Peak Dou Emperor... Experience Card

"Honey!" Yun Shu called with a smile, pinching Ya Fei's nose.

"Mm..." Ya Fei, who had spent the entire night playing poker, looked sleepily at Yun Shu, who had woken her up.

"Brat... what is it?" Ya Fei asked in confusion when she saw the grave expression on Yun Shu's face.

"You're still calling me brat?" Yun Shu said with some dissatisfaction upon hearing her words.

"I don't care, you're my brat!" To Yun Shu's surprise, Ya Fei actually acted coy. If outsiders saw this, they would probably collapse on the spot.

"Alright, stop fooling around for now. What's the largest amount of funds you can mobilize from the Mittel Auction House?" Yun Shu planned to start with Ya Fei, draw from the Lottery first, and bolster his hidden cards.

"About five million, but two million of that is..."

"Enough!!" Yun Shu cut Ya Fei off directly. With these three million, he believed he could definitely draw something that would improve his strength.

"Do you trust me?" Yun Shu asked Ya Fei seriously.

"Mm." Ya Fei seemed to understand Yun Shu's situation and nodded.

Next, Yun Shu had Ya Fei withdraw all three million that could be used for his Lottery draws.

As for how to fill this gap without affecting developments in the Imperial Capital, Yun Shu naturally had a solution. He only needed to find a deserted place and use the Fallen Heart Flame to refine a few high-grade pills.

He had not refined any before because he was afraid Yao Lao would discover the Strange Fire on him, as well as his rank as an alchemist. Although Yao Lao was now his teacher, Yun Shu still believed that the more he could hide, the better.

Yun Shu already had some high-grade Medicinal Herbs obtained from Chek Nao. In addition, after staying at the Mittel Auction House for so long, he had also collected plenty of high-grade Medicinal Herbs. Refining several high-quality pills would be more than manageable.

"I understand!" Upon hearing this, Ya Fei no longer had the mind to be embarrassed. She immediately threw off the blanket, got up, and began dressing. Since Yun Shu had said it, she would trust him without hesitation.

About two hours later, Ya Fei returned to the room with a Purple-Gold Card. Yun Shu had already gotten up and was sitting with his eyes closed in concentration.

He was actually looking at the system...

"System, deduct it directly from the card!!" After taking the card, Yun Shu placed it straight into the system's storage space.

"Ding! Lottery in progress..."

"Congratulations, you have obtained a Peak Dou Huang Experience Card: Duration—2 hours! (Can be paused at any time)"

"Holy shit!!" Yun Shu's eyes widened the moment he saw the reward.

"Brat! What's wrong?" Ya Fei asked anxiously when she saw his expression. Yun Shu was everything to her now, so naturally she was deeply worried.

"It's nothing..." Yun Shu shook his head once he came back to his senses. This time, he could finally rest easy for a while.

A Peak Dou Huang Experience Card lasting two hours, and it could be paused at any time. That meant he could access the power of a Peak Dou Huang whenever he wished.

Although it only lasted two hours, with the added pause function, Yun Shu reckoned that if he used it sparingly, it should last him several months...

After all, he would only need to use it when his life was in danger. As an alchemist, Yun Shu did not usually make enemies, and there were only a handful of Dou Huang-level experts in the Gama Empire. So, he would save this Experience Card whenever possible.

"Honey, don't be too shocked by what comes next!" Yun Shu waved a hand and summoned a black Medicine Cauldron, then began refining pills right in front of Ya Fei.

"Brat! You're..." Since he was using the Fallen Heart Flame to refine pills, Yun Shu did not need to focus too intensely.

"I can't let my wife bear the burden of those three million for me, can I? Wouldn't that make me a kept man?" Yun Shu said with a grin.

Every "wife" made Ya Fei's pretty face flush crimson. However, she did not refute him. She really was Yun Shu's woman—it was just that she was not as shameless as he was.

"Three million... Refining a few Fourth-Rank and Fifth-Rank Pills should be enough, right?" Yun Shu remembered that an ordinary Fourth-Rank Pill was worth roughly four hundred thousand Gold Coins, while Fifth-Rank Pills were even more valuable.

The Medicinal Herbs Yun Shu currently had on hand were barely enough to refine three Fifth-Rank Pills and five Fourth-Rank Pills.

Therefore, if his success rate in pill refinement, with the Strange Fire and Pill King Gu He's experience, was one hundred percent, he could earn back more than one million afterward. If auctioned off, they might even fetch over two million.

That would be enough for another Lottery draw.

Unfortunately, Yun Shu was not confident he could succeed one hundred percent of the time.

"Brat... you're planning to refine a Fourth-Rank Pill?" Ya Fei asked in astonishment after hearing Yun Shu mutter to himself.

"It's a secret, honey!" Yun Shu said, raising an eyebrow at Ya Fei.

"Little Shu, just what exactly are you..." Ya Fei watched Yun Shu focus on refining pills and did not speak again to disturb him. Instead, she was left stunned inwardly.

He could actually refine Fourth-Rank Pills, even Fifth-Rank Pills. Didn't that mean Little Shu's teacher was even more formidable than Pill King Gu He!!

As far as Ya Fei knew, Liu Ling, the disciple of Pill King Gu He—the Sixth-Rank Alchemist—was only around the Second or Third-Rank at present...

If Yun Shu could refine Fourth-Rank and even Fifth-Rank Pills, then wasn't his teacher a Seventh-Rank Alchemist? Or perhaps an even more terrifying Eighth-Rank!

The next day.

Ya Fei went numb as she looked at the two Fifth-Rank Pills and four Fourth-Rank Pills in her hands.

Yun Shu had actually refined Fourth-Rank Pills, and even Fifth-Rank Pills!

He had failed the first time with both kinds of pills, then succeeded afterward. Since it was his first time refining them, he was not very familiar with the process. By the second attempt, he succeeded directly with the help of the Strange Fire.

However, because they could neither be appraised nor auctioned, the Mittel Auction House in Wu Tan City was completely unable to auction off—or even accept—these six pills.

Because no one could appraise them.

Gu Ni was only a Second-Rank Alchemist. He could not determine whether these pills were genuine or fake. Perhaps he could identify them as Fourth-Rank or Fifth-Rank Pills from their pill fragrance or Pill Patterns, but he could not confirm their effects.

Therefore, Ya Fei could only take these six pills back to the Imperial Capital before having them auctioned.

"Brat, I'm not comfortable letting Uncle Gu Ni go. Let me go instead!" Ya Fei said worriedly when she heard that Yun Shu intended to have Gu Ni bring these six high-grade pills to the Imperial Capital for auction.

"I'd be even less comfortable if you went. Do you have any idea how dangerous the journey is?" Yun Shu said worriedly as he held Ya Fei in his arms.

"It'll be fine, brat. Who would dare attack a convoy from the Mittel Family? Would they rather die?" Ya Fei said as she leaned against Yun Shu's chest. She did not want to be a mere decoration. She wanted to help Yun Shu, which was why she proposed overseeing the auction herself. Only if she personally hosted it could they sell the pills for a higher price.