Chapter 64: Poison Needle

  Shen Xiang realized that the higher the grade of Dan medicine, the more he understood why there were so few powerful alchemists. Most people couldn't afford to waste spiritual medicines, and he was relatively talented, with the help of the Huo Long treasure furnace. He had already failed three times in a row when refining this mortal-grade upper-level Dan. What about others?

  "Mei Yao, sister, give me a kiss, this way I'll have the motivation. After failing repeatedly, I'm getting a bit fearful." Shen Xiang said timidly, and after finishing, he still had a silly smile on his face.

  "Hey, you little rascal, stop pretending to be innocent! Just joke around with me if you want, but don't ever say this kind of thing to my senior sister, or your face will be swollen for at least a few days."

  Shen Xiang chuckled and said: "Of course I know this, Mei Yao sister, you're not like you haven't kissed me before, kissing again won't make a difference."

  Last time Shen Xiang obtained the Flame Dragon Furnace, Su Mei Yao was overjoyed and kissed Shen Xiang's cheek, but she didn't expect that Shen Xiang would remember it forever.

  "You're so conceited, if you keep this up, I won't bother with you anymore." Su Mei Yao hummed lightly, recalling the day she kissed Shen Xiang's face. Her pretty face couldn't help but flush slightly, two intoxicating blushes appearing, making her look even more charming and captivating, leaving Shen Xiang dazed.

  "Hmph, hurry up and refine the pill!" Su Meiyao's face turned even redder, she stomped her foot, let out a delicate snort, then transformed into a white light and entered the ring.

  Shen Xiang felt a bit disheartened, but he knew that to win the heart of the beauty, he had to make himself stronger. After resting for a moment, Shen Xiang once again seriously refined his alchemy. If he failed this time, he would have to go buy medicinal materials.

  More than half a time passed, and in the secret room, Shen Xiang's evil laughter came: "Haha... I finally succeeded, it only took me half a day to learn how to refine the Great Yuan Dan, haha..."

  Su Mei Yao and Bai Youyou both rushed out of their rings after hearing that disgusting laughter.

  "Stop making that annoying laugh, or I'll knock out your teeth." Bai Youyou's icy voice came over, making Shen Xiang, who was in high spirits, immediately stop laughing and close his mouth tightly, worried that Bai Youyou would really knock out his white teeth.

  Su Mei Yao saw it and laughed so hard her flowers shook.

  The Blazing Dragon Furnace opened, revealing five pure white medicinal pellets the size of dragon eyes inside. They emitted an extremely rich spiritual energy. These were indeed the legendary elixirs worth 80,000 grand spirit coins each!

  "This kid, always so striking, I thought he would at least fail ten or more times, but every time it's just two or three failures and then success." Su Meiyao said with a pout on her enticing small mouth.

  Shen Xiang was pleased, but on the surface he said: "This is all thanks to Mei Yao's guidance, and also to Youyou..."

  "What does it have to do with me?" Bai Youyou interrupted him.

  "This... is naturally related to Youyou, because I've always thought of helping the two fairy sisters recover their powers." Shen Xiang said with a smile.

  Although Bai Youyou knew that Shen Xiang was flattering her, she felt a slight warmth in her heart because Shen Xiang had always been considering her.

  "Work harder later on, when you learn my magic, I will definitely teach you seriously." Bai Youyou said and then returned to the ring.

  "Come on, kid, hurry up and eat to cultivate your skills. Enter the ninth level of Mortal Martial Realm as soon as possible." Su Mei Yao helped him wipe his sweat and returned to the ring as well.

  Shen Xiang didn't eat, but instead rested for a while, calling out Su Mei Yao to teach him how to refine the "Hua Jing Dan" and "Pei Qi Dan". Seeing Shen Xiang's enthusiasm, Su Mei Yao patiently guided him.

  Huajing Dan can be said to be the most difficult to refine among the upper-grade elixirs, with the most expensive medicinal materials and the highest price. It can quickly enhance one's spiritual awareness, which is even more difficult to cultivate than true energy. Many powerful techniques require a certain level of spiritual awareness as a foundation!

  But it was this very difficult-to-refine Spiritual Essence Pill that Shen Xiang had only failed once to refine, and on the second attempt, he successfully refined six pills in one furnace. This made Bai Youyou and Su Meiyao's faces pale with envy, and they were even more excited. They dared to confirm that Shen Xiang would definitely become a pill-refining prodigy in the future, and would definitely stand at the pinnacle of the pill-refining path.

  The materials for the Huajing Dan are divided into four portions. After Shen Xiang's first failure, he was able to successfully refine all of them, resulting in a total of eighteen pills. At 100,000 yuan per pill, that's 1.8 million! And each portion of medicinal material only costs around 150,000 yuan. One portion can be used to refine six pills, so if they're all successful, Shen Xiang will definitely make a huge profit. Of course, he doesn't plan on getting rich in the secular world; he wants to go to the true world of martial arts and make his fortune there!

  "Relax, kid. Just don't cry out in suffering when you're refining the Spirit-grade elixir later." Su Meiyao said, she was shocked and delighted by Shen Xiang's talent for alchemy, but she also didn't want Shen Xiang to become arrogant because of this.

  Shen Xiang nodded, it was already evening now. After eating, he came to the outskirts of the city to cultivate. He wasn't just cultivating his true energy; he had always been cultivating both internally and externally, using various methods to temper his physical body. This not only made his physical body strong but also allowed him to quickly convert his true energy into spiritual power, which could be cultivated into divine consciousness.

  A month had passed, and Shen Xiang was now familiar with the three relatively useful elixirs of the mortal grade upper rank. He also attempted to refine some rare elixirs to improve his alchemy skills. Of course, in order to test himself, he tried refining them using other furnaces as well. Except for the initial failures, all subsequent attempts were successful, but ordinary furnaces required a very long time to refine elixirs.

  For example, when refining the Great Yuan Dan, the Flame Dragon Furnace only needs half a multiple of time to refine one furnace, while an ordinary dan furnace takes him almost a whole day!

  It's been a month since the Shen family has gradually stabilized their position in Wang City, and the elixir industry has expanded significantly. Although the elixirs are sold cheaply, there are more buyers, so the Shen family can make a lot of money from it.

  In the morning, Shen Xiang returned from outside the city to the new Shen family. He had just finished washing up when he saw Housekeeper Old Ma rushing in with a worried face.

  "Master, something terrible has happened!" Old Ma exclaimed hastily.

  "What's going on? Hurry up and say it." Shen Xiang asked hastily.

  "The clan leader wasn't out dealing with some matters ten days ago? He came back and was poisoned, now several elders and Meng Lao are using their true energy to suppress the toxicity, the clan leader's life is in danger!" As soon as Old Ma finished speaking, Shen Xiang turned into a shadow and left.

  Shen Xiang's face was extremely solemn, he arrived in a secret room, several elders and Meng Bo all pressed one hand on Shen Tianhu's body, pouring true energy into him, suppressing the severe poison inside his body.

  Shen Tianhu's robust physique was pitch black, his face devoid of any blood color, and a faint hint of dark energy lingered on him, making it clear that he had been poisoned.

  Shen Lu Zong was on the other side, frowning as he stared at a very fine steel needle.