Chapter 724 - 723: The Heaven-Defying Ancient Elixir

Chapter 724: Chapter 723: The Heaven-Defying Ancient Elixir

Master Chen’s ruthless purge had plunged the entire Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild into a state of panic. After all, no one knew why these people were being killed, and Master Chen had yet to release the list.

A far cry from his usual pleasant demeanor, the current Master Chen was using nothing but violent suppression against the members of the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild.

As for the list, throughout the entire Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild, only Lu Tao and their master knew.

The situation at the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild escalated, but Lin Yun wasn’t paying too much attention. ’If Master Chen can’t even handle something like this,’ he thought, ’then he really has no business being the head of the Eastern Domain.’

For the past few days, Lin Yun had been staying in the courtyard belonging to Lu Tao and his sister. The effects of the Ancient Elixirs had been confirmed, and Lin Yun didn’t hoard them. Everyone had already taken one.

The medicinal power of the Ancient Elixirs was heaven-defying, but taking more than one was useless, so each person could only consume one.

The Monk, the Daoist, and Little Ape’s Cultivation was already at the Limit of the Celestial Spirit Realm, so the Ancient Elixir had no effect on raising their Cultivation. However, the fact that it could improve the aptitude of the three of them was enough to make the Monk and Daoist extremely excited.

As for Lu Bingning and the other two women, as well as Li Tian, after taking the Ancient Elixir, they all started training with extreme diligence.

With the help of the Ancient Elixir, they couldn’t quite describe the feeling, but it seemed that Cultivation had indeed become much easier. Some once-solid breakthrough barriers were no longer so difficult to overcome.

Seeing Lu Bingning, the other two women, and Li Tian making progress every day made Lin Yun very happy. They hadn’t been able to enter the Cyan Dragon Palace, so their Cultivation was naturally not on par with the Monk and Daoist.

However, with the Ancient Elixir, he was sure they would catch up soon.

The entire Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild was in turmoil, but Lin Yun’s days were quite pleasant. Aside from Cultivation, he would just chat with the three women.

At dusk, Lin Yun and Little Ape sat on a stone bench in the courtyard. A pot of fine wine was before them. As he drank, Lin Yun contemplated the great battle to come.

After leaving the Cyan Dragon Palace, the Qing Zhu Association had been abnormally quiet. However, in Lin Yun’s view, this silence was the most terrifying thing of all, as it likely meant that Qing Zhu was making his final preparations.

’It would be great if I could help Master and the others break through to the Saint Realm. It seems I need to resolve the matter with the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild as soon as possible,’ Lin Yun muttered to himself. Right now, his only advantage was the Saint-Breaking Celestial Pills in his possession.

With these Saint-Breaking Celestial Pills, Lin Yun was confident that within a month, he could raise the Cultivation of Luo Feng and the others to the Earth Saint Realm. By doing so, his side would gain seven Saints out of thin air.

Seven Saints was already a formidable combat force. Moreover, Luo Feng and the others were all currently at the Limit of the Spirit Realm. With the addition of the Saint-Breaking Celestial Pills and the unique medicinal baths from the Divine Realm, breaking through within a month would not be difficult.

As he was thinking about resolving the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild’s affairs quickly, Little Ape, who was sitting next to him, was also drinking. Though only the size of a fist, Little Ape was lifting a cup of his own.

As Little Ape slowly grew up, his mind became more and more mature. His bloodline had also been gradually awakening over the past few years. Compared to when they first met, Little Ape seemed much more mature now.

"I told you to drink less. Are you trying to drink yourself drunk?" Lin Yun said with a scolding laugh, watching Little Ape gulping down wine by himself.

Hearing Lin Yun, Little Ape laughed and replied, "Big Brother, this wine tastes great. Tomorrow, I’ll go ask the Monk for another pot."

"You little rascal..." Hearing Little Ape’s words, Lin Yun gave a helpless smile. Little Ape had suddenly developed a love for drinking, and of course, it was the Monk and the Daoist who had led him down this path.

As the two were joking, Little Ape suddenly looked at Lin Yun with a serious expression and said, "Big Brother, I feel like I’m about to break through. It should be in the next few days."

"About to break through?" Lin Yun smiled faintly. ’It’s about time. I’ve already broken through to Spirit Realm Minor Achievement, so he should be breaking through soon as well.’

After this breakthrough, Little Ape would become a Tier Five Demon Beast, equivalent to a top-tier human expert in the Spirit Realm. Without realizing it, the two brothers, Lin Yun and Little Ape, had already reached the Peak of the Eastern Domain and were even beginning to influence its future.

Just as Lin Yun and Little Ape were talking, Lu Bingning and the other two women walked over. Sensing the change in their auras, Lin Yun smiled and asked, "You broke through?"

Hearing this, the three women smiled and nodded. Lu Bingning and Lan Xi had broken through to Celestial Spirit Realm Great Success, while Mo Qingliu had reached the Ninth Layer of the Primordial Ocean Realm.

’As expected of an Ancient Elixir. Its effects truly are heaven-defying.’ In just three short days, Lu Bingning and the others had each broken through a Small Realm.

Furthermore, according to the three women, after taking the Elixir, the once-unbreachable barriers they faced during their breakthroughs had been shattered with ease.

With the three women having broken through, Lin Yun figured he would give one of the Elixirs to his parents and Zhong Lin when he returned to the Flawless Palace. After all, elixirs that could improve one’s aptitude were extremely rare.

Several more days passed. It had now been five days since Master Chen began his purge. In those five days, the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild was thrown into absolute chaos, with at least a quarter of its members being executed by Master Chen.

Among this quarter were High-Tier Alchemists and Artifact Refiners, but this time, Master Chen showed no mercy. It didn’t matter what tier of Alchemist or Artifact Refiner you were; as long as you were connected to the Qing Zhu Association, you were to be executed.

Furthermore, even those not on the list were executed if they were deemed suspicious. Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty escape—this was Master Chen’s current philosophy.

The necessary executions were mostly complete. At that moment, in a secret room on the top floor of the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild, the guild’s upper echelon was meeting in secret.

Only then did Master Chen finally produce the list, passing it around for everyone to see. After they had all finished reading it, Master Chen spoke in a cold voice.

"These people were all spies planted in the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild by the Qing Zhu Association. I never imagined that our guild had so many of their members. If we hadn’t conducted this Iron Blood purge, I fear the Qing Zhu Association would have completely undermined us from within."

Hearing Master Chen’s words, the gathered leaders all nodded slightly. Many of the people on that list were core figures within the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild, privy to many of its secrets.

If these individuals had decided to make a move from within, the Pharmaceutical Instrument Master’s Guild could very well have been hollowed out.

It was only now that these leaders understood the reason for Master Chen’s Iron Blood slaughter. Once they knew why, they could all understand his actions.

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