Open Your Dog Eyes and See What This Is!

"Who said I was a fraud?"

A voice suddenly rang out from within the crowd.

Everyone turned toward the source of the voice.

They saw a person wearing a bronze mask step out from the crowd.

He was the mysterious alchemy cultivator who had commissioned pills last night.

"You..."

Yun Feier stared at the newcomer in disbelief.

He had actually come.

Yun Ao was also shocked as he looked at the newcomer.

Lu Chen had actually arrived long ago. He had merely blended into the crowd and had not revealed himself right away.

He only appeared when everyone had grown impatient from waiting.

With the Yin-Yang Cauldron concealing his aura, even Jiang Yingyue, the Joyful Union Sect's Supreme Elder, had failed to sense his presence.

"This person..."

Jiang Yingyue, standing nearby, was immensely shocked.

This person had already arrived, yet she had failed to sense his existence.

Could this person's cultivation be even higher than hers?

At that moment, the vast marketplace fell completely silent.

Everyone stared in shock at the bronze-masked Lu Chen.

The rumored masked alchemy expert who could customize pills for others had actually appeared.

Lu Chen's appearance was a direct slap in the face to those who had mocked and ridiculed him, even calling him a fraud.

"Did you really refine the Foundation Establishment Pill I ordered?"

Yun Feier looked at Lu Chen and asked in a trembling voice.

Her cultivation had been stuck at the Perfected Tenth Layer of Qi Refining for two years. With the aid of a Foundation Establishment Pill, she would have a chance to cross the heavenly chasm between mortals and the immortal path and become a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

Everyone stared at Lu Chen.

"A Foundation Establishment Pill, that's all..."

Lu Chen said calmly.

He had to play the part of an expert—and make it convincing.

"A Foundation Establishment Pill, that's all?"

The surrounding crowd was stunned.

He made it sound so easy.

That was a Foundation Establishment Pill, a spiritual pill that allowed mortal cultivators to set foot on the path of immortality.

Pills that could directly help cultivators advance their cultivation realms were the hardest to refine.

Foundation Establishment Pills were high-grade pills.

"Fellow Daoist, this old man is Lin Daoyun, a Grand Alchemy Master of the Sacred Pill Sect. Even I cannot refine Foundation Establishment Pills. Judging by your voice, you should be quite young. This old man has never heard of or seen such a young alchemy grandmaster. Fellow Daoist, could you perhaps be a fraud?"

An old man with crane-white hair and a youthful face stepped forward and questioned him.

People in the crowd immediately echoed him.

"Fellow Daoist, I advise you to remove your mask and explain your origins. Otherwise, I'm afraid you may have to suffer some physical pain!"

The old man stroked his beard.

Many people had already doubted Lu Chen's identity.

After Lin Daoyun said this, even more people became suspicious.

"Master Lin, what do you mean by that?"

Yun Ao looked coldly at Lin Daoyun.

This man belonged to the Lin Household.

Because Lin Shicai, the younger brother of the Lin Household head, had died outside Hehuan Town—and because Lin Shicai had clashed with Yun Ao at the House of Ten Thousand Beauties before his death—everyone believed the Yun Household had done it.

The Lin Household and the Yun Household were now at daggers drawn.

Lu Chen looked at Lin Daoyun without speaking.

"What do I mean? Today, this old man will expose this fraud. Trying to swindle people under false pretenses in Hehuan Town will not do!"

Lin Daoyun said coldly.

"That's right, frauds should be beaten to death!"

"Our Hehuan Town does not tolerate frauds."

"May a fraud's entire household die!"

The surrounding people angrily chimed in.

"You call me a fraud. Do you have any evidence?"

Lu Chen looked calmly at Lin Daoyun.

"Besides, whom did I cheat? Who was cheated by me?"

Lu Chen stared coldly at Lin Daoyun.

"This..."

Lin Daoyun froze upon hearing that.

The people around them were also stunned.

That was right—whom had he cheated?

Who had been cheated by him?

"I see that at your age, after cultivating the Dao of alchemy for an entire lifetime, your heart is still so narrow. Your alchemy has already reached its end. For the rest of your life, you can only be a Grand Alchemy Master."

Lu Chen shook his head.

"What did you say?"

Lin Daoyun glared furiously at Lu Chen.

"Fellow tradesmen are natural enemies. You're afraid I'll steal your business, so you jumped out to target me, aren't you?"

Lu Chen sneered inwardly. The market in Hehuan Town was only so large. The town already had the Joyful Union Sect's pill pavilion, while the Sacred Pill Sect had also established the Sacred Pill Pavilion here to sell pills. Now another person had come to snatch a piece of the meat by customizing pills for cultivators. Naturally, they could not sit still.

"Shut your mouth! How could Master Lin be such a person?"

Someone shouted angrily as he stepped out from the crowd.

"That's Lin Tianhe, an elder of the Lin Household!"

Someone recognized the newcomer.

"Humph, humph. Master Lin, you're also from the Lin Household, aren't you? You two brothers are putting on a double act here!"

Yun Ao said coldly.

"Master Lin is absolutely not that kind of person."

Someone in the crowd fawned over Lin Daoyun.

After all, befriending a Grand Alchemy Master brought countless benefits.

"Do you all believe Master Lin, or do you believe someone who does not dare show his true face and whose origins are unknown?"

Lin Tianhe shouted to the people around him.

"We believe Master Lin..."

"That's right, Master Lin is the chief alchemy master of the Sacred Pill Pavilion."

"Master Lin, don't worry. We all believe you."

"This person of unknown origin must be a fraud."

The surrounding crowd loudly joined in.

"Very good. I'll remember every one of you. Just don't come begging me for pills!"

Lu Chen looked at the ugly faces around him and memorized their appearances.

"Pah, do you really think you're some alchemy grandmaster?"

"Fraud, get the hell out of here."

"That's right, you damned fraud, get out of Hehuan Town."

"If you don't get out, I'll break your legs!"

The crowd surged forward, all of them condemning Lu Chen.

Lin Tianhe and Lin Daoyun both looked at Lu Chen smugly.

"Fine, fine, fine. You all say I'm a fraud, is that it?"

Lu Chen remained calm.

"If you're not a fraud, then take out the Foundation Establishment Pill!"

Alchemy master Lin Daoyun looked at Lu Chen with malicious delight.

"That's right. If you can't produce a Foundation Establishment Pill, you're a fraud."

The surrounding crowd loudly chimed in.

"You also think I'm a fraud?"

Lu Chen looked at Yun Feier.

"No... This..."

Yun Feier hesitated.

"Mm. The deal between us is canceled."

Lu Chen said directly.

"What..."

Yun Feier was stunned.

"Since you don't believe me, then seek someone more capable."

Lu Chen shook his head helplessly.

"..."

Yun Feier said nothing.

"Haha... You really are a fraud. You can't produce a Foundation Establishment Pill!"

Lin Tianhe laughed loudly.

"You can't produce the Foundation Establishment Pill ordered by the Yun Household's Third Miss, so you found an excuse to cancel the deal. You cunning fraud!"

Lin Daoyun shouted angrily.

The fury of the crowd was thoroughly ignited by the two of them. They pointed fingers at Lu Chen and cursed him.

At this point, even Yun Ao began to suspect that Lu Chen was a fraud.

Jiang Yingyue, the Joyful Union Sect's Supreme Elder, quietly watched this unfold from the side.

"Die, you damned fraud!"

Someone directly threw rotten eggs and spoiled vegetable leaves at Lu Chen.

Lu Chen's body trembled, and an invisible wave of Astral Force burst from within him, instantly sending the rotten eggs and spoiled vegetable leaves flying away.

An egg burst directly over the head of one cultivator who had cursed the loudest, splattering foul-smelling, spoiled egg yolk all over his head and face.

The people nearby were also struck by the rebounding rotten eggs and spoiled vegetable leaves, cursing as they scrambled away.

"You all say I'm a fraud, do you? You all think I can't produce a Foundation Establishment Pill, do you..."

"Open your dog eyes and see what this is!"

Lu Chen shouted furiously and abruptly raised his right hand. Pinched between his thumb, index finger, and middle finger was a crystal-clear pill.

Under the lamplight, the pill actually glimmered with a faint spiritual radiance.

It was as though Lu Chen's fingers were holding a shrunken moon.