The Art of Chaotic Divinity

Chapter 427: Icy Soul-Stabilizing Golden Pill!

"Ling Feng, are you sure you don't need more time?"

Hong Haotian was stunned, thinking that the assessment he and the elders had set was too difficult for a teenager.

Even if Ling Feng could refine a seventh-tier medicinal pill, it would likely be limited to one or two kinds. Given his experience, just identifying a few main ingredients to deduce a complete pill formula would be extremely challenging...

Sympathy welled up in his eyes. After all, when he was Ling Feng's age, he was merely a third-grade alchemist.

"It seems this kid has decided to give up."

Voices murmured in the crowd. Even for many seasoned alchemists present, without knowing the answer beforehand, it would be difficult to determine which seventh-tier medicinal pill could be refined from those ingredients.

Yan Cangtian stood nearby, secretly chuckling: These fools...! I just can’t wait until their eyes pop out in surprise!

Ling Feng noticed the hint of sympathy in Hong Haotian's eyes and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

After bowing to Hong Haotian, Ling Feng walked towards the Six-legged Taotie Cauldron. Looking at the ingredients on the table, he quickly understood.

"This is blue ice, a crystal extracted from the demonic core of a fifth-tier demonic beast called the ice crystal beast from the extreme north. Such an amount of blue ice must have required at least dozens of demonic cores.

"This is the feather flower, which blooms for a very short period around midnight. If not picked in time, it turns into flying feathers and dissipates.

"And this, this is the real deal, the gallbladder of a demon king-level phoenix crown viper!"

Ling Feng touched his nose, knowing that the unique nature of these materials limited the number of medicinal pills that could be refined. He could only think of four possibilities.

And three of which were ancient pill formulas!

"A seventh-tier ancient medicinal pill?" Ling Feng touched his nose. "Hmm, quite a challenge!"

Outside the alchemy room, some alchemists were preparing to leave, thinking that it would take Ling Feng several hours just to come up with a complete pill formula. If he couldn't even do that, there would be no point in discussing alchemy!

But just as those who doubted Ling Feng were about to leave and return after twelve hours, Ling Feng began to act!

He didn't choose other ingredients but started processing the three main materials on the table.

"Does this kid already have an idea?"

"No way! How long has it been, thirty breaths? Or twenty?"

The elderly alchemists with white hair and beards were astonished. If it were them, thirty breaths wouldn't even be enough time to examine all the materials!

"This kid!"

Hong Haotian's expression grew serious. He suddenly realized that the boy might not have thought the time was too short, but rather too long.

If that were the case, then Ling Feng's alchemy skills were terrifyingly advanced!

Among the crowd, He Taichong, the vice-president who had witnessed Master Yun Danqing's high praise for Ling Feng, squinted his eyes and thought to himself: Good, let's see just how extraordinary this young man, who Master Yun values so highly, really is!

By the alchemy furnace, Ling Feng ignored the discussions around him and focused intensely on handling the blue ice, which contained relatively more impurities among the three ingredients.

This blue ice was a crystal extracted from a demonic core, and though most of its impurities had been removed during extraction, it still wasn't up to the standard for refining a seventh-tier medicinal pill.

Hong Haotian had intentionally set this trap, knowing that handling alchemy materials was a crucial skill for an alchemist.

If Ling Feng used these still-impure materials without a second thought, he would never successfully refine a seventh-tier medicinal pill.

What satisfied Hong Haotian greatly was that the first thing Ling Feng did was remove the impurities. This detail already demonstrated that Ling Feng's level of expertise was not to be underestimated.

Given Ling Feng's true skill, it would take about the time of a cup of tea to process these materials. However, Ling Feng deliberately took his time, pretending to be somewhat inexperienced, so it took him a full half-hour to finish processing the three main ingredients.

"President Hong, I have finished processing the materials. Sorry for the slight delay. Can I start selecting the other ingredients now?" Ling Feng asked casually, looking up at Hong Haotian.

"Uh..."

Hong Haotian felt his throat constrict. Processing these three high-tier materials in half an hour is considered slow?

Not only Hong Haotian, but the other elderly alchemists were also left speechless, staring at Ling Feng as if he were a monster.

Ninety-nine percent of them would need more than half an hour for such a task. Even for Hong Haotian, this speed was impressive.

If this was considered slow, they might as well find a hole to crawl into.

Yan Cangtian, standing nearby, frowned slightly and cursed inwardly. This brat, I told him to keep a low profile, but he's still so fast!

If Ling Feng knew Yan Cangtian's thoughts, he would have protested his innocence!

"Heaven knows, I really took my time!"

Hong Haotian coughed to ease the awkwardness and then smiled while saying, "Ling Feng, as I mentioned earlier, you can use any materials in this alchemy room, but you can only use up to five portions!"

This rule also addressed the success rate of sixth-grade alchemists. If Ling Feng's success rate for refining seventh-tier medicinal pills was less than twenty percent, he wouldn't qualify as a sixth-grade alchemist.

"Understood," Ling Feng nodded, taking a deep breath. He activated the Heavenly Dao divine inscription, and with Boundless Vision, he could clearly see the exact locations of all the materials on the shelves.

About a quarter of an hour later, Ling Feng had a preliminary idea of the medicinal pill he would refine.

Of the four pill formulas he knew that required the three main ingredients, two of the ancient pill formulas lacked materials. This left him with only one ancient medicinal pill, the Icy Soul-Stabilizing Golden Pill, and an ordinary medicinal pill, the Icy Soul-Stabilizing Pill.

Although there was only a one-word difference between these two pills, the former's refining method and a few additional ingredients made its efficacy three times higher than the ordinary Icy Soul-Stabilizing Pill!

If the Icy Soul-Stabilizing Pill was just an ordinary seventh-tier medicinal pill, then the Icy Soul-Stabilizing Golden Pill was a top-grade seventh-tier medicinal pill and could even reach the pinnacle of the tier.

After weighing his options for a moment, Ling Feng decided to use the precious materials to refine an Icy Soul-Stabilizing Golden Pill. Otherwise, it would be a waste of such rare ingredients.

What Ling Feng didn't know was that Hong Haotian and the others only expected him to refine an ordinary Icy Soul-Stabilizing Pill. As for the Icy Soul-Stabilizing Golden Pill formula, even President Hong Haotian didn't know it!