"Pressure cooker?"
This term was utterly foreign to the people of dicine King Valley.
"What kind of pot is a pressure cooker?" Bai Changqing asked.
"Country bumpkin."
Dongfang Chaonan scoffed, instantly transforming into a know-it-all. "A pressure cooker is a pot that uses high-pressure electricity for cooking. You know what high-pressure electricity is, right? It’s the power in the wires on the electric poles. When you cook, you just set the pot on the wires, and the food cooks fast and tastes amazing. It’s obvious you people have no idea. Your dicine King Valley is just too backward; you still haven’t even started using light bulbs."
Ye Xiu stared at Dongfang Chaonan in shock. Buddy, your dead-serious nonsense has completely derailed my plan to put dicine King Valley in their place.
"Master, watch what you say. Don’t spout nonsense," An Dongye reminded him quietly.
Dongfang Chaonan paused. "Did I misunderstand sothing?"
An Dongye scoffed.
Just then, Master Baishan said, "Ye Xiu, stop bluffing. While dicine King Valley may know little about the outside world’s technology, we are the experts when it cos to alchemy. It is absolutely impossible to refine a Heaven-nding Pill in just three hours."
The leader of the neutral faction in dicine King Valley added, "For over two thousand years, everyone in dicine King Valley who has successfully refined a Heaven-nding Pill has taken five hours. Ye Xiu, are you suggesting your alchemy skills surpass those of all the ancestors of dicine King Valley?"
Everyone from dicine King Valley looked at Ye Xiu with mockery. In their eyes, he knew he had failed to refine the Heaven-nding Pill but refused to admit it, choosing instead to create a spectacle to save face.
"You people from dicine King Valley are all talk," Ye Xiu chuckled. "If you want to verify whether I’ve refined the Heaven-nding Pill, why don’t you co over and take a look for yourselves?"
Everyone was stunned. That’s right! Why waste words arguing with Ye Xiu when they could simply inspect the elixir he had refined?
"Let see!"
The leader of the neutral faction walked over and took the dicinal pill from Ye Xiu’s hand.
He sniffed it, his expression turning serious as he pondered for a mont. He then scraped off a bit of the Heaven-nding Pill’s powder with his fingernail, licked it, and smacked his lips, tasting it for a while. Suddenly, his face changed dramatically.
He said in shock, "This... this is a Heaven-nding Pill, and its quality is the best I have ever seen among all Heaven-nding Pills! This... how is this possible?"
What?!
Upon hearing his words, Master Baishan, Bai Changqing, and everyone else from dicine King Valley cried out in shock.
"Old Gu, are you sure you’re not mistaken?" Master Baishan asked.
"You’re not the only one in dicine King Valley who can refine a Heaven-nding Pill. I can too, so there’s no reason for to be mistaken," the neutral faction’s leader retorted.
Master Baishan’s composure crumbled. "Quick, give it here and let see!"
The leader of the neutral faction casually tossed it over.
Master Baishan caught it and repeated the leader’s inspection process, first sniffing, then tasting. Everyone from dicine King Valley stared intently at him. They hoped to hear him declare the pill a fake, as they knew all too well what it would an if this Heaven-nding Pill was real.
"It is indeed a Heaven-nding Pill, and it’s practically perfect," Master Baishan said reluctantly.
UPROAR!
The mbers of dicine King Valley were in an absolute uproar, and they all turned to look at Ye Xiu in astonishnt.
This guy! Not only had he refined a Heaven-nding Pill, but he had also shattered dicine King Valley’s two-thousand-year-old record and ironclad rule by doing it in just three hours.
"Elder Bai, can you refine a Heaven-nding Pill of better quality than mine?" Ye Xiu asked with a faint smile.
Master Baishan wanted to say yes, but he knew he couldn’t. He said, "Mr. Ye, your dical Skills are indeed superior to mine. I am utterly convinced of my defeat."
As he spoke those words, his composure shattered.
The spirit of everyone in dicine King Valley broke.
Master Baishan’s concession ant that the status of dicine King Valley was no longer paramount. From now on, the Totem Clans, organizations, Hidden World families, and other experts who had sought help from dicine King Valley would have a new option—Ye Xiu.
At that mont, Master Baishan and Bai Changqing were green with regret. Just because they had underestimated Ye Xiu and wanted to test his dical Skills, they had ended up humiliated and had even contributed to his rise.
Once word of today’s events spread, Ye Xiu’s renown would surpass that of dicine King Valley, establishing him as the true Xuanse dicine King!
"Does anyone else object? Feel free to challenge to a match!" Ye Xiu’s voice bood as he swept his gaze across everyone from dicine King Valley.
Provocation. Humiliation. Arrogance.
Although everyone from dicine King Valley was seething with rage, no one dared to accept his challenge.
"In that case, while Elder Bai’s Heaven-nding Pill is still being refined, I’ll go ahead and refine the Marrow Cleansing Pill for Bai Changqing!"
Ye Xiu took the Heaven-nding Pill from Master Baishan’s hand, slipped it into his pocket, and prepared to start refining the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Master Baishan was dumbfounded. "Mr. Ye, why did you put the Heaven-nding Pill in your pocket?"
"I’m the one who refined it," Ye Xiu stated simply.
"But you used ingredients from dicine King Valley. The Heaven-nding Pill should belong to us," Master Baishan reminded him.
"Consider this pill the prize for the wager you just lost to ," Ye Xiu said with a gentle smile.
Shaless! Master Baishan and everyone from dicine King Valley cursed inwardly.
But since Ye Xiu had already said it and pocketed the pill, they knew there was no getting it back.
PFFT!
Master Baishan and the people of dicine King Valley nearly coughed up blood from anger. They had suffered a catastrophic loss today! They had lost dicine King Valley’s paramount status and thrown in a Heaven-nding Pill to boot!
"Ye Xiu, I admit my dical Skills are inferior to yours, but do you dare compete with in martial prowess?" Bai Changqing challenged. "If you lose, you leave the Heaven-nding Pill behind."
Master Baishan’s and the others’ eyes lit up, silently praising Bai Changqing for his brilliant move.
Ye Xiu chuckled. "Is this a Bronze challenging a King?"
Bai Changqing and the people of dicine King Valley had no idea what "Bronze" and "King" ant.
Bai Changqing goaded him, "Are you too scared to accept?"
"Fine, I accept." Ye Xiu decided that since he had already crushed dicine King Valley in dical Skills, he might as well crush them in martial prowess too. "If I lose, the Heaven-nding Pill is yours. If I win, the Marrow Cleansing Pill I’m about to refine belongs to . How about it?"
"Deal!" Bai Changqing was overjoyed.
"Alright. Once I’ve finished refining the Marrow Cleansing Pill, I will fight you," Ye Xiu said.
Bai Changqing readily agreed.
Master Baishan and the others started to smile. Bai Changqing was the foremost prodigy of dicine King Valley and had already awakened his Totem Power. Even a Ye Xiu at full strength would be no match for him, let alone one whose martial prowess would be severely depleted after the imnse consumption of refining both a Heaven-nding Pill and a Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Bai Changqing was guaranteed to win!
An Dongye, Dongfang Chaonan, Dazhuang, Er Leng, and i Li silently chided Ye Xiu for his rashness. Even if Ye Xiu was stronger than Dongfang Dazhuang, even if he had killed the Fire-Water Judges, he was definitely no match for Bai Changqing.
"Elder Bai, the alchemy process can be quite dull, so allow to explain my purpose for coming to dicine King Valley," Ye Xiu said.
Everyone was taken aback.
"You an you didn’t co simply to visit dicine King Valley?" Master Baishan asked.
"Visiting was only one of my objectives for this trip."
Ye Xiu’s expression grew serious as he said, "I have another purpose, which is to ascertain the stance of the conservative and neutral factions within dicine King Valley."
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