153: Chapter 153 The Pill is Complete! First Encounter with Zi Yan

"Teacher, what pill is Brother Ting refining?"

Fire Elder and the others didn't know, and neither did Xiao Yan, but he could ask Yao Chen.

"I don't know." Yao Chen's answer surprised Xiao Yan.

"You don't know?"

"Hmm, it really can't be told yet."

"How is that possible? Brother Ting's alchemy was taught by you, he's only refining a tier 4 pill, and the pill formula also came from you. How could you not know?"

"The first half of your sentence is correct, but the pill formula might not necessarily have come only from this old man."

"You mean..." Xiao Yan looked toward Xun'er not far away.

Was the pill Xiao Ting was currently refining a special tier 4 pill formula given by Xun'er?

"This is just this old man's guess, just one possibility." Yao Lao's voice sounded again: "Looking at his technique, it looks like he is going to refine a Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, but he added another heaven and earth spiritual herb, the Qian Teng Spirit Flower. Based on the medicinal properties, it should enhance the medicinal effect, but it creates resistance with one of the other medicinal materials, which instead weakens the effect."

Yao Lao was worthy of being a Grade 8 Alchemist; although he hadn't seen the pill formula, relying on his experience and understanding of heaven and earth spiritual herbs, he guessed the general situation of the pill.

"What is a Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.

"The Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill is a peak tier 4 pill." Yao Lao replied: "It belongs to the type of pill that can directly increase a person's strength. Its effect only works on Great Dou Masters, and it can directly increase cultivation by one star. The most important thing is that it doesn't have much resistance, so taking two of these pills in succession can still produce an effect."

Xiao Yan's eyes lit up: "Then after I reach the Great Dou Master level, if I refine two Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills, I can steadily increase my strength by two stars?"

"That is so." Yao Chen chuckled, watching Xiao Ting refine the medicine with great interest.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed, and the pills inside the medicine cauldron emitted waves of concentrated energy fluctuations.

Xiao Ting used his soul power to manipulate the medicine cauldron, controlling the power of all the medicinal materials to aggregate together in a special way, turning into three clusters.

That's right, Xiao Ting was refining three tier 4 pills at the same time. This was something he only dared to do because of his powerful soul power and the help of the soul-tool medicine cauldron.

Under his control, the Purple Heaven Flame flew into the medicine cauldron, perfectly sealing all the medicinal power of the three pills, not even letting the medicinal fragrance diffuse out.

"It is time!"

Xiao Ting's eyes narrowed, he flipped his wrist to take out a porcelain bottle, poured out three drops of accompanying purple crystal source, and used his soul power to control it as he added it to the medicine cauldron.

Adding new materials when alchemy was nearing its end was something many Alchemists couldn't understand.

But Yao Chen finally understood and sighed inwardly: "Adding accompanying purple crystal source, huh? The Alchemist who created this pill is definitely a genius. The accompanying purple crystal source can neutralize the resistance between two heaven and earth spiritual herbs and also make the energy more abundant."

"This pill is still tier 4, the refining difficulty is about the same as the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, but the effect and scope of application are broader."

"It can be taken during the Dou Master stage, it should be able to increase cultivation by about three stars, but only one can be taken."

"A Great Dou Master taking it will still increase cultivation by one star, but the drug resistance becomes higher, so three can be taken."

Hearing this, Xiao Yan had only one focus: "Teacher, this should be harder to refine than the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, right?"

"Hmm." Yao Lao understood Xiao Yan's meaning and exclaimed in admiration: "His speed of improvement as an Alchemist is the only one I've seen in my life. However, given that he possesses peak Mortal Realm soul power at such an age, it is quite reasonable."

If one's soul reached the Spirit Realm, one could basically achieve photographic memory. Simply put, for the current Xiao Ting, learning knowledge related to Ninth Grade Pills was also very simple.

But knowledge is just knowledge; practical operation still requires practice, and high-tier pills require pill formulas.

The higher the tier of the heaven and earth spiritual herb, the greater the difficulty of refining it, and the methods are different too.

The techniques for fusing different heaven and earth spiritual herbs after refining, the timing of additions, etc.

Therefore, it is normal for Xiao Ting's soul realm to be high and for his early growth to be fast. Later on... he will definitely be faster than most Alchemists. Talent monsters are just that unreasonable.

"Done!"

Xiao Ting waved his hand, and three pills flew out of the medicine cauldron.

The Purple Heaven Flame disappeared, and the rich medicinal fragrance accompanied by energy fluctuations instantly spread out.

"This is the energy fluctuation of a top-tier tier 4 pill!" Fire Elder fiercely pulled out a handful of his own beard, his lips trembling as he said in disbelief: "He looks more like a Fifth-Rank Alchemist than I do!"

An uncommon top-tier tier 4 pill meant that there were very few opportunities to practice it.

Basically, it was only when senior Tier 4 Alchemists were familiar with the refining of most tier 4 pills and their techniques were already very proficient and could be applied by analogy that they would attempt to refine it.

Many high-level, rare, and uncommon tier 4 pills would only be attempted by Fifth-Rank Alchemists or Sixth-Rank Alchemists.

Xiao Ting's technique, this pill quality, and most importantly, refining three pills at the same time, even with the help of the medicine cauldron, was very exaggerated.

At the very least, if it were him, even refining two of the most common low-tier tier 4 pills at the same time would be a bit difficult.

"Collect!"

Xiao Ting waved his hand, and a burst of Dou Qi flew out, intending to collect the three pills.

But just at this moment, a purple light flashed in mid-air, appearing in front of the three pills.

It was a young girl with purple hair, wearing a white long dress, with Dou Qi wings on her back, who reached out to grab one of the pills.

"Don't even think about it."

Flames surged around Xiao Ting's body, and his body shot into mid-air like a fiery meteor.

The three pills all flew toward him wrapped in Dou Qi, but one of them was wrapped by the Dou Qi released from within the white-dressed girl, and its flight speed was not fast.

"Snatching my pills, then I won't be polite."

Xiao Ting raised his hand and struck out with a palm, his internal Dou Qi surging out, turning into a fiery palm several zhang large that flew toward the white-dressed girl.

At the same time, he reached out to grab the pill that had already flown in front of him, his mind moved, and he stored it in his storage ring.

"Who's afraid of who!"

Feeling a heatwave approaching, the white-dressed girl was not afraid; instead of retreating, she advanced and threw a simple and unadorned punch.

The terrifying power turned into a strong fist wind, rushing straight toward the giant flame palm, and the two collided instantly.

"Boom!"

The flame palm and the fist wind collided, and immediately exploded.

The shockwave spread for several dozen zhang, also blowing the last pill high into the air.

"Bang!"

Xiao Ting and the white-dressed girl were both extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they arrived high in the air, both reaching out to grab the pill.

"Take this." The white-dressed girl gathered her strength into a punch, directly slamming it toward Xiao Ting's chest.

This was a punch from a Tier 5 royal Void Ancient Dragon. Although its power was reduced in human form, even an ordinary Dou Huang would be injured if they received it.

"Zi Yan, this girl, she's being reckless and unruly again." Su Qian sighed inwardly, raising his hand, preparing to use space power to clean up the mess.

But the next moment, his eyes narrowed.

"Good methods. Has Xiao Ting's control over his soul already reached this level?"