“Hehe, I’m afraid I must disappoint you. Hall Master Old Yang ordered me to purchase something. If you care about it, I can tell you that I’m having a good time at the Medicine Hall.”
Ling Xiao replied with a smile.
“Junior Brother Ling, White Cloud, is he fine?” Ming Tian suddenly asked.
“You are?”
Ling Xiao intentionally pretended to be confused. He truly despised Ming Tian’s actions. Although this person’s talent was amazing, Ling Xiao felt that what he had done that day was disgusting.”
“Hehe, it seems Junior Brother Ling is still angry about what happened that day.”
After speaking, Ming Tian suddenly released his aura, and a terrifying pressure struck Ling Xiao.
“Rank One Transcendent Realm!”
Ling Xiao was greatly surprised.
However, after thinking a bit, he calmed down. Ming Tian’s aptitude was already excellent, and coupled with the nurturing of Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy, it was normal for him to reach Rank One Transcendent Realm. After all, when they had still been in the secular world, his cultivation base had been much higher than Ling Xiao’s.
“He’s stepping into Rank Two soon.”
Xu Ying interrupted: “Now, do you understand why Ming Tian discarded Old Man White Cloud? There is no future following that fellow.”
“Humph, I could understand if he just chose to leave, but he shouldn’t have done that to White Cloud Great Master!”
Ling Xiao snorted and activated the Landscape Martial Soul. Then, Ming Tian’s terrifying aura disappeared.
It was not that easy to suppress him.
“The strong are respected. There’s no need to say anything more. If you see White Cloud again, tell him to forget about becoming the enemy of Master Demonic Flame. Master Demonic Flame can pinch him to death like an ant.”
Ming Tian coldly said.
He was a bit surprised when he found his aura unable to suppress Ling Xiao. However, the differences in their cultivation bases made him feel at ease, so he condescendingly regarded Ling Xiao.
“You should go and tell him that yourself.”
Ling Xiao indifferently said, “I don’t have that much spare time.”
“Want to cultivate? You are just a rare-grade treasured body! So what if you cultivate with great effort? In the past, your cultivation base was far inferior to mine, and now, the gap has not narrowed but is getting bigger and bigger. Aren’t you feeling despair?”
Ming Tian taunted.
“Hehe, perhaps! However, you’d better run faster; otherwise, I’ll catch up with you soon.”
Ling Xiao smiled a bit. Ming Tian had already been very arrogant in the past, but now that he had become a disciple of Demonic Flame Celestial Worthy and stepped into the Transcendent Realm, he had become even more arrogant.
“Hahaha, then I will wait.”
Ming Tian laughed. He then looked at Xu Ying and said: “Junior Sister, let’s go.”
Xu Ying glared at Ling Xiao and said: “You can’t even catch up to me now, and you still want to catch up to Senior Brother Ming Tian! You are simply overestimating yourself.”
“Is that so?”
Ling Xiao smiled, looked at the back view of those two, and said: “Don’t worry. Very soon, your Senior Brother Ming Tian will be stepped on by me.”
After returning to the Medicine Hall, Ling Xiao gave the Refine Array Stones to Venerable Yuan.
In return, Venerable Yuan gave him a few books——<Basics of Magic Array>, <Examples of Formation Application> and <Magic Array Material Study>.
“Take them back and read them first. Come back after that.”
Venerable Yuan fell asleep after speaking.
He obviously couldn’t stay awake for a long time.
Ling Xiao took the book and returned to his cave dwelling. Naturally, before leaving, he took a pill furnace and some spirit charcoal from the Medicine Hall.
These kinds of small matters, as long as Yang Danlin nodded, no one would dare to talk nonsense.
After returning to the cave dwelling, he created two clones. One clone studied <Eternal Divine Pill Scripture>, and the other studied the basic books given by Venerable Yuan.
As for his main body, he began to refine pills.
He hadn’t told even Venerable Yuan and Yang Danlin about <Shadow Cultivation Secret Technique>.
In this world, regardless of who it was, one must not completely trust them without any reservations, including even Yang Danlin and Venerable Yuan.
After all, people could change, especially once they learned that Ling Xiao possessed the Landscape Martial Soul.
Refrain from hurting others yet guard against those trying to hurt you.
This was something Hong Qi had taught him before, and he had firmly kept it in his mind.
After grinding the materials, Ling Xiao began to make some raw pills.
The matter of refining pills to make money was trivial and ordinary for other alchemists, but for him, it was just the beginning.
Even if it was just unqualified pills, he must not be careless.
Making raw pills needed precise calculations, including the weight of each ingredient and the moisture, softness, toughness, and so on of each raw pill.
After the raw pills were created, next was ignition.
Without his previous troubles, igniting spirit charcoal had become much easier.
Other people might fail often during the ignition phase, but his success rate was 100% via the Enter Soul State.
After ignition, fire control was the crux. This was the third and most important phase of alchemy.
This was not the first time he was refining Top Grade True Essence Pills; therefore, he was very familiar with the process. When the pills came out from the furnace, they were all 100% perfect-level pills.
However, it was a bit difficult to refine Martial Vein Body Mold Pills.
He had only seen this pill in a book: he had never refined nor watched Yang Danlin or Lan Yu’er refine it before.
He hadn’t even made his Martial Soul Clone practice it.
This was truly his first time.
He could have made his Martial Soul Clone practice refining it several times first, but he didn’t do so.
He believed in his control; this was nothing more than an unqualified pill. If he needed to repeatedly practice refining even this pill, he could admit that he had not mastered his skills yet.
The spirit charcoal was ignited once more.
The flame flickered and heated the bronze furnace.
This common-grade treasured pill furnace had naturally been carefully chosen.
The secular world’s martial artists used ordinary pill furnaces to refine ordinary medicines and pills.
This pill furnace had been loaned to Ling Xiao by Yang Danlin.
Yang Danlin said that he had a better pill furnace, but he wouldn’t give it to Ling Xiao unless his alchemy level improved further. As long as Ling Xiao could refine low yellow-grade pills, he would receive an excellent-grade treasure artifact pill furnace.
An excellent-grade pill furnace could refine low to mid yellow-grade pills.
If Ling Xiao improved further, he would naturally get more things.
Ling Xiao knew that Yang Danlin was intentionally giving him pressure and motivation. If there were no such motivation, he might not focus and work hard.
During this refining process, Ling Xiao used a bit of the black fierce beast’s flame, not to evaporate water but to shorten the time needed to refine the pills.
He had tried it before and found that high-quality flames could not only make the pill’s quality better but also shorten the time needed.
