Supernatural Insight Eyes

Someone’s doing Alchemy?

This elder immediately judged as much.

Sure enough, in the next instant, a beam of black light shot straight into the sky, and they saw a black bead hang in midair, drawing down lightning from the heavens.

As long as the pill is of high quality, it has to undergo a Heavenly Tribulation; poison pills are no exception.

When the others saw this black bead, they each came to understand that someone really was doing Alchemy.

Just who could it be?

Within the Dugu bloodline, there was no one who knew Alchemy; even if there had been, that was back when the Dugu clan was at its peak. Now, aside from a few old, weak, sick and disabled, there were only a handful of young geniuses, and none of them were known to understand Alchemy Technique.

"I know who it is, it’s Ye Qiu!"

"Ye Qiu? He knows Alchemy?" someone exclaimed in surprise.

"That’s right, it has to be him. Don’t you know Ye Qiu is also from the Pill Tower? He’s the Sixth Great Elder of the Pill Tower, you could say he’s the youngest Alchemist among the elders." The Dugu clansman who guessed Ye Qiu was currently doing Alchemy explained.

When the others heard this, some suddenly came to a realization, slapping their foreheads as they remembered this matter; another portion of people were still in the midst of being shocked.

Ye Qiu not only had a high Martial Arts talent, his Alchemy Technique was also outstanding.

This guy was just too monstrous.

When the news that Ye Qiu was doing Alchemy reached everyone in the small world, Dugu Xuanye merely smiled and said nothing more, as if he had long known.

The few elders all showed a strange look and hurried over with great interest; to be honest, quite a few of them had already forgotten about Ye Qiu’s identity as an Alchemist.

The main reason was that the deepest impression Ye Qiu left on people wasn’t in Alchemy, but in Martial Arts. This caused people to selectively pay more attention to Ye Qiu’s Martial Arts, while his Alchemy side was overlooked.

The impact of Ye Qiu doing Alchemy was felt most strongly by the Dugu bloodline’s geniuses.

People like Dugu Cheng, Dugu Yan, Dugu Qing, Dugu Yao and Ye Ye all froze when they heard this news.

Ye Qiu can even do Alchemy?

Becoming an Alchemist is no easy task; not just anyone has the talent for it.

Now these geniuses were even more depressed. So Ye Qiu’s Martial Arts reaching such heights wasn’t even with him putting all his heart into Martial Arts; part of his attention was still on Alchemy.

This was just too hurtful.

It’d be one thing if your Martial Arts surpassed us; but you just had to also understand the path of Alchemy, and your accomplishments weren’t low either—you even became an elder of the Pill Tower.

This made the few geniuses feel doubly stifled. The more they treated Ye Qiu as a rival, the more they felt the gap widening.

Ye Qiu doing Alchemy drew many people from within the small world over. Even Dugu Qing, who still harbored resentment toward Ye Qiu, came as well. In his mind, it was "know yourself and know your enemy, and you’ll never lose a hundred battles"; first he had to figure out what methods Ye Qiu had.

Of course, on the other hand, Dugu Qing also wanted to see what kind of pills Ye Qiu could refine. If he failed, Dugu Qing could seize the chance to mock Ye Qiu hard. With this mindset, Dugu Qing came.

Dugu Cheng, Dugu Yan, as well as the brothers Dugu Yao and Ye Ye also came, their eyes fixed ahead.

The Heavenly Tribulation was still constantly descending, striking the great Formation.

Thunderous booms resounded through heaven and earth.

People were astonished to discover that this Formation had the effect of blocking the Heavenly Tribulation.

"Was this Formation set up by him as well?" Someone, seeing the Heavenly Tribulation fail to break through the great Formation, showed a look of surprise.

Quite a few present shared this doubt.

"I’ve only heard that he knows Alchemy, but as for Formations, I really don’t know. Maybe it was set up by his master." someone said.

Hearing this, many people secretly let out a breath of relief. If Ye Qiu also understood Formations, that would just be too abnormal.

Even the few geniuses felt that the Formation was most likely arranged by Zhuang Miao Shan.

If not, what would they use to compete with Ye Qiu?

They couldn’t beat him in Martial Arts; his Alchemy was even more beyond comparison; if he then added Formation Dao and left them even further behind, there’d be no point competing with Ye Qiu—they might as well all wave white flags.

Dugu Qing, Dugu Cheng and the others were all thinking along these lines, little knowing that this Formation really had been set up by Ye Qiu, not Zhuang Miao Shan. If they found this out, they would definitely feel utterly powerless.

Inside the great Formation, Ye Qiu put the finished poison pills into small porcelain bottles one by one, then immediately began refining the next furnace.

Some people, seeing the Heavenly Tribulation vanish and things stay quiet for quite a while, didn’t know what was going on. Yet right then, the Heavenly Tribulation came again.

Everyone now understood: Ye Qiu was refining furnace after furnace.

"He’s still refining."

"From the Heavenly Tribulation just now, I’d say those pills were at least of upper grade."

"I feel they were of Saint-grade level."

"If those are Saint-grade pills, doesn’t that mean that in the future, we won’t be lacking pills for our cultivation?"

"If he’s willing to help you refine them, then yes."

Seeing Ye Qiu refine one batch after another, after their initial shock, people began to harbor other thoughts.

This was a Saint-grade Alchemist; leaving aside his strength, just the identity of Alchemist alone couldn’t be compared to a Saint-level Martial Artist.

Because an Alchemist of this level could rely solely on pills to stack up large numbers of experts. As long as there were enough materials, it wouldn’t be a problem to pile out several Saint-level powerhouses.

In that case, they could completely ask Ye Qiu to help refine pills.

Pills had always been a crucial resource that the Dugu clan lacked. They had long envied those Martial Artists with large stores of pills. After all, you might be on the verge of knocking your opponent down, with not much strength left yourself; yet after your opponent swallowed a pill, he instantly became like a rooster injected with stimulants, directly reversing the situation and turning defeat to victory. Tell me that wouldn’t make you depressed.

That was the importance of pills.

At this moment, there were already elders whose hearts were stirred, planning to go talk to Ye Qiu after he finished refining and see if they could ask for a furnace of pills.

If they went outside to ask other Alchemists, their identities risked being exposed; once exposed, it would be a life-and-death crisis. But Ye Qiu was different—he was a descendant of the Dugu clan and would never make a move against them.

Ye Qiu, who was doing Alchemy inside the great Formation, had no idea that quite a few elders were already planning to ask him to refine pills.

Two days later.

After finishing his pill refining, Ye Qiu stepped out of the great Formation and froze for a moment; he hadn’t expected so many people to be outside watching his Alchemy.

However, he was only dazed for an instant. Before he started refining, he had already mentally prepared for this, and things turned out just as he expected.

"Pill Master Ye, congratulations on your successful refinement."

"Could we speak in private for a moment?"

"I invited Pill Master Ye first. If you want to talk to him, you’ll have to wait your turn after me."

"I spoke up at the same time as you."

In an instant, several elders all wanted to be the first to talk to Ye Qiu, and ended up quarreling among themselves.

Seeing Ye Qiu so warmly welcomed by the elders, Dugu Qing clenched his fists, snorted, and no longer wanted to stay.

So he can do Alchemy, big deal! What’s he so smug about?

If I wanted to learn, I could refine pills too.