Chapter 292: Little White's Boss!

g Road in the city center," said Zhao Hongyu.Hao Ren then recalled that Elder Sun not only had numerous businesses such as hotels, resorts, cruise ships, etc., but also owned a large martial arts gym....Chapter 292: Little White's Boss!

No one had expected Zhen Tongsan to suddenly appear! Xie Yujia, who was fully focused on alchemy, was suddenly shaken. Hao Ren saw that things were going wrong and hurriedly stepped forward to grab Xie Yujia, pouring several streams of pure spirit energy into her palm. All of Xie Yujia's power was concentrated on controlling the life-and-death talisman; if she wasn't careful, she would go mad! However, unexpectedly, Xie Yujia’s five-element life-and-death talisman and Hao Ren's Split Light Sword Shadow Technique were fundamentally incompatible. As soon as Hao Ren touched Xie Yujia, he was pushed back three meters by the intense residual force of the talisman! The alchemy room wasn't big to begin with; when Hao Ren suddenly flew out, he crashed into the obsidian rock wall, seeing stars. This was because most of the power from the life-and-death talisman was controlling the alchemy furnace; otherwise, Hao Ren would have likely lost an arm! But it was precisely due to Hao Ren’s pure spirit energy that Xie Yujia recovered and immediately focused on controlling the alchemy process. She only glanced back at Hao Ren with a hint of regret in her eyes.

Good throw! Zhao Yanzi secretly thought. Snorting, he then said, "Only dare to touch her after I threw you!" "Zhen Tongsan, may I borrow this alchemy room for a moment" Zhao Guang bowed slightly towards Zhen Tongsan. "A mere second-stage Cultivator attempting dangerous alchemy here" Zhen Tongsan scanned the front of the furnace where Xie Yujia stood and asked. Although his cultivation wasn’t deep, his eyes were sharp; he instantly saw that Xie Yujia only had second-stage Cultivator level cultivation and was not a dragon clan member. However, when he saw that Xie Yujia's golden and silver talismans were manipulating the five elements within the furnace through its barriers, Zhen Tongsan’s expression immediately became serious. "What kind of pill are you making" asked Zhen Tongsan. "Stabilizing Countenance Pill," replied Zhao Guang. Although Zhen Tongsan always spoke with arrogance, Zhao Guang really didn't want to offend him.

Not only because he had once saved Zhao Ran's life but also because in their hundred-year interactions, everyone in the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace knew that this Zhen Tongsan was truly petty and would definitely seek revenge for any insult! Whoever provoked him would suffer! "Oh, a second-grade pill," said Zhen Tongsan with his expression softening. From Xie Yujia's posture, he had thought she was making some high-level medicinal pills. However, the alchemy technique really was ingenious; as long as the ingredients were complete and he was willing to help, it wouldn't be a problem to directly refine dozens of them. The newly arrived Zhen Tongsan quietly stood in the alchemy room, immediately restoring calm to the entire space—only the sound of flames could be heard.

The little white beast kept spitting flames, while Zhen Tongzi’s eyes roamed over Xie Yujia before fixating on Little White, his fellow creature. Both were beasts but whereas Little White lacked a spirit, Zhen Tongzi had one. The process of achieving such spiritual awakening could take anywhere between five hundred and a thousand years, which made the snow lion incredibly interesting to him. As the potion reached its final stages, Xie Yujia gritted her teeth as she was clearly in the last phase of exhaustion.“Just one more step, just one more step,” Zhen Tongzi called out. The face-fixing pill was a second-grade potion and among those that were easiest to make; all it required was achieving balance amongst the five elements, allowing the secondary ingredients to be fully utilized before activating the main ingredient’s effects, and success would follow. However, fifth or sixth-grade potions had different attributes, with some leaning towards metal and others wood. The proportions of each elemental ingredient also mattered greatly, making them far more difficult. Though Zhen Tongzi was not involved in the initial potion-making process, he could tell from the smell coming off the cauldron that it would need to be simmered for a bit longer.Xie Yujia gritted her teeth as she pushed through exhaustion while Su Han and Hao Ren were on edge for her. Su Han was nervous because he did not want the face-fixing pill to fail; Hao Ren, however, was concerned about Xie Yujia’s health. Zhen Tongzi sniffed hard before suddenly saying, “Something is wrong; a key ingredient is missing,” as everyone focused intently on the cauldron.Zhen Tongzi thought for seconds and said, "Ah yes, we are still missing獨角蓮." He opened his sleeve and took out a black cane-like stick. Then he walked towards Xie Yujia who was struggling with the potion-making. “Zhen Tongzi, do not meddle!” Zhao Guang called out to stop him. Su Han wanted to intercept him but was stopped by Star Moon Elder.With one hand, Zhen Tongzi pushed up the cauldron’s lid and dispersed the scattered life-and-death talismans. Xie Yujia, whose mind was linked with them, spat blood! However, Zhen Tongzi ignored this and saw a beam of light shoot out from the cauldron before tossing in an item. He suppressed it before throwing in a獨角蓮.“Sadly, sadly. Temporarily opening the furnace has caused half the medicinal effects to be lost,” Zhen Tongzi shook his head as he sighed. Upon hearing this, Su Han almost spat blood after all that he had hoped for from the face-fixing pill. "Yujia!" Hao Ren hurriedly went over to support Xie Yujia but was repelled by a few scattered life-and-death talismans."I’m fine," Xie Yujia said as she stood up, her complexion pale. "This brat is too unreasonable!" Hao Ren clenched his fist and wanted to charge at Zhen Tongzi despite his noble status; he could not let this unfairness go! However, before Hao Ren even took a step forward, Xie Yujia grabbed his sleeve. “He’s doing it for me. He knows I can’t take any more and is taking over.”

Upon hearing this, Hao Ren was stunned for a moment and then suddenly stared at Xie Yujia. "Knowing that you can't do it, yet still insist" Xie Yujia lowered her head slightly and softly said, "I don’t want Su Han to be disappointed." Hao Ren felt both angry and helpless; if not for Zhen Tongzi's intervention, the outcome of Xie Yujia’s alchemy might have been more severe than just vomiting blood! Although she looked frail, she was so tenacious. Before the cauldron, Zhen Tongzi waved his sleeves and sat down in a cross-legged position, indeed taking over Xie Yujia's spot. He reached out to stroke Bái’s neck beside him, saying, "Increase the fire! Increase the fire! I’ll feed you a Golden Pill later!" It seemed that Bái could understand Zhen Tongzi's words as it flicked its tongue and immediately spewed even stronger flames.

After reciting his incantation, the alchemy cauldron started to rotate slowly. His method was different from Xie Yujia’s; if she used a stir-frying approach, he used steaming. Stir-frying relies on technique while steaming focuses on timing. "Low heat," Zhen Tongzi called out again to Bái. After taking a breath, Bái reduced the Three Realms True Fire gradually. The alchemy process was also testing for it. As time passed, the aroma emanating from the cauldron became increasingly fragrant. Xing Yue Elder placed his hand on Xie Yujia’s shoulder and silently helped her regulate her breathing, eventually making her feel better about the surging blood in her body. "It's taking so long," Zhao Yanzi complained out of boredom. Zhen Tongzi’s alchemy method was clearly less visually appealing than Xie Yujia’s; it seemed like waiting for a baked sweet potato to cook, extremely boring.

"Alchemy can be fast" Little Zhen Tongzi turned around and glared fiercely at Zhao Yanzi. "What are you glaring at," mumbled Zhao Yanzi, hiding beside Hao Ren. She knew that she couldn’t provoke this Zhen Tongzi. She just hadn't expected his hearing to be so sharp. After another whole hour of waiting, Zhao Yanzi’s legs were aching from standing still, and Bái showed signs of weakening too. Finally, Zhen Tongzi said leisurely, "Open the cauldron!" He lifted his right hand, and the lid of the alchemy cauldron rose accordingly. A strong fragrance instantly filled the entire alchemy room. From his sleeve, Zhen Tongzi took out a jade bottle, tossed it onto the cauldron where it hovered above and sucked up the pills one by one.

One, two, three, four! Su Han counted them carefully; when she reached four, she suddenly felt excited. According to her expectation, these ingredients could only produce three Face-Fixing Pills at most, even less with a novice like Xie Yujia presiding over the process. Plus, there was Zhen Tongzi’s interruption which caused significant loss of spiritual energy upon opening the cauldron midway; one successful pill would have been good enough. But she never expected to get… exactly four pills! One more than her initial perfect estimate! Zhen Tongzi waved his hand, and the jade bottle returned to him. He shook it slightly, hearing the crisp sound of rotating spiritual pills inside before winking mischievously at Xie Yujia.

Xie Yujia reached out to catch it, somewhat bewildered and unsure of what to do. "I just helped you a bit since I saw how hard you were working at it for nearly a day and night." Zhen Tongzi smiled proudly in reply. "Actually, we hadn’t even been alchemizing for half an hour before you arrived; that’s about fifty minutes!" Zhao Yanzi interjected. "Half... fifty minutes" The proud look on Zhen Tongzi's face immediately froze. Even if he, Zhen Tongzi, were to personally refine this Grade 2 pill himself, it would still require at least a day and night of constant monitoring. Yet here was an Alchemy Foundation cultivator who had managed to complete most of the process in just half an hour This... this must be some kind of insane alchemizing technique! While Zhen Tongzi maintained his expression of astonishment, Little White lazily got up and approached him.

He hung out his red tongue. Clearly, he was coming to claim a reward. "Here it is, here it is!" Zhen Tongzi pulled out a small gray bottle from the sleeve of his robe and poured out more than ten pills that he threw in front of Little White. Little White happily rolled up his tongue and swallowed all the pills whole. Little White was the typical type to forget righteousness when offered food. Having received far more than he expected, he immediately became much friendlier toward Zhen Tongzi.

But for Zhen Tongzi himself, these low-grade pills were stored in his "large warehouse"芥子空間space, at least dozens of bottles of them. If he wished to do so, he could spend three days and nights refining enough to produce hundreds of pills straight away! To him, the term “spiritual pill” was as cheap as beans.

What really interested Zhen Tongzi right now, however, was how this Alchemy Foundation cultivator had managed to compress a process that normally took a day and night into just fifty minutes! This was essentially an alchemizing method on par with the creation of pills. "Hey! Teach me your alchemical techniques!" Ignoring Little White hanging onto him, Zhen Tongzi walked up to Xie Yujia.ty and would definitely seek revenge for any insult! Whoever provoked him would suffer! "Oh, a second-grade pill," said Zhen Tongsan with his expression softening. From Xie Yujia's posture, he had tho...