Breaking the Masked Man

Hua She'er was much older than her, and since the other woman had always been by the Queen's side, she didn't believe that the other woman couldn't understand Her Majesty's meaning.

"That depends on your wishes, young master. You and I are just maids."

Flower Snake remained calm and spoke indifferently.

"You mean he can just play around whenever he wants?"

Yue Mei raised an eyebrow and teased.

When Hua She'er heard Yue Mei's lewd words, the corners of her mouth twitched, and her voice turned slightly cold: "You'd better tone it down. He is Her Majesty the Queen's man. You and I are just maids. Don't forget your place!"

Yue Mei glanced seductively at Yao Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in the distance, and said with a coquettish smile, "You don't quite understand Her Majesty's meaning. Our role is not just that of maids, but to deepen his relationship with the snake people. Obviously, when it comes to dealing with men, you are not as good as me. Human men sometimes just like women to be a little flirtatious~"

She had killed many snake dealers, so she was well aware of the inherent flaws of human men.

Flower Snake reminded her, "He's different from those people!"

"You'll only know if you try!"

Yue Mei smiled charmingly and said in a low voice.

……

Half an hour later.

Yao Yan opened his eyes, and the medicinal materials and techniques needed to refine the Breakthrough Pill appeared in his mind one by one. After a moment of silence, he lit the Black Demon Cauldron again, and this time the temperature of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire was higher than ever before. The temperature even caused the patterns on the Black Demon Cauldron to turn dark red.

Once the medicine cauldron had been warmed to a certain temperature, Yao Yan took out a large number of medicinal herbs from his storage ring and put them into the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame one by one in order.

Under the high temperature, all the medicinal herbs withered and turned into drops of the purest medicinal liquid. Under the control of Yao Yan's spiritual power, they floated in the medicine cauldron like stars, arranged and rotating in a unique pattern. In this process, their spirituality was gradually stimulated, and their color became brighter and clearer.

About two hours later, more than three hundred medicinal essences of various colors floated in the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

Under Yao Yan's control, they began to merge drop by drop. With each fusion, a little energy was released, until they were completely transformed into a fist-sized elixir of essence, displaying a colorful hue. This color had an indescribable beauty, as if the combination was extremely perfect, without the slightest flaw.

Yao Yan looked at the successfully fused essence of the pill, a faint smile appearing on his lips. With a slight thought, the temperature of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame within the Black Demon Cauldron instantly surged, the intense heat baking the essence of the pill until it shrank by half.

If there were any alchemists here at this moment, they would be absolutely shocked by Yao Yan's extremely brutal alchemy methods. What kind of alchemist would condense pills like this? Aren't they afraid of them exploding?!

The energy released from the explosion of a failed attempt to refine a sixth-grade pill is extremely powerful; even a Dou Huang expert could be injured if they are not careful.

It seems surprisingly easy?!

Yao Yan never expected that refining the Breakthrough Pill would be so simple. The things that Hun Xuzi had taught him before seemed to have been fully understood and mastered, making him more and more adept at refining. Many pill refining techniques that he dared not use before could now be used freely, and he felt extremely happy.

Areas that previously required extreme caution can now be easily resolved with a sweep of his soul power. Under the gaze of his soul power, the nascent core before him is almost flawless.

"It's done!"

He made his judgment in his mind.

Just as Yao Yan had expected, the Breakthrough Pill was produced without any unexpected events from condensation to final collection. It was completed very smoothly, accompanied by a pillar of energy that shot into the sky. It was then enveloped by the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame and flew out, landing steadily in the jade bottle in Yao Yan's hand.

Yao Yan tossed the Breakthrough Pill to Cai Lin from a distance, and then continued refining the Breakthrough Pill. With the materials he had, as long as he didn't fail, he could refine five pills, which would become the capital for Yao Yan to build his power.

After finishing refining these, he also planned to refine some seventh-grade pills.

He felt a little unsatisfied after refining sixth-grade pills. Perhaps seventh-grade pills could satisfy him a bit. He had obtained quite a few precious seventh and eighth-grade pill formulas from Elder Yao's Bone Flame Ring. Although some of the precious ones were impossible to refine due to a lack of ingredients, he had quite a few ingredients for the seventh-grade Instant Qi Pill in his storage ring, enough to refine a few.

The Instant Qi Pill is a consumable pill, barely reaching the low-grade seventh rank. Its function is to restore some battle qi in a very short time, and even a Dou Zong powerhouse will find it quite effective.

It can be considered an upgraded version of the Qi-restoring pill.

However, even a Dou Zong expert cannot use such pills as daily consumables; only alchemists can use them as daily consumables.

Cai Lin looked at the Breakthrough Pill in her hand, her cold, beautiful purple eyes giving Yao Yan a deep look. She never expected that the pill she had always dreamed of would appear in her hands like this. Looking at Yao Yan, who had returned to refining pills, she felt a little numb and inexplicably felt that the pill in her hand was not difficult to refine.

She knew this was an illusion. After all, there were no sixth-grade alchemists in the entire Gama Empire. Even in the surrounding countries, sixth-grade alchemists were extremely rare. Moreover, when these sixth-grade alchemists were refining these pills, they were all very careful and required the alchemist to provide a large amount of medicinal materials. They would only be willing to make a purchase if the alchemist provided at least five to ten portions of medicinal materials, and they would have to pay some additional price for it.

Unlike Yao Yan, who was so abnormal, he never failed from beginning to end, producing sixth-grade pills like dumplings being dropped into a pot!

This scene left Cai Lin questioning her very existence.

She took a small breath and, seeing that Yao Yan had not stopped, could only continue to accompany him in refining pills.

And this time.

The Third Elder approached, his old face beaming with a smug grin, and said, "Your Majesty, is this young master still refining the Breakthrough Pill? We old folks might wonder..."

"roll!"

Cai Lin's words were concise and to the point; with a single, cold word, she completely shut down what the other person was about to say.

The Third Elder's face instantly turned ashen. He wanted to reprimand him, but dared not. He really had no good way to deal with Cai Lin, whose prestige was growing. Moreover, Cai Lin had the support of Yao Yan and now possessed the Breakthrough Pill. Once Cai Lin really became a Dou Zong expert, he would have no status in front of him. Apart from showing off his old face, he seemed to have nothing else to say.

Thinking of this, the Third Elder's face turned pale and then red, but he finally shut his mouth, turned around and walked towards the cemetery, intending to go back and discuss it with the other three elders.

Perhaps they shouldn't continue guarding the cemetery.

Cai Lin withdrew her cold gaze from the Third Elder and said indifferently, "Ignore these shameless old bastards."

Before, seeing no benefit, they all knew how to abide by the clan rules, hiding in the cemetery, even forcing her to be separated from her sister by death. Now that they see benefits, they all jump out again, truly shameless. The fact that she hasn't directly attacked them is already out of consideration for their protection of the snake people.

If they still can't tell, she'll show them who the Snake-People Queen is!

Seeing this, Cai Die clapped her hands and laughed, "Sister is so awesome! I've actually wanted to say that for a long time!"

She glanced playfully at her older sister.

Then her gaze fell on Yao Yan, who was still refining pills in the distance. She inexplicably felt that he was really good-looking, and she could never get enough of looking at him. She couldn't help but think of all the little things that happened when she met him, and a sweet look appeared in her eyes. If she hadn't run away from her clan back then, she might not have met him, and she wouldn't have everything she had now.

Everything seemed to be the best arrangement.

……

Noon the next day.

Despite not having slept all night, Yao Yan felt no fatigue; on the contrary, he was full of energy. His eyes were fixed on the black clouds that appeared above the Black Demon Cauldron, within which silvery lightning power churned, radiating an invisible pressure that locked onto the Black Demon Cauldron, as if something was being conceived within it.

"The power of thunder is a bit weak~"

Yao Yan looked at the strange phenomena in the sky caused by the formation of the pill and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The Instant Qi Pill was indeed not a precious seventh-grade pill. If its energy grade had not reached the seventh grade, it might not even have been qualified to be struck by lightning.

Cai Lin and Cai Die flashed to Yao Yan's side.

The former stood directly above the Black Demon Cauldron, her beautiful eyes fixed on the dark clouds above. After a moment, she looked at Yao Yan with complicated emotions and said in a deep voice, "You continue refining pills, leave everything else to me!"

She had heard that alchemists could trigger special celestial phenomena when refining seventh-grade pills, and even provoke the wrath of heaven and earth, resulting in lightning punishment. But this was just hearsay; she never expected it to be true, and to happen right before her eyes.

A seventeen-year-old seventh-grade alchemist!

"it is good."

Yao Yan responded softly, looking down at the Black Demon Cauldron. The Instant Qi Pill inside was already mostly formed, with only the final pill-collecting remaining. As he controlled the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame for the final baking, the dark clouds gathering in the sky finally couldn't hold back any longer, and a bolt of lightning as thick as an adult's arm crashed down from the sky.

At this moment, the entire city of the snake people was illuminated by the power of thunder, turning into a silver world. Countless snake people looked at the sky in fear, never expecting such a strange phenomenon to appear in the Tagor Desert!

at the same time.

Cai Lin's wings of battle qi trembled slightly as she charged forward, longsword in hand. With a single strike, a seven-colored sword light shot into the sky, annihilating the descending lightning. Its remaining power did not diminish as it continued to soar into the sky, piercing directly through the dark clouds.

As the dark clouds were torn apart, the sunlight shone down once more.

At the same time, the Grade 7 Instant Qi Pill flew out from the Black Demon Cauldron and was held in Yao Yan's hand. It possessed a little intelligence and tried to fly out of his palm, but it could not break free and was put into a jade bottle by Yao Yan.

Cai Die, holding Ling'er, stood beside Yao Yan, watching this scene, and asked with great curiosity, "Young Master, is this a seventh-grade pill?"

"Instant Qi Pill can restore most of the battle qi below the Dou Zong level in a short time, or even restore it to full. Even Dou Zong experts can restore 20-30% of their battle qi."

Yao Yan nodded and began to explain with a smile.

As Cai Lin landed, she couldn't help but twitch her lips upon hearing Yao Yan's introduction. It wasn't that she was in a bad mood, but rather that Yao Yan, who was a fifth-grade alchemist just over half a year ago, had suddenly become a seventh-grade alchemist. This was truly hard for her to accept, and she felt as if the rules of alchemy that she knew had been rewritten.

"Unfortunately, I can only refine some relatively easy-to-make seventh-grade pills for now."

Yao Yan said with some regret that after refining the Instant Qi Pill, he roughly understood the level of his alchemy skills. If he had to make a level classification, it should be around the middle level of the seventh grade. As for those high-grade seventh grade pills, he had an extremely high failure rate and could only rely on quantity to try and make them.

However, he is only seventeen years old and has plenty of time to hone his alchemy skills. He can set a small goal for now: to reach the eighth rank by the age of twenty!

"If you said that outside, countless alchemists would probably give up alchemy!"

Cai Lin pursed her lips, feeling that Yao Yan was being a bit smug, but the other party did indeed have the right to be smug.

"I've given you the Breakthrough Pill. When do you plan to break through to the Dou Zong realm?"

Yao Yan smiled, looked at Cai Lin, and asked. He planned to go to the Black Corner Region after Cai Lin broke through to the Dou Zong realm. That place was a place where the strong were respected. With a helper like Cai Lin, he could save himself some unnecessary trouble.

There are some things that are not suitable for him to handle.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 114 Rippling Spring Water

The flickering lights illuminated a stunningly beautiful face.

Her raised eyebrows resembled distant mountains, her phoenix eyes were cold and beautiful, and every glance was captivating. She had a delicate nose, skin as white as snow, and lips as red as a plum blossom in the snow. She was proud and alluring, exuding unparalleled charm. For some reason, even though the two sisters looked exactly alike, Cai Lin seemed to be more beautiful.

This may be the difference between older sisters and younger sisters; even if they look and have similar figures, their temperaments are very different.

As everyone knows, Yao Yan has a thing for older women; he likes gentle, mature women, or even young married women...

Cai Die sat cross-legged beside Yao Yan, her bright peach blossom eyes scanning back and forth between the two. She couldn't understand why the two were staring at each other without speaking, which made her not want to talk either. She inexplicably found this silent atmosphere quite interesting. Ling'er in her arms, on the other hand, had her big ears drooping limply, looking like she was about to suffocate.

Cai Lin finally couldn't hold back and broke the silence first. Her delicate voice rang out softly: "I have been stuck at the peak of the nine-star Dou Huang for several years. I can clearly feel the barrier between Dou Huang and Dou Zong. I don't have much confidence in breaking through it, but with the Breakthrough Pill, I will give it a try."