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"Why is chasing my dreams so difficult?" he thought. "It's not my fault. Uncle Li is the one who made focus on my research..." Sighing, he walked around until he reached his Immortal Cave, where he sat and stared into space.
Earlier that year, Yan Xiaobao often went to Li Qinghou to ask about issues that arose in the concoction of dicine. Li Qinghou often found himself surprised by these questions. The depth of Yan Xiaobao's exploration in the dical Path was unusual for an ordinary pharmacist.
Paired with Yan Xiaobao's incredible achievents with the Stele, Li Qinghou couldn't help but be full of expectations. However, everyone has different understandings of the dical Path, so Li Qinghou didn't answer any of Yan Xiaobao's questions. Instead, he encouraged him to conduct his own tests. Only by doing so could he develop his own dical Path. If he just followed the crowd, he would never make a na for himself as a Master of the dical Path. Additionally, most pill recipes originate from the experintal results of generations.
"No. My dream hasn't changed. Uncle Li was right. The only things truly belonging to you are the ones you acquire yourself. Even if it gets harder, I still won't give up!" Clenching his teeth, he decided that even if he couldn't test his mysterious pills, he could still continue to devote himself to the Path of dicine.
"I will definitely beco a magical Master Alchemist!" Taking a deep breath, he returned to his dicine concoction workstation, where he imrsed himself wholly in pill concoction.
Ti flew by. In the blink of an eye, several months passed. As far as Third-level Spiritual dicine was concerned, Yan Xiaobao's confidence and skill level had increased. He solved one problem after another and soon discovered that Third-level Spiritual dicine wasn't that difficult after all.
However... a bigger problem lood.
Despite his best efforts, and his much greater proficiency in Third-level Spiritual dicine, it was very difficult to improve his success rate. Generally, out of ten batches of pills, five would succeed. Out of the other five, one would produce an unidentifiable mysterious pill, and four would be considered toxic.
He began to go a bit mad. Even spirit enhancent had no effect on the toxic pills. Only through spiritual enhancent could low-level pills be elevated to a higher level.
Though he didn't realize it, his focus on dicine concoction had reached an obsessive-compulsive level. Unless he could achieve the perfection he pursued, he would feel uneasy.
"Impurities! How can I get rid of those impurities!?" As he stared at the pile of toxic pills he'd collected, his eyes turned bloodshot. After so thought, he considered going to ask Li Qinghou. But when he rembered how Li Qinghou encouraged him to make his own observations and experints, he clenched his teeth and threw himself even more madly into problem-solving.
Days passed. Eventually, people started noticing that Yan Xiaobao had beco quiet again. No explosions, no animals running amok. Everything was peaceful, though for so, the newfound silence was hard to get used to.
Unfortunately, good things never last forever... A month later, in the middle of the night, Yan Xiaobao sat before his pill furnace, his hair disheveled, frantically performing spell gestures to control the Earth Flas. As he fed more dicinal plants into the furnace, his eyes grew more intense.
"This is it. Almost finished. I'm sure this ti I'll solve all the problems. This is what I call creativity! I added Thunder God Vine, Lightning Detox Flower, rose, and Yin Yang thistle, and invented a new technique. It must be able to clear the impurities. It will surely work. This is Yan Xiaobao's one and only... Lightning Detox Grand Magic!" With his excitent, the pill furnace began to tremble, and the fragrance of dicine wafted out. Outside, the moon hung high in the cloudless night sky above Xiangyun Peak.
Suddenly, a layer of clouds ford, and a bolt of lightning struck towards Xiangyun Peak. When it hit Yan Xiaobao's cave, the cave's spell formation quivered, and so lightning even pierced through the spell formation, and a stone from his Immortal Cave fell onto the pill furnace.
Bai Lingchun's wild laughter accompanied the crackling lightning inside the Immortal Cave. After the lightning disappeared, he excitedly rushed towards the pill furnace.
Unfortunately, the only thing left inside was so ashes and swirling smoke.
"Too much Lightning Detox Flower!" he thought, pulling at his disheveled hair, looking like a mad scientist. With that, he procured more dicinal plants and began preparing the ingredients.
Many of Xiangyun Peak's disciples saw the lightning and noticed that it seed to have landed on Yan Xiaobao's Immortal Cave.
"So... even God is tired of Yan Xiaobao?"
"That must be it. Heaven truly has eyes! Sending lightning to end him..."
People had various thoughts about what was happening, and many rejoiced at Yan Xiaobao's apparent misfortune. So elders even noticed the lightning and were very surprised.
"Even Li Feng didn't attract lightning when concocting dicine. According to legend, only 7th-level Spiritual dicine and higher attracts Tribulation Lightning. What is Yan Xiaobao doing?"
Three afternoons later, laughter rang out from Yan Xiaobao's cave. Staring at the pill furnace, his hands flashed in a gesture of double-handed spells. Spiritual power erupted, Earth Flas raged. Bai Xiaochun roared, slapping the surface of the pill furnace with both hands.
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