Medical Sage

Normally, an alchemist’s ”gear” consists of three things: flame, alchemy cauldron, and technique.

The alchemy cauldron can be set aside for now, since it was unified and provided by Yee Hua Pill King.

The flame, Snow Demon Bone Fire, is the cream of the crop among top flames. If you really compare them, even Chen Fei’s Earth Spirit Flame of the Snake Heart is several grades inferior to it, which says enough.

As for technique… Chen Fei narrowed his eyes slightly, quickly glancing at the changes of the Snow Demon Bone Fire inside that alchemy cauldron. Vaguely, there were brilliant, mysterious changes in technique, and even dense energy fluctuations rapidly being dissolved out of those medicinal ingredients and spreading… Seeing this scene with his own eyes, Chen Fei couldn’t help but mutter, ”He’s only the eighth place, yet he already has such strength. Looking at it this way, this so‑called Pill Association of Pill Saint City is really worth its weight in gold!”

Whether Chen Fei’s vision is ”high” or not is actually not a very meaningful question in itself.

After obtaining the inheritance of that expert from the Cultivation World, any ordinary alchemy inheritance or technique was basically no different from trash in his eyes. Yet under such a background, he could still watch the alchemy technique of this eighth‑place contestant and say such words. That alone was enough to show his recognition of that person’s alchemy technique.

And even if it’s only Chen Fei’s recognition, once put out into the world, describing it with ”godlike skill” and ”peerless secret technique” probably wouldn’t be an exaggeration!?

”He, what pill is he trying to refine? Such terrifying technique, this, how is this possible!?” At the same time, Jianng Wanli finally turned pale, sweat soaking through the clothes on his body.

He was at least a King Level Alchemist himself, so how could he not see the mystery—and terror—within the eighth‑place contestant’s alchemy technique!?

Such a technique, combined with that legendary Snow Demon Bone Fire, and the layers upon layers of high‑grade medicinal ingredients he had seen the other party personally take out earlier… At this moment, even if he were any duller, he would definitely have guessed it by now!

This person was actually going to refine a King Pill!?

Yet the figure in that illusion, judging from his appearance, was probably not even as old as Jianng Wanli himself, but now that person was actually going to refine a King Pill!?

”Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Crazy, he must be mad. How old could he be in reality? How could he possibly refine a King Pill…”

Jianng Wanli’s expression stiffened, completely losing his composure.

A K‑King Pill?

Don’t be fooled by people outside all calling him a King Level Alchemist. In reality, his true level was such that even for the most, most, most ordinary grade of King Pill, whether he could successfully refine it still depended on luck.

If luck was good, it might succeed. But if luck was bad, failing dozens of times in a row would be perfectly normal.

So if the other party really managed to refine a King Pill, then without a doubt, he would lose for sure! And it would be a crushing, utter defeat.

At this time, the progress of that eighth‑place contestant’s alchemy had already stepped into a certain mysterious realm of heaven and earth.

Feeling that mysterious state, Chen Fei’s eyes narrowed as he muttered.

”Unity of Heaven and Man, huh?”

”You actually know Unity of Heaven and Man? Not bad. The state he’s in right now is exactly the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man.” Yee Hua Pill King’s slightly astonished voice came to Chen Fei’s ear. Next, the way he looked at Chen Fei became much stranger.

Unity of Heaven and Man, this kind of perfect state for an alchemist can only be encountered by sheer opportunity and coincidence. The reason he himself ended up ranking ninth back then, a small part of it was because of this realm of Unity of Heaven and Man. However, very few people know of this state. How did a junior of Chen Fei’s age learn about it?

Of course no one answered this question for him. Chen Fei pretended not to have heard Yee Hua Pill King’s voice of surprise, turning his head back to continue watching the eighth‑place contestant’s alchemy.

If his judgment was correct, then judging from the medicinal ingredients the other party had brought out earlier as evidence, what this person was now going to refine should be a King Pill called ”Giant God Pill”!

Once this pill is taken, within half a day one’s strength will become boundless, the fleshly body undergoes transformation, gaining the power to split mountains and sever rivers. At that time, ordinary Minor Heavenly Position Characters would have to obediently be torn apart alive, utterly without the strength to fight back.

Such astonishing medicinal effect naturally destined this ”Giant God Pill” to be extraordinary in grade.

King Pills are divided into four grades: low, middle, high, and perfect. The Giant God Pill belongs to a low‑grade top King Pill.

”Hah!” At this moment, the eighth‑place contestant let out a low, hoarse shout. Immediately, the blazing Snow Demon Bone Fire sent clumps of medicinal essence into the alchemy cauldron, dispersing them evenly.

For this step, the eighth‑place contestant performed it in an orderly fashion, even giving off a sense of perfectly flawless smoothness. After a long while, a medicinal fragrance permeated the space, and the flames around the furnace cauldron grew increasingly fierce.

”Hah!” After a long time, the eighth‑place contestant spoke again. With a low shout, a scarlet mass of fresh blood‑qi slowly followed the mouth of the alchemy cauldron and entered within.

This was the extremely rare Blood Thousand Leaf Lotus, and it was also the key to successfully refining this Giant God Pill.

Jianng Wanli stared dead‑fixed at the scene before his eyes, his face already ghastly pale, his lips trembling, emitting a barely audible sound: ”Fail! Hurry up and fail, you must fail…”

He didn’t know what pill exactly was being refined in this furnace, but as long as the other party formed pills, and as long as what he refined was a King Pill, then he would suffer utter defeat, and everything would be for nothing.

So right now all he could think was the other guy failing, failing, failing! Cursing him that viciously, utterly losing his composure.

But he forgot, all of this was an illusion. The one controlling everything here was that Yee Hua Pill King.

This was basically the same as Yee Hua Pill King personally refining that furnace of Giant God Pills right now, so failure? That was simply impossible, okay.

What they were seeing now was nothing more than Yee Hua Pill King replaying everything that happened during the Pill Association back then. That was why Chen Fei had said earlier that Yee Hua Pill King was actually unwilling to accept it, because his result in that Pill Association back then was merely ninth place.

The number one person in Alchemy Dao in the history of the Qiannan Ancient Kingdom, yet only ninth in that Pill Association!

He was unwilling! Truly unwilling…

After a long time, with a hum, strange phenomena erupted. Blood lotuses bloomed in the void, petal after petal began to fall, demonic to the extreme, making it completely impossible to look away.

”Boom!”

Right after that, over the slightly scorching plaza, a low, muffled thunder suddenly rang across the sky. Instantly, both Chen Fei and Jianng Wanli whipped their gazes toward the source of the sound. At the same time, Jianng Wanli’s face completely froze, looking extremely ugly.

In the sky, at some unknown moment, a mass of dark clouds had appeared, spreading out to cover the heavens. Thunder rumbled. That sight was clearly, unmistakably the sign every Alchemist knew—Pill Thunder forming when a King Level Pill was about to be born.

Pill Thunder, generally, when this thing appears, it’s mostly announcing that a furnace of King Pills has succeeded!

Bang! Very quickly, a streak of blood-colored radiance shot up to the sky, as if trying to flee. But at that moment, a giant hand reached out—belonging to the person who had taken eighth place in that Pill Association—and tightly seized the pill that had shot out of the Alchemy Cauldron.

After that, his giant hand shrank back to the size of a normal human palm. His hand slowly opened, and a round, blood-colored pill appeared in his palm. On that blood-colored pill, alternating Immortal blood-colored radiance was swirling around it, incredibly wondrous.

”This is a low-grade top King Pill, the Giant God Pill. Next, it’s your turn.” Yee Hua Pill King’s calm voice rang out. His palm flipped, and that blood-colored Giant God Pill appeared in his hand, shining brilliantly.

”A l-low-grade top King Pill!?”

Jianng Wanli’s face turned completely ashen. Cold sweat poured down, his whole body frozen in place like a Puppet that had lost its soul.

A K-King Pill! And a low-grade top King Pill at that—he hadn’t managed to refine one successfully in his entire life. How was he supposed to compete, how was he supposed to win!?

”What? You want to give up?” Yee Hua Pill King frowned as he stared at Jianng Wanli and spoke.

”N-no, it’s not that, I, I…” Jianng Wanli’s head was drenched in sweat, his words stumbling. In the end he gritted his teeth hard and said, ”Senior, it’s not that I want to give up, but isn’t this a bit too much? Low-grade top King Pills are something even Two Star King Level Alchemists can barely refine. Against this kind of opponent, how could I possibly win!?”

”So you’re saying you’ve already given up then? Since that’s the case, you should leave. I, Yee Hua, have no need for weak, cowardly types like you to receive my inheritance. Begone.”

Yee Hua Pill King’s expression grew indifferent. With a wave of his hand, Jianng Wanli, whose pupils shrank in panic, vanished directly from the high platform.

As expected, he was thrown out by Yee Hua Pill King. Kicked out of the Inheritance Palace.

Jianng Wanli, as wretched as a stray dog, was swept out the door by Yee Hua Pill King.

”And you? If you wish to give up, I can send you out right now as well.”

At this moment, Yee Hua Pill King’s cold gaze once again fell on Chen Fei’s face as he said icily, ”I can actually tell you this: everything here is an illusion Formation I created by replaying the final battle of that Pill Association of Pill Saint City back then. The Pill Association of Pill Saint City had an age requirement of under one hundred for participants. Which means, the eight people standing on that platform right now all reached this level of heaven-defying talent before they were even a hundred! Monstrous to the extreme…”

”You must think they’re terrifying now, right? That’s normal. If you feel they’re terrifying, if you think the trial I set is too harsh, if you can’t give birth to the resolve to clash in a jade-like duel of pill combat, then just leave. I won’t force…”

Before Yee Hua Pill King could finish, Chen Fei cut him off, speaking calmly, ”Senior, you’re not taking me for one of those hypocritical, cowardly people from before, are you?”

”…Aren’t you?” Yee Hua Pill King slightly narrowed his eyes at Chen Fei, speaking coolly.

”My goal is the Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo. No one can stop me.” Chen Fei smiled as he spoke.

Yee Hua Pill King’s eyes flickered. Then he stared deeply at Chen Fei and said, ”I’ve already stated the condition. You pick any one of the eight on that platform. If you win, I’ll give you the Heavenly Stem Dragon Bamboo. I will not go back on my word!”

Chen Fei grinned, then stopped saying anything more. His gaze swept over the eight figures on the high platform one by one. His fingers lightly rubbed together, making a soft sound. Then, under Yee Hua Pill King’s slightly focused gaze, his voice slowly rang out.

”May I ask, Senior, back then who was the one that took the championship!?”

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