Chapter 124: Damned Monkey, Stop Playing Around!
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After passing several houses and walking through several narrow alleys, Xu Que arrived at the Pill Refining Room. He realized that there were many people standing around the entrance of the room.
Apart from the Queen of Sky Demon Tribe Su Ling'er and the little red fox Su Xiao Qi, there were several other demonic humans of the Original Infant Stage.
Seeing that Xu Que had arrived, everyone started to frown.
"Damned monkey, why did you take so long? Look, Xiao Yu is throwing a tantrum again!" The little red fox Su Xiao Qi opened her mouth to berate him.
"Chiya!"
The second her words had landed, the large doors to the Pill Refining Room burst open. Soon after, Xiao Yu's tiny head poked out from the door as she opened her beady eyes wide. The second she saw Xu Que, she sped towards him in a flash.
Under the bewildered glances of everyone around, she charged straight into Xu Que's embrace and started acting cute.
"Monkey big brother! I wasn't throwing a tantrum. I just wanted to hear you play the Qin and sing again!"
"Refer to me as the Great Sage!" Xu Que patted her head affectionately and started laughing out.
Xiao Yu hurriedly shouted out, "Big brother the Great Sage!"
"..."
Everyone around were stumped. What situation was this? Was Xiao Yu under the influence of a spell?
Even Su Ling'er seemed to be somewhat suspicious.
Although they had seen the way Xiao Yu reacted to Xu Que's singing and him playing the Qin, it was already more than a night since. Surely, she wasn't still enchanted by him. Besides, Xiao Yu was truly throwing a tantrum earlier on. The second Xu Que arrived, Xiao Yu seemed to become someone else completely. She even appeared so close to him. This was extremely strange.
"Sister, did this cursed monkey use a bewitching spell to enchant our Xiao Yu?" Su Xiao Qi gave a suspicious look as she whispered into her sister's ears.
Su Ling'er thought about it for a second as she shook her head and replied, "It seems unlikely. I was there yesterday myself. His singing and music was indeed extremely amazing. Maybe he managed to win her heart over by playing such good music."
"Hm, this damned monkey… He knows how to do everything!" Su Xiao Qi pursed her lips and cleared her through.
Xu Que seemed to feel something as he casted a glance towards Xiao Qi and showed off a smug expression.
This caused Su Xiao Qi to be extremely incensed. She almost wanted to charge towards Xu Que and punch him in his stupid mouth.
Xu Que's lips curled as he looked away and directed his attention towards Xiao Yu.
The reason Xiao Yu was so well mannered and behaved towards Xu Que was truly because of the music played the day before. The effects of his music playing had stirred up the emotions within her heart and caused her to recall her younger days.
Hence, Xiao Yu felt a certain sense of familiarity and closeness towards Xu Que as though he was her own family member. That was why she was so well behaved in front of him.
Xu Que did truly like this kid, Xiao Yu as well. He treated her like his own sister, seeing that she was so well mannered and adorable.
"Let's go, Xiao Yu. Let's go and refine some pills. When we're done, I shall play the Qin for you once more."
"Alright, big brother Great Sage!" Xiao Yu replied gladly as she clutched onto Xu Que's sleeves as they walked into the Pill Refining Room together.
Everyone around were extremely shocked and couldn't comprehend what was happening. They were thrown into confusion.
Someone looked towards Su Ling'er and forced a bitter laugh, "My Queen, what… What's going on?"
Su Ling'er shook her head and didn't reply.
Xu Que followed Xiao Yu into the chambers as he glanced around the entire room. It was a spacious room, with many wooden shelves backed against the walls. In the middle of the room was a bronze pill furnace.
The furnace was about a meter tall with many strange inscriptions written all around the furnace. It gave off an extremely mysterious feeling and had clearly seen many years of pill refining.
Xu Que was extremely eager to get started as he looked at Xiao Yu and asked, "Xiao Yu, would you like to be my apprentice? I wish to try out my new pill refining techniques."
"Big brother the Great Sage knows how to refine pills?" Xiao Yu asked out in surprise.
Everyone outside revealed expressions of shock as well.
Su Xiao Qi nervously ran into the room and shouted, "Damned monkey! Please stop fooling around. Pill refining is not something to joke about!"
"I know! I'm not fooling around which is why I wanted to do it myself. This would allow Xiao Yu to watch and learn from me." Xu Que replied boastfully.
"That's great. I will let big brother the Great Sage refine the pills!" Xiao Yu nodded her head excitedly, without a hint of suspicion.
When the group of beasts outside heard this, they were all stunned.
Indeed, pill refining was not a joking matter. Should the person refining lose control, he might cause an entire batch of pills to go to waste. Or even worse, he might cause the furnace to explode. Especially when it came to refining pills of the Two Star grade, there was little margin for error. Should the furnace explode, the entire Sky Demon Tribe would suffer its consequences.
Hence, whenever Xiao Yu was refining the pills, all these Original Infant Staged demonic beasts would standby outside. In case something happened with the pill refining process, they would be able to lend their strengths and support to prevent a tragedy from happening.
And now, they could hear Xiao Yu allowing Xu Que to refine the pills. It was natural that everyone should be worried and fearful.
Su Ling'er stared at Xu Que and asked out, "Sun Wu Kong, stop fooling around now."
"Hm? When was I ever fooling around? I really can refine pills!" Xu Que replied.
Su Ling'er rolled her eyes, "Your damned head, stupid monkey. You already said yourself that you spent time practicing the Qin, and refining your fighting powers to such a stage. How could you possibly have time to learn the arts of pill refining? Much less have the caliber to refine a Two Star grade pill!"
"Sigh…" Xu Que's words seemed to have gotten stuck within his throat. It was true that he had never refined a single pill in his life. Now was supposed to be the time which he would practice!
Hence, he rebutted, "Why don't you guess?"
"..." Su Xiao Qi's lips curled into a snarl. She wanted to charge towards Xu Que and pummel him.
Su Ling'er stepped forward and shook her head, "I don't care if you can or cannot refine pills. You should assist Xiao Yu and let her be the main person refining the pills now. Refine the Vitality Pill and Circulation Pill first before we speak further. If you disagree, maybe we can settle yesterday's score if you'd like!"
"..." Xu Que had no choice. He then replied reluctantly while shrugging, "It's your loss if you don't believe me. I shall show you later."
Seeing that Xu Que had taken a step back, Su Ling'er finally heaved a sigh of relief. She then turned to Xiao Yu, "Xiao Yu, you can begin now. You don't have to worry about being successful on the first try. All you have to do is to try your best."
"Alright sister Ling'er. Xiao Yu shall try her best. If I fail, please let big brother Great Sage try!" Xiao Yu seemed to truly believe in Xu Que's ability and relaxed as she spoke his name out.
She then walked towards the furnace as she waved her small palm over it and a fire started to rumble, causing the furnace to heat up.
There were more than ten different ingredients beside the furnace all prepared to be refined. Xiao Yu gingerly picked up the first ingredient and was about to empty its contents into the furnace.
Xu Que watched in shock before he opened his mouth to halt her, "Wait a second Xiao Yu. What are you doing? You have to remove the impurities from the ingredients first. If not, the quality of the pill would be severely reduced.
"Ah?" Xiao Yu paused in confusion.
Everyone outside paused in shock as well as they started to frown.
"Damned monkey. Can you stop playing around and start helping Xiao Yu increase her control over the process?!" Su Xiao Qi gritted her teeth as she shouted out.
Su Ling'er looked towards Xu Que as well and spoke out gravely, "Sun Wu Kong, this is an important matter for me and there's no time to lose. Tomorrow, I have to activate the Thunder Tribulations Worship. Can you please accommodate to Xiao Yu?"
What the hell? I'm fooling around?
Xu Que was at a loss for words. Don't tell me that your pill refining process is done so haphazardly? You just empty the ingredients into the furnace and hope for the best?
"I remember now. Big brother Great Sage is right. Such a step did truly exist within the ancient alchemist manual."
At this point, Xiao Yu who had been extremely careful beamed in eagerness as she seemed to have recalled a vital step and spoke out excitedly.
Chapter 125: I Am Definitely Not That Type Of Person
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Was there really such a method?
Everyone around were all stumped as they looked towards Xu Que.
Xu Que let out a contented smile as he patted Xiao Yu's tiny skull affectionately and sighed out, "What a good and knowledgeable child!"
However, the next sentence spoken by Xiao Yu caused his smile to wear off.
"But that method had been lost a long time ago and is now a lost art. Many Nine Star Alchemists had tried to regain this method, but wasted many ingredients in their failed pursuit and failed to accomplish anything." Xiao Yu spoke out gravely.
Xu Que immediately withdrew his hand from her head and stopped patting her. Hm, what a stupid child. She knows nothing at all!
What lost art are you speaking of? This big brother here has the system. With the system, he owns the entire world. Do you know that? Just a mere pill refining art, how can it ever pose a challenge to me?
Xu Que paused and wanted to speak these words.
However, Su Ling'er was watching every single move he made and shot him a warning glance, as if warning him not to say anything stupid.
Xu Que looked extremely displeased as he spoke out, "Can all of you stop being so stupid? I really am learned at the arts of pill refining.On what grounds do you have to disallow me from trying?"
"Because this will endanger our entire tribe. If you're unable to exert absolute control over the pill refining situation, you might ruin the furnace and cause it to explode. Tell me, what if that happens?" Su Xiao Qi waved a fist as she replied.
"What bullshit. The second I refine a pill, it's a 100% success rate. What nonsense are you spouting about failure to control the process?" Xu Que replied wide eyed.
The second these words were spoken, everyone knew that Xu Que was just boasting and talking big.
One of the Original Infant Staged elder of the tribe couldn't hold it in any longer and frowned as he spoke, "My little friend, I don't mean to offend you, but saying such things like having 100% success rate is ridiculous. Not even Nine Star Alchemist can say such things. You're just a mere Golden Core Stager, from where do you have the guts to utter such nonsense?"
"So what if I'm only at the Golden Core Stage? Does that mean I'm not a person? Why don't you come and refine the pills yourself?" Xu Que replied indignantly.
It became clear that Su Ling'er had told this elder of Xu Que's battle prowess, for he immediately backed down after seeing Xu Que turning angry. He then turned his head away and pretended like he didn't hear or say anything.
Su Ling'er frowned as she spoke out, "Sun Wu Kong, do you really wish to refine the pills yourself?"
"I do! And it's true that I will definitely succeed. I never ever tell lies!" Xu Que nodded his head.
"Then what if you fail?"
"If I fail, I shall eat dung until I choke and die!" Xu Que spoke out without a second thought. He knew that it was impossible that he should fail.
"..."
Everyone around started blushing. He would choke on dung until he dies? What a bold bet!
Su Xiao Qi couldn't help but to open her eyes wide as well as she shouted out, "Cursed monkey! Are you trying to find an excuse to eat shit since you enjoy it so much?!"
Xiao Yu looked up curiously at Xu Que and didn't speak. Among the entire group of people, she was the only one who truly believed in Xu Que's capabilities.
Su Ling'er seemed to consider for a long time before she finally nodded her head in approval, "Since that's the case, I shall allow you to try. But you only have one try."
"My Queen, please no! This must not do!"
"That's right. If he fails to exert control..."
The few Original Infant Stage tribe elders were immediately roused as they tried to reject the idea.
However, Su Ling'er waved a hand and interrupted them before looking towards Xu Que, "The second the furnace shows any signs of instability, I will ask you to stop and you must listen to me and cease immediately. Do you understand?"
"No problem. I made a name for myself by being an extremely stable alchemist and am extremely renowned. If you don't believe me, you can make some inquiries. Everyone within the pill refining profession knows me!" Xu Que slapped his chest as he started boasting once again.
Su Ling'er was used to ignoring such words from him and replied plainly, "Then you can begin."
"Hold on. If I fail, I will eat dung until I die. But what if I succeed?" Xu Que asked out.
Everyone rolled their eyes in irritation.
If you can concoct a batch of pills without destroying the furnace, that would already be an achievement. Why are you even thinking about succeeding? There's no 'if' because such a result is impossible!
"Damned monkey! If you wish to try so badly, then please begin. Stop talking so much rubbish. If you really succeed, you can do anything you like." Su Xiao Qi spoke out irritably.
Xu QUe was elated. He could do anything he wanted to? Was she for real? He looked towards Su Ling'er expectantly.
Su Ling'er paused and shook her head, "Please begin. If you really succeed, I shall agree to one request. As long as it's not an evil act or anything that would harm my people."
"Ah! Sister, that won't do." Su Xiao Qi seemed to have thought of something as she shouted out in fear. "What if he requests to marry you? What would you do then?"
The second she spoke these words out, everyone paused in shock.
Even Su Ling'er was stumped. Her face turned red, not knowing what to do.
Xu Que immediately stood up and spoke out, "Please don't worry. I'm not such a lowdown person. I would never request for your sister to devote her heart to me and make her marry me."
What a joke. I am Xu Que, the smartest man in the world. How could I ever make such a stupid request? My request would be for both of you sisters to devote your lives to me and marry me!
"Hm, please drop the pretense. I know that you are a low down person. But that doesn't matter, for I know you will fail!" Su Xiao Qi looked at him fiercely as she stormed off into the room.
To everyone around, it was impossible that Xu Que would ever succeed. Everyone were certain that he doesn't know how to refine a batch of pills. Su Ling'er had only permitted him one try, which he was doomed to fail.
Feeling this way, Xu Que picked up the first batch of ingredients. He didn't even have the chance to warm up. Should he even come close to succeeding, but ultimately fail, it would still be regarded as a failure.
Su Ling'er understood this as well, and thus agreed to let Xu Que try. She allowed this to satisfy his curiosity and prove to him that he would fail. After he failed, he would have no choice but to accommodate to Xiao Yu and be her assistant. Then everything would run smoothly from there.
Hence, Su Ling'er didn't mind promising him a single request.
Xiao Yu was extremely understanding. She picked up the ingredients and started handing them over to Xu Que like a good apprentice and assistant. She then asked out, "Big brother Great Sage, would you like me to control the overall process?"
"There's no need for that. Just stand aside and watch. Let big brother Great Sage teach you the true arts of pill refining!" Xu Que laughed out and spoke.
"Sure." Xiao Yu nodded her head gently, her eyes were full of admiration.
Under the suspicious and watchful eyes of the audience, Xu Que took some ingredients and walked over to the furnace.
He gently shut his eyes and took a deep breath. When he next opened his eyes, a serious look swept across his face.
When everyone around saw that he stopped being childish, they started to feel a lot more calm and reassured.
At the next moment, Xu Que turned to look at Xiao Yu and spoke, "Oh right. Xiao Yu, is this recipe for the Vitality Pill or the Circulation Pill? Would you kindly pass me both the recipes?"
"..." In that second, everyone fell into silence.
Some of them opened their eyes wide and had to restrain themselves from vomiting blood.
Brother, are you mentally sound? How come you can't differentiate the ingredients for the Vitality Pills from the Circulation Pills.
Eh, that's not right. You've never ever refined any of these pills before, right? How can you be so assured of your abilities and even boast of having 100% success rate?
"This damned monkey really wanted to eat shit." Su Xiao Qi spoke out confidently.
Even Xiao Yu was astonished. She then looked at Xu Que in surprise, "Big brother Great Sage. You've… You've never refined a Vitality Pill or Circulation Pill before?"
"You're right. All the pills I've created in the past were Immortal Pills. As for this type of pills, it's my first time. Let me take a look at the recipe." Xu Que spoke out without a hint of embarrassment.
"Oh..." Xiao Yu took some time before she could snap out of her initial shock. She didn't hesitate and whipped out the recipes from within her robes. The recipes were torn and tattered.
What was written within were not just the recipes of two different pills. They were the recipes of all the pills handed down from the Jade Hares!
Xu Que's eyes lit up as he called out the system, "System, quick. Copy all these recipes down."
Chapter 126: Last Step! Improving The Taste!
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"Ding! 1 act tough point spent. Copying has been completed!"
Within a second, the system had copied down all the details from the piece of paper.
Thousands of dense words appeared before Xu Que, each of them flooded his mind, causing him to feel overwhelmed from all the knew knowledge. Before long, all the recipes was ingrained within his head.
"Big brother Great Sage, don't you want to look at it?" at this point, Xiao Yu noticed that Xu Que had placed the recipe aside and asked curiously.
Xu Que then regained his senses and laughed before picking the recipe up.
"Whoosh!"
After picking the recipe up, he flipped it over and returned it to Xiao Yu. He then spoke out confidently, "Your big brother has seen it. I know what to do now!"
Xiao Yu was stumped once again.
How could he read it all so quickly? Even for her, she needed more time just to locate the portion on the Vitality Pills. How could he have read it all in such a short time?'
And yet big brother Great Sage finished reading so quickly. How impressive!
Xiao Yu couldn't help but to feel her admiration for Xu Que increase.
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 30 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 50 act tough points!"
Xu Que's mind rang out in notifications!
Everyone outside had a headache just by watching and hearing him. They had expressions of helplessness.
"Ai, this monkey is really here to fool around."
"He doesn't even care to look at the recipe properly. He just flipped it over and returned it. Does he think he has photographic memory?"
"He didn't even read the contents, right?"
"Forget it. Just be more alert. When he begins, we all have to concentrate." The few elders shook their heads and sighed out.
Su Ling'er fell into deep silence as she stood by the door and watched Xu Que intently.
At this time, Xu Que regained his serious demeanor once again.
He stood before the furnace and exhaled deeply before picking up the ingredients once more.
"Sou!"
At the same time, the first ingredient levitated into the air as Xu Que used a sliver of core strength and gathered the rest of the ingredients, making them float above the furnace. Soon after, he started extracting the essence from each ingredient and separating them from one another.
"Eh? What's he doing?" Everyone outside were roused as they asked suspiciously.
Su Ling'er paused in shock as well. Her brows were knitted tightly as she watched on warily.
Although she didn't know how to refine pills, she had seen Xiao Yu do it many times and had never seen anything like this.
Only Xiao Yu's eyes were wide as she watched on in amazement and reverence.
"Whoosh!" Xu Que flipped his left hand, exposing his palm and revealing a green flame, hovering on it.
The heat from the green flame burned the entire furnace, causing it to heat up evenly.
This mystical flame produced from his core was the Molten Green Lotus!
"What a strong mystical fire!"
"Such a temperature is indeed scary!" Everyone were shocked as the stood by the door and could feel the heat emanating out towards them.
Xu Que stretched out the other hand and took the essence of a suspended ingredient and looked at Xiao Yu. "Xiao Yu, watch carefully. The first step is to separate the essence from the ingredients into pearls just like these one by one. This is done to remove the impurities. This step is the most difficult and you have to continually focus on maintaining your soul strength and exert perfect control."
As he finished, he tossed the ingredient right into the heart of the Green Lotus Flame.
"What?"
"What… What is he doing?"
"The temperature is so hot that even the flames are bursting forth from his hand. Throwing the essence of the ingredient in would turn it to dust, won't it?"
Everyone started voicing their disapproval once more, their faces had looks of shock.
In that next second however, they were all stupefied.
The pearls and beads of essences were surrounded by the green flames, but took no damage at all.
Xu Que exerted perfect control over the temperature as he heated up the ingredient. This process required extremely high precision. Once the temperature got too high, he would turn all the essences into ash and that could happen in a split second.
However, after absorbing the ability book and having the system assist him with the control, this process was only too easy.
"Chi!"
Heating up the ingredient produced steam as the pearls disintegrated. It looked exactly like blocks of ice melting together. Black steam started to waft out from flames. All these were the impurities that were not needed for the pills!
Extracting the core and removing the impurities!
Before long, the beads and pearls were completely disintegrated and turned into greenish fluids. They were rolling and swirling above the green flames as they started to glow and emit light.
Xu Que waved a hand as he swirled the greenish fluids around, before using his core strength to compress the liquid once again, all these while suspended over the flames.
Soon after, he picked up the second ingredient and tossed it into the flames.
He did this again with the remaining ingredients and managed to refine it after a short period of time.
He had used six different types of ingredients and six different colored fluids were combined into a single compound. It rested just beside Xu Que and looked splendid.
Everyone were shocked. They had never seen pill refining done at such a level. They knew that this was way pill refining was supposed to be done!
Xiao Yu's eyes glimmered in admiration as she was roused out, clearly excited.
She knew that such a method of pill refining had been recorded in the ancient days and were done this way. But nobody in this realm was capable of such refining methods. Watching Xu Que work his way around caused her to feel awestruck, as her respect for Xu Que increased.
"Xiao Yu, the next step is to place the congealed essences of these pills into the furnace and allow them to mix together. Actually, this is the same as your first step. The only difference is the complicated step which I took and you didn't."
Xu Que finished speaking as he waved his hands, causing the congealed six ingredients to pour into the furnace, which was levitated by him as well.
"Boom!"
The furnace then landed heavily down on the ground. The furnace had already been heated up and was extremely hot at this point. The second the mixture touched the surface of the furnace, it started boiling and rumbling.
However, Xu Que's soul strength was extremely strong. All he had to do was to look at the ingredients as they started congealing together and mixing up in the heat.
At the same time, the inscriptions on the furnace started producing light. The light emitted from the furnace was extremely bright as it entered the furnace and started working with the ingredients within.
The entire process was just like watching a blacksmith forging weapons with all the light and heat.
Before long, the six ingredients had fused together evenly and perfectly under the precise heat. It had solidified into a large bubble as big as a fist. It was white in colour and looked extremely pure.
"The third step is to divide the pills!"
Xu Que spoke out in a low voice as he extinguished the green flames and took a step forward. He then slapped the furnace with his palm.
"Wng!" A loud vibration could be heard as it rang out from the furnace.
The inscriptions on the furnace started glowing brighter and brighter as it transformed into a wave of powerful energy and swirled into the furnace once again.
A loud smack could be heard as the white bubble burst open and ten equally sized rays of white light split from the bubble and ascended to the surface of the furnace.
"Fourth step, forming the pills!"
Xu Que spoke out softly as he conjured a thread of core energy and directed it back into furnace, dramatically increase the temperature.
The entire furnace heated up once again!
The ten rays of light within the furnace started vibrating as it took on solid form. At the same time, a decadent smell of herbs could be smelt as it diffused across the entire room.
"The fifth step, open the furnace and acquire the pills!"
Xu Que lifted the lid of the furnace as he clenched his fists, causing 10 white pills to fly into the air.
Each one of the pills were perfectly round and all produced a certain aroma. Each of them were so white if reflected light as it hovered in the air.
Everyone watching were extremely shocked and their faces revealed astonished looks.
Ten Vitality Pills!
There were ten proper Vitality Pills!
"How… How did he do it?"
"He only used one batch of ingredients and could make ten Vitality Pills. There were no wasted ingredients and failed pills!"
"And the color of each pill are exactly the same as each other and looks perfectly pure and flawless."
"Such pill purity has never been seen throughout the entire ages!"
All the Original Infant Stagers were sighing in disbelief.
Su Ling'er and Su Xiao Qi remained rooted to the ground in shock. Their hearts were trembling, unable to believe whatever they were witnessing.
How could such a man… exist in this world?
He was so strong physically and could play the Qin to perfection. Now he has shown that he can even refine pills. Is there anything he doesn't know?
"The last step, improving the taste!" Xu Que looked serious again as he shouted out.
Xiao Yu was extremely surprised. She then replied, "Big brother Great Sage, haven't you already succeeded? Why is there a last step?"
Everyone else were stumped once again. Yeah, wasn't he already successful? What was the last step for?
"Not yet. The last step is the most important and a personal creation." Xu Que shook his head severely as he conjured a box from the system.
When he opened the box, it contained some black sticky looking substance.
At the same time, he flicked his wrists and conjured his core energy and retrieved the ten pills and dunked them into the black and sticky liquid.
When he removed the pills from the liquid, they now took on a black-brown looking colour. The sticky liquid was starting to solidify around the pill.
Xiao Yu was extremely lost, "Big brother Great Sage, what… What's this?"
"Oh, this is chocolate flavored Vitality Pills. It's extremely amazing, come have a taste!"
Chapter 127: Come And Take A Lick!
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"Chocolate Flavored Vitality Pills?"
After taking the black looking pills over, Xiao Yu was extremely confused.
Vitality Pills were all white. The whiter it is, the stronger the effects and the higher the purity level. Hence, the best Vitality Pills were all extremely white. This was the first time seeing such a black looking pill. Besides, everyone knew that pills which were completely black meant that the pill was a failure and a waste for it would not have any effects.
Hence, seeing that the pills which Xu Que handed over were black, Xiao Yu started getting suspicious. Especially after hearing what Xu Que said about Chocolate Flavored Vitality Pills. This caused her to be even more confused.
What was chocolate? How can that be done to Vitality Pills? Were the effects of the Vitality Pills still intact? Also, why was there such a delicious smell wafting from the pills?
With a wary look, Xiao Yu was helplessly attracted to the smell of the pills. She then picked one up and placed it into her mouth and was about to bite down on the pill. At that exact moment, Xu Que shouted out, "Wait a second. Xiao Yu, you are only of the Core Bearing Stage. You cannot eat such a pill! Spit it out now."
Xiao Yu then reacted and realized that she wasn't supposed to consume such a pill.
The Vitality Pill was an extremely strong pill even to Original Infant Stage cultivators. If someone who was of a low cultivation level consumed the pill, it would explode within the person and cause death.
Indeed, when Xiao Yu took the pill out from her mouth, her tongue was coated with a thick layer of chocolate. She then paused in surprise.
"Ai, it's a little sweet and extraordinary. It actually melted in my mouth and is delicious..." Xiao Yu couldn't help but started tasting the liquid on her tongue.
That black, sticky liquid caused her eyes to light up.
"Big brother Great Sage, what is this? It's so delicious!"
Xiao Yu hurriedly picked up another pill and placed it inside her mouth as she swirled the pill around and tasted the chocolate.
"No, Xiao Yu. You mustn't eat the Vitality Pill."
"Spit it out."
At this point, the people at the door realized what was happening and hurriedly rushed into the room and shouted loudly.
Su Xiao Qi ran the fastest and placed a finger into Xiao Yu's mouth and took out the pill.
The layer of chocolate had been completely licked off by Xiao Yu, leaving behind the clear white pill.
"This white Vitality Pill has the best color and is far better than anything I've ever refined! Big brother the Great Sage refined a pill that is better than my best pill by over a hundred times!"
Xiao Yu was strangely excited. When she first saw the Chocolate Flavored Vitality Pill, she wasn't very sure of what it was. Now that she could once again see the pure whiteness of the pill, she knew that this was the best pill possibly refined.
She then handed the pill over to Su Xiao Qi, the little red fox. However, she wanted to continue licking the outer layers of the rest of the pills. That sweet milky taste and flavour was too irresistible. She then turned around to face Xu Que and stretched out her tiny hands, and pleaded with those beady eyes. "Big brother Great Sage, I wish to eat some more of that. I won't eat the Vitality Pills, I only wish to eat the sweet outer layer."
"Sigh..." Xu Que didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. He wanted to improve the taste of the pills, but had unexpectedly gotten Xiao Yu hooked onto it.
However, he understood that to a young child such as herself, chocolates were extremely desirable. Besides, she had never eaten anything like that before.
Thinking up to this, Xu Que then took out several chocolate layered pills and handed it over to her.
Everyone around finally heaved a sigh of relief after seeing Xiao Yu spit out the pill. At the next moment, they saw Xu Que handing over several more Vitality Pills, and almost caused many of them to faint.
Su Xiao Qi hurriedly took away the pills in Xiao Yu's hands and scolded Xu Que harshly, "Sun Wu Kong, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to kill Xiao Yu?"
"Xiao Qi sister, it's alright. I just want to eat the sweet outer layer, and won't actually eat the Vitality Pills." Xiao Yu hastily snatched back the remaining nine pills into her small hands and held it behind her back. It was just exactly like an adult not allowing a child to have candy, but the child insisted on having it all.
Xu Que watched Xiao Yu and realized he was helpless against how adorable she was. He forced a laugh and took her side, "The outer layer is just chocolate and is the same as candy. Eating it will not be harmful to her."
"What if she accidentally swallows the Vitality Pills?" Su Xiao Qi glared at Xu Que and asked.
Xiao Yu's face turned downcast as she turned towards Su Xiao Qi angrily, "Sister Xiao Qi, I am not stupid. Xiao Yu knows how to differentiate between tasting and swallowing it. You are just humiliating me."
"Xiao Yu, I didn't mean that. Please don't be angry! I'm just worried that stupid monkey will harm you!"
"Big brother Great Sage will not harm me. It's just that the chocolate is really tasty. Try it if you don't believe." Xiao Yu took out a single pill and gave it to Su Xiao Qi.'
"It's black and disgusting. How can it be nice?" Su Xiao Qi frowned as she looked at the pill suspiciously. She then imitated Xiao Yu and stuck her tongue out and licked the pill.
Several seconds later, her eyes opened wide in amazement.
That was delicious!
How could there be such a special taste? It's sweet and smooth. How did the damned monkey do that?
Su Xiao Qi couldn't help but take several more licks, as though she couldn't help stop herself.
Now that nobody else would stop Xiao Yu, she then took out another pill and started licking it as well.
Everyone else watched on and saw that she wasn't going to swallow the pill but only wanted to lick the exterior layer, and thus didn't disapprove. They too were curious as to how delicious that black coating could be. However, they couldn't bear to let their prides down and snatch candies from a kid.
However, seeing Xiao Qi lick the chocolate that way, along with the delicious smell wafting in the air, they started salivating too.
"Come, come, come. What is everyone standing there for? Don't be shy, come and take a few licks! The exterior coating is called chocolate and is quite high in calories… What? You don't know what calories are? Nevermind, just know that calories are delicious. The more the calories, the more delicious the food is. I shan't say anymore. Come, don't be shy. Take a nice lick. As long as you don't bite down onto the pill, it's fine."
Xu Que watched on as people started surrounding him while they licked onto the pills. He then smiled and distributed more pills.
Everyone around didn't refuse him any longer as they all started to imitate Xiao Yu and started licking the pill as they coated their tongues with the delicious black coating.
Just a single lick was enough to captivate them. Each of their eyes were opened wide in amazement. Clearly, the entire tribe had never tried chocolate before. Having such a decadent and aromatic substance in their mouths was eye opening for them. In just three licks, the entire pill was back to white in color again. They looked at Xu Que in sadness, seeing that the chocolate layer was finished.
They were all completely won over by Xu Que's amazing pill refining techniques along with that wonderful tasting chocolate. They couldn't help but start to wonder to themselves, what was the best way to get this person to join their Sky Demon Tribe. Who knows? They might be able to eat chocolate everyday if he joins.
Hence, in a short span of time, Xu Que had turned from a suspicious character to a loved and popular person.
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 30 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 30 act tough points!"
Seeing that everyone was thoroughly enjoying the chocolate, Xu Que revealed a smile as he thought to himself, "Just mere chocolate is enough to win you over? Wait till you try my famous grilled chicken wings and smelly tofu! Of course, the day I cook my signature spicy snack, it would be so delicious you would wish you were dead. Ai, just thinking about it is enough to make me salivate..."
Chapter 128: Automatic Refining Function
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Su Ling'er had just tasted the chocolate and was astounded beyond words.
Such an amazing taste was enough to cause anyone to be addicted to it.
Still, she was slightly suspicious. Every single time she licked the chocolate, she noticed a strange smile spread across that monkey's face, making her feel strange all over.
Su Ling'er looked at him suspiciously, before falling deep into her own thoughts.
Of course, she had been thinking of the best ways to convince someone like Xu Que to stay here in Sky Demon Tribe.
In actual fact, after watching Xu Que demonstrate such amazing powers outside the tribe domains, she had already been thinking of ways to invite him to join the Sky Demon Tribe.
Today, Xu Que managed to surprise her once again with his alchemy skills, causing her to be more sure that she has to do everything in her power to make such a capable freak join her tribe.
At this time, Xu Que was still smiling as he walked up to her.
"What is it?" Su Ling'er paused in shock as she asked.
"You promised me a request, do not forget. You should lick more of that thing. It would be good for your body…" Xu Que dragged his words as a sly grin appeared on his face.
Su Ling'er was astonished and clearly misunderstood his expression. She then recalled what Su Xiao Qi had told her earlier, and her face blushed as she cleared her throat and looked down, clearly too embarrassed to look at Xu Que.
When she looked up, Xu Que had already turned around and walked over to the shelves along the walls. He started picking several herbs and ingredients from the shelf.
After examining the contents of the herbs, Xu Que started to prepare the necessary items to refine the Lightning Evasion Pill.
There were many required ingredients needed to make the Lightning Evasion Pill. However, he noticed that most of them were already available on the shelf. Hence, he didn't bother to access the system store to purchase at first. He decided to search for as much as he can get on the shelves before purchasing the items which weren't available to him here.
Su Ling'er watched as he took down so many ingredients. She then asked, "What pill are you going to refine now?"
Xu Que laughed and replied, "You will know when I'm done. It will be useful for your Thunder Worship Tribulation as well."
"Useful for my Thunder Worship Tribulations?" Su Ling'er started to get suspicious once again. Apart from the Vitality Pill and Circulation Pill, she couldn't think of any other pill which would help her.
Xu Que didn't intend to explain as well, smirking before walking over to the furnace. He waved a hand and started doing everything he did earlier once more.
This time, the audience weren't as tense or worried anymore. They looked towards him with eyes of admiration and reverence. At the same time, each of them were licking their lips, hoping that Xu Que would coat the new batch of pills with his delicious chocolate again.
A proficient Alchemist would always be deeply respected and treated with reverence everywhere he went. Even more so when he can conjure something as delicious as chocolate. It was so delicious that they would have given up their souls just to have more of that.
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 50 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 50 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 50 act tough points!"
After the system rang out several times and came to a halt, Xu Que thought to himself. Adding all the points he had earned after creating the Vitality Pills, he had earned more than 500 act tough points. He was being extremely profitable.
He turned his attention towards the pill refining process and started congealing all the essences of the ingredients.
In order to refine this Lightning Evasion Pill, many more ingredients had to be used. After adding the first few ingredients essence into the mix, he realized that he didn't have enough strength to continue adding more essences and maintaining the same level of stability.
He turned his eyes away from the furnace and called out the system, "System, do you have an automatic pill refining ability?"
"Ding! Since the host has mastered the recipes of the required pills, he can activate the automatic pill function. Every hour would cost 1 act tough points!"
"Fuck, there really was an automatic function? Why didn't you say so earlier? I've spent so much time doing all these hard work. Fine. I shall activate it. Such a small amount of act tough points, I can afford it." Xu Que replied happily.
With the automatic function being activated, this was now more like a game to him. Even without anyone to manage the concoction, the system will ensure that everything is in order.
"Ding! Automatic refining function has been activated. The host's soul strength has been temporarily reduced by half, directed towards the refining process. At the same time, the host must not wander further than 100m away from the furnace. If not, the automatic function will cease to operate."
"It's fine. I shall sit down and take a rest. At the same time… Right, I shall roast some chicken wings!"
Xu Que smiled as he exited the system interface.
At the moment, he could feel his soul strength weaken considerably as his strength was directed towards the furnace to operate the automatic function.
Concurrently, the Molten Green Lotus floated into the air as it heated up the rest of the congealed ingredients. The system was managing the heat as it started melting the ingredients and combining them together.
After some time, Xu Que was confident of the system and stopped observing the process. He then used his thoughts to take out items from within his inventory.
Grilling forks, sauce, chicken wings…
Meanwhile, the group of Original Infant Stage elders observing him were stumped by Xu Que's actions.
They watched as the green flame which was originally on Xu Que's palm float into the distance. They thought that this was another method of pill refining and started paying attention to it, afraid of missing out on something amazing.
However, when they saw Xu Que taking out strange and odd items, they were astonished.
"Looks like my friend Sun is using another complicated refining method." One of the tribe elders sighed as he spoke out.
"That's right. He's using so many ingredients and even took out strange looking equipments. It must be that this method is extraordinary."
"Eh? If i'm not mistaken. That… That looks like chicken wings?"
"Chicken wings? Can that be used to refine pills?"
"That's strange. I wonder what strange pill he's going to refine this time, which would actually require chicken wing as an ingredient!"
"Looks like... This pill might be of the Three Star grade! My friend Sun is definitely using the chicken wings as an ingredient!"
An elder was eagerly anticipating the product as he spoke out, trembling in excitement.
Even Su Ling'er was watching on in curiosity, extremely sure that this pill would have supernatural powers. It would be even stronger than the Vitality Pills. If not, it wouldn't be so complicated!
Everyone were holding their breaths as they stared at Xu Que hard at work.
Each one of them was extremely curious and wanted to know how a chicken wing would fit into a pill concoction process.
Indeed, Xu Que didn't pay the onlookers any mind as he impaled the chicken wings with grilling forks. He then took out some peanut oil and applied a layer around before walking over to the furnace and squatted down.
He then used the heat being emitted from the bottom of the furnace to grill the chicken wings while he started singing a song!
"Grilling chicken wings to fulfil my food cravings. Once I hear your old mother approaching, I hide my food from her..."
"..." The entire group of people were appalled!
"He… He's grilling chicken wings?"
An elder was astounded as he asked the person next to him, as though he was unable to believe whatever he was witnessing.
Everyone was speechless. They could feel their vision slowly getting dimmer as though they were about to pass out soon.
Ever since the ancient days, which Alchemist would be so distracted and not pay attention to his batch of pills? If an Alchemist would lose just a little concentration, disaster might happen. And now…
You were refining pills halfway and decided to grill some chicken wings in the midst of it?
And you can even sing songs?
Chapter 129: Stir Up Romantic Feelings!
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"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 30 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 40 act tough points!"
A pair of system beeps could be heard as Xu Que looked down and realized that his chicken wings had already been grilled nicely. The skin of the chicken was in golden brown color. He then proceeded to spread a layer of honey over it before scattering some chilli flakes and pepper. The aroma of the chicken wings had wafted throughout the entire room.
Everyone around were stumped speechless as they remained rooted to the ground in utter disbelief.
Chicken wings… Could really be cooked till it smelt so delicious?
Wait a minute, that's not right big brother! You haven't even finished refining your batch of pills! Why have you abandoned the furnace? There are many precious pills waiting for your attention!
"Damned monkey, what on earth are you grilling? Let me try it. I wish to see if there's any poison inside!"
"Big brother Great Sage, I wish to try it too!"
All of a sudden, a pair of shadows ran over. It was Su Xiao Qi and Xiao Yu. The pair of wild children. With shocking speeds, they snatched the chicken wings away from him.
"Fuck! Thankfully I grilled enough wings. Ai, the rest of you should come and eat too!" This is the specialty of my Heavenly Explosion Sect. The only sect in the world capable of producing such good food!" Xu Que laughed out and called Su Ling'er and the rest of them over.
"Wa! It's delicious!"
"Big brother Great Sage is so amazing. You can play the Qin, and can refine pills so well. Now you can even cook delicious food!" Xiao Yu and Su Xiao Qi took a huge bite out of the chicken wings and revealed looks of bliss on their faces.
...
The few elders gave helpless looks. They were extremely worried about the furnace since nobody was paying it any attention. What if it exploded?
However, after living for so many years, this was the first time smelling something so delicious. They watched on as Xiao Yu and Su Xiao Qi devoured the chicken wings. This caused them to feel hungry, as they struggled to maintain their composure.
They were caught in a dilemma.
"Why don't we stop the pill refining now?"
"Yeah that's right! Look at our friend Sun's soul strength. It's been reduced by more than half. He probably couldn't hold on any longer and thus decided to grill some chicken wings."
"That's right. Afterall, he had just finished refining an entire batch of Vitality Pills. His soul strength must've been depleted after all that hard work. Look, his face is so pale now. He must've used a significant amount of strength."
"I never expected our friend Sun to be someone who's such a good friend. In order to help our Queen successfully cross through the Tribulation, he didn't hesitate to deplete his soul strength. In fact, he even insisted on making a second batch of pills for her."
"It's such a shame there's a limit to his strength after all, and he is unable to keep up. It must be that he's too prideful and refuse to admit that he cannot hold on anymore. That's why he decided to run off halfway to cook some chicken wings."
"Then let's play along, and allow him to step of the stage in a dignified manner. But… How should we say it such that he won't feel embarrassed at his lack of strength?"
The few of them started discussing fervently.
They all mistakenly assumed that Xu Que had wasted too much of his strength on refining the batch of Vitality Pills, and thus had no more strength left to concoct the second batch. They assumed that was why he started grilling wings halfway.
In actual fact, half of his soul strength had been taken by the system in order to maintain the automated refining function. Since he was bored and had nothing to do, he then decided to start grilling chicken wings. As for why his face was pale…. It was because his soul strength had been abruptly reduced by half, and his body was still not use to the lack of strength.
However, none of them knew these. They also didn't want to hurt his feelings and ask him to turn off the furnace. Hence, all of them turned their gazes towards Su Ling'er.
Su Ling'er walked over to him and whispered softly and gently, "Sun Wu Kong, why don't you turn off the furnace? You've already done a great deal for me. These Vitality Pills are enough for me to cross the Tribulations. You don't have to create another batch of pills for me. If not, you would hurt yourself if you continue to deplete your soul strength."
"How can that do? That's a small amount of pills, it won't be enough. Based on what I've observed, the second day of Tribulations is going to be tough. It's better to be well prepared. Don't worry, leave it to me!" Xu Que laughed out as he slapped his chest and spoke out. He then turned his attention towards one of the chicken wings which was done and handed it over to Su Ling'er.
Su Ling'er didn't take receive it from him immediately. She looked at him quietly, as though she was moved by his genuine actions. Her heart fluttered.
'Why is he treating me so nicely...…'
'It's obvious that his soul strength has taken considerable damage, and yet he insists on refining more pills for me!"
'It's so obvious that his face is pale, and his body is weak, but he's still smiling and putting on a brave front. Is he afraid of losing face.... Or is he afraid that I would worry?'
...
"Ding! Congratulations host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 40 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for subtly acting tough, and pretended to sacrifice yourself for the greater good. You stirred up romantic feelings in someone. The reward is 100 act tough points!"
What the….?
What was going on?
Just grilling chicken wings could stir up romantic feelings?
Xu Que was shocked as his heart skipped a beat. He then asked the system, "Which individual did I stir up romantic feelings in? Please don't tell me it's Su Xiao Qi or Xiao Yu. Aiyo, fuck me. Just some chicken wings was enough to cause them to fall for me? That's not good at all. They're still so young. Although the idea of a fox lady and a rabbit girl does attract me, but they're still so young. At least wait for them to grow up man..."
Xu Que started speaking in his head to the system, but the system replied coldly, "Host does not have enough privileges, for the system's level is still too low. The system is unable to reply your question."
"Damn you. What's the point of having you around? You can't even answer the most important questions!" Xu Que shouted out in his head.
The system completely ignored him.
This caused Xu Que to feel extremely restless. There were at least three females around. Two of them were young girls, and the other was the Queen of the tribe. If someone were to randomly tell you that one of them developed romantic feelings for you, but refused to tell you who, how can you not be restless?
"Sun Wu Kong, thank you!" At this point, Su Ling'er stretched a hand out and took the chicken wing offered to her. She revealed a sweet and pleasant smile.
This smile was extremely charming, and accentuated her gorgeous looking features, which would've charmed any mortal man to no end.
Ever since the first moment which he laid eyes on her, he had never seen her smile like this. He was taken aback by her reaction.
'It can't be that this Nine Tails Fox developed romantic feelings for me right?'
He started getting suspicious.
"Sun Wu Kong, you really don't have to refine this batch of pills anymore. I really understand your intentions now. You can stop here. If you force your way through, your soul strength would sustain irreparable damage." Su Ling'er spoke gently.
When Xu Que heard this, he was displeased. What force my way through? I'm having such an easy time.
He shook his head and replied sternly, "Say no more, I'm determined to finish this batch of pills."
"You…. Why do you have to put yourself through such torment…." Su Ling'er was clearly touched and moved by his actions. Some tears welled up in her eyes.
She had never seen any man who was so willing to make sacrifices for her in her entire life.
One must know that if a person's soul strength sustained irreparable damage, it would affect his cultivation future. If it was severe enough, he wouldn't be able to ever advance in cultivation level.
"Ding! Congratulations to host ' Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 50 act tough points!"
Xu Que heard the system beep in his head again and ignored hit. He noticed that Su Ling'er's eyes were moist, which gave him a shock.
What was happening? Could it be that I moved her to tears? That's impossible. I haven't even started flirting with her.
Could it be that…. She's so angry she's crying?
Thinking this way, Xu Que forced a laugh as he hurriedly spoke out, "Please don't be this way. I can definitely succeed in refining this batch of pills. Oh right oh right, didn't I just refine an entire batch of Vitality Pills? Oh, you have one in your hand, I shall just consume it, that would make me feel better."
As he spoke, he snatched the pill from her fingers and swallowed it without second thought.
"No!" Su Ling'er shouted out in desperation as she opened her mouth in shock, "I…. I licked that pill earlier!"
Chapter 130: Your Sister Can No Longer Hold Her Feelings In!
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"But… But I've already licked it."
Although Su Ling'er whispered this softly, Xu Que managed to hear it and was immediately embarrassed.
"Phew! No wonder the pill was wet. But it was still sweet!" Xu Que smiled charmingly.
These words made Su Ling'er blush as she looked into Xu Que's eyes.
"Ding! The pill refining process has been complete. The host can open the furnace and retrieve the pills!"
At this point, Xu Que's mind was flooded with the system beeps.
He was overjoyed and looked at Su Ling'er and smiled. "Let's make a bet. What do you say?"
"What?" Su Ling'er replied softly.
"If I open the furnace now and take out pills that have already been refined, you will owe me another request. How about that?"
"Now?" Su Ling'er was surprised as she muttered under her breath. A smile crept up on her lips once again as she replied, "What if the pills aren't completed or are failed pills?"
"Then I shall owe you a request, or we can cancel out the request which you owe me. The choice is yours!"
"Alright!" Su Ling'er laughed out and agreed.
Based on her observations, Xu Que only managed to refine the pill halfway. It was impossible that the pills within the furnace were completed. If even a single perfect pill were to appear, that would be miraculous. Besides, it was impossible that none of the pills failed.
Hence, regardless of how she saw it, she was certain to win this time.
And she had already thought of her request. Without a doubt, it was for Xu Que to remain within Sky Demon Tribe.
"Remember, if you lose, you have to remain true to your word and be a gracious loser!" Su Ling'er reminded Xu Que, worried that he would go back on his words.
Xu Que laughed out loudly and replied, "Of course. I am the most trustworthy person around!"
As he finished his sentence, he placed the grilled chicken wing down and walked towards the furnace.
The group of people had seen Su Ling'er and Xu Que speaking to each other although they couldn't hear what they were speaking. Xu Que then walked towards the furnace gingerly. Everyone around assumed that he had agreed to cease his refining of the pills now and heaved a sigh of relief.
"The Queen is incredible. She managed to convince him."
"Looks like getting him to remain in Sky Demon Tribe isn't going to be too difficult."
"Why do you say that?"
"Look at the Queen's expression. Have you ever seen her smile this way before? She only looks and smile this way at Sun Wu Kong!"
"It's no wonder. Although our friend Sun is a monkey race, he is rather handsome and elegant. He is also extremely talented and has such extraordinary strengths. That's not all, he can even refine pills to perfection. So he's actually a good match for the Queen."
"Thud!" a dull thud rang out, interrupting their discussion.
The few of them turned their necks to look at Xu Que and noticed that he had lifted up the lid to the furnace.
A seven colored mist wafted out from within the furnace and rose high up into the sky. At the same time, a small sliver of blue lightning cut through the mist, just like a mini lightning bolt.
"What… What is that?"
"Am I seeing things? Why would there be such a scene?" Everyone was taken aback.
Xiao Yu, who was sitting by the side nibbling on her chicken wings raised her head to look up and was stumped as well.
"That's… The Cloud of Pill Perfection, it���s really the Cloud of Pill Perfection!" She started to tremble as she whispered those words under her breath and dropped the chicken wing onto the ground. She gave a disbelieving glance towards Xu QUe.
"Xiao Yu, what's the matter with you?" Su Xiao Qi was startled by Xiao Yu's sudden movement and hurriedly asked her what was wrong.
Everyone standing outside, including Su Ling'er started to gather around Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu exclaimed in shock, "Big brother Great Sage is too remarkable! Once the furnace emits a cloud like this, called the Cloud of Pill Perfection, it means that the finished product is of the highest grade."
"Highest grade? Aren't the grade of the pills determined by the number of stars?" Su Xiao Qi asked curiously.
"Yes. However, under each star, there are still different ranges of quality. With my own capabilities, I have only refined a medium level Two Star grade Vitality Pill. The pill which brother Great Sage refined earlier was also of Two Star grade. But now… This new batch of pills are Perfect Two Star grade pills. According to the records, a Perfect Two Star grade pills are even more valuable and precious than Three Star grade pills!"
"What?" Everyone listened to Xiao Yu's explanation and were shocked.
"Perfect Two Star grade pills are more precious than Three Star grade pills? Does that mean… His Alchemy level can also be called a Three Star Alchemist?"
"How… How was this possible? He's just a mere Full Foundation Golden Core Alchemist!"
"That's not right! The most important thing was that, he was grilling chicken wings beside the furnace while the pills were being concocted!"
Everyone turned their eyes towards Xu Que, all looking astonished beyond words.
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 40 act tough points!"
"Ding! Congratulations to host 'Xu Que' for successfully acting tough. The reward is 60 act tough points!"
A pair of beeps resounded within Xu Que's mind as his lips curled into a smile. He swung his hands towards the pills and grabbed onto them steadily. Ten Lightning Evasion Pills were removed from the furnace!
He had overheard what Xiao Yu had said about the cloud as well. Indeed, only the most perfect of pills would emit the cloud over the furnace after the refining process was completed. However, the appearance of this Cloud of Pill Perfection had nothing to do with the skill level of the Alchemist. Instead, it was correlated with the cultivation level of the Alchemist.
Lightning Evasion Pills were the highest quality pills of the Two Star Pills range. The reason they weren't classified as Three Star pills was because its potency wasn't strong enough and the requirements to refine the pills weren't very high. As long as an Alchemist was of the Two Star grade, he would be able to refine Lightning Evasion Pills.
However, there had never been anyone who had successfully refined such a pill. That was because a pill like this, once successfully refined, would have been classified as a Perfect Pill and wouldn't be categorized as a medium or high level pill.
Hence, when it came to Perfect Pills, regardless of which star grade it belonged to, it presented the most difficulty in the Alchemist realms.
Even a Nine Star Alchemist wouldn't be able to consistently refine a Two Star Perfect Pill. Or rather, he had no confidence of ever refining such a pill. That would be highly dependent on his luck.
And yet Xu Que had managed to refined a Two Star Perfect Pill while grilling chicken wings at the same time. This caused a fair amount of disbelief to course through the entire room.
Su Ling'er was at a loss for words as well. She never would've imagined such an outcome to be possible. Not only weren't there any failed pills, he even managed to refine Perfect Pills. Looks like she now owed him another request.
"Big brother Great Sage, wait a minute." Xiao Yu who had been staring at Xu Que spoke out.
Immediately after, the little girl sprinted towards him and peeled clenched fingers apart to reveal the pills sitting on his palms. Ten Lightning Evasion Pills rested, as surges of electric rays entwined within each pills. A faint light was also being emitted from each pill.
"Lightning Evasion PIll!" Xiao Yu was startled as she let out a gasp.
Everyone around paused in shock and were instantly roused. They started to rush into the room.
"What? Xiao Yu, what did you just say?"
"Our friend Sun managed to refine the fabled and legendary Lightning Evasion Pill?"
"Heavens! How is that possible?"
"My friend Sun, please let us take a look."
"Ah! It's really the Lightning Evasion Pill. It's just as the ancient records described it to look!"
"Hahahaha! Looks like our Queen no longer has to worry about her Tribulations."
"The new Demon Queen is our Queen!"
Everyone were surprised as they laughed out like a bunch of maniacs.
"Hang on, don't be so anxious. Let me apply a layer of chocolate over it first. This time, it's strawberry flavored chocolate." Xu Que noticed that everyone was crowding around him eagerly and shouted out.
"Sun Wu Kong!" All of a sudden, Su Ling'er shouted out across as she walked towards Xu Que gravely. "Come with me now."
"Ah? What's the matter?" Xu Que froze.
However, Su Ling'er didn't explain. She turned around and exited the refining room.
Everyone around were shocked as well and didn't understand what was happening.
"Sister, what's happening? Why are you so fierce?" Su Xiao Qi the little red fox asked curiously.
Xu Que smiled and replied happily, "Isn't it obvious? Your sister can no longer hold her feelings in. She wishes to express her love for me. There are so many of you here, of course she will be shy and won't dare to express it here."
"You… You're speaking rubbish!" Su Xiao Qi replied in anger.
"Hehe… see ya!" Xu Que smirked as he clutched onto the Lightning Evasion Pills and ran towards Su Ling'er.
Su Ling'er didn't speak a word. The second she left the Pill Refining Room, she walked into the forest.
Xu Que was somewhat afraid as he shouted out, "Ling'er, aren't we… Aren't we progressing too quickly? You wanna head straight for the woods now? Why don't we do it when it's later? It's still bright now and it's too blatant for my liking."
Su Ling'er paused but didn't respond to Xu Que. She just started becoming alert and looked around her surroundings suspiciously. With a grave expression, she whispered, "Sun Wu Kong, let's head for the Lightning Pool now. Let's not wait any longer."