"Pill Refining Art?"
Hearing this somewhat unfamiliar term, Yang Wushuang couldn't help but be momentarily stunned.
He quickly recovered,
looking at Ye Tian in surprise and asking doubtfully, "Kid, you know alchemy too?"
"Senior doesn't believe me?"
Ye Tian raised an eyebrow, countering.
"Hahaha..."
Yang Wushuang couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Even though the Soul-calming Spikes in his body brought pain, he still laughed unrestrainedly.
A mere wet-behind-the-ears junior, trying to show off in front of his most skilled field? How could he not laugh?
When it came to alchemy,
in the entire Soul Master Realm, he was absolutely among the top three!
Even if his greatest expertise was in refining poisons!
Yang Wushuang shook his head, revealing that pale, venomous face and sharp eyes, curling his lips into a cold sneer:
"Kid, don't tell me you think brewing a few potions counts as knowing alchemy? How old are you? How long has it been since you awakened your Martial Soul? Have you even recognized all the medicinal herbs? Do you understand their properties? Forget that you were born in Spirit Hall—even in the Po Clan, renowned for alchemy, those juniors under twenty wouldn't dare claim they know alchemy!"
"Haha...!"
Yang Wushuang laughed again.
"It seems I misunderstood. No matter how much Spirit Hall has declined, they wouldn't choose a shameless boaster like you as Holy Son!"
"Shameless boasting?"
Ye Tian grinned, nodding in agreement.
"Indeed, many people have said that, including my teacher before."
"..."
Ye Tian set down the teacup in his hand, looked up at the middle-aged man with prominent cheekbones before him, and smiled mysteriously. "But how does Senior know I'm not a pill refining genius?"
"Alchemy genius? Are you?"
Yang Wushuang scoffed, already losing interest in continuing the conversation with Ye Tian.
He said with deep feeling:
"I was once called a genius too, but not when I was still wet behind the ears. Alchemy is about accumulation, resilience! It's about persistent exploration and experimentation!"
"Kid, you're still far from it! Get lost! Don't bother me with your ignorance!"
Before his words even finished,
Yang Wushuang had already lowered his head again, ignoring Ye Tian.
But just then, in this dead-silent prison cell, crisp clapping echoed in his ears.
Clap, clap, clap!
"Good, well said!"
"As expected of a madman obsessed with alchemy, you haven't disappointed me!"
A flicker of appreciation flashed in Ye Tian's eyes.
The more fanatical Yang Wushuang was about alchemy, the clearer his memory of prescriptions would be.
How could Ye Tian not be pleased?
"Hmph."
Yang Wushuang merely sneered and made no further sound.
"Senior must think I'm flattering you, right? Actually, no—I'm just glad Spirit Hall managed to capture you."
Ye Tian's lips curled slightly, revealing a hint of mockery.
Getting scolded and not retorting?
That wasn't his style. It wasn't that he wouldn't retort, but the time hadn't come yet.
"You!"
Upon hearing this, the chains in the cell immediately clattered loudly.
Those sharp eyes fixed fiercely on Ye Tian, as if wanting to nail him to the stone wall of the detention room.
"Hah... Senior truly has an impatient temper."
Ye Tian said leisurely.
"While I greatly agree with your earlier explanation of alchemy, I must also remind you that patience during the refining process is crucial. As an alchemist, one must not be hasty."
"You insolent junior! How dare you insult me!"
Yang Wushuang glared fiercely, unable to hold back his furious roar.
His proud alchemy skills were being criticized by a mere junior—how could his solitary and arrogant nature tolerate this?
"Senior, please calm your anger. I am merely correcting your mistakes."
Ye Tian propped his cheek on his hand, tapping the table lightly with his knuckle. Paying no heed to the enraged Yang Wushuang, he continued unhurriedly:
"Moreover, the mistakes you have made are far more than just this one."
"..."
Yang Wushuang gritted his teeth so hard he wished he could devour Ye Tian alive.
But Ye Tian's voice persisted.
"Alchemy indeed requires accumulation, and there is no end to learning. However, there truly exist geniuses in this field. Though I am not particularly talented, I can barely count myself among them. But strictly speaking, what I have mastered is not alchemy—it is pill refining."
"Pill refining? How laughable!"
Hearing Ye Tian distinguish between alchemy and pill refining, Yang Wushuang sneered even more disdainfully.
Many of the poisons he created were indeed liquid or gaseous, but solid pills were not unheard of.
In his view,
what Ye Tian called pill refining was merely a branch of alchemy.
And the Pill Refining Art Ye Tian had mastered was even more rudimentary! It likely involved simply crushing various medicinal herbs, boiling them into a paste, and kneading them into pills.
He probably didn't even know how to perform purification.
Too many impurities, low efficacy—utter garbage among garbage!
"Whether it's laughable or not is another matter, for you will witness it with your own eyes soon enough. Before that, I would like to correct you on one more point."
As his words fell,
Ye Tian smiled politely and respectfully at Yang Wushuang, stating earnestly:
"I truly am the Spirit Hall Holy Child."
"What?!"
Yang Wushuang froze.
"My teacher is the Spirit Hall Saintess Bi Bi Dong, whom you mentioned earlier. She has already been designated as the future Pope of the Spirit Hall, and I am the designated Spirit Hall Holy Child."
Ye Tian revealed the truth with a helpless expression.
That look of helplessness was, in itself, a mockery of Yang Wushuang.
"!!!"
Yang Wushuang's pale, gaunt face flushed crimson instantly.
But he quickly remembered something.
"Wait!"
Yang Wushuang exclaimed in a low voice, his eyes flashing with surprise.
"You're the rumored Food-type Soul Master with Innate Full Spirit Power? No, how could the Spirit Hall allow a Food-type Soul Master to become the Holy Child?!"
"Who says they wouldn't? I am indeed Ye Tian."
Ye Tian smiled, slowly opening his right hand as he introduced himself: "Martial Soul: Flawless Nascent Pill, thirty-eighth rank Soul Venerable."
"What did you say?!"
Hearing "thirty-eighth rank Soul Venerable," Yang Wushuang immediately showed a horrified expression.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! From the time you became a disciple until today, it has only been three years. How could you possibly become a thirty-eighth rank Soul Venerable?"
"!!!"
Before his words even finished,
Yang Wushuang nearly popped his eyes out of their sockets. The chains binding him could not restrain him as he lunged toward Ye Tian as if oblivious to pain, screaming in terror:
"No! This can't be possible!!"
"Senior, you are mistaken again. Just as you refused to believe that a young genius could exist in alchemy—how laughably wrong you were—the truth is right before your eyes."
Ye Tian gazed at Yang Wushuang with a smile, his right palm upturned. Within it, the flawless and crystalline Flawless Primordial Core Martial Soul rotated slowly, encircled by Ye Tian's three Spirit Rings. Their colors were beyond compare: two purple and one black!
"How... how is this possible?!"
Yang Wushuang finally halted his pacing feet, his eyes wide with disbelief.
Drip!
The earlier lunge had torn his flesh where the four Soul-calming Spikes pierced him.
Blood dripped from his fingertips,
seeping through his prison uniform.
"Now, senior, you surely won't think that a Food-type Soul Master like me is unworthy of being the Spirit Hall Saint Child, will you?"
Ye Tian slowly lowered his right hand.
The Flawless Primordial Core Martial Soul, accompanied by its three awe-inspiring Spirit Rings, drifted upward,
hovering above Ye Tian's head,
slowly rotating within the prison cell.
It scattered the milky-white, viscous Pill Fragrance Jade Dew in all directions, gradually evaporating and dispersing until the cell was enveloped in a white mist.
Ye Tian's smile was radiant.
"It seems this time, I have once again avoided becoming that braggart."
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