Chapter 73 - 72: Pills!

"Okay let's do this." Xiao Yan muttered as he sat down on a red comfy pillow that can support his body in the middle of a room. Surrounded by numerous herbs that emitted some powerful, strange but also fragrant scent that filled the entire room.

He had finished checking the storage of his herbs and pills, and noticed he was now lacking of the latter. More specifically tier 1-2 pills, as there's not a lot of Spirit Elders and Spirit Ancestors that would used tier 3-4 such pills in this city. Anyone can use any kind of tier pills, regardless if their spirit masters or ordinary people. But specialized pills; like breakthough pills or increased strength pills for the specific tier of pills on spirit masters are either dangerous or useless for those who could not used them.

Right now, he needs to restock and meaning he has to use his storage as well. Well he can either just get his herbs in the criminal underworld with some contacts he made, or get them himself in the wilderness. The latter is too much of work so Xiao Yan decided to go with the former.

But enough of that. Xiao Yan took a slow and calming breathe in, his green with tinted red-silver spirit power started to cover his entire body like a cloak so he could easily defend himself from any sudden messed up from concocting his pills and his five senses would enhanced to help him refine the ingredients better as well. His line of sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch had been enhanced by five times.

A moment later, he closed his eyes and channeled his spiritual power to make a few specific herb ingredients levitate in the air, to which he used the Controlling Crane on his left hand to pull the ingredients together in front of him.

The ingredients being: a five hundred year old Jaded Vine, five hundred year old Spirit Heart Flower, five hundred year old Dragon Orange Fruit, five hundred years old Ruby Ginseng, and others more that were at five hundred years of age.

Now, normally, this is where the ingredients would be put into a cauldron one at a time, be purified and refined till all the ingredients turned into their liquid like form containing their purest spirit power or any other energy, and then let the said liquids be mashed and merged together to formed into a pill.

That has been the tradition for what every alchemist in this world had done, for thousands of years. Theoretically, alchemists of the highest tier could use their spiritual power to mould their fire into containers to create pills but it could only be used with lower tier pills. Hence, no alchemist had bothered using this sort of technique as it uses more spiritual power and control. No one has ever used such a technique until; Yao Lao and Xiao Yan.

"Huuu..." Xiao Yan let out a breath as he summoned his heavenly flame; Green Lotus Core Flame, with the size of a basketball, on his right palm. He let float and surrounded the ingredients in front of him, letting it circle around them all and he then start to mould his fire into a pot while the ingredients was engulfed within.

As the ingredients were engulfed in his green flames, being burned and melted, Xiao Yan focused his spiritual power control to quickly and carefully refined the ingredients and purified them to their purest form; a liquid form made out of their own respective spirit power energies.

Ordinarily, it would take hours if not days for the ingredients to be refined and purified then moulded into pills.

But don't compare the Flame Emperor's incarnation, who is slowly regaining his previous life's memories and experiences, a God King of Flames that has the qualifications to be a God of Alchemy, to a bunch of mortal losers.

Just a few minutes later, the herb ingredients had finally shed their respective skins, turning into husks, before burning into nothing with small amounts of differing colored liquids remained floating in the fire pot.

The refinement and purification of the herbs are completed, then the next part is merging and forming the liquids into a piece of pill. This is the hardest part of all, for alchemists, this requires their extreme concentration of spiritual power to mould the liquids into a pill.

But to Xiao Yan; who had the memories and experiences of his past self in concocting thousands, if not millions, of pills, was moulding the liquids into structural forms of four glowing and pristine white pills. Signifying that they were 100% in purity. All of it took, was a single breath.

A smile formed for a moment on Xiao Yan's face before it turned into a frown. His right arm was wincing and trembling, he used his other arm to make it stopped, that it broke his concentration on levitating his pills, all falling to the ground.

'No, no, no, no, no!' Thankfully, he managed to used his left arm to catch the pills. Sighing in relief, he hissed as he looked down to see his right arm slightly red.

"Looks like I needed more rest than I thought..." Xiao Yan said out loud as he put away the pills into a jade bottle from his storage ring. He then put back the herbs from their original containers and stood up to walked back into the counter.

His right arm's current situation is due to the remnants of damages done by overexerting his physical strength. Imperial Emperor's Decree: One Punch to Rupture the Heavens, is a move that is fueled by merging one-third of both his Vigor and Internal Qi; to not only amplify the burst of strength and speed of his arm, like lightning striking, but also makes it so it could handle exerting such power.

Vigor and Internal Qi has the ability to help enhanced one's regeneration and durability. Xiao Yan had designed this move of his, for it to be a insta-kill for those stronger than him. But he didn't designed it to act as a f.u.c.k.i.n.g machine gun! So his arm is strained so much, that his own regenerative abilities are not enough for it to heal in a couple of days.

It really dosen't have any issues of further damaging his right arm that it'll become crippled. But the pain of it would broke his concentration, which would bring him loads of other pain and trouble if he continues to concoct pills, deeming it unsafe for him by Tang San and the rest.

"Hmm... I wonder how the others are doing in their quest of getting their own respective spirit ring?" Xiao Yan wondered out loud as he opened the door and walked towards the counter area.

<Star Dou Great Forest, the others~>

"Augh, can't believe we're back here again!" Ma Hongjun complained.

"Yeah, though I wanted to get my fourth spirit ring, I just wanted to relax more after that hellish three months training." Dai Mubai agreed as he swiped his claws to clear a path in the forest.

"...I can't believe we had to wake up early for this." Ning Rongrong complained differently, some bags under her eyes concealed with make up, as she traversed behind the guys alongside Zhu Zhuqing, who silently nodded in agreement.

Grandmaster and Zhao Wuji remained silent as they watched the group from behind, their eyes were as vigilant as hawks.

Suddenly, the group came across a open patch field of grass. Which is as long as 2 kilometers and 1 kilometers wide. Fruits and all kinds of little or big spirit beasts could be seen lying around the field.

Though a certain creature grabbed their attention, specifically a pair of girls whose eyes were sparkling like the stars.

Their eyes were focused on a small spirit beast, a hybrid between a fat cat and mouse, fur was of yellow and stripes of black, a pair of red circles on it's two face cheeks and it had a thunder like symbol for a tail.

It was just minding its own business in front of the Shrek group, munching on a red fruit while muttering "pika, pika" several times.

Grandmaster's eyes widened, as he recognized such creature and it's infamous ability of lightning. It's lightning and thunder abilities were said to even rival gods! 'This is bad!' He thought. As he was about to warn the others, it was too late.

"OH YOU ARE SO ADORABLE!" Ning Rongrong squealed as she practically teleported in front of the small creature and capturing it in her arms. Dai Mubai face palmed, muttering.

"What the heck is that rich young lady doing?" Regardless of the other spirit beasts around the area, they moved towards Ning Rongrong to protect, unknown to the rapidly paling face of Grandmaster.

"Hey guys!" She turned towards the group, with the now confused and disoriented yellow creature on her arms, she pointed her finger to it and asked. "Can we keep it?! It's so freaking adorable! Oh please! Please, please, please, please, please, please!"

Grandmaster ignored her begging and immediately ordered her, "Student Ning Rongrong, immediately let that creature down, and everyone else quickly back away from it."

"...Huh?" Everyone, including Zhao Wuji, muttered in confusion but it was too late.

The yellow creature's face started to distort into a angry frown, electricity madly flickering on its two red cheeks, it then started muttering and releasing it's power.

"PIKACHUUUUU!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

<Back At Xiao Yan>

"Meh, I'm sure they'll be fine." Xiao Yan shrugged.

Back to the issue of his arm, he thought that a couple of days would be enough for it to heal, but nope! Shit was still acting up. He'd probably give it another day or two for it to completely heal.

'Or I could just eat the new batch of pills, which I may or may not specifically created to help speed up the healing progress...' Xiao Yan chuckled as he sat down on the chair behind of the cashier desk. He put the jade bottle containing the four pills he recently concocted, all called the same: Tier 3 Speed Up Health Pill.

He pulled the cork out of the bottle, a fragrant scent started to appear out of the bottle; that smelled like fresh lilies.

"Ge, is the store open? Are–what is that?! Mine!" At first sounded monotonous voice turned cheerful and playful, as a smooth and slender hand moved like a python and gotten the bottle out of Xiao Yan's left hand.

Before Xiao Yan could respond or anything, Zi Yan unhesitatingly chugged the pills into her mouth. Purple like spirit power surged and covered her entire body, signifying she brokethrough a spirit rank.

"Yummy!" She put the bottle on top of the desk and rubbed her little tummy. "Do you have any more, ge?"

"..." Xiao Yan didn't respond. His shadowed covered pair of eyes was blankly staring at the now empty jade bottle of pills, HIS pills!

"Zi Yan..." He muttered.

"Yes?" Zi Yan responded with a cutely tilt of her head to him.

Xiao Yan raised his head towards her, immediately terrifying her a moment later as she saw his eyes glowing red.

"WHAT THE HELL DID I TELL WHEN YOU TAKE STUFF FROM OTHERS?!"

"EHHH?!! FIRST ASK FOR THEIR PERMISSION!!! I'M SO SORRY!!!!"