After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

"You, a mere junior in the Void Refinement stage, dare to instruct me on alchemy?"

"I am one of only two second-grade alchemists in this world. Your cultivation is at most fifth-grade. How dare you talk to me about improving this Marrow Cleansing Pill?"

Xu Ze was not angry in the face of the other party's disdainful remarks.

He simply looked at the old man, a slight smile playing on his lips:

"I've actually practiced the premium Marrow Cleansing Pill before."

The old man narrowed his eyes even more.

"You've trained? You?"

His tone was full of doubt, "Kid, do you even know what grade the Marrow Cleansing Pill is?"

"A third-grade pill? You, a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, can just practice it like that?"

Faced with the doubts of the True Lord of Alchemy, Xu Ze did not answer.

He simply took out a pill from his sleeve and placed it on the stone table.

The pill was small, only the size of a longan, and was pure white with a faint luster on its surface.

As soon as it appears, a sweet fragrance fills the air. Taking a breath of it makes you feel refreshed and relaxed.

The old man's pupils suddenly contracted.

He grabbed the pill and brought it close to his eyes to examine it closely.

He turned it over and over, then smelled it with his nose, and finally scraped off a little powder with his fingernail and put it in his mouth to taste it.

His expression changed little by little.

"This...this is a Marrow Cleansing Pill? A premium Marrow Cleansing Pill?" His voice trembled slightly. "You refined it?"

Xu Ze nodded. In all his dungeons, his skills in talismans and formations were only rudimentary.

Only alchemy, he has never neglected.

With the blessing of the "Little Green Bottle" and the unlimited supply of raw materials for trial and error, his alchemy skills naturally improved by leaps and bounds.

Not to mention, he also possessed a strange fire within his body.

"interesting."

The old man placed the pill on the table, looked up at Xu Ze, and suddenly his cloudy eyes lit up. "Boy, do you dare to have a match with this old man?"

These words were spoken.

Xu Ze has not yet responded.

Qin Ce's face turned pale instantly.

He stood aside, desperately trying to signal to Xu Ze with his eyes.

His eyes clearly said: Brother, True Lord is a Grandmaster of Alchemy in the Tribulation Transcending stage, you should admit defeat!

Xu Ze noticed Qin Ce's meaningful look but ignored it.

He simply looked at the old man and smiled slightly.

"Come on."

A hint of appreciation flashed in the old man's eyes.

"Good! You've got guts!"

He slammed his hand on the stone table, causing the still-smoking alchemy furnace to jump up.

"Let's compare the 'Marrow Cleansing Pill'. We'll each have our own batch, using the same ingredients, and see who refines it better!"

Qin Ce's face was as white as paper.

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately swallowed it back.

In the end, Qin Ce could only stand there, watching Xu Ze walk to another alchemy furnace, watching him select materials from the pile of herbs, watching him light the fire, warm the furnace, and then add the herbs...

Every movement was fluid, clean, and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

"Wow, dude, you really know how?"

do not know why.

A strange emotion rose in Qin Ce's heart.

But the True Lord of Tribulation acted very quickly.

His technique was skillful and experienced; every step was perfectly timed.

But even as he was doing all this, his gaze would occasionally drift toward Xu Ze.

Looking at the young man's composed demeanor, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in my heart.

"Is he really an alchemist? And he even has such techniques?"

Isn't this young man just showing off?

What if I really lose? I'll be laughed at to death by everyone...

This 'Dan Sheng' True Lord suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

Chapter 174 It really was you.

Looking at Xu Ze's decisive actions.

Dan Sheng Zhenjun didn't have time to think about it anymore.

After all, they were the ones who proposed the competition, so they can't just go back on their word, right?

So he reluctantly began to gather the medicine and then refine the elixir.

However, even though he had just modified the Marrow Cleansing Pill and the furnace exploded.

However, as long as the traditional method is followed, refining high-quality Marrow Cleansing Pills is still a piece of cake, and it is impossible for the furnace to explode again.

"I can usually make two to three pills from a batch of high-quality Marrow Cleansing Pills."

"Although this kid looks quite promising, given his cultivation level and age, if he can even refine one pill, he would be considered a genius in the art of alchemy."

After thinking it over, the True Lord of Alchemy calmed down and focused on refining elixirs.

The two alchemy furnaces, one on the left and one on the right, were three zhang apart.

Xu Ze's furnace was a third-grade alchemy furnace, with a bluish-gray body and a few simple patterns engraved on its surface.

The True Lord's furnace was a second-grade alchemy furnace, cast in purple copper, with dense array patterns engraved on its body, and faint spiritual light flowing around it.

Just by looking at the alchemy furnace, the difference in quality is immediately apparent.

But Xu Ze didn't care about any of that.

His fingers pressed against the furnace, feeling every rise and fall, every fluctuation of the temperature inside.

Those fluctuations were like a heartbeat, like breathing, like some dormant life awakening.

"Fire!"

His divine sense, like invisible threads, probed into the furnace, entangling each medicinal herb, sensing their melting and transformation.

Having refined countless pills over many save files, Xu Ze was now able to truly concentrate without distraction.

He had already completed the improvement of this Marrow Cleansing Pill when he was in Xiaobai's fox clan.

now.

The temperature inside the alchemy furnace was rising, the medicinal herbs were churning inside, and the aroma of the herbs filled the entire courtyard.

Qin Ce stood to the side, barely daring to breathe, his eyes fixed on the two alchemy furnaces, his palms sweating profusely.

Although he didn't understand alchemy, he knew how to read the auras of the two people.

Although the aura within the True Lord's Furnace was calm and seasoned, like a river that had flowed for a thousand years.

However, the aura within Xu Ze's furnace was like a bottomless lake, calm on the surface but turbulent beneath.

"This kid is something else..."

Time passed by, second by second.

Only the whooshing sound of the alchemy furnace burning and the rustling sound of the medicinal herbs churning inside remained in the courtyard.

The air grew hotter and the aroma of the herbs grew stronger, transforming from its initial rawness to a mellow richness, and from a mellow richness to a crisp, refreshing scent.

Before long, the elixir of the True Lord of Pills was completed.

As expected, it performed steadily and produced three seeds.

"Young friend, I am still a step ahead..."

Just when both of them thought the outcome was decided.

Qin Ce suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The indoor temperature is too high!

It wasn't on Dan Sheng Zhenjun's side, but on Xu Ze's side.

The bluish-gray third-grade alchemy furnace was radiating an astonishing heat wave, its surface pattern glowing red-hot, like flowing lava.

Waves of heat surged in, forcing Qin Ce to take a few steps back.

Qin Ce's mouth slowly opened.

"This is?!"

His voice had changed tone, as if someone was choking him.

Dan Sheng Zhenjun's hand suddenly trembled.

He looked up at the flame at Xu Ze's fingertip, his pupils contracting sharply.

Those cloudy eyes now shone with an astonishing brightness, like two ignited stars.

"This is... a strange fire?"

His voice was hoarse, trembling with an inexplicable intensity, "No, no, this isn't an ordinary strange fire..."