Chapter 138: Messing Around? Or Well-Hidden Skills?

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Under everyone’s expectations, Lou Mu Yan threw a wisp of fire condensed from Fire Elemental Energy into the cyan cauldron.

She hadn’t formed a core yet so she couldn’t use the Core Flame, but this Continent had one factor that was better than the Immortal Cultivation World, and that was Elemental Energy Condensation.
After advancing to Sword King, the Elemental Energy flames that she condensed to use for refining pills weren’t inferior to Core Flames at all.

Of course, if she used the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame to refine pills, then it’d be the best, but she didn’t want to expose her trump card.

Shi Feng and the red-haired old man stared at her refining pills and were startled when they saw that she had thrown the Spiritual Herbs into the cauldron one after another in a row.

“This little girl truly is messing around.
Where do you see such a way of refining pills.” The red-haired old man couldn’t help furrowing his brows as he communicated telepathically to Shi Feng.
After all, there were only the two of them here who were Alchemists.

Shi Feng folded his arms and sat quietly, but his heart couldn’t calm down, “Is she trying combine the Spiritual Herbs together to refine?”

“How could so many Spiritual Herbs combine to refine? Even your Shi Clan’s Ancestor couldn’t do it.
I really question if she’s just playing with us.” The red-haired old man said angrily.

Elder Lu and he were close friends.
He was excited for a long time after hearing that someone could cure Elder Lu’s chronic illness, yet who knew he’d see such a disappointing scene.

Alchemists needed to follow the principle of gradual progress when refining pills.
After each Spiritual Herb was successfully refined, then they’d continue to refine the second, then eventually combine all the refined powders to condense the pill.

But what was the Lou Clan’s little girl doing? Throwing all the Spiritual Herbs into the cauldron indiscriminately, did she think she was cooking? Even when cooking, there was an order to the ingredients right?

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Seeing Lou Mu Yan’s actions, Ye Chen and Ye Zhan couldn’t help but feel a sense of disappointment in their hearts as well.

Although they weren’t Alchemists, but they’d seen many Alchemists refine pills.
Lou Mu Yan’s approach wasn’t like something an Alchemist should do.

Could it be that she didn’t know Alchemy at all, and was just teasing them?

But Elder Lu’s condition was indeed controlled by her.
Although disappointed, but no one in the room stopped Lou Mu Yan.
They sure wanted to see how this girl would cure Elder Lu’s chronic illness later.

Lou Mu Yan naturally felt the complicated and disheartened gazes of several people, but she didn’t care.
What others couldn’t do, didn’t mean she couldn’t do it either.

Her Mental Energy was several times, or even dozens of times that of other Alchemists.
Others could only slowly refine the Spiritual Herbs one by one, but she could do multiple tasks at the same time and divide her Spiritual Energy into countless strands to envelop the Spiritual Herbs, control the flames and refine.

The most important thing was that she didn’t want to hide her abilities here.
She needed the approval of these three Distinguished Clans in order to act more easily in the future.

With a thought, Lou Mu Yan divided the flames in the cauldron into more than a dozen wisps, individually roasting each Spiritual Herb wrapped in Mental Energy.

In just a moment, several small piles of different coloured powders appeared in the cauldron, and they were all separated by Mental Energy.

“The cauldron actually didn’t explode?” The red-haired old man let out a soft gasp of surprise.

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He was originally counting down the time, waiting for Lou Mu Yan’s cauldron to explode due to the random refining, but after waiting for so long, no abnormalities occurred.
The most important thing was that he actually smelled the scent of successfully refined medicinal powder from the cauldron.

Shi Feng’s expression didn’t change, but he was very surprised and confused in his heart—how did she refine so many Spiritual Herbs at the same time?

Ye Chen tapped his finger gently on his thigh.
Seeing Lou Mu Yan calmly continuing to throw Spiritual Herbs into the cauldron, he spoke telepathically to Ye Zhan: “Say, do you think she can really refine so many Spiritual Herbs at once? If it were under normal circumstances, she’d have failed the refining long ago.
But I don’t smell any burnt scent.”

“Maybe.
Although she’s young, but she hides her skills well.” Ye Zhan had always felt that Lou Mu Yan gave him an indescribable feeling ever since they first met.
She seemed to be faintly dangerous, yet it didn’t make sense.

However, he didn’t regard her as an opponent to be removed.
That slight sense of danger was just an instinct, but there wasn’t any feeling of terror, which indicated that Lou Mu Yan wouldn’t be a threat to him.

Lou Mu Yan had a variety of methods, but as long as she didn’t disadvantage the Ye Clan, then they could become friends.

The several people no longer spoke and watched Lou Mu Yan refine pills nervously.
Seeing that she was still tossing Spiritual Herbs into the cauldron one after the other, they couldn’t resist twitching their lips.

This sort of method of refining pills was probably Lou Mu Yan’s original creation.

After about an hour, Lou Mu Yan had refined all the Spiritual Herbs in the cauldron.
With a thought, the dozens of wisps of flames merged and formed a cluster of large flames.

The medicinal powders of different colours were wrapped by Mental Energy and merged together.
She constantly changed the heat between small flames, medium flames, and high flames.

Finally, her gaze sharpened.
She controlled the fire excellently, and the rudimentary pills in the cauldron began to rotate, slowly growing lustrous and shiny.

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“Up!” After another quarter of an hour, her slender, jade-like hands slapped the cauldron, and five yellow pills flew out.

A refreshing pill fragrance also spilled out from the cauldron, lingering on the tips of everyone’s noses.

She took out a white porcelain bottle, waved her hand casually in the air, and the five pills that had flown up fell into the porcelain bottle one after the other.

After removing the Elemental Energy flame from the cyan cauldron, Lou Mu Yan also put the cauldron away.
As soon as she looked up, she saw everyone stare at her with shock.

Especially the red-haired man and Shi Feng.
Their gazes were as if it could burn a hole through her.

“Little girl, what kind of pill did you refine?” The red-haired old man looked at Lou Mu Yan in confusion.

He had been staring at this little girl since she began to refine pills.
All the Spiritual Herbs had indeed been used, and he could judge based on the pill fragrance from the cauldron that this was a type of Grade 2 pill that had the effect of dredging the meridians and promoting blood circulation.

However, it was obviously not enough to treat Elder Lu’s chronic illness with just these Grade 2 pills.
He suddenly looked forward to the next performances of the little girl.

Shi Feng’s eyes were filled with the desire to investigate.
Lou Mu Yan’s method of refining pills was simply unheard of.
If it were another Alchemist who dared to refine it like this, then the entire cauldron perhaps would’ve long been trashed.

In such a short period of time, to be able to refine a Grade 2 pill that they had never even seen before, it seemed that she really must have a mysterious high-level Alchemist as a Master behind her.

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“This is a Grade 2 Vitalising Pill, specifically used to clear meridians blocked by sword auras or internal injuries.” Lou Mu Yan explained with a light smile.

“Then how were you able to refine, merge and condense so many Spiritual Herbs into a pill altogether?” The red-haired old man’s heart itched with curiosity and felt uncomfortable if he didn’t ask.

Lou Mu Yan raised an eyebrow and said: “Regarding this, please forgive me as I have no comment!”

He couldn’t just tell them: My Mental Energy is much stronger than yours, you all need to be focused when refining pills, but I can split my focus into multitudes.

If she really said that, then even if she wasn’t slapped to death, she’d probably be regarded as having some sort of mental illness.

Lou Mu Yan answering like this instead made her more mysterious in the eyes of those present.
It was only normal not to reveal such a secret.

The red-haired old man also found himself to be abrupt and smiled awkwardly: “Apologies, this old man didn’t intend to seek your methods of refining pills, I was just curious.”

Lou Mu Yan knew it was also unintentional, “No worries.”

“Elder Sister Mu Yan, you’re too amazing! When Uncle Wu refines pills, I don’t even feel like he’s as relaxed, calm and composed as you.” Ye Qing Le had a face filled with admiration.

The ‘Uncle Wu’ she spoke of was the red-haired old man who had questioned Lou Mu Yan just now, and also the chief enshrined Grade 3 Alchemist of the Ye Clan.

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