Impeccable Talent

"Hmm?" the elder sitting inside the office smiled after he smelled a medicinal fragrance that's only available in a specific Medicinal Pill. It is also known as a master's medicine to people working as a hunter, herb farmer, night watcher, and Soul Chef.

The reason for this is due to their job, which has a requirement of working in cold weather, dealing with ice-cold water and intense fire daily, and living in humid condition. This is also the easiest way for Yin Poison to seeps inside the body and creating health problems.

Although not life-threatening, it weakens the overall health of a person and his immunity. Those with Yin Poison also often feel fatigued, loss of appetite, and easily irritated.

And to help get rid of this illness, a Han-Wan Pellet is always the best solution.

"Based on the number of days, I think he'll be able to refine ten to twenty pellets before he's out of ingredients." the elder nodded. After a while, he returned to work.

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"Cold Heat Pellet! One success at last!" Yang Guang holds the medicinal pellet between his finger and jumps around the room out of happiness. After fifty failures, his patience and expectation also matured. Yang Guang is no longer that impatient on everything, and also, his control of Jade Flames improved without himself noticing.

"Continue!" Yang Guang prepared another set of ingredients and repeated what he had done earlier. The Cold Heat Pellet is also placed into a Medicine Bottle to be given to Elder Xiao Yi later.

"Bam!" his second and third attempt ends up as failure due to overexcitement. These two mistakes quickly tell him to stop being overconfident after one success.

"Huh..." Yang Guang calmed himself. After going into meditation for an hour, he restarted the Pill Refining practice.

"Success."

"Success."

"Again." this time, the result is satisfactory. Out of the next batch of prepared ingredients, Yang Guang's success rate is two out of five attempts, which is quite good for a starter.

After paying for his fifth and sixth day of rent to the Elder's Office, Yang Guang came back to the Pill Refinement Room and decided to finish what he started. The remaining ingredients got refined in two days, with the end results of twenty success Cold Heat Pellets and eighty failures.

After a rest, Yang Guang left the Pill Refinement Room on his seventh day and made his way straight to Elder Xiao Yi's room.

"Come in." a voice came from inside the room, giving him permission to enter the room after three knocks.

Three other Outer Disciples stands before the elder. Tian Peng is also one of the outer disciples among them. And without further ado, Yang Guang made his way to beside Tian Peng.

"Ye Wen, show me." Elder Xiao Yi had the first of the four people to bring out what is in their hand. This person called Ye Wen can be said to be the most senior out of the four, and he's almost twenty.

The case in his hand is opened. Two medicine pellets filled Jade Bottle is leaning on one side.

Elder Xiao Yi took one of the bottles up and gave it a whiff. The scent from the container quickly announces their identity to the three other Outer Disciples.

"Small Huang Pellet," the three of them gasp. Based on the size of the common Jade Container, each of them could fit five pellets inside. This means that there are at least ten Small Huang Pellets inside the case.

"Ye Wen, the Small Huang Pellets you refined is a pass. You can bring them over to the Elder's Office to be exchanged into merits."

"Tang Hulu, what about you?"

The smiling face belonged to Elder Xiao Yi appeared. After making sure that Ye Wen's work has no problem, he allowed the disciple to exchange them to merits.

As for Tang Hulu, she's the only girl among the four disciples under Elder Xiao Yi. She also had another identity except being an Outer Disciple, which is the only daughter of the elder of Tempering Tower, Tang Jian.

"Teacher, Xiao-Lulu had a perfect hundred of hundred scores today! Look at them!" Tang Hulu opened the case in her hand, revealing twenty Jade Bottles filled with 5 pills each.

The elder poured two out of five pills from the Jade Bottle and inspected their quality. Each of them had a fiery red outer layer, with some white streaks on the pill surface.

"Very good."

"The San-Wei Pill you refined are indeed up to the quality. You can bring them to elder Tang, I think he's going to be happy with what you fives him and rewards you with a lot of merits." Elder Xiao Yi jokes. He knows very well about Elder Tang Jian's personality.

"Tian-Er, what about you?" Elder Xiao Yi placed his attention at Tian Peng next. From his words, Yang Guang is sure that Tian Peng is busy finishing his task when Yang Guang came to find him six days ago.

"Elder Yi, Tian-Er only managed to refine fifty Azure Soul Pill out of the 1,000 stalks of Azure Jade Grass. Sorry." Tian Peng opened his case with only eleven Jade Bottles inside.

Elder Xiao Yi did not show the face of disappointment after hearing what Tian Peng told him. But instead, he extends both hands out to receive the case and inspects each and every bottle with Azure Soul Pill.

Although there are only ten bottles of Azure Soul Pill, every single pellet refined by Tian Peng is capable of providing between three to five Soul Jade worth of Soul Qi. Although the quality remained as Basic-Grade medicine, the Soul Jades used to pay for the pellets are much more worthy for the buyer.

Elder Xiao Yi nods at Tian Peng and giving him the approval to trade them for merits. At last, it is Yang Guang's turn to present his works.

"Elder, Guang-Er is stupid. Guang-Er only managed to refine twenty out of a hundred Han-Wen Pellet." Yang Guang opened his case and presents four bottles of Cold Heat pellets.

"Twenty pellets. Not bad for a newcomer." Elder Xiao Yi smiled. Continuing his words, Ye Wen and Tian Peng also joined and added their comment.

"Brother Yang, twenty pellets is a great job! You're now the second-best out of the four of us," said Ye Wen.

"Great job. I know you always have some talent in Alchemy. See!" Tian Peng did not make any weird remarks but looking fully supportive of Yang Guang.

"Thank you, Brother Ye, Brother Tian." Yang Guang cupped his hand and gave them a slight bow.

"By the way, what is the record of everyone here?" Yang Guang is curious. Doesn't the sentence mentioned by Ye Wen means that he and Tian Peng is worst during their attempt to refine the Cold Heat Pellet?

"Brother Tian got ten out of a hundred. I've got sixteen out of a hundred." Ye Wen answered, honestly.

"How about Sister Tang?" Yang Guang asked.

"Me? I got 100 out of 100 success. My first time refining pills for fun." her reply sent Tian Peng, Ye Wen, and Yang Guang into a shock. This is like trying to compare why a fish is a better swimmer than a cat!