Chapter 497 - 496: It’s Real, It’s All Real

Chapter 497: Chapter 496: It’s Real, It’s All Real

「Three days later, in the City Lord’s Mansion.」

To perform his alchemy, Qin Ya had specifically asked Mo Bokong to find a spacious, secluded area in the City Lord’s Mansion. He then immediately began refining elixirs according to his own theories.

He started with the herbs whose medicinal potency had degraded the most. These ingredients had been left in storage for over a hundred years, and combined with their low grade, even with Qin Ya personally refining them, they only yielded Sixth-Grade Elixirs—seventy-two furnaces in total!

Each furnace yielded over a hundred elixirs.

In other words, Qin Ya had refined those herbs into more than seven thousand elixirs, and they constituted only a tiny fraction—about one percent—of the ingredients in the herb vault.

And it had only taken him two days and one night.

***

Throughout the City Lord’s Mansion, guards were making their rounds.

But in the last half-month, one particular place had become a favorite for many of the patrol squads. It was a spacious manor, nearly ten li in size, tranquil and elegant, with beautiful scenery. Recently, in particular, it had begun to periodically emit waves of a rich, fresh fragrance.

Whenever a patrol squad passed by, they couldn’t resist taking a deep breath. The sensation made every pore on their body seem to open in utter comfort. It was like back before they began their cultivation, taking a huge gulp of iced sugar water on a scorching summer day.

If it weren’t for the City Lord’s strict orders forbidding entry, they would have been unable to resist peeking inside to see what could possibly be so alluring.

And today, it was again time for the patrol squad to make its rounds there.

One of the Extraordinary Soldiers glanced at the sun and said, "Hmm, if I’m not mistaken, that mysterious, fresh fragrance should appear in about a quarter of an hour."

Another soldier, his expression stern, said, "That fragrance may be alluring, but don’t let it distract you from your patrol duties. Got it?"

"Got it."

A quarter of an hour later, ripples of Primordial Qi stirred between Heaven and Earth. The soldiers were overjoyed at the sight. "Here it comes, here it comes! The fragrance is about to appear!"

But after waiting for a long time, the expected fragrance still hadn’t appeared. Just as the men were growing confused, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi began to fluctuate violently once more. Then, from within the manor, a vast, white mist suddenly billowed out like a storm!

In an instant, it completely enveloped the soldiers outside the manor.

It was followed by an indescribable fragrance that caused the soldiers’ faces to relax into a state of bliss. Even the True Essence within their bodies felt on the verge of erupting, as if the bottlenecks in their cultivation were beginning to loosen within the mist.

"What on earth is this? Its effects are so powerful."

"Pill Fragrance! This is Pill Fragrance! Who in the world is performing alchemy in there? I’ve never heard of an Alchemist like this in the City Lord’s Mansion. They must be Eighth Grade or higher!!"

"Eighth Grade? Maybe even higher! When did a big shot like that arrive at our City Lord’s Mansion? Don’t tell me it’s an Alchemy Master the City Lord invited?"

"Hey, is my cultivation actually on the verge of a breakthrough?"

The white mist didn’t stop, but gradually spread beyond the manor: ten li, twenty li, fifty li... A large part of the City Lord’s Mansion was soon enveloped, and every Martial Artist who sensed it wore a look of astonishment.

"Pill Qi of this quality... could a Ninth-Grade Alchemist be visiting personally?"

"Impossible. I’ve never heard of a Ninth-Grade Alchemist in all of Qingkong City."

As everyone chattered amongst themselves, they looked in the direction the Pill Fragrance was spreading from. A massive Pill Cloud now hung high in the sky, emitting dense waves of Primordial Qi.

White Wolf and Black Dragon were also hovering high in the air, peculiar looks in their eyes.

Black Dragon looked at Bi Xiaoyu beside him and asked, "Bi Xiaoyu, that seems to be the place Young Master Qin requested a while ago. What’s happening over there?"

Bi Xiaoyu was also puzzled. "Half a month ago, Young Master Qin said he wanted to perform alchemy," she explained. "He took a huge amount of herbs from the vault and moved into that manor. He said he needed to focus completely on refining elixirs and didn’t require my company, so I don’t know the details either."

"Wait, alchemy?!"

Bi Xiaoyu suddenly cried out. The image of the young man’s determined expression from the other day flashed in her mind, and a look of utter disbelief crossed her face.

White Wolf and Black Dragon also realized the gravity of the situation.

"Quick! Inform the City Lord!"

A short while later, after hearing what had happened, Mo Bokong immediately dropped the painting he was halfway through and rushed to the manor with Black Dragon, White Wolf, and Bi Xiaoyu.

Inside the manor...

Qin Ya formed a spell with his hands and struck the Pill Furnace before him. Twelve elixirs instantly shot out, which he caught in a single grab and placed into a Jade Bottle.

Mo Bokong and the others, who had just entered, saw this exact scene. They couldn’t help but feel their throats go dry as they swallowed hard. It was as if countless bolts of lightning were crashing inside their minds.

As King Level experts, they could naturally tell the grade of the elixirs Qin Ya had just bottled with a single glance. They were Pseudo-Spiritual Pills.

A full twelve of them!

Perhaps the pills themselves meant little to a King, but an Alchemist capable of refining Pseudo-Spiritual Pills was an absolutely peerless treasure to the City Lord’s Mansion.

"Oh, City Lord Mo, you’re here."

Qin Ya, who had been about to start another refinement, set down the herbs in his hands. He gave Mo Bokong and the others a faint smile and said, "Have you all come to check on my progress?"

Mo Bokong nodded, his voice trembling slightly as he asked, "Young Friend Qin... those Pseudo-Spiritual Pills from just now... you refined all of them, didn’t you?"

"Of course."

Qin Ya smiled, then waved his hand. Thousands of Jade Bottles instantly streamed out of his Storage Ring, piling up in a dense mound before the group.

"These are the elixirs I’ve refined over the past few days. There are over seven thousand Sixth-Grade Elixirs, more than forty thousand Seventh-Grade Spiritual Pills, and I didn’t count the Eighth and Ninth Grade ones precisely, but there are probably over twenty thousand combined. As for the Pseudo-Spiritual Pills, I just finished the first furnace. I remember the herb vault still has plenty of ingredients left..."

Mo Bokong and the others were no longer listening to a word Qin Ya said. Their eyes were fixed on the mountain-like pile of Jade Bottles before them, their bodies trembling uncontrollably!

Mo Bokong rushed forward, grabbed a bottle of elixirs, uncapped it, and sniffed. He then grabbed another Jade Bottle and sniffed it, and then another. After repeating this a dozen times, his eyes actually started to turn red. "It’s real. It’s all real."

Black Dragon, White Wolf, and Bi Xiaoyu were also trembling uncontrollably. They could all see the profound shock in each other’s eyes. The way they looked at Qin Ya now was as if they were looking at a Divine Being!

"Young Friend Qin—no, Master Qin, you refined all of this in half a month?" Even with the proof laid out before him, Mo Bokong still found it impossible to believe!

"Indeed."

GASP! Upon receiving confirmation, they all sharply drew in a breath of cold air.

’My heavens, what kind of monster is he?’

’To refine so many elixirs in just half a month... it’s simply unheard of! Even several Pill Kings working together couldn’t achieve this!’

’And what’s more, the person before them was a young man who wasn’t even twenty years old!’

’They had thought Qin Ya’s talent in Martial Arts was already monstrous, but they never expected his skill in the Alchemy Dao to so far exceed their imagination. No, it was beyond anything they could have dared to imagine. Right now, it felt as if they were in a dream.’

"Master Qin, you... I..."

For a moment, Mo Bokong was at a complete loss for words. A thousand words could not begin to express the tempest raging in his heart.