Stricken by the Siase Ghost Smoke and the Dragon Saliva Needle at the sa ti, the Horned Flood Dragon suddenly couldn’t move.
Its body flashed with light, and it gradually shrank. The Horned Flood Dragon, originally five to six ters long and half a ter thick, transford into a Puppet Beast the size of a small dog.
After reverting to its original form, a clang was heard as sothing fell off the Horned Flood Dragon—it was the golden sword.
"What is this?" Ye Lingyue finally realized that this Horned Flood Dragon was fake.
"Ah, my Little Jiao." Just as Ye Lingyue was on guard, a short figure scampered out like a mouse from one side.
It was an old man who looked like a child; he was very short, standing only as tall as Ye Lingyue’s chin, but his age was quite advanced.
The wrinkles on his face crisscrossed like gullies and ravines.
The old man sprung out and opened up the back of the Horned Flood Dragon, peeking inside.
Ye Lingyue noticed there was a slot on the back of the Horned Flood Dragon. It looked like the old man had inserted sothing inside that made it assu the form of a real beast.
The old man’s voice was also familiar—it was clearly the sa as the Horned Flood Dragon’s voice when it spoke.
"Who is the senseless disciple of so turtle’s egg daring to run wild in my Refining Hall? If it hadn’t been for Little Jiao’s Xuanyin Elixir running out just now, you wouldn’t have had the chance to act up," after inspecting, the old man found that the Horned Flood Dragon wasn’t injured, but rather that it had run out of Xuanyin Elixir inside the Elixir Slot.
"I am a new Alchemist reporting for duty." Ye Lingyue let out a sigh of relief when she saw the old man, but under the dim light, she noticed the worn Alchemist Robe he was wearing.
One, two... nine Cauldron Seals.
No way, despite appearing as irritable and short as a child, this old man in front of her was actually a Nine Rank Alchemist, even higher in rank than President Liao.
Ye Lingyue’s eyebrows couldn’t help but twitch, and she beca nervous; it seed as if she had offended soone important.
"A new Alchemist reporting for duty? Hmph, with the Dragon Saliva Needle that can hit the lethal spot in one shot, and the high-grade Yellow-grade weapon, the Siase Ghost Smoke, who do you think you’re fooling as a newcor? No need to explain, you must be a spy sent by the enemy state. I must report this to His Majesty," the elder was visibly irate.
Indeed, this old man was extraordinary; he managed to identify the origins of both the Dragon Saliva Needle and the Siase Ghost Smoke just by looking. Especially the Siase Ghost Smoke—since it was refined, ordinary people would not be able to discern its origin.
"Senior, please don’t misunderstand. I truly am a new Alchemist from Li City reporting to the Xia Capital. Here is my recomndation letter. I was inadvertently... captured by your... Little Jiao," Ye Lingyue hurriedly took out her recomndation letter and handed it over to the old man.
The old man glanced at Ye Lingyue’s recomndation letter, and upon recognizing President Liao’s handwriting, his expression changed.
"It was Old Man Liao who sent you? Did you bring the one hundred Blue Striped Xuanyin Elixirs?"
Coincidentally, the old man who was in a fury before Ye Lingyue was none other than the Master Long Yu, who Nangong Qinglin and others held in great apprehension. He was also the elder brother of President Liao.
Years ago, both had studied the Art of Alchemy under the tutelage of the forr president of the Xia Capital Alchemist Association.
However, the brothers had completely different personalities, they never got along well, and they looked down on each other.
The two Daoist brothers didn’t contact each other much on regular days; it was only because of the Blue Pattern Xuanyin Elixirs that they got in touch this ti.
"You’re Master Long Yu, here are the one hundred Blue Pattern Xuanyin Elixirs." Ye Lingyue handed over the elixir pills.
After Long Yu took out the Blue Pattern Xuanyin Elixirs, he gurgled out fifty and stuffed them into the Elixir Slot of the Three-horned Dragon; in no ti, the Three-horned Dragon stood up once again.
This ti, compared to before, the Three-horned Dragon looked spirited, and it was clear that the batch of Blue Pattern Xuanyin Elixirs was of good quality.
Long Yu was a Nine Rank Alchemist who hadn’t bothered with refining ordinary elixirs such as the Blue Pattern Xuanyin Elixirs for years, which is why he had entrusted President Liao to refine a batch.
"Did you refine all these Blue Pattern Xuanyin Elixirs?" In President Liao’s letter, it also stated that Ye Lingyue’s skills in Alchemy and Iron Refining were high, and she had even succeeded in refining perfect Xuantie Moon Iron.
Ye Lingyue was about to reply when suddenly, under both their noses wafted a burnt sll.
"Not good! My elixir pills." Long Yu was in the process of refining a new elixir called the Divine Power Elixir, and Ye Lingyue’s sudden intrusion disrupted his alchemy progress.
"It’s all ruined, this entire batch of elixir pills is wasted." Long Yu was overco with regret, as he had been tending to the fire for this batch of elixirs for three days and nights.
Ye Lingyue and Nangong Qinglin were causing a ruckus outside, disturbing Long Yu’s tranquility, which made him send the Horned Flood Dragon out to drive people off; little did he know, the Puppet Beast, Horned Flood Dragon, would drag soone in.
"Senior, if the elixir is over-refined, you can add a dose of Rejuvenation Grass; this way, you should at least maintain more than sixty percent success rate." Ye Lingyue said lightly.
Rejuvenation Grass is a relatively common dicinal Grass, and most Alchemists’ Refining Rooms would have so stocked.
"What did you say? Who told you that you could use Rejuvenation Grass as a redy for over-refined elixirs?" Long Yu was half doubtful but promptly took out so Rejuvenation Grass and added them in.
Before long, the Elixir Fragrance from within the alchemy furnace returned to normal, and when they opened the cauldron, there were a total of ten elixir pills inside, six of which were intact, and to Ye Lingyue’s surprise, three of them were Yellow Pattern, and the other three were Blue Striped Elixirs.
A Nine Rank Alchemist indeed.
"I read it in an ancient manuscript by chance." Ye Lingyue scratched her head; in fact, she had only stumbled upon it in the Hong ng Notebook.
The Hong ng Notebook did ntion sothing about that.
However, Ye Lingyue had never practiced it because she uses the Qian Cauldron for Alchemy, which doesn’t have the issue of overcooking with Elixir Fire.
"What is that ancient manuscript called? Who is the author?" Long Yu still sowhat disbelieved.
"I only have a fragnt of a page, so I don’t know the na of the ancient manuscript. However, the author seems to be called sothing... Hong ng..." The person was a Nine Rank Alchemist, if she truly intended to deceive, she feared it wouldn’t pass muster, and instead, it might raise suspicions.
Ye Lingyue’s mind churned a thousand tis, speaking half-truths, tilting her head in an appearance of laborious thought.
"Could it be the Hong ng Fang Immortal?" Hearing the words ’Hong ng,’ Long Yu leapt up with excitent, looking at Ye Lingyue as though he had found a rare treasure.
"It seems to be that na." Ye Lingyue nodded.
"My goodness, that must be the legendary Hong ng Notebook; who would have expected that on the Qing Province Continent, the handbook of the most legendary Fang Immortal, Hong ng Fang Immortal, actually still exists in this world." Long Yu mumbled to himself, his mind flooded with countless thoughts.
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