Chapter 667 - 627: Registration, the Holy Land’s Pill Pavilion

At least, that was the case for now.

He hadn’t been targeted by a mob before even setting foot in the Sect, which was a good thing for his steady development.

The hundreds of people who came from the Cyan Yuan Sect were registered one by one. Servant Disciples made up the majority. Unlike other Servant Disciples, these were essentially people who would stay on Chiyu Peak. They had roots and someone to protect them, making them the envy of many Servant Disciples in the Merak Sacred Land.

Among the Official Disciples, most were still Outer Disciples. They might not be able to compete with the disciples of the Merak Sacred Land, but with Chiyu Peak as their backer, this was a good thing for them.

After joining the Merak Sacred Land, these people would be integrated into Chiyu Peak and become trusted individuals. Even if there were many in the Merak Sacred Land more outstanding than those from the Cyan Yuan Sect, if Liu Xuan had to choose, he would still pick the ones from his old sect.

People are biased toward those they know, and beyond that, there’s the matter of trust. Naturally, those who came from the Cyan Yuan Sect were more trustworthy.

Conversely, people chosen from within the Merak Sacred Land could be spies from other peaks, or even from factions hostile to the Merak Saintess. None of these possibilities could be ruled out.

Liu Xuan and his group hadn’t been in the Merak Sacred Land for long and lacked confidants. Those who looked promising and had potential had likely already been recruited by someone else.

Liu Xuan and the others were well aware of this, which was why they had twice brought people back from the Cyan Yuan Sect to get them through the period when they needed manpower the most.

The people Gu An had brought this time were, of course, no exception.

All things considered, this batch of people was quite lucky. As long as they could get through these years safely, they were bound to have a good harvest. One had to understand that the competition within the Merak Sacred Land was much fiercer, and there were far more prodigies to face.

Chiyu Peak offered them a great opportunity, a path that could potentially lead them to the heavens.

If Yang Chan weren’t an Advanced Pharmacist but just an ordinary Elite Disciple, this would have been a huge opportunity for him as well. After all, such chances were rare and highly sought after in the Merak Sacred Land; many people would never encounter one in their entire lives.

Liu Xuan and his group were also in their early stages and didn’t dare to take too many risks. Instead, they focused on stable development, which was why they gave these disciples such opportunities.

After all the disciples were registered, Liu Xuan led the group to Chiyu Peak. By this time, Yang Chan, Feng Anliang, and Sikong Qing had already departed. Once the registration was complete, their escort mission was considered finished. Bringing the Cyan Yuan Sect Disciples back to Chiyu Peak was Liu Xuan’s task.

Now, it was time to carry out the Merak Saintess’s arrangements.

The escort mission was a Sect mission, but bringing Yang Chan to the Pill Pavilion and helping him become a Third Level Alchemist was the task the two of them had to complete as per the Saintess’s arrangements.

The Pill Pavilion’s status seemed transcendent, but it was also a place where many factions mingled. The conflicts just weren’t as obvious, which didn’t mean they didn’t exist.

The Merak Saintess had arranged for the two of them to first secure Yang Chan’s status as a Third Level Alchemist, to prevent anyone from maliciously delaying the process—something that had happened before.

If something like that happened, it would be extremely frustrating and could even affect some of the Merak Saintess’s plans.

Feng Anliang was well aware of this, so after completing the escort mission, he immediately moved on to the task assigned by the Saintess.

"Pharmacist Yang, the Pill Pavilion is just ahead!"

Feng Anliang pointed toward the mountainside in the distance.

Even from afar, they could feel a searing heat.

It was clearly the aura of Earth Fire.

Previously, in the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s Imperial Capital White Jade City, Yang Chan had witnessed the kind of Earth Fire guided by a special Magic Array in the Pharmacist Alliance. That Earth Fire was extremely stable, reducing the chance of alchemy failure, and its effects were excellent.

The Cyan Yuan Sect had no such methods. Sometimes, Yang Chan’s refining attempts failed largely due to fluctuations in the Earth Fire, which wasted some Spiritual Materials.

This was true even as Yang Chan became more and more adept.

"The Pill Pavilion is built on top of a Fire Gathering Array. This Grand Array is a special Magic Array that gathers all the Earth Fire from Heaven-Reaching Supreme Mountain. It allows for control over the Earth Fire and is extremely stable, even a notch better than the Earth Fire you used at the Pharmacist Alliance in White Jade City, Pharmacist Yang."

Feng Anliang said with great pride.

He knew about Yang Chan’s rise to prominence. Since Yang Chan was someone the Merak Saintess was watching, and an Advanced Pharmacist at that, Feng Anliang had naturally paid close attention to him. He had used his own channels to investigate Yang Chan, so of course he knew that Yang Chan had been to the Pharmacist Alliance in White Jade City and had even participated in an alchemy conference.

In his eyes, the Pharmacist Alliance of the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty was far inferior to the Pill Pavilion of the Merak Sacred Land. They weren’t even on the same level.

The Merak Sacred Land’s Pill Pavilion had existed for far longer than the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty’s Pharmacist Alliance. Its foundation was deeper, and the same was true for its number of Top Level Pharmacists.

"Hearing you say that, Senior Brother Feng, makes me even more curious!"

Yang Chan smiled as he looked at the distant Pill Pavilion. It was a complex of buildings constructed over Earth Fire, and its scope was immense.

The Earth Fire Institute of the Cyan Yuan Sect couldn’t even be compared; it wasn’t on the same level.

If the Cyan Yuan Sect’s Earth Fire Institute was a large courtyard, then this Pill Pavilion was at least the size of a small town. The difference in area alone was a thousandfold. And that was just Yang Chan’s estimate from what he could see; if he got closer and included the parts he couldn’t see, it might be even larger.

Therefore, a look of curiosity flashed in Yang Chan’s eyes as he gazed at the Pill Pavilion.

He had heard of the Pill Pavilion back in the Cyan Yuan Sect, and now he could finally see it. This would also be the place that would provide him with countless Spirit Medicines for a long time to come, a place to increase his Daily Potential Point Collection.

Back in the Cyan Yuan Sect, when his Daily Potential Point Collection started to decline, he had set his sights on the Merak Sacred Land’s Pill Pavilion. And now, it was right before his eyes.

"It won’t disappoint you, Pharmacist Yang!"

Feng Anliang’s form of address for Yang Chan hadn’t changed, even though Yang Chan had taken the initiative to call him Senior Brother.

"In fact, you should be pleasantly surprised once you see it, Pharmacist Yang. Some things can only be found in a Holy Land. Even the Pharmacist Alliance of the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty can’t get its hands on certain rare Cultivation Resources, but in the Merak Sacred Land, they’re nothing special!"

Sikong Qing spoke up at this moment, a look of pride flashing across his face—the pride of a disciple of the Merak Sacred Land.

In his opinion, the gap between the Merak Sacred Land and the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty was enormous.

If not for the matter of the Emperor Dao National Fate, the various Imperial Dynasties would be of no consequence.

"Now that Senior Brother Sikong has said so, I’m even more curious!"

Yang Chan could feel their confidence, which only made him look forward to it more.

As the three of them conversed, they drew closer and closer to the Pill Pavilion.

As they approached, Yang Chan could smell various medicinal fragrances in the air, mixed with Pill Qi, Pill Fragrance, and, of course, a hint of something burnt.

These were all perfectly normal aromas for an alchemy area, a mix of various scents lingering and mingling together.

The mixed scent of mature Spirit Medicines was the most prominent. The burnt smell was the sign of failed alchemy, while Pill Fragrance indicated a successful refining. Pill Qi, on the other hand, was an aura that only emanated when an elixir of the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill level or higher reached Top Quality.

To be able to sense such a rich miasma of scents even outside the Pill Pavilion was the result of long years of accumulation. The presence of Pill Qi, in particular, was proof of the sheer number of alchemy masters inside, which was the only way such a dense concentration could form. There was even one aura that was exceptionally clear—not a product of accumulation, but freshly created.

In other words, just as they were arriving, someone had successfully refined a Top Quality elixir of the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill level or higher, which was why its scent stood out so clearly amidst the jumble of other aromas.

Of course, this clarity was only apparent to a Pharmacist like Yang Chan. To people like him, who were extremely sensitive to these auras, they could even discern certain details from the scents alone.

For example, they could tell what kind of elixir had been refined.

Within that recent aura, Yang Chan recognized the new Pill Qi. It was the scent of a Top Quality Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill. Having refined it many times himself, he was naturally very familiar with this particular aroma. Since it stood out so clearly among the mixed scents, Yang Chan identified it at once.

This was an elixir used to assist a Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster’s cultivation. When it reached Top Quality, its medicinal effects were excellent. After all, he took one every day, so he was intimately familiar with the elixir’s Medicinal Properties. The one that had just been successfully refined also had outstanding effects!