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After carefully checking all the medicinal materials and finding nothing missing, Xiao Ling nodded slightly, looked up at Hai Bodong who was staring at him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Hai, I think you should also know that there is a failure rate in refining pills. Before refining, let me say something unpleasant... I have some confidence in refining this sixth-grade pill, but I dare not guarantee it. So, if the refining fails in the end due to some reasons, the responsibility..."

I know, I'm not responsible, right? You alchemists are all like this. If you fail, can I still force you to stay? "Briefly," Hai Bodong said with a wry smile, waving his hand.

Xiao Ling nodded and said with a smile: "Since Mr. Hai can understand, this is naturally the best."

As if remembering something, Hai Bodong said with a smile: "When I first met you, I didn't know your identity very well. I have been asking around these days. It would have been a big deal if I hadn't asked, but I was shocked when I did. "The first genius of the Jia Ma Empire", he cultivated Dou Qi at the age of four, became a Dou Zhe at the age of eight, and then joined Canaan Academy. There has been no news about him since then. Until recently, he returned to the Jia Ma Empire with the cultivation level of Dou Wang and the identity of a sixth-grade alchemist."

Hai Bodong smacked his lips and said with some emotion: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really wouldn't believe that the Jia Ma Empire actually produced a genius like you."

Walking up to Xiao Ling, Hai Bodong patted Xiao Ling on the shoulder and said with a smile: "As long as you don't want to hurt me on purpose, with your level of alchemy skills, I think you should succeed in one go."

"This old man is flattering me before I even start refining the medicine. He's trying to blackmail me morally. If I fail, you can only blame me for not refining it seriously." Xiao Ling thought to himself after hearing what Hai Bodong said.

"Well, anyway, I have no plan to cheat this old man. I will have to let this Ice Emperor work for me in the future. The position of Xiao family's butler is specially prepared for Hai Bodong." Thinking of this, Xiao Ling no longer thought about these trivial things. The key now is to concentrate on refining the pill.

After putting the pile of herbs on the table into his storage ring, Xiao Ling nodded slightly to Hai Bodong and said calmly: "Don't worry, Mr. Hai, I will do my best to help you refine this evil-breaking pill. It won't be long before you can recover your Douhuang cultivation."

After looking around, Xiao Ling found that there was no good place in the secret room to make medicine. He asked Hai Bodong, "Can you prepare a quiet room for me? No one can disturb me while I am here, including Mr. Hai himself."

"Come with me." Nodding, Hai Bodong walked towards a side door, and Xiao Ling followed closely behind him.

Entering the side door, a corridor appeared. The light in the corridor was slightly dim. I followed Hai Bodong for a distance and then stopped outside a door at the bottom of the corridor.

Pushing open the door, a dim light shone out. The room looked quite tidy, perhaps because it was cleaned frequently. It was not bad to use it as a temporary residence while refining medicine.

After telling Qinglin to practice well, Xiao Ling walked towards the room.

Walking into the room, Xiao Ling looked around, smiled and nodded.

"Master Xiao Ling, is this place okay?" Hai Bodong asked with a smile. After seeing Xiao Ling nod, he continued, "In that case, Master Xiao Ling, please refine the elixir here. I will be guarding outside the corridor. During this time, you will get the quiet atmosphere you need, and no one will disturb you."

Chapter 78 Refining PoEdan

"It's very good, thank you." Xiao Ling nodded with a smile.

"Then I'll leave first. It's up to you to do the rest." After leaving a word, Hai Bodong left the room.

When he was the only one left in the place, Xiao Ling walked to the table and chairs in the center of the room.

His fingers lightly brushed across the storage ring, and suddenly, the medicinal herbs that Hai Bodong had given to Xiao Ling earlier appeared on the table.

He stretched out his hand again, and a medicine cauldron appeared beside the table and chairs. Although this medicine cauldron was not one of the ones on the Tianding list, it was enough for Xiao Ling now.

Holding the prescription that recorded the method of refining the "Evil-Breaking Pill" in his hand, Xiao Ling began to read the refining method recorded therein.

In the original novel, even Yao Chen, the continent's number one alchemist, made a mistake while refining the Evil-Breaking Pill and wasted some medicinal materials.

Although it was only in the state of soul, and its strength was not as good as it was in life, but with Yao Chen's rich experience in refining medicine, he failed once, which also showed that the refining method of this Po Evil Pill was quite complicated.

After memorizing the contents of the prescription, Xiao Ling took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

Walking to the medicine cauldron, Xiao Ling raised his arm and pressed it on the fire outlet of the cauldron.

With a thought, the Golden Emperor's Burning Sky Flame in his body emerged from the Dou Crystal, followed the tendons in his body, and jumped into the medicine cauldron.

When the Golden Emperor's Burning Sky Flame appeared, a scorching temperature filled the room.

After using the Golden Emperor's Burning Sky Flame to burn the medicine cauldron, Xiao Ling stretched out his hand and waved it rapidly on the table beside him. He held priceless herbs in his hand and then put them into the medicine cauldron.

After all the herbs were put into the cauldron, Xiao Ling took his hand away from the cauldron. His face was calm, and his fair palm suddenly waved rapidly, as if picking flowers and leaves. As his fingertips flicked, the hot golden flames inside the cauldron obediently turned into several tiny flames, which wrapped up the herbs that had been thrown in.

In order to be able to refine the Evil-Breaking Pill in one go, Xiao Ling put in his utmost effort and demanded perfection in every step.

Inside the quiet room, golden flames danced between the medicine cauldrons, and a faint medicinal fragrance filled the air.

……

Jia Ma Empire, Utan City.

A carriage with the royal emblem of the Gama Empire drove into Wutan City from the city gate.

Behind the carriage followed more than fifty royal guards wearing light armor. The murderous aura emanating from each soldier showed that these people were all experienced fighters on the battlefield.

Yaoyue, who was sitting in the carriage, stretched out a sharp wrist, opened a corner of the curtain, and looked at the buildings of Wutan City with great interest.

"Is this the place where Xiao Ling, the 'first genius of the Gama Empire', lived when he was a child? I wonder if I will encounter some interesting things here." Yaoyue muttered to herself.

At that time, he was still studying alchemy with Vice President Mitchell in the Alchemist Guild. As a result, his sister came to him and wanted him to go to Wutan City.

Originally, Yaoyue was planning to refuse. Wutan City was a remote small city that she had never heard of.

However, he heard from his sister that this was the birthplace of Xiao Ling, the "first genius of the Jia Ma Empire", and that this trip was to escort Xiao Ling's fellow tribesmen to live in the imperial capital.

As the little princess of the Jiama Empire, Yaoyue naturally knew about Xiao Ling's news, so she was also somewhat interested in the place where he was born.

Moreover, Xiao Yan, who his teacher mentioned from time to time, seemed to be from the Xiao family in Wutan City. When the time comes, he could go and see what kind of strange person he is that even his teacher could not see any problems with him.

Under the awed gazes of the residents of Wutan City, the royal guard arrived at the Xiao family's courtyard and stopped.

The middle-aged officer in the lead waved to his subordinate, who then dismounted and came to the Xiao family's guard and said, "Hello, we are the royal guards, here to take the Xiao family members to the imperial capital."

The captain of the Xiao family's security guard had already received information from within the clan, claiming that the Gama Empire's guard team would arrive in the next few days.

The captain of the guards replied to the soldier: "I will go and inform the clan leader first. Everyone, please go to the reception hall and rest. The clan leader will be here soon."

After he finished speaking, he muttered a few words to a guard beside him and walked towards the patriarch's office.

The guard led the royal guards to the Xiao family's reception hall.

After the captain of the guards reported, clan leader Xiao Zhan immediately brought several elders to solemnly welcome the royal guards.

The two sides decided on an itinerary, and tomorrow morning everyone would set off for the imperial capital.

On the last night before leaving Wutan City, Xiao Zhan also invited the leaders of all the big and small forces in Wutan City to come to the Xiao family to hold a dinner party.

The patriarchs of the other two major families in Wutan City, Galebi, the patriarch of the Gale family, and Obapa, the patriarch of the Oba family, naturally also received Xiao Zhan's invitation.

The patriarchs of the three major families, who were originally somewhat hostile to each other, now started drinking at the dinner because the Xiao family was about to leave Wutan City.

……

While the dinner was going on, Xiao Yan was wandering around the Xiao family alone. As the third young master of the Xiao family, he was naturally qualified to attend the banquet, but he felt it was boring to sit in the hall after dinner alone, so Xiao Yan left the banquet early.

Xiao Yan pinched off a dogtail grass on the roadside and held it in his mouth, tasting the slight bitterness it exuded. He walked to the pond in the Xiao family's backyard, lay on the grass, and enjoyed the cool evening breeze.

At this moment, the sound of footsteps approaching from afar reached Xiao Yan's ears.

Xiao Yan looked in the direction where the sound came from and saw a young girl walking along a bluestone path towards the pond.

The person who appeared was wearing a purple dress with silver patterns. She had an exquisite appearance. Under the influence of the royal family, she exuded an innate noble temperament. Her slender waist was tied with a purple belt, which showed off her slender waist to the fullest. She didn't seem to be very old, and looked about the same age as Xiao Yan today. She had a smile on her pretty face, which made her look elegant and peaceful. However, every time she glanced around, Xiao Yan found that this seemingly ladylike girl had some quirky smiles in her watery eyes. Obviously, she was not a quiet person as she seemed.

Chapter 79: The Moon

This girl is none other than the little princess of the royal family, Yaoyue.

As a royal princess, Yaoyue would naturally not lower herself to attend the dinner party hosted by these small leaders of Wutan City.

The main purpose of this visit is to show the royal family's attention to the Xiao family and to win over Xiao Ling, the young sixth-grade alchemist.

So Yaoyue did not attend the dinner, but instead sent the Douling-level army commander to get close to Xiao Zhan.

He wandered around the Xiao family alone, intending to take a look at the place where Xiao Ling lived when he was a child.

Just now, the guard who was secretly protecting Yaoyue told her that beside the pond not far in front of Yaoyue, there was a young man with a cultivation level of only the third level of Dou Qi lying on the grass.

When Yaoyue heard the guard mention the young man with the third level of Dou Qi, her eyes lit up. Wasn't that Xiao Yan that her teacher mentioned?

He started practicing Dou Qi at the age of four and was promoted to a fighter at the age of eleven. Although he was not as monstrous as Xiao Ling, he was also the youngest fighter in the Jia Ma Empire besides Xiao Ling, and he was also the fiancé of Nalan Yanran, the eldest daughter of the Nalan family.

This incident was also talked about with great relish by the powerful people in the Jia Ma Empire. The Xiao family relied on the talents of Xiao Ling and Xiao Yan. When the two grew up, they would surely lead the Xiao family to glory.

As a result, when Xiao Yan was twelve years old, his Dou Qi dropped to the third level of Dou Qi, and his cultivation could no longer be improved. He became a useless cultivator, which shocked everyone.

Afterwards, the Xiao family used a prescription and hired Mitchell, the vice president of the Alchemist Guild, to examine Xiao Yan.

As a result, Mitchell traveled all the way to Wutan City, but was unable to find out what was wrong with Xiao Yan's body.

Thinking of the strange physique that even her teacher could not solve, Yaoyue decided to see it for herself, so she took the initiative to go in the direction of Xiao Yan.

Seeing the girl walking towards him, Xiao Yan quickly stood up from the grass, clasped his fists and bowed, then said to Yao Yue: "Princess, is there anything you want to talk to me about? If you want to visit the Xiao family, I can lead the way for you. I am very familiar with the Xiao family."

When the royal guard entered the Xiao family before, Xiao Zhan also brought Xiao Yan to greet them, and naturally saw Yaoyue.

However, Xiao Zhan and the elders were also surprised. They did not expect that the royal princess would come in person. This also made everyone more aware of the value of Xiao Ling, a young Dou Wang strongman and sixth-grade alchemist.

Yaoyue did not answer Xiao Yan's question, but looked Xiao Yan up and down with some curiosity.

Seeing that the little royal princess was staring at him, Xiao Yan, who was now mature, felt a little embarrassed.

When Xiao Yan was about to ask again, Yao Yue spoke first: "Are you Xiao Yan, the third young master of the Xiao family? And the fiancé of Nalan Yanran, the young master of the Yunlan Sect."

Hearing Yaoyue's question, Xiao Yan nodded and said, "Yes, I am Xiao Yan. As for the fiancé of the Young Master of the Yunlan Sect, I don't know much about it myself. I just heard my father mention that before I was born, my grandfather Xiao Lin had reached a verbal agreement with the old man Nalan Jie of the Nalan family. Later, after Nalan Yanran and I were born, the two of us became engaged. I only met Nalan Yanran once when I was a child, and now I don't even know what she looks like. If Nalan Yanran, the Young Master of the Yunlan Sect, and Nalan Yanran of the Nalan family are the same person, then she should be my fiancée. But now I can't practice anymore, and I don't know if she still likes me."

Thinking of his cultivation level that had reached the third stage of Dou Qi at the age of twelve, Xiao Yan felt a pang of pain in his heart. However, he remembered what his father had said to him before, that Xiao Ling would help him solve his physical problems when the time came. Xiao Yan's somewhat lost mood recovered.

After listening to Xiao Yan's narration, Yao Yue nodded slightly and said to Xiao Yan jokingly, "Then let me tell you, the young master of the Yun Lan Sect, Nalan Yanran, is the eldest daughter of the Nalan family in the imperial capital, Nalan Yanran, and your fiancée. At the Yun Lan Sect's disciple recruitment conference, she was accepted as a direct disciple by the current Yun Lan Sect master Yun Yun, and then she was recognized by the Yun Lan Sect's trial ground, the Gate of Life and Death, and became the young master of the Yun Lan Sect. With her gorgeous appearance and outstanding cultivation talent, she has been sought after by countless people in the imperial capital. Even Liu Ling, the direct disciple of the Yun Lan Sect's guest elder, the sixth-grade alchemist Gu He, has long admired your fiancée Nalan Yanran."

After hearing Yaoyue's narration, Xiao Yan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the little girl he met once when he was a child has now become the young master of the Yunlan Sect.

As for how popular he was, although Xiao Yan was a little unhappy, he did not care too much. In the eyes of Xiao Yan, who had lived in Blue Star in the 21st century, this kind of engagement was useless, and Xiao Yan also advocated free love.

Now that my cultivation cannot be improved, if Nalan Yanran doesn't like me and doesn't want to fulfill the engagement, I can just pretend that the engagement never happened.

Anyway, the engagement was just something the two elders mentioned casually. His grandfather died when he was three years old from serious injuries in a battle with his enemy. So there was one less witness to the engagement. As long as the Nalan family did not acknowledge the engagement, outsiders would not say anything.

Moreover, as long as his cultivation talent could be restored, Xiao Yan believed that with his own efforts, it was only a matter of time for him to catch up with or even surpass Nalan Yanran. By that time, he might even look down on Nalan Yanran.

Shaking his head, Xiao Yan said with some self-mockery: "Princess, please stop teasing me. As the young master of the Yunlan Sect, how could I possibly be interested in a useless person like me who can't practice?"

Covering her mouth and laughing, Yaoyue said playfully: "You are somewhat self-aware, but your optimistic personality is quite interesting."

After a pause, Yaoyue continued, "But I am a little curious about your strange physique. Your family asked my teacher to examine your body before, but he didn't find anything abnormal. Before we set off this time, President Fa Ma also told me that if you go to the imperial capital, he can check you."

Xiao Yan waved his hand and said, "Thank you for the invitation, President Fa Ma. However, I won't bother you. After I arrive in the imperial capital, my cousin Xiao Ling will come back to the Xiao family and will personally examine my body. If even my cousin can't find any problems, it would be unnecessary to ask President Fa Ma for help."

Chapter 80 Physical Examination

Xiao Yan is not stupid. He went to college in his previous life. He is not like a certain reckless man named Lin who mistook three characters for five. This president of Fa Ma wanted the Xiao family to owe him a favor. He didn't like the compensation the Xiao family gave him when he asked him to treat his illness before. Now that the Xiao family has a Xiao Ling, he wants to get close to them.

"I see. With your cousin Xiao Ling examining you, there's no need for Guild Master Fama to take action. My great-grandfather told me that Master Xiao Ling's alchemy skills are even higher than Gu He's. Maybe he can cure you in time." Yaoyue replied, touching his chin.

“But since you appear in front of this princess, I would like to see what your strange physique is like. After all, I am the most talented alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire besides Master Xiao Ling. I was able to refine third-grade elixirs when I was twelve years old. Maybe I can find some clues about your body.” As soon as she finished speaking, Yaoyue appeared in front of Xiao Yan and looked him up and down with curious eyes.