The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 96

Chapter 96: Magic Pill Evaluation

Hearing these words, everyone looked over to him in surprise.

Tang YunQi who wanted to see him make a fool of himself frowned deeply. She looked darkly at the cauldron in front of him, her eyes burning with rage. The fists hanging at her side were clenched so tightly that they turned bright red clearly showing how much force she was using.

That Senior raised his brow slightly and walked over asking calmly, “Where is the damage?”

You XiaoMo turned the cauldron over. There were criss-crossed cracks on the bottom. At first it was only one crack. But because of his actions while refining the magic pill, the crack couldn’t withstand it, causing it to widen.

The Elder frowned and without a word and got someone to replace the cauldron. The first portion of magic herbs were ruined just because of the issue with the cauldron. But he didn’t give him another portion.

After receiving the cauldron from that young man that distributed the magic herbs earlier, You XiaoMo deliberately examined it in front of him. After making sure that there were no cracks on the bottom, You XiaoMo felt more at ease. He didn’t want to discover the same thing again after having started refining. After all, he only had one portion of materials left. If he didn’t make it this time, that would mean he would have really failed the assessment.

The young man lowered his head as if he didn’t notice his actions. When he walked by the Senior, his steps faltered a bit. By the time he got back to his original position, his eyes seemed red.

You XiaoMo let out a light sigh. Actually, he himself didn’t want to be too fussy. But this time, the situation was beyond his control. If the cauldron were to really explode, it might affect the two disciples at his side. If they were Heaven Peak disciples, he wouldn’t feel bad. Just blame it on their bad luck. But one of them was an Capital Peak disciple. He was not the Virgin Mary, so he wasn’t that kind-hearted. But, if he were to cause this disciple to fail the assessment, he could guarantee that after that he would be drowned to death by the saliva from everyone’s condemnation. That disciple would also put the blame on him. This was not what he wanted to shoulder so he chose to give up halfway.

Due to this matter, there was less than half of the fine sand remaining.

You XiaoMo took one sweeping look at the other cauldrons. A lot of them had already started the final blending step.

Throwing in the final portion of materials into the cauldron, You XiaoMo started to concentrate once again. Several hundred pairs of eyes were thrown to the back of his head and ignored. The only thing that remained were the magic herbs in the cauldron. One half of the time left meant fifteen minutes. This duration of time may seem tight for others but You XiaoMo was not the least bit anxious.

After talking with Da Shixiong, his understanding of the soul force had reached another level. At first, he thought that the soul force could be released from any part of the body. Now he knew that that was a misconception. Only beginners would think that way. The true soul force should be released from the ten fingers. Only this way would it not be wasted. On top of that, others would not be able to discern your exact condition when done this way. That was because some high level master mages would only need to take one look at your soul force and figure out your strength. So hiding one’s own strength was also something that mages needed to learn.

After settling his thoughts, You XiaoMo used his soul force to dissolve the three stalks of magic herbs into liquid. Then he slowly distilled the three pools of liquid. After a while, some impurities fell off into the dark depths at the bottom of the cauldron. Then he started the second round of distillation.

He was full of concentration throughout the whole process. Other people could tell then he was distilling the magic herbs but they couldn’t see what was really happening in the cauldron.

After the first disciple successfully refined a magic pill, the second one and third one followed. Luckily, one among them was actually the disciple standing next to You XiaoMo, from the same peak, who could hardly hide the joy on his face. The Capital Peak disciples behind him also felt very happy seeing this. Even Kong Wen’s serious face softened a little. This was the fourth Capital Peak disciple to pass the test because four had failed during the previous two rounds.

Soon after this disciple’s success, the other disciple seemed to be spurred on and with one eighth of the time remaining, he finally succeeded in refining a magic pill with the second portion of the materials.

At this time, with the time limit fast approaching, only two people are still refining magic pills among the nine stone platforms.

One of them was You XiaoMo. The other, surprisingly, was actually Heaven Peak’s Jiang Liu. He was standing at the first platform, separated by five platforms from You XiaoMo. The two of them seemed to be at the blending step. With the time limit fast approaching, they both appeared calm and composed.

But the Heaven Peak and Capital Peak disciples all appeared very agitated.

For the Heaven Peak people, Jiang Liu was their most outstanding new disciple. If he failed, Heaven Peak would lose face.

For the Capital Peak people, You XiaoMo was a disciple of the Shifu of the peak. As a formal disciple, if he failed, Kong Wen and Capital Peak would lose face.

Zhou Peng felt that he had never felt this nervous before. He wasn’t even this nervous when he faced Lei Ju on stage and this was all because of You XiaoMo who was in the middle of refining a magic pill, “Da Shixiong, the time is almost up. Why is your Shidi still not done?”

“It’s not you who is refining the magic pill. Why are you so anxious?” Ling Xiao looked at You XiaoMo expressionlessly.

“I’m feeling anxious on your behalf. After all he is your Shidi. If it was someone else, I wouldn’t care.” Zhou Peng felt himself getting so anxious that he was going round in circles. And Da Shixiong was actually showing no expression at all, feeling really like ‘Emperor was not worried but his eunuchs are worried to death’ type of situation.

The reality was, Zhou Peng didn’t really understand Ling Xiao.

If You XiaoMo were to see Ling Xiao right now, he would be able to tell that he was not in a good mood.

“Ha! Jiang-shidi has succeeded!” A joyful shout came from the Heaven Peak group. Seeing that the shout was coming from the Heaven Peak side, Ling Xiao couldn’t help but frown.

At this time, Jiang Liu who was standing at the first stone platform was smiling proudly. In his hand was an impressive magic pill. The magic pill was light blue in color but it was a shade darker than light blue. Compared to the magic pills from the other disciples, it was clearly a little better. No wonder he was smiling so brilliantly.

The happier the people from Heaven Peak, the more unsightly the faces of the people from Capital Peak. Looking at the glowing faces of the people from Heaven Peak, the faces of the Capital Peak disciples got darker and darker, moving their line of sight to You XiaoMo.

At this time, the amount of fine sand remaining in the hourglass was not much.

Ling Xiao’s tight expression suddenly relaxed when he saw You XiaoMo’s shoulders raise a little. His lips slowly curved up while Zhou Peng at his side was still anxious to the point of death.

“Time’s up!” The Senior’s roaring voice suddenly rings out.

At the same time, a light red magic pill flew out of the cauldron. You XiaoMo hastily stretched out his hand to catch it.

The hearts of the Capital Peak disciples that were suspended in mid air suddenly fell back down. This had really scared them to death. They thought that You XiaoMo wouldn’t make it in time but luckily he managed to catch up.

“Damn it!” Tang YunQi gloomily bit her lower lip, finding it hard to conceal the sinister gleam in her eyes. She glared hatefully at You XiaoMo who was holding a light red magic pill. She designed those two plans specifically and they both actually failed.

The two people at her side looked at each other in dismay. Unable to come up with any words of comfort, they could only pray that You XiaoMo refined a dead magic pill.

Jiang Liu walked up to You XiaoMo, his somewhat childish face showing a brilliant smile, “You-shixiong, congratulations ya!”

You XiaoMo was looking absorbedly at the magic pill in his hand. Suddenly hearing these words, he looked over in surprise. Only then did he find out that it was actually his fellow villager Jiang Liu. Ever since the competition at Central peak, he had not seen him again. He didn’t expect that he would be in the same round.

You XiaoMo saw the magic pill in his hand and smiled saying, “Jiang-shidi. I too have to congratulate you. looked like you have passed the test.”

Jiang Liu playfully stuck out his tongue, saying happily, “You-shixiong. This words must wait until after the magic pill evaluation. I would be even happier if you say it to me then.”

Even though he said those words, the joy in his words was very obvious. Since it was only them that had yet to have their magic pills evaluated, the both of them walked up together to the Senior. Jiang Liu was the first to hand over his magic pill respectfully to the Senior. The light blue magic pill rolled in his hand giving out a slight medicinal fragrance.

The Senior was a level six mage. Although his power was not as high as Kong Wen and his peers, but his ability in evaluating magic pills was higher than theirs. So as long the magic pill evaluation was done by him, no one would question the result.

Everyone saw him take the magic pill from Jiang Liu and those eyes that look muddy but are actually very shrewd, looked fixedly at the magic pill for a bit. Then with some satisfaction he said in a clear loud voice, “Blue Spirit magic pill. Distilled twice. Medium quality low grade magic pill. I declare that Heaven Peak’s Jiang Liu passed the test.”

Just when he finished speaking, all the Heaven Peak disciples burst out in cheers.

Due to the limit of the materials, all the magic pills refined by the disciples could only be low grade magic pills. But even though they were low grade magic pills, the quality could still be a little different. So the ones distilled once were of low quality, the ones distilled twice were of medium quality while the ones distilled thrice were of high quality.

The disciples now could only distill once, so Jiang Liu’s achievement, distilling twice and in one try, was actually quite excellent when compared to others.

Jiang Liu himself was feeling very excited, revealing a slight arrogance in his eyes. Then he realized that there was still You XiaoMo standing next to him, so he restrained that bit of arrogance and said smilingly to him, “You-shixiong. It’s now your turn.”