Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid

"What are you doing?"

Xiao Dong rubbed the white jade storage ring in his hand, his pitch-black eyes sweeping across the three women's distinctly charming faces, and the corners of his mouth lifted into a somewhat playful arc as he spat out two flat words.

"Alchemy."

The simple two words landed in the desolate valley, yet they struck like a bolt of thunder from a clear sky, causing the atmosphere in the arena to instantly fall silent for a moment.

"Alchemy?!"

Xiao Xiao's large eyes widened to their absolute limit in a split second, her delicately carved face filled with shock as her small hands covered her slightly parted cherry lips and she gasped aloud.

As for Ning Tian beside her, her clear, pretty face trembled violently, huge waves of sheer disbelief surging within her beautiful eyes as the graceful, heaving curves of her chest shook intensely.

On the present Douluo Continent, the utilization of medicinal herbs was often crude to the extreme, mostly limited to simple slicing, boiling, or grinding into powder, which wasted the medicinal efficacy at the slightest mistake; only an extremely rare few special Soul Masters knew how to craft medicinal pills!

Could this youth before her who looked barely in his teens-whose physical body and strength were terrifying enough to rival a humanoid ferocious beast-actually... be an alchemy grandmaster of a kind that the entire continent would fail to find even with a lantern?!

"Hah, keep bragging!"

Just as Ning Tian was shaken to her core, Wu Feng-whose temper was always fiery and hot-headed-finally couldn't help but curl her alluring red lips after her initial astonishment, crossing her arms to squeeze her full, plump voluptuous curves into an even more breathtaking outline, and casting a sidelong, deeply suspicious glance at Xiao Dong with her narrow eyes.

"Every single grandmaster-level figure across the entire continent who truly understands alchemy is an old monster who has lived for over a hundred years with a beard dragging on the ground. How old are you, and how dare you brazenly boast here that you know how to make pills?!"

Hearing Wu Feng's provocative challenge, Xiao Dong not only didn't show a shred of anger, but instead a wicked smile curled at the corners of his mouth that made the three women's hearts prickle with slight unease.

"What, judging by your tone, you don't quite believe this young master's skills?"

Xiao Dong pillowed his head with his hands, his gaze unceremoniously sweeping slowly over Wu Feng's slender, straight, completely uncovered long legs and her tight short leather skirt, and said mockingly: "Since you don't believe it, how about making a bet with this young master?"

"A bet's a bet, what are you wagering?!"

Feeling her whole body grow somewhat hot from Xiao Dong's fiery gaze, Wu Feng's rebellious and stubborn streak flared right up, puffing out her full chest and biting her silver teeth as she retorted.

"Straightforward."

Xiao Dong smiled faintly, a thought stirring within his mind as a surge of mental power quietly surged forth, rapidly sketching out a bizarre picture in midair formed from golden lines of light.

Those were several extremely thin and narrow strips of light fabric, with the upper piece barely able to cover the two vital points on her chest-a miniature triangular cloth patch-while the lower piece was an ultra-low-waisted, narrow fabric that was almost completely hollow, tied at the sides merely with thin strings.

A modern classic, three-string bikini swimsuit!

"If this young master truly refines a divine pill, the stakes of this wager are quite simple: you will obediently change into this set of fabric for me, without wearing any undergarments or outer robes, and serve right by this young master's side in just this fashion, how about it?"

Xiao Dong pointed to the extremely scandalous and exposed pattern in midair, a supremely bewitching smile hanging at the corners of his mouth.

"You... you shameless bastard!!"

Seeing clearly the shameful fabric in midair that practically exposed a woman's private areas completely, Wu Feng's entire fiery, gorgeous face turned red enough to drip blood in a split second, even her snowy, slender neck flush with an alluring pink as she trembled with rage, feeling both humiliated and annoyed.

How could there be such a lewd and shameless clothing style in this world? What difference was there between wearing this on one's body and stripping naked for anyone to casually admire?!

Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao beside her, upon catching sight of the bikini design, likewise felt their pretty faces burn, hastily shifting their gazes away in mortification as even their earlobes blazed with intense heat.

Yet, amidst her embarrassment and indignation, Ning Tian's lovely eyes couldn't help but secretly glance at Xiao Dong's calm and collected demeanor, a nameless sense of anticipation and curiosity quietly welling up in her heart. Could this man truly possess such heaven-defying means?!

"What, weren't you yelling quite fiercely just a moment ago? Now you're scared?"

Xiao Dong cast a sideways glance, sneering nonchalantly: "If you don't have the guts, you'd better put away that aggressive, sharp-tongued face of yours in front of this young master from now on."

"Who... who's scared of you! A bet's a bet!"

Provoked by Xiao Dong's contemptuous words, the usually proud and strong-willed Wu Feng had her mind turn hot, biting down hard on her silver teeth and squeezing the words out from between them: "If you lose and can't refine the pill, you'll have to be my beast of burden and fetch me tea and water!"

"Deal."

Xiao Dong let out a hearty laugh, lingering meaningfully over Wu Feng's striking, slender, and attractive legs with his gaze before slowly withdrawing his mind and dispensing with any further nonsense.

The vast information of the sixth-grade alchemy technique whirled at high speed deep within his mind. Pondering slightly, Xiao Dong decided to test the waters first by refining the foundation-cleansing divine medicine that held an exceptionally loud reputation on the Dou Qi Continent: the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.

"Rise!"

Xiao Dong's gaze turned abruptly sharp, his palm lifting into empty space as his hundred-thousand-year third soul skill, mental control, roared out without reservation!

"Swish, swish, swish!"

The Purple Leaf Orchid Grass, the Bone-Washing Flower, and a wisp of soul beast blood flew out neatly through the air under the shocked gazes of the three women, pulled as if guided by invisible threads, and hovered with extreme stability in the air around Xiao Dong!

"Wow... what an amazing display of telekinesis!"

Xiao Xiao blinked her large eyes beside him, unable to help clapping her hands in starry-eyed admiration.

Meanwhile, Ning Tian and Wu Feng exchanged a glance, the doubt in their eyes quietly dissipating by more than half at this moment. Just this effortless, miraculous feat of mental telekinesis alone was enough to make any high-level soul master feel deeply ashamed of their own inferiority!

"This is still merely a warm-up."

The corners of Xiao Dong's mouth lifted slightly, and then his right palm flipped abruptly, a thought flashing through his mind!

"Boom!"

A wisp of translucent, milky-white Purifying Lotus Demon Flame suddenly surged from his palm, expanding against the wind in the blink of an eye to transform into a pure white fire cauldron rotating quietly in midair!

The temperature between heaven and earth plunged into an eerie stagnation at that exact instant, the three women's delicate bodies trembling as they once again felt that terrifying divine purifying might originating from the deepest depths of their souls!

"Fall!"

Xiao Dong's sleeve swept violently, and several purple-black Purple Leaf Orchid Grass stalks were tossed straight into the milky-white fire cauldron without the slightest hesitation!

If it were ordinary alchemists, they would be extremely cautious when extracting medicinal properties, fearing that the flame temperature would be too high and incinerate the herbs to ashes; yet Xiao Dong possessed the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, which held an absolute purifying special effect against impurities!

"Hiss, hiss!"

Wrapped within the violent demon flame, it took a mere few breaths' time for the hard roots and mottled residue on the surface of the Purple Leaf Orchid Grass to be forcibly evaporated into wisps of gray-white azure smoke by the overwhelmingly tyrannical demon flame, drifting away along the cauldron's mouth!

Yet right at the very center of the flames, only a few drops of crystal-clear, deep purple pure medicinal liquid radiating a rich vital glow remained, suspended quietly like pearls!

"To think... that even all the impurities within the herbs can be so easily and thoroughly weeded out?!"

Ning Tian's breathing stalled abruptly, her chest heaving violently as utter shock filled her lovely eyes.

The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect also possessed elders proficient in pharmacology, but even those seniors who had immersed themselves in the Dao of medicine for decades required several hours of slow simmering over gentle heat just to refine a single high-grade herb, yet this youth before her had used merely the blink of an eye?!

Following that, the Bone-Washing Flower and soul beast blood were continuously tossed into the fire cauldron.

Eliminating impurities and melting outer shells, under the cheat-like, heaven-defying assistance of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, every single refining step flowed as smoothly as drifting clouds and flowing water, brimming with a mesmerizing and intoxicating artistic beauty.

Once all the medicinal materials had completely transformed into pure medicinal liquid, Xiao Dong's gaze narrowed slightly, and vast, ocean-like overwhelming mental power surged forth from his Mud Pill Palace, transforming into countless fine threads of divine will that forcefully pulled and assimilated the thick medicinal liquids of mutually conflicting properties together little by little!

The three women stared fixedly with wide eyes, unblinking as they watched the emerald-green ball of light rolling and fusing in midair, their breathing completely stopping of its own accord at this moment for fear of making the slightest sound to disrupt this miraculous act of creation!

Such profound and wondrous means to the extreme were something they had simply never heard of on the present Douluo Continent!