Harvest!

After seeing off the envoy, Lu Chen and Yun Qingyue returned to the hall.

"Congratulations, Brother Lu—no, I should call you Marquis Lu, Commander Lu now." Yun Qingyue smiled. She was genuinely happy for Lu Chen. These rewards recognized the merits he had fought for with his life, and would also make his road ahead steadier.

Lu Chen shook his head. "Empty titles, that's all. What truly matters is this Life Creation Pill formula and the opportunity to establish the Evil-Quelling Guard." He pondered for a moment. "Qingyue, are you confident you can refine the Life Creation Pill?"

Yun Qingyue took the copy of the formula Lu Chen handed her and examined it carefully. After a while, her brows drew together slightly.

"This pill is seventh-grade. Its main ingredients—Life Creation Fruit, ten-thousand-year jade marrow, star sand, Dragonblood Ganoderma, and the like—are all rare treasures of heaven and earth, with extremely demanding requirements for age and quality. There are also forty-nine auxiliary ingredients, none of them ordinary. The refining method is incomparably complex as well. It requires a special pill flame, combined with the power of the stars, and takes forty-nine days. Not the slightest mistake can be made during that time. With my current cultivation and attainments in alchemy... the success rate is under thirty percent. Even if my master personally acted, it would be difficult to surpass fifty percent."

Lu Chen was not disappointed by this.

A seventh-grade spirit pill was already rare in the world. Difficulty in refining it was only natural.

A thirty-percent chance was already quite good.

If it truly came to that, they could seek a more accomplished alchemist from Medicine King Valley, or... enter the Return to Ruins Secret Realm to search for an existing "Life Creation Spring."

"It's fine. We'll do our best