While the top leaders of the Hu family were secretly discussing in their own flower hall, the leading figures of the four families, Zhan, Feng, Nan and Guan, were also at their respective headquarters, making various plans and plotting for Chu Tian's affairs.
That mountain protection formation was a gift from the five major families to Chu Tian.
The garden with the old golden osmanthus tree is just a small token of appreciation from the five major families to Chu Tian, not even a gift for meeting.
However, a whole day passed, and none of the real leaders of the five major families took the initiative to visit Chu Tian - they knew very well that Master Qiao and other alchemists would definitely not sit still, and they would definitely take the initiative to attack!
Master Qiao has drawn his sword, let’s see how Chu Tian fights back!
The leaders of the five major families are well aware of Master Qiao's level. In the fifth island circle, Master Qiao's alchemy level can be ranked among the top three; even in the sixth island circle, a place where there are many masters and countless strange people, Master Qiao's attainments in alchemy are also top-notch and first-class.
Even in the Seventh Island Circle, Master Qiao can be considered a master alchemist. Although he is not as supreme as in the Windless Canyon, he is also a very influential figure.
Chu Tian doesn't need to defeat Master Qiao. As long as he can tie with him, he will immediately become the most important VIP of the five major families!
Even if Chu Tian showed that he was only slightly weaker than Master Qiao, the five major families would open their doors to him and give him extremely generous treatment!
The reason why Chu Tian took out the bottle of Millennium Pill and the five major families unanimously believed that it was a top-grade pill, but they did nothing for more than a day, was because - Chu Tian was too young, and the quality of this bottle of Millennium Pill was too good, it didn't seem like this pill could be refined by Chu Tian at all!
The five major families are waiting here. If Chu Tian suffers a loss at the hands of Master Qiao, just look at the quality of this bottle of top-grade Millennium Pill and you will know that there must be a powerful backer behind Chu Tian. If the person who truly refined this Millennium Pill can be lured out, then the five major families will pounce on him like flies smelling blood, clinging to his thighs and crying to build relationships with him!
Outside the Alchemist Guild of Windless City, it was already the middle of the night, and there were many more people in the houses of the neighbors around.
Being able to be neighbors with the Alchemist Guild, these families are also well-known figures in Windless City. But tonight, their family members all held their breath and guarded in a small building, leaving their own homes to these uninvited guests, allowing them to do whatever they want.
In the small building, on the tree branches, some were standing, some were sitting, some were squatting, or even just lying down. All the spiritual forces of all sizes in the Windless Canyon, below the five major families, gathered here, quietly waiting for news.
They all knew that just half a quarter of an hour ago, Master Qiao's two beloved disciples, Dujuan and Haitang, took back the return gift from Mr. Xiaotian - according to the unspoken rules among alchemists, Mr. Xiaotian had to return the gift in the gift box no matter what.
In the main hall of the Alchemist Guild, Master Qiao carefully opened the mahogany gift box.
"Oh, a pill recipe! Sanhuang Pill? Hmm? It seems that I have heard of this name!" Master Qiao's face suddenly changed: "It seems that in the Sixth Island Circle, at some extremely confidential auctions, some Sanhuang Pills were circulated. This is very beneficial to the souls of the Sky-Peeking Realm cultivators!"
More than a dozen white-haired old men jumped up at the same time and gathered around Master Qiao. They scanned the recipe as quickly as possible and wrote down the names and quantities of nearly a hundred main and secondary medicinal materials.
Although the pill recipe does not record detailed extraction techniques and refining processes, as long as the prescription is there, one can more or less draw inferences from one instance to another and comprehend some of the secrets. This is also the essence of the alchemy competition among alchemists - the oldest alchemy competition was not for bravery or ferocity, but for exchanges, learning and progress. However, to this day, the ancient alchemist tradition of the Fallen Star Ocean has long since disappeared, and today's alchemists... haha!
"This recipe... is quite exquisite. However, compared with my Rhubarb Pill..." Master Qiao wanted to say something to boost morale, but after he carefully studied the combination of medicinal materials recorded in the Sanhuang Pill recipe, the more he studied it, the more exquisite it seemed to him. He caught his breath in his throat, and couldn't utter the next words.
Compared to his Rhubarb Pill, Sanhuang Pill uses more medicinal materials and a more sophisticated combination. There is no doubt that its medicinal properties will be more powerful!
"Hey, hey, this brat..." Putting down the pill recipe, Master Qiao sneered a few times. He looked at the eleven jade bottles in the gift box, was silent for a while, and opened one of the jade bottles which was a different color from the other ten.
The Sanhuang Pill that Chu Tian had just refined lay quietly in Master Qiao's palm. The thumb-sized pill was pure yellow in color, and the scent of the pill was so light that it was almost inaudible. It was obvious that the medicinal power had been condensed to the extreme, without any dissipation or loss.
Moreover, the temperature of the pill is very high, comparable to a red-hot iron ball. Obviously, this is a good pill that has just come out of the oven!
Master Qiao has reached the realm of natural law. Although his spiritual body is much weaker than that of a celestial cultivator, the temperature of a red-hot iron ball cannot harm the body of a spiritual cultivator who is at the level of peeping into the sky.
Normally, when Master Qiao was refining elixirs, the temperature next to the elixir furnace was much higher than the temperature on the pills.
But at this moment, Master Qiao held the pill in his palm, but his face was changing from blue to red, his whole body felt like it was on fire, and layers of sweat kept oozing out.
"This is..." Master Qiao said in a deep voice: "Sanhuangdan? Back then, I once saw it from afar somewhere!"
In those days, Master Qiao once participated in a secret auction of Sanhuang Dan. He wanted to buy a few Sanhuang Dan to study them, but among the people bidding for Sanhuang Dan that day, there were a few big shots whom he did not have the courage to provoke. After hesitating for a long time, he did not make a move.
But he had seen Sanhuang Dan from afar before, and he recognized that the freshly-made pill in his hand was Sanhuang Dan!
Master Qiao was very proud of his own little possessions. He only sent Chu Tian a recipe for the Rhubarb Pill, without even a single finished pill. But Chu Tian was very generous and directly sent him a freshly made pill!
What Chu Tian meant was - I am not afraid of you analyzing my pills at all. If I give you a ready-made pill and a ready-made pill formula, can you refine the Sanhuang Pill?
"You damn kid, but what's in these ten bottles?" An alchemist frowned, took out a bottle of Thousand Insect Powder, and pulled out the cork curiously.
Qianchong Powder is colorless and odorless, it is a fine grayish white powder that looks like incense ash.
Several alchemists watched the Thousand Insect Powder for a long time, but they couldn't even identify the specific medicinal properties of the Thousand Insect Powder. Since they couldn't identify it, they could only find someone to test the medicine!
According to the unspoken rules of the alchemy competition, as the person in charge here, Master Qiao called his beloved disciple Dujuan and asked her to take a bottle of Thousand Insect Powder!
Master Qiao was confident that even if Thousand Insect Powder was highly poisonous, he would be able to rescue Dujuan in time!
A quarter of an hour later, Dujuan's hysterical cries were heard in the Alchemist Guild - six pitch-black spider legs more than three feet long had grown on her curvy body, and they looked as hideous and disgusting as they could be!
Like a huge rock dropped into a pond, the news of Du Juan's infection spread quickly throughout Windless City, and then quickly spread to all parts of Windless Valley. 8)