by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan did not care about him and started refining on his own. His actions were completed from the beginning to the end without stopping.
Soon enough, Li could not laugh anymore.
When experts made their move, the genuine and the fake would become clear at a glance!
Ye Yuan's set of alchemy technique was simply too pleasing to the eyes and mind.
Not just the high priest, those servants surrounding and watching could not laugh anymore either.
They were completely brought into a daze with this pill refinement by Ye Yuan!
Ye Yuan forcefully turned the dreary pill refinement into a grand banquet of art!
Those who knew the profession, they gleaned considerable benefits. Those who did not know, they had a feast for their eyes.
Li had long tossed the matter of the competition beyond the ninth heavens already. He was already completely absorbed by Ye Yuan's alchemy skills.
The refinement of demonic pills was not exactly the same as the human race, but all roads led to Rome.
In Ye Yuan's eyes, there were originally no distinction of whatever human race, demon race.
When researching medicinal pills in his previous life, he had always broken down the medicinal pills to the most primitive make-up to research.
This solid foundation skill was not done in vain.
Alchemy Dao would not be divided into human and demon.
Grasping the true Great Dao, many things were drawing parallels from inferences.
Previous life, Ye Yuan's researching into demonic pills similarly reached the degree of the acme of perfection.
"Ah? Turns out that when refining the Demon Whirl Pill, I need to reduce the flames' intensity at this time!"
"Ah! So that's how it is! Using the complete extinguishing method here to quench the medicinal pill, why didn't I think of it!"
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Li was just like a curious baby at this time, contributing emoticons by the side non-stop. How was there still that fierce and awe-inspiring appearance earlier?
Ye Yuan's alchemy skills brought him into another world.
"Condense!"
Following Ye Yuan's light cry, only then, did Li came back to his senses from inside the world of pill refinement.
Seeing the transcendent-grade Demon Whirl Pill in Ye Yuan's hand, Li involuntarily shuddered. Only at this time did he remember the bet.
Chapter 1154 - Completely Convinced
"High Priest, it's your turn," Ye Yuan looked at Li and said with a smile that was not a smile.
Li's face turned red, and he stammered, "This … This … This doesn't count! The Demon Whirl Pill is merely the simplest Tier 9 demonic pill. Want to compete, let's compete in high-grade Tier 9 medicinal pills!"
This Li actually acted scoundrelly.
"High Priest, the Demon Whirl Pill was suggested personally by yourself. How can you go back on your words?" Lian Qiu said this sentence at the behest of supernatural powers.
This sentence made Li even more embarrassed.
His face turned back, and he glared with his fish eyes as he said fiercely, "Little lass, you dare to say such words to this seat?"
Lian Qiu was frightened by him and instinctively hid behind Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan scoffed, "What? Is it very impressive to put on airs in front of a little girl?"
Li's expressions alternated between green and purple. Actually, he already admitted defeat in his heart. It was just due to a matter of face that he did not wish to kowtow and acknowledge Ye Yuan as his master in front of so many people.
Letting him refine a transcendent-grade Demon Whirl Pill, if he had pure dumb luck, he could still refine it.
But it was absolutely impossible to be so relaxed and cheerily like Ye Yuan.
Right at this time, Ye Yuan suddenly said, "Don't want kowtow and acknowledge as your master, also can. But you have to agree to a condition of mine!"
The moment Li heard this, it was like he was granted amnesty, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, okay! As long as you don't let this seat kowtow, any conditions will do!"
Ye Yuan pushed Lian Qiu in front of the high priest and said, "Take her in as a disciple!"
Li was stunned, somewhat perplexed by Ye Yuan's action.
He even thought that Ye Yuan would state some harsh conditions. He did not think it was actually to have him take a servant girl as disciple.
This was a huge favor. He did not expect that Ye Yuan used it up so easily.
It was just that to Lian Qiu, it was undoubtedly a bolt out of the blue.
She turned around and looked at Ye Yuan strangely as she muttered, "Y-Your Excellency, I … I …"
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "What? You're not willing?"
Lian Qiu's head started nodded like a chicken pecking for rice.
Of course she was willing!
In this place, she was merely a servant; she had no resources, no background, fading away into the masses.
But, if she became the high priest's disciple, that was really the carp leaping over the dragon gate 1 .
"Good that you're willing. What are you still standing there for? Why haven't you hurry up and acknowledge as your master?" Ye Yuan said with a smile.
Lian Qiu turned around again and look towards Li timidly, fearful that he would not agree.
Li's face turned back, and he said, "What are you still standing there blankly for? Kowtow and acknowledge me as your master! From this day forth, you're my, Li's, final disciple! Uh … what's your name called?"
Lian Qiu was overjoyed and knocked her head to the ground and said, "Lian Qiu pays respect to Master!"
Lian Qiu never would have dreamed that she could actually have such a day.
The sea race's social stratum was stringent. A little servant girl like her absolutely did not have the chance to see daylight.
But now, Lord Ye Yuan, gave her this opportunity, changing her life.
"Haha, good, good disciple! All of you listen up for me, from today onwards, Lian Qiu is my last disciple! If anyone of you were to dare bully her, that's setting yourselves against this seat! Now, all get lost for this seat!" Li's expression changed, saying to everyone.
These people were all aware of the high priest's prowess. How could they still dare to stay? They immediately dispersed in an uproar.
However, those clansmen who had once bullied Lian Qiu before, each and every one of them was alarmed and on tenterhooks at this time, fearful that Lian Qiu would come and find trouble with them.
Lian Qiu was only a little servant girl. There was naturally no lack of people bullying normally.
It was just that they never thought that this little servant would have a 180 degree transformation, becoming the high priest's disciple.
The high priest's disciple, in the clan, even some elders could not compare!
Seeing everyone disperse, Li actually changed to a smiling face and said to Linq Qiu, "Haha, good disciple, you go out first. Tomorrow, come and report to master. Right now, I still have matters to discuss with Master Ye."
Lian Qiu looked at the high priest with a look of surprise, as if feeling like she did not recognize him.
When did the high priest become so amiable and friendly?
However, Lian Qiu still used soliciting eyes to look toward Ye Yuan.
To her, Ye Yuan was her greatest benefactor!
This point, she was deeply aware of it.
Ye Yuan naturally knew what ideas Li had. At once, he smiled and said to Lian Qiu, "You go out first then."
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"Lian Qiu, ah, no no no! Lord Lian Qiu, that … The things in the past, it was all me who was blind and didn't have eyes. Y-Your Excellency, just treat me as a fart and let me go!"
The moment Lian Qiu came out, a merman came up to greet, kneeling down with a thud, slapping his own face desperately. But it gave her a fright.
This merman, Lian Qiu was naturally familiar. It was her direct superior who had no lack of bullying her normally.
But now, he was kneeling in front of her like a dead dog.
This sort of change made Lian Qiu have a feeling like she was dreaming.
Lian Qiu suddenly realized that the current her actually already had the power to control the life and death of the people who bullied her originally.
However, Lian Qiu was still that kind-hearted little girl. She attempted to pull a long face and said, "The past matters, forget about it! But, if you let me discover that you bully my sisters, I definitely won't let you off!"
It was like that merman was granted amnesty, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes! Lord Lian Qiu, rest assured. I won't dare anymore in the future, won't dare anymore in the future!"
Those waiting for Lian Qiu were not just that one. When the others saw Lian Qiu spare that merman, they all scurried out all at once.
There were those who fawned on her, those who begged for forgiveness, those who relied on connections to request for help, so on and so forth.
Lian Qiu did not refuse the arrivals, handling them one by one.
But she deeply sensed that she really seemed to be different already.
And all of this was bestowed upon by that man!
Lian Qiu thanked Ye Yuan from the bottom of her heart.
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After Lian Qiu left, High Priest Li followed Ye Yuan into the room subserviently.
Seeing Ye Yuan sit down, High Priest Li did his utmost to please and actually took the initiative to pour tea for Ye Yuan!
If this scene were to be seen by other people, their eyeballs would probably fall out.
The fiery-tempered high priest actually served tea for someone!
Ye Yuan received the tea that Li passed over and said coolly, "Whatever you don't understand, ask away. If your appearance was seen by your clansmen, wouldn't they exterminate this young man?"
Li glared and said angrily, "They dare?!"
Immediately after, he changed to another expression and asked carefully, "That Demon Whirl Pill … how can it be refined like that still?"
Ye Yuan smiled and countered with a question, "Why can't it be refined like that? However … with your Alchemy Dao's standard, better don't think anymore for the time being."
Ye Yuan's pinnacle refinement was established on his extremely solid foundational skills.
This level of refinement was not what anybody could achieve.
Disregarding other things, for Li to want to refine a Demon Whirl Pill, it needed at the very least three days and above too.
But Ye Yuan only used two hours plus and was done.
It was also precisely because of the refinement this time that Li knew how great the disparity between him and Ye Yuan was!
Although he did not wish to acknowledge Ye Yuan as his master due to face, if he was able to obtain Ye Yuan's guidance, it could let him glean considerable benefits. A proverbial saying, referring to passing the civil examinations in olden times.
Chapter 1155 - Deducing Pill Formula
"Shark One, this matter, you did very well! Letting you go to the Nine Phoenix Island was truly a wise decision! This Master Ye, this king is satisfied to the extreme!"
Witnessing Ye Yuan's strength, Tong's tightly knitted brows finally eased up.
He had heard that the high priest had been hanging around Master Ye constantly these two days like a little attendant, just missing calling Master, this word.
Shark One smiled simple and honestly when he heard that and said, "Your Majesty is too kind! This … The Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill hasn't been refined yet. Shark One doesn't dare to claim the credit."
Towards Shark One, Tong was extremely satisfied.
Seeing that Shark One was actually so modest, he felt even more pleasing to the eyes no matter how one looked.
"En, if Xun-er is able to recover this time, I'll reward you to enter the ancestral land and comprehend divine inscriptions!" Tong said in great delight.
The moment Shark One heard, his heart involuntarily raced wildly.
A powerful tribe like the merfolk clan, their ancestors had Deity Realm powerhouses too. Their legacies were preserved very wholly.
But this inheritance could not be exhausted without moderation.
The quotas for entering the ancestral land each time were extremely limited too.
With Shark One's present strength, it was not sufficient to enter the ancestral land at all.
But because he found Ye Yuan this time and obtained Tong's approval, he actually obtained the reward of entering the ancestral grounds.
How could this not make him beside himself with joy?
"Th-Thank you very much, Your Majesty!" Shark One said agitatedly.
The clansmen all looked at Shark One with extreme envy, thinking inwardly that this guy really got lucky.
Tong waved his hand and said, "Sent the pill formula to Master Ye yet?"
Shark One said, "Already sent over. He said that starting tomorrow, he's going to deduce the pill formula and go into seclusion for ten days' time. In these ten days, nobody is allowed to disturb him!"
Tong nodded and said, "Okay! Tomorrow, you bring him to the Emerald Tranquil Pavilion for closed-seclusion, then personally guard there. Within ten days, nobody is allowed to disturb him!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Shark One received the order and left.
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To Ye Yuan, refining a medicinal pill that he had never refined before was similarly a challenge.
The Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill was not an ordinary mystic grade medicinal pill. The difficulty of refining was rather great.
This point, he was perfectly clear.
Li was also considered to have barely managed to touch the threshold of peak alchemy emperor. But with his strength, he did not even have 5% assurance.
If not for so, Tong would not have been to the point of being so hopeless too.
With inner core being broken, it was equivalent to a human martial artist's dantian being broken. One was basically equivalent to a cripple already.
However, not only was this Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill able to repair the inner core, it could even recover 50% of the demon's strength!
The other 50%, as long as one spent a hundred years, they could still cultivate it back.
Of course, this was only the medicinal effect of a high-grade Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill.
As for superior-grade, even transcendent-grade, the merfolk clan did not dare to hope at all.
After all, this kind of obscure to the extreme, as well as extremely high refining difficulty medicinal pill, barely anyone could refine it in the world too.
High-grade was already the most ideal circ.u.mstance.
"The alchemist who created the Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill was truly a rare talent! The medicinal pills that this medicinal pill requires are not very heaven-defying, but it can unleash such a heaven-defying effect! This pill formula let me glean considerable benefits! To be able to utilize mystic grade medicinal pills to such a transcendent degree, it has to be none other than a Deity Realm powerhouse! Looks like the alchemy path is boundless!"
Researching the pill formula, Ye Yuan praised the Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill to no end as well.
This ingenuity of this pill formula's design, even Ye Yuan could only see the dust of the rider ahead too.
In this world, a pill formula that even he was unable to keep pace with, it absolutely originated from the hands of a Deity Realm powerhouse.
"Heh, if not for comprehending the Medicine God's Soul Canon, wanting to refine this medicinal pill would probably really be not too easy. One can only say that that Shark Xun had good fortune." Ye Yuan started laughing to himself.
After marveling for a while, Ye Yuan started to officially deduce the pill formula!
To refined a mystic grade medicinal pill, the spirit medicines required were not cabbages.
Even if Ye Yuan scoured the entire Immemorial Medicine Garden, he only had one set of medicinal herbs on his han
ds too.
Looking according to the medicinal herb quantities on the pill formula, it was barely enough to use to refine twice.
However, even if it was two refinements, to an alchemist, it was still a tremendous endeavor.
Ye Yuan's soul force slowly spread out. His sea of consciousness was revolving at high speed, deducing each detail of the medicinal pill's refinement.
At this time, Ye Yuan was enveloped in a ball of golden light. This was the profound and mysterious power of Divine Dao laws!
For the first time refinement of a pill formula, deduction was a very important thing.
The success rate of the refinement had the most direct relations with whether or not the deducing succeeded.
However, this was not a simple task!
Mystic grade medicinal pills could be said to have myriad changes in an instant during the process of refinement.
Wanting to deduce the pill formula fully, the calculations that one needed to go through, that was an astronomical magnitude.
For ordinary alchemists, just this magnitude of calculations was sufficient to make them breakdown.
There were even some top-tier alchemists who became mentally-handicapped because of forcefully deducing pill formulas!
Such examples were not unavailable!
This Purple Void Vitality Spirit Pill could be said to be one of the pinnacle-most mystic grade medicinal pills. The calculation load required in it was simply immeasurable.
Following the deduction getting deeper and deeper, Ye Yuan's brows also gradually knitted together tightly.
The pill formula created by a Deity Realm powerhouse was indeed not that easy to work out.
If not for Ye Yuan comprehending the Medicine God's Soul Canon, wanting to deduce this pill formula was probably not that easy of a matter.
Time slowly trickled by. Ye Yuan was already completely immersed in contemplating the pill formula, having no stray thoughts in his mind.
While outside the door, Shark One was like an ant on a hot pan.
Whether or not Ye Yuan's refinement succeed concerned whether he could have the chance to comprehend divine inscriptions.
This opportunity was too important to him!