu Yuan. This involved the future of the Han Lin Pavilion.
Chapter 1223 - I'll Compete
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Ling Han didn’t pay much attention to the competition. After all, hadn’t he joined the Han Lin Pavilion to step in for Kang Xiu Yuan after he lost?
Once he—the Alchemy Emperor—stepped in, could they still lose?
Anyhow, the refinement of Level Five Divine Pills would take around 10 days. Thus, Ling Han left to look for Feng Po Yun and the others. He couldn’t waste his time. Moreover, he had to mull over how he was going to explain his other identity to them.
In the end, he decided to put that aside first. His explanation could wait until after he revealed his true identity to Kang Xiu Yuan and the others.
After eight days, Ling Han returned to the Han Lin Pavilion.
The competition between Kang Xiu Yuan and Liang Jinbo was already reaching its final stages. However, once an alchemist began pill refinement, completing one percent and completing 99% would be the same. Alchemists couldn’t become distracted or make any mistakes. Otherwise, all of their previous efforts would count for nothing.
Thus, alchemists would become increasingly serious the closer they were to completion.
After several hours, Kang Xiu Yuan and Liang Jinbo both stopped at almost exactly the same moment.
“Open!” the two of shouted as they slapped the lid of their cauldron each. They were about to remove the lid of their cauldron. However, Kang Xiu Yuan tapped the cauldron with both of his hands, causing flames to quickly jump over it. This was the Three Fire Guide, Ling Han’s revolutionary innovation.
Liang Jinbo was the first to show his cauldron to the audience. There were three round alchemical pills in his cauldron, and it seemed as if they were about to fly out. However, they were forcefully suppressed and sealed in the cauldron by Liang Jinbo.
Kang Xiu Yuan also tilted his cauldron slightly, saying, “I didn’t disappoint you, Brother Liang.”
There were also three alchemical pills inside his cauldron.
Kang Xiu Yuan secretly wiped the sweat off his forehead. Had he not raised the quality and success rate of his pills with the Three Fire Guide, he would have only been able to refine two pills.
Right now, he could only pray that his opponent had also only been able to refine three pills1. Otherwise, the loser would definitely be him.
“You’ve both refined three pills. Okay, then let’s compare their quality!”
They both poured their pills into their palms before placing them together.
Alchemists like them could determine the quality of a pill simply by looking at it and smelling it.
Kang Xiu Yuan’s expression quickly became gloomy. His opponent’s pill was superior to his, both in terms of color and in terms of smell. Moreover, it wasn’t superior by just a little bit—it was superior by quite a clear margin.
He hesitated briefly before sighing, and saying, “I’ve lost!”
“Hahaha!” Liang Jinbo laughed heartily. The Han Lin Pavilion had suffered a resounding defeat in this competition. As the strongest competitor for his side, he naturally felt even more delighted.
“No need to feel dispirited,” Ling Han suddenly said. “He’s more skilled than you because he became a Level Five alchemist long before you. In fact, he’s been at this level for tens of thousands of years longer than you. If you practice for a few more years, surpassing him won’t be too difficult.”
Kang Xiu Yuan faltered upon hearing this. He glanced at Ling Han with a look of confusion.
‘Who is this person? Why does he sound so old and mature? His tone is almost like Master’s.’
He had focused his full attention on pill refinement before, and he wouldn’t have known even if the sky were to collapse. Thus, he naturally didn’t know who Ling Han was. In fact, he didn’t even know that Ling Han had already become a member of the Han Lin Pavilion.
However, Liang Jinbo was furious upon hearing this. ‘What does he mean? A loss is a loss. Is he trying to find excuses?’
He humphed coldly, and said, “Are you people unable to accept defeat?”
“Defeat?” Ling Han laughed loudly before shaking his head, and saying, “The competition hasn’t ended yet. So, what is this ‘defeat’ that you speak of?”
‘Hasn’t ended yet? Hasn’t ended your mom! The most powerful alchemist on your side has already competed. What else do you want? Hang on… Who is this brat? Where the hell did he come from?’
“Who is this person?” Liang Jinbo asked. “Brother Kang, Brother Yun, since when did this person become the master of the Han Lin Pavilion?”
Ling Han waved his hand, and said, “I’m a newly hired alchemist of the Han Lin Pavilion. I’ll compete against you people in the next round. Are there any Level Six or Level Seven alchemists among you? Let them out for a walk.”
‘F*ck!
‘Let them out for a walk?
‘Do you think alchemists are dogs? F*cking let them out for a walk?!’
Liang Jinbo fumed upon hearing this. There was a menacing look in his eyes, and he said, “Brother Kang, Brother Yun, how long are you going to let this brat muck around for?”
Kang Xiu Yuan was just about to speak, yet Ling Han suddenly walked over and snatched the three pills from his hand. Although he was at the low extreme of the Sun Moon Tier, such cultivation was completely insufficient before Ling Han.
“If the tiger doesn’t roar, you’ll think I’m an ill cat.” Ling Han tossed the three alchemical pills back into the cauldron. He then started to refine them.
‘What? You’re tossing refined pills back into the cauldron to temper? Are you f*cking retarded?!’
To say nothing of alchemical pills, even forged items couldn’t be tossed back into flames to temper if one weren’t satisfied. There was martial intent in God Tools, and recklessly tempering them would only lead to the destruction of both the martial intent and the God Tool.
Alchemical pills were much the same. However, instead of having martial intent, they possessed divine patterns that were formed from the intertwining Regulations of heaven and earth. Moreover, these divine patterns were even more fragile. Why did alchemists have to be so careful when refining pills? This was because any mistake in
intertwining the Regulations would cause the entire cauldron of pills to become useless.
Kang Xiu Yuan was just about to stop Ling Han, yet he was pulled back Yun Yong Wang. “Why?” he asked in confusion.
“He’s called Ling Han!” Yun Yong Wang replied.
“What?!” Kang Xiu Yuan was stunned. However, he immediately shook his head. This person couldn’t be their master. Their master had already been dead for over 10,000 years. However, because of their identical name, he decided to let Ling Han muck around this one time.
Ling Han continued his refinement. Flames burned brightly, and after a short while, an astonishing fragrance wafted from the cauldron. This fragrance could be smelled from five kilometers away.
“Huh? The cauldron actually didn’t explode!” Liang Jinbo was completely stunned.
Level Five Divine Pills contained a huge amount of energy. Thus, refining them with flames could easily destroy the balance within the pills. Such an imbalance would result in an explosion of energy. If the imbalance weren’t serious, it would lead to the explosion of the cauldron. If it were very serious, it would lead to a huge explosion that was as powerful as the full-power attack of 10 or even 100 elites at the low extreme of the Sun Moon Tier.
Similar to the Ultimate Arrow, this was a concentrated explosion of energy. Thus, its might and power was far above its actual level.
Ling Han had foolishly attempted to temper a refined pill, yet the cauldron actually hadn’t exploded. This was extremely surprising and strange. The onlookers could barely believe their eyes.
‘Could it be that he didn’t put the alchemical pills in?’
Ling Han was completely focused on the task before him. He was going to elevate the quality of the pills, a task that was extremely difficult even for an Alchemy Emperor like him. Fortunately, these were only Level Five Divine Pills. His alchemy skills had already reached Level Seven, and it was because of this that he had a chance at success.
The difficulty of this task was far too high. In fact, it was no easier than refining a cauldron of Level Seven Divine Pills. Thus, even Ling Han had to be extremely careful.
He extracted the divine patterns from the Divine Pills, and continued to finetune their intertwinings.
Elevating the quality of alchemical pills wasn’t equivalent to refining them anew. Thus, doing so wouldn’t take a great amount of time. Ling Han stopped after just two hours. He had completed the task of elevating the pills’ quality.
He opened the cauldron and retrieved the pills. He then tossed them toward Liang Jinbo, and said, “Ignoramus, do some learning, yeah?”
Liang Jinbo instinctively caught the pills. He swept his gaze over them, and his expression instantly became one of disbelief.
Chapter 1224 - Crawl out of This Street
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‘Impossible!’
Liang Jinbo wore an expression of utter shock. As an alchemy prodigy and someone who was just qualified to be referred to as grandmaster, he could clearly see that the quality of the three pills had increased significantly.
‘Are you a bloody freak? You’re actually able to reform already refined pills and elevate their quality?
‘Just how powerful does your divine sense need to be? How deep is your understanding of medicinal ingredients?
‘This is unbelievable!
‘Can Level Five alchemists do this?’
Kang Xiu Yuan and Yun Yong Wang were also stunned by Ling Han’s feat. His accomplishment was far too freakish! Ling Han could definitely crush them! Moreover, Ling Han had been able to snatch the Four Directions Pills from Kang Xiu Yuan’s hand with ease. This said a lot about his cultivation level.
Such a young alchemy and cultivation prodigy was actually willing to join their Han Lin Pavilion?
They were dizzy with excitement.
“This?!” The members of the Treasure Forest Pavilion all dashed over and surrounded Liang Jinbo. They carefully examined the Four Directions Pills in his hands. However, they could only reach one conclusion no matter how they examined the pills—the pills that had been modified by Ling Han were far higher in quality than the pills that had been refined by Liang Jinbo.
With such a huge difference in quality, even the members of the Treasure Forest Pavilion couldn’t bring themselves to deliberately twist the facts and argue about whose pills were better.
“How is it?” Ling Han asked with a smile. “Let’s continue the competition.”
The members of the Treasure Forest Pavilion all looked at each other. They had known that the most skilled alchemist in the Han Lin Pavilion was only a Level Five alchemist. Thus, there was naturally no Level Six alchemist in their group, let alone a Level Seven alchemist.
However, Ling Han had succeeded in elevating the quality of a Level Five Divine Pill, and this signified that his alchemy was definitely above Level Five.
Who here could compete against him?
“Heh, who would’ve thought there was a hidden prodigy in the small Han Lin Pavilion?” an elder of the Treasure Forest Pavilion said. His surname was Hu, and people all referred to him as Grandmaster Hu or Alchemist Hu. He was also the leader of the Treasure Forest Pavilion delegation.
He calmed his own camp, and also sent someone to report this matter. They had already won five matches in a row, and today was a good opportunity to take the Han Lin Pavilion down. How could they fall at the last hurdle?
“Sir, you are?” he asked.
“Ling Han,” Ling Han replied with a smile.
“Ling Han… Han Lin Pavilion?” Alchemist Hu murmured to himself. He found this a bit strange. Was this just a coincidence? He chuckled, and said, “Grandmaster Ling already has such outstanding alchemy achievements at such a young age. Your future is truly limitless! However, Grandmaster Ling looks a little unfamiliar. Perhaps you’ve only just joined the Han Lin Pavilion?”
They had naturally investigated their opponent before coming to challenge them. Thus, they knew the Han Lin Pavilion as well as the palm of their hands. However, the sudden appearance of Ling Han caught them completely off guard.
“Grandmaster Ling is a newly hired senior elder of my pavilion,” Yun Yong Wang immediately said. He naturally had to give Ling Han an authentic identity. Only then would his appearance seem convincing.
“Oh!” Alchemist Hu squinted his eyes as he nodded, and then said, “With Grandmaster Ling’s abilities, why choose to waste your talent on the measly Han Lin Pavilion? How about you join our Treasure Forest Pavilion? We’ll definitely provide you with more opportunities.”
F*ck! He was trying to steal their senior elder in public!
Ling Han smiled faintly, and said, “With me—the senior elder—present, the Han Lin Pavilion will definitely become the most powerful Holy Land for alchemists in the Great Crimson Sun Imperial Empire, Cloud Apex Planet, Long Light Galaxy, and even the entire Immortal Realm. So, how about you join the Han Lin Pavilion? I can give you some tips.”
‘Holy mother f*cker! How incredibly arrogant!’
To say nothing of the Treasure Forest Pavilion, even the members of the Han Lin Pavilion started to wipe cold sweat off their foreheads. They could barely maintain their footing in Big Trade City, yet Ling Han was actually dreaming of dominating the entire Immortal Realm? This… Was there any need to make such an audacious claim?
Meanwhile, Alchemist Hu grimaced upon hearing Ling Han’s words. He was already quite old, and he had studied alchemy for several million years. Even if he divided this time by 10, the number of years he had spent would still be far above what Ling Han had spent. Yet, Ling Han had actually offered to give him tips? How could he tolerate such belittling?
Although knowledge didn’t care about age, with those capable becoming the masters, Ling Han was still far too young. Moreover, he had only revealed a tiny bit of his skills. That wasn’t enough to convince everyone!
In the end, he could only say, “Grandmaster Ling has such amazin
g confidence!”
In any case, Ling Han’s performance had proved that he was at least a Level Six alchemist.
Alchemy was similar to cultivation in that those at a higher level were referred to as a senior. However, though there were prodigies who could fight above their tier in cultivation, this was impossible in alchemy. The level of an alchemist was determined by the highest level pill they could refine. Thus, there was no notion of competing above one’s tier.
Since Ling Han’s alchemy level was higher than his, Alchemist Hu had to maintain an attitude of respect. Otherwise, he would be frowned upon by fellow alchemists.
Meanwhile, Yun Yong Wang and Kang Xiu Yuan smiled happily. They both felt a sense of exaltation.
The Treasure Forest Pavilion had started targeting them for no reason, and they had been on the losing end the entire time. Only at this moment did they turn the tables in a brilliant fashion. How could they not be delighted? This kind of sensation was absolutely euphoric. It reminded them of their time in the small world, where they had traveled around with their master.
At that time, who didn’t beg them to refine pills?
“Hahahaha! Who would’ve thought that the Han Lin Pavilion still had an elite!” There was a long bout of laughter as a man of around 30 years old walked in. He was dressed in an elegant white robe, and he appeared extremely dashing and confident.
“It’s Grandmaster He!”
“He’s He Jingyun, and he’s referred to as the youngest Level Six alchemist! His future is limitless!”
“Heh, forget about that title. I know at least 10 people who are younger but more talented than Grandmaster He. However, Grandmaster He is indeed an alchemy prodigy. He became a Level Five alchemist 30,000 years ago, yet he was able to surge forward and become a Level Six alchemist 10,000 or so years ago!”
“That’s incredible!”
“By playing this trump card, it looks like the Treasure Forest Pavilion wants to crush the Han Lin Pavilion!”
“Of course! It’s already reached this stage, so they definitely have to press home their advantage.”
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