Novel Full Chapter 1595: 1692: Fang Lin's Reputation
Chapter 1595: Chapter 1692: Fang Lin’s Reputation
With Fang Lin’s knowledge and expertise in Alchemy Tao, it can be said without exaggeration that there is nothing in Alchemy Tao that Fang Lin doesn’t know.
Yet, the person with Innate Soulfire genuinely surprised and was unfamiliar to Fang Lin, as even he had never encountered such a person before.
There are two types of Soul Commanding Pill Fire. One is the beast fire produced within a Demon Beast, which becomes the Soul Commanding Pill Fire of a Pill Refiner after refining.
The other type is naturally occurring fire, which is collected by Pill Refiners and then refined.
Essentially, Soul Commanding Pill Fire comes from these two sources, and though there may be other methods and paths, the Alchemy Tao World has historically been dominated by these two.
Each of these methods has its pros and cons, and it is difficult to say which one is better or worse.
But Fang Lin had never seen anyone born with Soul Commanding Pill Fire, not even in the Pill Saint Palace in his previous life, which gathered the most talented individuals in Alchemy Tao from all around the world.
In Fang Lin’s view, it was impossible for anyone born with Innate Soulfire to exist in this world.
Humans are formed by both the physical body and soul, and both are extremely pure at the birth of an infant. If an infant were born with Soul Fire inside their body, wouldn’t that burn them to death immediately?
“If there truly is a person born with Innate Soulfire, then it is indeed worth a good look, and this trip wouldn’t be in vain,” Fang Lin said with a chuckle.
“Master Fang, what exactly is this Innate Soulfire?” Cheng Jinhai carefully asked.
Fang Lin smiled slightly, “I don’t know either.”
A look of surprise appeared on Cheng Jinhai’s face: “Even you don’t know, Master Fang?”
Fang Lin glanced at him sideways, and Cheng immediately dared not speak further.
“The competition is tomorrow, and then we will be able to see,” Fang Lin said with a smile.
Honestly, Fang Lin was also curious about this so-called person born with Soul Fire; he wanted to see what Innate Soulfire really was. Could it really be an unprecedented, peerless talent?
Logic told Fang Lin that it was an absolute impossibility, but considering the myriad things nature creates, perhaps a miracle had indeed occurred.
After a while, the Tang Emperor continued speaking: “The representative for the Pill Alliance families in the combat—Gongsun Xuan.”
Being the third representative from the Pill Alliance families to fight, Gongsun Xuan from the Gongsun Family, a talent among them, securing one of the five slots, surprised few.
This was something many had guessed beforehand; nowadays, there are only so many talents among the Pill Alliance families, and it’s not hard to guess for those familiar with them.
The Gongsun Family is also a very powerful family within the Pill Alliance families, ranked within the top five. If there wasn’t the Long Family, the Gongsun Family might even be considered the strongest Pill Alliance family.
However, unfortunately, the Long Family is truly the most powerful Pill Alliance family, standing unvanquished for thousands of years, leaving no chance for any other Pill Alliance family to surpass them.
Although the Gongsun Family has been earnestly cultivating their younger generation in recent years, perhaps the innate qualities of this generation of young people in the Pill Alliance families aren’t up to mark, so after all their efforts, only Gongsun Xuan stands out distinctly.
Of course, being able to cultivate a Pill Alliance talent that can hold their own is already quite fortunate, fearing only that all the effort may end up nurturing nothing but incompetence, which would indeed be embarrassing.
Like the Ling Family, who were considered to be in their prime seven years ago, with each of the older generation members being heroic figures, and the middle-aged and young generations able to support the family’s name.
Ironically, the younger generation is indeed too mediocre, with only Ling Zhongri being a little promising, yet, due to his exaggerated claims, he incurred divine punishment and eventually became mediocre as well.
Today’s Ling Family has fallen from being second only to the Long Family, to now being ranked behind the Gongsun Family and two or three other prominent families.
Gongsun Xuan is uniquely talented, having studied Alchemy Tao for thirty years; he is now in his early forties, with a very solid foundation in alchemy and has long achieved the status of a Five Cauldrons Pill Refiner.
Compared to Wu Qiong who is a suddenly emerged talent, the reputation that Gongsun Xuan has built step by step is more reassuring to people.
At this moment, in the Alchemy Tao houses and the Pill Alliance, there are only two spots left to be announced, and among the six participants already announced, aside from Su Xiaotong, whose fame is virtually unknown, the others are quite renowned, especially Xu Yanbing with his Innate Soulfire, which makes many people look forward to his performance the day after tomorrow.
“Ah, if only the Pill Alliance still had Master Fang Fang Lin, there probably wouldn’t be any suspense in this competition.”
Somehow, someone made such a comment, and it immediately got a lot of agreement and sighs from the crowd.
“If Master Fang were still with the Pill Alliance, what business would these people from the Alchemy Tao families have?”
“Exactly, with Master Fang’s strength, he could probably take down all five opponents from the Alchemy Tao families.”
“It is said that Long Zhixin from the Long Family has received guidance from Master Fang.”
“Hey, that means that Long Zhixin should address Master Fang as ‘Master’ in front of him.”
“Back when he fought against the Taoist Sect Pill Pulsar, it was Master Fang who turned the tide and prevented the Pill Alliance from losing face completely.”
“Unfortunately, Master Fang is no longer with the Pill Alliance, so we won’t be able to see Master Fang’s elegance in this competition.”
“If Master Fang were here, it would definitely be much more exciting.”
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More and more people started discussing Fang Lin, and many of them felt great regret that Fang Lin could not appear in this competition.
Being there in person, Fang Lin was somewhat surprised and also couldn’t help but feel amused, seeing that he has attracted so many admirers in the Nine Countries.
Cheng Jinhai beside him was looking at Fang Lin with an extremely reverent gaze, filled with a sense of pride.
Jokingly, you are all unaware that Master Fang is right here; only I, Old Cheng, know. That’s the difference between people.
“Ladies and gentlemen, please calm down. Master Fang Fang Lin has also received an invitation and is already in the Tang Capital. When the competition officially starts the day after tomorrow, Master Fang will also attend and watch.” Tang Emperor announced loudly.
Upon hearing that Fang Lin would also attend to watch, everyone below became excited; even though Fang Lin wouldn’t participate in the competition, just showing up was quite a rare occurrence.
After all, it had been seven or eight years since Fang Lin last appeared at such a grand occasion.
Fang Lin shook his head slightly below, originally planning to keep a low profile and secretly watch the competition; it seems now that making an appearance is unavoidable.
“The Emperor continues to announce, representing the Pill Alliance in the battle—Ye Mengxian!” Tang Emperor said.
ps: Here’s the second update, continuing to write