Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

efinement again before starting to refine a different herb.

This action was something none of them understood, but seeing grandmaster Yun Qi’s eyes filled with admiration, they all couldn’t help being startled.
Could this youth’s techniques really have some kind of secret behind them?

Long Chen refined the Iron Thread Grass a total of thirteen times before completely refining it.
At this time, all the twenty-something medicinal ingredients had all been refined.

Under normal circumstances, a Pill Apprentice would normally take this chance to take a breath and calm their nerves.

But Long Chen didn’t waste even that slightest bit of time.
After refining all of them into powders, he directly started refining to form a pill.
He started throwing in powder after powder into the pill furnace.

What none of them could understand was why Long Chen waited till the end to put the Iron Thread Grass essence into the cauldron.

With the circulation of his Spiritual Strength, the Pill Flame quickly shot up, and ripples from the heat appeared as Long Chen truly began his pill refinement.

“What a powerful Spiritual Strength!”

Everyone couldn’t help being shocked.
But at the same time they also shook their heads.
If he started wasting his Spiritual Strength to increase the flame’s strength now, how could he condense the pill later? It appeared young people really were too impatient.

Grandmaster Yun Qi was completely engrossed with his actions.
In this place, only he understood what Long Chen’s intention was.
At the same time, he also started to like Long Chen more and more; with such a powerful spirit and the ability to do hard work, it was definitely possible for him to have great achievements in life.

What caused everyone disbelief was that even after an hour, Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength didn’t show any signs of weakening, but was actually becoming stronger and stronger.

Bang!

The medicinal cauldron started to gently shake, and a powerful undulation came from it.
Everyone’s gaze focused; they all knew that this was the most critical moment.

With the medicinal cauldron continuously shaking, most alchemists would lower the Pill Flame’s power to stabilize the cauldron.

But Long Chen didn’t do that at all; on the contrary, he fed in even more Spiritual Strength and the Pill Flame became even hotter.
The sounds and shaking from the cauldron became even more intense.

“What is he doing?”

All of their expressions changed.
This wasn’t refining pills; this was causing a cauldron explosion! He was clearly doing it on purpose!

BOOM!

The medicinal cauldron jumped and Long Chen suddenly used one hand to tightly press down on the cauldron’s lid.
A sudden burst of powerful Spiritual Strength completely exploded out.

BANG!

The exploding pill furnace immediately stopped and returned to calm.

What a messy method! It’s such a waste of energy.

Long Chen wiped away his sweat.
Using this method to refine pills really was exhausting.
But it was important that he didn’t reveal his true strength.
He could only display this basic, bitter method.

Gently lifting the cauldron lid, a dense pill fragrance immediately filled the air.
Everyone was completely shocked.

“He actually succeeded!”

Everyone present could be considered experts, so without even needing to look inside the cauldron and relying just on the pill fragrance, they knew that he had succeeded.
Most of them were filled with astonishment inside.

“Excellent.
At the very least it should be a middle grade medicinal pill.”

Grandmaster Yun Qi was looking at Long Chen in admiration.
Long Chen had definitely far surpassed his expectations.

He had known that with Long Chen’s Spiritual Strength it would not be difficult to successfully refine a pill.
But he had wanted to know how good Long Chen’s foundation was.

But today he saw that Long Chen’s foundational techniques were incomparably sturdy and not at all inferior to Pill Apprentices who had trained for many years.

The most remarkable thing was Long Chen’s deep understanding of medicinal essence.
He knew the Iron Thread Grass was extremely fierce and required multiple refinements to curb that violent nature.
Doing so would allow the pill’s effect to increase and increase the chance of refinement.

Such a refining method was something no one within the alchemist guild knew about.
Within the guild was a secret warehouse of rare tomes.
A couple seniors had made recordings there.

The writings were unfortunately very vague, but it did have this theory: by refining the Iron Thread Grass multiple times, it should be possible to reduce its violent nature.

But those recordings were mostly extremely ordinary techniques or incomplete ideas.
When it came to Pill Masters, who would be so kind as to just give away their blood, sweat, and tears?

Let alone the others, even grandmaster Yun Qi who knew about it had never mentioned this method of refining the Iron Thread Grass.

One reason was that he had no obligation to go teach others, and the other was that Pill Masters who weren’t capable of innovation would not have any great achievements anyways.

When the others heard grandmaster Yun Qi say that it was a middle grade medicinal pill, they were all in complete disbelief.

Looking at the gazes all focused on him, Long Chen smiled slightly.
With a wave of his hand, his spiritual energy pulled out five fully round medicinal pills.

Along two of the pills were some shocking eye-attracting veins – pill lines.
This was a characteristic of at least middle grade pills.

For a moment, the entire room was silent.
Other than grandmaster Yun Qi, everyone’s eyes were filled with shock, admiration, and of course a trace of jealousy.

Seeing the five pills in his hands, Long Chen finally relaxed.
Grandmaster Yun Qi took this moment to announce, “Long Chen has succeeded in refining a pill.
I reward him a second class credit.”

Everyone’s expressions changed at that.
A second class credit was a privilege that allowed you to buy second tier medicinal pill ingredients.
This caused everyone’s eyes to turn red with envy.

In front of everyone’s complicated gazes, Long Chen followed grandmaster Yun Qi out of the room.
But he suddenly turned to Long Chen and gravely said the following:

“Long Chen, be wary of that woman.”