Xiao Chen's eyes remained shut as he studied the mysteries within the ancient scripture in his hands.
Knowing they had no hope, the others simply set down their scriptures and began watching Xiao Chen comprehend the Dao.
"Alchemy Dao is truly difficult, far harder than cultivating the martial path!" Xiao Chen muttered with a frown as he contemplated the scripture with his eyes closed, seemingly having encountered no small obstacle.
Jin Dan trembled all over, finding it utterly absurd. This monstrous youth had deciphered an ancient Alchemy Dao scripture in merely the time it took to burn an incense stick, yet he was still complaining that the Alchemy Dao was difficult to cultivate?
Wasn't this deliberately showing off?
"Damn, look at that old snake's expression. It looks like Chen-di's words shocked him. That means Chen-di really figured something out—otherwise, if he said the Alchemy Dao was hard to cultivate, that old demon wouldn't be making that face!" Xu Potian said in surprise.
"As expected of Big Brother. He's truly fierce!" Thunderstorm said.
The others looked at Xiao Chen with faces full of worship, feeling that he stood as towering and majestic as a heavenly god.
Qing Yumei looked at Xiao Chen, her eyes glittering like stars. No matter how hard she tried, she could not reconcile the youth before her with the impoverished boy who had once needed to dine and dash.
Another half hour passed.
Azure alchemy runes began to emerge around Xiao Chen's body. He suddenly opened his eyes, picked up more than a dozen medicinal ingredients from the bronze table, and began refining and purifying them.
He wrapped the ingredients in purple divine radiance and suspended them in the air, then controlled them to spin continuously, extracting thread after thread of black impurities from within.
He handled