by Dragon King
The furnace was special, and ordinary cultivators couldn’t turn it. Premier Xia and Elder Xingyue found it quite incredible to see a Qi Refinement Realm cultivator rotate the furnace with her cultivation strength.
They surmised that the secret lied with the golden and silver notes that were as big as half a thumb.
“Little White, more fire,” Xie Yujia told Little White.
However, it didn’t understand her. Therefore, Hao Ren had to take a step forward and gave a little pat on its rump.
Hiss… Another two dashes of flames shot from the space between its teeth, and the fire instantly surged high, illuminating the whole room in bright red.
Xie Yujia inhaled deeply, and her face grew grim.
If the process before this was heating the pot, the following part was the real cooking.
She raised her hands slowly, and the golden and silver notes surrounding her also rose.
The golden one was the Life Note or the Yang Note; the silver one was the Death Note or the Yin Note.
The change of Yin and Yang represented the shift of the world.
Hovering above the furnace, the golden note extracted traces of nature essence from the crack between the lid and the furnace. These traces were the five-elemental essences of the herbs.
Seeing the essences condense outside of the furnace, Su Han held her breath and didn’t move a muscle.
Zhao Yanzi got nervous as well; her hand moving quietly to hold Su Han’s arm.
Zhao Guang looked surprised since he had never seen such a mysterious method of making elixirs.
For Xie Yujia, it was as simple as tossing up ingredients in the pot in cooking! By doing this, she let the essence liquids receive heat evenly from Little White’s samadhi true fire!
Ordinary elixir masters would stew the elixirs according to their previous experiences. However, Xie Yujia used the extracting and absorbing functions of the Life-Death Note to turn the process into ‘quick frying!’
The golden Life Note pulled the five-element essences of the herbs to the outside of the furnace before the silver Death Note tossed them back into the furnace.
With the Nascent Soul Realm power inside these two notes, Xie Yujia carefully controlled the directions and the strengths of the notes.
“Dragon King, I’ve never seen this method of elixir making before,” Elder Xingyue took a step forward and whispered to Zhao Guang.
“It’s indeed powerful…” Zhao Guang exclaimed in a low voice. He looked lost while he watched the movements of Xie Yujia’s arms.
“She will become a powerful elixir master,” Elder Xingyue reminded him in a whisper.
Zhao Guang instantly understood her meaning. He nodded while a thought dawned on him.
Little Daoist Zhen was eccentric and rarely made elixirs. However, Xie Yujia would grow into a powerful elixir master.
Low-level elixirs were not very important to the dragon cultivators who could cultivate fast before Zhen-level; they had less value to the affluent East Ocean Dragon Clan members. However, high-level elixirs were strategic resources for them!
While they talked, Xie Yujia flicked her fingers, and the golden and silver notes each turned into ten smaller notes, circulating the furnace slowly.
A more intense aroma floated from the furnace.
It meant that the pills were almost done!
Standing close to the hot furnace, drops of sweat began to slide from Xie Yujia’s forehead down to her face and chin.
Hiss… The drops of sweat landed on the ground and instantly evaporated.
However, Xie Yujia didn’t dare to wipe her sweat since she had entered the most crucial stage of elixir making!
In this stage, Yin and Yang balanced each other, and the five-elemental essenes gave birth to each other.
Although the Beauty Pills were only level 2 elixir pills, she must be careful with the small details.
After all, it was her first time trying her hand at elixir making, and the herbs were so precious.
“Yujia, keep steady.”
Sensing the slight shaking of her body, Hao Ren blurted out.
Xie Yujia was indeed exhausted. Hearing Hao Ren’s encouragement, she gritted her teeth and poured out all her nature essence.
Ten small golden notes and ten small silver notes brightened instantly.
The flames whirled around the furnace between the notes like a small tornado!
The fire was divided into small threads of flames which engulfed the entire furnace. It was a feat only an advanced elixir master could achieve!
“Hey! Who’s in my room?”
Little Daoist Zhen’s voice suddenly broke the tense atmosphere in the room.
289 Little White’s Boss
No one had expected that Little Daoist Zhen would appear.
Xie Yujia who had been engrossed in elixir making was especially shaken.
Hao Ren saw it and immediately walked forward; he held her hand and injected surges of pure nature essence into her palm.
After all, all her cultivation strength was put on controlling the Life-Death Note, and one disturbance would cause nature essence deviation in her body!
However, her Five-Elemental Life-Death Note was the nemesis of Hao Ren’s Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll. The moment he touched her hand, he was bounced back by the great force of the Life-Death Notes!
Since the room was not big, he was bounced back and crashed hard onto the wall made from black rocks, and he was really dizzy
Fortunately, most of the power of the Life-Death Note was put into controlling the furnace. Otherwise, He could have got his arm broken in the process.
However, thanks to the trace of pure nature essence that was injected into her body, Xie Yujia was reinvigorated and continued to control the process of elixir making. She looked back at Hao Ren apologetically.
“You deserve the crash!” Zhao Yanzi yelled silently. “Humph! I’ll see if you dare to touch her again!”
“Little Daoist Zhen, we’ll borrow this room for a while.” Zhao Guang cupped his hands at Little Daoist Zhen.
“A cultivator in the Qi Refinement Realm is taking the risk and making elixirs here?” Little Daoist Zhen glanced at Xie Yujia, who was standing before the furnace, and said.
His cultivation strength was not high, but he had sharp eyes, instantly seeing that she only had the cultivation strength of the Qi Refinement Realm and was not a member of the Dragon Tribe.
However, his expression turned serious when he saw Xie Yujia’s golden and silver notes stirring the five-element essences in the furnace.
“What pills is she making?” He asked Zhao Guang.
“Beauty Pills,” Zhao Guang answered. Although Little Daoist Zhen was arrogant, Zhao Guang didn’t want to offend him.
It was not only because he had once saved Zhao Kuo’s life; instead, everyone in East Ocean Dragon Palace knew from the hundred years he was here that he was an intolerant, ‘an eye for an eye’ type of person!
Anyone who offended him would be in trouble!
“Oh, level 2 pills.” Little Daoist Zhen’s expression relaxed.
Watching Xie Yujia’s movements, he had thought that she was making some high-level elixirs. However, her elixir making techniques were indeed exquisite.
He stood there quietly, and the room returned to its previous silence except for the sounds of the flames.
Little White was spitting flames without stopping. Little Daoist Zhen’s gaze turned from Xie Yujia to Little White, a peer of his.
They were both demon beasts, but Little Daoist Zhen had activated his intelligence while Little White hadn’t. The process of intelligence activation usually took about 500 to 1,000 years.
Suddenly, Little Daoist Zhen was interested in this snow lion.
The pills were almost done.
Xie Yujia gritted her teeth; obviously, it was consuming the last bit of her strength.
“One step! Only one step away!” Little Daoist Zhen yelled.
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sp; As level 2 pills, Beauty Pills were one of the elixir pills that were the easiest to make. As long as the elixir master balanced the five-elemental essences, extracted the effects of the supplementary materials, and activated the essence in the main ingredients, it would be a success.
Although Little Daoist Zhen had not participated in the beginning part of the process, he judged from the aroma floating from the furnace that the pills still needed some time before they were done.
While Xie Yujia gritted her teeth and used the last bit of her strength, Su Han and Hao Ren were both looking at her anxiously.
Su Han’s was anxious because she was afraid that Xie Yujia would fail to make the pills at the last moment. However, Hao Ren was concerned that the process would put too much pressure on Xie Yujia.
Little Daoist Zhen sniffed loudly and said abruptly. “No, one herb is missing.”
While everyone else was watching the furnace without blinking, Little Daoist Zhen thought for a few seconds. “Yes. The mixture is missing a Unicorn Lotus.”
He rummaged in his sleeves and drew out a black stick, that looked like a sugar cane, before walking to Xie Yujia.
“Little Daoist Zhen, don’t mess around!” Zhao Guang tried to stop him.
Su Han was going to walk over and block him, but Elder Xingyue stopped her.
“You need this!” With one hand, Little Daoist Zhen lifted the furnace lid.
The Life Notes and Death Notes were scattered, and Xie Yujia, who was controlling the notes with her mind and spirit, spat out a mouthful of blood.
Little Daoist Zhen ignored it and tossed out a dharma treasure to push down the essences that were surging out of the furnace before tossing the Unicorn Lotus into the furnace.
“What a pity! With the opening of the furnace before completing the process, half of the essences are gone.” Little Daoist Zhen sighed while shaking his head.
Hearing his words, Su Han, who had high hopes for the Beauty Pills, almost spat out a mouthful of blood, too.
“Yujia!” Hao Ren hurried over to help Xie Yujia to stand up, but he was again pushed away by the remaining power of the Life-Death Note.
“I’m fine…” Pale-faced, Xie Yujia stood up.
“This kid is too reckless!” Hao Ren clenched his fists and began to walk to Little Daoist Zhen.
Despite Little Daoist Zhen’s high position, Hao Ren found it hard to control his anger towards this kid.
He had only walked forward for half a step before Xie Yujia grabbed his sleeve.
“He did it for my sake; he knew that I couldn’t make it and walked up to continue the process for me.”
Hearing her words, Hao Ren was surprised. He stared at her and asked, “Why did you still want to go on when you know you couldn’t make it?”
Xie Yujia lowered her head and said in a low voice, “I… didn’t want to disappoint Su Han…”
Hao Ren was both angry and exasperated. If Little Daoist Zhen didn’t offer his help, Xie Yujia might have ended up worse than spitting blood!
She looked gentle but was very stubborn!
Little Daoist Zhen sat down cross-legged in front of the furnace and took Xie Yujia’s place!
He reached out and patted Little white’s neck. “More fire! I’ll feed you great pills later!”
Little White seemed to have understood his words. Sticking out its tongue, it instantly spat out stronger flames.
Little Daoist Zhen chanted spells, and the furnace began to turn slowly.
His elixir making techniques were different from Xie Yujia’s. If Xie Yujia’s method was like stir-frying, then his method was like stewing. The stir-frying depended on the skills of the hands while stewing depended on the control of fires.
“Lower! Lower!” Little Daoist Zhen yelled at Little White.
Little White took a breath, and its samadhi true fire got less intense.
The aroma floating from the furnace was even more intense.
Elder Xingyue placed her hands on Xie Yujia’s shoulders and began to help her settle down the surging blood in her body.
“It’s so slow,” bored, Zhao Yanzi blurted out.
Obviously, Little Daoist Zhen’s method was not as eye-catching as Xie Yujia’s. It was as boring as watching a sweet potato being baked.
“Can we rush the elixir making process?!” Little Daoist Zhen turned his head and gave her a fierce stare.
“So fierce…” Zhao Yanzi mumbled before hiding behind Hao Ren.
She knew she couldn’t afford to mess with Little Daoist Zhen; she just hadn’t expected that his hearing would be so acute.
After more than one hour, Zhao Yanzi was feeling the soreness in her legs and feet, and Little White looked fatigued. Just then, Little Daoist Zhen said casually, “Time to open the lid!”
With his right hand, he lifted the lid.
An intense aroma instantly filled the whole room.
Little Daoist Zhen took out a jade bottle and tossed it up. Hovering in the air above the furnace, the bottle sucked up the pills one by one.
One, two, three, four!
Su Han counted and got excited when she got to four. She thought that the ingredients were enough to make at most three Beauty Pills. Since Xie Yujia was trying her hand at elixir making for the first time, she expected less than three.
Besides, with the interruption of Little Daoist Zhen during the process, some of the nature essences had been lost; it would be fortunate if they could get one pill. To her surprise, they had made four pills, even one more than her highest expectation!
Little Daoist Zhen beckoned, and the jade bottle returned to his hand. He shook the bottle and heard the crisp sound of the pills rolling around in the bottle. With a playful smile, he tossed the bottle at Xie Yujia.
Xie Yujia caught it and was at a loss for what to do next.
“I just wanted to give you a hand. You must have been doing this for one day and one night,” Little Daoist Zhen smiled haughtily and said.
“No! Before you arrived, we had been here for less than one hour!” Zhao Yanzi interrupted.
“One… One hour?” Little Daoist Zhen’s proud face turned stiff.
It would take him at least one day and one night at the furnace to make such level 2 pills. However, this Qi Refinement Realm cultivator only used one hour to finish the majority of the process?
“What strange elixir making technique is this?”
While Little Daoist Zhen froze with astonishment, Little White stood up lazily. It leaned toward him with its red tongue hanging out, obviously asking for its reward.
“Here! Here!” Little Daoist Zhen took out a grey bottle and poured out more than ten pills before tossing them at Little White.
Joyously, Little White stuck out its tongue, licked onto all of them, and swallowed. After that, it trotted around Little Daoist Zhen with affection.
In Little Daoist Zhen’s hidden space, which was his warehouse, there were at least hundreds of bottles of such low-level pills. If he liked, he could make hundreds of low-level pills in just three days and three nights.
The so-called elixir pills were cheaper than beans to him.
What he cared about now was that a weak cultivator could compress the 24-hour process into two hours!
She was a living dharma treasure who could make elixirs all the time!
“Hey! Teach me your elixir making techniques!” Ignoring Little White’s antics, Little Daoist Zhen walked toward Xie Yujia and said.
290 The Head of Support!
“Ugh?” Xie Yujia looked at him in a daze, not understanding his words.
“Teach me your elixir making techniques!” Little Daoist Zhen repeated.
Frightened, Xie Yujia didn’t know how to answer him.
“How can she teach you her technique so casually?” Hao Ren stood between them and said to Little Daoist Zhen.
“I just want to learn them; I won’t tell anyone else.” Little Daoist Zhen continued to stare at Xie Yujia.
He hated whe
n his master made him learn elixir making techniques. Although he was gifted and smart and could even make level 9 immortal pills, it usually took him days and nights to do it. For those level 9 immortal pills, he had to spend more than one month watching the furnace without rest.
That was why he would rather make dharma treasures instead of elixirs. It took him at most three days and three nights to make a dharma treasure, and the process mainly involved his brain since he needed to arrange the different array formations. Compared to that, elixir making was purely physical labor to him!
If he could learn Xie Yujia’s techniques…
“My master told me that I couldn’t teach anyone these techniques,” Xie Yujia calmed down and told him.
“Who’s your master? Tell him or her to see me in the dragon palace!” Little Daoist Zhen said immediately.
“My master…” Xie Yujia said after half a second of hesitation, “She doesn’t see people.”
“I don’t think there are people I can’t see in the world!” Little Daoist Zhen grew arrogant. “Ok! I’ll go and see her then! I’ll see if she will teach me or not!”
Then, he waved his hand at Xie Yujia. “Ok! All of you get out! I’m going to make dharma treasures. I’ll go find you later!”
Xie Yujia looked at this eccentric “boy” in exasperation.
“Let’s get out of here.” Zhao Guang led the group out of the room.
“Snow lion, you stay!” Little Daoist Zhen said abruptly.
Little White looked back at him in bafflement.
“What are you looking at! I meant you!” Little Daoist Zhen pointed at Little White. “Stay with me!”
“It’s my spirit beast,” Hao Ren told Little Daoist Zhen.
“I don’t care whose spirit beast it belongs to; It’s my little follower now! You can ask it to see if it wants to stay with me for a couple of days.” While he talked, he took out another bottle from his sleeve and poured out dozens of pale blue elixir pills.
After looking at Hao Ren its watering eyes, Little White suddenly turned and trotted toward Little Daoist Zhen.
“Damn dog!” Hao Ren almost cussed out loud.
