Novel Full Chapter 1547: 1645: Testing One's Skills
Chapter 1547: Chapter 1645: Testing One’s Skills
“Why should I be polite to him? With those sneaky eyebrows and rat eyes, I can tell he’s no good.” The girl known as Qingling glared at Fang Lin, full of hostility towards him.
Fang Lin felt a bit awkward. How come he was labeled with sneaky eyebrows and rat eyes? Wasn’t he fairly handsome? This little miss really had no eye for people, to have such bad vision at a young age, what a pity.
“Hey, get out of here now, or do you believe I’ll hit you?” the girl named Qingling pointed at Fang Lin and said.
Tang Qingling was very upset because she just encountered a completely unexpected problem during her pill refining, leading to complete failure. This made her very annoyed, so when she saw Fang Lin, a foreigner, she vented her inexplicable anger on him.
“Please, don’t take it personally, young master; Tang Junior Sister has a bad temper, I hope you can understand,” a somewhat older female disciple said to Fang Lin, full of apologies.
Fang Lin waved his hand: “No worries, indeed it was my intrusion, carelessly walking up like that.”
Speaking, Fang Lin turned around to leave.
“Next time you refine the Fanghua Pill, you might try putting in the tricolor chrysanthemums and Qianmo Flowers into the pill furnace one after the other, and also reduce the flame by thirty percent,” Fang Lin suggested as he walked away from the medicine platform.
Upon hearing this, Tang Qingling suddenly furrowed her delicate brows and quickly called out, “Wait, what did you just say?”
Fang Lin indeed stopped and turned around to say, “Just some minor advice, no need to thank me.”
“Thank me my foot! Do you even know how to refine pills? How dare you spout nonsense in front of me?” Tang Qingling was very disdainful.
Fang Lin smiled: “I wouldn’t say I’m an expert, but I know a little bit.”
“Just a little bit? Then come here and show me your pill refining. I don’t believe someone who just pops up out of nowhere knows how to do it,” Tang Qingling challenged, her eyes fixed on Fang Lin as if they were telling him she didn’t believe for a second that he knew how to refine pills.
“Is that really appropriate?” Fang Lin said, somewhat troubled.
Tang Qingling snorted with disdain, her expression even more contemptuous: “I think you just can’t refine pills at all, yet you dare to school me.”
“Junior Sister Tang, do not be disrespectful,” another female disciple interjected, seemingly thinking Tang Qingling’s words were a little too sharp, worried about offending this visitor who seemed to be of no small importance.
Fang Lin looked deeply at Tang Qingling, the corners of his mouth showing a faint smile without saying much, and slowly walked over to an unoccupied pill furnace.
“Oh? You’re really going to push through with this, huh? Just to let you know, if you break our Heavenly Fragrance Valley’s pill furnace or waste the ingredients, you’ll have to compensate for it,” Tang Qingling said with a bit of mockery.
“No problem,” Fang Lin replied with a smile, ignoring the expressions of the Heavenly Fragrance female disciples, and placed his palm directly on the pill furnace.
Boom!
Flames rose, but it wasn’t any of Fang Lin’s Soul Commanding Pill Fire, instead it was the normal flame inherent to the pill furnace.
Having ignited the flame, Fang Lin stood in front of the pill furnace without proceeding to the next step. Refining pills by the book like this was something Fang Lin hadn’t done in a long time; when he refined pills himself, it was always done in the simplest way possible, having long abandoned these basic steps.
However, since he was refining pills in front of these Heavenly Fragrance disciples, it wasn’t suitable to use some advanced pill refining methods, and Fang Lin didn’t have the slightest intention to show off.
Moments later, the pill furnace became red hot. With a wave of his hand, several types of ingredients flew over from a nearby shelf.
“Miss Tang, you better watch carefully,” Fang Lin said with a smile.
Tang Qingling still huffed, but her expression was no longer as disdainful towards Fang Lin as before.
At the very least, Fang Lin’s timing for waiting for the flame to heat up was extremely precise, forego any other methods to test the temperature of the Pill Furnace. Without the confidence of an experienced Pill Refiner, this would be impossible.
However, Tang Qingling just disliked Fang Lin, so even though Fang Lin was displaying the capabilities of a seasoned Pill Refiner at the moment, in her eyes, it was merely a fluke.
“If this guy fails to refine the Fanghua Pills, I’ll see how I can mock you,” Tang Qingling muttered to herself.
All they saw was Fang Lin methodically throwing herbs into the Pill Furnace, and during this process, the female disciples of Heavenly Fragrance Valley noticed that among the herbs used to refine Fanghua Pills, were the Tricolor Chrysanthemum and Qianmo Flower that Fang Lin had mentioned before.
According to the norms, the Tricolor Chrysanthemum should enter the Pill Furnace first and then the Qianmo Flower last, but Fang Lin, after the Tricolor Chrysanthemum, directly threw the Qianmo Flower into the Pill Furnace.
“This order is different from what’s on the Pill Formula.”
“Yes, the Tricolor Chrysanthemum should go into the furnace first, followed by the Qianmo Flower at the end.”
“With this method of Pill Refining, I’m afraid it’s unlikely to succeed.”
“It’s hard to say, just now this person mentioned that the Tricolor Chrysanthemum and the Qianmo Flower could be thrown into the Pill Furnace together.”
“Let’s continue watching; perhaps it really can be refined.”
“Unlikely, this is the Pill Chamber that our ancestors of Heavenly Fragrance Valley left behind, there can be no mistake.”
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The female disciples of Heavenly Fragrance Valley were abuzz with discussion, feeling that Fang Lin had disrupted the original order of the herbs, and it was likely difficult to refine the Fanghua Pills.
Outside the Apricot Forest Medicine Platform stood two middle-aged women; one had a lean face, though she bore quite a remarkable appearance. If she hadn’t aged, she would probably be no less beautiful than the young female disciples.
The other had an ordinary appearance, and one could even say not very good-looking, with slightly dark skin and notably large eyes.
These two were the highest-level Pill Refiners in Heavenly Fragrance Valley, and even within the whole of Xuan Country, they were absolutely among the top three.
“I do want to see if this Master Fang Lin is really as miraculous in Pill Refining as the rumors suggest,” said the dark-skinned middle-aged woman, somewhat displeased.
“Let’s just watch and see. However, Master Fang still seems to be hiding his abilities; if he were truly to refine Fanghua Pills, it could probably be done in an instant,” said the lean-faced woman with a smile.
“How about even a Master of Pill? You and I have refined Fanghua Pills countless times; there is nothing wrong with the Pill Formula,” the dark-skinned woman said, clearly unsatisfied with Fang Lin, her tone firm.
The lean-faced woman just smiled without saying anything further. She, unlike the dark-skinned woman, had a lot of respect for Fang Lin, the youngest ever Master of Pill of the Pill Alliance, and had heard of many miracles he had created in the realm of Alchemy Tao, thus she was filled with anticipation for Fang Lin’s performance.
As soon as all the herbs were put into the Pill Furnace, Fang Lin quickly covered it with the lid and then lessened the flame beneath the furnace.
“There we go, now we just wait for it to come out of the furnace,” Fang Lin said without looking at the Pill Furnace again, addressing the female disciples of Heavenly Fragrance.
“Refining Pills like this without even watching the Pill Furnace, it’d be a wonder if you could succeed!” Tang Qingling said, a bit frustrated.
ps: Here’s the second update, continuing to write. Remember to vote for your recommendations, everyone. Today is again a day with mixed feelings, as I don’t want to go to the traditional doctor, but I still have to, since I’ve already spent the money.