Chapter 88: Refining Black Scorpion's Antidote

P.S. Extra Chapters 1/4! These are the extra chapters I owe you prior to locking the chapters, I'll publish 2 this week and then 2 next week!

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"Brother Chen! What are you doing?! This is not appropriate, isn't it?" 

"No, this is nothing compared to a chance to observe her in action! If she wanted me to lick her feet, I'll gladly do so!" 

Hearing the ruckus, three people came from inside the refining room.

"Who makes a fuss here?" asked Feng Xue, looking slightly annoyed.

Shortly, she saw her master trying to persuade an old man to get up from the ground.

"Master, Master, what happened here?" 

Her annoyance diminished and replaced by confusion, she couldn't understand what event was transpiring here.

Grand Master Chen Xi looked upward, and his gaze fixed at Snowy.

"Are you, Lady Snowy, the esteemed alchemy grandmaster?"

"Un. Are you Grand Alchemist Chen?"

"N-No, no, I can't bear such title with my meager ability. Please call me Old Man Chen if you want, milady."

"This, milady. This old man has a presumptuous request for you." 

"Please let me see your peerless alchemy, dao! I'll swear with my dao heart that I won't leak your secret to anyone, and I will forever be in your beck and call, crossing mountain of swords and sea of fire for your sake!"

Grandmaster Chen Xi once again prostrated in front of Snowy, begging her permission.

"Uh… Please get up. You don't need to do this. I've never said that I won't allow you to come inside, don't I?"

"S-so, I am allowed to observe you?"

"As long as you true to your words, I don't have any problem with that," said Snowy casually.

She thought it was advantageous for them to make a man with high prestige and a big-name like Grand Alchemist Chen Xi support Feng Family.

After Feng Xuan fully recovered, Feng Family's influence will be soaring like its never before. But before that happened, Grandmaster Chen Xi will be an extra layer of sturdy protection for the Feng Family. And also, he can provide Feng Family with pills and spirit herbs. With that arrangement, she could feel assured if they left the eastern region to another place one day.

"Thanks, Miladi, thanks!" Grand Alchemist Chen Xi kowtowed once more to express his attitude.

Elder Yang looked at Grand Alchemist Chen full of respect and sympathy.

Everyone knew that Dao was long and arduous. Sometimes, an opportunity to make improvements was as scarce as stars in the day sky.

But, how many people with high status and prestige could lower themselves and learned from a younger generation without feeling shameful. 

Could he do it? As a swords cultivator, he wouldn't be able to do so.

"Let's go inside. My preparation had already finished. Now the time to refine the medicine for Uncle Feng," Snowy said to all people present there.

The group entered the refining chamber and stayed on the sidelines watching Snowy summoning her Myriad Flame Golden Cauldron and the ingredients for the antidote.

"T-that cauldron… I-is, is that the legendary Divine Cauldron?" a certain eccentric old alchemist couldn't help but became hysterical as he saw Snowy's cauldron.

"So, you know about Divine Item too?" Snowy narrowed her eyes and stared at Grand Alchemist Chen Xi, slightly surprised. "I thought all records about Divinity had already disappeared from the Eastern Continent."

"My sect, Pill Haven Sect, had already existed for more than ten thousand years. And different than other big sects, we always prioritized our Alchemy Practice and self-preservation, so there are still several records about the ancient matter, including Divine Cauldron. I never dream of being able to see it today." 

Grand Alchemist Chen Xie didn't let the cauldron out from his gaze even for a second. But, after today, he might not have the opportunity to see such mystical artifacts anymore.

Furthermore, he also had enlightenment while looking at the rune on the surface of the cauldron's body.

A glimpse of this rune had been more beneficial for him than 100-200 years of closed-door cultivation.

He didn't expect that the gain had come so quickly.

Snowy shift her focus back to the cauldron and then activated the Alchemy Array.

Seeing the intricacies within the array, Grand Master Chen Xi couldn't help but gasp. The array was even more powerful than the array that had been cast by joint effort of several Nascent Soul stage experts back in the Pill haven sect.

"I'll begin. Old Man Chen, you can observe closely if you want as long as you don't disturb the process," said Snowy.

"Thank you, Milady!" Grand Alchemist Chen Xi replied energetically.

This was the work of the youngest Alchemist Grandmaster in history whose attainment in Alchemy Dao might be already unrivaled in the Eastern Continent.

Merely the thought of it was enough to make him shiver in excitement!

Snowy calmly handle the ingredients one by one. Her gaze gradually became more serious as time passed.

After taking a deep breath, she suddenly started moving. Her movements smooth and incredibly natural, filled with a unique kind of beauty that was pleasing to the eyes. She didn't look like handling ingredients but a delicate art piece.

"What a refined way to handle the ingredients!"

"So you can also do it that way? It seems the efficiency is also increasing."

"She can handle all the ingredients in one move? H-how can she did it?!"

"This is too shocking!"

Listening to Master Chen Xi's comment, Feng Xue felt a twinge of pride in her heart, and unknowingly, a smug smile appeared on her face.

"See, Master? As expected of My Snowy, I know My Snowy is the best!"

"Yes, yes, she is the best…." 

Elder Yang rolled his eyes and replied lazily.

At this point, who will doubt Snowy's ability in Alchemy? Certainly not Elder Yang. So, he wasn't that surprised by Master Chen Xi's appraisal.

As Snowy proceed further, all of the eyes in the room focused on her movement, especially Grand Alchemist Chen Xi. 

Every move she made was flawless and enchanting, exuding a beautiful rhythm in harmony.

Everything in accordance with nature had a certain pattern.

In the case of Alchemy, the pattern could be observed in how an alchemist controlled the flame and how the alchemist observed as the various ingredients transformed and merged together under high heat. It's a pattern on its own.

Of course, not everyone could feel the pattern as easily as Snowy. Even Grand Master Chen Xi could only peek at the so-called pattern or rhythm. 

Ordinary Alchemist only following the written instructions, doing everything as written in the formula. They would add specific ingredients at the exact time that was written on the pill formula, use flames of a certain temperature at a certain time.

Everything they did was done mechanically and rigidly.

Of course, this limitation wasn't applied to Snowy who had the capability to calculate many things at the same time. Her maximum point in intelligence was exactly a cheat when it came to pattern recognition.