Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 93

Chapter 93 Are you teaching me how to make pills?

Not all Shenzang Cult members are indiscriminate killers. Some, like Zhang Han at the beginning, are solely responsible for killing, or only for killing the wicked. For such members, Jiang Li naturally has ways to spare their lives while ensuring they never reveal anything about the Shenzang Cult.

Unfortunately, such members are a minority. Many more, like Zhang Han now, kill for any excuse, or even without a pretext, for the sake of Shenzang’s power.

For the latter, Jiang Li leaves no one behind and exterminates them completely.

With the cleanup of the Shenzang Cult complete, the task now lies in finding the extraterritorial demons hiding in Jiuzhou.

Jiang Li had a rough plan in mind.

First, he needed an elixir.

…

The best place for alchemy in Jiuzhou is, of course, Dao Sect’s Alchemy Peak. The Nine-Transformation Golden Elixir in Jiang Li’s hand, which grants instantaneous ascension, was created by the Peak Master.

Before reaching the Peak, Jiang Li heard the Peak Master, Su Wei, arguing with someone from a distance.

“I’ve been refining pills my whole life, and you tell me my technique is wrong? Can you really do better than me?” Jiang Li’s impression of Su Wei, known as a goody-goody, was fuming.

It was no wonder he was reacting this way. Su Wei was indeed a goody-goody, because he wasn’t interested in anything other than alchemy. Now he was being accused of poor technique, how could he not be furious?

“With your shabby skills, I could refine them better with my eyes closed!”

“Then let’s have a competition! Let’s refine the most basic Peiyuan Pill! One hundred ingredients, let’s see who can make the highest quality! If you can surpass me, you’ll be the Peak Master! If I win, you’ll have to assist me in refining the pill!”

The other party said disdainfully, “Who wants the Peak Master position? Here’s another deal. If I win, you’ll be my fire-fanning boy.”

“It’s a deal!”

“It’s a deal!”

Jiang Li was intrigued. Su Wei’s alchemy skills were uncanny. He was the authority on alchemy in Jiuzhou. Any cultivator studying alchemy was required to read Su Wei’s three books, “Dan,” “Lu,” and “Huo.”

He had never seen anyone question Su Wei’s alchemy skills.

Jiang Li entered Su Wei’s alchemy room. The furnace door was wide open, blazing with flames. Su Wei was facing the fire, shouting hysterically, while the fire mocked him.

Su Wei was arguing with his furnace.

He was so engrossed in the argument that he didn’t even notice Jiang Li’s arrival.

“What’s going on?” Jiang Li asked Su Wei’s boy curiously.

The boy was a cute little creature with red lips and white teeth, wearing a red bellyband and two small braids tied at the back of his head.

When the boy saw that it was the Human Emperor who was visiting, he quickly saluted. She wanted to call out to the teacher to stop him from embarrassing himself in front of outsiders.

Everyone knew Jiang Li loved to watch the fun, so he grabbed the boy and asked her to explain what was going on.

“It’s because Patriarch Tianyin enlightened all the spiritual treasures, including teacher’s alchemy furnace, Chiwu.”

“Teacher’s alchemy furnace is a growth-type spiritual treasure. Teacher obtained it when he was in the foundation-building period. It has been with him until now and has become a top-level Taoist weapon for one thousand five hundred years.”

“Ever since the Chiwu furnace gained intelligence, it hasn’t been shouting about independence every day, saying that spiritual treasures are free. Instead, it chose to stay with teacher and help him make pills.”

“At first, teacher was also very happy and felt that this was a symbol of their one thousand five hundred years of friendship. Who would have thought that the Chiwu furnace liked to talk to teacher when he was making pills and teach teacher how to make pills.”

At this point, the boy pinched his throat and imitated the voice of the Chiwu furnace in a muffled voice.

“Old Su, the pill will be ruined if you refine it like this.”

“You want to refine pill clouds with such crude methods?”

“Come on, I’ll teach you how to refine pills.”

“Are you stupid? I told you that you can’t refine it like this. Why didn’t you listen to me earlier?”

“Little boy, since you wipe my body every day, I’ll give you a favor. Don’t follow your stupid teacher. I’ll teach you how to refine pills.”

“Why are you glaring at me with those big donkey eyes? I just want to snatch your disciple in front of you. You can’t teach well yourself, and you don’t let others teach. How selfish!”

The boy was afraid of being heard by Su Wei, and whispered in Jiang Li’s ear: “The teacher used to say that he was not good at fighting. Ever since the Chiwu Furnace gained intelligence, I found that the teacher could use one palm to smash the top Taoist weapon so that it couldn’t recognize east, west, south, or north.”

“Now the Chiwu Furnace proposes to compete with the teacher in alchemy. The victory or defeat will determine the priority of alchemy in the future.”

At this time, Su Wei began to compete with his own furnace.

Su Wei took the initiative, simultaneously dumping a hundred Peiyuan Pill ingredients into the Chiwu Furnace. He controlled the fire with his will, extracting the essence from the herbs and discarding the dross, using the Eight Trigrams to alter his technique…

“Hey, hey, hey, lower the heat.”

“What’s wrong?” Su Wei frowned. He felt the heat was just right; turning it up or down wouldn’t produce a good elixir.

“It’s burning my stomach,”

Su Wei’s veins throbbed. If it weren’t for the desire to refine the elixir, he would have to increase the heat and burn this lousy furnace to death!

A hundred Peiyuan Pills, adorned with elixirs, emerged from the flames. The clouds were crimson, like a sunset glow, ethereal and beautiful, like works of art. They were truly top-grade Peiyuan Pills.

“Oh, you’re disturbing my Dao mind? Wishful thinking,” Su Wei said nonchalantly, as if he hadn’t been the one to get angry.

“Your turn.” He didn’t believe the Chiwu Furnace could do any better than him.

Not to be outdone, the Chiwu Furnace swallowed a hundred Peiyuan Pill ingredients into it, the fire blazing and making a smacking sound like chewing food.

“Ugh!”

The Chiwu furnace spat out the Peiyuan Pill, causing all three to feel physically ill.

Could it be that all the pills were actually the furnace’s vomit? Who could possibly eat after that?

“Look, it’s done.”

A Peiyuan Pill the size of a head rolled to Su Wei’s feet.

“What is this?” Su Wei observed that it indeed resembled a pill, with a red cloud on it.

The Chiwu Furnace paused, its flames pulsing, as it proudly declared, “This is an improved version of the Peiyuan Pill. You can call it the Large Peiyuan Pill!”

“A person can only take a maximum of fifty top-grade Peiyuan Pills. Taking more than that won’t work. One of my Large Peiyuan Pills is equivalent to a hundred. The effect is definitely better than yours!”

“Are you kidding me? Is this for human consumption?” Su Wei pointed angrily at the large Peiyuan Pill, which was as big as a ball.

“Don’t worry about it. At worst, I’ll feed it to a monster, or I’ll learn magical powers like the Dharma Realm. Anyway, the Peiyuan Pills I refine are better quality than yours. Just be my fire-fanning boy.”

“I don’t recognize this as a Peiyuan Pill!”

“Hey, you old man, you’re cheating!”

“I…”

“Since the competition is over, you two might as well do me a favor.” Seeing the man and the furnace arguing, with no immediate resolution, Jiang Li stepped forward to stop them.

“Emperor Jiang.”

“Brother Jiang.”

Only then did they realize Jiang Li had made peace, temporarily reconciling. In front of outsiders, they still had to maintain the image of a respected alchemist and a respected alchemy furnace.

“I want to refine a Pure Blood Pill. Can I?”

Thanks to Meimei Taotao’s Dad, Passing Away – Solo Dance, Yingyin Xingkong, Knockback 1994, 20170714182738600, and Preparing for 60 Exam 59 for their monthly tickets.

Thanks to Passing Away – Solo Dance for their tips

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