Chapter 83 The Battle of Pills

"Junior brother, you finally came out." Xin Ruge couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw Ye Shi walking out the door. If someone hadn't told her that Ye Shi always took a bath at this time, Xin Ruge might have rushed in long ago.

Ye Shi looked at Xin Ruge, blinked, and asked in confusion: "Senior Sister, you're looking for me? What's the matter?"

Xin Ruge smiled awkwardly and said, "It's not a big deal. It's just the pill you gave me before. Do you still have it?"

Xin Ruge felt a little embarrassed. Before, when Ye Shi asked her to help give the elixir to Lian Mengxun, she didn't have much confidence in the elixir Ye Shi gave her, so she was not very happy. Who knew that after such a short time, she would have to shamelessly come to Ye Shi to ask for the elixir.

"Yes! But, senior sister, if you had come a little later, it would have been gone." Ye Shi said with a pout.

Xin Ruge frowned and asked in confusion, "Why is it gone?"

Ye Shi said as a matter of course: "I ate it all, there's nothing left!"

As Ye Shi ate, he took out a pill and threw it into his mouth. He took two crunchy bites and swallowed it. He said with an intoxicated look on his face, "It tastes really good!"

Xin Ruge was stunned for a moment before she realized what Ye Shi was doing.

"Junior brother, you can't take random pills." Xin Ruge held Ye Shi's hand and said.

Ye Shi nodded and said in a distressed tone, "I know, but it smells really good! I can't help it. Senior Sister, don't you think it smells good?"

"I don't think so." Xin Ruge said unhappily.

Ye Shi frowned. The other second-level pills were not so attractive to him, but for some reason, when he saw this pill, Ye Shi felt unable to stop eating it. No matter how many of them were given to him, he could eat them all.

Mu Chen actually gave him more than twenty pills, but more than half of them had been secretly eaten by Ye Shi.

If it weren't for the thought that this pill could be sold for 100,000 yuan per pill, Ye Shi would not have had any pills left.

Xin Ruge frowned and asked tentatively, "Junior brother, where did you get this pill?"

"Found it in a cave." Ye Shi said lightly.

Xin Ruge frowned and said, "Found it in the cave? Didn't you say you made it yourself?"

"I was just kidding." Ye Shi shrugged and said indifferently.

Xin Ruge looked at Ye Shi and couldn't help but have some doubts in her heart. Compared to the possibility that the elixir was refined by Ye Shi, Xin Ruge felt that it was more likely that Muchen refined it. However, compared to the possibility that the elixir was found in the cave, Xin Ruge felt that the one found in the cave was more reliable.

"How many pills do you have left?" Xin Ruge asked with a frown.

"There are still eight." Ye Shi said.

"Give them all to me." Xin Ruge said without hesitation. If the elixir was really found in the cave, then there would be a lot of it!

Ye Shi raised his eyebrows, looked straight at Xin Ruge, spread out his right hand, smiled faintly and said nothing.

Xin Ruge frowned, looked at Ye Shi in confusion, and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Ye Shi smiled and said, "Senior Sister, the last pill was given as a gift, but now this one costs 100,000 Yuan stones."

Xin Ruge said unhappily, "...you're such a money-grubber."

Ye Shi said nonchalantly, "Senior Sister, you are a rich person and you don't understand the suffering of the poor."

Ye Shi pursed his lips and thought to himself: When he was slaughtering pigs and sheep in the restaurant, he felt that he was poor. Now that he has tens or even hundreds of thousands of yuan in his hands, he still feels poor and doesn't know why.

Xin Ruge twitched the corner of her mouth and thought to herself: Rich man, this junior brother of his really thinks too highly of her.

After handing over the pills, Xin Ruge turned and left.

Looking at the few remaining Yuanshi cards, Xin Ruge bit them in frustration. Yesterday, when Ye Shi asked her how many pills she needed, she should have asked for more. One pill cost one hundred thousand, and eight pills almost exhausted Xin Ruge's entire fortune.

Ye Shi looked at Xin Ruge's back and thought to himself, "Girls are all so rich. No wonder Muchen said that women's business is the most profitable."

Seeing that the number of Yuanshi on the Yuanshi card exceeded one million, Ye Shi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

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Lian Mengxun tested the pill twice on the red-bellied snake to confirm its effectiveness before giving it to the blood dragon.

The blood dragon had a very good appetite and a few pills were gone in the blink of an eye.

Under the effect of the elixir, the blood dragon indeed became much closer to Lian Mengxuan.

"Senior Sister Ruge, where did this pill come from?" Lian Mengxun asked with a serious expression.

Xin Ruge was stunned for a moment and said, "Junior brother changed his words and said he found it in a cave."

"Is that all?" Lian Mengxun frowned.

Xin Ruge smiled awkwardly and said, "I don't know either!"

"What a pity, why didn't you tell me earlier..." Lian Mengxun frowned.

She always thought that the pill was made by Muchen. If so, if she wanted to know the recipe, she could start from Muchen. However, if the pill was found, she should have left one and let the people in the Alchemy Institute analyze its ingredients.

Song Xinyue crossed her arms and said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, Junior Sister Lian. In my opinion, what Ye Shi said may not be true. This guy is very dishonest!"

Xin Ruge frowned. Ye Shi's personality was chaotic, and it was hard to tell which of his words were true and which were false. "Then I'll go ask Junior Brother again."

Lian Mengxuan thought for a moment and then said, "Tell him that if there's another pill like that, it'll cost two hundred thousand yuan per pill."

Xin Ruge blinked and said, "So many?"

Lian Mengxun said indifferently: "It's worth it."

"How many do you need at most?" Xin Ruge asked.

"Twenty." Lian Mengxun thought for a while and said.

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"Two hundred thousand yuan worth of stone?" Ye Shi was about to eat, but when he heard Xin Ruge's words, his chopsticks fell on the table and his eyes widened.

Xin Ruge nodded, carefully observing Ye Shi's expression, and said, "Yes!"

Ye Shi stood up suddenly and said, "I'm going to look for Mu... Oh, no, I'm going to look for the cave where I found the elixir before."

Xin Ruge looked at Ye Shi's back and thought to herself: Ye Shi is really a dishonest guy.

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Ye Shi stayed in the alchemy room, his face glowing red from the flames.

"It smells so good!" Ye Shi said as he looked at the thing in Muchen's hand.

Mu Chen looked at Ye Shi, frowned, and asked in confusion: "Do you think it smells good?"

Ye Shi nodded and said, "Yeah! Is there something wrong?"

"Something's not right. The spice I mixed is specially for monsters. To humans, the fragrance is very faint and almost unnoticeable. However, to monsters, this fragrance has a well-known attraction." Mu Chen explained.

Ye Shi opened his eyes wide and asked in confusion: "How could this happen? I am a human!"

"I know you would have such a reaction. It might be related to your bloodline. The fact that you can smell this fragrance, don't show it in front of others." Mu Chen warned.

Knowing that Mu Chen was doing this for his own good, Ye Shi nodded obediently and said, "I understand."

"What kind of soup is this, Mu Chen? It smells so good!" Ye Shi asked.

"This is a hundred-fresh soup, made with many kinds of delicacies from the mountains and the sea. I specially selected the meat of many monster birds that snakes like. The meat I selected is the part with the richest spiritual energy and the most delicious meat of each monster bird. After the pill comes out, soak it in the broth for a while, and that's it." Mu Chen said.

Ye Shi looked at Mu Chen and said, "Mu Chen, why does your medicine work?"

"It's just a guess. The practical value of the rainbow grass is almost zero, so I think maybe it serves as a seasoning in the Beast Spirit Pill." Mu Chen said.

Ye Shi's eyes widened and he asked, "That's it?"

Mu Chen nodded and said, "Yes!"

Ye Shi scratched his head and said, "It's so simple, why hasn't anyone thought of it before?"

Mu Chen smiled and said, "Perhaps it's because there are very few alchemists who are proficient in cooking."

Ye Shi thought about it and said, "That's possible." Although the spiritual chef's status is not low, it is far inferior to that of the alchemist. It is impossible for an ordinary alchemist to condescend to study cooking.

"How many pills does Lian Mengxun want to buy this time?" Mu Chen asked.

Ye Shi rolled his eyes and said, "Forty."

Mu Chen narrowed his eyes. "Forty of them, one hundred thousand Yuan Shi each, that's four million Yuan Shi. This girl is really rich."

"Yes! She is really rich. She is just the granddaughter of the president, so it's only natural that she should be rich." Ye Shi said perfunctorily. He couldn't help feeling a little guilty in his heart. Lian Mengxun doubled the price. Twenty pills could be sold for four million. In this way, he could keep the remaining twenty pills.

The elixir refined by Muchen tasted great, but when Muchen saw him eating it, he frowned, so Ye Shi had to think of some "wrong ideas".

Mu Chen stared at the pills in the soup pot. Seeing that Mu Chen didn't suspect anything, Ye Shi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

About an incense stick of time later, Mu Chen took out all the pills from the soup pot and put them into the pill bottle.

Waves of rich aroma kept drifting into Ye Shi's nose. Ye Shi swallowed carefully and quickly sealed the medicine bottle.

"Okay, there are eight bottles in total, five pills in each bottle." Mu Chen said lightly.

Ye Shi nodded and put away all the pills.

"Mu Chen, what should we do with this broth?" Ye Shi asked calmly.

Mu Chen frowned and said, "I still have the recipe to sell. This thing can't be exposed to the public, otherwise people will notice it. This thing must be disposed of quietly."

"Let me take care of this." Ye Shi volunteered.

Mu Chen looked at Ye Shi and said, "You take care of it?"

Ye Shi nodded, put the whole pot of soup into the space ring, and said, "Don't worry, I won't let anyone see it."

Mu Chen nodded and said, "Okay."

Ye Shi looked at the space ring on his hand and suddenly felt that this ring was very good, very nice, and could hold so many things. Ye Shi looked at Muchen and couldn't help complaining about Muchen's wastefulness. Such a delicious broth would naturally be safest to eat.

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"Senior Sister Song, how is the effect of the pill?" Lan Ruofeng waited for two days without any news, and finally couldn't help but find Song Xinyue to ask.

Lan Ruofeng had tested the pill on several snake demons and found it to be quite effective, so he was somewhat confident in its efficacy.

Song Xinyue looked at Lan Ruofeng and said regretfully, "Your pills are somewhat effective, but the pills handed over by Ye Shi are more effective."

"Ye Shi?" Lan Ruofeng asked.

Song Xinyue nodded and said, "Yes!"

Originally, even Meng Xun was very optimistic about Lan Ruofeng's elixir, but the elixir that Ye Shi handed over was too effective. Although Lan Ruofeng's elixir was also effective, the difference between the two was obvious.

"How could this happen?" Lan Ruofeng couldn't help but murmured in disappointment.

Song Xinyue shook her head and said, "Your pills are not bad, but... you need to keep working hard."

Lan Ruofeng looked at Song Xinyue's back and felt angry. Ye Shi didn't know how to make pills at all. The pills he handed over were most likely related to Muchen.