Chapter 95: The Outcome of the Match

  "Have you refined the True Qi Pill?" asked Dan Changlao in surprise.

  "Of course, I didn't come here to fool around!" Shen Xiang said casually, and in the blink of an eye, he had prepared several sets of materials and began to put medicinal herbs into the Yanlong Treasure Furnace.

  The old man's beautiful face, hidden behind the mask, was full of shock. At seventeen years old, he could refine a low-grade spiritual dan, this is the true genius she had ever met in her life, and also the first time she had ever heard of!

  Elder Dan remained silent, intently watching Shen Xiang refine the medicine, but what happened next made her almost vomit blood. Shen Xiang was actually refining while simultaneously dividing his spirit to tidy up the medicinal materials.

  "Have you been refining the elixir?" The old master of the elixir could sense the changes in the flames within the Inflammable Dragon Furnace, with the fire suddenly growing stronger and weaker, the changes were extremely subtle, so subtle that she almost couldn't sense them, it was clear that Shen Xiang's control over the fire was exceptionally superb.

  Shen Xiang said faintly: "Refining elixirs is too boring and time-consuming. It can only be better this way."

  "Aren't you afraid of a furnace explosion? You're so focused on one thing that it's easy to fail!" Dan Changgong snorted.

  "Haha, I'm now multi-tasking, refining the pill, organizing the medicinal materials, and chatting with you at the same time!" Shen Xiang laughed, which made Dan Chang Lao want to give him a slap. Refining pills was supposed to be a serious and tedious process, but he seemed to be doing it so effortlessly.

  Shen Xiang slowed down his pace, utilizing the Flame Dragon Furnace in such a way that as long as he was refining familiar medicinal pellets, he could multitask with ease. This wasn't just due to the Flame Dragon Furnace's abilities, but mainly because of his own innate sense of refinement.

  The materials were all with Dan Changlao, she first gave Shen Xiang ten copies, and waited for him to refine them before giving more. But Shen Xiang quickly organized everything, on the floor of this small secret room were arranged ten square boxes, inside each one were the medicinal materials for refining True Qi Pills.

  "Dan Lao, at my age, if I enter the Tai Dan Wang Yuan, what benefits will I get? For example, welfare and so on?" Shen Xiang asked, thinking that he could spend ten days with this mysterious Dan Lao, his heart also had a kind of inexplicable excitement.

  "If you can really get in, there will definitely be benefits, but that depends on me. The Ta Dan Institute is under my control." Elder Tan said with a low smile.

  "Senior Dan, or else I'll give you some Hell Spirit Mushroom and we can put our grudge behind us. How about it?" After being inexplicably hated by Senior Dan in the Taiwu Sect, Shen Xiang had not had a good day since.

  "There was no hatred between us from the start! What I did was just following my own preferences." said Dan Changlao.

  Shen Xiang sighed and said, "I'll use the Hell Spirit Mushroom to exchange for an answer. Tell me, why do you hate me? You said before that as long as I win against you, you'd tell me, but I couldn't wait until then."

  "The Hell Ganoderma is precious, but I don't care!" Dan Changlao coldly snorted.

  "What do you want me to do?" Shen Xiang was speechless, he suddenly felt that Dan Lao was like a little girl who was quarreling with him, this was simply the mentality of a young girl. He had suspected that he and Dan Lao looked too much alike, so she treated him as an enemy.

  "Admit your mistake, submit to me! If you do well enough to satisfy me, I might even take you on as my apprentice!" Dan Lao's voice was somewhat complacent, she thought that soon she would see this stubborn young man surrender at her feet.

  "Daydream! I'd rather die!" Shen Xiang didn't bother with Dan Changlao anymore, he just found it strange because Dan Changlao was obviously throwing a tantrum, this was simply the mindset of a little girl.

  After a long time, Shen Xiang opened the alchemy furnace and took out six purple elixir pills, putting them in a jade box. Then he added more medicinal materials to the Flame Dragon Furnace and continued refining the True Qi Pill.

  This move was very casual, looking like those steamed buns vendors on the side of the road, but Dan Changlao was extremely surprised because Shen Xiang had actually refined a True Qi Pill, and it was one furnace every few hours, with six pills in each furnace. Only by carefully using up all the medicinal materials could he condense out six dan (elixir) pills, which required some time and greatly consumed his mental energy!

  But Shen Xiang made it look so easy! Dan Chang Lao was silent, looking at Shen Xiang's casual expression, feeling very uncomfortable in her heart. She saw Shen Xiang refining this furnace of True Qi Pill and knew that the ultimate winner would likely be Shen Xiang.

  Shen Xiang didn't bother to respond to Dan Changlao again, even when the latter asked him a question. He just casually replied with a few words, looking like he was in a bad mood, which made Dan Changlao grit his teeth in frustration.

  One furnace for many hours, Shen Xiang worked day and night without rest, constantly refining the True Qi Pill. In one day, he could refine eleven furnaces, a speed that left Dan Lao speechless, and Shen Xiang had not failed once!

  In Shen Xiang's eyes, refining the True Qi Pill was like making a rice ball, but he only knew how to refine this True Qi Pill among the low-grade spiritual pills. Other medicinal pills required a large amount of materials, and his crystal stones were limited, so he couldn't afford to waste them.

  Ten days passed quickly, and Shen Xiang had refined a total of 100 furnaces, during which he also took a break for a period of time. In total, there were 600 grains of True Qi Dan! This speed of refining pills was absolutely the first in the entire Taiwu State. If Shen Xiang was willing to help some families refine True Qi Dan, his earnings of crystal stones would definitely be very fast!

  The match is over, Yun Xiaodao and Zhu Rong both rushed to come, they saw Shen Xiang with a relaxed face, and they also felt strange. In their opinion, Shen Xiang should not have won.

  "Medicine brother, you truly surpass my expectations! In just ten short days, you've managed to refine four hundred True Qi Pills! That's fifty more than last year. This year's number one spot is yours for the taking!" An elderly man gazed at Medicine Sea with a face full of reverence.

  Yao Hai Sheng had a triumphant look on his face, but he humbly smiled and said: "Hehe, this is all luck, besides, I have a bet with an ignorant kid, so I can only go all out!"

  "Yao Hai Sheng, you said before that as long as I win against you, you'll become my disciple. Does that still count?" Shen Xiang walked over with a smile.

  "Of course, you count, don't say you can beat me!" Yao Haisheng laughed and said: "If that's really the case, this is the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard! However, you can continuously refine for ten days, which surprised me a bit."

  At this time, everyone else said that they had refined their own true energy pills, except for Yao Haiyang, the most was more than 200 grains, and the least had 30 grains. There were not many participants, only about 30 people, and these were all relatively excellent alchemists in the Tai Dan Institute.

  Yao Hai Sheng and other alchemists were all sneering at Shen Xiang, but the next words of Dan Chang Lao made their smiles freeze.

  "Yao Hai Sheng, you lost! This kid refined six hundred True Qi Pills!" said Dan Lao, his voice laced with a hint of hatred, because this was an outcome he did not want to see.