Heavenly Dao Child

Upon being asked by the volunteer ten others joined him, their work was simple they would help him carry the piece of the pill on paper and wait for twenty breath in front of the competitors before destroying them.

As the person was busy dividing the pills Ryuu had closed his eyes as he went into a trance for a second before he reopened them, he could fell the Grand Dao of Alchemy signing in him caressing him, his eyes fell on to the box containing the various pills wrapped along within the paper, he could feel them singing to him, some of them horribly off-key while some extremely soothing especially one of them.

'Ah, it must be mine, the one I had submitted, as it seems to have the highest purity than others.'

When he was younger his teacher always told him to listen to the sound of ingredients at first he could not understand what she meant it sound so mysterious, in fact, once he held an ingredient near his ears for an entire day just to get a whisper of the sound and was greatly dejected when he had failed to do so, although his teachers gained new reasons to tease him.

But now, it was different, he was able to hear it clearly he was able to hear them and with great difficulty, he tore his gaze from the box as he looked at the piece of the sample that was being brought to him.

'What a course sound it makes? Now let us see what are you made up of.'

Ryuu peered into the pill in front of him as he soon dissected it, separating its components in a rather easy manner.

'Huh, a 'Yin Body Replenishing Pill', a rather interesting pill, normally everyone is born with their Yin and Yang in perfect balanced but in some cases, they might have a slight disharmony and one of them is when someone lacks the Yin in their body, though through cultivation we may change our constitution a bit being born with one is different.'

'Hmm, I can substitute it with 'Frozen Moonflower Nectar', instead of Nightshade Bamboo essence, it would work better with the rest of the ingredients, an interesting pill, strong enough to change a person's constitution from extreme Yang to a more balanced Yin-Yang type, yet difficult enough because of its hundreds of ingredients, which means only someone of my rank can accomplish it, it would be fun to create it, but now comes the second one.'

"Are you ready for the second one Daoist Ryuu?"

Ryuu looked up towards the person as he gave a small nod eagerly waiting for the next pill.

Frozen Ocean watched all the competitors like a hawk she knew Ryuu was a proud and honourable person and she would be damned before she let someone cheat, something the others happily lend a hand too, after all, they would not let their realm lose.

"Ryuu looks so serious and focused it is like he is a completely different person."

Zywia nodded at Frost Flames words as she spoke, "True though if you look closely you can feel the Dao stirring in the air, especially around him."

Frost Flames smiled upon hearing that as she spoke, "He is really talented."

Zywia nodded as Amnon spoke with his eyes narrowed, "First a 'Yin Body Creation' pill something I have not heard off, then the second is 'Realm Ascendance Pill', and the third is the 'Stone Heart Pill', that is something I have not heard of as well, two pills that are not known to me."

Zywia looked towards Amnon as she spoke, "' Yin Body Creation Pill' is known by another name to us, it is called 'Yin Body Replenishing Pill', used to cure people who are born with extreme Yang type bodies to the point they do not even have an iota of Yin amongst them and it is bad for health when they had yet to venture forth into cultivation."

She then looked forward as she continued to speak, "Now the 'Stone Heat Pill' is an extremely difficult pill to craft, during tribulation one has to suffer tribulation for the heart, it is an essential pill when one wants to ascend to the Celestial Realm, but even if it is essential, not only is it extremely complex and difficult to create but it is extremely rare, of the other two is a simple walk in the park compared to it."

Her words made her friends be shocked to their core, as 'Tribulation of Heart', was one of the most difficult parts of the Tribulation, some even say it surpasses the Lightning Tribulation and yet here is a pill that could help them was something unthinkable for them, no matter how small it was truly astonishing for them to learn about it.

True-Spear looked at Zywia for a moment before he looked back towards the competitor as he spoke, "Damn who could create such a thing?"

"Ryuu"

His head swivelled towards Frost Flames as he spoke, "Ryuu? Are you sure it is him? After all, it can very well be one of the cultivators, who have gotten their hands on the pill from their senior and is trying to show off."

Frost Flames simply shook her head as she replied to back to him, "No I am positive it is Ryuu, did you not smell the aroma of the pill or see the light pink translucent colour emitting blue sparkles from the inside now and then, it is definitely Ryuu."

Frozen Ocean looks directly into Frost Flame's eyes as she spoke, "How do you know that?"

With a smug smile, Frost Flames replied, "I have seen one of his pills before that is why I know about it, and normally when he uses pills he makes sure to do so discreetly as such many of them had not even noticed the quality of his pills."

Su-Min looked towards Ryuu as she spoke with awe, "I am glad we have those anti-eavesdropping arrays up."

Both Daniella and her husband Amnon nodded in agreement before Su-Min turned towards Frost Flames as she spoke faux anger in her voice, "Damn you sister for making the only perfect man in the Universe fall for you."

Frost Flames giggled as she gave her an exaggerated bow towards her as True-Spear spoke with a huff, "What am I a chopped liver? Zywia, tell them I am perfect."

Zywia simply smiled at her as she gave a small pat on his head as she spoke, "Of course you are perfect, perfectly perfect for me."

Su-Min huffed at their display of affection as she spoke, "Get a room you two." before her tone became a bit serious as she spoke, "It looks like Ryuu is starting."

Frozen Ocean looked forward with eagerness reflecting in her eyes as she spoke, "How do you think he will proceed?"

Zywia looked towards Ryuu giving her undivided attention before she spoke with a smile on her face, "I have an idea though I will have to sit on it for now, as I do not wish to spoil the surprise."

Ryuu looked at the three pills that were given to him to craft, his lips twitched as he fought off the urge to grin as he thought, 'I do not think I will have an easier challenge.'

Severing Saber looked around for a moment as his eyes met Ryuu's for a moment, 'So he has finished writing, so I do not believe there is any need to waste if they are slow then it is not Ryuu's fault.'

"Daoist Ryuu have you finished writing the ingredients?"

Ryuu nodded in confirmation as another smile broke into Severing Saber's face, "Do you have all the ingredients or do you need something."

"I have everything that I need Senior Daoist Brother."

Severing Saber spoke again with a small smile on his face, "Excellent then you may begin."

Ryuu simply acknowledged with a nod and then with great dismay of others he closed his eyes and began to meditate.

The entire area suddenly plunged into silence even his friends were astounded at his strange behaviour, they at first thought he was simply concentrating but then seconds turned to minutes but yet Ryuu had not begun his attempt at making pills, whereas the other contestants were slowly beginning their attempts on pill creation.

"What is he doing? He would lag behind them by quite a margin and even if he finishes it would be last, and the contestant who has already finished his creation can call for closure, and then he would be given half an hour at most to wrap something up, so why is he sitting there and meditating."

Zywia sent a confused look towards Frozen Ocean as she spoke, "I have no idea, as I am not that much adept at either duels or pill creation as he is, as such I do not know why but maybe he has some strategy up his sleeve, the others have already started."

"Look he has opened his eyes he is about to start."

Everyone's attention fell on Ryuu who let out a yawn as he stretched himself before he spoke with a sheepish look on his face, "Oh has everyone started creating, sorry I fell asleep ~ahem~ I mean I received a sudden bout of enlightenment upon seeing my talented fellow competitors work as such I was meditating."

A stunned silence descended amongst the audience even a few of the contestants gawked at him, as one of them shouted with a snarl, "How dare he, how dare he look down on us!!!!"

Ryuu paid him as much attention to him as he was paying to him before and that was none as he was busy looking towards his group of friends as he shouted out, "Sorry Zywia I cannot hear you, though you should stop acting in such an unladylike manner, what would your boyfriend think.", as he spoke he shook his head dejectedly as if he had given up on her, and if the anti-eavesdropper array was deactivated he would have been greeted by an anguished scream full of anger.