Chapter 165: A Slight Modification to the Pill Formula

"Open your eyes wide and look carefully. This is a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill, a Five-Grade Elixir."

At this moment, Fa Ma suddenly thought of something and abruptly raised his head to look at the sky. Because the smoke itself carried a tinge of white, everyone subconsciously assumed that Xiao Yan's was a Three-Colored Medicinal Mist.

But when Fa Ma looked carefully, he realized that the white was not white smoke at all—it was also a color! This was a Four-Colored Pill Cloud. Xiao Yan had used four kinds of flames!!!

In the VIP seats, Hai Bodong's gaze hardened as he recalled how extremely careful Xiao Yan had been when he first began Spirit Refining.

"This brat—no wonder he was being so careful. From the very start, he was planning to refine a Five-Grade Elixir!"

Although Hai Bodong had not known Xiao Yan for very long, he also knew that this fellow appeared humble and honest on the surface, but was actually arrogant and confident within. Xiao Yan, who was already just a little short of a Fifth-Rank Alchemist, how could he possibly be so cautious when refining a Fourth-Rank Pill!

So Xiao Yan was refining a Five-Grade Elixir!

Yao Ye's gaze hardened slightly, and she said with a solemn expression: "To still think of breaking through oneself in this kind of environment—this truly is a monster."

Ya Fei covered her mouth with both hands, her eyes so excited that they even welled up with a trace of tears, as if she were happier than Xiao Yan about refining a Five-Grade Elixir.

Nalan Yanran clenched her fists tightly. She finally understood why Xiao Yan could be so powerful. Constantly breaking through himself, ceaselessly battling himself—only then could one grow stronger without stop!

Xiao Yan glanced at Yan Li, whose legs had gone weak and who sat on the ground trembling all over, and smiled: "What rank this Elixir is, I think everyone here is already very clear about. There's no need to discuss it further, is there? As for saying it wasn't refined by me, that's even more absurd. The Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill is a Pill I improved based on the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill. There are only two such pills in the entire world!"

Hearing Xiao Yan's words, no one had any more doubts, because there was simply no reason to doubt.

Xiao Yan explained: "The Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill, like the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, both have the effect of raising the strength of an Essence Refining practitioner, and like the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, it can raise one's strength by three stars—except this one raises three stars with one hundred percent certainty and absolutely no side effects."

Hiss hiss hiss!!! Hearing Xiao Yan's words, everyone drew in a sharp breath of cold air.

Without any gambling or cost, one could directly raise three stars in one go! A single Elixir saves several years of Cultivation time!!

"Moreover."

"There's more!!!"

Xiao Yan looked at the exclaiming Xiao Princess Yue and smiled: "If it only raised three stars without side effects, it wouldn't be worthy of the name Five-Grade."

With a gulp, Xiao Princess Yue finally remembered—this wasn't just a matter of raising one pattern. This had reached the level of a Five-Grade Elixir!

"If an Eight-Star Essence Refining uses it, there are side effects, and it can only raise two stars." Xiao Yan smiled and held up two fingers.

For a moment, everyone was stunned. How did it become two stars? But very quickly, the eyes of those whose minds worked faster widened.

"Wait! Eight-Star Essence Refining plus two stars! Spirit Refining?!!!"

"If an Eight-Star Essence Refining takes it, they can break through directly to Spirit Refining!!!"

Even Fa Ma suddenly widened his eyes as he stared at the wooden box. Raising strength and breaking through a realm!!!

Don't look at how raising three stars of strength becoming two stars seems like a loss—Pills that can help one break through are extremely precious!

One must know that the Spirit Ascension Pill, which can help a Nine-Star Essence Refining break through to Spirit Refining with one hundred percent certainty, is a Five-Grade Elixir! Although it's only on the lower end of Five-Grade, it's still Five-Grade!

Calculated this way, the Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill is at least a lower-peak Five-Grade, or even a mid-Five-Grade Elixir!

Xiao Yan smiled faintly. In truth, being able to help break through to Spirit Refining was not the inherent effect of the Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill itself, but the power of the Strange Fire.

An ordinary Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill doesn't have this effect, but if all four flames used in its refinement are Strange Fires, then the Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill will gain this additional effect of being able to help break through.

Fa Ma stared at Xiao Yan in astonishment, at a loss for words for a moment, before finally squeezing a few words out from between his teeth: "You modified the Pill Formula in just one night?"

Fa Ma knew very well that Xiao Yan had only obtained the Pill Formula for the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill last night.

In one night, Xiao Yan had modified the Pill Formula of the Fourth-Rank Peak Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill into a Five-Grade Pill Formula!!

To Fa Ma, this was even more shocking than Xiao Yan refining a Five-Grade Elixir at eighteen!

An ordinary person in one night would probably only just barely manage to understand it!

Xiao Yan merely smiled lightly. He didn't tell Fa Ma that he was far too familiar with the Alchemy Technique within the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.

Xiao Yan didn't know what relationship the mysterious elder Fa Ma spoke of had with the owner of the ring, or whether that elder was the owner of the ring himself. But Xiao Yan knew that the Alchemy Technique Fa Ma had used on the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and the Alchemy Technique Xiao Yan had learned within the ring shared the same origin.

However, Fa Ma's was only a minor branch, a very scattered bit of knowledge, while Xiao Yan had learned the entirety and possessed the complete inheritance.

So last night, Xiao Yan had modified the Alchemy Technique of the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill. It wasn't as simple as merely changing the flame switching to using all flames together—he had even altered the Medicinal Materials slightly, adding two kinds of Fifth-Rank Medicinal Material.

This was also the reason the base color of the Elixir had turned white, and the reason Xiao Yan had been so cautious and careful in extracting the Medicinal Materials.

The Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill's Medicinal Materials did indeed come in three portions, but Xiao Yan only had one portion of the two newly added Fifth-Rank Medicinal Materials.

If he failed, it was over.

Xiao Yan was just that greedy a person. He had originally been just a little short of reaching Five-Grade. As long as he could successfully refine a Five-Grade Elixir once, he would have an epiphany, and reaching Five-Grade would naturally follow.

And the modified Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill could be said to be especially suitable for Xiao Yan to refine—it was the most suitable among all the Five-Grade Pill Formulas in the ring. So Xiao Yan simply gambled big, and in the final of the Alchemist Convention, he crushed Yan Li with an invincible stance.

Securing an indisputable, undeniable victory.

No matter how many excuses Yan Li made, before the four words "Five-Grade Elixir," they were all so pale. Yan Li couldn't even come up with an excuse anymore.

Plopping down on the ground, Yan Li's whole body went limp, his gaze vacant. He already understood his fate.

Fa Ma and several other high-ranking members of the Alchemist Guild exchanged glances, each seeing a blazing light in the other's eyes!

Surpassing Gu He? Right now, with the strength and talent Xiao Yan had displayed, he was already above Gu He!

Gu He was indeed a Sixth-Rank Alchemist, but Xiao Yan's Fire Control Power and Soul Force were already no weaker than Sixth-Rank. What Xiao Yan lacked for Sixth-Rank was only experience—in other words, time.

Moreover, Xiao Yan possessed many things that even Gu He could not have.

Strange Fire, creativity, and youth.

Dantian Alchemist Gu He's status in the Jia Ma Empire was almost at the peak. Even Fa Ma only had a reputation comparable to Gu He's; in terms of actual strength, there was definitely a considerable gap.

In the eyes of countless newly-emerged Alchemists, the four words "Dantian Alchemist Gu He" were an insurmountable mountain!

And now, Xiao Yan had completely replaced that hard-to-climb mountain. Now, this youth of only eighteen was the insurmountable mountain in the hearts of countless Alchemists!

He was the true Dantian Alchemist!

Regardless, from now on, Xiao Yan's name would truly shake the entire Jia Ma Empire!

"In the name of the President of the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Guild, I hereby announce that the Champion of the Seventh Alchemist Convention is—Xiao Yan!!!!"

(End of this chapter)