Chapter 710

Zi Chen's life was monotonous and repetitive. Qin Xing and Qin He, on the other hand, were busy refining medicinal pellets.

It was not quite accurate to say that they were busy. It was more accurate to say that the two of them had been scolded for not doing anything proper for the past few days.

"What are you holding?" Cauldron Spirit glared at the two of them.

"Liquefied Yuan Essence and ancient beast blood essence. These are for refining Blood Origin Pellets."

Qin Xing held a gourd of liquefied Yuan Essence in his hand while Qin He held several large jars in front of him. These were for refining Blood Origin Pellets in large quantities.

"What Blood Origin Pellets? Why have I never heard of them?" Cauldron Spirit questioned. It seemed that the two of them had infuriated him greatly over the past few days.

"It's a medicinal pellet that has the same effect as mid-grade Yuan Essence. However, when refined using this method, the ratio is as high as one to ten. That's ten times the profit," Qin He explained in a low voice.

If it were a few days ago, he would have proudly explained himself. However, after being lectured by the old man for two days, the two of them no longer had the confidence to do so.

Sure enough, the two of them were about to be lectured again. "What? A Blood Origin Pellet that has the same effect as mid-grade Yuan Essence? That pellet of rejuvenation is called Blood Origin Pellet? What kind of lousy name is that? Furthermore, it only produced ten times the profit after adding in the blood of ancient beasts and mid-grade Yuan Essence? Which prodigal son came up with this refining method?"

After two days of training, the two of them had learned how to adapt to any situation — silence.

Seeing that the two of them had lowered their heads in silence, Cauldron Spirit felt bored after a few sentences and said, "So many things to refine but so few. What a waste. Go and get a few more Spirit Rejuvenation Grasses. The older, the better. Also, get a few more thousand-year-old Serpent Fruits and some low-grade Yuan Essence."

Cauldron Spirit then listed a few medicinal ingredients. They were all relatively common thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. Of the other items, only the low-grade Yuan Essence was the most precious.

The two brothers memorized the items one by one. Soon after, Qin He left to search for those items. After thirty years, the treasury was stocked with medicinal ingredients. Cauldron Spirit had almost everything he wanted. Even if the treasury did not have them, they could be bought in the marketplace.

In less than an hour, Qin He had found all of these items and returned.

"Throw them in and test them first," Cauldron Spirit waved his hand and said casually.

"You're just going to throw them in like that? Don't you need to melt them one by one?" Qin Xing was startled. Clearly, he was very knowledgeable about alchemy and knew some of the details of alchemy.

"I don't need you to teach me that. Just throw them all in," Cauldron Spirit replied.

Qin Xing glanced at the items in his hand. There were more than two hundred drops of mid-grade essence liquid, which was the most valuable of them all, worth several million high-grade essence stones. As for the rest, they were relatively cheap, with only the low-grade essence liquid being slightly more expensive. If this cauldron was ruined, the loss would be around six to seven million, which was still within the acceptable range.

After that, Qin Xing and Qin He flew up and began to throw all kinds of medicinal ingredients into the huge pill cauldron.

"Just throw in a hundred drops of mid-grade essence liquid. Throw in all the low-grade essence liquid."

Cauldron Spirit said in a rather dissatisfied manner, "In the past, when refining pellets, all the medicinal ingredients added together could fill up at least half a cauldron. But now, they can't even cover the bottom of the cauldron."

The duo chose to ignore Cauldron Spirit's complaints. As one medicinal ingredient after another was thrown in, the surface of the pill cauldron began to glow. Qin Xing lowered his head and looked down. He discovered that one formation after another lit up within the deep cauldron. Numerous medicinal ingredients were thrown into the numerous formations.

"Are we going to use formations to melt the ingredients? But there are so many ingredients and they all have different melting points. How are we going to control the heat?" Qin Xing was rather dumbfounded.

"Hurry up and come down to draw out the earth fire. There are only two months left. We need to hurry," Cauldron Spirit said when he saw that the duo's heads were about to drill into the pill cauldron.

Following Cauldron Spirit's instructions, the duo came down and began drawing out the earth fire.

As the hand seals were activated, the underground formation opened up. Moments later, the earth fire gushed out from the ground like a fountain.

"Senior, to what extent should we maintain the fire?" Qin Xing asked.

"Time is of the essence. The fire must be as big as possible," Cauldron Spirit said indifferently.

At this moment, he had entered a state of refining medicine. He stood outside the pill cauldron and began to form hand seals. Then, one hand seal after another landed on the pill cauldron.

As the earth fire continued to gush out, the medicinal ingredients and the blood of the ancient beasts in the pill cauldron began to melt. Every ingredient had reached the melting point.

Sun Jian stood to the side and watched silently. There was nothing he could do to help at the moment.

The earth fire was maintained to the maximum extent that the duo could control for two full days. After two days, a sweet fragrance wafted out from the pill cauldron. Rich spiritual energy gushed out from the cauldron cover. This was the sign that the pills were about to be completed.

The duo was dumbfounded by the speed of the refinement.

"Alright, withdraw the fire."

After two full days, Cauldron Spirit spoke again. This was the first time he had spoken during the two days of refining medicine.

The blue flames retracted into the ground. Although the flames were gone, the sweet fragrance wafted out from the mouth of the pill cauldron became even more intense. This exotic fragrance lasted for four hours. After four hours, the entire mountain peak was filled with the intense fragrance of medicinal pellets.

"The pills are done. Prepare to withdraw the pills."

While Cauldron Spirit was speaking, the lid of the pill cauldron opened. Numerous medicinal pellets poured down from the sky.

Faced with such a situation, the duo should have flown up, wrapped the medicinal pellets with their energy, and released them separately.

However, the two of them were completely dumbfounded. Before they could even react, the numerous medicinal pills had smashed into their bodies. The round and smooth Blood Essence Pills smashed into their bodies before falling to the ground, bouncing and rolling into the distance.

"Are you dumb? Hurry up and withdraw the pellets," Cauldron Spirit shouted when he saw the fruits of his labor being wasted.

It was only then that the two brothers came to their senses. They looked at each other and saw the astonishment in each other's eyes. There were more than three thousand medicinal pellets.

What kind of concept was this? One to thirty?

Previously, the Qin Family claimed that their refining skills had reached the pinnacle. But compared to Cauldron Spirit, the difference was like heaven and earth.

After counting the pellets, the duo was once again astonished. One hundred drops of mid-grade elemental liquid had produced a total of four thousand four hundred and forty-nine Blood Origin Pellets. Qin Xing had swallowed one of the pellets to test its efficacy.

The profit was as high as one to forty-five. But the efficacy of the pellets was indeed better than the Qin Family's.

Be it quality, quantity, or time, Cauldron Spirit's pellets were far superior to the Qin Family's.

Seeing the astonishment on the duo's faces, Cauldron Spirit proudly said, "This is nothing. It is merely a perfect combination of the effects of the blood of the primordial beasts and the elemental liquid. At most, this can be considered a trick, not a skill."

"This can't be considered a skill?" The duo was stupefied. They did not realize that Cauldron Spirit was just showing off.

"Alright, what other medicinal pellets do you want to make? Let me have a look at them first. After that, we can start mass producing," said Cauldron Spirit.

This time, the duo was much more proactive. Evidently, they had learned the newest medicinal pellet formula for the Blood Origin Pellet.

Soon after, they tested the remaining medicinal pellets. Cauldron Spirit also made improvements to all the medicinal pellets. Among them, the improvements to the pellets were the most significant. Furthermore, Cauldron Spirit proposed many spiritual medicines. The duo was very busy.

Some of the spiritual medicines that the duo were unable to obtain from the upper echelons of the treasury due to their insufficient grade had alarmed Zi Chen.

Zi Chen did not inquire about the duo's progress as their excited expressions had already told him everything.

After that, Zi Chen gave the duo special privileges to take whatever they wanted. At the same time, he also told them to bring Cauldron Spirit to the treasury when they had the time and see if those items could be used to refine other medicinal pellets.

Ten days later, the patriarch of the Liu Family came to visit.

Zi Chen received him in the main hall.

"Pavilion Master Zi Chen, these are the medicinal pellets that my Liu Family has been refining over the years. They might be of use in the trade fair. I have brought them all here especially for you, Pavilion Master Zi Chen," the patriarch of the Liu Family went straight to the point after entering the main hall and took out many items.

These were the medicinal pellets that he had saved up after serving the Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion for the past thirty years.

Among them, there were ten premium quality pellet weapons, three premium quality defensive leather armors, and one supreme quality pellet weapon. If these items were put up for auction, they would definitely fetch a sky-high price.

"These are the things that your Liu Clan deserves. You should stay at the trade fair to exchange for the things that the Liu Clan needs," Zi Chen said.

The Liu Family's refining skills were superb and their success rate was also very high. The fact that the Liu Family had only used the remaining materials to refine these fourteen items over the past thirty years proved that the Liu Family was pretty decent.

"Pavilion Master Zi Chen, this is a small token of appreciation from my Liu Family. I hope that Pavilion Master will accept it. Besides, these items were refined using the materials of the Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion. If Pavilion Master doesn't mind, you may as well pay us a processing fee," said the patriarch of the Liu Family.

Zi Chen pondered for a moment and said, "The Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion must develop and so must the Liu Family. I hope that the Liu Family will become the strongest and most solid backing for the Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion in the future."

"Of course, of course. If Pavilion Master is willing, my Liu Family can immediately move to this area and serve the Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion," the patriarch of the Liu Family immediately expressed his stance.

Zi Chen waved his hand and said, "That won't be necessary. We are cooperating on an equal footing and will not interfere with the Liu Family's business. However, I hope that the Liu Family can complete the items we need on time."

As soon as Zi Chen finished speaking, the patriarch of the Liu Family patted his chest and promised that there would be no problem.

"The time for this trade fair is a little tight. Moreover, the Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion will enter the Ancient Beast World on a large scale after the trade fair. We do need elixir weapons. I will accept these items, but I will exchange them with materials of the same value. You can follow Hei Feng to get the materials later."

Seeing that the patriarch of the Liu Family was about to reject him, Zi Chen said, "I said that the Heavenly Barbarian Pavilion must develop and so must the Liu Family. Therefore, we cannot let the Liu Family suffer losses."

"Hei Feng, bring the Liu Family to get the materials."

Hei Feng acknowledged. The patriarch of the Liu Family stood up and thanked him again.

Just as the patriarch of the Liu Family was about to walk out of the hall, Zi Chen suddenly said, "I almost forgot. I have an incomplete piece here. I wonder if it will help the Liu Family to refine weapons."

As he spoke, a golden light spot shot out from between Zi Chen's eyebrows. This was one of the forging techniques that Zi Chen had inherited. At this moment, he had imprinted it with his spiritual sense and passed it to the patriarch of the Liu Family.

It was just a forging technique. There was nothing practical in it.

The light spot entered between the Liu Family's eyebrows. The patriarch's body shook. When he opened his eyes again, they were filled with excitement and shock. It was obvious that this item was extraordinary.