Chapter 1190: Bedrock
Translator: CKtalon Editor: CKtalon
The mont Guiyuan Zhen posed his question, all focus shifted to him.
Among the alchemists present, there were many who knew of Guiyuan Zhen. He was rather famous in the Myriad Divine Territory and had used his skills in the Jadefla Immortal Orchid to earn quite a sizable fortune.
He had managed to refine three pills using the Jadefla Immortal Orchid. The first two were made with pill recipes that already existed. With one recipe, he replaced a particular herb with Jadefla Immortal Orchid, causing its effects to double. The third pill was an original invention of Guiyuan Zhen. He had nad it the Jade Orchid Zhenyuan Pill, and it was his secret specialty.
"This Guiyuan Zhen. I thought he would truly ask for advice, but he’s just trying to slap the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect in the face," an alchemist who was familiar with Guiyuan Zhen said with a laugh. They all knew Guiyuan Zhen’s background.
"Haha! What Brother Guiyuan said is to my liking. These people from the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect are way too flashy, especially those juniors. It’s like their noses are so high up in the air that one could see straight to their brains. Just a few monts ago, they completely disrespected us and treated us like hillbillies."
"That’s right, our Myriad Divine Territory’s alchemical skills and Desolate Heaven technique have been developed over many years. It has already beco systemic and is probably not that inferior to the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect’s."
As people spoke, they looked at Skyfire Sacred Hands, waiting for him to answer the conundrum.
Skyfire Sacred Hands drank a cup of spirit tea and continued having the bowl in his hand. The mont the question was raised, he had guessed the situation from the reactions of the other alchemists. Guiyuan Zhen clearly knew the answer and was trying to make things difficult for him, embarrassing him in the process.
Although Skyfire Sacred Hands was opposed to his disciples being overtly arrogant, the truth was that he only wanted them to refrain from verbal disrespect. When it ca to arrogance, how could he, a disciple of the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect, not be arrogant?
In the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect’s history, it had produced two alchemical sages. Back then, the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect was celebrated throughout the entire Yang God Empyrean Heaven. As for the heritage of the two alchemical sages, they were handed down fully intact! He himself had inherited his knowledge from one of the alchemical sages—Thousand Hand Alchemical Sage.
Seeing this alchemist from the Myriad Divine Territory trying to test him, Skyfire Sacred Hands smiled nonchalantly. He did not even feel like answering. How could the Thousand Hand Alchemical Sage’s heritage be sothing re pedestrian alchemists would comprehend? He would not use it to compete with others, as that would be an insult to the Thousand Hand Alchemical Sage.
Therefore, Guiyuan Zhen’s sudden question had displeased Skyfire Sacred Hands.
He gently placed the bowl down, turned to the six-fingered youth, and said, "Hao’er, you answer him."
The mont this was said, all the alchemists of the Myriad Divine Territory frowned.
Guiyuan Zhen had asked Skyfire Sacred Hands a direct question, but Skyfire Sacred Hands ignored him and delegated the response to his disciple?
Skyfire Sacred Hands had cultivated for three thousand years while Guiyuan Zhen had cultivated for more than a hundred thousand years. However, in the field of alchemy, the able were the teachers. Guiyuan Zhen did not dare to think himself as a senior to Skyfire Sacred Hands. By politely asking a question, he had gone through the necessary niceties.
It wasn’t an important question, but by delegating the answer to a junior, Skyfire Sacred Hands revealed how little he thought of the alchemists of this city.
"Yes, Martial Uncle." The six-fingered youth stood up and said. He cupped his fist and said, "Senior, I’m curious if your master ever told you that to ask a question, you must first ask if it is correct or not before asking for the reason?"
"Oh!?" Guiyuan Zhen’s expression sunk. "What do you an?"
"Senior, you said that Jadefla Immortal Orchid cannot be infused into a pill. However, my opinion is that this statent itself is invalid. The dicinal essence of Jadefla Immortal Orchids is indeed a little volatile and will easily reduce to ash in a cauldron, but as long as this problem is resolved, the Jadefla Immortal Orchid can be easily infused into a pill. Senior, why do you say that it’s impossible to infuse its essence into a pill?"
The six-fingered youth spoke with ease and fluency. Although he sounded polite, there was an overbearing tone to his words. Guiyuan Zhen was enraged. He had spent a hundred years researching the Jadefla Immortal Orchid but a junior had dismissed him with a single sentence. Was the hundred years he spent a joke?
"Heroes indeed co from the young since ti immorial. I have finally witnessed it today! Alright, you say that the Jadefla Immortal Orchid can be easily infused into a pill, then broaden my horizons and show how to infuse it!"
Guiyuan Zhen’s voice carried so agitation. This was his specialty, the thing he was best at. How could he not be angered after being belittled by a junior?
The alchemists present nodded in agreent. The six-fingered youth had indeed been arrogant in his words. They had personally confird that Jadefla Immortal Orchid could not be infused into pills. Even in large sects, the thods of handling Jadefla Immortal Orchid were definitely not as simple as the six-fingered youth made it out to be.
"Junior Sister, since they would like to see Jadefla Immortal Orchid being infused into pills, why don’t you do the demonstration?"
As people were waiting for the six-fingered youth to demonstrate his skills, he sat down abruptly. He had passed the mission to the red-dressed girl beside him.
Upon seeing this happen, the alchemists present were incensed. From her looks, she had cultivated for less than two centuries. Yet, she too knew how to infuse Jadefla Immortal Orchid into a pill?
The elderly shoved the load to the old, while the old shoved it to the young. They truly did not think much of them!
"Alright, alright. Tch, isn’t it just a Jadefla Immortal Orchid!?" The red-dressed girl said contemptibly. With a tap of her toes, her graceful figure landed in the middle of the square like an agile red sparrow without stirring so much as a speck of dust.
"Who has a Jadefla Immortal Orchid? Let use it. I can’t be expected to carry such herbs around with ."
"Fine! Very fine indeed!" Upon hearing the contempt in the red-dressed girl’s words, Guiyuan Zhen was further infuriated. The herb that he had spent so much ti researching was thought so little of by her.
"I have one here!"
Guiyuan Zhen threw a red herb at the red-dressed girl.
She caught it casually and took out a cauldron.
"Yue’er, do it soundly without fuss. Just infuse it into the pill and don’t be too ostentatious." At that mont, Skyfire Sacred Hands’s voice transmission rang in her years.
"Yes, Martial Uncle.’ The red-dressed girl curved the ends of her mouth. However, the mont she began, Skyfire Sacred Hands knew that she had not heeded his words.
The red-dressed girl had deliberately opened the mouth of the cauldron, allowing everyone to see the Jadefla Immortal Orchid’s refinent process. It was an action not typically done by alchemists.
Skyfire Sacred Hands shook his head but did not say anything. Since these people had doubted the Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect’s heritage, they needed to be enlightened. If they weren’t, they would continue to be frogs in the well, thinking that their alchemical skills were peerless.
"She actually opened the mouth!"
"This will result in the array within the cauldron to be a little incomplete. It will make the refinent of the dicinal essence even harder. What arrogance."
The alchemists present gave their comntary, which the red-dressed girl ignored. She said, "Since it’s the Jadefla Immortal Orchid, let refine a Jade Spirit Pill!"
As the red-dressed girl spoke, an icy-blue fla erged in her palm. When the fla burned, it did not have any heat to it. Instead, it effused a coldness.
The red-dressed girl casually flicked her finger, sending the fla into the cauldron. Following that, she threw the Jadefla Immortal Orchid in.
Her fingers began to move as she produced seals at a rapid pace. These seals surrounded the Jadefla Immortal Orchid, imprinting themselves deep within it.
As such, the Jadefla Immortal Orchid was slowly enveloped by the icy-blue fla.
Through the mouth of the cauldron, people were able to see the refinent process of the Jadefla Immortal Orchid clearly. Strangely, when the Jadefla Immortal Orchid was enveloped by the fla, it did not seem to heat up. Instead, a thin layer of frost ford on its surface.
The frost layer grew thicker until it completely covered the Jadefla Immortal Orchid. From what the crowd could see, it was like a piece of ice burning within a cauldron.
After about fifteen minutes, a marvelous scene occurred. The Jadefla Immortal Orchid that was sealed in ice began lting slowly within.
After another five minutes, the Jadefla Immortal Orchid lted into a pale red liquid. It was crystalline and shimred. Being sealed in ice, it looked extrely beautiful.
It seed that the red-dressed girl’s process of herbal essence extraction was a great success. It was even more complete than the extraction process Guiyuan Zhen had figured out!
"How... How is this possible? Is it that simple? Just let it burn in the fire directly. Why is this fire so icy-cold...?" Guiyuan Zhen muttered.
Jadefla Immortal Orchid possessed an extrely volatile fire-elental attribute. It exploded upon contact with fire but the red-dressed girl had used a fla that effused an icy-cold aura to seal the volatile herbal essence in ice. She actually had such a fla?
"I know! I know! That’s Extre Frost-ice Fla! There are records in books of it; it’s a spiritual fla born in the core regions of an ice mountain for hundreds of millions of years. It is formless and traceless, making it extrely difficult to find. You actually have such a fla!?" Guiyuan Zhen suddenly said as though he had lost his soul.
The red-dressed girl had produced the Extre Frost-ice Fla the mont she was asked to demonstrate her skills? He had only seen records of such a fla in books, and this was the first ti seeing it in person!
"At least you are knowledgeable. Yes, it’s the Extre Frost-ice Fla! This Extre Frost-ice Fla is indeed hard to co by. It wasn’t easy, even for my Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect, to obtain. However, the ancestors of my Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect have alchemical sages. One found an ice mountain as big as a star in an extrely cold land that had been sealed in ice for a billion years. He bored right to the ice mountain’s core and spent decades seeking a lantern of Extre Frost-ice Fla!"
"Extre Frost-ice Fla is not a lone fla. Although obtaining one is rare, it has a special attribute of being able to nurture more. With a mother fla, child flas can be nurtured. Extre Frost-ice Fla’s mother fla has been nurtured in my Nine Cauldron Alchemical Sect for tens of millions of years. It is controlled by the Grand Elder. Although the fla I have is a child fla produced from the mother fla, it’s still enough to refine a Jadefla Immortal Orchid. Therefore, when you ntioned that Jadefla Immortal Orchid cannot be infused into pills, it left puzzled. Why can’t it be infused? Isn’t it very simple?"
The red-dressed girl countered with a question. Her smile made Guiyuan Zhen’s face flush red.
He pointed at the red-dressed girl but could not say a word. What else could he say?
He had gone through countless experints before chancing upon a thod to infuse Jadefla Immortal Orchids into pills. Yet, his life’s work had beco a joke in the eyes of others.
That was the underlying bedrock a super refinent sect established itself upon. To them, such things did not need researching. It was easily resolved with the knowledge stemming from the bedrock.
Extre Frost-ice Fla... As long as one was a core disciple, one would obtain an Extre Frost-ice Fla. So how hard could it be to infuse the Jadefla Immortal Orchid into a pill? Just sealing the volatile fire-elental attribute in ice would do!
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