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Book 1 Chapter 44 - Selling Pills.

Book 1 Chapter 44 - Selling Pills.

Within the study room, Long Feng is busy looking for books and his master's record regarding Pill Refining, Double Refining and Extended Experience in Extreme Pill Refining. He searched the study room for three full hours, and finally managed to found two scrolls with guidance and direct experience from his master.

Long Feng bring the two scrolls along with him to the Thousand Training Formation Cave and make his attempt on obtaining a token once again. Sometimes, Karma is always around you when you need it. Long Feng once again managed to obtain the 1st Heaven Room once again and entered the Cave as usual.

Within the cave, Long Feng planned his procedures and starts with refining a good amount of Blood Refinement Pellet first. Long Feng spends his first 5-hour refining a total of 30 portions of the ingredients and obtained a total of 80 Lower-Rank Pills and 60 Middle-Rank Pills.

Next, Long Feng opened up the scroll contains his master's personal experience in extreme pill refining. Within the scroll, guidance and the chances of failure are well written within, along with the step by step to make the trial a success. From reading the scroll, one would easily consider Elder Tang Wen to have the capability to easily refine plenty of Pills at once.

But the fact of everything is only able to be understood by the person who was the closest to him, and that's Long Feng himself. Looking at all the notes Elder Tang Wen writes within each single pages, it could easily indicate how much and how long he has been putting an effort in successfully trying to refine three, four and even five portions of ingredients at one time.

Reading through the first scroll, Long Feng finally understands the differences between Single Concoction and Double Concoction. The differences one and two is not wide, so only by fully adopting in Essence Injection, and Stabilizing the Concoction, the refining procedure will go without any mistakes. In this part, Long Feng coincidently succeed, because of his attempt to unconsciously inject part of Element Sky into the pills.

But when it came to the Triple and Quadruple Concoction, the difficulties increased by one total stage. Not only the Pill Master would require to efficiently control the Essence Injection into three to four different part, he should be able to control the procedures of extracting each single portion in different time, maintaining Element Fire in each of the portions of ingredients, and finally, the forceful mixture of the concoction together. Only a single differences between each portion of ingredients are needed to make this concoction a failure, thus the Pill Master required a huge amount of concentration to complete this task.

But for the Quintuple Concoction attempt, only one sentence etched in the middle of the space written, "Failure. Elder Tier cultivation is unable to complete this stage." Looking at this sentence, Long Feng could only guess that even his master in his Elder Tier cultivation still failed to attempt this Quintuple Concoction.

The second scroll is where all the tricks and method to increase the Refining results. It is divided into three parts, the Extracting Essence, the Refining Essence, and the Stabilizing Essence. The extracting part guides its reader to understand the method and way to increase the quantity of essence within the ingredients, the refining part increase and strengthen the essence so more pills could be formed in each attempt. Lastly, is the stabilizing part, which used to strengthen the overall effect of the medication strength, resulting a better quality pill could be produced.

"Alright, rest time is over, let us continue with the refining task." Long Feng prepare himself again to start refining the pills. First the second time, Long Feng tries to concoct three portions of ingredients at once. Applying the methods he learned from his master's scroll, Long Feng carefully follows the instructions, as well the spot where he should be paying more attentions.

"I failed once again..." Long Feng looks at the ingredients that were totally burnt within the old cauldron and felt a little sad from the wastage. But it was also the moment Long Feng remembered something again. "didn't I just exchange the 2nd Grade White Stone Pill Cauldron?" Long Feng immediately withdraw the Pill Cauldron from his pouch and make a second attempt with three more portions of the ingredients.

The refining process starts, and with the help of the White Stone Pill Cauldron, Long Feng's Element Fire usage become lesser toll towards his body. The Pill Cauldron distributes the heat evenly, giving Long Feng much easier time to control all three portions of ingredients. "Please goes well, Please, Please." Long Feng prays in his mind hoping this tries will be a successful one.

Exactly twenty minutes later, Brilliant shines came out from the Pill Cauldron, and releasing a strong medicine smell. This is also the first time Long Feng managed to refine such fragrant pills throughout his pill refining experience. "How come these pills have such a fragrant medicinal smell?" Long Feng felt weird with such happening.

Soon, he retrieves a total of 14 pills from the Cauldron, but their quality has barely reached the peak of Lower-Rank. "This is the first success on the Triple Concoction. Perhaps if I try a few more time, I could grasp the hidden tricks and method behind success." Long Feng convince himself that he could refine a better quality pills if he managed to understand the secret behind this triple concoctions.

Long Feng tries again and again, in his first hour, two success and one fail. His second hour, two failure with one success. It goes on for the next hour until Long Feng finally stopped at his 10th hour. In a total of 30 attempts, Long Feng managed to control the losses until only 11/30 attempts end up in failure, the remaining 19 attempts managed to gave Long Feng a result of 270 Lower-Rank Pills and 15 Middle-Rank Pills.

He took a rest, and cultivate a little further before he continued with another 20 hours once more. This time, it's 5/60 attempts ends up with failure. In that 55 attempts, Long Feng managed to increase his quality this time and refined a total of 400 Lower-Rank Pills, and 385 Middle-Rank Pills, and this time, he managed to obtain two Upper-Rank Pills as well.

"Master says that the challenge is to refine 10 Upper-Rank Pills, and now I already have 5Upper-Rank Blood Refinement Pellets and also 1 Upper-Rank Thunder Spirit Pill. If I can make sure that I will have 10 Upper-Rank pills for each pill, he would be very happy with my achievements!" Long Feng calculates his total of pills, and exclude the three Upper-Rank Thunder Spirit Pills because those pills are yet to be shared with Lang Ya.

Since Long Feng had only been within the Cave for about 30 hours, the outside time should be around Tuesday before sunrise. Long Feng then decided to spend more time in his pill refining and stays within for four more days, only to come out on Saturday night.

Within that four days, a total of 80 hours of the 96 hours is used on refining pills, while the remaining is used for practicing his martial arts and also his cultivation. Within this few days, Long Feng finally entered the stage of Late Heaven Refinement Tier, leaving only one stage to tackle before he becomes an adept Tier cultivator.

"I would never imagine that all the ingredients had been finished. Lucky this still gave me a total of 870 Lower-Rank Pills, 700 Middle-Rank Pills and 20 Upper-Rank Pills for the Blood Refinement Pellets and a total of 1400 Lower-Rank, 1600 Middle-Rank and 47 Upper-Rank for the Thunder Spirit Pills." Long Feng calculate his production clearly before he returns to his room.

But before that, Long Feng make a trip to the Virtue Hall, and see that his master is still not home, so Long Feng just entered the Hall to make up for some cleaning task, taking care some of his master's plants, returning the two scrolls into the study room, and locked the door before returning home.

Long Feng remembered about the refurbished piece of work as well and heads to the Tower of Knowledge first. Seeing the same elder, Long Feng politely greets the elder as he stands before him. "Elder, Xiao Feng greets elder."

"Hmm, did you meet any disturbance on the refurbishing the works?" the elder asked, but then, Long Feng took out a Bamboo Scroll and hold it in both hands, delivering it to the elder. "Respected elder, Xiao Feng finished one of the pieces, I hope Elder could look within to notice any mistakes this disciple did."

The elder took the scroll, with one swing of his hand. The scroll opened up widely with the help of his Essence energy, and in an instant, the elder already finishes going through the scroll. "Hmm... How is the remaining two piece going on?" the elder questioned.

"Dear Elder, Xiao Feng is busy with other refining tasks as well on tomorrow morning, Xiao Feng needed to go to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion for his daily weekend duty, I'm afraid it would take another week or two to complete the task." Long Feng replied the elder.

"If that how it is... Listen to this elder, stop refining from Monday, and complete the book called [Temperament Sutra]. And let this elder give you a hint of guidance in your cultivation, Your Elemental Energy is too weak, and this will become an obstacle as you get into the Adept Tier. Temper it and halt your cultivation." the elder gave Long Feng a few words before he totally gone silent.

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Long Feng repeats the same word on his minds before he finally understands the elder's intention. "Thank You elder for the advice! Xiao Feng will make sure to temper the elemental energy first!" Long Feng gave the elder a bow, and excuse himself back to the room.

"This kid's understanding and his talent are both Pills and Martial is very high, but his attitude is not too refined. I hope he would listen to my advice, and temper his Flame from Orange Flame Stage to Blue Flame Stage before he advances. And if he could temper his wood element too, he should make it from Tree Wood Stage into Oak Wood Stage, before he continues with his pill refining." the elder sigh for a moment, as he re-read the bamboo scroll once again.

While for Long Feng, he was still deciphering what is the elder's main intention to had him temper his Elemental Energy before he continued to refine the pills. "I should get some idea about it from Jing Jing when we went to the Pavilion tomorrow." Long Feng decided to share the words with Jing Jing because he felt that his wife is smarter in this kind of things.

As he reached his doorstep, two different way of message delivery came before his door. The first one is a personal bodyguard of Lang Ya, and the second one is a letter from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. Long Feng attend the bodyguard's message first.

"Greetings, Young Master Long Feng. Under the word of my Young Master Lang, there will be a meeting of brothers in the Lotus Pond Pavilion on coming Monday. Our young master wishes that you could come, to share a meal with the other brothers." the bodyguard delivers the message.

"This brother, thank you for delivering the words, could you tell Third Brother Lang Ya that this youngest brother will be there on time." Long Feng replied the bodyguard as he returns to his master's side. Long Feng then opened the Letter from Myriad Ingredient Pavilion.

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Esteem Pill Master Li,

Due to the unforeseen circumstances, we from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion do understand the requirement of having more time to concoct and refine the medicine asked personally by the third Pavilion Elder, Master Yongheng Zhiya directly. Therefore, the Pavilion would agree to personally present a total of 3000 Points to both Master Li and Lady Nan to use whenever you like.

We hope to hear some good news from Master Li, please do not hesitates to come to us for any request. We insist Master Li place a faith of ingredients to us from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion.

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"A very short, but simple and straight to the point. I guess tomorrow I would go over to deliver the products and see what could be done for the day." Long Feng praise the letter for being short and direct, and in the same time, he felt he could use the day to refurbish the [Temperament Sutra] by Elder Ao Luo once again.

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The next day, Long Feng walks with Nan Jing Ning to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion, with the intention only to deliver his promised pills, and also to see what he might consider exchanging for the free 3000 points. When Long Feng tells Nan Jing Jing about this matter, she jokingly speaks a sentence. "Seems like my husband is on the point of start supporting my meals."

Of course, by hearing such word would easily bring happiness to the contributor, where Long Feng has a slight felt of managed to be more dependable in the eyes of his wife. The duo entered to Pavilion and requested for the Elder to meet him for a small talk.

Hearing his name, Elder Yongheng Zhiya immediately appears from the upper floor above the cashier and requested the staffs to lead the two of them into his office. Within his office, two more people could be seen sitting and sipping some tea.

"Xiao Feng greets elder and everyone within the room." Long Feng politely greets the others, and wait for Elder Yongheng Zhiya to invite him to have a seat. Nan Jing Jing as well repeated what Long Feng just did. "Little Fried, don't stand there, come and take a seat with lady Nan." Elder Yongheng extends his formality, and invite the two of them for a seat.

"Brother Lian Cheng, brother Shen Cheng, this youngster is the one I am praising for his capability in refining ingredients." Elder Yongheng introduces Long Feng to the two man within the room. "Brother Yongheng, I am here just to see the Blood Refinement Pellets you have in your stash, I heard that only VIP among VIP could have the opportunity of purchasing it, and in an amount of 1000 pills, no more, no less." the first man, called Lian Cheng speaks.

"How about young master Li shows his pills since the refiner is here?" Shen Cheng, being a more sneaky adult, pass the question to Long Feng. "Yes, I would agree to see the pills directly bring out by the refiner as well." Lian Cheng added.

Looking at Long Feng, elder Yongheng Zhiya gentle speaks to Long Feng. "Little friend, how is your pill refining going on? Anything needed from this Old Man?" Instead of asking for the pills, Elder Yongheng asked for Long Feng's condition, in case he needs anything else. And on that time, Nan Jing Jing speaks.

"Husband, Let me do the honor to reveal the pills." listening to his wife's word, Long Feng pass the pouch to Nan Jing Jing, and she withdraws a total of 1000 Lower-Ranked Blood Refinement Pellets for the three to feast their eyes. As Lian Cheng and Shen Cheng saw all the pills and smell the fragrant and watery Blue Spirit Grass Extract within, they instantly come out with two words.

"Good Pill!"

The two guest speaks in the same moment, and this reaction made Elder Yongheng happily chuckle for few times, and starts with his ulterior motive to invite this two over. "Brother Lian, Brother Shen, do you still have the intention to ask for discounts anymore? Even without a discount, your Lian Sword Family would fight each other to purchase it by themselves." Elder Yongheng jokes.

"Brother Yongheng, Open a price, I will buy this sack immediately." Lian Cheng opened his mouth and speaks, giving no chances for Shen Cheng to fight for the pills. And that moment, unnoticed by Long Feng, Shen Cheng and Lian Cheng, Elder Yongheng and Nan Jing Jing actually making some hand sign to communicate with each other.

"Brother Lian Cheng, the initial price for a total of 1000 pills is 250,000 Spirit Bronze Coins, but since you are a regular, I would make it at 225,000 Spirit Bronze Coins." Elder Yongheng announces his price. "Taken! Sorry Brother Shen, Looks like I got it first." Lian Cheng put his hand together and show a gratitude hand sign.

"Brother Lian, Congratulations on getting the 1000 Blood Refinement Pellets. Seems like the Lian Sword Family will be the next upcoming top family in the Xuan Wu Jade City!" Shen Cheng praises Lian Cheng for his hunger of obtaining the pills no matter what.

"Hahaha, it is all because of the falls of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. If the Sword Sect and the Mystery Water Sect doesn't fall from the attack of the Beast Taming School, where would we, the Lian Sword Family and your Shen Fist Family have the chances to climb up the ladder of power." Lian Cheng reveals some information about the rise of his family. But this information gave Long Feng some shock.

"Senior, did you say that Xuan Wu Sword Sect already fall?" Long Feng grip his fist tight and asked the questions. But instead of answering, Lian Cheng stare at Long Feng with a sharp eye and said. "Are you with the Xuan Wu Sword Sect?"

But before he asked, Nan Jing Jing holds his hand tight and answers Lian Cheng's question. "Senior, my husband's master recently went over to the Xuan Wu Jade City for some medical expertise sharing. He was just worried about his master since he hadn't heard from him for long." Nan Jing Jing replied Lian Cheng's question.

"Hmph! Make sure you ask the question correctly, you almost make me wants to report you to the new governor of the Xuan Wu Jade City, and had you all from the Xuan Wu Arts to be caught." Lian Cheng speaks, and without any polite words, he walked out from the room after grabbing the pill pouch and throws a bag of coins to elder Yongheng.

After Lian Cheng leaves the room, the situation became silent for a short moment, before Shen Cheng opened his mouth. "Everyone, please forget about Lian Cheng. Even within the Xuan Wu Jade City, the Lian Sword Family always openly oppress the other weaker family and clans, doing all the works as long they earn some money. But we can't say that their clan is weak either." Shen Cheng says as he continues.

"This time, since the Lian Sword Family managed to obtain so many Blood Refinement Pellets, I guess sooner or later, they will get more and more daring, and tried to overlook the whole city." Shen Cheng finished his words as he prepares to leave. But then, Nan Jing Jing opened her mouth. "Senior Shen, please wait."

"Husband, what do you think about Senior Shen?" Nan Jing Jing looks at Long Feng with her pair of clear eyes. Looking at Shen Cheng, and then to Elder Yongheng, and lastly to Nan Jing Jing, and then speaks.

"I can see from senior Shen, that when Senior Lian mentions about the falls of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect and the Mystery Water Sect, senior Shen shows a very restless expression. Do senior have a special reason for this?" Long Feng question felt like a beggar received a bun on a snowy day, and cause Shen Cheng to cried out a few drops of manly tears.

"My father and mother are the assistants for the Xuan Wu Sword Sect's Sword Room Elder. My two sister belongs to the Mystery Water Sect. My closest family, all dead under the Beast Taming School. Now, except my other Shen family, I have no one else." Shen Cheng continues.

"I would say, perhaps the whole Xuan Wu Jade City's powerful family hates the Beast Taming School, but none of us have the capability to fight them, so we could only stay quiet, and stir less trouble so nobody else would get their family or sect destroyed. But this Lian Cheng, proudly speaks about this matter as if he was the only that help and lead the Beast Taming School to destroy the city's proudest sect." Shen Cheng sighs regarding Lian Cheng's matter and felt that this person and his sect should be destroyed instead, to side with the outside powerhouse.

"Senior Shen, please take a look at this." Long Feng tap Nan Jing Jing's shoulder, and she withdraw another pill pouch out from the Cultivator Treasure Pouch. As the pouch is opened to reveals all the Middle-Rank pills within, even elder Yongheng is shocked.

"This! This is a full bag of Middle-Ranked Blood Refinement Pellets!" Shen Cheng shouted. "Senior Shen, I wonder would you like to exchange for this?" Long Feng said looking straight to Shen Cheng's eyes. But Shen Cheng, although wished to obtain it, his families capability might be limited. A double amount of Bronze Spirit Coins are needed to purchase this, and even for his family, this amount is about 30% of his families total wealth.

"Pill Master's pills, this senior wished, but couldn't afford all of them. Please forgive this one for possessing such a lack of wealth." Shen Cheng refuse to purchase it. But Long Feng insist that Shen Cheng purchase it. "Senior Shen, if you don't purchase it, I will give this to you. All I want is to know, what happened to Xuan Wu Sword Sect, and what happened to a particular person named Han Feng Xian." Long Feng speaks.

"You're an acquaintance of Youngest Elder Han? And you're in Clear Jade City... Are you Xiao Feng, the one Elder Han mentions all the time when he was in town?" Shen Cheng finally noticed who was this young man in front of him.