Seventh Grade Alchemist, the Gu Clan's Most Radiant Alchemy Prodigy!

Gu Yao pondered for a moment, then summoned one of his trusted subordinates.

"Head to the Northwest Continent immediately."

The subordinate looked up at him in slight confusion, only to see intense killing intent brewing in Gu Yao's eyes.

"Find Xiao Yan and get rid of that trash!"

Frightened into breaking out in a cold sweat by Gu Yao's imposing aura and gloomy gaze, the subordinate hurriedly lowered his head and acknowledged the order.

On this side, an assassin targeting Xiao Yan had already been dispatched.

On the other side, Gu Fei made his way back to Mountain Peak.

After returning to his residence, he sat down to rest for a while.

Then, he decided to begin refining a Seventh Grade Pill.

A Seventh Grade Pill—if one appeared in the outside world, such talent would terrify countless people.

How old was Gu Fei?

He was only sixteen!

Yet he could already refine Seventh Grade Pills that many alchemists could never produce in their entire lives!

Any Seventh Grade Pill could fetch an astronomical price at an auction.

Many Seventh Grade Pills were treasures with demand far exceeding supply. Releasing even a single one could stir up a bloody storm.

Earlier, the system had raised Gu Fei's alchemy to Level Seven.

Naturally, Gu Fei had also mastered a large number of Seventh Grade pill formulas.

Gu Fei had not slept last night. What occupied his thoughts was not only Xun'er's marriage.

More than that, it was these Seventh Grade Pills.

Since he had already mastered so many pill formulas, he naturally had to start trying to refine them.

This time, Gu Fei intended to refine a pill capable of raising a Dou Zong's cultivation by one star.

It was called the Sea Raising Pill.

It was a Seventh Grade Pill with demand far exceeding supply.

After all, the Sea Raising Pill's greatest advantage was this:

After consuming it, not only could it raise a Dou Zong's cultivation by one star, but more importantly, it had no side effects whatsoever!

There would be no issue of an unstable foundation. With a single pill, a Dou Zong expert could directly rise by one star.

Even a Seventh Grade Alchemist would need to spend a great deal of time refining such a Seventh Grade Pill, and failure was still possible.

Why did Gu Fei want to attempt refining a Seventh Grade Pill?

Recalling the pill formula provided by the system in his mind, he muttered to himself.

"I'll just use it to pass the time."

That was right. Ordinary Seventh Grade Alchemists would need to prepare for weeks, or even a month, before daring to begin refining a Seventh Grade Pill.

Yet one reason Gu Fei was refining pills this time was simply to pass the time.

The divorce cooling-off period happened to be exactly one month. Perhaps by the time the pill emerged from the furnace, the time would be up.

Once everything was prepared, Gu Fei set up a restriction outside his room.

He did not want any irrelevant people disturbing him at a critical moment.

It would not do if they delayed his pill refinement.

Days passed one after another, yet neither of the two main figures appeared within the Gu Clan.

The discussions about Gu Fei and Xun'er gradually died down as well.

After all, people needed to see the subjects of their gossip before they had any interest in gossiping.

Now that neither of them was around, who knew what they were doing?

Besides, daily cultivation kept everyone quite busy.

On Mountain Peak, Gu Fei sat cross-legged by the window with his eyes quietly closed.

The pill furnace before him was small and exquisite, emitting a faint glow.

A subtle medicinal fragrance lingered faintly throughout the room.

Until half a month later, Gu Fei suddenly opened his eyes.

The sky above the Mountain Peak where he resided had long since changed drastically.

Beyond the Mountain Peak, the skies were cloudless for thousands of miles, with sunlight shining everywhere.

Yet above the Mountain Peak, dark clouds blanketed the sky.

Rampaging pill lightning crackled within them.

The pill lightning was incomparably thick, enough to make anyone shudder with lingering fear.

Pill lightning first gathered rapidly amid the clouds, then struck down like a bolt of lightning.

It landed squarely on the house atop the mountain.

The sound and impact alarmed quite a few members of the Gu Clan nearby.

They all rushed over to watch.

There were several alchemists among them as well.

One alchemist who held considerable prestige among the younger generation stared at the pill lightning in the sky, momentarily stunned.

He sucked in a breath in disbelief.

"This is pill lightning that only appears when a Seventh Grade Pill is born, isn't it?!"

Though there were only a few alchemists among them, everyone understood how precious a Seventh Grade Pill was.

One young girl spoke in admiration, her face filled with yearning for the strong.

"I never imagined that not only had Brother Gu Fei's cultivation advanced far beyond ordinary people, but his attainments in alchemy were also so high!"

"Yes, Brother Gu Fei is only sixteen... Miss Xun'er truly shouldn't have done that!"

A rather highly respected member of the Gu Clan said, his eyes carrying a trace of regret.

After all, Miss Xun'er was equally gifted. If she and Gu Fei had come together, the Gu Clan would surely have risen to even greater heights.

Yet Miss Xun'er had another man in her heart...

Discussion broke out all around, most of it filled with admiration.

And all the worshipful, envious emotions that so many people felt toward Gu Fei flowed into the system.

Gu Tian has generated admiration. Emotion Value +1

Gu Yan has generated admiration. Emotion Value +1

Gu Yaqin has generated affection. Emotion Value +1

The system collected every one of those densely packed Emotion Values.

Gu Fei listened with satisfaction as Emotion Value came in one point at a time.

They might have been small, but even tiny streams could gather into a sea, couldn't they?

Then the final notification made the corner of his mouth curl up.

Xun'er has generated frustration. Emotion Value +100

So Xun'er had come too. At the moment, she was among the Gu Clan members nearby.

Of course, no one there had noticed Xun'er's arrival yet.

Only Gu Fei's system had exposed her.

At that moment, Xun'er hid in the shadows, raising her head alongside everyone else to gaze at the house on the mountaintop.

She could not help recalling that she had lived there just days ago...

If Gu Fei had not proposed dissolving their marriage, would she also have been among those everyone envied now?

Instead of being pitied by everyone, who regretted that she had chosen another man.

Xun'er heard every bit of the surrounding discussion. Her cultivation was already profound.

Those noisy voices of discussion were like blades and swords, stabbing into her ears and piercing her heart.

Shouldn't she have been indifferent to everything about Gu Fei?

Why, then, did hearing these people's comments make a feeling of frustration rise within her?

Xun'er felt terrible.

Biting her lower lip lightly with her pearly teeth, she frowned and looked toward the distant mountaintop.

Xun'er's gaze went blank, and no one knew what she was thinking.

Though Xun'er did not like Gu Fei, her appreciation for the strong still brought her here.

She had sensed the disturbance in this area long ago, an oppressive aura as though a high-grade pill was about to be born.

So she hurried over, intending to join the excitement.

After all, her father, Gu Yuan, had been truly furious at the time and had actually declared that she would be confined for a month.

Only when Gu Fei came to see her father again would Xun'er be allowed to move about freely.

Deep down, Xun'er had unconsciously begun blaming Gu Fei.

Half a month had passed. When she sensed that a high-grade pill was about to be born here, she slipped out while Gu Yuan was not paying attention.

Along the way, Xun'er had been quite excited, thinking that one of the Gu Clan's older experts had refined another high-grade pill.

Who would have thought that the one who had refined the Seventh Grade Pill was actually Gu Fei.