"I got it, Uncle Su." Yuan Yingying chuckled and planted a kiss on Su Yu's cheek. "Uncle Su, you're really good to me, and I really want to be with you forever."
Su Yu stroked his cheek. He was the same age as Yuan Yingying, yet this lass really treated him like an amiable elder.
"Well, grandpa, are you still shy?" Yuan Yingying widened her eyes and said earnestly, "If you were eighty years younger, I would be willing to marry you. Even if I had to run away from my marriage, I would still want to be with you."
Su Yu didn't know whether he should laugh or cry, as he was really just twenty years old.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's start refining the elixir. This time, I will only refine it three times." Su Yu took out three portions of the Fairy Expansion Pill's ingredients. "However, I won't refine a third-grade spirit pill, but a fourth-grade one. One portion will be used as a backup, while the other two portions will be refined by both of us. "
"A fourth-grade spirit pill?" Yuan Yingying shook her head. "It's impossible, as my current Extreme Limit Elixir Manufacturing Technique is far from enough."
Su Yu revealed a faint smile and said, "If I help you, then it might still be possible. In any case, just take out one portion and give it a try."
As Su Yu urged her, Yuan Yingying took the materials from Su Yu skeptically. When she had just touched them, she exclaimed in shock, "Ah! What a pure material! I can't even detect a single impurity in it! "
She finally realized that it was Su Yu who had done it.
"Uncle Su, how did you manage to achieve it? It's really amazing! How did you manage to purify the materials so easily? I have never seen such a pure material! Even my father couldn't purify it to such a degree! "Yuan Yingying's eyes became as wide as pearls.
Su Yu chuckled and said, "Let's quickly refine the elixir. The longer it is left in the air, the lower its purity will be."
Yuan Yingying was filled with questions. She was really curious about what kind of elixir he could refine with such a pure material.
Her face was filled with excitement as she started refining it.
Refining the Fairy Expansion Pill was already a piece of cake for her and Su Yu, so they quickly started refining it.
After two hours, Yuan Yingying's face was filled with sweat. She clenched her teeth and said, "The purer the material is, the more difficult it will be to fuse it. It's twice as difficult to refine as a third-grade spirit pill."
When she was concocting a third-grade Fairy Expansion Pill, she could easily fuse the pill, but now, she couldn't do it smoothly for a long time.
Time passed slowly, and after a full hour, the pill fusion was still progressing slowly.
Two hours later, a buzzing sound could be heard from the cauldron. The medicinal pills had been successfully combined.
Yuan Yingying slumped weakly to the ground, her whole body drenched in sweat. She looked as if she was on the verge of collapse. "Sure enough, I'm still pushing myself to concoct a grade-four spirit pill. I barely succeeded. I wonder how the medicinal pill will turn out."
Su Yu opened the elixir furnace. However, at that moment, a shockwave of an explosion came from within the elixir furnace!
Not good!
Su Yu had an ominous feeling as he protected Yuan Yingying.
Amidst the Pill Qi that filled the air, one could vaguely see a dark purple pill with four bamboo leaves surrounding it. Accompanied by an explosion, it broke through the roof and shot outside in one breath!
Fortunately, the commotion here wasn't too big, so it didn't attract too much attention.
After Su Yu ascertained that Yuan Yingying was safe and sound, he rushed to the roof to clean up the broken pieces, then cleaned up the mess on the ground.
Only then did he return to the Pill Refinement Room and pretend that nothing had happened.
"Uncle Su, father didn't discover us, did he?" Yuan Yingying stuck out her tongue in alarm. "I didn't expect that a grade-four spirit pill's pressure would be so great! My cauldron's grade isn't high enough, so it exploded!"
Su Yu was speechless. "But, I saw it clearly, and the pill was successfully concocted. Let's switch to a high-grade cauldron and start concocting the Fairy Expansion Pills for us!
Yuan Yingying's big eyes flickered with excitement as she nodded.
…
The Yuan Family's Master was in his study, calmly reading alchemy books. All of a sudden, his expression changed, and he looked in the direction of Yuan Yingying's courtyard in surprise.
He saw a round pearl flying in his direction!
Feeling baffled, the Yuan Clan's Clan Head subconsciously reached out and grabbed the bead in his hand.
"A pill?" When the Yuan Family's Master opened his palm, a dense and bewitching smell of a pill assaulted his nostrils. When he got a clear look at the pill, he was startled. "A grade-four Fairy Expansion Pill!"
It was dark purple in color, and it had four bamboo leaves. If it wasn't a grade-four spirit pill, what could it be?
The Yuan Family's Master was overwhelmed with shock, as there were only three people in the whole Blue Mountain Range who could concoct grade-four spirit pills!
If this pill wasn't concocted by him, then could it have been concocted by the Elixir Production Alliance?
Wait!
The Yuan Family's Master realized that something was amiss, so he asked with a grave expression, "Is it another Fairy Expansion Pill?"
Now, a large number of grade-three Fairy Expansion Pills had caused a huge commotion in the Blue Mountain Range. It was rumored that the Poisonous Widow and the Axe Gang were fighting each other over the pills. Soon after, they were chased by other factions, and half of the Poisonous Widow's six Fairy Realm experts were killed in just half a day's time, while the Axe Gang suffered great losses.
As for the person who concocted the pills, he had yet to reveal himself. Moreover, the only person who knew about this matter was the elixir store's shopkeeper, Hu Xiaodie.
What the Yuan Family's Master didn't expect was that a grade-four Fairy Expansion Pill would fly right in front of him.
His intuition was telling him that the person who concocted the pill was in the Yuan family!
The Yuan Family's Master's expression became gloomy as he thought to himself, "Great! You borrowed my Yuan family's financial resources and secretly practiced alchemy techniques. You finally managed to become an intermediate alchemist! Can you now make grade-four spirit pills?"
The Yuan Family's Master was obviously referring to the family's ten primary alchemists. Only three of them were members of the Yuan family, while the other seven were hired with a large sum of money.
If it was a member of the Yuan family who managed to make a breakthrough, the Yuan Family's Master would surely be overjoyed.
However, why would the Yuan family's primary alchemists need to practice in secret?
If his guess wasn't wrong, they should be seven primary alchemists hired from outside, who had borrowed the Yuan family's resources to become intermediate alchemists.
Although the Yuan Family's Master was angry, he didn't dare to reprimand them. He didn't even dare to question them.
Now that they had become intermediate alchemists, they could already stand on equal footing with him. If he said something inappropriate and scared them away, then they would join the Elixir Production Alliance, which would make the Yuan family's future even more miserable.
The Yuan Family's Master could only take advantage of this opportunity to persuade them to stay.
…
Su Yu and Yuan Yingying were completely unaware of such a scene, as they continued making the grade-four Fairy Expansion Pills.
After a whole day of hard work, they finally managed to get two grade-four Fairy Expansion Pills.
As long as their internal blood energy channels recovered, they would be able to start advancing into the Fairy Realm.
"Yingying, there are only four days left before the Yuan family's competition, and it's time for you to show off your abilities. So, don't make elixirs in the next few days, and just cultivate properly." As Su Yu spoke, he took out a Cloud Galloping Horse from the Nine Jade Spiritual Pearl.
"You should properly refine this object in the next four days, as it will be quite beneficial to you."
Yuan Yingying, who came from an alchemist family, was quite knowledgeable, and she was startled by just a single look at it. "Ah! It was rumored that the Cloud Galloping Horse grew in regions with dense Spiritual Energy, and it was extremely difficult to find one. As such, it was extremely useful for helping a Three Crystals Half Fairy to advance to the Fairy Realm. If a Three Crystals Half Fairy consumed it, there was an eighty percent chance that he would advance to the Fairy Realm. Moreover, a Two Crystals Half Fairy can also advance into the Three Crystals Half Fairy Realm! "
She was so delighted that she couldn't conceal her smile. "This is my first time seeing a living Cloud Galloping Horse!"
"You should start consuming it," Su Yu said. He also took out a Pure Yang Vital Return Pill to treat her internal blood energy channels.
Time elapsed in the blink of an eye.
After four days, Yuan Yingying managed to advance into the Three Crystals Half Fairy Realm, and she even reached the peak of the Three Crystals Half Fairy Realm.
It was also on this day that the Yuan family's exam began.
This exam was held once every quarter, and it was meant to test the family's younger generation's power.
In the past, only a few core family elders had come to observe it, but this time, it was held in a grand manner.
Not only were the family's core elders invited, but several primary alchemists were also invited. Moreover, even the branch's manager was invited.
The number of participants was three times higher than usual, and it was extremely lively.
"What's going on this quarter? Why is it so intense? " The branch's manager couldn't understand the Family Master's intentions. Normally, they didn't need to come to such a quarter's exam, as they could just let the branch's children participate in it. However, the Family Master had ordered them to attend this quarter's exam.
"It's really strange. Look, even Elder Pojun has come. I remember that he was sent to keep an eye on that elixir store. Why was he called back?"
Everyone was bewildered, and even Yuan Wanbi, who prided herself on her intelligence, couldn't understand her father's intentions.
After a short while, the Yuan Family's Master arrived.
"Everyone, please calm down. This year's exam is about to begin, so I have to say a few words first." The Yuan Family's Master wore a radiant smile as he said, "My Yuan family has many geniuses among its younger generation, and I'm quite pleased with them. Thus, I prepared a pleasant surprise as a reward for this year's exam.
The crowd was startled. A pleasant surprise?
In the past, the first place would only get twenty crystals and a third-grade spirit pill. So, what would be the reward for this year's exam?
"The reward for this year's exam is a fourth-grade Fairy Expansion Pill!" The Yuan Family's Master shouted loudly. He then took out a jade bottle, which contained a dark-purple, four-patterned pill.
Upon hearing him, the crowd was startled.
A fourth-grade spirit pill was something that only the Family Master could refine. However, it was extremely taxing on him, and he would usually only be able to refine one pill after six days of seclusion.
The Family Master, who was extremely busy every day, didn't have the time to refine such a pill in a year. In fact, he could only refine three or four of them at most, and he would only use them when necessary. As for the Fairy Expansion Pill, which was used for the younger generation's breakthroughs, he didn't even consider it.
However, the Family Master had unexpectedly refined an additional one!
"Fourth-grade! Won't this pill's chances of advancing into the Fairy Realm increase by more than a single fold? "someone in the crowd exclaimed in surprise.
"It's not just a ten percent chance! A first-grade Fairy Expansion Pill has a thirty percent chance of advancing into the second-grade, a ten percent chance of advancing into the third-grade, and a fifteen percent chance of advancing into the fourth-grade! If I'm not mistaken, then this fourth-grade Fairy Expansion Pill has a sixty percent chance of advancing into the next realm! As long as one's luck isn't bad, he will be able to advance into the next realm! As for whether he will be able to survive the Heavenly Tribulation, that's another matter entirely. "
The appearance of such a pill caused many of the younger generation's pupils to contract.
Even Yuan Wanbi's face was filled with delight, and her pretty eyes flickered with delight.
A fourth-grade spirit pill was still too far away for her.
As she looked at her father, she was quite grateful. She knew that this pill must have been prepared for her, as she had always gotten the first place in every seasonal exam.
She was grateful to him, and she couldn't help but admire him. After all, she was the only middle-stage alchemist in the family who could refine fourth-grade spirit pills. She really hoped that she could reach this level.
However, among the crowd, only Su Yu and Yuan Yingying, who had a guilty conscience, looked at each other with odd expressions on their faces.
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