Sun Shijun sneered at Wen Qingye and roared, "Enlighten me? Wen Qingye, do you have any idea who I am? Fine. I’d like to see just how you plan to enlighten me."
When the crowd heard Sun Shijun’s words, their eyes all turned to Wen Qingye, filled with mockery, disdain, and a hint of schadenfreude.
Wen Qingye clasped his hands behind his back and smiled faintly. His heart was as calm as still water, but his next words took everyone by surprise.
"Actually, refining the Cyan Garden Bulrush from the inside out is fundamentally the wrong approach."
What!?
The crowd exchanged glances, seemingly unable to believe their ears.
Everyone from Danxuan Peak frowned, their expressions changing in unison.
Chen Cuicui suddenly took a few steps forward, her voice trembling with emotion as she stared at Wen Qingye and yelled, "Wen Qingye, are you questioning Martial Aunt Miaoxuan? What right do you have to question her? On what grounds? Tell me!"
Huoo Qilian added coldly from the side, "Wen Qingye, you’d better be prepared to take responsibility for your words. Don’t end up making a fool of yourself."
Sun Shijun’s eyes gradually darkened as he snarled, "Wen Qingye, I see you’re not just questioning me, but the entire Alchemy Dao of our Danxuan Peak!"
Standing above, Miaoxuan looked at Wen Qingye, a flicker of anger in her heart. She said, "Let him finish. I want to see for myself how Wen Qingye plans to question my Danxuan Peak."
Wen Qingye’s voice rang out, "The Cyan Garden Bulrush is a rather peculiar Heavenly and Earthly Treasure. Although its overall structure has significant variations, and its medicinal effects and attributes are not entirely uniform, it possesses one magical quality: unity."
’Unity?’ Miaoxuan frowned deeply upon hearing Wen Qingye’s words, completely baffled.
Wen Qingye took a soft breath and continued, "This so-called unity refers to the unity of the Cyan Garden Bulrush’s medicinal properties, the unity of its attributes, and the unity of its refinement. Only by achieving this can its medicinal properties be brought to their absolute peak."
"You’re talking nonsense!" a disciple from Danxuan Peak couldn’t help but jump out and shout.
Without even glancing at the disciple, Wen Qingye turned to Chen Cuicui and said, "The most volatile part of the Cyan Garden Bulrush isn’t the inside, but the outside. Its exterior simply conceals a violent nature beneath a calm surface, which doesn’t often reveal itself. If you don’t believe me, go back and try sprinkling some Yuguo Powder over an entire Cyan Garden Bulrush. You’ll see the truth for yourself."
At this point, before Chen Cuicui could even begin to speak, Wen Qingye turned his head to Huoo Qilian at the side. "The Cyan Garden Bulrush does indeed serve to protect the medicinal properties of the Ninefold Winding Lotus, but not from the Illusory Cloud Sand. You yourself said that the Ninefold Winding Lotus mutates when it encounters a Gold Attribute Heavenly and Earthly Treasure. If the bulrush was really meant to prevent the Illusory Cloud Sand from causing a mutation, then under such high temperatures, the Ninefold Winding Lotus would have already mutated before you even put the Cyan Garden Bulrush in."
"Then what is it preventing?" Huoo Qilian asked subconsciously.
"Of course, it’s to counteract material shedding from the Pill Furnace. Every Alchemy Furnace is forged from Gold Attribute Ore. Each time a pill is refined in a Pill Furnace, it produces Pill Ashes. These ashes contain residual herbs, failed ingredients, and of course, flakes of Gold Attribute ore that have peeled off from the furnace. The Cyan Garden Bulrush is there to guard against those flakes."
Sun Shijun couldn’t hold back any longer. He shot to his feet in anger and stared at Wen Qingye, saying, "Wen Qingye, stop trying to confuse everyone! What would a good-for-nothing like you know about the Alchemy Dao?"
"Who are you calling a good-for-nothing?" Wen Qingye’s expression turned cold as he took a small step forward.
BOOM!
The surrounding aura seemed to materialize into a colossal mountain, pressing down directly on Sun Shijun. He stood no chance of withstanding it, and his face instantly became deathly pale.
THUD!
Wen Qingye took another step forward, and with it, the mountain’s oppressive might intensified. Sun Shijun felt an illusion of suffocation, and with a loud THUMP, he fell straight to his knees.
"Wen Qingye!"
Sun Shijun let out a furious roar, like a maddened beast.
The surrounding crowd was stunned, unable to process what had just happened.
"Wen Qingye, how dare you!"
Seeing Sun Shijun forced to his knees, Miaoxuan immediately waved her hand. Wen Qingye’s oppressive aura instantly vanished into nothingness, and the surrounding disciples of Danxuan Peak hurried to help Sun Shijun up.
At that moment, Sun Shijun was drenched in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of water. He stared fixedly at Wen Qingye, his eyes bloodshot.
’Wen Qingye, you actually forced me to my knees. I, Sun Shijun, will remember this. I’ll remember it well. I will never let you get away with this. Never.’
Sun Shijun could feel the strange looks from the crowd. His head was bowed, but his eyes radiated boundless killing intent.
Although Sun Shijun’s head was lowered, Wen Qingye could still feel the chilling killing intent directed at him. ’This Sun Shijun cannot be left alive,’ he thought.
"Wen Qingye, you’ve gone too far!" Chen Cuicui said angrily, glaring at him.
Yum Baobao jumped out indignantly and faced Chen Cuicui. "It was clearly your Danxuan Peak’s Sun Shijun who insulted Brother Wen first! Is he not allowed to fight back? Your Alchemy Dao is mediocre, your strength is mediocre, and even your character is mediocre. He deserved it!"
This time, upon hearing Yum Baobao’s words, the members of Danxuan Peak were thrown into an uproar. Only Miaoxuan remained silent, pondering what Wen Qingye had said earlier.
Suddenly, a disciple from Danxuan Peak, no longer able to suppress the rage in his heart, said angrily to Wen Qingye, "Alright then, I’d like to ask for Junior Brother Wen’s guidance. Explain the principles behind the refinement technique Martial Aunt Miaoxuan just used. I’d like to see if you can actually answer that!"
Wen Qingye answered without hesitation, "The Seven Flames Spinning Hand. It’s a refinement technique passed down through a single lineage of Danxuan Peak in the Celestial Profound Sect. It requires extremely high control over flames and also allows for exquisite control over the Medicinal Essence within."
He answered correctly.
Seeing this, the surrounding crowd furrowed their brows slightly.
The moment Wen Qingye’s voice fell, another disciple from Danxuan Peak immediately asked, "Do you know the three recipes for the Seven Luminaries Pill? And what are the medicinal principles of those three recipes?"
"The Seven Luminaries Pill is an Emperor-grade High-level Pill. It’s a pill used to break through bottlenecks and advance one’s cultivation. There are a total of twenty-one different recipes for it. The first uses Black Rhino Horn, natural musk, Red Snow Lotus Flower..."
Before the stunned eyes of the crowd, Wen Qingye proceeded to list all twenty-one recipes.
Mo Qing and Huang Zishan looked at each other, too shocked to speak. The two of them had originally just wanted to make things difficult for Wen Qingye, but now they realized how laughable that idea had been.
"Brother Wen, you’re amazing!" Yum Baobao cheered loudly for Wen Qingye.
The disciple became extremely agitated and shouted, "How... How can that be? There are only four recipes for the Seven Luminaries Pill! Wen Qingye, you’re just spouting nonsense!"
Zhang Cuicui nodded repeatedly. "That’s right! There are only four recipes for the Seven Luminaries Pill. Stop making things up, Wen Qingye!"
"How ignorant." Wen Qingye couldn’t help but shake his head and sneer as he looked at the other Danxuan Peak disciples who were nodding in agreement.
"You!"
Instantly, the expressions of all the Danxuan Peak disciples changed drastically. Their faces flushed red as they glared angrily at Wen Qingye.
But just then, Miaoxuan, who had been silent all this time, spoke up.
"Wait. Wen Qingye isn’t spouting nonsense. A few of the recipes he just mentioned are ones I’ve seen in ancient records. I never thought... I never thought you’d know so many of the others." Miaoxuan lowered her head in thought for a moment, then said with ecstatic delight, "I happen to have several of the medicinal ingredients for those! That means I can refine the Seven Luminaries Pill next time! This is wonderful! Wonderful!"
Hearing Miaoxuan’s words, the crowd was even more astounded.
Wen Qingye was actually that incredible? He knew even more than what was written in the ancient records? How was that possible!
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