The Strange Flame Rekindles in Battle Through the Heavens

Chapter 53 Longevity Pill and Flame Fist

Xiao Yan strode out of the alchemist's hall, glancing back at the massive building behind him. He sighed inwardly, "I only wanted to pass the first-grade alchemist exam, but I never expected it to cause so much trouble. Now I'm probably famous again!"

Shaking his head helplessly, Xiao Yan turned and left. However, he didn't return to the inn but instead rented a small, independent courtyard. Although the courtyard wasn't large, it was sufficient for his needs. After paying a month's rent, Xiao Yan moved in.

After entering the room, Xiao Yan tidied up briefly and then went directly into the courtyard. The courtyard was very clean, with bluestone slabs paving the ground. Xiao Yan chose a spacious spot and sat down cross-legged.

However, Xiao Yan, after sitting down, neither cultivated nor refined pills. Instead, he took out everything from his storage ring, filling his front with numerous items. Most were low-grade medicinal herbs and pills, along with some strange and unusual things—all acquired during his training.

During his training, Xiao Yan followed the principle of entering any cave and jumping off any cliff, which allowed him to acquire quite a few things, though most of them were useless. Yao Lao had wanted him to throw them away, but Xiao Yan couldn't bear to part with them; however, now they were taking up too much space.

My three storage rings are practically full. If I don't deal with them soon, what will I do when I find something good while I'm back on my adventures? I'll have to throw away so much stuff then, so I might as well get rid of them now and sell them for some money. Anyone who plays games knows that once you get to town, you definitely need to sell the junk in your inventory to free up space!

"Teacher, come out and get to work!" Xiao Yan called out to Yao Lao.

"I told you to throw away this trash back then, but you wouldn't. Now you know how to clean it up?" The old man floated out of the ring and hovered in the air.

"Wasn't that because we weren't knowledgeable enough back then? Now you can take the lead and help us organize things," Xiao Yan said with a smile.

Seeing the messy pile on the ground, the old apothecary's lips twitched, but he still examined each item one by one. He set aside anything he felt had some value, and burned the worthless items to nothingness with his strange fire.

Seeing Yao Lao burning the items he had obtained during his adventures as trash, Xiao Yan felt a pang of heartache, as he had been quite excited when he acquired them. However, he didn't say much and began sorting through the medicinal herbs and pills himself.

For more than two months, Xiao Yan spent a considerable amount of time refining pills almost every day, resulting in a large quantity of pills. Apart from using some Power Accumulation Pills and Fire Condensation Pills, he stored away the rest of the pills, originally intending to take them back to his clan for his family members to use. However, since he had refined far too many, and his training would not end for another six months, he figured he could refine more later.

After categorizing the pills, Xiao Yan also prepared all the low-grade medicinal herbs according to the requirements of the pill formulas. He planned to refine all these herbs into pills and then sell them for money, since he could only use one card to make money.

With the help of Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, Xiao Yan finally managed to sort and organize all the medicinal herbs and pills on the ground by sunset. Looking at the neatly arranged herbs and pills in front of him, Xiao Yan nodded in satisfaction.

However, when Xiao Yan's gaze swept over Yao Lao, he saw that there were only a few items placed in front of him.

"Out of nearly a hundred items, only these few were of value? And one of them was a gift from Fa Ma." Xiao Yan's eyes widened in astonishment.

"Heh, only the things Fa Ma gave you are barely passable. Of the rest, only this pill formula has any value. The rest are all junk. If you were to sell them, they could be worth tens of thousands of gold coins," the old apothecary said disdainfully.

"Ah! Then all that work was for nothing?" Xiao Yan said dejectedly.

"You've been training on the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range. The caves there have been raided countless times by mercenaries. There's hardly anything of value left. You've already done very well to get this much," the old man said comfortingly.

"Forget it, I wasn't expecting anything good anyway." Xiao Yan's interest waned, and he took out the medicine cauldron to start refining the medicine. After all, it would take a lot of time to refine all those medicinal herbs into pills!

"Don't you want to see this fighting technique and this pill formula?" Yao Lao said with a smile, seeing that Xiao Yan had completely lost interest in these rare items.

"What are you looking at? The fighting skill was obtained by exchanging a low-level energy-gathering pill. How good could it be? As for the pill formula, with your old man's stock, do you still have anything to look at?" Xiao Yan curled his lip and said disdainfully.

"Take a look first!" Yao Lao tossed the two items to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan took it and examined it with his soul perception. What he saw shocked him!

"Longevity Pill: Can increase a person's lifespan by nearly two years. A person can take two pills in their lifetime, which can add four years to their life!"

"Not bad! It's actually an extremely rare pill that can extend a person's lifespan. Although this kind of pill is of no use to him, if the pillars of those big families see it, they'll fight over it like crazy," Xiao Yan said happily.

After reviewing the pill formula, Xiao Yan's gaze swept back to the red scroll in his hand, and he sensed it with his soul once more.

"Flame Fist: A high-level Xuan-rank combat skill that can condense a flaming fist containing boundless fire energy and immense power."

"This fighting technique is pretty good! It suits me perfectly," Xiao Yan said excitedly.

Although Xiao Yan's Cloud-Dispelling Palm can attack from a distance, it is an area-of-effect attack, a fusion of the Fire-Blowing Palm and the Eight Extremes Collapse. The Fire-Blowing Palm only generates wind pressure, with limited damage; the Cloud-Dispelling Palm's damage primarily comes from the energy of the Eight Extremes Collapse. If Xiao Yan could master more energy, its power would naturally be immense, but currently he has only mastered eight levels of Ming Jin and two levels of An Jin. This damage is naturally invincible against first-tier magical beasts of the same level, but it falls short against second-tier magical beasts.

Now that we have the Flame Fist, if the Flame Fist can also be mixed with the energy of the Eight Extremes Collapse, its power can probably reach the Earth Rank again. When we encounter second-rank magical beasts again, we will naturally not let them escape.

Although Xiao Yan wanted to learn the Flame Fist, a fighting technique that captivated him, he restrained himself. Learning a fighting technique would cause too much disturbance, and this was the capital city, teeming with powerful individuals. Xiao Yan naturally dared not learn a fighting technique in such a place; he could only wait until his training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

"Teacher, that Guild Master Fa Ma is too good to me! I got a high-level Xuan-rank fighting skill in exchange for a low-grade pill, that's such a good deal!" Xiao Yan asked in confusion after putting away the fighting skill and the pill formula.

(End of this chapter)