A Waste Nascent Soul Pill?

Lu Chen had just hurried back from the foot of the mountain when he saw Manager Pang pacing outside the entrance to the valley where the Waste Pill Repository was located.

He could not help being startled.

Could this guy have already discovered that he had left his post without permission last night?

Lu Chen never would have dreamed that Manager Pang had appeared here so early in the morning to collect his corpse.

Senior Sister Jiang Yurou from the inner sect thought that Lu Chen had finally been unable to resist opening the jade box containing that waste pill, causing the Pill Poison inside to erupt.

And Lu Chen was merely a little Qi Refining, First Layer cultivator. He absolutely could not withstand such potent Pill Poison and must have already died.

Therefore, she had someone pass word to Manager Pang, telling him to come collect Lu Chen's body.

However, Jiang Yurou could never have imagined that Lu Chen had turned disaster into fortune. Not only had his cultivation broken through to Qi Refining, Fourth Level, but the Yin-Yang Creation Cauldron within his body had also advanced after refining a vast amount of Pill Poison, awakening a new function.

"What should I do?"

Lu Chen panicked.

Manager Pang was about to enter the valley.

"Manager Pang..."

Lu Chen had no choice but to step forward.

"You..."

Hearing the voice, Manager Pang turned around and was instantly shocked, staring at Lu Chen in utter disbelief.

Had he not been told to come collect Lu Chen's corpse?

Why was Lu Chen standing alive and kicking right in front of him?

That person from the inner sect should not have lied to him.

"What wind has blown Manager Pang all the way over here?"

Lu Chen asked with a smile.

"I came to... Hm, what is going on with you? Why are you coming back from outside? Could it be that you abandoned your post and dared to slack off?"

Manager Pang glared coldly at Lu Chen.

"How would I dare slack off? It was just a little stuffy inside, so I came out for some fresh air."

Lu Chen explained.

"Is that really so?"

Manager Pang stared at Lu Chen, studying the expression on his face.

He actually knew that the air in the valley was mixed with Pill Poison. Staying inside for too long was far more serious than simply feeling stuffy.

"How would I dare deceive Manager Pang? If Manager Pang thinks I am unfit for the job, then you can have someone else guard the Waste Pill Repository."

Lu Chen said righteously.

"Then keep working here properly!"

Manager Pang had wanted Lu Chen dead from the start, intending for him to be corroded by the Pill Poison in the Waste Pill Repository until he died.

Why would he transfer Lu Chen away?

"Guard the Waste Pill Repository carefully. If I find out you dared to slack off, I'll whip you to death."

Manager Pang cursed as he left.

Damn it, they had sent me here early in the morning to collect Lu Chen's corpse, but the brat was alive and well. What corpse was there to collect?

Manager Pang was utterly frustrated.

He needed to hurry back and tell that person that Lu Chen was still alive.

Lu Chen let out a breath of relief. Manager Pang had not discovered that he had been absent from Waste-Pill Valley last night.

He watched Manager Pang's retreating figure indifferently.

Pang Yong, Pang Yong, did you know that your cousin had already been stomped to death by me?

Lu Chen turned and walked into Waste-Pill Valley.

In a pavilion on the back mountain.

"What... Lu Chen is still alive? How is that possible?"

Jiang Yurou looked at Manager Pang in disbelief.

With Pill Poison that powerful, how could a Qi Refining, First Layer piece of trash possibly endure it?

Moreover, she had already told Eldest Senior Sister that Lu Chen was dead.

What was she supposed to do now?

"It's true! Even if this lowly one had ten times the courage, I would not dare deceive you, Senior Sister!"

Manager Pang was drenched in sweat, terrified beyond measure.

"Forget it. Let him slowly be eroded by the Pill Poison in the Waste Pill Repository until he dies. In any case, it will take half a month at most."

Jiang Yurou said calmly.

"The Sect Grand Tournament is approaching. Do not come bother me again!"

With that, Jiang Yurou flicked her sleeve and departed.

Before Jiang Yurou, Manager Pang was nothing but a lapdog. The moment she left, his gaze immediately turned sinister.

Damn it, I need to prepare for the Sect Grand Tournament too.

I want to take another step forward too.

The once-in-ten-years Sect Grand Tournament of the Joyful Union Sect was the day countless disciples rose to prominence.

If he could defeat the manager of the Mysterious-Tier Alchemy District, he could replace him.

As a manager in the Mysterious-Tier Alchemy District, he would be able to come into contact with higher-level alchemists.

Manager Pang reached into his storage pouch and tightly gripped a small jade vial containing a Realm-Breaking Pill.

He had gone through great difficulty to obtain that Realm-Breaking Pill.

After enduring in silence for so long, it was time to improve his cultivation.

Manager Pang also turned and left the back mountain.

At this moment, inside the kitchen beside the small building in Waste-Pill Valley.

Lu Chen began lighting a fire to cook.

During the day, he had to remain by the small building and wait for the people in the alchemy rooms to send waste pills over for storage in the Waste Pill Repository.

Only the night belonged to him.

Tonight, he would restore waste pills.

Tonight, he would reforge damaged artifacts.

He currently possessed eighty-one strands of Yin-Yang Essence.

After tonight, no one would be able to stop him from embarking upon the Great Dao of Immortality.

Moreover, the Yin-Yang Cauldron within him had awakened a new ability. He could use both hands to identify what kind of pills those waste pills had originally been.

No more opening blind boxes.

Daytime was very boring.

He was the only guarding disciple in Waste-Pill Valley.

Because no one was willing to serve here.

Whenever he had nothing to do, he would sit cross-legged before the small building and use the Yin-Yang Cauldron to refine the surrounding Pill Poison.

The waste pills from the alchemy rooms were not sent to the Waste Pill Repository for storage on the very same day.

Low-grade waste pills in particular had to accumulate to a certain amount before being sent to the Waste Pill Repository.

Those high-grade waste pills, however, contained potent Pill Poison. They were sent to the Waste Pill Repository immediately and then sealed away.

Nothing happened during the day.

Before he knew it, the sky was already filled with evening clouds.

After dinner, Lu Chen activated the grand formation to seal the entrance of the valley, then turned and headed deep into the valley, making straight for Number Eighteen Waste-Pill Room.

He quickly arrived at Number Eighteen Waste-Pill Room.

Without hesitation, he directly opened the Waste-Pill Room.

Pill Poison permeated the room.

Threads of black vapor formed from Pill Poison curled through the air.

He went straight to the wall cabinet where the pill from last night had been stored.

That waste pill had nearly claimed his life.

Lu Chen removed the jade talisman embedded in the wall cabinet. Runes immediately appeared across its surface, and in the next moment, they sank back into the cabinet.

The seal had failed.

He opened the wall cabinet and saw the jade box containing the waste pill lying quietly inside.

Lu Chen carefully took the jade box from the cabinet, then sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Hm, I want to see what kind of waste pill this is, for its Pill Poison to be so powerful."

Lu Chen carefully opened the jade box.

This time, a powerful surge of Pill Poison still erupted from the jade box.

However, this wave of Pill Poison was far weaker than the one that had erupted last night.

With a flip of his right hand, the Yin-Yang Cauldron immediately appeared in his palm.

The surrounding Pill Poison instantly surged toward the Yin-Yang Cauldron like mad, swallowed into it by the cauldron.

He held the Yin-Yang Cauldron in his right hand while carefully picking up the waste pill wreathed in Pill Poison from the jade box with his left.

The instant he picked up the waste pill, a line of text immediately appeared on the Yin-Yang Cauldron: Failed Nascent Soul Pill. Consume 50 strands of Yin-Yang Essence to restore!

This newly awakened function of the Yin-Yang Cauldron was simply too useful.

As long as he touched something with both hands, he would know what it was.

"Wait, a Failed Nascent Soul Pill? It can be restored by consuming fifty strands of Yin-Yang Essence?"

"What the hell is this? Starting right off with a king bomb?"

Lu Chen stared at the waste pill in his hand in disbelief.

He never could have imagined that this waste pill was actually a Nascent Soul Pill.

A Nascent Soul Pill! This was a heaven-defying spirit pill capable of allowing a great cultivator at Golden Core, Great Perfection to break through into the Nascent Soul Realm.

This kind of pill was incomparably precious and extremely difficult to refine.

Even for an Alchemical Grandmaster, refining this pill was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Only a Pill King had a chance of successfully refining it.

"Wait. The waste pill Senior Sister Jiang Yurou personally delivered to the Waste Pill Repository is a Failed Nascent Soul Pill. That means the Alchemical Grandmaster within the Joyful Union Sect is refining Nascent Soul Pills."

"The Joyful Union Sect Master's cultivation has been stuck at Golden Core, Great Perfection for many years. Why is she suddenly so eager to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm?"

"Could the Joyful Union Sect have encountered some great trouble?"

Lu Chen pondered.

Whatever. He would restore this waste Nascent Soul Pill first.

He directly tossed the waste pill into the Yin-Yang Creation Cauldron.

"Restore!"

Without any hesitation, he used the Yin-Yang Cauldron to restore the Failed Nascent Soul Pill.

Fifty strands of Yin-Yang Essence had been consumed in one go.

Lu Chen was very depressed.

He had worked so hard, nine times in one night, to obtain eighty-one strands of Yin-Yang Essence. Now, restoring a single Failed Nascent Soul Pill had used up more than half of them.

At this moment, within the Joyful Union Secret Realm.

"Failed again..."

A white-robed woman as beautiful as an immortal sat cross-legged before a massive pill furnace, her face full of frustration and helplessness.

She was drenched in sweat, her clothes soaked through with fragrant perspiration, revealing her breathtaking, curvaceous figure.

Powerful heat waves billowed from the pill furnace, distorting even the surrounding air.

"Martial Uncle, if we still cannot refine a Nascent Soul Pill and my cultivation cannot break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, then once the Black Tortoise Sect learns that our Joyful Union Sect's Nascent Soul Realm patriarch has fallen, they will definitely move to swallow up our Joyful Union Sect. What are we to do then?"

A purple-robed woman stepped forward.

She was none other than the Joyful Union Sect Master, Ye Chenyu.