The Day of the Alchemy Duel, Liu Yunxi Was Dumbfounded!

"Wan... Wan'er..."

Seeing that she was about to press him beneath her, Ye Xuan hurriedly stopped Chu Wan'er's movements.

"Not yet."

Although Chu Wan'er had largely recovered, without the restoration of her Emperor Blood, the damage to her foundation remained. Little Pagoda had also said that he had to reach the Peak Spirit Sea Realm before he could cultivate together with Chu Wan'er and consummate their marriage.

"Does Brother Ye Xuan not like me?"

Chu Wan'er froze slightly, and then a flicker of disappointment and inferiority passed through her beautiful eyes.

"Of course not. Listen to me..."

With tenderness, Ye Xuan wrapped an arm around Chu Wan'er and pulled her into his embrace. "Neither of our bodies is ready yet..."

"Brother Ye Xuan isn't capable?" Chu Wan'er was startled.

Ye Xuan: "..."

"I-I mean we have to wait until my cultivation reaches the Peak Spirit Sea Realm. It will be soon..."

"Then... all right..." Chu Wan'er nodded. In truth, she was still afraid.

Compared to the other six Imperial Daughters, whether in talent or Lineage, she could not compare to them. Her only advantage now was that she had met Ye Xuan first.

"Silly girl, we are already engaged. I will never let you down in this life. Be good!" Ye Xuan lovingly scraped Chu Wan'er's nose, then lowered his head and lightly pecked her rosy lips.

"I believe you."

A flush immediately rose across Chu Wan'er's pretty face, filling it with bashfulness.

After the two lingered affectionately for quite a while, Ye Xuan finally told Chu Wan'er about Hundred Herbs Pill House.

"Ah, Sister Lin is also a poor soul. She is carrying her entire Lineage on her shoulders alone."

"But now that I have recovered, I can help Brother Ye Xuan refine pills too!"

Chu Wan'er hurriedly said.

As descendants of the Eternal Emperor Body, the Chu Family's alchemy inheritance had also endured for millennia among the imperial clans.

"No need. I can handle such a small matter by myself. Your task now is to continue healing and wait beautifully to become my bride." Ye Xuan tightly held Chu Wan'er's hand.

"I'll listen to you."

Chu Wan'er thought for a moment and did not insist further.

After coaxing Chu Wan'er back to cultivation, Ye Xuan went to find Sect Master Su Ziyun.

"You still need to refine pills?"

Su Ziyun was stunned. Had Ye Xuan not just obtained a great many pills?

They were already not enough?

"Yes, and I need to borrow the Sect Master's Purple Heaven Cauldron!" Ye Xuan nodded.

"That is easy!"

Without a second thought, Su Ziyun summoned the Purple Heaven Cauldron.

Ye Xuan again arranged the remaining hundred cauldrons.

Buzz!

In the next instant, a deep-blue arc of lightning flame abruptly surged from his palm!

"Hm?"

Yet what shocked Su Ziyun was that the Exotic Fire Ye Xuan summoned this time was actually different from the previous one!

This Exotic Fire had three layers!

This was... a third-grade Exotic Fire!?

H-how was that possible!?

Su Ziyun's eyes widened.

One had to know that even a second-grade Exotic Fire was unprecedented in the Northern Region. A third-grade Exotic Fire—despite being the Sect Master—was something even she had never seen before!

Could it be that Ye Xuan possessed two kinds of Exotic Fire!?

But while Su Ziyun was still reeling in shock, Ye Xuan had already placed the ingredients into the pill furnaces, divided the Exotic Fire into a hundred streams, and begun refining.

It was still pill refinement with a hundred cauldrons, but this time, the aura of the third-grade Exotic Fire was far too tyrannical. Lightning shot straight into the heavens, while its scorching heat swept through the entire sect!

At that moment, nearly every Violet Firmament Sect cultivator emerged from their cave dwellings. Looking at Sect Master Peak, which resembled a blazing torch, all of them stood dumbfounded!

Only one day had passed, and Ye Xuan had begun refining pills again!?

At this moment, Su Ziyun recovered from her shock. Her eyes shifted, and her figure instantly vanished from where she stood.

When she reappeared, she was already before Zhao Gan's cave dwelling.

"Sect Master!"

Zhao Gan froze, then hurriedly fell to his knees with extreme guilt.

"Send a voice transmission to the Azure Mist Sect."

Su Ziyun looked down at him, her tone cold.

"Sect Master, this disciple dares not! I will never dare again!"

Yet Zhao Gan was already trembling like a leaf, repeatedly kowtowing.

"Did you not hear me?"

"This Seat wants you to send a voice transmission to the Azure Mist Sect. Tell them that there are no alchemists within the Violet Firmament Sect!"

A fierce chill surged through Su Ziyun's eyes, but her lips curled in a sneer.

Ye Xuan had accepted Hundred Herbs Pill House's business. The Azure Mist Sect would surely grow suspicious, so it would be far more entertaining to send the news out!

"What!?"

Zhao Gan abruptly raised his head, instantly understanding.

The Sect Master was asking him to send false information to the Azure Mist Sect?

Would that not doom the Azure Mist Sect to become a laughingstock?

"What? You refuse?"

But when Su Ziyun's sinister gaze fell upon him, Zhao Gan's entire body jolted. He quickly took out a voice transmission talisman.

Following Su Ziyun's instructions, he sent the news out of the Violet Firmament Sect.

Only then did Su Ziyun leave in satisfaction.

Watching Su Ziyun's retreating figure, as well as the pill fragrance gradually spreading over, Zhao Gan kept slapping his thigh.

"It is over. It is all over!"

He could already foresee the Azure Mist Sect being toyed with and slapped in the face, but now he could do nothing at all!

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

Ye Xuan opened his eyes within the Small Tower Space. Lightning flickered in their depths as his aura swiftly withdrew.

"Early Spirit Sea Stage minor accomplishment. It has indeed slowed down..."

Ye Xuan frowned. In truth, it had taken him less than two days to refine all the pills. He had even used Spirit Marrow Fluid to refine eight hundred Spirit Nurturing Pills.

Yet after reaching the Spirit Sea Realm, Ye Xuan's Sea of Qi had become incomparably vast, and the resources needed for advancement had soared accordingly.

Time was still pressing!

Fortunately, he still had quite a few top-grade Spirit Nurturing Pills in hand, so Ye Xuan was not too flustered.

After leaving the Small Tower Space, Ye Xuan spent some tender time with Chu Wan'er before heading down the mountain with Xiao Tao.

"Master, I want to leave the sect for a while."

Watching the two descend the mountain, Chu Wan'er suddenly spoke atop Saintess Peak.

"Leave the sect?"

"Where are you going?"

Su Ziyun, standing nearby, was startled and hurriedly asked.

"Tianxuan City!"

Chu Wan'er drew a deep breath. "I want to challenge the Hundred Refinements Tower!"

"Brother Ye Xuan is working so hard. I cannot just stand by and watch!"

"The Hundred Refinements Tower?" Su Ziyun frowned. "You have already cleared all nine levels of the Hundred Refinements Tower. If you go again, the resource rewards you receive will not be very..."

"No, could it be that you intend to..."

Before she could finish, Su Ziyun's expression abruptly changed.

"That is right. This time, I want to challenge Purgatory Difficulty!"

Chu Wan'er nodded, her pretty face filled with determination!

"Wan'er, have you gone mad!?"

"The Purgatory Difficulty of the Hundred Refinements Tower was opened three years ago. No one has cleared it to this day, and many prodigies have even died within it!"

"I cannot let you take such a risk. If you lack resources, your master will spare no cost to provide them!" Su Ziyun panicked.

Chu Wan'er had only just begun to recover. How could she possibly be allowed to risk herself in the Hundred Refinements Tower?

"Master..."

However, Chu Wan'er shook her head and smiled brightly. "Master has already given me more than enough. Besides, challenging Purgatory Difficulty is not only for my own sake. Clearing Purgatory Difficulty rewards a Heavenly Thunder Seed!"

"It will be greatly beneficial to Brother Ye Xuan. I must obtain it!"

"You..." Seeing Chu Wan'er's resolute expression, Su Ziyun did not know how to persuade her.

She also knew that her disciple was stubborn. Once she set her mind on something, no one could pull her back.

"How will you explain this to Ye Xuan? Are you not afraid he will worry about you?" In the end, Su Ziyun could only bring up Ye Xuan.

"Master can say that I have gone into seclusion in the sect's forbidden grounds. I will try my best to return before the sect assembly!"

Chu Wan'er smiled, then flew down from Saintess Peak.

"Ah..."

As Chu Wan'er's figure disappeared from sight, Su Ziyun could only let out a sigh that scattered with the wind.

Tianyun City.

Before Lingyun Pill House, people had already gathered in a sea.

Today was the day of the alchemy duel between the two pill houses. Everyone knew they could buy cheaper pills today, so they had arrived early to wait in line.

Yet this lively scene was limited to Lingyun Pill House.

In comparison, although pills were also being sold at the stalls outside Hundred Herbs Pill House, their quality was rather ordinary, so naturally no one lined up.

"Hahaha!"

"Churan, why must you insist on an alchemy duel with me?"

At this moment, Ling Tian, the eldest young master of the Ling Family, arrived before Hundred Herbs Pill House in luxurious robes, accompanied by Liu Yunxi and Xiao Chengfeng.

Lin Churan, however, merely reclined in a rattan chair, holding spiritual tea as though she had heard nothing.

"Hmph, and you are still putting on airs at a time like this?"

Liu Yunxi's anger and alarm intensified at the sight.

"Did you not insist on cooperating with the Violet Firmament Sect? Where is he?"

"Shopkeeper Lin, let me tell you the truth. There are no alchemists in the Violet Firmament Sect. By now, he has surely run off with your medicinal ingredients!" Xiao Chengfeng sneered from the side.

Three days earlier, they had received intelligence from the Violet Firmament Sect's spy. In today's alchemy duel, their victory was certain!

"Who said my Violet Firmament Sect has no alchemists!?"

Before Xiao Chengfeng's sneer could fade, a cold laugh suddenly rang out from the crowd behind them.

Xiao Chengfeng, Liu Yunxi, and the others froze. They suddenly turned around and saw Ye Xuan striding through the crowd with his hands behind his back!

"Ye Xuan, you still dare to come?"

Only after standing there in a daze for a long while did Xiao Chengfeng recover.

He truly could not understand it. Knowing that he would be humiliated today, how did this fellow still dare to show himself?

"Oh, Churan, this is the Holy Son you rely upon?"

"Body Tempering Realm cultivation? Tsk, tsk. You are truly mad to trust even a fraud like this?"

At this moment, Ling Tian also mocked.

Ye Xuan used Little Pagoda to conceal his aura. Even a Myriad Manifestation Realm cultivator could not see through it.

Ye Xuan treated everyone's mockery as mere fart. After giving Lin Churan a reassuring look, he stood at her side.

"If I do not believe Holy Son Ye, should I believe petty people like them?"

Lin Churan's heart settled completely. She rose to her feet and looked toward Liu Yunxi and the others.

"Lin Churan!"

"I see you truly will not shed tears until you see the coffin!"

Liu Yunxi was ashamed and furious. She immediately took out a ring and removed an Essence Nurturing Pill wrapped in a lustrous glow.

"Look carefully. This is a mid-grade Essence Nurturing Pill!"

"Only one possessing Exotic Fire can refine it!"

"What do you have to compete with me?"

Whoosh!

The appearance of that pill immediately drew cries of shock from the surrounding cultivators.

No one had expected that, for this alchemy duel, Soaring Cloud Trading House had actually obtained a mid-grade Essence Nurturing Pill!?

"Churan, it is still not too late for you to admit defeat!" Ling Tian stood with his hands behind his back, wearing the look of certain victory.

"Is that so?"

But Lin Churan had already received a storage ring from Ye Xuan. Her Divine Sense entered it, and upon seeing the pills within, excitement instantly flashed wildly through her beautiful eyes!

She then drew a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the excitement in her heart before slowly taking out a pill from the ring.

"What a pity. Miss Liu's mid-grade quality is truly not worthy of such clamor!"

With that, Lin Churan opened her palm, revealing before everyone a crystal-clear pill that shimmered with an enticing glow.

The instant it appeared, pill fragrance spread through the air, refreshing the heart and delighting the mind!

Ling Tian, Liu Yunxi, and the third person all froze. When their gazes settled upon the pill, their expressions changed drastically!

This was actually a high-grade Essence Nurturing Pill!

The Violet Firmament Sect could actually refine Earth Tier high-grade pills!?