Chapter 39 (1/2)

Chapter 39

Chapter 39 Obtaining the Beast Flame

Seeing Long Chen’s expression change so suddenly, Chu Yao’s heart sunk . s.h.i.+ Feng, Fatty Yu and the others also were scared .

The cost of him losing was far too great . It was something hard to take even in death . But Xia Changfeng coldly smiled inside when he saw Long Chen’s face .

“Haha, Long Chen, what are you waiting for? Why aren’t you coming over to kowtow yet?” Xia Baichi sneered at Long Chen, seeming extremely pleased with herself .

Being able to humiliate Long Chen was practically better than being promoted to Pill Adept for her! Her body couldn’t help starting to s.h.i.+ver in antic.i.p.ation .

Long Chen’s face was extremely grave as he slowly took out a medicinal pill from the pill furnace . He regretfully said, “I wanted to be low-key, but the heavens wouldn’t let me . ”

Only now did everyone see that Long Chen actually did have a round medicinal pill in his hand . They cursed at him for acting so dejected .

“That scoundrel . ” Chu Yao was both surprised and delighted . She really had been scared witless for a moment back then .

“Heavens, I think I really might die . If I continue like this then my heart won’t be able to take it . ” Fatty Yu collapsed to the ground helplessly .

Only at this time did people realize Long Chen had put on an act . This was especially true for Xia Baichi who felt as if she had been given a slap on the face .

“Long Chen, you dare play me?” raged Xia Baichi .

“It’s whatever; it’s just taking people for a little spin, so why are you so serious?” Long Chen said randomly .

“Hmph, Long Chen, even if you did for the Blood Condensing Pill, you’ll still lose . That pill you refined is just low grade, while mine is middle grade . ”

Xia Baichi raised her hand, showing the pill line . All the nearby people could see it extremely clearly .

“Sister Baichi, you really are talented . You can already refine a middle grade second tier medicinal pill at such a young age . It really does make people admire you,” exclaimed the crown prince Chu Yang .

A Pill Adept this young truly was rarely seen, maybe seen only once every few decades . Such a talent could definitely go far on the pill path .

Seeing her ridiculing face, Long Chen indifferently said, “Who won and who lost isn’t something decided by you . ”

“Are you trying to quibble? My medicinal pill has a pill line, and yours doesn’t . Are you unable to see such an obvious difference?” sneered Xia Baichi .

“You’re absolutely right that yours is a middle grade medicinal pill . But the pill in my hand is also middle grade . ” Long Chen raised the pill in his hand .

For Long Chen to put it like this shocked everyone . But after carefully examining it, it seemed as if the pill in his hand was absolutely ordinary . Although it was plump and round, there were no pill lines .

“Middle grade medicinal pill? Hmph, how come I can’t tell?” sneered Xia Baichi .

“I really do sympathize with you . So young but your eyes are so blind . Who said that middle grade medicinal pills had to have pill lines?” sighed Long Chen .

Wei Cang’s expression changed slightly at that . Shock appeared in his eyes, and he stared fixedly at the medicinal pill in Long Chen’s hand .

Just now he had felt that that pill was a bit strange . From what Long Chen said, he then thought of what Long Chen had done before forming the pill and immediately became a bit bewildered .

“Bring out the pill appraisal device!”

Following grandmaster Yun Qi’s instructions, a Pill Apprentice respectfully brought over a large apparatus .

It looked like a table, and had a notch at the center for placing the medicinal pill . It had the best accuracy for appraising a medicinal pill’s grade .

“Sixty percent essence; miss Baichi’s medicinal pill meets the demands for a middle grade medicinal pill . ” The Pill Apprentice read out the device’s reading .

If the essence const.i.tuted fifty percent of the pill then it would count as low grade . Sixty percent would make it middle grade . Xia Baichi’s Blood Condensing Pill had just barely made the grade .

“Long Chen, I truly want to know just what’s so special about your ‘middle grade’ medicinal pill . ” Xia Baichi took back her pill and sneered at Long Chen .

She didn’t believe that Long Chen’s medicinal pill had truly reached the middle grade . Since there weren’t any pill lines, who was he even trying to trick? This was just a final struggle .

“Then have a good look . ”

Long Chen laughed and handed his medicinal pill to the Pill Apprentice . Any medicinal pills that were just refined would have a thin pill membrane covering it for six hours that could not be faked .

“Sixty-three percent essence; mister Long Chen’s medicinal pill meets the demands for a middle grade medicinal pill . ” The Pill Apprentice read out the new reading .

“What?!”

Xia Baichi was stupefied to the point that even the pill in her hand dropped to the ground, her head completely blank; she had lost?

Not only her, but everyone else was shocked, especially Wei Cang . Reading the number on the device, his face turned completely ashen .

Everything that had happened during the refining had been observed by him so it was definitely no fake . Long Chen had actually refined a middle grade pill without any pill lines .

Usually the medicinal grade of the pill was determined during the refining process . That was why Wei Cang had given Xia Baichi those three hundred year old Blood Spirit Fruits . It could be said that she had been set into an invincible position .

Otherwise he wouldn’t have acted so grandly and used the Flame Leopard’s beast flame as a prize . But now Xia Baichi had lost .