Fights Break Sphere: The Fire Rekindles

Chapter 63 The Evil Liu Ling

Gu He also shook his head and was not optimistic about Xiao Yan. For example, although his apprentices Liu Ling and Yao Yue had a low success rate, they still had at least a one-third chance, while Xiao Yan had a success rate of at most one-tenth.

The rewards for this competition are very generous, and the three people off the field all have an element of gambling involved. After all, although the chances of success in refining a second-grade elixir are very high, the hope of winning is very slim.

As time passed, Liu Ling and Princess Yaoyue had already refined all the necessary herbs and were about to start fusing them into pills, but Xiao Yan had only refined two-thirds of the herbs.

However, Liu Ling and Yao Yue were not in the mood to pay attention to Xiao Yan for the time being. They each took out a recovery pill from their storage ring and put it in their mouth. After all, it was obviously not enough for them to forcibly refine a third-grade pill with their current fighting spirit reserves.

Liu Ling and Yao Yue have both reached the critical moment of alchemy, which is also the most difficult time. If they are not careful, all the refined medicinal materials will turn into ashes. Both of them are extremely nervous, and beads of sweat have already seeped out of their foreheads.

But they were nervous, and there were people who were more nervous than them, that was Qie Mier and Gu He. Both of them were now focusing on their apprentices, and every subtle movement of their apprentices could move their hearts, and they wished they could step down and refine the art themselves.

The reason they cared so much about the victory or defeat of these juniors was not because of the rewards. These rewards were not very attractive to them, the senior alchemists.

It was said that the three juniors were competing in their alchemy skills, but it was also true that they were competing against each other in secret! This was really a matter of face. Which senior alchemist didn't want his apprentice to shine in the audience?

Both Qi Mier and Gu He have already determined that even if Xiao Yan is not Fa Ma's apprentice, the two of them must have some kind of connection. Otherwise, they wouldn't favor him so much!
Although Yao Ye didn't know how to make pills, she knew the basic knowledge of making pills. She knew that her sister Yao Yue had entered a critical stage, so she secretly encouraged her sister. Because both the Three-Striped Green Spirit Pill and the Purple Heart Breaking Barrier Pill were good medicines that could enhance the strength of the empire, she wanted to get these two pill recipes very much.

Although the Empire also has recipes for elixirs that can improve strength, all elixirs have resistance, and only by taking different elixirs can one quickly improve strength.

Nalan Yanran's eyes were strangely not on Liu Ling, not even a glance, but she kept staring at Xiao Yan. Because the longer she stayed with Xiao Yan, the more she felt that he was like the person in her heart.

Of course, Nalan Yanran's actions did not escape Liu Ling, who had been paying attention to her, so Liu Ling's hatred for Xiao Yan deepened again, and she immediately worked harder to prove herself.

Under the expectant gazes of several people, the medicinal materials in Liu Ling's medicine cauldron gradually merged, and a rough pill gradually took shape.

Seeing the pill gradually taking shape in his apprentice's medicine cauldron, Gu He breathed a sigh of relief, because from his experience he knew that the pill refining was basically successful.

Not long after Liu Ling's pill took shape, the pill in Yaoyue's medicine cauldron also gradually took shape, slowly forming an uneven pill.

Qie Mier on the high platform saw that his apprentice was about to succeed, and he couldn't help but feel extremely happy. Although Yao Yue and Liu Ling were both refining third-grade elixirs, given his relationship with Fa Ma, it was hard to believe that Fa Ma would favor outsiders. As for Xiao Yan, sorry, in Qie Mier's heart, he had already failed.

But when Qimier's eyes turned to Fa Ma, he saw Fa Ma looking at Xiao Yan seriously, and Gu He's eyes were also staring at Xiao Yan. He couldn't help but look in Xiao Yan's direction and found that Xiao Yan had finished refining the herbs and was fusing them.

"Could this kid really master it?" Qi Mier was a little bit unconvinced. He was about to make a joke, but he consciously stayed in his seat and continued to watch.

"Bang!" Liu Ling slapped the medicine cauldron hard, and with a loud noise, a pill flew out of the cauldron. Liu Ling reached out to catch the pill, and put it in the jade bottle prepared in advance, waiting for the three people on the high platform to taste it. However, it was just to collect the pill, there was no need to make such a big noise. It was obvious that Liu Ling did it on purpose, in order to affect the two people beside him, especially Xiao Yan.

But Xiao Yan's attention was completely focused on refining the medicine. He had entered a state of selflessness. Even thunder in the sky would not affect him.

Although Xiao Yan was not affected, the little princess was miserable. She was frightened and her flame control was unstable, and she almost failed. Fortunately, the elixir was basically formed. If it had just been fused, the medicinal materials would have basically turned into ashes.

The little princess took great pains to control the flames. She continued to use the flames to warm the fire for a while before tapping the furnace and taking out the elixir.

After the little princess took out the elixir, she glared at Liu Ling. Although she had always admired Liu Ling before, at this moment, she felt extremely disgusted with Liu Ling.

"Sorry! I was a little excited and couldn't help it, so I used a little more force!" Liu Ling was very disappointed when she saw that she did not affect Xiao Yan but offended the little princess instead.

Qi Mier and Yao Ye on the high platform also had gloomy faces, and their eyes turned unfriendly towards Liu Ling. However, Liu Ling had already apologized, so they couldn't say anything more, so they had to hold back their anger, but their faces were extremely ugly.

Even Nalan Yanran's gaze towards Liu Ling changed from admiration to disgust.

"I guess this poor disciple of mine is refining such a high-level elixir for the first time, so he was a little excited. He couldn't help himself and used a little more force." Gu He explained a little embarrassedly.

After hearing Gu He's explanation, Qi Mier and Yao Ye's faces became a little better, but when they moved their eyes to Fa Ma, they saw that Fa Ma's eyes never left Xiao Yan. Now Xiao Yan was the only one refining, and although they knew that his chances of success were very small, they could only continue to watch.

Fa Ma had been staring at Xiao Yan intently at this moment. Every move of Xiao Yan made him fall into memories. He remembered when he was young. Although he was very stupid, that person still carefully guided him step by step and taught him how to make medicine. Although he only taught him for three days, he still benefited from it for the rest of his life and became the top alchemist of the Jia Ma Empire.

At this time, there were only three kinds of medicinal herbs left in Xiao Yan's medicine cauldron that had not been fused. Everyone present was staring at the three medicinal herbs in Xiao Yan's medicine cauldron; some hoped that Xiao Yan would succeed in refining them, such as the Fa Ma, but more people hoped that he would fail.

Xiao Yan stared at the lump of dirt that had been formed by the fusion of seven medicinal herbs in the medicine cauldron. He used his soul perception to blend the remaining medicinal herb with it, and then tempered it with flames once again.

Xiao Yan stared at the pill that was about to take shape, and felt that the time was about right, so he simply fused the remaining two medicinal ingredients together.

When all the medicinal materials were blended together, a young pill slowly emerged from the medicine cauldron.

Seeing that Xiao Yan was really about to refine it, the people on the platform stood up and looked at Xiao Yan in shock. They did not expect that Xiao Yan could really refine a pill of at least the third grade peak level.

“Even if you succeed, it will only be a third-grade product at best, and it may not be as good as what I refine.” Seeing that Xiao Yan was about to succeed, Liu Ling felt unwilling in her heart, and could only comfort herself.

(End of this chapter)