Song Hechuan stole a glance at Xia Nuoyi. Seeing her pretty face so dark it could almost drip water, he felt both annoyed and amused.
Naturally, he was annoyed that the owner of Blood Dragon City's largest pill workshop had wasted so much time on a brat who didn't know a damn thing;
But on second thought, the girl in green silk seemed to have gotten the worse end of it!
A dignified Divine Communion Realm expert had actually been led around by the nose by a wet-behind-the-ears Savage Martial Realm brat...
This young madam is no one to trifle with;
Her title of Blood Dragon City's "demoness" is certainly no empty reputation!
Today, I witnessed such an embarrassing side of her;
If she gets upset and finds opportunities to make life difficult for our Song Clan Pill Workshop later, that will be trouble!
At that thought, Song Hechuan suddenly felt that wasting a little time and losing a small quantity of ingredients for refining low-level mystic pills was nothing.
Surely that was better than having that little demoness secretly bear a grudge against him?
Thus, he hurriedly tried to smooth things over. "Young friend, the pill flame seed for refining medicine hasn't arrived yet. Why be in such a hurry?"
"Refining pills from so many ingredients at once is already extremely difficult;"
"If you don't even have a pill flame to help..."
Before he could finish, Bu Wuchen interrupted him with a nonchalant wave. "No need."
"It's just a batch of low-grade mortal-tier mystic pills. Why go to all that trouble?"
"The leftover firewood beside the furnace will do."
With that, he went ahead and began refining pills.
The Song Clan Pill Workshop truly deserved its standing as Blood Dragon City's foremost hub for mystic pills. Even its private rooms came equipped with pill-flame ventilated furnaces.
If an invited pill refiner suddenly felt the itch, they could roll up their sleeves and refine a batch on the spot...
Beside him, Xia Nuoyi ground her pearly teeth in a steady rhythm!
As a "demoness," she had always been the one giving others headaches.
Yet now, a young man had angered her so badly that one Buddha emerged into the world and another ascended to heaven!
Finally unable to bear it, Xia Nuoyi planted her fair hands on her slender waist and snapped, "Is this little bastard deliberately trying to anger me to death?"
"You said this is your first time refining pills, and you're aiming for a full yield, yet you won't even use a pill flame?!"
"You want to refine a whole furnace of mystic pills with ordinary charcoal fire?"
"Why don't you just fly up to heaven?"
"You..."
Before Xia Nuoyi could vent all the anger filling her chest, the boy impatiently furrowed his brow. "Shut up!"
Bu Wuchen hated people making a fuss, especially when he was wholly focused on something.
He barked angrily, "Either wait quietly and watch, or just slam the door and leave!"
"Why so much useless chatter?!"
At those words, Song Hechuan's eyes widened to the size of a bull's.
Storm-tossed waves surged through his heart. Good heavens!
Who on earth is this fellow? He actually dared talk back to that young madam Xia?!
Wrapped in green silk, her beauty like a painting, Xia Nuoyi likewise froze on the spot, her crimson lips slightly parted.
Ever since she had been forced to lower herself and stay in this border city of the Great Liang Kingdom, no one had ever dared speak to her like this!
After remaining stunned for several breaths, Xia Nuoyi's exquisite face grew redder and redder.
It was not the charming blush of peach blossoms, but...
The blazing red of fury burning within!
Just as she was about to erupt completely, the sight that suddenly met her eyes sent all her anger flying beyond the ninth heaven-
"Hiss, hiss, hiss, whoosh, whoosh~"
Under Bu Wuchen's dazzling manipulation, the flames beneath the cauldron swiftly completed the first step: melting the ingredients.
Even a fire made from the most ordinary charcoal and wood seemed to possess the mighty power to turn decay into wonder under Bu Wuchen's command!
It was precisely this sight that left Xia Nuoyi dumbstruck.
She unconsciously murmured, "H-how is this possible?"
Ordinarily, it truly would have been impossible.
But Bu Wuchen was no ordinary pill refiner.
Already a Mortal Realm Ninth Layer pill refiner, his success rate would have been infinitely close to a hundred percent even when refining high-grade mortal-tier mystic pills!
Let alone a mere batch of low-grade mortal-tier Healing Pills?
Next came extracting the medicinal essence and refining and combining the medicinal potency...
Every step flowed like drifting clouds and running water!
Bu Wuchen's movements as he controlled the fire, Qi, and medicinal essence were all as effortless and natural as water flowing into a channel!
"Good heavens!"
"H-he, he actually divided the ordinary charcoal fire beneath the furnace into fifteen equal portions, heating the cauldron from different angles so each portion of ingredients received its own separate heat?!"
The longer Song Hechuan watched, the more astonished he became. Even his hands began trembling involuntarily. "How old is he?"
"Even if he'd started practicing fire control and pill refinement in his mother's womb, he couldn't possibly be this good, could he?"
"Even a pill refiner at the Seventh Layer of the Mortal Realm like me couldn't catch up to such technique on horseback!"
As for Xia Nuoyi.
Her crimson lips, embodying a thousand charms, were slightly parted in sheer astonishment;
Her eyes shimmered as she gazed at Bu Wuchen. Where was even a trace of anger now?
If any friends from Earth had seen Boss Song's and the green-silk girl's expressions at that moment, they would surely have said the words that best matched their thoughts-
"I thought you were Bronze, but you turned out to be a King..."
As the seconds and minutes passed, Bu Wuchen's heart settled completely. Ha, this is much easier than I imagined~
I was worried that a system reward was one thing, but actually putting it into practice would be very difficult!
That's why I kept wanting to find a chance to try it.
Now I can rest easy.
At a certain moment, Bu Wuchen abruptly clenched both hands, which had been controlling the pill flame, into fists.
A sudden burst of strange noises erupted from the medicinal cauldron. "Whoosh, hiss, hiss, hiss!"
This was the final step in refining medicine into pills, and also the most difficult.
No matter how perfectly every previous step had been performed, stumbling at this last step would still send all that earlier effort down the drain...
"Hum~ whoosh, whoosh~"
Inside the cauldron, medicinal liquids of various colors gathered and condensed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Barring any mishaps, once these medicinal liquids finished merging and condensing, they would take shape as pills!
Song Hechuan and Xia Nuoyi involuntarily held their breaths and focused, staring fixedly at the boy seated calmly beside the cauldron, directing everything with composure...
Only the final step remained.
If he succeeded, it would mean a genius unseen in Blood Dragon City for a century had emerged right before their eyes!
But if he failed...
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, a strange sound of flaring fire rang out.
The next instant, all the fire beneath the cauldron went out.
Waves of medicinal fragrance immediately spread through the room!
"Damn, he really did it?!"
The green-silk girl was overjoyed. "I just wonder how many pills he refined from those fifteen sets of ingredients?"
Song Hechuan darted forward.
He took a close look-
Inside the blue-green cauldron lay fifteen Healing Pills, quietly resting and still steaming hot!
"I-it's actually a full yield?!"
Song Hechuan's pupils contracted, his eyebrows shot up, and his mouth fell wide open, leaving him looking comically scared witless...