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Chapter 286: Refining with Intent

    

on from Yao Family. If Scenery Family fought Yao Family because of it, he'd be in for a tough time.Despite being night-time, the white moon gave off soft light that brought a faint glow to the earth....Chapter 286: To Refine with All My Heart

Shen Xiang deliberately suppressed the aura of his fire spirit in order not to expose himself, but even the old alchemists still felt that Shen Xiang’s flames were powerful. Although the faint fiery aura was very weak, they could still sense its presence.Hua Xianglei simply watched as Shen Xiang refined the pill, and at this moment, he was very serious, fully concentrated on refining the pill without being affected by those people around him.Shen Xiang’s mastery of controlling flames was already perfect, and those old alchemists closed their eyes to sense the changes in the temperature within Shen Xiang’s pill furnace. What amazed them was that although the temperature inside the furnace seemed to remain unchanged, it felt very stable.Only Hua Xianglei could sense that the temperature within Shen Xiang’s pill furnace was well-controlled, with minute fluctuations. This kind of skill could only be done by many senior alchemists.Those old people felt a bit strange because the temperature changes in both furnaces were very bizarre. They had seen others refining the beast pill before, and although they knew how to refine it themselves, it was not like Shen Xiang’s. The flames started out that way without much change and the normal practice when refining beast pills involved using a large flame to burn medicinal materials, with different degrees of heat for each material. According to logic, the heat released by the pill furnace should be very intense.Shen Xiang opened his eyes and smiled at Hua Xianglei, causing the other old people to be slightly surprised. Previously, they saw him being serious, but now he was playing around, which was a taboo in alchemy.Hua Xianglei could guess something by seeing the expressions of those three old alchemists. She chuckled inwardly: "You guys can’t sense the exact situation inside the furnace, this is the Divine Fire Dragon Pill Furnace where time moves differently." Hua Xianglei quietly hissed, feeling amazed by Shen Xiang’s seriousness earlier but now finding him mocking her. This made the three old alchemists’ good impression of him disappear completely, especially when they saw Shen Xiang looking at Hua Xianglei and disapprovingly criticizing her for not focusing on refining when she was so beautiful.“Be serious!” Hua Xianglei grumbled.Shen Xiang chuckled and said, "I’m done." Hua Xianglei and those three old alchemists couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise before hurriedly jumping off their chairs, faces full of disbelief. How could this be possible Shen Xiang just covered the furnace not too long ago, and they hadn’t even noticed any changes yet."Don’t play tricks!" Hua Xianglei said as soon as she spoke, and Shen Xiang immediately opened the lid of the furnace. A faint green light could be seen inside, with ten unique and mysterious green pills lying peacefully within the white mist that slowly dissipated.“Don’t doubt my abilities, these are the pills I refined. We’re all respected elders in the medicinal realm; how dare you suspect me of cheating under your watch” Shen Xiang said with a sigh, but he was just bluffing because he had refined the pills faster than usual. Hua Xianglei understood him, but still felt shocked."It’s unbelievable! The beast pill can be refined so quickly; how long did you spend refining it" One of the old people carefully examined one of the beast pills and asked."Not long, just a few months." Shen Xiang said, actually refining them only recently. He lied to scare those old guys and Hua Xianglei was also aware of the lie.Although they were shocked, the three old alchemists quickly calmed down. Shen Xiang’s surprise actions had already become something they were used to, such as charming the legendary beauty Liu Meng’er from thousands of years ago. Hua Xianglei was familiar with his shocking abilities, and she had gradually gotten used to them. For example, she could easily believe that Shen Xiang managed to obtain Liu Meng’er as his disciple despite her being chased by thousands of young powerhouses from thousands of years ago. This would definitely not be believed if she told others.“I just wanted to save your elders some time by refining faster!” Shen Xiang coughed, seeing the three old alchemists staring blankly at the beast pills.The three old alchemists were once again struck. Although they could not refine pills quickly, if not for their positions, they would definitely insist on staying with Shen Xiang to learn some techniques from him. The first principle of Shen Xiang’s pill refinement was not wasting medicinal materials and making the most out of them, which resulted in more pills than usual. During pill refinement, many fine medicinal powders would turn into mist and escape, which was why the chambers of alchemists were full of medicinal fragrances. However, Shen Xiang made sure that this did not happen and had to control everything inside the pill furnace perfectly, resulting in him usually having more pills than other people.Hua Xianglei was also impressed by Shen Xiang’s ability. She believed that perhaps it was because he refined pills using his heart, resulting in his rapid progress and better results.Shen Xiang refined the second type of pill, the base strengthening pill. Although he used this pill for his previous assessment, he still needed to refine it again now.Shen Xiang took out the materials for refining base strengthening pills, carefully arranging them. At this moment, those three old alchemists widened their eyes in worry, hoping not to miss any details of Shen Xiang’s actions. Although they had refined base strengthening pills in the past, it was many years ago when they were unable to find Qingxuan fruits and had to watch others refine them closely.In the eyes of those three old alchemists, Shen Xiang appeared to be as tall as their teacher. Hua Xianglei watched calmly, knowing that Shen Xiang could refine base strengthening pills already but was curious about which other low-grade pill grade below the divine grade Shen Xiang could also refine.Shen Xiang had refined many base strengthening pills, and he still had some left in his possession. If he wanted to, he could almost eat those pills like candies by planting more Qingxuan fruits. Liu Meng’er’s Qingxuan fruit was also good, allowing him to refine four pills from it. Although he only refined two pills due to the medicinal materials in his previous attempt, it was still impressive.After handling the materials well, Shen Xiang put them into the pill furnace, covered it and started the fire. The process that followed was tedious but engaging for those three old alchemists, while Shen Xiang didn’t know what they were looking at or even sensing the temperature since he couldn’t see inside the pill furnace. his loincloth to her, the robe became even more powerful. Therefore, Shen Xiang wasn't worried about her being killed by the kill trap, she would at most suffer a bit.Qi Meixian wasn't afraid of suff...