After Defying the Villain’s Fate for Nine Lifetimes, the Heroines Turn Mad!

Chapter 330

Lin Feng couldn’t understand.

Why did Jiang Chen also know this technique of using fire to remove impurities and spiritual energy as a ladle?

You see, when he discovered this trick, he had consulted many elders of the Ancient Pill Tower and was sure that no one else had discovered it!

Lin Feng couldn’t help but wonder.

Could it be that Jiang Chen’s Way of the Pill talent truly surpassed his own? Is that why he could also discover this trick?

What he didn’t know was that…although Jiang Chen had never participated in an Alchemy Conference in the nine cycles of reincarnation he was very clear about Lin Feng’s showy methods through the original story.

Regardless, Lin Feng now faced a choice.

At this moment, Jiang Chen had used a special technique to reduce the time it took to make the seventh-grade Foundation Establishing Pill while also improving its quality.

So, what should he do? Should he use this trick or not?

Use it!

If he didn’t, defeat was certain!

Focusing his mind, he began to control the surrounding spiritual energy to enter the pill cauldron and started the process of fire purification.

Seeing this, Elder Zheng on the high platform shook his head.

In the spectator seats, there were sneers all around.

“This Lin Feng really has no shame, stealing techniques on the spot!”

“It’s not wrong to steal techniques, but to blatantly use them in a competition is shameless.”

“You both are mistaken! Lin Feng is the Son of Destiny! Does he need to save face?”

“What you say is very true.”

“Indeed, indeed. How could someone who got in through the ‘back door’ care about face?”

“Haha!”

“…”

Hearing these words, Lin Feng had anticipated them and, unable to retort, could only continue with a darkened face.

The competition went on.

Aside from Jiang Chen and Lin Feng, who were properly refining pills, the rest of the pill refiner masters were sitting cross-legged, their deep eyes seemingly pondering something.

In the blink of an eye, a day passed.

The pill fire on the pill platform was still burning, and the spectators did not feel tired.

Accompanied by a sizzling sound, the pill fire went out, and the trembling of the pill cauldron ceased.

The pill was formed! A fragrance wafted from the ancient cauldron in front of Jiang Chen, spreading around and lingering for a long time.

Smelling it, everyone felt refreshed.

“Haha! Just by smelling this fragrance, you can tell it’s at least a medium-grade seventh-grade Foundation Establishing Pill, a superior quality pill is not out of the question!” Elder Zheng laughed heartily while stroking his beard.

Yu Shi’s face was dark, looking worse than if he had eaten dung.

And in the spectator seats, the crowd, along with the people from the Jiuyan Sect, burst into cheers.

Although many still looked at Jiang Chen with disfavor, but a pill refiner master capable of producing a superior quality pill was enough to suppress the dislike in their hearts.

At this time, Lin Feng was still in the process of refining his pill, sighing deeply.

Although he was on par with Jiang Chen as a pill refiner master, Jiang Chen’s phoenix fire and ancient cauldron gave him a significant boost in refining speed, which he could do nothing about.

Now, all he could do was continue to focus on refining the pill, hoping that his destiny would allow him to produce a higher-grade pill.

“Jiang Chen, quickly take out the pill from the cauldron, let us all take a look,” Elder Zheng urged.

As his voice fell, a disciple of the Ancient Pill Tower came forward with a wooden box.

The box was opened, revealing a slender and transparent spiritual ladle inside, surrounded by spiritual energy.

This was a special ladle used by the Ancient Pill Tower to retrieve high-grade pills.

Unlike lower-grade pills, when a seventh-grade pill is taken from the cauldron, a specially made spiritual instrument is needed to prevent the pill’s spiritual energy from leaking out or being tainted by people or objects.

“No need, I have something better,” Jiang Chen said with a smile, declining the offer.

To this, everyone was not surprised.

After all, Jiang Chen was at least a seventh-grade pill refiner master, and it was only natural for him to be prepared.

But unexpectedly… Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Jiang Chen gently touched his spiritual ring and summoned a sword that was pure white, glowed with seven colors, and was full of ancient charm.

The moment the ancient sword appeared.

Both the suspended Dragon Cauldron Ancient Bell and the Four-Legged Divine Pattern Cauldron emitted a faint humming sound.

“Our sect’s divine sword?!” The Grandmaster of the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion exclaimed in shock.

Indeed, the ancient sword Jiang Chen took out was the divine-grade spiritual instrument of the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion, the Seven Luminaries Ancient Sword!

Because it was too embarrassing to admit, only the five Grandmasters of the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion knew about the loss of the Seven Luminaries Ancient Sword by the Seven Luminaries Sword Ancestor.

And for this Alchemy Conference, the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion also had the intention, if possible, to retrieve the ancient sword from Jiang Chen.

Now that cultivators above the Divine Passage realm were not allowed to appear in the world, it meant that Jiang Chen had lost his protector, which was the best opportunity to take the ancient sword back.

What the people of the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion didn’t expect was to “cheer on” Jiang Chen, the Jiuyan Demonic Sect had come out in full force this time.

Even more unexpectedly, Jiang Chen actually took out the ancient sword under everyone’s watchful eyes!

Didn’t he know the saying, “A man who is innocent may be guilty of possessing a treasure”?

And this incident was most embarrassing for the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion!

After all, now it seemed likely that the entire Central Domain would know that the divine-grade spiritual instrument of the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion had been taken away and had fallen into Jiang Chen’s hands!

And indeed, that was the case.

After recognizing the ancient sword, following a brief moment of shock, the surrounding sects all looked at the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion with incredulous eyes.

This made everyone from the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion clench their fists and glare at Jiang Chen with gritted teeth.

In response, Jiang Chen just gave a mocking laugh.

He had guessed that the people from the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion had come here after hearing about his participation in the Alchemy Conference, intending to secretly take back the ancient sword.

With the resolve of ‘if others don’t offend me, I will still offend them’, Jiang Chen naturally wanted to make the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion lose face.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Jiang Chen held the ancient sword and inserted its tip into the alchemy cauldron.

Soon, a translucent pill with a pinkish-white hue and a halo of medicinal essence was extracted with the tip of the sword.

“Hisss!”

Someone gasped in shock, taking in a breath of cold air and said, “Using a divine-grade spiritual weapon to extract a pill, this Jiang Chen is really domineering! He’s slapping the face of the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion!”

“Jiang Chen! How dare you!”

After a chorus of angry shouts, the people from the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion were indeed furious, drawing their swords from their sheaths, their eyes splitting with rage.

Seeing this, the people from the Jiuyan Sect also took out their spiritual weapons, emitting a strange ‘cackle’ of laughter.

Just as the two sects were about to engage in a major battle, Elder Zheng hurriedly shouted angrily, “The Empress’s decree has already been issued. Do you seek to provoke trouble and incur the Five Extinctions upon yourselves?!”

“…”

Hearing this, the people from the Seven Luminaries Sword Pavilion reluctantly returned to their seats.

The Jiuyan Sect members, looking bored, also sheathed their spiritual weapons.

This allowed Elder Zheng to breathe a sigh of relief.

He personally stepped down from the stage, inspected Jiang Chen’s pill, and quickly returned to the main topic, “The pill refined by Jiang Chen is a high-quality seventh-grade!”

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.

Such a high-grade and quality pill was something that even the elders of the Ancient Pill Tower could not easily produce!

What did this prove?

It proved that Jiang Chen’s mastery in the Way of the Pill had surpassed that of the Ancient Pill Tower’s elders!

“As expected of the young master of the Jiang family, such talent is astonishing!” Elder Zheng stroked his beard, not sparing any praise.

Although he said this, in his heart, he was extremely solemn.

The emergence of an excellent successor like Jiang Chen in the Way of the Pill from the Jiang family was not good news for the Imperial Dynasty…

“Let’s also check the pill formation rate,” Elder Zheng continued.

A pill refiner master does not refine pills individually but puts several portions of materials into the furnace to refine together, and the number of pills produced at the end is the pill formation rate.

For this alchemy competition, the Ancient Pill Tower provided each pill refiner master with ten portions of alchemy materials.

Having said that, Elder Zheng quickly stepped forward and cast a probing look at the alchemy cauldron in front of Jiang Chen.

What met his eyes was an extremely thick pill liquid, impurities, without a single intact pill.

“A ten percent pill formation rate?” Elder Zheng frowned.

Hearing this, the spectator seats exploded once again!

Logically speaking, even a seventh-grade pill refiner master with shallow mastery should have a pill formation rate of around thirty to forty percent, but Jiang Chen only had ten percent?

Although the quality of the pill was good, it was indeed a bit low…

As for this, Jiang Chen seemed to have anticipated it and was not surprised.

The thing about pill formation rate has a large component of luck, and having experienced nine cycles of reincarnation, he was very clear that luck had always been elusive to him.

All he could do was his best.

If he could win the championship with the quality of the pill, that would be great, if not…

With this thought, Jiang Chen looked towards Lin Feng, who was still refining pills.

If not, then he would have to resort to underhanded tactics and figure out a way to destroy Lin Feng’s alchemy furnace!

In any case, he would not allow this Son of Destiny Lin Feng to be above him in this lifetime!

And when the other pill refiner masters saw Jiang Chen looking at Lin Feng with a rather cold gaze, they exchanged glances and began to refine pills in unison.

In the blink of an eye, several more hours passed.

“Ah! The alchemy cauldron is going to explode!” Pill refiner master Dong Yao suddenly shouted in panic.

Then, he threw the alchemy cauldron, which was about to explode, directly towards Lin Feng…

“F*ck!!” Lin Feng cursed out loud.