Translator: Silavin
“Speak, what do you want? This Grandmaster will accommodate you.” Qin Yichen waved his hand with the air of a Master, completely ignoring the other’s murderous gaze.
Joking aside, any woman by his side could be considered a peerless beauty. In the Heavenly Unicorn Dynasty, where he was constantly surrounded by beauties, if he could not even maintain this level of composure, he would have been killed long ago.
“Alchemy Duel!”
Filled with rage, Huyuan Songqing forcefully spat out two words.
“Alchemy Duel?” Upon hearing Huyuan Songqing’s proposal, countless clamorous voices suddenly erupted.
Alchemy Duels were not uncommon in the Central Province. However, a duel between two experts whose Spiritual Energy had broken through to the Spirit Realm would undoubtedly attract countless people. Moreover, both were so young, and one of them was even the top performer in this year’s Alchemy Tower Test.
Hearing the words ‘Alchemy Duel’, a smile appeared on Qin Yichen’s lips. It had been a long time since someone had made such a request to him. The last time, if he remembered correctly, was in Spreading Cloud City when Mo Yun challenged him. At that time, the Alchemy Duel was referred to by another name, Pill Battle.
“Do you dare to accept? Hurry up!”
“That’s right, hurry up, don’t waste our time!”
Soon, the onlookers began to clamour, and Qin Yichen did not disappoint them. He nodded lightly, which further pushed the atmosphere in the arena to a fever pitch.
The examiner, who had originally intended to stop this, saw this scene and shook his head helplessly. However, in his heart, he was quite interested in seeing how well the boy who dared to disrupt the Alchemy Tower Test could control his Spiritual Energy.
“A normal Alchemy Duel might be too difficult for you. This Grandmaster won’t bully you, how about we make Qi Recovery Liquid?” Qin Yichen stood with his hands behind his back, fully embodying the demeanour of a Master. This completely exemplified his essence of ‘if you’re going to show off, either don’t do it at all, or do it to an extent no one else can match you!’
“Hehe, very well!” Huyuan Songqing could not help but marvel at Qin Yichen’s thick skin. He had mockingly called him ‘Master’, but he never imagined that this shameless fellow would actually take it to heart and refer to himself as ‘Grandmaster’.
Qi Recovery Liquid was just the most common basic First Grade Pill. For experts whose Spiritual Energy had reached the Spirit Realm, to make Qi Recovery Liquid, it was no different from a contest of Spiritual Energy between the two of them, without any real Alchemy involved.
Because he had just participated in the Alchemy Tower Test, Huyuan Songqing’s Pill Furnace was already on the square. He walked directly to his Pill Furnace, looking at Qin Yichen with disdain.
His Pill Furnace was about one and a half metres tall, with a fiery red body. On its surface, there were patterns that looked like flames. Even at a glance, it was clear that this Pill Furnace was no ordinary object.
*Plop!* Meanwhile, Qin Yichen was straightforward, directly taking out a Pill Furnace slightly larger than a palm from his bosom and placing it in front of him.
*Pfft…* Seeing Qin Yichen’s Pill Furnace, Huyuan Songqing couldn’t help but sneer. That tiny thing, with cracks visible on its surface and its dull grey appearance, could that really be called a Pill Furnace?
Of course, it was not just Huyuan Songqing who was sceptical. Countless onlookers also could not help but burst into laughter.
“Haha, do people from small kingdoms all use such things as Pill Furnaces?”
“Haaaa… Huyuan Songqing’s Pill Furnace is the Huyuan Family’s Black Grade Pill Furnace – the Flame Cauldron. That Pill Furnace can amplify Spiritual Energy. How can this kid compete with Huyuan Songqing?”
“At least put up a fight! Don’t get crushed by Huyuan Songqing in one go. Kid, I bet you can at least last for a minute!”
Amidst the clamour, both of them took out materials sufficient to make one batch of Qi Recovery Liquid. Compared to Huyuan Songqing’s careful and precise measuring of ingredients, Qin Yichen’s casual grabbing of medicinal herbs once again invited ridicule from the crowd.
In the eyes of almost all the onlookers, this kid had either given up resisting or was a great Master who did not intend to make Pills at all, but simply wanted to compete in Spiritual Energy with Huyuan Songqing.
However, few believed Qin Yichen belonged to the latter category. Even fewer knew that Qin Yichen not only wanted to compete in Spiritual Energy with Huyuan Songqing but also intended to produce Qi Recovery Liquid!
The two stood about five metres apart. After they took their positions, the countless clamorous voices gradually subsided, and in an instant, the entire arena fell silent.
*Whoosh!* Huyuan Songqing waved his hand, and all the materials for refining were thrown into the Flame Cauldron in front of him. With his strength, making Qi Recovery Liquid was child’s play, and he did not need to refine the medicinal herbs step by step.
On the other side, Qin Yichen seemed to be mimicking the process, throwing the medicinal herbs one by one into his palm-sized Pill Furnace. This made some people secretly curious – could such a small Pill Furnace hold all the materials?
However, they had no idea that this Pill Furnace contained its own universe. The space inside was only larger, not smaller, than Huyuan Songqing’s Flame Cauldron. This was even with it not being fully repaired and thus had its size somewhat reduced.
After both of them had thrown the medicinal herbs in, waves of subtle fluctuations began to spread out. The crowd held their breath, knowing that the contest between the two had begun.
Would Qin Yichen be able to hold out for a while, or would Huyuan Songqing crush this arrogant kid with overwhelming force?
*Whoosh!* A cold light flashed in Huyuan Songqing’s eyes. In front of him, the space seemed to ripple slightly, and a strand of powerful Spiritual Energy, like a sharp needle, stabbed towards Qin Yichen’s head.
As the most outstanding Alchemy Master of the younger generation in the Huyuan Family, Huyuan Songqing had absolute confidence in himself. In his eyes, this kid from a small kingdom must have lucked out and obtained some opportunity in the Death Zone, which allowed his Spiritual Energy cultivation to break through to the Spirit Realm. The suddenly increased Spiritual Energy would surely be difficult for its owner to control skillfully, which was incomparable to his own hard-earned power.
However, he had no idea that not only could Qin Yichen easily control Spirit Realm Spiritual Energy, even if it was several realms higher, it would still be child’s play for him.
Just as Huyuan Songqing’s Spiritual Energy was about to pierce Qin Yichen’s Knowledge Sea, a sharp strand of Spiritual Energy also shot out from Qin Yichen’s Knowledge Sea, showing no sign of retreat, and fiercely collided with the incoming Spiritual Energy.
“Hmph, you dare to resist? Daring to oppose me, Huyuan Songqing. I’ll make you a cripple. Break for me!” Huyuan Songqing coldly shouted, not taking Qin Yichen’s counterattack seriously at all. He wanted to crush this kid in an overwhelming manner in front of countless onlookers, especially in front of Bian Lingzhu. He wanted everyone to know the consequences of daring to covet Bian Lingzhu and challenging him, Huyuan Songqing!