Chapter 29: Are you messing with me?

"I am going to another room for essence extraction. No one should disturb me in this period", Zhan Chen spoke before leaving his room with a pill furnace and tripod in his hand. He knew that he couldn't use his soul fire Infront of others. So, he decided to use a different room.

Zhan Chen picked up three Azure life grass blades and placed it inside the pill furnace. A pure white glowing fire appeared on top of his palm. He brought the fire close to the pill furnace and started to heat the furnace with it.

"It should be time", Zhan Chen murmured after heating the pill furnace for few minutes. He withdrew his soul fire and opened up the lid.

There was nothing remained inside the cauldron except a small amount of thick crystal coloured liquid. It was the medicine essence extracted from three Azure life grass blades.

He stored the white coloured essence inside a small container and took out the next spirit medicine. It was a heap of blue coloured leaves with a distinct feather pattern on it.

Zhan Chen threw all of them inside the pill furnace and closed the lid. With a will of his, the pure white soul fire appeared and he started to heat the furnace with it.

The pure white soul fire appeared very gentle. Zhan Chen was controlling its consistency masterfully. Controlling the fire was a major challenge for a pill practitioner and it was more so when it came to soul fire.

Thanks to Zhan Chen's previous experience, he didn't face any challenge in controlling his soul fire. Like the previous batch, this batch of spirit herb also quickly turned into medicinal liquid.

Zhan Chen didn't immediately open up the lid of the furnace. He had absolute confidence in his skill. So, he chose to observe the pill grandmaster first before checking on the medicinal extract of Blue feather herbs.

He spread his soul consciousness and saw the old grandmaster heating the pill furnace carefully. "He is heating the herbs one by one. I wonder how much time I have to wait, if he continues like this?", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

"Forget it. Looks like I have to give a hand in extracting the remaining spirit medicines", Zhan Chen thought to himself. He knew the pill grandmaster was not in fault here. Every batch of spirit medicines contained three to four herbs of each type. He managed to process three to four sets of herbs in a single try but it was not possible for the old grandmaster.

Zhan Chen opened up the lid of the furnace and gathered the crystal clear medicinal liquid from the furnace. After storing it safely in a pill bottle, he walked towards his room.

"Young master, what are you doing here? Are you facing difficulty in extracting the medicine herbs", one of the pill attendant of old grandmaster asked upon noticing Zhan Chen.

"Nope, I have already finished extracting my portion. I am here to help grandmaster in extracting other herbs", Zhan Chen calmly replied.

"What! you have already finished extracting your portion?", the pill attendant of old grandmaster looked at him skepitally. He felt like he heard an incomprehensible thing.

"But it has been less than ten minutes. Even if you do it first, it will take almost two hours to finish", the other pill attendant muttered as he looked at Zhan Chen with a questioning gaze.

Zhan Chen smiled slightly without explaining much. His gaze fell upon the remaining herbs which were kept near old pill grandmaster. He picked up the remaining spirit herbs and strode outside. "Inform grandmaster that I have took the remaining spirit medicines", Zhan Chen spoke before leaving his room.

The pill grandmaster was still working hard to extract the essence of a single grade three herb. He saw Zhan Chen taking his herbs but he didn't ask anything as he couldn't afford to lose focus while extracting a grade three herb.

Zhan Chen entered his previous room and started to extract the medicine essence from other herbs. Beads of sweat appeared on his head as he processed the third batch of spirit medicine.

"I have to quickly improve my strength. I can't believe that I am feeling drained just after extracting two grade three medicines", Zhan Chen thought inside his mind. Using soul fire to heat up the pill furnace, Zhan Chen was putting a heavy burden on his body.

His soul was powerful but his body was not. With such a weak cultivation, it was impossible to exert much strength of his soul. Moreover, a soul was directly linked with the body. Using soul strength was quite taxing to body and mind.

It didn't take him long to finish up the third batch. He didn't take any rest and quickly threw the fourth batch of spirit medicines inside the pill furnace.

After heating up the pill furnace for some minutes, he stopped. He spread his soul consciousness and observed the situation inside his room. "This old man is surely taking his time", Zhan Chen muttered to himself.

He gathered the medical liquid of fourth batch inside a pill bottle and walked back towards his room.

After waiting for few minutes, the old pill grandmaster finished extracting his first herb. He quickly checked the medicinal liquid and a relived expression appeared on his face after checking the furnace.

He gazed at his surrounding and found the herbs are missing. Before he could ask any question, his gaze fell upon Zhan Chen who was looking at him with a bored look.

"Young master, what are you doing here?", the old pill grandmaster looked at Zhan Chen with confusion. He believed that Zhan Chen was messing around. He had already seen him five minutes ago and now again after seeing him, he felt that he was right.

After all he would have never considered the possibility that Zhan Chen had already finished up extracting the medical essence of all the spirit medicines.

"Shall we proceed to concoct the pill?", Zhan Chen smiled at the old grand master.

"Young master, are you messing with me? How can we concoct a pill without extracting the medicinal essence of all spirit herbs?", the pill grandmaster spoke while looking at Zhan Chen with irritation. His first impression of Zhan Chen was good but now he felt that this fifth young master of Zhan clan was cocky and over confident.

Zhan Chen didn't mind the irritated gaze of the old man. He calmly pushed the containers towards the old grandmaster.

"Check these first and then feel free to question me", Zhan Chen replied.

The old pill grandmaster looked at the containers skepitally. He still opened one container and checked the material inside. The crystal clear liquid came to his view and a faint aroma spread to the surrounding.

His skeptical gaze turned to one of puzzling then wonder. He hurriedly opened up other containers and the surprising look in his eyes grew exponentially.

"How is this possible?", he murmured in a dazed manner.