"Oh? Five Elements Returning Origin Pill?"
The voice from within suddenly grew interested. Before long, a figure drifted out. He stood atop a battered medicine cauldron, his hair tied down to his waist. He was a handsome young man with sharply defined features.
The chief imperial alchemist's appearance was unexpectedly youthful. Li Qing was Taken Aback, but as an alchemist, refining some youth-preserving pills presumably was not difficult.
Ye Qingchen leaped down from the floating, damaged medicine cauldron, an interested expression appearing on his face.
"I wonder which Five Elements main ingredients you have gathered. Why not tell me?"
Li Qing answered truthfully, "Five Yuan Dates!"
Upon hearing these words, the interest in Ye Qingchen's eyes deepened considerably. He crossed his hands and showed a thoughtful expression.
"Among the best main ingredients I had envisioned for refining the Five Elements Returning Origin Pill, Five Yuan Dates ranked near the top."
"Unfortunately, these spirit dates are exceedingly difficult to find. Looking across the entire Jade Capital City, they have only appeared a few times, and always just one or two scattered fruits."
"Since you possess Five Yuan Dates of all five attributes, then it is not impossible for me to make an exception and act once."
Saying This, Ye Qingchen showed an extremely satisfied expression, then pointed at another Alchemy Cauldron that looked rather similar to the Chaos Myriad Beasts Cauldron.
"Go inside and lie down. Although the Five Yuan Dates are valuable, the lifespan that must be extracted still has to be extracted—exactly one thousand years, not one year less!"
Li Qing frowned at this. Before coming here, he truly had not known that asking this Grand Alchemist Ye to refine pills required surrendering a thousand years of lifespan.
Although his lifespan was abundant to the extreme, he Did Not