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Even though the discovery in the stone cave made Zhang Yueming heartbroken, but the final result still made everyone quite satisfied.

"The owner of this cave may be powerful in the Dao of array formations, but she is not qualified in the field of pill refining!" "Anyone who uses a hundred year old spiritual herb or elixir to make a normal batch of elixirs would go crazy. It's like killing a chicken with a knife, and this owner of the cave in the pill room doesn't seem to be tired at all!"

"This isn't the end. After refining the pill, one must take extremely strict measures to seal one's spirit, allowing the pill to maintain its medicinal properties for a long period of time. However, this owner of the pill house obviously doesn't have such awareness, and the pill he refined was only casually stored in a jade bottle. Otherwise, even after hundreds of years, the majority of the pills in the pill room wouldn't have all failed!"

The others didn't know much about alchemy, so they were completely unable to understand Zhang Yueming's crazed look. Fortunately, there were still some high quality elixirs left in the cave, and everyone's attention was focused on the bronze pill furnace in the middle of the cave.

Even though it was just a low-grade magic tool, it didn't mean that they didn't know the value of a pill furnace. Not to mention when Zhang Yue Ming was inspecting the pill furnace, she took out a nearly extinguished spark from it.

However, due to the lack of maintenance and the passage of time, most of the items had lost their value. Of the remaining items, there were only three that were of real value: the three Scarlet Essence Fruits in the Spirit Sealing Box, a low-grade magic tool furnace, and the pill fire seed!

The value of the Red Essence Fruit had been mentioned before. Whether it was eating it raw or refining it into a Scarlet Elf Pill, it was extremely helpful for a fourth level Martial Disciple to advance into the great circle of perfection.

Amongst all other items of the same quality, a pill furnace was one of the hardest to refine. Not only did it require an extremely high quality and variety of spiritual materials, but during the refining process, it also required the cooperation of a refiner and an alchemist. As a result, the value of a low-grade pill furnace was often comparable to that of a mid-grade weapon.

However, the most precious item was the fire. Although there was not only one method of refining pills by fire, it was undeniable that most of the pills and pill refiners in the cultivation world used the method of refining pills by fire.

The first was a fire seed condensed from the foundation of the alchemist's own spiritual energy. This kind of alchemist usually trained in fire attribute skills, and there were many alchemists who practiced other types of skills, but compared to the former, whether it was in the process of refining pills, the price paid and the potential of the alchemist was far from being enough.

The second method was to find a fire and spirit seed to cultivate it into a pill fire seed. This way, one wouldn't have to be restricted by the cultivator's own cultivation technique. However, there was still a huge difficulty; one would have to pay a huge price to cultivate a pill fire seed.

Not only that, but the crux of it was that the alchemist needed the nourishment of his Dan Qi. This required the alchemist to use the unnurtured and inexperienced Dan fire to cultivate the medicinal pills for a long period of time, along with a low percentage of success rate and a large amount of waste of spiritual herbs. Only after that would one be able to harvest a suitable Pill Fire Seed.

It could be said that the formation of a fire seed required an incredible amount of energy and a high price to pay for the forging of a pill. Naturally, it became extremely valuable.

Thus, when Zhang Yue Ming took out the almost extinguished pill fire seed from the pill furnace, almost everyone's attention was focused on this fire seed.

How should these things be divided?

Everyone was rapidly calculating in their minds.

In Yan Qingxi's and Yan Zhong's opinion, the seven of them should be split into two factions. As a cultivator of Mengyu County, Yang Junshan should be on the Heaven Shaking Sect's side.

However, in the eyes of Liu Zhifei, Zhou Baicheng and Zhang Yueming, the three of them were the true representatives of the Heaven Shaking Sect. Of course, they did their best to win Yang Junshan over to their side.

However, in Yang Junshan's opinion, the seven of them should be split into three camps, the Heaven Shaking Sect, the Tan Xi Sect and himself!

That's right, Yang Junshan thought that he was on equal footing with the other two sides because he was an array master, and right now everyone was in the middle of the array that was laid down by a array master. Without him leading the way, the other six people were nothing but headless flies in this array, and even if they were lucky enough to survive, they could only rely on their luck to survive.

In fact, there was another person that everyone ignored. Zhang Sun Xing's eyeballs were also rolling, and he had no idea what was going on in his mind. Everyone took him for a follower of the Tan Xi Sect, and nobody would take a second level Martial Disciple cultivator to heart, but who knew what he was thinking?

They looked at the objects on the ground, none of them were the first to speak. Yang Junshan glanced outside the cave, "Hehe, those three are probably crossing the river by this time. If we don't take out a charter, then we won't be the only ones to divide these items!"

Yan Qingxi blinked her eyes, but she still said to Yang Junshan, "Brother Yang's contributions are obvious. Without him, neither our Tan Xi nor Brother Liu's Heaven Shaking Sect would have been able to travel in the Five Elements Formation for so long. I think Brother Yang would have picked the first item!"

While this girl sold herself to Yang Junshan, she tried to split the relationship between him and the Heaven Shaking Sect. However, she didn't know how many praises Yang Junshan had already given to her in his heart. Someone immediately sent her a pillow.

He also needed to tie Yang Junshan to his own side, so he smiled and said, "I'm afraid the lady has made a mistake. Little Yang is a cultivator of our Yu County, if we don't wait, we naturally will not mistreat Little Yang, and in the future, we will definitely report this to the sect. At that time, there will be a reward from the sect too!"

"Since we will not mistreat Fellow Yang, why not let Fellow Yang choose one of these items? Could it be that the rewards of the Heaven Shaking Sect are inferior to the items on the ground?"

Liu Zhifei and the others were secretly underestimating him. Naturally, they would not say such words out loud.

Liu Zhifei thought for a while, then turned to Yang Junshan and said decisively, "How about you choose one of your own, Little Yang?"

Yang Junshan ignored Liu Zhifei's hesitant tone, and said happily, "Sure!"

Yang Junshan stepped forward. Amongst all these items, the fire seed was naturally the most precious, but that thing was something for the apothecaries to play with. Furthermore, there was no furnace, so what was the use of a single fire?

Apothecaries were an essential factor in the clan's rise to power. Although the Yang family did not have an alchemist right now, that did not mean that Yang Junshan would make preparations in advance. Compared to a pill furnace, a pill furnace was much more important, after all, the Yang family would definitely have an alchemist in the future, and without a pill furnace, they could still use other methods to deal with it.1

"I want it!" Yang Junshan pointed at the two feet tall cauldron and said.

No matter if it was the Heaven Shaking Sect or the Tan Xi Sect, they all relaxed when they saw what Yang Junshan had chosen.

Although pill furnaces were precious, even for a powerful country like the Tan Xi Sect with thousands of years of history, how could there not be a few within the sect? Whether it was Yan Qingxi or Yan Zhong, neither of them had set their sights on the bronze pill furnace from the very beginning.

If the Tan Xi Sect was like this, then what about the Heaven Shaking Sect? As the number one sect in the Jade Plains, the Heaven Shaking Sect had a much greater foundation than the Tan Xi Sect. As a pill refiner, Zhang Yueming was nurtured by the Heaven Shaking Sect to the fullest extent that he had no lack of fire or pill furnaces.

Thus, in Zhang Yueming's eyes, it was not only the pill furnace, but even the pill fire seed. What he truly wanted was the three Scarlet Essence Fruits within the Spirit Sealing Box.

With his alchemy skills, he knew that one Red Essence Fruit would be paired with several other spiritual herbs. He could concoct one Red Elf Pill, and three would be three, which would increase the success rate of three cultivators who had reached the fourth level of the Martial Disciple realm and reached the great circle of perfection.

More importantly, once the Red Elf Pill was successfully refined, it would signify that he could start attacking the higher quality treasured pellets!

However, the crafty Yan Qingxi seemed to have noticed something. After Yang Junshan picked the copper furnace, she decisively said, "Our Tan Xi Sect wants the three Scarlet Essence Fruits!"

"What?! Impossible!" Zhang Yue Ming immediately jumped up like a cat that had its tail stepped on. These three Scarlet Essence Fruits were related to his alchemy improvement, how could he let them go?

Yan Qingxi said innocently, "Is there a mistake? That's the pill fire! How can a Scarlet Fruit be compared to that? If I give you the best, you will not appreciate my kindness?"

Both Liu Zhifei and Zhou Beseng were equally confused. They couldn't understand why Zhang Yueming would abandon the fire seed and compete for the three Red Essence Fruits. Although refining the pills would help a cultivator to break through the bottleneck and advance to the Great Perfection Stage, would the Heaven Shaking Sect lack three Great Perfection Stage cultivators? What they needed was a heavenly resource that could raise the foundations of their sect for a long time, just like the flame from the pill furnace.

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