Danwu God Emperor

Ye Lou stood in the crowd, yet no one could obscure his brilliance. The handsome young man stood tall and straight, his face radiating a sharp, masculine energy. This former good-for-nothing had grown at an alarming rate, and today he was announcing another terrifying piece of news to the world.

He, Ye Lou, is also an alchemist!

Refining two hundred low-grade one-star pills in a single day seems to be telling everyone that Ye Lou is not just a simple alchemist.

The appearance of the Spirit Nourishing Pill caused an uproar on the entire street. People pounced on the Ye family like wolves and tigers. With only two hundred pills and at least a thousand people present, they didn't even think before a riot broke out.

This was the scene Ye Lou could imagine, but it was also what he was most worried about. His mental energy was now completely exhausted, unlike spiritual energy which could be replenished with pills; it could only be restored slowly.

This time, he risked exhausting all his spiritual energy, and he didn't know when he would be able to refine pills again. The Ye family's business had been at a standstill, which was a fatal blow to their reputation.

They might even doubt his identity as an alchemist.

Gu Mu and Neng Kuo were both astonished. A junior could actually refine two hundred low-grade pills in a single day. While they could do it too, it was by no means an easy task. So they had only one thought in their minds.

Ye Lou is definitely lying!

In an instant, all two hundred pills were sold out. Those who didn't manage to grab any stood there disappointed, looking at the Ye family with resentment, hoping for more. As a result, the Dong family's pill shop lost all its business.

Dong Kuofeng was very unhappy about the feeling that his life and death were in someone else's hands.

"Master Gu Mu, what do we do now? The Ye family hasn't made a move. Are we just going to stay in this stalemate? I didn't expect Ye Lou to be an alchemist." Dong Kuofeng looked at the Ye family with a fierce expression.

"Hmph, you think it's easy to refine two hundred low-grade one-star pills in a single day? Even I, an old man, am not absolutely certain, let alone a junior. You actually believe such a thing?" Gu Mu sneered.

"What does Master Gu Mu mean?" Dong Kuofeng's eyes gleamed when he heard that something was amiss.

“The Nourishing Spirit Pill is no ordinary one-star pill. The formula is hard to come by. They must have bought it somewhere and then lied to everyone that it was made by Ye Lou. Two hundred pills are in short supply. We don’t need to do anything. Their lies will fall apart on their own.”

Dong Kuofeng suddenly understood and grinned.

"Two hundred pills aren't enough. Does the Ye family have any more pills?"

"Yup!"

"We won't shortchange you."

Just as Gu Mu had predicted, the people below had begun urging the Ye family to hurry up. Clearly, most of them were unwilling to give up and were shouting at the Ye family.

Although this was the situation the Ye family had anticipated, they had no way to deal with it. The shouts from below grew louder and louder, and the scene became somewhat out of control. Seeing the Ye family remain silent, they even began to question the source of the information.

"You didn't buy these Spirit Nourishing Pills, did you?"

"If that's the case, we should hurry up and buy the Dong family's spiritual liquid. We don't know when the Ye family will have any pills."

"Dual cultivation of alchemy and martial arts? What a load of nonsense!"

Ye Lou was both angry and helpless. He couldn't muster any mental energy at the moment, so he couldn't promise them a time.

Seeing the crowd begin to move towards the Dong family again, Dong Kuofeng's face lit up with a smile once more, and he said smugly to the Ye family, "Ye Haotian, these Spirit Nourishing Pills weren't cheap to buy, were they? Selling them for five hundred gold coins, you really spared no expense. And you even said they were made by your son, your Ye family is so hypocritical!"

"I, Ye Haotian, speak with integrity and uprightness. This Spirit Nourishing Pill was refined by Lou'er. Do I need to prove it to a despicable person like you?" Ye Haotian said dismissively.

Dong Kuofeng sneered. "Then let your precious son refine another one and see."

"You..." Ye Haotian's sword-like eyebrows shot up, and he turned his bear-like body coldly, saying, "Lou'er is physically weak and it is inconvenient for him to refine pills right now."

"What a joke! Listen to this, everyone." Dong Kuofeng was increasingly convinced by Master Gu Mu's words and became even more skeptical of Ye Lou's identity as an alchemist. He was overjoyed, thinking that exposing the Ye family's hypocrisy at this time would undoubtedly be adding insult to injury for the Ye family.

"A perfectly healthy person is standing right here, yet you claim to be too weak to refine pills? Does your Ye family have any credibility?!"

The conversation between the two families further swayed the crowd towards the Dong family, with everyone casting disdainful glances. For a large family to grow and prosper, reputation is crucial, and Ye Lou never expected that these two hundred pills would make the Ye family the target of public criticism.

"Young Master, a man surnamed Xiao in the backyard asked me to give you something." At this moment, Zhou Xi rushed over from the medicine shop and whispered in his ear.

Ye Lou turned around, his heart filled with excitement. The man surnamed Xiao must be Uncle Xiao.

"Where is he?"

Zhou Xi was puzzled by Ye Lou's agitation and replied truthfully, "He has already left."

"What did Uncle Xiao bring?"

"They're at the back gate, quite heavy, two big bags! I haven't brought them over yet."

"Take me there quickly!" Without saying a word, Ye Lou turned around and walked towards the backyard, with Zhou Xi following closely behind. The Ye family members had no time to pay attention to Ye Lou's movements at the moment, as the doubts from the front had already kept them busy and overwhelmed.

Zhou Xi quickened his pace and walked to Ye Lou's front, leading him to the backyard gate. There, two large gray bags were leaning against the side, stuffed full, with the ropes not tied tightly, and a familiar fragrance wafted over.

Ye Lou was so excited he almost jumped up. He immediately untied the rope and saw a bright, childlike smile spread across his face.

Nourishing Spirit Pills! Two whole large bags of Nourishing Spirit Pills!

Zhou Xi was speechless, never expecting that the plainly dressed, unremarkable man had brought so many Spirit Nourishing Pills. He was truly a benefactor of the Ye family.

"Quickly, take them over to sell!" Ye Lou immediately ordered.

"Hey!" Zhou Xi grinned from ear to ear, and with a burst of energy from who knows where, he picked up two bags and rushed to the front yard.

Ye Lou confidently followed them out. At this moment, there were no more people outside the Ye family's medicine shop. Everyone was crowding towards the Dong family. The Ye family members watched helplessly as the Dong family sold off boxes of spiritual liquid, feeling extremely disappointed.

"Father, look what this is?" Ye Lou pulled Ye Haotian to his side and opened a corner of the bag.

"What is this?" Ye Haotian's eyes lit up.

Ye Lou grinned and stepped forward, saying, "Everyone, I just don't understand why you're all scrambling to grab that trashy spirit liquid from the Dong family. Besides, the cost of that trashy spirit liquid is only one or two hundred gold coins. Do you think you have too much money?"

Ye Lou's words caused everyone to stop what they were doing once again.

"How interesting. You call us trash? Then bring out a better spiritual liquid. A hypocritical family is still humiliating itself here." Dong Kuofeng didn't expect Ye Lou to dare to provoke them, which piqued their interest.

"That's right, your Ye family doesn't even have this kind of trashy spirit liquid, what right do you have to talk about the Dong family? Aren't you an alchemist? Then go ahead and refine some now." A man who had just bought the spirit liquid sneered.

Ye Lou looked at the man and smiled faintly, "Then what do you see in my hand?"

After saying that, Ye Lou grabbed a handful of pills from the sack, held them in his palm, and slowly opened them.

"This is the Spirit Nourishing Pill!" The two hundred people who had previously bought the Spirit Nourishing Pill naturally recognized it, and many of them had even taken it, proving its efficacy. The Ye family's words were true.

The entire audience gasped in astonishment. The Ye family had actually produced two bags of Spirit Nourishing Pills, enough for everyone present!

Gu Mu and Dong Kuofeng were utterly shocked. How could this be!

How could the Ye family possibly still possess Spirit Nourishing Pills? Could it be true, as the Ye family claims, that Ye Lou is indeed an alchemist?

"Dong Kuofeng, do you still have anything to say now? Isn't what you put in your house garbage? Only an idiot like you would put such trash as ancient wood on a pedestal. Luckily, he had the self-awareness to sneak away, otherwise he would only be cleaning the latrines of our Ye family." Ye Lou said with a self-righteous laugh.

Dong Kuofeng's face was stern and his tone was terrifyingly low. Ye Lou was so arrogant, but the facts before him left him powerless to refute them.

"You little brat, I'll kill you!" Gu Mu was no Dong Kuofeng. Alchemists were all very proud, so how could he tolerate Ye Lou slandering him like this? He unleashed his strength at the first level of the Spirit Induction Realm, and a palm strike of spiritual energy pierced through the air, catching the opponent off guard.

Everyone was shocked, not expecting Master Gu Mu to suddenly make a move. What surprised them even more was that none of the Ye family elders intervened.

"Trash!" Ye Lou shouted coldly, suddenly raising his hand and unleashing an even more powerful spiritual force, suppressing the incoming palm strike and blasting it towards Gu Mu's face. The latter's pupils shrank, and he quickly dodged.

Although he dodged the blow to the face, it hit the headband on his head, causing him to stagger back a few steps. When Gu Mu regained his footing, his hair was already disheveled.

The Spirit Guiding Realm has two levels!

The Dong and Wu families were stunned. In just a few days, Ye Lou's growth was terrifying. The higher-ups of the two families had already shown their killing intent. This kid had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

Ye Lou ignored Gu Mu and looked at the crowd below, saying, "I suppose you have all been tricked by the Dong family and bought their garbage. I also know that you don't have any extra gold coins, so our Ye family is introducing a new policy."

New policy!

Everyone's eyes widened, their faces full of anticipation. Ye Lou's words struck a chord with them; after buying so much spiritual liquid, they had very little money left in their pockets.

"Anyone who has bought spirit liquid from the Dong family can buy our pills at cost price by simply pouring the spirit liquid in front of our big yellow dog."

Ye Lou's words caused another uproar. Was the Ye family crazy to feed the Dong family's spiritual liquid to the dogs? Even if they didn't make money, they still wanted to crush the Dong family to death. Moreover, buying pills at cost price was already the best policy for those who had already bought the spiritual liquid.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd stepped forward and poured the spirit liquid in front of the big yellow dog, then bought a spirit-nourishing pill for two hundred gold coins, making everyone's eyes turn green with envy.

Once there's a first, there's a second, a third...