The dust and smoke billowed and only subsided completely after a while.
Lu Wenxing rushed over immediately to see what had fallen from the sky, which startled him.
"Hey, junior sister, come quick! It's a pill furnace! It looks pretty sturdy; it didn't break even after being dropped so hard!"
Shi Xuan followed and went forward to examine it. A golden alchemy furnace lay in the pit, its grandeur undiminished even though it was covered in dust. Shi Xuan looked down at his own bronze alchemy furnace and decided that when he became wealthy, he would also exchange it for a gleaming golden one.
"Go dig it out first!" Lu Wenxing turned around, grabbed a shovel, and was about to start digging.
Before the first shovel strike, a head suddenly peeked out from the top of their yard wall, cautiously peered inside, and then quickly retreated.
"Who?" Lu Wenxing put down the shovel and looked towards the wall.
After a while, the head popped out again, glanced at the large crater in the ground, chuckled apologetically, and said, "Sorry, sorry, did anyone get hurt?"
"You're hurt!" Lu Wenxing exclaimed. "We're both terrified and emotionally scarred. What are we going to do about it?!"
The young man tentatively asked, "Can I...can I compensate with spirit stones?"
"How much are you going to pay? We're very precious!"
The boy said, "I'll pay you one hundred!"
Lu Wenxing had originally intended to tease him, but now he was unhappy. Did the two of them really only look like they were worth a hundred low-grade spirit stones?
He glared at the boy with a fierce expression.
He did flinch slightly and quickly said, "Two hundred! I'll offer two hundred high-grade spirit stones!"
Lu Wenxing...
That's a miscarriage of justice for him.
Judging from their direction, they should be from the Langya Sect. Those who refine artifacts are indeed wealthy!
Lu Wenxing: "Then come over here and tell me what happened."
The boy dawdled as he climbed down from the wall, and after a while, he knocked on their courtyard gate.
Two teenagers walked in.
The two men looked very similar, both with regular features, and they looked like brothers.
The one in front was the young man on the wall, dressed in an exquisitely crafted, bright purple defensive robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, with a slightly embarrassed smile on his face, but trying his best to maintain his composure. The other one was wearing the disciple's robe of the Langya Sect, with a simple and honest smile on his face.
The boy who had climbed over the wall spoke up: "We are disciples of the Langya Sect. My name is Shen Wuyang, and this is my twin brother, Shen Wuji."
He scratched his head as he spoke, saying, "I was trying to refine pills just now, but the furnace exploded..."
"Shen Wuji, Shen Wuyang?" Lu Wenxing asked in confusion, "I've heard of your names more than once. Aren't you two the most talented weapon refiners among your sect's current generation of disciples? How come you're refining pills now?"
Shen Wuyang chuckled and said, "I just wanted to give it a try."
The twin brother standing nearby chimed in, "He made a bet with someone else."
Shi Xuan looked at Shen Wuji with a questioning gaze, and continued, "He made a bet with the disciples of the Divine Cauldron Sect, saying that he could learn alchemy in a day."
Shen Wuyang looked somewhat embarrassed, as if failing to refine the pill and even causing the furnace to explode was a very shameful thing. He wrinkled his nose and said, "It was just a little argument, and things got heated... Impulsiveness is the devil."
The disciples of the Divine Cauldron Sect are quite cunning. No alchemist can become a pill master in just one day of learning. The key point is that Shen Wuyang actually agreed!
Hearing that she had gotten into a quarrel with the people from the Divine Cauldron Sect, Shi Xuan became interested and asked, "What kind of pill were you refining just now?"
"The Spirit-Returning Pill..." Shen Wuyang had already recognized Shi Xuan, the Lianfeng Sword Sect disciple who had refined a top-grade pill in the first round of the Pill Dao Competition. Seeing her speak, he suddenly thought that perhaps he could ask her for advice! He could always give her spirit stones!
Shi Xuan said, "Even the Rejuvenation Pill can explode?" This is strange. This Rejuvenation Pill is already the least likely pill to explode. She was very curious about what this batch of Rejuvenation Pills had gone through.
Shen Wuyang then explained the materials he used and the refining process.
Shi Xuan twitched his lips after hearing this. It turned out that being too wealthy was the cause of all this trouble.
This guy probably thought that the more spiritual energy a plant had, the higher the success rate of refining pills. He used only the highest-grade materials available, but these plants, brimming with spiritual energy, were difficult for a novice pill refiner to handle. With so much spiritual energy clashing against each other, coupled with his novice technique and his tendency to use excessive heat when refining artifacts, it was no wonder the furnace exploded.
After a moment's thought, Shi Xuan asked, "You're betting that as long as the pill is refined, that's enough? You don't care about the quality?"
Shen Wuyang nodded. "I am a weapon cultivator. You can't expect me to learn how to refine a high-grade weapon in a day."
"That makes things easier. I'll teach you the simplest alchemy method. The quality of the resulting pills won't be great, but the extraction process is extremely easy. Want to learn?"
"Study!" Shen Wuyang felt as if he had met a savior and wished he could worship her.
That ridiculous bet required him to pay 500 high-grade spirit stones if he lost, and if he won, the other party only needed to apologize. It wasn't until he came to his senses after the bet was set that he realized he had been taken advantage of.
He could afford the spirit stones, but this feeling was just too unpleasant; it made him feel like the foolish son of a wealthy landowner. If he won, it would be fine, but he couldn't bear the humiliation of losing.
Shi Xuan then offered to teach him a quick method, which was like sending charcoal in snowy weather. If he could really succeed in making pills, he would definitely give her all the bets of five hundred high-grade spirit stones!
If it were anything else, Shi Xuan probably wouldn't bother with it, but lately she just couldn't stand the Divine Cauldron Sect, and she was happy to cause them some trouble.
Lu Wenxing had already dug the golden alchemy furnace out of the ground. Shi Xuan picked through his pile of materials, selecting only those with the lowest spiritual power, and then began to explain to Shen Wuyang an extremely crude and rudimentary method for processing spiritual plants.
"Using this method, the entire pill refining process only requires one pill-forming incantation. The amount of heat in between doesn't matter much. Just try to keep it as low as possible, otherwise the resulting pills will be too burnt, and if the other party tries to renege on the deal, you'll have to deal with some arguments and lawsuits." Shi Xuan tried to perform each step slowly and in detail.
In fact, she underestimated Shen Wuyang. After all, as the most talented weapon cultivator in the Langya Sect, his comprehension was far beyond that of an ordinary disciple.
Seeing Shi Xuan use a few simple steps that he couldn't believe to successfully refine a Spirit Recovery Pill after burning it, Shen Wuyang couldn't understand why his complicated process had ended in a furnace explosion, and why these inferior spiritual plants that looked so bad were so obedient in Shi Xuan's hands.
"Do you understand now?" Shi Xuan asked. "If there's anything you still don't understand, you can ask now."
Shen Wuyang said, "I understand everything, but as a novice, can I really refine pills with such a hasty process?"
It's clearly unreliable to the naked eye.
"Then why don't you try refining a batch first and you'll know?" Shi Xuan didn't intend to impart any theories to him; it was just a one-off deal. If he could produce the pills using the simplest method, he would consider the task complete.
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