Chapter 532: Gumo Menglan Pill

"Elder Yao, please wait a moment."

When the staff member from the Alchemy Element saw it was Elder Yao, he hurriedly flipped open a notebook. After a quick glance, he said, "No one is using Refining Room Number One today."

"Mm," Elder Yao nodded. "Then give me the jade slip for Refining Room Number One."

He had only asked casually. Under most circumstances, Refining Room Number One was the exclusive refining room for him, the head of the Alchemy Element.

Normally, other instructors from the Alchemy Element would only choose to use Refining Room Number One after rooms Number Two through Four were all occupied.

Just as Elder Yao received the jade slip and was about to leave, his gaze suddenly fell upon the entry for Refining Room Number Six in the notebook. A name he knew very well was registered there.

’Xuan Ye? That kid is using Refining Room Number Six?’

Elder Yao was stunned.

At his side, Elder Dong also saw Ye Xuan’s name on the register, a surprised look on his face as well.

During the Inner Academy’s written exam, Elder Yao and Elder Dong had come to greatly admire Ye Xuan’s attainments in Alchemy and Soul Refining. They had always wanted to recruit Ye Xuan into their respective departments as a disciple.

It was only because too many things had happened at the academy recently that they hadn’t acted on it.

Now, seeing that Ye Xuan had actually registered for Refining Room Number Six, Elder Yao and Elder Dong were immediately curious.

Refining Rooms Number One to Ten were the highest-level refining rooms. Generally speaking, only some extremely heaven-defying Alchemists would choose them, and their strength often had to reach Tier Six.

After all, the rental fee was too high. If an ordinary Fifth Grade Alchemist rented one, they might even suffer a loss if their luck was bad.

’If I remember correctly, isn’t that Xuan Ye just a Tier Five Martial Sect?’

Both Elder Yao and Elder Dong were somewhat surprised.

"Heh, today should be the new students’ first day in the Inner Academy, right? To think that Xuan Ye would come to the Alchemy Element right away. After he’s finished refining, I must go talk to him."

Elder Yao said with a smile as the two of them walked toward the refining rooms.

The refining rooms were set up so that the farther in one went, the higher the level. Therefore, to get to Refining Room Number One, one had to pass by Refining Room Number Six.

Originally, Elder Yao had planned to wait until Ye Xuan finished refining before talking to him, but as they were passing Refining Room Number Six, a dense fluctuation faintly emanating from within immediately halted their steps.

"This kind of fluctuation... It should only appear when refining a Sixth Grade Pill, right?"

A trace of shock instantly appeared on Elder Yao’s face.

Could that Xuan Ye be refining a Sixth Grade Pill?

’But he’s clearly just a Tier Five Martial Sect!’

’And this aura... it’s so rich and mellow. What pill is that Xuan Ye refining?’

"Come on, let’s go in and see," Elder Yao said, his curiosity itching.

As an Alchemy Master, Elder Yao was overcome with curiosity.

"That Xuan Ye is refining right now. Isn’t it a bad idea to just barge in?"

As a Soul Refiner, Elder Dong wasn’t particularly interested in Alchemy.

"Not a good idea? Then you can stay out. If we cause the refinement to fail, no matter what pill that Xuan Ye is making, Medicine City will compensate him double."

"Besides, I, Medicine City, as head of the Alchemy Element, also have the authority to monitor the refining rooms, you know."

Medicine City even brought out this excuse. To prevent any refining accidents, as the head of the Alchemy Element, he did indeed have the authority to enter any refining room at any time.

Taking out a master jade slip, Medicine City gently swiped it on the door of Refining Room Number Six, and the door immediately opened silently.

A rich aroma of Spirit Medicine suddenly billowed out from the refining room.

"This is..."

Elder Yao and Elder Dong quickly walked into the refining room, their gazes filled with astonishment and burning intensity as they looked inside.

Inside the refining room, a scorching Tier Six Profound Fire was furiously burning the Pill Furnace above the Array.

In front of the great Refining Array, Ye Xuan’s expression was impassive. His hands moved with the grace of dragons and phoenixes as all sorts of astonishing Profound Skills transformed into streaks of light, swiftly flying into the Pill Furnace.

The entire fluid sequence of movements was dazzling to behold.

"This kind of technique..."

Elder Yao’s eyes widened in shock, unable to tear his gaze away for even a second.

At this moment, Ye Xuan, completely immersed in refining, didn’t notice the arrival of Elder Yao and the others at all. His entire being was focused on refining the Gumo Menglan Pill.

The Gumo Menglan Pill, as an advancement pill with no side effects, was practically one of the peak pills among Sixth Grade Pills.

Even though Ye Xuan was very confident in his own refining, he didn’t dare to relax in the slightest.

He wholeheartedly focused his Profound Sense on the reactions inside the Pill Furnace, madly executing various refining Hand Skills and displaying his astonishing alchemy prowess.

If anyone from the Inner Academy saw this scene right now, they would definitely be shocked.

A new student was refining, while the dignified heads of the Alchemy Element and Soul Refining Element watched like idiots, their expressions dull, mouths agape, and eyes filled with shock. The scene was as comical as it could possibly be.

The entire refining process continued for half an hour.

Suddenly, a rich aroma of Spirit Medicine emanated from the Pill Furnace.

Ye Xuan knew at once that his Gumo Menglan Pill was about to form. His concentration intensified, and threads of his Profound Sense, like fine strands of silk, rapidly merged into the Pill Furnace, carefully and cautiously quenching the Pill inside over and over again.

He was using the Quenching Pill Skill he was most familiar with from his previous life. His entire Profound Sense was pushed to its absolute limit, without a single trace wasted.

Once, twice, three times...

When Ye Xuan had quenched it for the eighteenth time, he finally felt his Profound Sense begin to run dry, making it impossible to continue.

At this point, Ye Xuan immediately began to retrieve the pills.

However, his actions had left Dongfang Zisi, Elder Yao, and the others, who were watching from the side, completely stupefied.

Any Alchemist knew that the quenching process during a pill’s formation was the most critical. The more times it was quenched, the higher the purity of the resulting pill.

But quenching a pill as it formed was also an extremely difficult task. The vast majority of Alchemists, when refining a pill at the same level as their Profound Sense, could only quench it two or three times, five or six times at most.

Therefore, Ye Xuan’s record of quenching it eighteen times just now had left Elder Yao and the others dumbfounded.

Ye Xuan was completely unaware of all this. He carefully and cautiously proceeded with the task of retrieving the pills, not relaxing in the slightest.

「Finally, after the time it takes an incense stick to burn.」

HUMMM!

A dense medicinal fragrance suddenly burst from the Pill Furnace. The moment this fragrance appeared, Dongfang Zisi felt the Profound Power in her body stir restlessly, as if it wanted to break through to Tier Six Martial Venerable right away.

She had a feeling that if she tried to break through right now, she could immediately advance from Tier Five Third Layer to Tier Six First Layer.

But she immediately suppressed the thought, because she knew very well that this was just an illusion. And the source of this illusion was the pill Ye Xuan had just refined.

’What on earth is the pill Xuan Ye refined? Why am I feeling this way?’

Dongfang Zisi was astonished. The illusions created by pills were often related to their effects. The fact that she felt the desire to break through just by smelling this pill meant that if she actually consumed the pill Xuan Ye had refined, it was very likely she would truly break through.

Under her burning gaze, Ye Xuan waved his hand, and ten full, round pills immediately fell into his hand.

Each of these ten pills was the size of a thumb, navy blue in color, with faint dark patterns on them. Their luster was brilliant, and they were as magnificent as works of art.

’Ten pills, all of them Upper Grade.’

Ye Xuan was slightly surprised and pleased. Normally, the maximum yield from a single Spirit Medicine in one furnace was twelve pills. He had only produced ten, and not a single one was of supreme grade.

But his Profound Sense was, after all, only approaching mid-Tier Six. To use mid-Tier Six Profound Sense to refine Tier Six Peak pills, all of them Upper Grade, was already a miracle in the Alchemy Realm.

"Unbelievable. Truly unbelievable."

Just as Ye Xuan was feeling quite pleased, a shocked voice came from the doorway.

"Elder Yao, Elder Dong..." Dongfang Zisi turned her head, immediately saw Elder Yao and Elder Dong at the door, and hurriedly greeted them with a bow.

Her face was filled with astonishment, as she clearly had no idea when the two had arrived.

Ye Xuan was also slightly startled and quickly offered a bow, but his brow furrowed almost immediately.

Refining the Gumo Menglan Pill wasn’t a secret matter, but the fact that Elder Yao and Elder Dong had just walked into his refining room without his knowledge left him feeling quite displeased.

If it weren’t for the fact that Elder Yao and Elder Dong were high-ranking members of the academy and had saved him a few times, he would have already lost his temper with anyone else.

Seeing Ye Xuan’s expression, Elder Yao gave a wry smile. "Xuan Ye, my apologies. We came in rashly without your permission, which was indeed improper. We didn’t intend to spy on your refining; we were just curious about your attainments in Alchemy. After learning you were refining here, we wanted to take a peek. Who knew we would witness such a shocking scene... sigh. Spying on a disciple’s refining... we are truly unworthy of being teachers."

Elder Yao’s face was filled with both shock and guilt as he spoke with sincerity.

If it were an ordinary student, he wouldn’t have said this at all, because as the head of the Alchemy Element, he was fully qualified to guide and supervise at any time.

But after seeing Ye Xuan’s astonishing refining, he immediately realized the impropriety of his actions.

Because many of the refining techniques Ye Xuan had displayed earlier were things that he, the head of the Alchemy Element and a Tier Seven King Level Alchemist, actually didn’t quite understand.

This immediately changed the nature of the situation.

In the Alchemy Realm, any Alchemist’s refining process was extremely sacred and was absolutely not to be spied upon.

In the Martial Artist Realm, this was like secretly learning someone’s Cultivation Technique. Even if he was an instructor of the Alchemy Element, it was still a despicable act that would be spat upon and despised.

Elder Yao had originally just wanted to see what Ye Xuan’s Alchemy attainments were like and offer some pointers. Who knew that by a strange twist of fate, he would end up as a secret learner? If word got out, he, the head of the Alchemy Element, would probably be mortified enough to want to die.