137: C137 Grandmaster of the Pill Dao

C137 Grandmaster of the Pill Dao

After Nie Zhen finished refining the Cauldron Heaven Pill, he chose to leave the secret room. After briefing Yu Zhenzi and the others for a while, he headed towards the Duobao Sect's Shennong Palace by himself.

"Hundred Herbs Elder, disciple Nie Zhen greets you." Nie Zhen walked into the Shennong Hall and greeted the Hundred Herbs Elder.

Seeing Nie Zhen come to pay a visit, he said with a smile: "Nie Zhen right? I know you, you're the champion of the Alchemy Ceremony. I also went to watch the alchemy competition back then."

Most of the elders remembered Nie Zhen. After all, this newly advanced genius was someone who was able to concoct a supreme Earth Pill, and even many elders of the Duobao Sect had to kneel down and beg for it.

Many of the elders wanted to have a good relationship with Nie Zhen. However, Nie Zhen was only a senior disciple after all. Most of the elders would not be able to gain any face if they had to deal with him.

Nie Zhen smiled at the Hundred Herbs Elder: "Elder Hundred Herbs is too kind, this disciple only got lucky and succeeded once."

Although Nie Zhen praised him, he was not one to boast. He immediately responded modestly.

"Alright, alright... We will skip the pleasantries. You must be here to buy medicinal herbs, right? " The Hundred Herbs Elder waved his hand with a smile.

Nie Zhen cupped his hands and said: "Hundred Herbs Elder is powerful, I can guess the purpose of this trip."

The Hundred Herbs Elder laughed and scolded: "Don't put on such a high hat for me, this is a person coming to the Shen Nong Palace to either buy medicinal pills or medicinal ingredients. You probably don't want the medicinal pills of my Shen Nong Palace anymore, since you have the money to buy medicinal pills, why not just buy the medicinal ingredients yourself?"

Under normal circumstances, the price of a pill would be much higher than the medicinal ingredients used to refine it. This was because the medicinal pills required someone to put in a lot of effort to refine the medicinal ingredients.

Nie Zhen was an apothecary himself. He didn't need to buy pills at all. He could save money and also conveniently cultivate his pill refining abilities by himself, unless Nie Zhen was a lazy bum.

Nie Zhen smiled without denying anything. He did indeed come to buy medicinal ingredients.

Immediately, Nie Zhen took out a piece of paper with forty to fifty different herbs written on it. He passed it to the Hundred Herbs Elder and said: "It seems that Elder Hundred Herbs has hit on it. These are the herbs that I need. I wonder if it is possible to have them in Shennong Hall?"

Then, he raised his head towards Nie Zhen and said with a serious expression, "I say, Nie Yan, you're using the materials to make the best Earth Pill. Although I don't know what elixir it is, the price of some of these elixirs is not that low. Do you have that much money?"

Nie Zhen smiled and said, "I can give it a try, please quote a price, Hundred Herbs Elder."

What a joke, Nie Zhen didn't have any money? The left behind a mountain of spirit stones. If it wasn't because he was shocked, Nie Zhen wouldn't have used only mid-grade spirit stones.

Nie Zhen had already thought about it. If it really wasn't possible, he would give them a few mid-grade spirit stones and say that he accidentally acquired them when he was on a mission outside the mountain. Even if mid-grade spirit stones were rare, there were only a few of them after all.

Although the Storage Ring of the Alchemist Divine King had countless of medicinal ingredients, their quality was simply too high. The medicinal pellet that he was refining right now was not something that could be used to make that grade of medicinal ingredients.

Elder Hundred Herbs rolled his eyes and said to Nie Zhen, "Nie Yan, how about we start a business deal?"

Nie Zhen looked at the Hundred Herbs Elder and nodded, waiting for him to continue. Obviously, he was interested in the deal that the elder was talking about.

The Hundred Herbs Elder laughed: "I have the recipe for the best Earth Pill, but I am unable to refine my own pill. I will provide you the ingredients and you can help me refine this pill, but as for the ingredients, you will be taking them all on me. I will give you two portions, what do you say?"

Nie Zhen hesitated for a moment before turning to the Hundred Herbs Elder and said, "It is possible, but if I were to see this pill formula, wouldn't it..."

Elder Baicao smiled and waved his hand: "It's fine, since I've already shown it to you, I'll just give it to you. I won't be able to make it anyway, but you just don't need to tell that old man Sky Fire. This old man has coveted it for many years and I haven't even been willing to give it to him."

The Hundred Herbs Elder's alchemy skills were not as good as Elder Tianhuo's, but he did not want to take advantage of this old man for no reason. On the contrary, he gave the recipe to Nie Zhen as a way to promote his juniors.

"Deal!" Nie Zhen laughed, although he did not value the money for medicinal ingredients, but it was best not to expose the middle grade spirit stones in a place like Eastern Royal Great Empire, in order to avoid being coveted by people.

"Satisfying!" The Hundred Herbs Elder did not delay at all and directly passed a carefully preserved pill formula from his Storage Ring to Nie Zhen.

"Beast Emperor Pill?" Nie Zhen was shocked when he saw the recipe. There were Medicine King Scripture s with this recipe, so it was a kind of Earth Pill. As long as cultivators in the Heaven Realm consumed it, they could increase the physical explosive strength and tyranny of the person who consumed it by 50% in a short period of time.

"Hundred Herbs Elder, you just said that you want to give me two sets of medicinal ingredients, right?" Nie Zhen suddenly looked towards the Hundred Herbs Elder, who nodded.

Nie Zhen smiled at the Hundred Herbs Elder: "Since that's the case, I wonder if it's possible. I only need to give me one portion of my herbs. How about you exchange the portion that you want to give me for the herb for the Beast King Pill?"

The Hundred Herbs Elder laughed: "No problem, the value of the Beast King Pills is even lower than your herbs."2

"Deal!" Nie Zhen said happily.

It should be known that the failure rate of the top grade Earth Pellet was exceptionally high. Even the Elder Tianhuo, who was the best at concocting pills in Duobao Sect, would only succeed once or twice out of ten times, and he still needed time and effort to prepare it. That's why the reason why Nie Zhen was able to concoct the top grade Earth Pellet was so shocking in the past.

It wasn't an exaggeration to say that refining a top grade Earth Pill was ten times more difficult than a top grade Earth Pill!

However, because Nie Zhen had cultivated the Medicine King Scripture and inherited the Divine King's legacy, his horizons were no longer the same. Therefore, in his opinion, refining a supreme Earth Pill was not a big deal, but the others did not see it that way.

Immediately, Nie Zhen and the Hundred Herbs Elder entered the Divine Nong Hall's back hall. No one bothered them here, so they decided to concoct pills.

Nie Zhen didn't use the Eight Trigrams Cauldron this time. Instead, he used the Earth Stage bestowed to him by the sect: Hidden Tiger Cauldron.

Fire, refining pills!

Nie Zhen was getting more and more proficient in alchemy. He was like an old monster that had been refining pills for hundreds of years. Watching from a distance, the Hundred Herbs Elder became intoxicated.

Elder Hundred Herbs even felt that Nie Zhen's current apothecary cultivation level had actually surpassed Elder Tianhuo's.

"This child is truly a heaven-gifted genius. He can even cultivate in the alchemy arts to be this powerful. If this child specialized in alchemy, then he would probably already be a Grandmaster of alchemy …" Alchemy masters represented the ability to refine supreme Earth pills, while masters could refine top-grade Heaven Pill.

However, Elder Hundred Herbs probably did not know that Nie Zhen's current status was enough to become a Grandmaster of the Dao of alchemy, and even obtaining a higher level alchemy master was not impossible.

Nie Zhen only used two hours to finish refining the Beast King Pill. This was not Nie Zhen's strongest point, if he used Eight Trigrams Cauldron s to refine it, the time would have been shortened by at least half.

The Hundred Herbs Elder exclaimed: "You are truly a heaven warping talent! "In my opinion, you have the power of a Grandmaster in the Dao of alchemy!"

Nie Zhen heaved a sigh of relief. He wasn't particularly interested in what his title was. He was only concerned about the herbs that he wanted.

Elder Hundred Herbs gave all the promised medicinal ingredients to Nie Zhen. Honestly speaking, being able to watch Nie Zhen refine pills seemed to be much more valuable to him than a mere Beast King Pill.

After Nie Zhen received the medicinal ingredients, he hurriedly took his leave. The batch of medicinal ingredients that he needed this time was to refine the top-grade Earth Pill: the Rotten Wood Awakening Pellet.

The Plum Blossom Spring Pill was an extremely unpopular pill recorded within the Medicine King Scripture. It wasn't a high grade pill in itself, but even in the universe, the number of people who had heard of it was very few.

The biggest effect of the Sapphire Wood Awakening Pill was to open up a mortal's martial foundation, stimulate the potential of the person who consumed the pill, help them absorb the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, and then help them raise their cultivation. The effect would at least last until the person who consumed it entered the Heavenly Realm.

However, the Decayed Wood Awakening Pellet also had its own drawbacks. Although the user's cultivation had increased, their actual combat strength was practically nonexistent.

After all, these cultivation levels were forcefully raised by pills, and these pills were suitable for mortals that didn't have any cultivation, so after the pills's effects took effect, the person that took them would only be someone who had a lot of spiritual energy but didn't know how to use them.

Nie Zhen concocted this pill to give to his sister, Nie Xiaoqi. Nie Xiaoqi herself didn't know how to cultivate, and a person who wasn't in the Martial Dao would only have a lifespan of around a hundred years.

It was too late to count on Nie Xiaoqi to cultivate, not to mention Nie Xiaoqi's natural talent in the Martial Dao was not very high. Therefore, Nie Zhen wanted to help Nie Xiaoqi concoct the Verdant Wood Apocalypse Pellet, even though he did not expect Nie Xiaoqi to contribute any combat prowess or have a strong cultivation base, at the very least, he wanted to ensure that Nie Xiaoqi would not die in this lifetime.

An ordinary Earth Stage Ranker could live for five hundred years, while Expert of the Heavenly Stage could rise to two to three thousand years old. If your cultivation reached the Three Holy Stage and was connected to the Profound Truths of the Heavens and the Earth, then you could truly reach the same lifespan as the heavens.

The effect of the Sapphire Wood Awakening Pill was enough to allow Nie Xiaoqi to enter the Heavenly Realm. After that, Nie Zhen naturally had other pills prepared for Nie Xiaoqi. Nie Xiaoqi wouldn't be able to help him in a real fight, so he didn't have to worry about his lifespan anymore.

As for his other relatives, they were all cultivators. With Nie Zhen's alchemy cultivation, there was naturally a way for them to gradually raise their cultivation.

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