My Cold Sword Master

But according to the pharmacopoeia, ancient elixirs have never had elixir patterns. There are only inferior products and finished products, and the efficacy of each elixir will not be lost in the slightest.

The young man had no interest in the Budan Conference. Compared to joining the Dan Sect, his highest priority right now was to go to Yanyun to find the second volume of the ancient scroll.

This time, he came to fulfill the appointment made in the past, and secondly, to observe the art of alchemy and try whether he could use the sword to make elixirs after arriving in Yanyun.

"Yun'er, try this."

While the young man was lost in thought, Su Wanrou bought him an ink-black jade hair crown, took off her bamboo hairpin and put it on him, and tied his waist-length ink-black hair into an elegant hair crown, which reduced his delicate appearance and gave him a more elegant and graceful look.

She rubbed the boy's tender face and said with satisfaction, "It suits Yun'er very well. Yun'er usually likes bamboo hairpins and hairbands. It's also nice to try a hair crown occasionally."

The young man touched his hair crown, feeling a little helpless.

My aunt seems to be more interested in shopping than the Budan Conference.

It's a common trait among women...

The Budan Conference is held at noon, which is the time when the Yang energy of heaven and earth is at its strongest. It is very helpful for activating the earth's fire veins and condensing the earth fire to refine the elixir.

At this time, Dan Yun Fang was already crowded with people. As the young man was accompanying his aunt to stroll leisurely on the street, by the time he arrived at Dan Yun Fang, the time for Dan Zong's disciples to make elixirs had already passed, and it was already the trial time for alchemists.

On a wide platform made entirely of bluefire rock and 300 meters wide, thirty brown-bronze three-legged furnaces, each half a person's height, were quietly placed.

For alchemists, alchemy furnaces also have grades, with the fire mouth as the grade and the tripod legs as the grade. Two mouths are the eighth grade, and three legs are the upper grade. A high-grade alchemy furnace can detoxify drugs, cleanse impurities, ignite earth fire, resist alchemy disasters, and add spiritual essence. It is a must-have treasure for alchemists.

One or two three-legged alchemy furnaces cost thousands of middle-grade spirit stones. Thirty eighth-grade upper-level alchemy furnaces were taken out at once for use in this Budan Conference, which shows the generosity of the Alchemy Sect.

Under the alchemy furnace, lines of fire veins flashed red light, drawing on the earth fire to refine the elixir.

"boom--!"

The muffled sound of an alchemy furnace suddenly resounded throughout the venue. A furnace in the corner exploded with a wave of scorching flames, blowing away a middle-aged man in a robe sitting cross-legged behind the furnace. Turbid black smoke slowly floated out of the furnace.

"Blast the furnace, exit."

The alchemy boy wearing a Taoist robe with dan patterns glanced indifferently at the eighth-grade elixir that had turned into ashes, and pronounced the judgment indifferently.

The middle-aged man's face was gloomy for a while, and he finally left in anger. At this time, the onlookers in the venue were already accustomed to this.

There were only three people left in front of the thirty alchemy furnaces. The remaining twenty-seven people were forced to leave because their furnaces either exploded or their alchemy patterns failed to meet the standards.

"How come there is no one I like at this Budan Conference?"

In the private stands on the second floor of Dan Yun Fang, a group of Dan Zong disciples dressed in green robes looked at the alchemists on the field with contemptuous tones. The green-robed man in the lead was handsome and elegant, with a jade crown on his head, tall and very gentle.

However, the arrogance and contempt in his eyes when he looked down at the alchemy field, and the gloom hidden deep in his blue eyes, destroyed his elegant look.

The man in green glanced at the alchemy field indifferently, then looked at the woman in a green dress behind him who was as beautiful as a lotus, calm and elegant with a smile, his eyes blazing with fire.

"Junior Sister Ruan, is there anyone who catches your eye at today's Budan Conference?"

The woman's beautiful and delicate face was covered with a layer of blue lotus cloud veil, and her expression could not be seen. Her green eyes, as pure and dust-free as clear spring water, swept across a place. Her ethereal and cold voice under the veil was like jade beads falling from a spring, light and elegant.

"There is one person."

"Oh?" The man in green had a gloomy look in his eyes, but a smile was on his face. "Who is the person that Junior Sister Ruan is talking about?"

"Brother, I think that the red-robed alchemist and the green-robed scholar have a chance to join our alchemy sect."

"This person." The woman raised her slender jade finger and pointed at a young man in white clothes in the corner.

However, among all the Danzong disciples present, no one noticed that when her clear and emerald eyes beneath the green lotus veil saw the young man in white, a playful smile appeared on her face, which had not appeared in the past four years.

Although they haven't seen each other for many years, this boy is still that quiet person, still a little dull and a little bit wooden, and still... makes her want to bully and tease him.

When the man in blue looked over and saw a handsome, tender and gentle young man, his eyes became even gloomier and he smiled.

"Could it be that Junior Sister Ruan pointed at the wrong person? This person can't even use the alchemy furnace. It's obvious that he is a troublemaker. Senior Brother, please expel him from the scene."

The other Danzong disciples gathered around and flattered him.

"Brother An is right. I see that the scholar in formal attire and the alchemist in red robe are very experienced and are no more than 20 years old. They are indeed gifted."

"That young man in white is only at the third level of Qi Condensation and can't even control the alchemy furnace. How could he be worthy of Junior Sister Ruan's attention?"

"I guess Junior Sister Ruan is too kind. Senior Brother An needs to take better care of her, so as not to be cheated by a pretty boy."

"Haha, I've said too much. Who is Junior Sister Ruan? How could she be deceived by this pretty boy?"

An Qingru enjoyed the flattery very much, and on the surface he acted calmly like a senior brother, but in fact, when his gloomy eyes looked at the green-clothed woman Ruan Danyun, there was always a barely perceptible heat in them.

This woman not only has a graceful figure, but also her delicate and exquisite body is as beautiful and elegant as a lotus under the slim light blue silk skirt with cloud pattern on the neck.

The cloud-like collar was slightly stretched to reveal the soft, snow-white curves as smooth and plump as an inverted jade bowl, and the slender willow-like waist was set off by the moon-like, full buttocks.

Her pure and cool temperament, like a fairy descending from the mortal world, gave him a pleasure like climbing an iceberg.

Especially the pair of slender and jade-like legs, which, under the light blue lotus silk skirt, are as round and slender as jade pillars carved from ice, with graceful and mouth-watering curves.

The delicate lotus feet, stepping on the snow-white jade shoes with lotus patterns, are crystal clear, flawless, and not stained by a trace of worldly dust. The lotus-white jade feet are wrapped in light and thin white silk socks from the Western Regions, and are as translucent and translucent as snowy ice cream.

One can't help but imagine conquering this cold ice beauty while galloping on the pair of silk white socks that are as smooth and pure as ice cream...

What he coveted the most was this woman's identity... If he could get a little bit of her, it would be enough to make his position in the Dan Sect soar.

However, what puzzled him was that, for some reason, ever since Junior Sister Ruan returned to Dan Sect, she would come down the mountain every summer to attend the Butan Conference in this small town.

If you want to know Junior Sister Ruan’s identity, there is no need for her to come in person to this small Budan Conference that can only recruit outer disciples.

Ruan Danyun paid no attention to the flattery from the other disciples and the words from her senior brothers beside her.

Her clear blue eyes stared at the young man who was sitting in front of the alchemy furnace in a daze, with a hint of curiosity.

This young man was still the same dull person when we parted. He only knew how to practice sword skills and was a sword cultivator. Why did he suddenly come to participate in the Budan Conference today?

Different from those mediocre-looking people around her, she was a sixth-rank alchemist who had followed her mother in making pills since she was young. She could tell from the way she selected medicinal materials and ignited the earth fire as a teenager.

It's not that the boy doesn't know how to control the alchemy furnace. Based on her understanding of the boy's personality, it seems more like he is struggling.

In the alchemy field, Shangguan Yun sat cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace, holding his chin and looking at the three alchemy recipes in front of him, pondering in silence.

"Let's go with the Soul-Nourishing Pill." He tapped his chin and made a choice among the Exorcism Pill, the Soul-Nourishing Pill, and the Body-Cleansing Pill.

Originally, he just came to observe the alchemy and had no intention of participating in the Budan Conference to avoid trouble.

However, he was a little concerned about the prize for the winner of the Bhutan Conference.

It was a seventh-grade spiritual treasure, the Fire Crystal. Although its rank was low and useless to cultivators other than alchemists, it was a by-product that could only be produced by a great alchemist when refining pills. It was unique to the Alchemy Sect and never circulated, so it was extremely rare.

For alchemists, wearing this item can transform the violent earth fire veins into docile ones that are easier to control.

But for him, this thing has a better use, which is to suppress the Nine Nether Death Frost.

As for why Qingyou Sword Pavilion did not find this item to suppress the Dead Frost for his aunt, he had to start from the time when his master, the cold and beautiful sword fairy, cut through the Dan Sect's protective formation on Yunlian Mountain with one sword.

Since then, Danzong and Qingyou Sword Pavilion almost broke up. Fortunately, Danzong's leader Ruan Xueshao had a gentle personality and mediated between them so that nothing went wrong.

"Huh, pretending to be a ghost."

An Qingru looked at the young man, snorted, and was about to send someone to drive him away, but the next moment, the young man's next action made his eyes freeze.

The young man flicked the alchemy furnace with his slender white fingertips. A wisp of sword energy like a white butterfly made the furnace emit an ethereal furnace sound, and the furnace cover flew up.

"Sword cultivator! This man is a sword cultivator!" The elegance in An Qingru's eyes was gone. He gripped the windowsill tightly with his hands and stared at the young man in white clothes holding a sword in the alchemy field.

The stands were dead silent at this moment. The Dan Sect disciples no longer had any contempt or arrogance and were only stunned.

Even Ruan Danyun's green eyes showed a hint of surprise.

This was somewhat different from her impression of the young man.

All the alchemists in the entire alchemy field had their eyes frozen as they looked at the sword aura lingering on the young man's fingertips when he struck the furnace.

Alchemists have extremely stringent requirements for spiritual essence, meticulous control of spiritual essence, and extremely gentle spiritual vein properties, which means that it is impossible for martial artists to serve as alchemists at the same time. This was rare even in ancient times.

Sword cultivators are special cases among all cultivators.

All sword cultivators need to condense their innate sword essence before they can transform their own spiritual essence into a sharp and fierce sword essence. This has nothing to do with talent or the cultivator's spiritual veins, but purely depends on the sword cultivator's comprehension.

If an ordinary cultivator can only be found among one in a thousand people, then a sword cultivator can only be found among one in ten thousand.

The sword energy of a sword cultivator is sharper, more powerful, and colder than the spiritual energy of a martial arts cultivator. It is far more difficult for a sword cultivator to serve as an alchemist at the same time than an ordinary martial arts cultivator.

There is only one possibility for a swordsman to be a alchemist at the same time, and that is that this person's control over spiritual energy has reached a meticulous level, like twisting a thread and threading a needle.

Everyone stared at the young man's next move, even the Danzong disciples who had mocked him before. Only An Qingru's eyes became more gloomy.

On the other hand, the playful smile in Ruan Danyun's clear blue eyes and the affection buried deep in her heart became more intense.

Shangguan Yun controlled the spiritual essence and recalled a seventh-grade alchemy technique in the pharmacopoeia called Huohuai Gouxu. He stirred up the earth fire to wrap up the two spiritual herbs and put them into the alchemy furnace.

This violent earth fire like an angry tiger, in the hands of the young man, was as gentle and docile as a civet cat.

As the furnace lid slammed shut, the earth fire veins suddenly lit up.

The red flame like a fire dragon turned into a fire locust tree with branches and leaves stretching out in the alchemy furnace. Flames like buds of the fire locust tree rose from the alchemy furnace and wrapped around the elixir.

The two spiritual medicines were in the underground fire, and the underground fire that turned into branches of fire locust trees removed the dirty impurities and drug toxins layer by layer like a silkworm peeling off a cocoon, and gradually turned into crystal clear spiritual liquid.

The orchid heart poison in the purple heart orchid was gradually neutralized by the spiritual essence in the spiritual grass. As the fire in the furnace grew stronger, it turned into a light blue crystal spiritual liquid that condensed in the trunk of the fire locust tree and formed a pill.

"boom--"

As the young man tapped the alchemy furnace with his fingertips again, the furnace cover flew up again, but this time the furnace did not explode. Three crystal clear green elixirs slowly floated from the alchemy furnace into the young man's hands. The eight dragon-like elixir patterns on them were faintly flashing with green light.

"Eight?" Shangguan Yun looked at the eight elixir patterns, frowned slightly, and handed it to the elixir boy beside him.

Although it was his first time to refine the elixir, he relied on the control over his spiritual essence condensed from practicing swords since childhood, plus this seventh-grade Huohuai Gouxu alchemy technique, so there was no flaw in it.

Although he deliberately held back, he clearly noticed during the refining process that the elixir of heaven and earth seemed to be lacking something, so that this elixir, which should have nine elixir patterns, only had eight elixir patterns.

"Yun, Yunling Pill, the refining is successful!" The alchemist at the side quickly reacted and announced loudly, "Dan pattern! Eight! Superior quality!"

At this time, the alchemy field and the entire stands were dead silent.

"Eight elixir patterns, refined at the same time, and the elixir is completed in such a short time." An Qingru stared at the white-clothed young man who was only at the third level of Qi Condensation, his eyes gloomy.

The Danzong disciples behind him knew all too well what this meant.

Even though this was only the lowest level Soul-Nourishing Pill, in such a short period of time, using the sword energy of a sword cultivator to condense two medicinal herbs at the same time and refine the Soul-Nourishing Pill into a top-grade pill with eight pill patterns, this was already the level of an inner sect disciple.

This kid...where does he come from?

Ruan Danyun looked at the young man, her clear eyes flickering. Others couldn't see it, but she could see some clues.

This young man, when refining the elixir, entered the step of condensing the pill before the spiritual fluid was purified. It was obvious that he was holding back. Moreover, his alchemy technique of stirring up the earth fire to condense the pill was something she had never seen or heard of before.

What happened to this young man during these years of separation?

"Boom-boom-"

At this time in the alchemy field, other alchemists also refined pills one after another, but some of them exploded their furnaces due to unstable mind.

The red-robed man looked at the Exorcist Pill with six lines of elixir in his hand, then looked at the young man, snorted coldly, and left with a wave of his sleeves.

The green-robed scholar handed the seven-pattern cleansing pill to the pill boy, looked at the young man, smiled bitterly and bowed: "My friend, you are very skilled. May I ask who your master is?"

Shangguan Yun glanced at him, bowed, walked towards the stands, and found the gray-haired and bearded elder of the Dan Sect.

"It's a world of difference..." The man in green robe smiled bitterly, put away the alchemy furnace and walked towards the stands.

"Haha, young man, are you wondering why there are only eight elixir patterns?" Dan Qingzi, the elder of the Dan Sect who was in the Spirit Transformation Realm, was playing with the Eight-Patterned Soul-Enriching Pill in his hand with a big smile on his face, looking at the young man as if he were looking at a treasure.

As for the other alchemists, most of whom had only five or six elixir patterns that barely qualified, they were not in his eyes. Only the man in green robe did he nod in response.

As an elder of Danzong and a fourth-rank alchemist, he is not a junior like An Qingru.

With his sharp eyes, he knew that the three Soul-Nourishing Pills had nine patterns the moment the pills were condensed. He could also tell at a glance that not only did the boy not use his full strength, but it was also his first time to refine pills.

Nowadays, there is a lack of alchemy, so most alchemists must have their teachers to explain it to them after they step into the alchemy path. The new alchemists at the Budan Conference in recent years all know this.

If it wasn't his first time refining the elixir, he wouldn't have been unaware that the elixir path was damaged, and the ninth elixir pattern wouldn't have been stripped away by the incomplete elixir path.

This young man is the only one who can refine the nine patterns for the first time in this incomplete world of alchemy.

Oh, that aunt with the holy body of Dandao is a special case.

Considering this young man's age and his unprecedented status as a sword-cultivating alchemist, his ability to control spiritual essence, earth fire, and medicinal materials in minute detail, even if he entered the inner sect of the alchemy sect, it would be enough to alarm those old monsters to come out and compete for his disciples.

Shangguan Yun nodded: "Why?"

"When you enter the inner sect of my Dan Sect, you will know."

Dan Qingzi smiled and handed over the fire crystal as the winner, and a cloud-white jade pendant with the word "Dan" engraved on the front and the word "Inner Gate" engraved on the back, but he still felt a little regretful.

Ever since the alchemy art was damaged, no newcomer in the Budan Conference has been able to become a nine-pattern alchemist.

If this young man had not held back, and had not known how to make up for his mistakes in making the elixir since it was his first time, he would have probably reached the realm of having no elixir patterns.