CHAPTER 1437: CHAPTER 1408: REFINING SECOND RANK HEAVENLY PILL

Hujin felt a bit strange.

He was indeed here to find someone for alchemy; for bottom-tier cultivators like them, they had to risk their lives for a bit of cultivation resources.

And risking your life naturally entails danger.

Most of the time, they could only use some common healing medicine and rely on their own True Yuan to heal injuries.

But this time, if his brothers weren’t severely injured, he wouldn’t have come to seek a pill.

For these few alchemy herb sets in his hand, he had endured countless hardships. He wanted to collect another set, but his brothers couldn’t wait that long.

"Friend, may I ask what kind of pill you need to refine?"

Upon hearing the white-faced scholar’s words, Hujin felt a bit impatient. He was still thinking about continuing to beg Master Peng but, seeing Li Chen’s politeness, he had to stop.

"I need a Fundamental Pill! But I only have four sets of herbs, and that Master Peng insists on having five sets of herbs, sigh..." saying this, Hujin couldn’t help but sigh.

"The Fundamental Pill is for healing injuries, right?" Li Chen asked with a smile.

Hujin rolled his eyes; the Fundamental Pill is originally a second-level healing sky pill, if not for healing, what else would it be used for?

Before Hujin could continue speaking, Li Chen smiled and said, "If my friend urgently needs the Fundamental Pill, I am also a Heavenly Pill Alchemist, and perhaps I can help solve your current predicament."

Upon hearing ’Heavenly Pill Alchemist’, Hujin’s eyes couldn’t help but brighten. After carefully observing Li Chen, he suspiciously asked, "Are you really a Heavenly Pill Alchemist?"

Li Chen smiled, casually taking out two First-Level Elixirs.

They were enveloped with a swirling aura, indicating that they were freshly refined. Only freshly refined pills have such a swirling aura.

"First-Level Sky Elixir...Top Grade!!" Hujin’s eyes widened in an instant, and his hands began to tremble.

However, before he could take a closer look, Li Chen quickly put them away. After understanding the struggles of these bottom-tier cultivators, Li Chen understood the need to guard against others. Not that he feared these people targeting him, he simply wanted to avoid unnecessary troubles, especially since his current identity was somewhat sensitive.

"Um...Master Alchemist, I’m sorry, Hujin was quite presumptuous earlier, please forgive me." Hujin clenched his fists.

Being able to refine a top-grade First-Level Sky Pill indicated that the person before him was not just a simple First-Level Sky Alchemist.

And right now, he desperately needed a Fundamental Pill. Since Master Peng was unattainable, why not try someone else?

"You’re being too courteous, my friend." Li Chen smiled and waved his hand.

"May I know your esteemed name, Master Alchemist?" Hujin hurriedly asked.

Li Chen thought for a moment, then said, "I am Lin Chen."

"So you’re Alchemist Lin." Hujin hastily cupped his hands and urgently asked, "Is it true that Alchemist Lin said he would refine the pill for me earlier?"

"Of course, no problem." Li Chen said with a smile, "Four sets of spirit grass, I’ll give you half after the successful alchemy. However, I’ll need some Spirit Crystals as compensation, how about that?"

"Alright, alright, alright!" Without thinking, Hujin immediately handed over the spirit grass he’d painstakingly collected to Li Chen.

In his view, a Pill Master like Li Chen wouldn’t covet his few spirit grasses.

Plus, half after successful alchemy!

Ordinary Pill Masters, no matter how generous, would at most give three or four parts. Master Peng would only offer one or two parts and still charge Spirit Crystals.

Seeing Hujin’s anxious look, Li Chen suddenly realized it seemed there truly are very few Heavenly Pill Alchemists. Or perhaps, compared to the massive number of Martial Artists, pills were really insufficient. Otherwise, just revealing his identity as a Pill Master wouldn’t make Hujin so excited.

Li Chen could see Hujin’s cultivation was even higher than his, at Envy Heaven Realm. Although his practice time likely far exceeded his own, facing someone in the Mid-Heaven Realm like himself cautiously demonstrated the importance of a Pill Master.

When Li Chen entered, he hadn’t concealed his cultivation.

"Let’s go, find a quiet place, and then I’ll refine the pill for you." Li Chen said casually.

"Yes, yes..." Hujin rubbed his hands, "I live in Auspicious Clear Town, not far from here, only a few hundred miles. I wonder if the Master Alchemist could move there..."

"No problem." Li Chen waved his hand, leaving the inn together with Hujin.

...

Master Peng stood on the high platform of the inn, somewhat puzzled. Under normal circumstances, that guy should have caught up quickly, allowing him to extort quite a bit from that Envy Heaven Realm cultivator.

But this time, after waiting so long, the person still hadn’t caught up, leaving him a bit puzzled.

"Could it be that guy doesn’t want to do alchemy anymore? No, that’s not right, I saw him clearly anxious before." Master Peng was somewhat puzzled and couldn’t help but walk to the window.

The station has quite a few people, but generally, they just borrow a place to rest. Those who are willing to spend spirit crystals to stay at the station are actually not many, Master Peng only stays there because he is a pill master.

When he arrived at the window, he just saw the backs of Hujin and Li Chen leaving.

Seeing the two leave, Master Peng couldn’t help but sneer: "Can’t afford spirit crystals and still dare to ask me for alchemy? If you come next time begging to me, it won’t be this price anymore."

Of course, Hujin and Li Chen knew nothing about this.

After leaving the station, they directly boarded a flying spirit artifact and arrived at Auspicious Clear Town, several hundred miles outside Heiya Town.

Auspicious Clear Town seemed even smaller than Heiya Town, similarly, there was no formation presence, the entire town was like a chaotic gathering.

The martial artists living here, the highest cultivation was only at the level of Hujin. And Li Chen secretly compared, with his current cultivation level, even the general Envy Heaven Realm didn’t intimidate him anymore.

After confirming there were no threats, Li Chen boldly stepped into Auspicious Clear Town.

"Alchemist Lin, this is my residence, regarding... the Fundamental Pill..." Hujin’s face showed some anxiety. When returning to Auspicious Clear Town, he had already checked with divine sense, that his two brothers indeed couldn’t hold on anymore.

"Don’t worry, I’ll stay here for now, come to find me at this time tomorrow." Li Chen glanced around before nodding and speaking.

This town was indeed not great, not even a decent defensive formation, although this was Hujin’s residence, since he wanted alchemy here, it was temporarily Li Chen’s territory.

Li Chen also had knowledge of formations, especially after obtaining "Taoist Magic", he got quite a bit of enlightenment, formations had also broken through to Sky Formation Master’s level.

Compared to Alchemy Dao, Li Chen actually found formations simpler.

After all, whether it’s artifact refining or alchemy or even cultivation, all need formations for support, formations are considered foundational.

Throwing down a few defensive array plates he refined bored, Li Chen immediately took out several spirit grasses and began studying them.

Unlike others, although he could already refine special First-Level Sky Elixirs, he hadn’t really refined Second-Level Sky Pills.

Agreeing to Hujin’s request, in fact, Li Chen also wanted to try his hand.

Of course, if Hujin knew of Li Chen’s thoughts, he probably would have thrown a punch immediately.

"This Second-Level Sky Pill is really different from First-Level Sky Elixirs, higher demands and stricter control over medicinal power." Just trying to throw it into the pill furnace before, Li Chen’s brows furrowed.

"But no matter what, failure is not an option, it concerns future income." Breathing out lightly, Li Chen’s brow relaxed gently.

Before in the cave failing so many times, it was actually due to Li Chen conducting experiments.

He tried using various attributes of true fire for alchemy, almost destroying the pill furnace.

Generally, a pill master is either fire attribute or wood attribute, others aren’t nonexistent but are rare, multi-attribute at most three to four breaking attributes, only Li Chen dared to experiment so recklessly with all attributes.

"This time use wood attribute to adjust the herbs, fire attribute for alchemy." Li Chen’s gaze was a bit tense.

Then, after one time of day, with a ’bang’, the medicinal herbs in the pill furnace turned into a pile of black ash.

"Failed?" Li Chen did not immediately start the next furnace, but rubbed his chin pondering.

Though his ring indeed had lots of spirit grass, they were not what Fundamental Pill needed. If all failed, he really didn’t have much spirit crystal left for compensation.

"Where exactly did it go wrong?"

After sitting cross-legged for two time of days, Li Chen stood up again to restart another furnace.

"Fundamental Pill is used to stimulate body potential and repair injuries. I added too much Spirit Cleansing Herb just now, washing away too much medicinal properties, Blood Recovery Mushrooms should be refined longer to dissolve thoroughly..."

Li Chen’s eyes flashed, starting alchemy again.

Soon, Li Chen’s eyes turned red, once starting alchemy, he entered a peculiar demon-crazed state, which was why he set up defensive formation plates.

Li Chen wasn’t afraid of people disturbing him, but rather afraid he’d lose control after being interrupted and chop someone down.

"That’s right, that’s right, it’s like this, absolutely is..." Within Hujin’s house came a bizarre ’grating’ laughter, only blocked by formation didn’t spread out, but those exposed outside had an inexplicable feeling of chill around their bodies.

"Succeeded!"

With a wave, Li Chen collected several pills inside the pill furnace, though still low-grade pills, joy flashed in his eyes.