"Very well!"
Ye Wushuang nodded in agreement.
He indeed had more than twenty thousand taels of gold on him, but if he spent it all on a pill furnace, where would he get the money to buy medicinal herbs? Now that he had reached the fifth level of the Body Refining realm, he needed medicinal herbs to assist his cultivation, as well as to make some nourishing and foundational pills for his sister, Ye Feifei, to lay a foundation for her cultivation. This included the leg injury of his third uncle and the blood and qi deficiency his mother had suffered from years of hard work; all of these required medicinal pills.
Xia Yushan led Ye Wushuang and Xu Qiyuan to the back of the Qingyun Pavilion, where there were luxuriously built alchemy rooms.
In one of the alchemy rooms, they saw a pill furnace standing tall, over a person's height, with an ancient bronze color and carved with figures of dragons coiling around it.
Ye Wushuang looked at the pill furnace, approached it, gently touched it with his palm, and then said, "A first-class spiritual artifact!"
"That's correct!"
Xia Yushan replied directly, "If Young Master Ye is a pill refiner, you may use this first-class spiritual artifact, the Dragon Pill Furnace, for free. Moreover, what I mentioned earlier about selling the pills you refine in our Qingyun Pavilion is not a strict requirement."
"For example, if Young Master Ye uses our Qingyun Pavilion's pill furnace to make ten pills, you can sell one, or you can sell all ten; it's entirely up to you. It's not a rigid rule."
Ye Wushuang nodded in understanding.
Xu Qiyuan, standing by, also realized that the Qingyun Pavilion was using the condition of free use of the pill furnace to create a good impression on alchemists, which was indeed a smart business move.
"I wonder what kind of medicinal herbs Young Master Ye needs?"
At this moment, Ye Wushuang took out a list from his bosom and said, "I need three portions of each of these medicinal herbs. It should not be difficult to gather them."
Xia Yushan took the list and immediately smiled, "Alright, I'll have someone prepare them and bring them over shortly."
"Mm."
After Xia Yushan left the alchemy room, Ye Wushuang and Xu Qiyuan waited.
Xu Qiyuan said with a smile, "Young Master Ye, if you like it, I'll buy it and give it to you!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Wushuang glanced at Xu Qiyuan, who immediately said, "Alright, alright, I know, I won't say it again."
Ye Wushuang then said, "It seems that for your help just now, you may ask me three questions."
"Really?"
"Mm."
Immediately, Xu Qiyuan asked his questions.
On the other side, after leaving the alchemy room, Xia Yushan ran into a middle-aged man wearing a pill robe, with long hair tied up and slightly gray temples. Seeing Xia Yushan in high spirits, he smiled and asked, "Yushan, what are you up to?"
"Father!"
Upon seeing the man, Xia Yushan immediately said, "I've found a pill refiner!"
A pill refiner?
The initial level of a pill refiner is that of a mortal pill refiner, who makes mortal pills suitable for warriors at the Body Refining realm.
Once they reach the level of a spiritual pill refiner, they refine spiritual pills, which are suitable for the Condensation realm strong.
The man before them was none other than the head of the Qingyun Pavilion, Xia Lei, who was also a first-class spiritual pill refiner. He was well-known within Liuyue City, with a reputation not less than that of Mo Chuan.
"Who is it?"
"Ye Wushuang from the Ye family!"
Upon hearing the name, Xia Lei was taken aback.
"Yushan, what nonsense are you talking about? Ye Wushuang? The Ye Wushuang who has been quite famous these days? He's a pill refiner? He couldn't even enter the martial path for three years, and somehow, he has suddenly reached the fifth level of the Body Refining realm. How could he possibly be a pill refiner?"
Seeing her father's astonished look, Xia Yushan came forward, hugged her father's arm, and said with a smile, "Father, your thinking is too rigid. Which of the things Ye Wushuang has done these days is not astonishing?"
She then explained the whole encounter with Ye Wushuang and said again, "If he doesn't know how to refine pills, we won't lose anything by selling these medicinal herbs. If he can refine pills, then we have made a connection with a pill refiner!"
For a medicinal pill trading pavilion, making connections with a pill refiner is infinitely beneficial!
Especially within Liuyue City, where spiritual pill refiners are as rare as phoenix feathers and as precious as gong pearls, and every mortal pill refiner holds a high status.
Hearing this, Xia Lei also felt it made sense and nodded, "I really want to see if this young man is bluffing or if he really can refine pills!"
Before long, Xia Yushan, accompanied by several servants carrying boxes of medicinal herbs, arrived at the alchemy room.
"Young Master Ye, these are all the medicinal herbs you need, totaling seven thousand taels of silver," Xia Yushan said with a smile.
Ye Wushuang opened the brocade boxes, checked each item carefully, and then took out a stack of silver bills.
"Since that's the case, Young Master Ye, please go ahead and refine whatever pills you wish. I won't disturb you!" With that, Xia Yushan left with her entourage.
Ye Wushuang, now in front of the pill furnace, was not in a hurry.
Beside him, Xu Qiyuan sat idly, seemingly lost in thought.
He had just asked Ye Wushuang three spirit array questions that had been troubling him for a long time, and Ye Wushuang had answered each one, making Xu Qiyuan feel as if he had been struck by lightning, suddenly enlightened. At this moment, he was preoccupied with his thoughts and oblivious to everything else, quietly contemplating what he had learned.
Ye Wushuang paid no attention to Xu Qiyuan and began to get to work.
In this vast world, among the martial practitioners, there are various professions, with the three mainstream ones being pill refiners, weapon smiths, and array masters.
Martial cultivation cannot do without the aid of pills, nor can it do without the support of divine weapons to unleash strength. As for array masters, they are extremely important to various families and forces.
In addition, there are some special professions such as puppeteers, poison masters, and beast tamers, but they are quite rare.
Pill refiners need medicinal herbs, prescriptions, and pill fires to refine pills.
Medicinal herbs are naturally the various spiritual grasses, plants, and fruits that grow on this vast continent. For pill refiners, the most important things are the prescriptions and the pill fire.
A prescription is an essential formula for making pills, the result of countless attempts by pill refiners. For them, the value of a prescription far exceeds that of ten pills of the same level and type.
As for the pill fire, it is divided into many levels.
Martial practitioners cultivate qi, which enters the body and passes through the internal organs, allowing them to condense a pill fire for refining pills.
In addition to this, there are levels such as wood fire, beast fire, earth fire, heavenly fire, and divine fire.
So-called wood fire comes from the burning of wood that contains scorching heat, while beast fire comes from the cores of fire-attributed spiritual beasts. Pill refiners can integrate beast fire, using it for their own purposes, thus giving their own pill fire similar attributes.
As for earth fire, heavenly fire, and divine fire, they are a bit far-fetched for Ye Wushuang at the moment.
Ye Wushuang now approached the pill furnace, gathering spiritual energy in his palm, carefully inspecting every part of the Dragon Pill Furnace.
As a pill refiner, the handling of the pill furnace, the processing of medicinal herbs, the memorization of prescriptions, and the control of the pill fire all require 100% accuracy.
Having taken on a new body, Ye Wushuang was constantly finding his previous feelings.
At this moment, in the room next to the alchemy room, Xia Lei and his daughter Xia Yushan stood, closely observing every move Ye Wushuang made.
"Father, if we keep watching like this and Ye Wushuang finds out, it will cause trouble..."
Pill refiners, weapon smiths, and array masters all have their secrets and detest being spied on the most.
"No worries, as long as we don't speak of it, how would he know?" Xia Lei said at this time, "I'm just curious, will this Ye Wushuang really refine pills?"
As his words fell, Ye Wushuang in the alchemy room had already started to take action.
The spiritual energy in his palm moved, circling around the pill furnace, and suddenly he lifted the furnace with one hand, suspending it in mid-air.
The pill furnace weighed a thousand pounds, but it was nothing in Ye Wushuang's hands at the moment.
Then, Ye Wushuang controlled the Dragon Pill Furnace with one hand, while the other hand continuously stroked the surface of the furnace, gradually causing a faint flame to rise from the surface.
"What is he doing?" Xia Yushan asked curiously.
At this moment, Xia Lei's face was full of surprise, his expression one of being shocked.