The Butterfly's Wings are Flapping
"This Soul Ring is just something left behind by an eighth-grade alchemist after death. Besides, the soul imprint on this ring has already dissipated, and the soul has died and vanished within the Soul Ring. I, Hun Xuzi, am the number one alchemist on the Douqi Continent, and you say I'm not qualified?"
Xiao Yan remembered a treasure appraisal collection in the ring about various exotic treasures of the Douqi Continent, which introduced the Soul Ring.
The so-called Soul Ring is an upgraded version of the Ring, which can be used to store dead objects like the Ring, but the biggest function of the Soul Ring is to preserve souls!
The souls of powerful alchemists are extremely powerful. When encountering fatal danger, they can let their souls escape from their bodies and hide in the Soul Ring to preserve their souls.
And this Soul Ring can even preserve the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, so there is no doubt that this is definitely an exotic treasure.
At first, Xiao Yan thought that this ring was a legacy left to him by his mother, but after Hun Xuzi said this, it should be that his mother didn't know where she got this Soul Ring.
The original owner of the Soul Ring encountered a fatal crisis and escaped from his body into the Soul Ring, but in the end, he still couldn't hold on, and his soul dissipated. The Ring and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame also became ownerless.
Hun Xuzi looked at Xiao Yan, revealing a sinister smile and said, "Heh heh, since you say I'm not qualified, then I'll show you what alchemy is!"
With a whoosh, Hun Xuzi used his soul power to pinch the Bone Spirit Cold Flame floating in the air, extracting a strand of fire as thick as a needle from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
His fingers waved like a conductor, and the pale white Bone Spirit Cold Flame thread quickly passed through several herbs as if threading a needle.
Almost in an instant, when the fire thread passed through the herbs, it extracted the essence of the herbs, and the remaining impurities instantly turned into piles of ashes and fell to the ground.
Finally, the fire thread wrapped the essence together and turned into a purple-white pill.
Almost instantly, the pill was formed! Although those herbs were not very high-grade, completing the refining of the pill in an instant was like a fantasy. Who would believe it if it was said out loud! "Boy, your goading is too naive."
With a whoosh, Hun Xuzi flicked his finger, and the pill turned into a stream of light and forcibly poured into Xiao Yan's throat.
"Ugh!" Xiao Yan immediately tried to vomit the pill, but it was too late. A medicinal power spread throughout his body, not giving Xiao Yan a chance to react.
"What did you give me to eat!"
"Heh heh heh, just an ordinary Poison Pill. If you can dispel this poison (resolve this poison), you will be qualified to become my disciple. Take my token to the Soul Palace in the Royal Capital. If you can't dispel this poison (resolve this poison), hehehe. Remember not to use goading casually in your next life."
A black token engraved with the word 'Soul' appeared on the table, and Hun Xuzi tore through the void and disappeared.
After Hun Xuzi disappeared, Xiao Yan's originally angry expression instantly returned to its original calmness, and his bloodshot eyes slowly recovered. Everything just now seemed to be intentional by Xiao Yan! When he guessed that Hun Xuzi would not kill him, Xiao Yan had an idea in his heart.
He lacked a powerful alchemist to guide him, even if it was just to watch him refine a pill once, so Xiao Yan deliberately used goading.
And Xiao Yan's gaze at the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was also to focus Hun Xuzi's attention on the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Xiao Yan needed to protect a cultivation method from being discovered.
Burning Technique, a low-level Huang class cultivation method, can evolve infinitely by devouring different fires. This is also the cultivation method Xiao Yan himself cultivates.
Xiao Yan had many cultivation methods to choose from, but in the end, Xiao Yan chose this strange and mysterious cultivation method.
There were two reasons. The first was because Xiao Yan's Soul Ring contained the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. The materials were already available, and he didn't even need to look for them, so he naturally chose this cultivation method.
The second was that this cultivation method was indeed powerful. Since reaching the Dou Zhe level, Xiao Yan had begun to cultivate the Burning Technique. From being able to only smell the Bone Spirit Cold Flame from a distance at the beginning, he could now approach the Bone Spirit Cold Flame within three meters and absorb wisps of flame that it emitted.
The current Burning Technique had already evolved to the middle level of the Huang class, proving that this cultivation method could indeed devour different fires and achieve endless evolution.
As for the Poison Pill, Xiao Yan didn't take it to heart at all. Not to mention that the different fire itself had the effect of detoxification and burning poison, as long as Xiao Yan could use the Burning Technique to devour the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, he could dispel this poison (resolve this poison).
Moreover, Xiao Yan already knew how to dispel this poison (resolve this poison).
Xiao Yan squatted down and collected all the herbal powder left over from Hun Xuzi's alchemy. These powders mixed together were the antidote.
The herbs used by Hun Xuzi for alchemy were all picked by Xiao Yan himself, so he naturally knew what herbs they were. Those were all herbs and not poisonous weeds, and they were beneficial.
The most basic step in alchemy is purification, removing excess impurities and toxins from the herbs and retaining the purest medicinal properties.
The so-called medicine is three parts poison. The reason why herbs are beneficial is not that they are non-toxic, but that their medicinal properties are greater than their toxicity, so they are herbs. Poisonous weeds are the opposite, with toxicity greater than medicinal properties.
So the antidote to that Poison Pill was the herbal powder left over.
After Xiao Yan mixed all the powder with water and drank it, the chills and pain in his body disappeared instantly, and the excess medicinal power even improved Xiao Yan's Dou Qi a little.
"The Gu jade... what exactly is it, that it's worth someone like Hun Xuzi snatching it?"
"How could my Xiao Clan have such a thing?"
Xiao Yan picked up the black token on the table. What happened today was far beyond the scope of Xiao Yan's knowledge.
After a while, there was a knock on the door: "Xiao Yan-gege, are you free tomorrow? Can you accompany Xun Er to the Town Market?"
Xiao Yan put everything into the Soul Ring, gently wiped the blood tears from his cheeks, and opened the door.
"If Xun Er needs her big brother to be a protector of flowers, then naturally, I won't decline."
Seeing Xun Er, Xiao Yan couldn't help but ponder. Could it be that Hun Xuzi didn't dare to kill him because of Xun Er? In a different space called the Soul Realm in the Dou Qi Continent, the once arrogant Hun Xuzi was actually kneeling on one knee behind a man.
The man was dressed in white robes, looking gentle and refined. He was holding some fish food in his hand, feeding the fish in the pool. He enjoyed watching the fish scramble for food.
After the man finished feeding all the food, he slowly turned around and said calmly, "Get up."
"Yes, Clan Leader."
The man asked unhurriedly, "How is it?"
Hun Xuzi respectfully said, "Reporting to the Clan Leader, the Xiao Clan's ancient jade has probably fallen into the hands of the Gu Clan."
"Hmm?" Hearing Hun Xuzi's answer, the Soul Clan's Clan Leader, Hun Tiandi, frowned. This was bad news.
Hun Xuzi continued, "In the Gama Empire's Xiao Clan, there is a young girl who possesses a sub-fire of the Golden Emperor Burning Flame within her body. Although I did not investigate that girl, I used my soul force to explore the entire Xiao Clan, but I did not find the ancient jade."
Hun Tiandi's eyes turned cold. He knew that the Golden Emperor Burning Flame, which ranked fourth on the异火 Ranking Different Fire Ranking, was the Gu Clan's inherited flame. Only important members of the Gu Clan could possess a sub-fire of the Golden Emperor Burning Flame.
Finding someone from the Gu Clan in the Xiao Clan meant that the whereabouts of the ancient jade were becoming clear.
"You were right not to use your soul force to explore her. That girl should be Gu Yuan's daughter. If you had accidentally triggered the means on her body, you would have been reduced to ashes." Hun Tiandi knew how terrifying Gu Yuan's strength was. Gu Yuan would not casually throw his daughter so far away. Even if they were tens of thousands of miles apart, Gu Yuan could easily destroy the entire Gama Empire.
"What a case of the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman benefits. In the end, the Xiao Clan's ancient jade still fell into your hands, Gu Yuan."
Hun Xuzi asked, "Clan Leader, should we kidnap that girl and exchange her for the ancient jade?"
Hun Tiandi pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "My injuries from the battle with Xiao Xuan have not yet fully healed. Now is not the time to start a war with the Gu Clan. Tell the Soul Palace to step up the collection of powerful soul bodies. We must complete it before the Gu Clan obtains the remaining ancient jade. We cannot allow the Gu Clan to continue to obtain more ancient jade."
"Yes! Clan Leader!"
The butterfly gently flapped its wings, and the timeline of fate underwent a tremendous change.
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