"You!"
Elder Dan began to panic. Anyone who could see through his alchemist rank at a glance was either of a higher realm, or…
Impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
Elder Dan's heart throbbed. How could a sixth-grade alchemist emerge from the Southwest Region? It was impossible.
"Hmph!"
Immediately, he steadied his mind, flicked his hand, and his expression turned grim. "Since that is the case, please proceed!"
Today was the day he had publicly announced his alchemy. The moment he stepped out of the main hall, the plaza had already been set up by the disciples of the Dan Qing Pavilion.
"May I borrow an alchemy cauldron?" Sun Simiao did not get angry, extending his palm and asking softly.
"Lord Sun, Lord Sun, I still advise you, Elder Dan's name is already renowned throughout the world. His path in alchemy has long reached its peak. Lord Sun…" Ling Mu urged anxiously. Even Ling Xuan, standing beside him, frowned with a tense expression.
"It's fine!" Sun Simiao smiled and shook his head.
"What are you afraid of!"
"Isn't he just a fifth-grade alchemist? With Lord Hall Master Sun's intervention, he will surely win. The small Dan Qing Pavilion is nothing, right, Lord Li!" Xu Chu swung his Fire Cloud Saber, looking down at everyone, and then at Li Bai, who was drinking wine.
"Hmph!"
"Boasting!"
Elder Dan's face darkened. He shot a vicious glance at everyone. "Guards, bring him a cauldron, lest people say our Dan Qing Pavilion is stingy."
"Dong!"
Soon, the entire plaza fell silent. Even the deaths of the four Spirit Venerables just now had not caused a great stir.
An elder of the Dan Qing Pavilion also had an extremely unpleasant look on his face. He glanced at Elder Dan and Sun Simiao, then at the surroundings. With a wave of his hand, his voice, muffled and ancient, boomed, "Let's begin!"
As he spoke, he slightly bowed to Elder Dan.
With the words, Sun Simiao seized an alchemy cauldron and threw it directly onto his stage, his demeanor as a Venerable clearly displayed.
"Hmph, alchemists are not martial artists. What use is such a high realm?" Elder Dan glanced at him and said coldly.
"Puff puff puff!!"
Elder Dan pointed his hands forward, and a peculiar rune floated up. Flames began to surge.
Sun Simiao sat cross-legged on the stone platform, smiling as he watched Elder Dan refine the cauldron, showing no intention of making a move. His alchemist rank had already reached the peak of the sixth grade. Dealing with a mere fifth-grade alchemist was as easy as breathing.
"Hmph!"
Elder Dan glanced at the leisurely Sun Simiao and couldn't help but sneer, "Not refining alchemy at this moment, but spouting empty words!"
He grabbed a spiritual root and threw it into the alchemy cauldron.
"That's!"
Several elders of the Dan Qing Pavilion instantly stood up, their eyes fixed on Elder Dan. "Elder Dan is going to refine a sixth-grade low-grade pill!"
The Dan Qing Pavilion did possess a few sixth-grade pill recipes. These had been painstakingly collected over many years from various ancient secret realms, most of them remnants of a destroyed imperial dynasty from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Su Dan Novel Network.
The spiritual root entered the cauldron, instantly transforming into wisps of pill energy, beginning to nurture the alchemy cauldron.
"Go!"
Sun Simiao glanced at Elder Dan. He had originally intended to observe the elder's alchemy method, but as soon as Elder Dan made his move, his interest completely vanished. He flicked his finger and began to heat the alchemy cauldron. Fierce flames blazed, rapidly heating the cauldron.
He directly took out several treasure boxes containing the materials for refining the sixth-grade pill – the Myriad Venerable Pill.
The heat gradually intensified. The temperature inside the alchemy cauldron quickly reached the optimal temperature for refining pills. Sun Simiao didn't even look. He casually grabbed something, and without knowing what it was, threw it into the cauldron. The moment the spiritual root entered the cauldron, it rapidly withered, and layers of green liquid began to evaporate.
"Tch!"
"Looking at this, he's clearly an amateur. If you don't nurture the alchemy cauldron, how can you refine excellent pills? Alchemy has steps. Look at him, what is he doing?" An elder of the Dan Qing Pavilion, in the tone of scolding a disciple, looked at Sun Simiao, who was haphazardly throwing spiritual roots into the cauldron, with a sense of disappointment that he couldn't make him a talent.
Time passed quickly. Elder Dan gradually put spiritual roots into the cauldron, but Sun Simiao, who followed later, completed the first step of fusion in one go. All the spiritual roots for refining the Myriad Venerable Pill were extracted by Sun Simiao. At this moment, inside the cauldron, there was only a fist-sized mass of viscous liquid.
"Hmph, such violent energy, refined all at once. If you don't blow up the cauldron, heaven and earth will not forgive you." An alchemist stood among the crowd, his voice filled with anger.
"Hoo!"
Elder Dan exhaled deeply, wiping the sweat from his forehead. This was his first attempt at refining a sixth-grade pill. It was only after he broke through to the fifth-grade high-grade that he gained a little confidence.
Just as he proudly wanted to see Sun Simiao make a fool of himself, Sun Simiao instantly increased the heat, beginning to refine and compress the fist-sized viscous substance.
"Hmph!"
"Refining like this is truly arrogant!"
Elder Dan's anger soared. He was enraged that such precious materials were being destroyed by a trash alchemist like Sun Simiao. What a pity.
He hurriedly adjusted his state and also began the further refinement and suppression.
Not long after, within Sun Simiao's alchemy cauldron, an extremely powerful energy fluctuation could be faintly felt. This was the repulsion generated by the convergence and fusion of different energies. At such times, it was also the easiest for the cauldron to explode.
The sky gradually darkened, and time passed quickly. Apart from some laymen who had long since couldn't bear it and closed their eyes, the alchemists, despite their sore eyes, were unwilling to blink.
Slowly, the entire plaza turned dark. Two flames and the red-hot alchemy cauldrons illuminated the entire plaza.
"Boom!"
At this moment, Elder Dan's cauldron emitted wisps of dense energy that shot straight into the sky. With a loud bang, a low, thunderous sound echoed in the void above the Dan Qing Pavilion's plaza.
Instantly, the martial artists in the entire plaza widened their eyes. They glanced at Elder Dan, then looked up at the void.
They saw that the dark void, with faint blue light, suddenly began to gather thick clouds, whether white or black, pressing down layer by layer above Elder Dan, with wisps of lightning flashing.
"It's the pill thunder!"
"It's the pill thunder!"
The elders of the Dan Qing Pavilion and a group of fourth-grade alchemists exclaimed. The appearance of such an anomaly at least greatly increased the success rate.
"Not bad!"
"However, the energy is a bit scattered, easily prone to cracking and furnace explosion!" Sun Simiao opened his eyes and glanced at Elder Dan's cauldron, feeling disappointed. Then, he shook his head and closed his eyes again. His own refined sixth-grade high-grade pill, the Myriad Venerable Pill, had also reached a crucial step.
The pill that Elder Dan was refining, upon the appearance of the anomaly, caused a stir. After all, he was a titan in the world of alchemy; his出手 was indeed extraordinary.