Yun Yun Recovers, Refining the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill

Xiao Yan rubbed his nose. A gust of wind swept past, and the faint smell of blood vanished without a trace.

He did not think much of it, assuming he had merely imagined it. He looked toward Yun Yun, who was meditating nearby.

"Yun Zhi, how are your injuries and the seal now?" Xiao Yan asked.

Yun Yun's eyes brightened slightly as she looked at Xiao Yan, though her expression remained calm. "My injuries have mostly recovered. The seal will probably need a few more days."

Xiao Yan stroked his chin. "I see. Then keep trying to break the seal."

Without paying Yun Yun any further attention, Xiao Yan turned and left.

Yun Yun's cultivation had yet to recover, so she could not help him. He could only rely on himself.

Watching Xiao Yan come over, ask such a random question, and then leave, Yun Yun felt inexplicably annoyed.

Xiao Huo's attitude toward her was vastly different from how he treated Xiao Yi Xian.

Though she knew that her relationship with Xiao Huo could not possibly be as close as Xiao Yi Xian's.

"Yun Yun, you're so strange." She frowned and muttered to herself.

A few days later.

Deep within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan clenched his right hand into a fist and punched forward at high speed.

Boom!

An explosive crack rang out as flames streaked behind his fist, following it into the chest of a Tier Four Three-Headed Jackal Wood Wolf.

Roar!

The Three-Headed Jackal Wood Wolf let out an unwilling roar. Its unusual firewood-like body possessed extremely powerful defenses and fire resistance.

Yet beneath Xiao Yan's overwhelmingly powerful punch, a hole as thick as an arm was blasted straight through it. Purple flames began to frantically scorch its wooden body.

After only a few breaths, purple fire completely engulfed the Three-Headed Jackal Wood Wolf.

Within the flames, the Three-Headed Jackal Wood Wolf's body rapidly shrank.

When Xiao Yan withdrew the Purple Flame, all that remained was a pile of black ash and a Wood-Attribute Magic Core.

Looking at that Magic Core, Xiao Yan was so excited that he nearly cried.

"Finally! I finally got a Wood-Attribute Magic Core!"

Yao Lao's Soul Body appeared, equally excited.

"Brat Yan, I nearly thought your fortune had run dry. You spent so many days finding and killing more than ten Tier Four Magical Beasts, yet only got a single Wood-Attribute Magic Core. You truly had rotten luck."

Xiao Yan wiped away a bitter tear as well. "Teacher, don't say that. We got one in the end, didn't we?"

"With this Wood-Attribute Magic Core, the ingredients for refining the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill are finally complete."

Yao Lao felt as though a huge burden had been lifted. "Yes. Hurry back and refine the pill."

Xiao Yan did not waste any time. He picked up the Magic Core, summoned his Purple Cloud Wings, and flew toward the little valley.

Before long, he returned to the valley.

Before Xiao Yan even landed, he saw Yun Yun soaring through the sky with her wings spread. He knew very well what those pair of cyan Dou Qi wings signified.

Yun Yun saw Xiao Yan at the same time he saw her.

The two landed together.

Xiao Yan beamed. "Congratulations, congratulations. The seal has finally been broken."

Yun Yun nodded calmly and smiled faintly. "I also have to thank you and Miss Xiao Yi Xian. Thanks to your help in quickly healing my injuries, I was able to break the Amethyst Seal so soon."

"From now on, as agreed, I will follow your orders for one month."

"That could not be better." One piece of good news followed another, putting Xiao Yan in an even better mood.

"Is there anything you need me to do right now?" Yun Yun asked.

Xiao Yan shook his head. "There is, but there's no rush. Let me refine a pill first."

"Refining pills? All right, I'll stand guard for you," Yun Yun volunteered.

From her initiative, Xiao Yan keenly sensed that Yun Yun wanted to settle this debt of gratitude as quickly as possible.

He did not care. He directly took out his Medicine Cauldron and began refining the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill in an open patch of ground.

"By the way, where did Xiao Yi Xian go?" Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun.

Yun Yun glanced at the wooden house. "She seems to still be asleep."

"Is that so? Maybe she was tired. Let her sleep peacefully." Xiao Yan did not think much of it and began refining the pill.

A Fourth Rank Fire-Attribute Magic Core, a Fourth Rank Wood-Attribute Magic Core, one Soul-Piercing Leaf...

As Xiao Yan took out the medicinal ingredients, Yun Yun said in surprise, "Fourth Rank Magic Cores? Are you refining a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill?"

Xiao Yan nodded calmly. "Yes, the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill."

"The Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill?!" Yun Yun was no longer merely surprised. She was utterly shocked.

Though the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill was also a Tier 4 Medicinal Pill, its refinement difficulty was no less than that of a Tier 5 Medicinal Pill.

Its effect was to raise the cultivation of a Da Dou Shi by one star. Furthermore, the same person could consume two of them, gaining a full two stars and saving an unknown amount of arduous cultivation.

Within the entire Jia Ma Empire, only Fa Ma and Gu He could refine this kind of pill.

That meant Xiao Huo was neither the Tier 3 Alchemist she had initially assumed him to be nor the Tier 4 Alchemist she had just suspected him of being. He was a Fifth-Rank Alchemist!

Yun Yun suddenly felt the urge to recruit him, but when she remembered that she had approached Xiao Huo under a false identity, she could not bring herself to say it.

After thinking it over again and again, she ultimately only sighed and said nothing more.

Xiao Yan began refining the pill. Purple Flame surged forth and entered the Medicine Cauldron.

Afterward, medicinal ingredients and Magic Cores were fed into the Medicine Cauldron one after another, transforming into medicinal liquid.

As time passed, Xiao Yan condensed the medicinal liquid into a pill.

Purple mist slowly drifted out of the Medicine Cauldron.

This was a characteristic of Tier 4 Medicinal Pills: colored pill fragrance!

The pill fragrance from Xiao Yan's Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill was so rich that it directly mingled with the mist overhead, adding a touch of purple to the entire little valley.

This showed just how high the quality of the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill he had refined was.

Looking at the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, Yun Yun thought of her disciple, Nalan Yanran.

According to the growth path she had planned for her, Nalan Yanran should be able to reach the Da Dou Shi realm before her duel with Xiao Yan. If she took a Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill on top of that, would her chances of winning not improve even further?

"Xiao Huo, can you refine another batch of Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills?" Yun Yun asked.

"In exchange, you may name your terms. As long as they are within my capabilities, I will do my utmost to fulfill them."

"Do your utmost?" Xiao Yan put away the pill and looked Yun Yun up and down.

Yun Yun's entire body went numb, and she said in embarrassed anger, "Not that!"

Xiao Yan frowned. "What are you talking about? I was just thinking that with your skills, there should be a faction behind you."

"Since you want to make a deal with me, that works too. I'm interested in Beast Flames."

"Let's stay in contact. You find Beast Flames for me, and I'll refine pills for you. How does that sound?"

Yun Yun sighed in relief and said seriously, "Of course. Once I return to the faction I belong to, I will mobilize its resources to search for Beast Flames for you."

Xiao Yan naturally knew what Yun Yun wanted the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill for—Nalan Yanran.

But he did not care in the slightest.

Let alone giving Nalan Yanran a few extra stars in the Da Dou Shi realm, even if she somehow leaped straight into the Dou Wang realm, he would feel no pressure whatsoever.

A Tier Five Magical Beast's body was just that powerful.

"The deal is settled. Now let's discuss the important matter. Since your cultivation has recovered, come with me to hunt the Tier Six Magical Beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. I need the essence blood from their hearts," Xiao Yan said bluntly.

Yun Yun did not understand Xiao Huo's purpose, but she did not ask.

She was the one being ordered about. All she had to do was obediently listen.

Xiao Yan was very satisfied with that. He put away the Medicine Cauldron and headed for the wooden house.

One day apart felt like three autumns.

He was going to see whether his little healer-cook had woken up.