Chapter 25 - Li Moxue's Alchemy

"Peak-Grade, 97% Purity!"

With Mo Hua's shout came the cheers of the audience. After all, the refining of a Peak-Grade Pill was insanely difficult even for such a commonly made pill as the Qi Resplenishment Pill.

Only the most skilled of Alchemists were capable of refining such a tonic at will.

"Young Master Shen's reputation was not just for talk after all!"

"Each step of his pill making process was truly flawless, I can only applaud before such a performance!"

Shen Dingxiang eyes glowed with glee under the admiration he received.

He flashed a defiant look to the calm Li Moxue.

"I dare you to better me, Three Yin Princess!" He said, his voice dripping with unconcealed arrogance.

He jumped out from the stage, retrieving his Soaring Qilin Cauldron into his Spatial Ring, rejoining Mo Hua in the audience.

He gave her a wink as he took her hand to kiss its back.

Meanwhile, Li Moxue leisurely walked towards the stage, her steps unhurried and graceful.

When she stood in its center, she took out a silver cauldron engraved with icy blue lines that ran on its surface like veins from her own Spatial Ring.

A member of the audience exclaimed: "The Three Yin Cauldron!! This is the alchemy cauldron of the Eldest Daughter of the Yin Flame Pavillion, personally refined by their Head Mother for her!"

"It was made in order to match her three Yin Flames!"

Li Moxue calmly put her hand in front of her belly.

With a grabbing motion of her hand, three pale blue-white flames brimming with a sinister and ghostly aura floated within the palm of her hand, burning with soul-burning heat.

"The Yin Flame!" A spectator shouted.

"Due to these flames, the Yin Flame Pavillion is the sect comprising the most Alchemists of the Crouching Dragon Domain, monopolizing 60% of the pill selling business!"

She threw her three yin fires into her Three Yin Cauldron before taking out a set of materials.

She threw one of them into her cauldron before using hand seals to control her fire to complete the extraction of the medicinal essence.

Contrarily to most heavenly fires, the Yin Flames were refined from a woman's Primordial Yin, meaning it is linked to the Body rather than the Soul. Hence, its manipulation requires physical endurance and Essence manipulation rather than Soul Power control.

[Flowing Fire Method]

Her Yin Flames were akin to water streams as they submerged the spiritual herb, slowly decomposing its form to reveal the green liquid inside.

Then, as she maintaining her [Flowing Fire Method], she used the fire streams to wash over the green medicinal essence directly, completing two steps of the pill making process in one go.

She repeated the process four other times, extracting and washing the medicinal essence of the five spiritual herbs succesfully.

But as he looked at her Alchemy, Yu Weiyuan's eyes squinted in worry.

'Her skills are undoubtebly great, nearly peerless even.' He thought. 'But they are one step lower than Shen Dingxiang.'

He looked at her beautiful face but failed to find even a hint of anxiety, her black phoenix irises void of any visible emotion.

At the same time, Li Moxue mobilized her Soul Power in order to complete the third step and amalgamate the five streams of purified medicinal essence.

Then, she flashed a small smile as a cold and sinister intent gathered within her hand, giving it a deathly aura freezing the spectator's hearts.

Yu Weiyuan's eyes widened. 'This is... Yin Intent!!!'

'She managed to condense an Intent at the Foundation Establishment Realm?!!' He was truly amazed. 'She did it even earlier than me. I only condensed my Killing Intent when I had formed the First Dao Marking of my Purple Gold Core.'

When he himself was at the Foundation Establishment Realm, he still hadn't condensed his Intent only because he felt the Five Elements Intent he was preparing to form at the time wasn't suitable for him.

However, it didn't prevent him from raising Li Moxue in his esteem.

If before he only found her interesting, now, he truly respected her as an equal.

Meanwhile, Li Moxue converged her Yin Intent into one point.

[Yin Sucking Palm]

She slapped out towards her Three Yin Cauldron, projecting her Yin Intent onto the medicinal essence inside.

She turned her palm into a claw and gestured backwards, recovering her Yin Intent and five small streams of black and impure essence from the amalgamated medicinal essence, leaving it unbelievably clear, of truly pure green colour.

Yu Weiyuan face broke into a smirk as he was admiring her technique. 'She used a hand technique normally used in combat to complete the purification of her medicinal essence!'

'Using her Yin Intent to suck out impurities that are Yin in nature from the liquid essence was a stroke of genius!'

He continued to look as she completely shaped her pill and finished the fourth step of the alchemical process.

[Frost Fire Method]

In order to congeal her pill embryo, Li Moxue controlled the temperature of her three Yin Flames, making their burning heat now as cold as winter frost.

[Three Yin Condensation Method]

Then, she multpliplied her hand seals as her three Yin Flames condensed around the congealed pill embryo, forming a coil around it.

After that, she made a final hand seal, her Yin Flames condensing into one point before completely bursting out, hot and cold flames blasting out of the Three Yin Cauldron.

After the flames' momentum completely calmed down, Li Moxue plunged her hand into her cauldron, retriving a yellow pill with shining with a rainbow coloured glow.

She smiled lightly as she threw it towards Yu Weiyuan in the same fashion Shen Dingxiang did earlier.

After he grabbed it in the air directly, he opened his closed palm, finally revealing the multicoloured pill inside.

'I can't believe she managed to achieve complete purification through her Yin Intent...'

Maybe he didn't know it, but it was at this moment that for the first time ever since the events in the Dragon Tomb Secret Realm, a seed of admiration was planted in his heart.

He raised his hand, pinching the pill between his fingers to reveal it to the entire audience.

"Qi Resplenishment Pill!"

"Perfect-Grade!"