In the apprentice practice room of the Alchemist Guild.
"Stop for a moment."
Liu Qiong 'er spoke, attracting their attention.
These apprentices came from influential families. They were about to scold her for interrupting them, but when they saw that it was her, they shut their mouths resentfully.
However, when they saw Qin Yichen standing next to Liu Qiong 'er, doubt, envy, and jealousy flashed across their eyes.
Liu Qiong 'er was their goddess.
When they saw that he was so close to Liu Qiong 'er, they felt a little indignant.
"What is he doing here?"
"Hehe, isn't he a genius who scored full marks in three tests? Is he here to show off?"
"Who knows? Maybe this genius who scored full marks is here to strengthen his foundation."
Some words that were obviously filled with jealousy could be heard from all around, and their eyes were filled with mockery.
Alchemists had their own alchemy rooms.
This was the apprentice's room.
If Qin Yichen could really refine pills, what was he doing in the apprentice's room?
Therefore, they were even more suspicious that Qin Yichen had cheated that day.
"He wants to refine pills. You can just watch from the sidelines. How much you can learn will depend on your own luck."
Liu Qiong 'er noticed their cold gazes.
She was well aware of those rumors, and so was her grandfather, Liu Wen. However, neither of them had explained anything.
True gold fears no fire!
"He wants to refine pills?"
All of the apprentices had stunned expressions on their faces.
There was only one alchemy cauldron in the apprentice's room. The other alchemy cauldrons were brought by them.
Some of the apprentices who had brought good alchemy cauldrons hid them behind their backs as if they were afraid that Qin Yichen would use them.
"Hehe."
Qin Yichen ignored them. Under their astonished gazes, he walked toward the alchemy cauldron that was almost as tall as a person.
"Lord Special Envoy, he has entered the apprentice's room."
On the top floor, Liu Wen reported to Zhou Tianwei who was not far away after hearing the report.
"Mm."
Zhou Tianwei nodded.
Then, Liu Wen walked to the side and removed the black cloth from a pillar. An object that looked like a glass ball appeared in front of the two of them. As he poured his spiritual energy into it, the transparent glass ball emitted a faint light, and everything in the apprentice room appeared one by one.
At this moment, Qin Yichen had already arrived in front of the cauldron.
"He … wants to use the cauldron to refine pills?"
The surrounding apprentices were even more confused.
Although the material used to forge the cauldron was comparable to a human-tier cauldron, the cauldron had nine sides and was not suitable for alchemy. It was even worse than an ordinary cauldron.
"Interesting."
On the top floor, the Zhou Tianwei's interest was piqued.
He watched as Qin Yichen took out the herbs one by one. When he saw the last herb, the Tuo Luo Flower, his eyes narrowed.
He had heard about the effects of the Tuo Luo Flower from his master, Master Guye.
The Tuo Luo Flower was different from ordinary spiritual energy herbs. Although it could increase one's spiritual energy, its effects were not as good as the most common Spirit-Nourishing Flower. In a situation where the Tuo Luo Flower was extremely rare, its existence was even less noticeable.
However, Master Guye had discovered a special property of the Tuo Luo Flower … it could condense one's spiritual energy.
Therefore, every time he refined a difficult pill, Master Guye would consume a Tuo Luo Flower.
Now that Qin Yichen had taken out the Tuo Luo Flower and several kinds of elixirs that could help increase psychic power, Zhou Tianwei was a little confused.
As far as he knew, there was no pill formula that could fuse the Tuo Luo Flower.
Looking at Qin Yichen's current posture, it seemed like he wanted to use the Tuo Luo Flower as the main ingredient to refine a pill.
"What kind of pill is he trying to refine?"
The Zhou Tianwei looked at the herbs placed in front of Qin Yichen a few more times and asked Liu Wen, who was beside him.
"This … I'm not sure either."
Liu Wen shook his head.
"Could it be that he has a special formula of his own?"
The Zhou Tianwei snorted in disbelief. He felt that Liu Wen was deliberately mystifying things.
In response, Liu Wen could only smile bitterly.
He had learned from his old friend Ran Rui that Qin Yichen had a mysterious master behind him. However, if he were to tell Liu Wen now, he reckoned that the person in front of him would not believe him either.
During this period of time, Qin Yichen, who was in front of the cauldron, took out a small cauldron from his chest.
Then, under everyone's puzzled and confused gazes, he placed the small cauldron into the cauldron.
Outsiders, including Zhou Tianwei and Liu Wen, could not understand what he was doing at all.
However, the cauldron was not very precious. Even if the cauldron exploded, the damage would not be too great. Therefore, no one stopped him.
"Absorb!"
Under Qin Yichen's deliberate guidance, the medicinal properties that had settled in the cauldron converged into a small stream and flowed into the small cauldron.
As soon as the mixed medicinal properties were poured into the small cauldron, it immediately absorbed them like rain on dry land. It even began to absorb them on its own, like a bottomless pit.
The apprentices in the apprentice's room could not see or sense anything that was happening in the cauldron. Naturally, the Zhou Tianwei and Liu Wen, who were on the top floor, could not see or sense anything.
Only Liu Qiong 'er was keenly aware of some changes in the cauldron.
However, she did not know the exact situation. She thought that Qin Yichen was trying to refine pills and was afraid of being disturbed by the messy medicinal properties in the cauldron, so he was clearing them out.
Therefore, she did not say anything.
A few minutes passed just like that. The medicinal properties that had settled in the cauldron for hundreds of years were completely devoured by the small cauldron.
At this moment, the deep cracks at the bottom of the small cauldron were coated with a faint layer of light.
However, there were no signs of it being repaired.
Qin Yichen was not surprised by this. This was because although there were many medicinal properties in the cauldron, they were all messy and came from the lowest and most ordinary medicinal herbs.
It was basically impossible to repair the cauldron with these medicinal properties.
Only the essence derived from refining pills and medicinal liquids could repair the cracks on the cauldron.
However, this layer of medicinal properties was enough to support Qin Yichen in refining the Tuo Luo Pill.
Everything was ready.
Qin Yichen began to throw the medicinal herbs he had prepared into the small cauldron that was still in the cauldron.
His immature and undisciplined method immediately attracted a wave of boos from the surrounding people.
Putting aside the fact that he did not weigh the medicinal herbs properly, his method of feeding the herbs as if he was feeding a cow was worse than an ordinary apprentice.
Naturally, the Zhou Tianwei frowned when he saw this.
There was only one word that could be used to describe alchemy — rigor.
However, he did not see this word in Qin Yichen at all. There was only laziness and casualness.
Among everyone present, Liu Qiong 'er was probably the only one who did not underestimate him.
This was because during the assessment, Qin Yichen had refined the grade-three pill in the same way.
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