Chapter 323 Ninth-grade Xuandan?The pitch-black fire cauldron was suspended in the sky. Xiao Yun appeared on the fire cauldron in a flash. He then sat down cross-legged. With a wave of his hand, countless medicinal herbs emerged in the air, covering the sky and the earth, and turned into a huge shadow.
Along with the appearance of medicinal herbs, a rich medicinal fragrance immediately filled the air. Since most of the medicinal herbs here are high-level rare items, just smelling the fragrance is almost comparable to low-level elixirs!
Then, Xiao Yun slid his fingers across the void, and suddenly streams of medicinal herbs emerged from the ocean of medicinal herbs. They entered the fire cauldron like lightning, and were then swallowed up by the Eight Desolate Destruction Flame.
In just a few minutes, nearly a hundred herbs had been refined, and the medicinal essence was suspended above the flame. An extremely obscure wave also slowly spread out from it, causing the surrounding void to slowly distort.
"Hiss, Elder Xiao's alchemy skills are getting more and more terrifying. He was promoted to the eighth rank a few years ago, and now he is trying to reach the ninth rank..."
In the square, on a seat with the word "Ye" engraved on it, Ye Zhong looked up at the sky with a look of shock. Only those who had come into contact with Xiao Yun knew the terrifying extent of his monstrous talent.
"Of course, my cousin has been a freak since he was young, and he has been a freak ever since he grew up!" Beside Ye Chong, Xiao Yan nodded in approval. When he was young, he was unwilling to be suppressed by a 'native' child, so he tried hard to catch up.
But as Xiao Yun grew older and his talents continued to emerge, he realized how naive he was at the time.
Later, he figured it out! Isn't it better to lie down? He spent all his energy, practicing and fighting for treasures, but it was not as much as the pill Xiao Yun made.
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Xiao Yun was unaware of the conversation between Xiao Yan and Ye Zhong. After all, this was his first time refining a ninth-grade precious elixir and he could not afford to be careless or distracted.
Refining medicine pills has always been an extremely tedious task, especially for someone like Xiao Yun who is refining a ninth-grade pill, it is extremely troublesome. The types of medicinal materials alone may reach thousands!
To refine and condense them one by one, not only does the alchemist need to have a strong fighting spirit, but it also takes a very long time. It takes several days to practice. For those who are unfamiliar with alchemy, it may take more than half a month.
Fortunately, everyone present knew that this was the process of refining a ninth-grade elixir, so no one dared to feel impatient. For a strong person, not eating, drinking or sleeping for half a month was no big deal.
As for the weak man, although he could not endure such a long time, he had already prepared various foods and refreshing pills in his ring. Even if it cost him the pills and his body, he had to force himself to finish watching the refining process!
At this moment, Xiao Yun was staring at the fire cauldron intently. His soul power continued to surge out, controlling the medicinal materials to turn into a torrent, surrounding it.
Every once in a while, when all the herbs in the fire cauldron were extracted, he would let a torrent of water rush in, and then refine and condense them again. His movements were so smooth that the people present were mesmerized.
The speed of refining such medicinal materials is also quite fast. Xiao Yun only took two days to refine all the medicinal materials without any mistakes.
However, good luck did not always favor him. When blending the medicinal properties, there was eventually a slight mistake, which caused the entire furnace of medicinal materials to be scrapped and turned into ashes.
As for the failure, the people around were worried that it was their "reason" and thus they would be the cause of Xiao Yun's anger.
But in the end, they thought too much. A whole furnace of medicinal materials was destroyed, but Xiao Yun was not affected by it. To become an eighth-grade alchemy master, he had failed at least a thousand times, and it had become as natural to him as eating and drinking.
Failure is the mother of success. For alchemists, only by constantly learning from failures can they refine an earth-shattering elixir!
After experiencing a failure, Xiao Yun's refining speed actually went to a higher level. This time, it only took a day and a half to refine all the medicinal materials and began to integrate the medicinal essence again.
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Time passed bit by bit, and the medicinal essence had already begun to blend for several days.
However, in the eyes of everyone, there was no trace of elixir in Xiao Yun's giant flaming cauldron, even the fluctuations disappeared!
If they did not know that he had already been an eighth-grade alchemy master and had been famous for a long time several years ago, everyone would really doubt whether he could actually refine pills.
"Hey, Yao Chen, is this how your disciple refines medicine?"
On the platform, a dozen figures appeared at some point. Almost all of them were white-haired old men. Faintly, one could sense a spiritual pressure from them.
They are all elders in Xiaodan Tower. Any one of them can be a person who can cause big forces to scramble for him. The person who spoke was a thin old man with a body as big as a monkey.
"Old Monster Hou, it is not your turn to judge how my disciple refines the medicine..."
Hearing this, Yao Lao sneered and said slowly, "You couldn't compare to me in refining medicine back then, but now you are criticizing my teaching ability?"
“You…” After being retorted by Yao Lao, the old monster’s face suddenly darkened and he sneered, “I did lose to you back then, but so what? This doesn’t mean that I will lose to you now!
If you have the guts, challenge me to a duel! Let me see how much your alchemy skills have improved over the years!"
“Haha, you are not qualified to compete with me. You should defeat my disciples first!” Yao Lao was too lazy to pay attention to him. After saying this, he looked up at the sky again.
Seeing this, Hou Laoguai's face became gloomy again. Just as he was about to say something, an old man in hemp clothes said in a deep voice: "Enough! I didn't come here today to listen to you two arguing!" "Yes! Great Elder!" As soon as the words fell, even if Hou Laoguai was unhappy, he could only suppress his emotions and said respectfully.
Yao Lao standing by also saluted with his fists clasped.
The old man in hemp clothes is the chief elder in the Council of Elders. He is also the one with the highest seniority, cultivation, and alchemy skills among those present!
Therefore, even though Yao Lao had already withdrawn from Xiaodan Tower, he had to give some face to what he said.
"Great Elder, do you think Xiao Yun can refine the ninth-grade precious elixir?" After a moment, a small Danta elder came up to the Great Elder and asked in a low voice.
"We looked at the giant flaming cauldron and didn't see any fluctuations from the elixir. Could it be that the young man has failed?" Others also asked.
Although they were all eighth-grade high-level alchemists, they still could not understand Xiao Yun's refining method, and could only place their hopes on the great elder who was a ninth-grade treasure pill master.
"No, it's not that there is no fluctuation of the elixir in the strange fire cauldron, but you just can't detect it..."
The great elder in sackcloth shook his head, his voice extremely hoarse, "The strange fire is indeed a wonder of heaven and earth... The strange fire condenses into a cauldron, and this cauldron will completely cover up all the fluctuations of the elixir, so that it will not be affected by the outside world at all.
It's true that the younger generation pushes the older generation forward! This young man has already succeeded in refining the elixir!"
Hearing this, the many old men surrounding the great elder showed a look of astonishment in their eyes. The elixir didn't even have any fluctuations! The elixir was ready?
"Ninth-grade precious pill?"
"Yes, a ninth-grade precious pill!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yun suddenly stood up in the sky, raised his hand and clenched it towards the fire cauldron.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew up between heaven and earth. According to everyone's perception, the energy between heaven and earth turned into beams of light and gathered in one direction.
And that is where Xiao Yun’s fire cauldron is!
"Why is the wind blowing suddenly? Damn it, this won't affect Master Xiao's refining of the pills, right?"
"No! This wind is caused by the elixir! Look, the energy of heaven and earth is beginning to gather towards the medicine cauldron!"
Exclamations continued to be heard from the seats in the square, and everyone quickly turned their gaze to the fire cauldron again, and indeed, they saw energy pouring into it madly.
This scene made many people swallow hard, with shock appearing on their faces. They had never seen a pill taking shape and absorbing the energy of heaven and earth before.
Because the energy of heaven and earth is not extremely pure and often contains many impurities. Even when practicing, most people dare not consume it wantonly, let alone refining pills!
Just a little bit of impurity can destroy the entire furnace of medicinal essence!
Xiao Danta and other elders were also puzzled. They all thought that Xiao Yun was seeking his own death. The old monster Hou mocked again, "Yao Chen, this is the disciple you taught? What a stupid move! Cheng Dan dared to absorb the energy of heaven and earth? Are you going to follow your old path?"
The old road he was referring to was the rumor that Yao Chen died in an explosion in his furnace while refining medicine on the Zhongzhou continent.
"Shut up! Old Monster Hou, Xiaoyun is extremely talented in refining medicine. How can someone like you know his thoughts?!"
Yao Lao shouted angrily, his words showing his confidence in Xiao Yun, but in fact, he was also extremely puzzled in his heart and didn't understand why the latter did this.
Everyone in the square was talking about it, thinking that Xiao Yun had made a mistake in his refining method. The great elder, who had been calm and composed since he appeared, now had a look of horror in his eyes and his face was extremely solemn.
But he had other reasons. "No, he didn't make a stupid move... He wanted to refine the ninth-grade Xuandan!"
Ninth-grade Mysterious Pill? !
The hoarse voice fell on the high platform, shocking everyone, and their previous confusion turned into disbelief.
Ninth-grade Mysterious Pill?! This isn't the method for refining it, is it?!
To make a ninth-grade Xuandan, one must absorb the energy of heaven and earth. It even has to absorb the energy of heaven and earth within a thousand miles before it can take shape!
But this step is at the beginning of refining!
Xiao Yun was about to form the elixir, so why did he still need to absorb energy from heaven and earth?
“I don’t know the specific method. Maybe it was passed down from ancient times, or maybe he figured it out himself.
But no matter what, I can indeed sense that the fluctuations of the elixir are getting stronger..."
Little tiger vanguard, ten lives taken!
(End of this chapter)
