Lu Chen returned to Waste-Pill Valley at daybreak.
He directly erected a sign in front of the small building. It read: People have three urgent needs. Leave a message if you need anything.
The unspoken meaning was that he had gone to take a shit.
He thoughtfully placed paper, a brush, and ink on the table, then plunged straight into the depths of the valley.
The entire Waste-Pill Valley contained eighteen Waste Pill Repositories.
He could forget about the repositories at the front; they only stored low-grade waste pills.
His target was clear: the Waste Pill Repositories deepest in the valley.
Especially Numbers Seventeen, Sixteen, and Fifteen.
He went straight to Number Seventeen Waste-Pill Room.
Without any hesitation, he opened Number Seventeen Waste-Pill Room.
When he pushed open the repository's doors, he found that, like Number Eighteen Waste-Pill Room, its pills were stored in wall cabinets.
He immediately got to work.
He started with the wall cabinets on the right.
As he opened cabinet after cabinet, the concentration of Pill Poison inside the repository rapidly soared.
He had wanted to use the Five Elements Swallowing Heaven Scripture to refine the Pill Poison, but it was too potent for him to endure.
He had no choice but to let the Yin-Yang Cauldron in his dantian have its fill.
Very soon, the Yin-Yang Cauldron stirred.
A powerful Devouring force spread from Lu Chen's dantian, Devouring the surrounding Pill Poison.
Lu Chen carefully inspected the waste pills in the repository.
"None..."
He opened thirteen cabinets in a row but failed to find any Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pills.
He continued opening cabinets.
Yet even after opening another twenty cabinets, he still found no Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pills.
I refuse to believe those Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pills grew wings and flew away.
Soon, he had opened every cabinet along two entire walls—one hundred and sixty wall cabinets in all.
Yet, to his frustration, he still had not found any Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pills.
He did find several ordinary Realm-Breaking Pill waste pills, as well as a few Foundation Establishment Pill waste pills.
There was not a single Nascent Soul Pill waste pill.
The Joyful Union Sect's alchemy was really lacking.
The highest-grade waste pills he could find were Nascent Soul Pill waste pills.
As for Spirit Transformation Pill waste pills, which were of an even higher grade than Nascent Soul Pills, this place probably did not have any at all.
As far as he knew, although the Joyful Union Sect placed equal importance on alchemy and dual cultivation, it had never produced a Pill King.
The Joyful Union Sect's current Supreme Elder was its only Alchemical Grandmaster, still far from becoming a Pill King.
"Didn't Jiang Yurou say that Elder Su Mei refined a batch of Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pills three months ago? How could I not find the waste pills?"
Lu Chen continued opening the remaining wall cabinets.
However, when he opened the final cabinet and took out the waste pill inside, he was disappointed.
It was not a Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pill, but a Dragon Soaring Pill waste pill.
A Dragon Soaring Pill was a medicinal pill that could raise a cultivator's cultivation more effectively than a Realm-Breaking Pill.
But compared to a Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill, the Dragon Soaring Pill's effect in improving cultivation was far inferior.
Lu Chen put the waste pill in his hand back into the cabinet, then sealed it shut.
With disappointment written all over his face, he walked out of the repository and locked its doors.
"Where is the Waste Pill Repository guard disciple!"
Just then, a loud shout rang out from ahead.
Lu Chen was startled and hurriedly rushed out.
He saw a woman in red standing before the small building, holding a jade box in her hands.
"An inner sect senior sister?"
Lu Chen was startled again.
For an inner sect senior sister to personally deliver waste pills to the Waste Pill Repository, the waste pills in that jade box were naturally high-grade ones.
"Waste Pill Repository disciple Lu Chen greets Senior Sister!"
Lu Chen hurriedly bowed.
Here in Waste-Pill Valley, he was the lowliest menial disciple of the Joyful Union Sect.
Her?
When the woman in red turned to look at him, he was startled.
She was none other than Lin Yue, the Lin Household's favored daughter whom he had met at the House of Ten Thousand Beauties last night.
"You are merely a menial guarding the Waste Pill Repository, yet you dared abandon your post and loaf around?"
Lin Yue said displeasedly.
"No, no, no, Senior Sister misunderstands. This disciple already explained the situation here. People have three urgent needs; this disciple merely went to relieve himself. I beg Senior Sister to be magnanimous and not hold it against me!"
Lu Chen hurriedly pointed at the wooden sign he had erected in front of the small building and explained.
"Forget it. Register this, then store these waste pills in the repository!"
Lin Yue said with a frown.
Though the Pill Poison lingering in the air here was very thin, it still made her uncomfortable.
Lu Chen hurriedly took out the ledger. "Please sign here, Senior Sister!"
Lin Yue picked up the brush, signed her name in the ledger, then tossed the brush onto the table and turned to leave.
Lu Chen then picked up the brush and wrote down the date in the ledger.
"Right, how had I not thought of that?"
Lu Chen was utterly vexed.
As long as he checked the ledger, would he not know which Waste Pill Repository held those Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pills?
"Three months ago..."
Lu Chen hurriedly flipped through the ledger.
Although the ledger did not record what kind of waste pills they were, as long as he checked all the waste pills stored three months ago, would he not be able to find the Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pills?
The waste pills delivered by inner sect senior sisters three months ago had all been stored in Numbers Fifteen and Sixteen Waste-Pill Rooms.
No wonder he had turned Number Seventeen Waste-Pill Room upside down without finding a single Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill.
He put away the ledger, picked up the jade box, and headed into the depths of the valley again.
Lu Chen opened Number Sixteen Waste-Pill Room.
A surge of black vapor immediately poured out from within.
The repository was actually filled with poisonous mist formed from Pill Poison.
He directly summoned the Yin-Yang Cauldron to use Devouring on the Pill Poison.
Very soon, the Yin-Yang Cauldron's Devouring had consumed every last trace of Pill Poison in the repository.
He strode into the repository and began inspecting its waste pills again.
Nothing. Again, nothing.
Lu Chen searched all through Number Sixteen Waste-Pill Room, yet still found nothing.
What was going on?
He casually opened an empty wall cabinet and placed the jade box in his hand inside, about to seal the cabinet shut.
"Wait..."
He suddenly thought of something.
Lin Yue's master was Elder Su Mei, and three months ago, it had been Elder Su Mei who opened the furnace to refine Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pills.
Lin Yue had delivered this jade box.
"Could it be..."
Lu Chen hurriedly took out the jade box.
His hands trembled as he carefully opened it.
Inside lay three waste pills shrouded in black vapor.
The Pill Poison contained within these three waste pills was extremely potent.
Black poisonous mist completely enveloped the waste pills.
He reached out and picked up one waste pill.
A line of words immediately appeared on the Yin-Yang Cauldron in his dantian: Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill waste pill. Can be remolded by consuming two hundred strands of Yin-Yang Essence.
"Hahaha..."
Lu Chen could not help laughing. The box really contained Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pills—his luck was simply incredible!
After wearing out iron shoes in fruitless search, he had found them without the slightest effort!
"No, Elder Su Mei's failed pills from three months ago were only sent to the Waste Pill Repository today?"
Lu Chen was deeply puzzled.
If Lin Yue had delivered them two days later, would he not have been finished?
That had been close.
If he had lost his contest with Yun Feiyan, he would have had to let her deal with him as she pleased.
It seemed that in the future, he must never do anything unless he had absolute confidence.
Wait, remolding one Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill required two hundred strands of Yin-Yang Essence?
"..."
Lu Chen was utterly depressed.
He only had two hundred and seven strands of Yin-Yang Essence.
Remolding one Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill would nearly drain all his Yin-Yang Essence.
To defeat Yun Feiyan, two hundred strands it was.
Yun Feiyan, Yun Feiyan, you were doomed to lose.
The lofty chief disciple of the Joyful Union Sect would soon become the cultivation furnace of a lowly menial disciple like him.
So what if she was an inner sect fairy?
Would she not still be at his mercy?
Thinking of this, Lu Chen felt that everything had been worth it.
If one day Yun Feiyan learned that she, the Joyful Union Sect's chief disciple, had become the cultivation furnace of the sect's lowliest menial disciple, what would she think?
Hahaha...
"Remold!"
Lu Chen did not hesitate in the slightest.
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