Fights Break Sphere: The Fire Rekindles

Chapter 77: Heart-to-heart talk between master and apprentice
"Is this your real purpose for coming to the imperial capital?" Yao Lao stared at the Seven Illusions Green Spirit Saliva and said after a long silence.

"Uh..." Xiao Yan was a little embarrassed to answer.

"Forget it, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it! I already know your feelings. I never thought that you would come to this dangerous imperial capital alone for me." Yao Lao said with a complicated expression.

"It's nothing. If it weren't for the teacher, I wouldn't have achieved what I have now." Xiao Yan scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"Haha, I didn't teach you anything. It seems that I have only taught you one high-level Xuan-grade fighting skill and one low-level Xuan-grade fighting skill so far. The rest are all obtained through your own efforts." Yao Lao said with a smile. He now felt that he owed Xiao Yan something.

"What are you talking about, teacher? Even the smallest bit of kindness should be repaid with a spring of gratitude. What you have done for me is far less than what you said. The fact that you led me to the path of becoming an alchemist is enough for me to remember for the rest of my life. You also gave me the Burning Art that can evolve, and allowed me to learn a lot of things. I will never forget your kindness, teacher." Xiao Yan said gratefully.

"Actually, my original purpose of accepting you as my disciple was to have you help me resurrect. My purpose was not pure." After a long silence, Yao Lao said seriously.

"I know!" Xiao Yan said with a smile.

"You know?" Yao Lao looked at Xiao Yan in surprise.

At this moment, Yao Lao was really confused. Knowing that he came with a purpose, why was he still so nice to him?
"So what if the purpose is not pure? Even the closest people will have conflicts of interest. If two people only talk about feelings and not interests, then this relationship is doomed to not last long. Teacher wants me to help you resurrect, and I want the teacher to help me become stronger. There is no conflict between the interests of both parties. Helping each other is beneficial to both parties, so I can be assured to be good to the teacher, and the teacher can also be assured to teach me, right?" Xiao Yan said with a smile.

"You! You don't look like a young man at all! You are clearly a monster who has experienced many vicissitudes of life and is shrewd and scheming!" After hearing what Xiao Yan said, Yao Lao felt both amused and helpless.

"Isn't what I said the truth? Besides, once a teacher, he is a father for life. Isn't it my duty to repay my teacher?" Xiao Yan said with a smile.

"You talk so nicely, don't you just want some benefits?" Yao Lao rolled his eyes and said disdainfully.

"I was discovered by the teacher!" Xiao Yan smiled embarrassedly.

"You already have a lot of attacking skills. Giving you more attacking skills won't increase your strength much. Instead, it will distract you. The only thing you lack now is a body-moving skill." Yao Lao said slowly.

"That's true. My attack and defense are very powerful now, but my speed is too slow. Once others use body movement-related fighting skills, I will be at a disadvantage." Xiao Yan was a little excited because he knew that Yao Lao would definitely give him body movement-related fighting skills.

"Look at your lack of ability. You're so excited about a physical fighting skill!" Yao Lao looked at Xiao Yan with contempt.

"Isn't it because I have suffered a lot from not having a physical fighting skill?" Xiao Yan said helplessly. When he competed with Nalan Yanran, he suffered a lot because of her flying catkins physical skill.

"Then you should finish refining the pill quickly and leave here. How can I teach you here?" Yao Lao urged.

"Okay! Let's light the fire and make the pill right away!" Xiao Yan agreed immediately, and then happily went to make the pill.

Xiao Yan took out all the medicinal materials needed to make the longevity pill, a total of thirty ingredients.

“Refine sixteen pills, ten of which will be distributed to the three major families and the royal family, and the other six will be given to Fa Ma. After all, he has helped a lot.” Xiao Yan collected the remaining fourteen medicinal materials and began to refine them.

"Teacher, help me keep watch. I want to use strange fire to refine it, so it will be faster." Xiao Yan said to Yao Lao. "Don't worry! This place is very hidden. Even if you use your soul perception from outside, you can't detect it. Now Fa Ma is concentrating on studying the experience of refining medicine I gave him. I guess he has no time to deal with you. Even if he comes, I can find him in advance." Yao Lao smiled and said to Xiao Yan.

Hearing what Yao Lao said, Xiao Yan immediately felt relieved. He walked to the stone platform in the middle, took down the medicine cauldron on it, and replaced it with the one he usually used.

Xiao Yan was afraid that he would be discovered if he used the strange fire in the magic mammoth medicine cauldron. Although the relationship between the two was very good now, he still had to be careful. After all, this was a strange fire, something that made all alchemists crazy.

He stretched out his right hand, and a ball of black and white flame suddenly appeared in his palm. Xiao Yan did not use white flame to refine the medicine, because using white flame would increase the efficacy of the medicine, and if it was discovered that it was different from the previous one, it would be troublesome again.

Xiao Yan placed the flame into the medicine cauldron, and then controlled the flame temperature to a suitable range. He then took out several medicinal herbs from the stone table, threw them in, and began to refine them.

This time, with the help of the strange fire, Xiao Yan's speed was several times faster. In just over half an hour, he had extracted all the necessary herbs and then began to condense the pill.

Xiao Yan looked at the prototype of the elixir inside, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he said: "Teacher, can you do something with this elixir?"

"Oh? What do you want to do?" Yao Lao asked with a smile.

"It's rude not to reciprocate! That old guy Jia Xingtian actually dared to play dirty tricks on me, so I have to teach him a good lesson!" Xiao Yan said with a sneer.

"What's so difficult about this? When you refine the next one, just use the Yin Fire in your body." Yao Lao said.

After hearing what Yao Lao said, Xiao Yan stretched out his left hand, and a ball of black flame suddenly appeared in his palm. Xiao Yan looked at the black flame in his palm and asked, "Teacher, is there any difference between the pills refined by this Yin Fire?"

"What's the difference? Of course there is a huge difference. If the pills made with yang fire can cure diseases and save lives, then the pills made with yin fire are outright poisons that can kill people without them being seen." Yao Lao explained.

"Ah? Won't we be discovered?" Xiao Yan asked doubtfully.

"Haha, you'll know when you finish refining it!" Yao Lao smiled mysteriously.

Xiao Yan quickly refined the first pill, then extinguished the flame in the cauldron, and put the black flame in his left hand in. Yin Fire and Yang Fire are similar in use except for their different colors, and both are very handy.

Xiao Yan picked up another batch of herbs on the stone table, threw them into the cauldron one by one and began to refine them. After the refining was completed, he began to condense the pill again. Xiao Yan looked at the prototype of the pill in the medicine cauldron and found that it was almost the same as the previous one, with no difference.

"Teacher, are you sure it will work?" Xiao Yan asked with some doubt.

"Just continue refining it. How could I lie to you?" Yao Lao said speechlessly.

After Xiao Yan nurtured the pill with the black flame for a while, he saw that the pill was ready, so he extinguished the flame in the medicine cauldron. Then he patted the cauldron with his hand, and a very round pill that exuded a refreshing fragrance fell into Xiao Yan's hand.

　Awkward! I accidentally clicked publish! I have severe obsessive compulsive disorder!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)