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Chapter 137 Thank you Master Xiao for your guidance. I am very grateful.
Early the next morning.

Xiao Chen was waiting outside Elder Chen's courtyard.

As a result, I waited for about two hours, and it was not until noon that I saw Elder Chen return with a look of fatigue.

"Hey, Xiao Chen, how come you have time to come here today? Did you encounter any difficulties in your cultivation?"

Generally speaking, a teacher is someone who teaches, accepts students, and resolves doubts.

For most disciples, although the Lihuo Sect has a Sutra Library to replace preaching, the latter two items are inseparable from the guidance of a master.

And this point is very important. The level of the master and whether he teaches seriously have a great impact.

However, Xiao Chen happened to be the exception.

The original characteristic of the yellow-level skills is that they are simple and easy to understand. The main feature is that they are easy to master. Even cultivators with insufficient qualifications and understanding can practice them relatively easily.

What's more, the martial arts he practiced was the Soul Nurturing Technique.

The most significant feature of this technique is that it replaces the cultivator's own practice process by cultivating spirit seeds.

Therefore, Xiao Chen almost taught himself and never encountered any confusion or problems that required him to ask a master for advice.

Elder Chen was also quite depressed when talking about this.

He also wanted to give Xiao Chen more guidance and training during his growth.

It just so happens that this disciple of his, apart from having poor spiritual roots, has an incredibly good comprehension.

With this secret book, you can practice on your own without any guidance, and the speed of practice is frighteningly fast.

So when Elder Chen saw Xiao Chen and others here, he actually felt a little bit of anticipation.

But he was going to be disappointed again.

Because Xiao Chen didn't come to ask for guidance this time: "Master, I've been learning alchemy recently. Do you have a second-level pill recipe?"

"Second-level pill recipe?"

Elder Chen asked in surprise, "Of course I have it. But what do you want it for?"

Then, without waiting for Xiao Chen to speak, he seemed to suddenly realize something: "Wait, you haven't already learned the second-level pill formula by yourself, right?"

Elder Chen stared at Xiao Chen with eyes wide open, his face full of disbelief.

To be honest, that's a bit unlikely.

If yellow-level skills can be completed by self-study, becoming an alchemist absolutely requires a lot of practice and instruction.

Apart from the simplest refining processes for basic elixirs such as the Qi-nourishing Pill and the Fasting Pill, one can only rely on diligent study and hard practice to hone basic skills.

For slightly more complicated elixirs, the complexity of the changes in medicinal properties increases sharply due to the increase in the number of spiritual herbs involved.

If you rely solely on yourself to explore, it will be as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.

Most novice alchemists must be guided by an experienced master.

But then again, this is Xiao Chen!
Elder Chen's expression changed several times, and in the end, without waiting for Xiao Chen to explain, he accepted the result himself.

Then he nodded slightly and sighed: "Well, if that's what you said, then it's not surprising."

As he spoke, he pushed open the gate and said, "Come with me. I have a notebook for alchemy. Take it and have a look."

The two of them entered the house.

Elder Chen took out a thick notebook from the desk drawer and said, "If there's anything you don't understand, um, if there's anything, you can always ask me."

"By the way, I've been helping improve the pill formulas in the Alchemy Hall lately."

"You can come directly to the Alchemy Hall to find me, or just go into the courtyard and sit down. There's no need to stand at the door and wait."

Xiao Chen felt that the conversation was a bit strange.

I haven't said anything yet, but Elder Chen just asked himself and answered the questions, as if he had made up some strange things in his mind.

However, now that the most important alchemy notes are in hand, these details are unimportant.

He took the notes, bowed and thanked him, "Okay, Master, I understand. I'll leave first. If I have any questions, I'll come back and ask you."

Of course, this is just a polite remark.

With the blessing of the [Heart of the Alchemist], Xiao Chen can now refine all the first- and second-level pills as long as he gets the pill formula.

It took a whole day to read through Elder Chen's notes word for word.

Xiao Chen breathed a sigh of relief with satisfaction.

Elder Chen was very kind. The notebook he gave not only contained a large number of alchemy recipes, but also many tips on alchemy and his own insights.

There are even some incomplete deductions of elixir formulas and conjectures about ancient elixir formulas.

It can be seen that these are real things and there is no concealment at all.

The latest page records an incomplete recipe for a pill.

Elder Chen proposed two different hypotheses, but due to material and time constraints, he has not had time to verify them personally.

However, Xiao Chen only took a glance and instantly confirmed based on his intuition that the second guess was correct.

He casually found a small piece of paper and left a message suggesting that if Elder Chen wanted to test it, it would be better to verify the second method first, and then he put the note in his notebook.

"Huh, you're done!"

"Next, I'll go to the Alchemy Hall and see if I can find any opportunities to make money."

Again, staggering your practice will result in higher overall efficiency.

If conditions permit, Xiao Chen plans to spend half of his time practicing, excluding sleeping, and the other half refining pills.

Doing this can not only allow you to use alchemy as a break after practicing, but also earn some spirit stones to pay off your debts.

"Alas, spending money is fun, but debt brings tears."

Zhang Ruihao was even willing to borrow money to raise the price, resulting in him now owing the Liu family 48,000 spirit stones and the Chen family 50,000 spirit stones.

After deducting the remaining 8,000 spirit stones on hand, he still owed a huge amount of 90,000 spirit stones.

It's not easy to get used to suddenly having such a huge debt on my shoulders.

So Xiao Chen went straight to the Alchemy Hall, wanting to see if there were any elixirs that could make money quickly.

The Alchemy Hall is divided into five floors.

When he arrived, Chen Tianyuan was on the fifth floor of the Alchemy Hall, pondering with Elder Chen on how to improve the method of refining the Blood-Linging Pill.

The Blood-Stirring Pill is a special pill that was improved from the Divine Fire Sect.

It can temporarily stimulate the potential of the monk and increase the power of spells.

Lingyuan Sect had already sent the first batch of materials and the temporary pill formula they cracked half a year ago, and ordered a large number of Blood-Stirring Pills in preparation for the war.

Since it was an emergency preparation, the other party offered a very generous price.

However, due to the problem that the success rate of pills is less than 50%, the profit of Lihuomen is almost nothing.

Over the past six months, the Chen family has been studying this difficult problem and trying every possible way to increase the success rate of pill making.

Unfortunately, the results were always minimal, and after half a year, it was only possible to stabilize the refining time.

Upon learning that Xiao Chen wanted to take on the alchemy mission, Chen Tianyuan casually called a disciple.

Let him take Xiao Chen to the second floor to choose his favorite task.

"Uncle Xiao, all the current tasks are here."

"The grey ones are common elixirs that are currently in short supply, and the green ones are commissioned tasks copied from the Merit Hall."

"The red ones at the top are orders from other sects."
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Xiao Chen listened to his disciple's introduction and quickly browsed through all the tasks with his spiritual sense.

Although there seems to be a wide variety, in fact, the profit margins of all the alchemy tasks posted here are quite limited.

After working for a month to refine these pills, I can probably only earn one or two hundred spirit stones.

For ordinary foundation builders, this kind of income is already very good.

But for Xiao Chen, this amount of money is really a drop in the bucket.

If the Liu and Chen families had not stated that they would not charge him interest, this amount would probably not be enough to pay the interest.

Xiao Chen frowned slightly, thinking that he had overestimated the amount of spirit stones he could earn from refining pills.

Whether it is the foundation-building pill or the longevity pill, there is a serious shortage of the main medicine.

Now it seems that this is also one of the reasons why their premium is high.

As for the other elixirs that have relatively sufficient raw materials, basically you can't earn much spirit stones.

After choosing and choosing, I found that there is a Blood-Stirring Pill in the red task at the top, which seems to be pretty good.

Xiao Chen directly chose the most expensive task and took the order down from the wall. He then registered and received the pill formula and raw materials at the counter nearby.

He originally wanted to take a few more materials at once and bring them back to Cuiwei Valley to make pills.

However, the disciple behind the counter explained with an embarrassed look on his face, "Uncle Xiao, the Alchemy Hall has a rule that you are not allowed to take the spiritual herbs you receive on a mission out of the hall. You can only refine them here."

There was a sign hanging on the wall behind him.

There is indeed a sentence written on it: It is strictly forbidden to privately store and resell spiritual herbs, and it is not allowed to take spiritual herbs out.

"Is that so? Okay then, this is it."

Xiao Chen did not make things difficult for him. He turned around and went directly to the small alchemy room on the third floor to refine the medicine.

Although he did not bring his own alchemy furnace this time.

Moreover, the public alchemy furnace here does have some minor flaws in quality.

But things are different now. For Xiao Chen now, there is almost no difference between a low-grade alchemy furnace and a mid-grade alchemy furnace.

He planned to finish today's two copies here first, and then take tomorrow's two copies back to Cuiwei Valley.

Noon, on the second floor of the Alchemy Hall.

Jiang Shize, the alchemist of the Jiang family, was holding two jade bottles, each containing three freshly made blood-piercing pills.

A large group of Alchemy Hall disciples gathered in a circle, all of them amazed.

"Congratulations to Hall Master Jiang for raising the success rate to 60%."

"This kind of strong-natured elixir is indeed what Hall Master Jiang is better at."

"We've reached 60% so quickly. It seems we're not far from stable profitability."

"I heard that Lingyuan Sect is in urgent need of a large number of Blood-Stinging Pills. It seems that Hall Master Jiang has earned more than the spirit stones."

Jiang Shize stood in the center of the crowd with a smile on his face. Seeing Chen Tianyuan and Elder Chen coming down from the fifth floor, he greeted them proudly, "Brother Chen, I suddenly had an epiphany today."

"I've figured out a way to increase the success rate of the Blood-Piercing Pill to 60%."

"I wonder if there's any new progress here, Senior Brother Chen? Can we discuss it?"

That being said, he had actually inquired about it a long time ago, and there had been no progress from the Chen family so far.

"Oh, really? Deputy Hall Master Jiang, you truly deserve to be the sect's recognized master of alchemy."

Chen Tianyuan specifically pointed out the word "deputy": "Congratulations to Deputy Hall Master Jiang."

Jiang Shize was not discouraged when he heard this, but his smile became even brighter.

As expected, the Chen family has made no progress, otherwise they would not have to use their status to suppress him.

"Oh, I was thinking of asking Senior Brother Chen for advice on my experience. It seems I can only wait for the next opportunity to ask Senior Brother for guidance."

After the taunt, Jiang Shize looked at the counter and said, "Give me all the existing Blood-Spiking Pill ingredients."

"I will work harder this month to complete this order."

However, the disciple at the counter was stunned for a moment: "Master Jiang, the order for the Blood-Linging Pill has been taken by Uncle Xiao."

"What? He's been taken away?" Jiang Shize asked in surprise, "Where did this Uncle Xiao come from?"

The four guest officials Zhang, Wang, Li and Zhao were removed from the Alchemy Hall.

The rest are either from the Jiang family or the Chen family. Where is there any uncle with the surname Xiao?

When he asked this question, the disciple at the counter stammered, "That's it. That's Elder Chen's disciple, Uncle Xiao Chen."

"Xiao Chen?"

Jiang Shize was stunned at first, then he scolded, "Nonsense! This is an order from Lingyuan Sect, how could he take it? Why didn't you stop him?"

The disciple at the counter felt a little aggrieved: "It was Senior Brother Chen who brought him here, I thought..."

When he saw Chen Tianyuan's direct disciple bringing Xiao Chen over, although he was surprised, he didn't dare to stop them.

Jiang Shize, however, continued to scold him without giving a second thought: "So what? Xiao Chen has always been someone who doesn't understand the rules. Don't you understand the rules either?"

Elder Chen was immediately upset when he heard this: "Jiang Shize, what are you talking about?"

Jiang Shize immediately smiled hypocritically and said, "Brother Tian Yang, I know that Xiao Chen does have some talent in cultivation."

"But to be honest, the reason he can cultivate so quickly is because he devotes all his time every day to cultivation."

"Then everyone says how can he have the time to learn alchemy?"

"Now that he has taken these spiritual herbs, it would be a complete waste!"

A guest official nearby refuted: "That's not true. After all, Xiao Chen is Senior Brother Tian Yang's disciple, so he should have some basic alchemy skills."

Jiang Shize spread his hands and said, "So what?"

"Which alchemist here doesn't have some basic alchemy skills? But everyone should have an idea of ​​how difficult it is to refine the Blood-Spiking Pill."

As soon as he said this, the guest official fell silent.

The other disciples watching also felt that what he said made sense.

Jiang Shize glanced at Chen Tianyuan, who looked grim, and pressed on, "The spiritual herbs provided by Lingyuan Sect were not abundant to begin with. How could they be wasted like this by Xiao Chen?"

"Where is he now? Take me there quickly to stop him."

"So as to avoid material shortages and delays in order deadlines."

Elder Chen wanted to stop it, but he was also a little unsure.

After all, Xiao Chen had just taken the alchemy notes from him the day before yesterday to learn how to make second-level elixirs.

In just one day, even if he was a genius, he would not have enough time to master the new alchemy techniques.

Not to mention, the Blood-Linging Pill had not yet been written down in the notes.

The group came to the third floor.

Jiang Shize walked to the alchemy room and was about to raise his hand to knock on the door when he heard a creaking sound.

The door of the alchemy room where Xiao Chen was actually opened by itself.

Then he saw Xiao Chen walking out from inside, looking at the people in the corridor curiously.

"Hey, why are you all gathered here? Are you doing some kind of activity?"

Then, Xiao Chen followed everyone's gaze and realized that everyone was looking at him: "No, why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Is there something wrong with my clothes today?"

He usually dresses rather casually, could this be the reason?
"Junior Brother Xiao, since you came out on your own, that's perfect."

Jiang Shize stretched out his hand and said, "The disciples at the counter were ignorant and let you take over the task of the Blood-Spiking Pill. Seeing that you came out so quickly, you must have realized that you couldn't handle it."

"Come, just take out the raw materials for refining the Blood-Spiking Pill."

Xiao Chen turned around and looked him up and down: "Who are you?"

Jiang Shize smiled and said nothing.

A disciple of the Jiang family immediately introduced him: "This is the sect's alchemy master, Master Jiang."

"Oh, it turns out to be the Jiang family."

Xiao Chen suddenly realized: "I was wondering why your words sounded like a dog barking."

"you!"

Jiang Shize pointed at Xiao Chen, then suddenly put his hands behind his back and sneered, "Humph, you're just trying to show off your skills with your words."

He looked directly at Chen Tianyuan: "Brother Chen, if the materials for the Blood-Spiking Pill are wasted, it will be difficult to explain to the Lingyuan Sect."

Chen Tianyuan replied indifferently, "Deputy Hall Master Jiang doesn't need to worry about this kind of thing."

Then he turned around and asked, "Junior Brother Xiao, did you receive the Blood-Piercing Pill mission this morning?"

Xiao Chen nodded: "That's right, after looking around, this is the only task that's easy and profitable, so of course I chose this one."

"And I saw it first. The disciples at the counter can testify to that."

"Ha, simple?" Jiang Shize seemed to have heard something incredible: "As expected, he is arrogant and ignorant. He's not even afraid of his tongue being blown away by the wind."

"This mission has been posted on the second floor for half a year. If it were really that easy, would it be your turn?"

"I heard you started refining pills early this morning. Since you said it was easy, have you managed to make a successful pill yet?"

However, the words were not spoken yet.

Xiao Chen immediately took out a small jade bottle and uncorked it. The unique aroma of freshly made elixir filled his nostrils.

Over the past six months, everyone has become familiar with this taste.

"This is the smell of the Blood-Piercing Pill!"

A guest steward came over curiously: "What? It's actually a whole bottle of five blood-pricking pills!"

After seeing the number of pills in the bottle, he immediately grabbed Xiao Chen's hand excitedly: "How, how did you do this?"

Except for Elder Chen who was thinking hard.

For the past six months, this guest official has been thinking about it every day and every night, but he still can't find the way.

Unexpectedly, today not only did I see Jiang Shize achieve a 60% success rate in making pills, I also saw a brand new bottle of Blood-Stirring Pills.

Hearing his exclamation, the others immediately realized what had happened.

Exclamations rang out one after another.

This is a problem that has troubled the entire Alchemy Hall for half a year. Could it be solved today?
Elder Chen stepped forward briskly, picked up the blood-letting pill, poured out one, and held it in front of his eyes to examine it carefully.

Then he looked at Xiao Chen as if he wanted to say something, but didn't know how to start.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

Jiang Shize shouted, "The Blood-Spiking Pill formula is a partial formula that was reverse-deciphered from the Demon Pill. It's impossible to achieve a 100% success rate."

"I see. You want to delay time by cheating?"

He pointed at Chen Tianyuan and said, "Even you can't achieve a perfect success rate, yet you push a disciple out to fool people. Who are you trying to fool?"

"And Xiao Chen didn't come earlier or later, but just when I was about to get the order, he came and intercepted it."

"If I can't explain it clearly today, I'll ask Master Ming Yan to make the decision."

After he said this, several guest officials also cast suspicious looks at Xiao Chen.

That’s right, if even the master, Elder Chen, couldn’t do it, how could the disciple Xiao Chen accomplish it?

Moreover, Xiao Chen arrived two hours earlier than Jiang Shize and snatched the order.

This time is indeed intriguing.

One of the guests asked, "Junior Brother Xiao, is this the Blood-Spiking Pill you made yourself?"

Xiao Chen nodded: "Of course, there is nothing to doubt about this, don't you believe it?"

The other party waved his hand: "No, no, no, Junior Brother Xiao, you should have understood. All of us here have been very curious about a question for the past six months."

"That's how to refine the Blood-Piercing Pill to achieve a 100% success rate."

"I, the old man, will shamelessly ask Junior Brother to help us resolve this confusion so that we can sleep peacefully."

The other guest officials also spoke up.

Please, Xiao Chen, answer our questions and resolve our doubts for the sake of everyone’s concern.

This actually made Xiao Chen scratch his head a bit: "Uh, I don't have any experience to share, I just go with my own feelings."

Everyone looked at each other in shock when they heard this.

What an answer.

Jiang Shize laughed heartily: "Haha, what do you mean by relying on feelings? I think it's just a fraud."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Chen turned around and walked back into the alchemy room: "I really don't understand, what's there to say about such a simple thing."

"Any of you who don't believe it and want to understand the process, just come in and take a look."

Although to him, it doesn't matter how Jiang Shize dances.

But we still need to take the other guests' feelings into consideration.

Upon seeing this, several guests from the Alchemy Hall, as well as two old men who were in the Qi Refining Stage but were also second-level alchemists, walked into the alchemy room one after another to watch.

The other disciples also gathered outside out of curiosity, unwilling to leave.

As the saying goes, an expert will know if something is there as soon as he takes action.

Xiao Chen started by preparing the liquid, then added the medicine at the right time, and then rotated the medicine to combine it. He completed the entire process in one go.

His movements are graceful, his techniques are skillful, and his timing is exquisite, just like that of a master who has been immersed in this art for hundreds of years.

Especially since those present are all experts.

Instead, it becomes clearer what kind of hard training is hidden behind such ease.

Elder Chen, in particular, directly imagined in his mind the process of Xiao Chen practicing alchemy over and over again in Bishui Peak and Cuiwei Valley.

He suddenly felt a little ashamed. He had only thought that Xiao Chen was an alchemy genius and that he was just "good at understanding", completely ignoring his efforts.

Looking back, he had told Xiao Chen: "Practice more, until practice makes perfect."

I guess after that, this young man must have put in effort and sweat that ordinary people could hardly imagine.

Without waiting for the final step to complete the pill, everyone was already convinced.

In the end, it was natural that a furnace of five finished blood-piercing pills was produced, achieving a perfect success rate of 100%.

"That's how I practiced before. Does anyone else have any questions?"

Xiao Chen looked around, and no one spoke.

Even Jiang Shize, who was standing at the door, was completely speechless.

"If everyone has no problem with this, the order for the Blood-Linging Pill will be mine."

A guest suddenly bowed and said, "Thank you, Master Xiao, for your guidance. I am very grateful."

After watching Xiao Chen's textbook-like demonstration, he had a vague understanding in his heart, as if he saw the way forward.

The other guests also bowed in admiration: "Thank you, Master Xiao, for your guidance!"

Even Chen Tianyuan bowed in greeting. Although he didn't say anything, his face was excited and he obviously understood something.

Afterwards, they all went to the alchemy room next door to verify the insights they had just gained.

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