Chapter 13

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

The Blood Spirit Pill that Jiang Chen was going to refine this time mainly consisted of ingredients such as blood spirit herbs, ordinary spirit herbs, and some other medicinal herbs.

The Blood Spirit Pill’s effect was enough for an ordinary cultivator to break through to the late stage of the Physical Realm in an instant!

The old man looked contemptuous when he heard that Jiang Chen was going to refine the Blood Spirit Pill.

“Little friend, don’t brag. Aren’t you afraid of hurting your tongue!”

“Do you know how difficult it is to refine the Blood Spirit Pill? Even I am unable to successfully brew the Blood Spirit Pill. What gives you the confidence that you would be able to do it? Don’t waste these precious ingredients!”

No matter how composed Jiang Chen was, he couldn’t help but say, “Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean I can’t either!”

“You look so old. Why are you so arrogant? I wonder what grade you belong to.”

As soon as Jiang Chen finished speaking, the alchemists who were silent till now changed their expressions.

It was because this old man was an alchemist from Sunnywood Town.

The old man’s name was Tong Mu, and he was a third-grade alchemist!

As a third-grade alchemist in Sunnywood Town, he was probably one of the top alchemists. This old man was even on equal footing with the division masters of the Pill Pavilion and the Martial Arts Pavilion!

“Master, Senior Tong is a third-grade alchemist,” an alchemist, who was close to Jiang Chen, said carefully.

“Third-grade?”

Jiang Chen was surprised. He hadn’t expected the old man in front of him to be a third-grade alchemist!

Instead, he thought the old man was arrogant and condescending because he was at least a top-class alchemist.

But what Jiang Chen hadn’t expected was that the old man was only a third-class alchemist!

Before Jiang Chen was reborn, he had started practicing martial arts at the age of three, stepped into the world of alchemy at the age of seven, and became a ninth-grade alchemist at the age of fifteen!

Jiang Chen knew his cultivation aptitude so he didn’t usually compete with others, for fear of hurting them.

But this Tong Mu in front of him… He was in his 80s or 90s, but he was only a third-grade alchemist.

His aptitude was far worse than those people that Jiang Chen knew!

“Third-grade? What right does this old man have to point fingers at me?”

Jiang Chen ignored him. He focused all his energy toward the furnace. After all, actions speak louder than words.

He threw the spiritual herbs into the furnace casually.

Upon seeing this casual look, all the alchemists present couldn’t help but twitch their lips.

It was known that alchemists always followed the order in which they refined pills such as to warm the furnace before administering the herbs, control the intensity of the pill flame, and the order of pills to be added was also important in every pill formula.

There must not be any mistakes in any of the steps. Once there were errors, the pill would be ruined.

“Master, you really know how to refine pills? You’re not lying, are you?”

“Eh… the herbs are already placed there. Don’t blow up the furnace, Master!”

The alchemists looked at each other, wondering if Jiang Chen really knew how to refine pills.

“Eh… I think we misunderstood him. I don’t think he knows how to refine pills. I think we’re the ones who called him master.”

Jiang Chen didn’t pay any attention to them. He was controlling the furnace. After all, he hadn’t refined pills for thousands of years. He couldn’t afford to be distracted.

Jiang Chen placed his hand beside the furnace. He closed his palm and injected his True Qi into the furnace. When his True Qi entered the furnace, it instantly turned into flames, enveloping the whole furnace in flames.

Surrounded by the flames, Jiang Chen kept controlling the transmission of his True Qi. He was also controlling the herbs in the furnace to fuse with each other.

After a short while, some shadows could be seen emerging in the steaming flames in the furnace.

Jiang Chen’s display of alchemy stunned everyone.

“Holy sh*t. What kind of alchemy technique is this? Why haven’t I seen it before?”

“Wonderful, wonderful! He’s still able to continue refining pills even in this state!”

The crowd gasped in surprise when they saw Jiang Chen’s alchemy technique, but they didn’t say anything.

“Although the alchemy technique is good, it’s useless if you can’t refine pills!”

Looking at Jiang Chen’s pill furnace, Tong Mu shook his head and said indifferently, “It’s already good enough that the furnace didn’t explode. It’s impossible to refine the pill.”

“It’s a pity that we wasted all of the ingredients in one furnace!”

However, as soon as Tong Mu finished speaking, something unexpected happened in the furnace!

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Suddenly, a buzzing sound came from the furnace, followed by a tremor.

Right after, the shadow of a cauldron bloom slowly appeared.

But what was even more shocking was that along with the shadow of the cauldron bloom, there was actually a blood-red, bodhi-like medicinal pill!

“It has only been a short while, and the Blood Spirit Pill has already been refined?”

“This… This is a cauldron bloom. It is the highest-grade pill! It’s a phenomenon that only happens when a peerless alchemist refines pills. This is definitely a highest-grade pill!”

“I actually witnessed the phenomenon of the cauldron bloom. I’ll be satisfied even if I die now! Haha!”

At this moment, everyone was utterly surprised, just like the arrogant Tong Mu. He was also deeply shocked and couldn’t extricate himself!

An ordinary alchemist would need at least two hours to refine a batch of pills.

However, Jiang Chen directly crushed their understanding. It had only been a dozen breaths’ time!

Not only that, but they were also able to witness the phenomenon of the cauldron bloom. To their surprise, Jiang Chen managed to refine a pill, a highest-grade pill at that.

However, just as the crowd was amazed by the result, Jiang Chen let out a sigh.

“Alas! It’s a pity that I only managed to refine a highest-grade pill. I see now that my skills have indeed deteriorated.”

They saw Jiang Chen holding a blood-red pill in his hand; however, he was looking at the pill with disdain.

“I’ve never seen a highest-grade pill in my life. Master… how can you despise it so much?”

“Is this the difference between me and Master?”

They couldn’t imagine why Jiang Chen would be so disappointed by a highest-grade Blood Spirit Pill!

At this moment, someone couldn’t help but ask Jiang Chen, “Master, what do you mean by “only”? Isn’t a highest-grade pill enough for you?”

In the Red Sun Continent, pills were split into different grades.

From bottom to top, it’s normal-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, top-grade, and highest-grade.

Then, they were further categorized into four classes: yellow, black, earth, and heaven!

In the past, anything Jiang Chen brewed ended up as a heaven-grade pill. If it was an earth-grade pill or anything other than a heaven-grade pill, Jiang Chen regarded it as a failure!

However, at this moment, the pill furnace, which had been calm, started to tremble again.

The next moment, the pill furnace lit up with multiple colors. Lotus flowers appeared one after another.

Three breaths later, under the shocked gazes of the crowd, a pill, which was even smaller than the Blood Spirit Pill in Jiang Chen’s hand, appeared.

It was also covered with obscure patterns of pills.

“Oh! I didn’t expect such a pleasant surprise!”

Jiang Chen took the pill in his hand. A smile gradually appeared on his face.

“That’s impossible! There was only one ingredient. How could there be two pills?”

“They look different and are of different sizes. Could they be different pills?”

The group of alchemists was dumbfounded. This batch of two pills was beyond their knowledge.. They couldn’t understand what was going on at all!