Chapter 456: Young Against Old

with weaker strengths who might turn into ashes."Master, be careful!" Xue Xianxian worriedly said as she bit her lips."Don't worry, my strength is much stronger than yours," Elder Wu smiled kindly an...Chapter 456 - Young vs Old

The medicinal garden had a pavilion, where Shen Xiang and Hua Xiangyue were sitting. They were drinking sweet-smelling flower tea while waiting for Li Baoyun to come up with the method of competition.

Shen Xiang was stroking Hua Xiangyue’s long black hair. Hua didn’t say anything about it, but just looked at him with her alluring eyes that could drip water. In her eyes, Shen Xiang seemed like a young child, but sometimes he was very manly.

"Little bad boy, I might need to seclude myself for a while after we return. If you have any matters in the future, go to Meng'er," said Hua Xiangyue.

Shen Xiang wanted to give Hua Xiangyue some ingredients for the Restoring Vitality Pill and a Creation Fruit. He asked, "For how long do you need to seclude yourself What if I have an important matter that needs to find you"

"Go directly to the Fragrant Medicine Peach Blossom Source, and you can find me there. Only those who are allowed by me can enter! I will give you a pearl," said Hua Xiangyue, taking out a white bead and giving it to Shen Xiang.

"Take this pearl when you enter, and I can guarantee that it will be safe! Also, don’t make any loud noises when you enter. I’ll know if someone enters," said Hua Xiangyue.

Shen Xiang nodded and played with the pearl.

"Senior Li, you should have gained many spirit medicines by guarding this medicinal garden." Shen Xiang called out to a nearby pond where Li Baoyun was sitting, thinking about something.

Li Baoyun said, "Of course. Many spirit medicines have matured and I can only pick them before continuing to plant, but most of them are low-grade spirit medicines."

"Brat, don’t disturb me. You better adjust yourself!" said Li Baoyun.

Shen Xiang gave him a side glance and continued playing with Hua Xiangyue’s silky ponytail because of the mesmerizing scent that was spread around her head.

"Sister Xiangyue, why do you have such a pleasant fragrance Is it natural" asked Shen Xiang with a smile. "Your blood is also fragrant."

Hua Xiangyue pinched him, "Don’t mention that matter again."

Thinking about the shameful incident where Shen Xiang was sucking her blood while she was on top of him, her face became slightly red. This made Shen Xiang chuckle to himself.

"You’re really fragrant. If I sleep with you, I’ll definitely dream very sweetly," said Shen Xiang, leading to him receiving another hit on the head from Hua Xiangyue.

Li Baoyun couldn’t stand watching anymore. The handsome man and beautiful woman flirted in front of him, making it impossible for him to concentrate. He couldn’t understand why such a talented woman would get involved with this little devil.

"You two better be quiet!" said Li Baoyun.

"I’ve been thinking about the method of competition for so long, it’s boring," grumbled Shen Xiang. This made Li Baoyun secretly hate him and think that he would give Shen Xiang a good lesson when the time came.

Shen Xiang and Hua Xiangyue waited for nearly two hours until Li Baoyun loudly said, "I’ve thought it over. Come here!"

After they came, Li Baoyun said, "You can only refine Grade 4 Low-grade Spirit Pill at most, so this has been a real head-scratcher for me."

"I only came up with two methods of competition right now. After the first two rounds, we need a third round, and I’ll think about it then."

Said Shen Xiang with contempt, "You’ve been thinking for so long and only came up with these two methods"

"The winner of three out of the two rounds wins. If I win both rounds, I don’t need to think about the third round's competition," said Li Baoyun.

"You’re such a liar!" said Shen Xiang, unable to say anything else.

Li Baoyun said, "The method of competition isn't complicated. It’s simple! The first round is to refine a Grade 4 Low-grade Spirit Pill, and see who can do it faster. This shows the skill of a pill refiner to refine pills."

"Let’s compete in refining the True Elemental Energy Pill. I have a sufficient amount of ingredients, and it’s also one of the more difficult pills to refine among Grade 4 Low-grade Spirit Pills! However, it might be bad for you since I’m a high-level pill refiner. It’s better to have this young lady compete against me. Anyway, both of you can decide who will fight."

Li Baoyun thought that competing against Shen Xiang was an insult to him. Seeing his expression of contempt, Shen Xiang secretly made a vow that he would make this arrogant old man lose his teeth all over the ground.

"I have forty batches of ingredients for refining True Elemental Energy Pill. Please wait here until they’re done and you’ll know who gets to the finish first," said Li Baoyun.

The rule was simple: they would use the forty batches of ingredients while competing against each other. If Shen Xiang’s speed wasn’t as fast as Li Baoyun, he would definitely get fewer than him at the end. This meant that if Li Baoyun’s speed was faster, he could refine thirty batches out of forty.

Hearing the rule, Shen Xiang and Hua Xiangyue secretly laughed. They knew that Li Baoyun was biased against Shen Xiang, trying to make him lose.

"Do you have any issues" asked Li Baoyun.

Shen Xiang answered, "No problems!" This was expected since if it were another low-level pill refiner, they would likely lose. However, Shen Xiang was different; even Hua Xiangyue thought she wasn’t capable of winning over him.

"What about the second round" asked Hua Xiangyue.

Li Baoyun answered, "For the second round, we’ll refine three basic Grade 4 Low-grade Spirit Pills. Evaluation will be done from multiple aspects, such as the quality of the pills, refining speed, and quantity. We pill refiners know these things very well. We’ll just admit defeat gracefully."

This made Shen Xiang and Hua Xiangyue shake their heads. They secretly rejoiced, because Shen Xiang had a great chance of winning the first two rounds.

"Old geezer, you’re done for!" thought Shen Xiang in his heart.

Li Baoyun took out forty batches of ingredients for refining True Elemental Energy Pill and arranged them in a basket. They were messy, so Shen Xiang had to pick his own when he wanted something, and there were many low-quality ingredients among them.

"Now pick one ingredient each and start refining them at the same time! Have you decided who will compete against me" asked Li Baoyun.

"Let me!" said Shen Xiang, immediately volunteering his hand.

Li Baoyun frowned and looked at Hua Xiangyue. However, she didn’t react in any way.

"Sigh, young people being too proud is not necessarily a good thing!" said Li Baoyun with disappointment.

Shen Xiang wanted to say: it’s not good for the old to look down on others either.

Li Baoyun and Shen Xiang started to pick ingredients from the basket. They chose better ones first because if they could refine faster, they would choose good ingredients and leave the bad ones for slow workers.

After choosing their ingredients, they started to check the pill furnaces.

"Now we can begin! Young man, work hard!" said Li Baoyun with contempt, looking down on Shen Xiang.

Shen Xiang didn’t care about this and started to sort the ingredients instead.gredients, suppressing their power and subduing them by burning them into medicinal essence!However, after he saw the internal world inside those ingredients earlier, his idea was to make these ingred...