Tyrant Sky Martial Soul

Chapter 989: Chapter 989 Turmoil at the Academy

”Young Master Ling, please wait a moment. I’ll have someone fetch the materials right away.”

Yun Ya turned to leave, nearly tripping over the threshold in her excitement.

This kind of incident had never happened before.

About half an hour later, Yun Ya returned with a Storage Ring in hand and said, ”Young Master Ling, all the items you requested are inside this ring. After you use them, you only need to return the Storage Ring, of course, if you like this Storage Ring, you may keep it as well.”

”No need, I can’t always take advantage of you. A Storage Ring isn’t cheap, especially this one looks to be of Immortal-grade Treasure quality. If I really took it, wouldn’t I owe you a favor?”

Ling Xiao smiled as he transferred the materials into the Mountain and River World, which to anyone else looked as if he had placed them into the Storage Ring.

After returning the Storage Ring to Yun Ya, Ling Xiao said, ”Then I’ll be on my way. Once the Mid-grade Heavenly Spirit Divine Pill is successfully concocted, I will personally deliver it to you, rest assured.”

”No problem!”

Yun Ya nodded hastily.

The more she interacted with Ling Xiao, the more she sensed his mystery and ability, and she began to feel a sense of admiration.

It was rare for her, Yun Ya, to admire a young man of such age.

”Humph, this young man sure talks big!”

An abrupt cold snort came from outside the door, and an old man in green clothing, around fifty years old, walked in.

”Why should Pharmacist Liu be angry? It’s not him who will be concocting, but the mysterious person behind him,” Yun Ya said with a smile.

This Pharmacist Liu was the resident alchemist at the Heavenly Dragon Auction House, responsible for Alchemy and pill concoction, and was an Advanced Yellow Grade Alchemist.

Although he wasn’t as skilled as Sun Shang, he was still quite formidable.

Having heard Ling Xiao’s previous words, he was truly irritated.

After all, his own success rate for concocting a mid-grade Yellow Grade elixir was only about fifty percent, and here was Ling Xiao claiming a hundred percent success rate for concocting high-grade Yellow Elixirs. Wasn’t that a slap in his face?

”Even if it’s the person behind him, could he really be more skilled than Sun Shang?”

Pharmacist Liu said with disdain.

”Pharmacist Liu, there are always greater talents beyond our own, nothing is absolute,” Yun Ya responded steadily.

She always felt that the mysterious person behind Ling Xiao was of a higher level than Sun Shang. Otherwise, how could he possibly achieve such a high success rate in concocting Advanced Yellow Grade elixirs?

”Don’t be delusional. If there really were someone more skilled than Sun Shang, why would he remain in hiding? A person of that caliber would be welcomed as an honored guest even on the Five Immortal Islands. What benefit wouldn’t be available to him? And he would involve himself with a kid at the Heavenly Man Realm?”

Pharmacist Liu shook his head, speaking definitively.

”Life is unpredictable. Just now I actually felt agitated, which is a huge mistake. I fear my impression on him might be marred, alas, might he think I’m a stingy woman?”

Yun Ya didn’t pay attention to Pharmacist Liu’s words; instead, she felt she was not generous enough to Ling Xiao. Earlier, she had actually become upset over some Low-grade Spirit Stones. Although she didn’t show it, the other party clearly sensed it.

”You’ve been generous already. If that kid’s backing alchemist doesn’t reach the High-level Alchemist of the Yellow Rank, just wait to be punished by the higher-ups,” Pharmacist Liu snorted coldly and turned to leave.

”Short-sighted!”

Yun Ya watched the swaying door curtain and uttered the words with contempt.

Competition existed within the Heavenly Dragon Auction House, and she was all too aware of it. It was precisely for this reason that she had to seize the opportunity with Ling Xiao!

No one could snatch it away.

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On Ling Xiao’s way back to Qingxu College, the upper echelon of the academy had already nearly scratched their heads bald over the issue of pills.

”Hmph, Phoenix God College has really gone too far this time. There have always been disputes between the two major colleges, but they’ve never been so blatant. This is an outright grab at our business, pushing us to a dead end. We can’t continue to tolerate this!”

The speaker was another Vice President of Qingxu College, unlike Feng Qingyan, this person had a notoriously bad temper, best described as explosive.

Therefore, he was also known as Huo Pili.

Although he wasn’t a member of the Shenhuang Clan, he was an expert from one of the Immortal Islands with a not insignificant status.

At this moment, he was clearly furious to the extreme. Even shattering the table in front of him with a palm strike did not quench his rage.

Feng Qingyan also spoke coldly, ”Now, Qingxu College is completely losing money in the pill market. We can’t make any profit, and sometimes we even have to sell at a loss to attract customers. It’s truly a case of kicking someone when they’re down.

The most hateful thing is that some students – we haven’t treated them badly at all – have chosen to flee at this critical moment.

Fine, flee if you must, but to join Phoenix God College, that is really contemptible.”

Mentioning this infuriated Feng Qingyan even more: ”Ordinary disciples running away is one thing, but what I can’t stand is that our college’s top-ranked student, Ximen Bu Mie, also left. His departure really set a terrible example.”

An elderly man with white whiskers said indifferently, ”He was swayed by that Fengming Piaoxue. That girl, relying on her family background, really doesn’t take us old bones seriously anymore.”

”Isn’t she from the Ice Phoenix Clan?”

Feng Qingyan asked puzzledly.

”No, she was just raised by the Ice Phoenix Clan since she was a child. In fact, she’s a little princess from Changle Immortal Island.”

The white-whiskered old man explained: ”Never mind her. Right now, the most troublesome issue is still the pill problem. If we don’t figure this out, our economy will collapse. Does anyone have any good suggestions?”

”If it comes to it, I will lead a team and kill that Sun Shang!”

Huo Pili suggested.

”Although you are powerful, killing Sun Shang is impossible. He always has experts from the Yin-Yang Realm guarding him, not to mention he himself is a top-tier combatant of the Cave Heaven Realm.”

The white-whiskered elder shook his head.

”Then what should we do, President? If we continue like this, Qingxu College will be truly ruined.”

Huo Pili said anxiously.

”Ruin is not possible. Hidden Mountain Reserve Monarch will surely find a solution. But at such a critical juncture, we shouldn’t create more trouble for him; therefore, we must come up with our own solutions.”

The white-whiskered elder shook his head.

”If only we could find an expert alchemist to counter Sun Shang!” Feng Qingyan murmured to himself.

”Hmph, easier said than done. Sun Shang is an advanced alchemist of the Yellow Rank. Unless we can invite someone from Changle Immortal Island, it’s absolutely impossible to find an alchemist more skilled than Sun Shang.”

Huo Pili snorted coldly, ”At the end of the day, it’s all Ling Xiao’s fault. If that brat hadn’t stirred up trouble, Phoenix God College wouldn’t have taken such drastic measures.”

”Are you scared?”

Feng Qingyan asked with a cold laugh.

”Scared? I’m not scared at all! I just think Ling Xiao should step up and find a solution, not hide. That would be the manly thing to do!”

Huo Pili said loudly.