Chapter 817 The Grandmaster’s Aura
Inside Yin’an Market.
A faint smile played on Ye Xuanyue’s face.
After she spoke those words, “I am the Alchemy Grandmaster,” the middle-aged man opposite her seemed frozen in place. His eyes widened, and he remained completely still for several seconds before letting out a laugh.
“Could you please stop joking around?
You are the Alchemy Grandmaster?
If you are the Alchemy Grandmaster… then I…”
Ye Xuanyue remained perfectly calm. She snapped her fingers, and from her fingertips emerged a pale pink flame she had been nurturing.
Little White had been right.
This flame did not affect her at all.
But the middle-aged man opposite her felt the wave of intense heat rush toward him.
He stared blankly at the girl, at the ever-changing Earth Flame dancing at her fingertips. In the next moment, an Alchemy Furnace appeared in Ye Xuanyue’s other hand. Her voice was calm.
“I really am the Alchemy Grandmaster. Why would I lie about that?”
The middle-aged man opposite her stared dumbfounded at the girl before him.
He felt as if he were dreaming.
Really…
Could she truly be a real Alchemy Grandmaster?
How old was this girl?
Pill Alchemy was no less difficult than cultivation. Mastering its essence required countless hours of effort and dedication. A young girl like her—how could she possibly achieve it?
He was still somewhat skeptical. But looking at the girl’s confident face, for some reason, he began to believe a little.
He took a deep breath, then pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, speaking softly.
“In that case…
Take a look at this.”
Ye Xuanyue’s expression remained calm. She reached out and took the paper. After glancing at it twice, her expression changed subtly.
She lowered her head and studied it for a while.
Then she spoke.
“Stone Desolate Pill?”
Ye Xuanyue remembered this kind of elixir.
It was recorded in the Pharmacist Association’s archives. The main use of this pill was to neutralize hidden injuries within one’s bloodline. For certain specific bloodlines, this pill was extremely valuable.
But… Ye Xuanyue looked up and spoke.
“Where did you get this pill recipe?”
The man opposite her was slightly taken aback.
He glanced at Ye Xuanyue, seeming hesitant. But after thinking for a moment, he answered quite frankly.
“I posted a request for it here. Why?”
Ye Xuanyue pressed her lips together.
She looked at it once more, then spoke in a firm tone.
“This pill recipe has some minor issues.
The amount of Ground Tamer Grass is wrong. It says three qian here, but the correct amount should only be one qian. Three qian would put strain on the spiritual vein.
Also, the combination here is off. Spirit Water should not be added first.
If you add Spirit Water first, the subsequent energy will be insufficient.
With this combination, even if you successfully refine the Stone Desolate Pill, its efficacy would only reach sixty or seventy percent at most. It would waste the materials.”
Ye Xuanyue spoke very bluntly.
She had seen many pill recipes during her time at the Pharmacist Association. For a recipe of this level, she could still spot the flaws.
The man looked somewhat stunned, gazing at her with uncertainty, clearly trying to judge whether her words were true or false. Ye Xuanyue simply waved her hand lightly and said,
“Have you gathered all the medicinal herbs?
If you don’t believe me, I can refine it right now to show you.”
The man was momentarily speechless.
Refine it now?
Shouldn’t an alchemist find a secret chamber, gather their focus completely, enter a state of quiet meditation retreat for several days, and only then refine a batch of pills?
And that process could not have the slightest disturbance.
Even the smallest disruption would ruin the entire batch.
And this girl was saying she would refine it now?
He felt the shocks he was receiving were simply too much.
Ye Xuanyue seemed to sense his doubt. She said in an offhand manner,
“Difficult pills… of course one needs to be careful and meticulous.
But the Stone Desolate Pill isn’t difficult.”
The man opposite her had no response.
He silently began taking out the materials one by one from his spatial ring. He had clearly put in effort to collect them; different materials were stored in separate boxes.
Ye Xuanyue glanced at the materials and said quietly,
“Stand further away.”
He nervously took several steps back, yet could not help but widen his eyes, eager to see just how miraculously this girl would perform pill alchemy.
Ye Xuanyue, however, frowned slightly.
In truth, this was her first attempt at using the pink Earth Flame she had absorbed. Previously, when refining pills, she had worked with Little Phoenix. Little Phoenix’s flame was very unique, and its control was exceptionally good.
Refining pills had felt smooth and natural then.
Under the current circumstances, Ye Xuanyue naturally did not plan to summon Little Phoenix.
So she had to do it herself. She took a deep breath.
Then, with one hand, she lightly tossed the furnace cauldron upward. In the next second, a pink flame bloomed at her fingertips and immediately enveloped the pill furnace.
Her spiritual power continuously controlled the furnace, keeping it levitating in the air.
Ye Xuanyue controlled the flame with one hand, while the other hand danced through the air, constantly forming and casting seal formulae.
They engraved themselves onto the surface of the pill furnace.
When the time was right, her gaze did not even linger on the medicinal herbs. The hand forming the seal formulae moved slightly. The lid of the pill furnace flew open, and the herbs rose from their boxes one by one, pouring into the furnace.
Leng Moran was witnessing Ye Xuanyue refine pills in this manner for the first time. He found it quite novel.
The girl’s hand techniques before him were dazzling, showing even greater progress than he had imagined.
She had not been learning pill alchemy for very long, yet her improvement was rapid.
This method of dividing one’s focus and performing two tasks at once consumed spiritual power immensely. A faint sweat beaded on the girl’s forehead, but her eyes held a serious determination.
She seemed to have entered a state of selflessness, completely absorbed.
The middle-aged man nearby was so shocked he did not dare even breathe loudly.
Just from the girl’s bearing, she did not look like an amateur at all.
He had taken a risk letting her refine the pill. In his heart, he had been deeply worried at first, afraid the materials he had painstakingly collected would go to waste. It was only because he truly could not find an alchemist that he had taken the chance.
He never expected that this young girl before him could actually give him such a huge surprise!
He did not dare blink.
He did not know the origin of that pink flame. It looked incredibly beautiful, but its power was even more astonishing than he anticipated. The whole flame flickered, illuminating the cyan furnace cauldron.
Together with the girl’s profile, as lovely as a painting, it created an indescribable beauty.
He took a deep breath and nervously clasped his hands together.
Success or failure… rested on this single effort!