Chapter 276

"Could he be grandstanding?"

Sun Jian raised an eyebrow. Aside from grandstanding, he really couldn't understand why Xu Yang would buy another useless pill recipe.

Shen Liang asked in confusion: "Brother Xu, why are you buying this thing?"

"Research!" Xu Yang said concisely.

Shen Liang's eyes lit up, and he blurted out: "You wouldn't be thinking of joining the Medicine King Peak in the future, would you? Let me tell you, you don't need to mess with these things. If you can really join the Medicine King Peak, there will be plenty of pill recipes."

Can it be explained like this?

Xu Yang cupped his hands on the spot and said: "Thank you for the guidance, Brother Shen."

"Shopkeeper Tao's mouth is simply amazing; there's actually someone who fell for it. No wonder everyone likes to send things to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion for auction," someone exclaimed.

Someone said disdainfully: "Amazing my ass. You don't know, this Xu Yang also bought a pill recipe at the last auction; it's definitely not because of Tao Huaijin's words."

Already bought one once?

Once these words were spoken, Shen Liang, Guo Huai, and others were dumbfounded.

"One thousand taels for the third time. Congratulations to Xu Yang for winning the Origin-Gathering Pill recipe."

No one competed with Xu Yang at all, and Tao Huaijin on the stage quickly announced that Xu Yang had won the Origin-Gathering Pill recipe.

"This kid, those Blood-Coagulating Pills couldn't really have been refined by him, could they?"

Others were watching Xu Yang make a fool of himself, but his heart was suspicious, carrying a bit of solemnity.

A Ten Elites genius who could pass the martial arts examination and enter the Profound Heaven Sect wouldn't be an idiot. Either Xu Yang was wealthy and didn't care about this thousand taels, buying the recipe as a collection.

Or he had gained something from the last pill recipe, which is why he continued to buy pill recipes this time.

These people didn't know that a mysterious pill master who refined Blood-Coagulating Pills had recently appeared in Qingyang City, but the Myriad Treasures Pavilion knew.

"If Origin-Gathering Pills appear on the market after a while, it must be him."

Origin-Gathering Pills were also not available on the Qingyang City market; everyone used Origin-Returning Pills, Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills, or Profound Origin Qi-Transforming Pills.

Tao Huaijin was startled by his own thought. Self-taught pill refining?

Even the Peak Master of the Medicine King Peak didn't have such talent; he must be overthinking it.

Perhaps Xu Yang was determined to establish a family and was collecting pill recipes in advance, or perhaps it was really as Shen Liang said, Xu Yang intended to join the Medicine King Peak in the future and was preparing for it.

The Medicine King Peak had many pill recipes, but you couldn't just learn them whenever you wanted.

"Master Xu, here is your pill recipe."

Zhou Yong handed the Origin-Gathering Pill recipe to Xu Yang with a smile, feeling a sense of shock and uncertainty in his heart.

He had thought Xu Yang was just asking casually before, but he didn't expect him to buy another pill recipe.

"Here is the money!"

While Xu Yang took the pill recipe, he also handed over the money.

He maintained his smile toward this Myriad Treasures Pavilion servant as always, but he already had some guard up in his heart.

Taking the pill recipe, he didn't ask the other party about the cost of herbs like last time, but turned and left.

His gaze quickly swept over the pill recipe, and the panel popped up in front of him:

【Origin-Gathering Pill (0/400)】

"Too much!" Xu Yang shook his head inwardly.

Under normal circumstances, he could only save sixty points per month. Only when his cultivation method reached Major Success, his cultivation base improved, or he killed some experts who were a danger to his life, would there be extra rewards.

Four hundred proficiency points meant that if he wanted to learn the Origin-Gathering Pill, it would take at least five or six months.

"I can only go and cultivate more cultivation methods."

Cultivating more methods to get point rewards was the only way he could think of, and the only feasible one.

On the pill recipe, a small portion of the herbs overlapped with the Blood-Coagulating Pill, but most of them were things he had never even heard of.

Of the three main herbs, he only knew that thirty-year-old ginseng generally had a market price of about one hundred taels. As for the other, Pure Yang Grass, ten stalks had just been auctioned, and he remembered it seemed to have sold for thirteen hundred taels, meaning one stalk was one hundred and thirty taels.

Of course, the price was not the main thing.

Being able to be brought to an auction meant that this thing was rare.

As for the last one, Tiger Bone Vine, it was his first time hearing of it.

"It will take a few months to learn, so I can collect them slowly."

Putting the pill recipe away, Xu Yang sat back in his seat with a calm expression. After waiting for a while, the auction finally ended, and everyone began to leave in an orderly manner.

Xu Yang stood up from his seat, his keen senses already capturing some malicious gazes scanning him.

Without any hesitation, he immediately opened the medicine bottle and poured out a Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill to swallow.

"Damn it!"

Several people cursed inwardly. In their hearts, the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill on Xu Yang was already theirs; what Xu Yang ate was their pill.

This move had its benefits, as some people shifted their targets to others, but some were also enraged.

"The effect of the medicine is indeed better than the Origin-Returning Pill."

He circulated his Gang Qi inwardly, and the medicinal power dissolved. Perhaps because it was his first time taking the Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill, he felt the effect was much better than the Origin-Returning Pill.

The Ten-Complete Replenishment Pill, like the Origin-Returning Pill, was a pill for consolidating the foundation and replenishing essence, qi, and spirit; it would not directly transform into Gang Qi and still needed to be refined slowly.

If it were a pill like the Profound Origin Qi-Transforming Pill that directly converted into Gang Qi, he would have swallowed all five pills at once, leaving these malicious people without even a chance to strike.

"He's been targeted; he's dead for sure," Liu Xiao chuckled.

Even with only four Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills left, in the eyes of many, Xu Yang was still a fat sheep, not to mention he had spent one thousand taels to buy a useless pill recipe.

Many people were reluctant to spend one thousand taels to buy a pill recipe themselves, but they were interested in robbing it from others.

Not to mention, if he had one thousand taels to buy a useless pill recipe, could he have no other money on him?

Liu Qian nodded: "And that Lu Ren is also in danger."

In everyone's eyes, Lu Ren was also a fat sheep, and his popularity was even worse than Xu Yang's.

"Should we be with Xu Yang?" Shen Liang transmitted his voice to Guo Huai and the others beside him.

An Ping transmitted back: "Ask him. If he is willing to share some of his Origin-Returning Pills with us, we can protect him."

Guo Huai said in a deep voice: "Don't seek your own death. Those targeting him are all at Minor Success in Gang Qi. Even if you get the pills, you won't have the life to take them. Let's go to my house first to take the pills, and then we'll return to the Profound Heaven Sect."

Once these words were spoken, Tang Xiao and An Ping's eyes lit up. Having buttered up Guo Huai for so long, there were finally some benefits.

At least after buying the pills, they wouldn't be afraid of not being able to bring them back to the Profound Heaven Sect.

After leaving the auction hall, many people left in a hurry.

Xu Yang saw Lu Ren rush into the crowd, and instantly four or five people followed him. Some were Profound Heaven Sect disciples, and some he didn't recognize.

There were also some who had won pills, and after leaving, others chased after them as well.

"Bang!"

Suddenly someone bumped into him.

"Sorry, I was in a hurry!"

This person apologized and hurried away.

Xu Yang's heart sank. The things on him were all there; this person definitely didn't bump into him by accident. He feared they had marked him to make tracking easier.

He knew that in the martial arts world, there were some special medicines that, once sprinkled on the body, were colorless and odorless and couldn't be washed off, only detectable by some animals, which were then used for tracking.

He didn't chase after this person; chasing would be falling right into their trap.

Without stopping his feet, he quickly wove into the flow of people.

After turning through several streets, regardless of whether anyone was still following, he ran directly toward the direction of the city exit.

Not even three or four kilometers from the city, sounds of fighting came from ahead. Judging by the movement, there were no fewer than five or six people fighting.

Xu Yang took a distant look and didn't pass through the battlefield, leaping into the mountain forest by the side of the road.

"Flying Swallow Skill?"

Cao Rong's eyes narrowed; he saw a shadow of his Cao family's Flying Swallow Skill. Xu Yang knows the Flying Swallow Skill?

But now was not the time to investigate. He and Gu Haoming had also pooled their money to buy a bottle of Ten-Complete Replenishment Pills, and he himself had also been targeted by others.