This Pill Furnace Was That Powerful!

"Swapped it?"

Ye Fei found it hard to believe.

He remembered seeing no difference from before when he took out the pill furnace.

Besides, how had Azure Dragon managed it in such a short time?

"You'll find out the next time you come in."

Before Ye Fei could ask, Azure Dragon's voice rang out again.

Hearing that, Ye Fei could only let the matter rest. After a moment's thought, he left Qingyuan Town.

He planned to return to the Free and Easy Gate.

Now that he had the Shipi Grass seeds, he only needed to grow them to refine Skin Refining Pills.

With Skin Refining Pills, reaching the Skin Refinement Realm of the nine body refinement realms would be much easier for him.

His curiosity about the pill furnace drove him to find a secluded grove after leaving Qingyuan Town and enter the Azure Dragon Sword.

Once Ye Fei entered, the Azure Dragon Sword turned into a speck of dust and attached itself to a tree.

This time, the moment Ye Fei entered the Azure Dragon Sword, he found Azure Dragon sitting cross-legged beside the pool.

"Senior, how did you swap it?"

Ye Fei hurried over and asked curiously.

"By making an identical one, of course."

Azure Dragon smiled calmly.

"You could make one that quickly?"

Disbelief filled Ye Fei's face.

"What's so difficult about that?"

As he spoke, Azure Dragon casually reached toward the ground, and a clump of yellow earth floated into the air.

In the blink of an eye, his divine sense shaped the clump of earth into the likeness of the pill furnace.

Judging by its appearance alone, there was no difference.

"That's enough of a demonstration. Refining it with divine fire would consume my energy. There's no point in wasting it needlessly."

Azure Dragon pointed with a finger of his right hand, sending the furnace molded from yellow earth over to Ye Fei.

"Amazing!"

Seeing Azure Dragon create an identical pill furnace with such ease filled Ye Fei with admiration.

"Once you form your core and transform it into a nascent soul, making things like this will be child's play."

Azure Dragon shook his head dismissively.

"Then how did you know I would hand over the furnace, Senior?"

Ye Fei's face reddened a little after he asked.

He felt rather cowardly.

"Haha, with your abilities, that was the only path open to you. It was the wise choice."

"A true man knows when to bend and when to stand tall. If you threw away your life over a mere pill furnace, you'd be either a fool or an idiot."

"Fortunately, you're a fairly clever lad. Otherwise, I'd have to find someone else."

As Azure Dragon spoke, he looked at Ye Fei and nodded in satisfaction.

"Why did this furnace catch your eye, Senior?"

"It looks quite ordinary."

Azure Dragon's assessment finally made Ye Fei feel a little better, and only then did he ask out of curiosity.

"This furnace has an extraordinary history. It's the Medicine God Cauldron once used by the Medicine God, not an ordinary pill furnace."

"However, I examined it. It's completely intact, but this lid was clearly added later."

"Its original lid was the Four Symbols Lid. It must have been lost, so someone later made this replacement."

Azure Dragon explained.

"Then do you mean this furnace is useless, Senior?"

Ye Fei felt a little disappointed.

"Who said it was useless?"

"Although this lid was added later and can't bring out the Medicine God Cauldron's full capabilities, it can still bring out thirty or forty percent."

Azure Dragon shot Ye Fei a glare and explained again.

"Only thirty or forty percent?"

"Then isn't it barely any different from an ordinary pill furnace?"

Ye Fei spoke dismissively.

"You brat, your knowledge really is shallow."

"The Medicine God Cauldron was the greatest pill cauldron of ancient times. Even at only thirty or forty percent of its power, it's beyond anything today's pill furnaces can compare to."

Azure Dragon tapped Ye Fei's forehead with his illusory finger, looking exasperated, as though lamenting iron that refused to become steel.

"Huh?"

"This pill furnace is that powerful!"

"Then will my success rate be much higher if I use it to refine pills?"

Ye Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked excitedly.

"That's true enough. Once you're proficient, it should be at least sixty percent."

Azure Dragon replied with a smile.

"That high?"

"If it's that high, I won't have to worry about refining pills anymore."

The answer filled Ye Fei with delight.

"Don't celebrate too soon. Refining pills requires a good Alchemy Formula."

"You don't even have an Alchemy Formula yet. How can you talk about refining pills?"

Azure Dragon immediately doused Ye Fei's enthusiasm with a bucket of cold water.

"Senior Azure Dragon, is there an Alchemy Formula in your legacy?"

Ye Fei asked hopefully.

"No. Our Azure Dragon Clan never takes pills, so where would we get an Alchemy Formula?"

Azure Dragon shook his head.

That answer left Ye Fei deeply disappointed.

"There's no need to be disappointed. Alchemy Formulas aren't rare. If fortune favors you, you'll obtain one soon."

Seeing Ye Fei's crestfallen expression, Azure Dragon smiled calmly and spoke meaningfully.

"I hope so."

Ye Fei let out a soft sigh.

After they chatted a little longer, Azure Dragon returned to the clouds.

Ye Fei cleared a small patch in the medicinal field and planted the fifty Shipi Grass seeds.

After finishing, he was just about to fly out of the Azure Dragon Sword when he sensed a group entering the grove.

Looking outside, Ye Fei discovered that they were Huo Qiuyang and his followers.

After entering the grove, Huo Qiuyang sat down beneath a tree in a huff, his face full of fury.

"Young master, please calm down. The Flowing Cloud Merchant Association has the Jiang Family backing it. They really aren't easy to provoke."

Seeing Huo Qiuyang's furious expression, a burly, black-clad man in the Foundation Establishment Realm tried to soothe him.

"Hmph, that bitch Jiang Liuyun! All I wanted was to feel her ass, and she got so aggressive she even summoned a Core Formation elder."

"If that woman Jiang Mengyun weren't around, our Rakshasa Gate would have swallowed up the Flowing Cloud Merchant Association long ago."

"I, Huo Qiuyang, swear that one day, I'll have all those Jiang Family women pleasuring themselves beneath me."

Huo Qiuyang snorted coldly, his face twisted viciously.

"I'm certain you'll accomplish it, young master."

The burly man flattered him.

"Have you contacted Li Zaitian?"

Huo Qiuyang asked.

"No. I've tried several times, but there's been no reply."

The burly man's brows knitted tightly, revealing some concern.

"Could something have happened?"

"That shouldn't be possible. Our Rakshasa Gate hasn't made any moves lately."

Huo Qiuyang frowned as he spoke.

"Liu Yihong seems to have brought a group here two months ago."

The burly man seemed to remember something.

"Liu Yihong?"

"The second brother from Liu Family Fort?"

Huo Qiuyang raised his brows.

"Yes. I heard his elder brother was killed by an outer disciple of the Free and Easy Gate named Ye Fei. That was also when the Yinluo Banner disappeared."

The burly man spoke cautiously.

"As far as I know, Liu Yishan's cultivation was no lower than yours, was it? How could an outer disciple have killed him?"

"There's probably more to this than meets the eye."

"Could those two women have known about our plan all along?"

Huo Qiuyang's expression darkened.

In his view, this matter was certainly not so simple.

"That, I don't know. According to Li Zaitian, the Yinluo Banner disappeared at that time."

"Later, Liu Yihong sent him a voice transmission saying Ye Fei had been killed, but the Yinluo Banner hadn't been found."

"After that, neither Liu Yihong nor Li Zaishan could be reached."

The burly man told him everything he knew.

"They both lost contact at the same time?"

"Interesting. Could both of them have taken an interest in the Yinluo Banner?"

A cold gleam flashed through Huo Qiuyang's eyes, and his expression grew somewhat grim.

"You mean...?"

A thought stirred in the burly man's mind.

"Send men to investigate. Report to me immediately if you find any trace of either of them. You must recover the Yinluo Banner for me."

"The Divine Feather Secret Realm will open in a year. Without the Yinluo Banner, how can we enter that place?"

Huo Qiuyang gazed toward the northwest, his voice icy.

"Rest assured, young master. I won't disappoint you."

The burly man bowed to Huo Qiuyang as he spoke.

"All right, I'll leave everything here to you. I need to hurry back to the Rakshasa Gate and nourish my Soul-Devouring Spear."

"In a year, the Divine Feather Secret Realm will be where it displays its divine might."

Huo Qiuyang let out a sinister cackle and waved, leading more than ten black-clad men out of the grove.

Only the burly man and five other black-clad men remained.

"Big brother, what should we do next?"

After Huo Qiuyang left, one of the black-clad men stepped closer and asked cautiously.

"What should we do?"

"Kill you, of course."

The burly man gave the five men before him a vicious smile and spoke ruthlessly.