Sect Breaking Pill, the Mite'er Family at the Height of Its Power

Three months passed.

Dressed in a plain white robe, Su Yun sat quietly in the hall. His slender fingers lightly tapped a celadon teacup. He took a small sip, and as the tea slid down his throat, a look of contentment appeared in his eyes.

Ya Fei stood by his side, serving him with lowered eyes. Her fingertips unconsciously rubbed the patterns on her sleeve, making her scalp tingle.

Because the cup contained a deadly poison capable of easily poisoning a Dou Wang expert!

She truly had no idea how this man had developed such a bizarre habit.

"Its grade is too pitiful to look at. The only thing worth praising is its flavor."

Su Yun shook his head. With his current cultivation, a fifth-grade poison was of no use to him whatsoever.

"Have you not gathered everything I asked for yet?"

Ya Fei's red lips moved. "The family has already sent people to the Chu Yun Empire to purchase poisons.

However, the journey is long, and the Chu Yun Empire is hostile toward the Jia Ma Empire. The caravan may well be targeted, so it will still be some time before it returns."

"Fine."

Su Yun did not blame her. Due to its geography, the Jia Ma Empire did not produce much poisonous grass.

The neighboring Chu Yun Empire was different. It was a nation shrouded in miasma from end to end, where all kinds of poisons emerged in endless succession.

No wonder Xiao Yi Xian had gone to the Chu Yun Empire after her poison body awakened in the original story. That place was practically paradise for a Woeful Poison Body.

"As for the precious medicinal ingredients you requested..."

"Those medicinal ingredients have more or less been gathered."

Mittel Tengshan strode in from the doorway.

Su Yun set down his teacup. "The ingredients for refining a Sect Breaking Pill are worth even more than those poisons. The poisons have yet to be found, yet the ingredients were gathered first?"

That was right. The medicinal ingredients Su Yun had asked the Mite'er Family to collect were for refining Sect Breaking Pills!

In the identity he had carefully crafted, this Woeful Poison Body was a Sixth-grade Alchemist capable of refining Sect Breaking Pills!

"My lord may not know this, but the Jia Ma Empire has only one Sixth-grade Alchemist: Pill King Gu He. Moreover, he has only entered the sixth grade in recent years and cannot refine Sect Breaking Pills.

Thus, while these ingredients are precious, they are far from scarce. I had my men collect them with all their strength, and the progress has indeed gone smoothly."

After learning that Su Yun wanted ingredients to refine Sect Breaking Pills, Mittel Tengshan had taken the matter very seriously.

If this man advanced to the Dou Zong realm, the Mite'er Family's status would rise along with him.

"Why do you think this sect master intends to personally refine the Sect Breaking Pill instead of seeking another Sixth-grade Alchemist?"

Su Yun asked blandly.

Mittel Tengshan smiled. "My lord does not understand the current era, so I fear you have no channels through which to find a Sixth-grade Alchemist.

Therefore, it is more likely that you yourself are a Sixth-grade Alchemist capable of refining Sect Breaking Pills.

Most importantly, while asking us to collect the ingredients, you never inquired about any Sixth-grade Alchemists."

"No wonder you were able to build the Mite'er Family into a force as wealthy as a nation. You are a clever man."

Su Yun rarely offered praise, leaving Mittel Tengshan flattered beyond measure.

"Have you prepared a pill cauldron?"

Su Yun asked.

"Yes. There is a fifth-grade pill cauldron stored in the treasury."

Su Yun frowned. "Only a fifth-grade pill cauldron?"

Pill cauldrons were divided from first-grade to Eighth-tier, from lowest to highest. Above Eighth-tier pill cauldrons were thirteen Heavenly Cauldrons, which could also be considered ninth-grade pill cauldrons.

Mittel Tengshan said awkwardly, "There are only two Sixth-grade Pill Cauldrons in the Jia Ma Empire, and both have owners. One is in the hands of Pill King Gu He, while the other belongs to President Fa Ma.

This fifth-grade pill cauldron is already the best one I could find."

Su Yun shook his head. "Forget it. Go and summon that Fa Ma."

"Uh... My lord, what reason should I use to invite President Fa Ma?"

Mittel Tengshan cautiously raised his head.

Su Yun was puzzled at first, but after another thought, he understood what Mittel Tengshan was worried about.

"It does not matter. Tell Fa Ma directly that I wish to borrow his pill cauldron to refine a Sect Breaking Pill."

"Yes!"

Mittel Tengshan immediately went to handle it.

A faint smile curled Su Yun's lips. In Mittel Tengshan's eyes, Su Yun would likely need to keep the matter of opening the cauldron and refining pills strictly confidential.

After all, he had injured Jia Xing Tian and had poor relations with the Imperial Family, while the Misty Cloud Sect's stance remained unclear. There was no telling whether those two Dou Huang factions would interfere.

But how could Mittel Tengshan possibly guess Su Yun's intentions?

Forget the Imperial Family and the Misty Cloud Sect. It would be best if everyone in the Imperial Capital—even the entire Jia Ma Empire—knew that he was about to refine a Sect Breaking Pill!

Alchemist Guild.

Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian were playing chess at a stone table.

Fa Ma placed a piece and said worriedly, "Although I have been helping you recover, that man's strength is truly terrifying.

Especially the flame he used. If I was not mistaken, it should have been the Nether Poison Flame, ranked twentieth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. Its toxicity is extremely potent; even I find it difficult to remove.

The poison has accumulated within your body. Under normal circumstances, you can suppress it with your powerful Dou Qi, but if you fight an opponent of the same realm, it will certainly cause the poison to flare up...

Do you know what that means?"

Jia Xing Tian slowly closed his eyes. His weathered hand swept across the chessboard, scattering the pieces. "It means that ninety percent of my strength is gone.

Forget a Dou Huang—even if I were to deal with a Dou Wang, I would have to risk a backlash from the poison. I am no longer the protector of the Imperial Family...

Old friend, you must keep this matter secret for me!"

Fa Ma sighed. "How long do you think you can hide it?"

Jia Xing Tian said faintly, "As long as I can. More importantly, could the poison in my body have been deliberately left behind by that man?

If it was accidental, then everything is manageable. But if it was deliberate, then his designs on the Jia Ma Empire may not have ended...

Old friend, I need your help. The Jia Ma Empire needs your help!"

Faced with Jia Xing Tian's earnest plea, Fa Ma fell into hesitation.

He understood that Jia Xing Tian was trying to force him to choose a side.

Back when Yun Shan had not yet entered his closed-door cultivation, the Misty Cloud Sect and the Imperial Family had fought each other to the death, yet he had remained neutral. How could he make a decision so quickly now?

His treatment of Jia Xing Tian had merely been out of consideration for their past friendship.

"We can discuss this another time."

"Alas!"

Jia Xing Tian was helpless.

At that moment, a guard approached and said, "President, Mittel Tengshan requests an audience."

"What is he here for?"

Fa Ma asked in confusion.

Jia Xing Tian gave a cold laugh. "The Mite'er Family has been terribly arrogant lately. Even the other two great families have begun wavering, as though I were already dead!"

"Old Monster, stay here. Do not let Teng Shan see you. He may have come under that man's orders."

Fa Ma said.

In the end, he did not want the Alchemist Guild dragged into this conflict, so he wanted Jia Xing Tian to avoid suspicion.

"Fine."

Fa Ma arrived at the Alchemist Guild's main hall, where he found Mittel Tengshan waiting for a long time.

"Teng Shan, what is it?"

Fa Ma asked.

He had already decided that if Mittel Tengshan, like Jia Xing Tian, had come to persuade him to pick a side, he would stall and brush him off.

After all, he could not afford to offend that man either.

"My lord wishes to borrow your Sixth-grade Pill Cauldron to refine a Sect Breaking Pill. Please come to the Mite'er Family so we may discuss it."

"W-What?!"