Chapter 25 (2/2)
Prince Zhao said with a bitter smile, “What else can we do? We had three plates of Fried Loquats, which led to a whole night’s toilet war…”
“Are we still going to eat that thing today?” Prince Qi asked feebly.
“Yeah. It’ll be fine if we eat more of them. Cultivators should be able to eat all kinds of food and can digest all kinds of hazardous things…”
Xiao Chen shook his head. With Lil Ruo, he didn’t need to worry about his diet.
The Sunset Peak had liberal arts courses. The classroom was a big hall and not far from the mess hall. It looked pretty imposing. When the dozens of students had seated, in walked a teal-robed elder with two children behind him. One child held a thick stack of notebooks and the other carried a parcel.
The teal-robed elder walked to the front of the hall, swept around to count the numbers, and took a notebook from the child on his left. He said, “You can call me Elder Song. Now begins the first class, the rules of the Three Pure Sect.”
He licked his finger, opened the notebook in his hand and said, “The first commandment: Honor the teacher and respect his teaching, and no cheating or killing the teacher. The second commandment: Recognize the good and the evil, and no associating with disciples of the devil’s sects. The third commandment: Respect and love fellow disciples, and no fighting or bullying…”
In the end, the students were all sleepy after an hour of his lecturing. Finally, Elder Song had to cough heavily to wake up the three students who had fallen asleep.
“Fried… Fried Loquats!” Prince Zhao suddenly raised his head, rubbed his eyes, looked out of the window and murmured, “Is… Is the class over?”
The students around chuckled. Elder Song walked to him and threw the notebook on his desk, saying, “Young friend, please read aloud what I just lectured!”
“Okay…” Prince Zhao stood up and noticed the two friends beside winking at him. He coughed and said, “First, recognize the good and the evil, no fighting or bullying master…”
The classroom burst out laughing. “Laugh not!” Elder Song glared at the others and thundered. “The three of you, go back and copy the sect rules 100 times. Hand the copies over to me tomorrow morning.” He then angrily walked back to the front of the hall.
At this point, a red-robed elder in and then he walked to the front of the hall barehanded. At that time, he moved his fingers to conjure a palm-sized ancient Chinese cauldron and many other miscellaneous items on the desk.
Every disciple’s eyes lit up. It was much more interesting to see so many things appear out of nowhere like magic than to listen to the dry sect rules.
Xiao Chen was also a bit shocked. What was going on? After a Cultivator reached the Nascent Soul Realm, he would be able to generate his Violet Manor Nascent Soul. Smaller Violet Manor Nascent Soul could be used to store items, and bigger ones could trap an enemy or temporarily hide himself to escape from enemies. Some Cultivators could even cultivate their Violet Manor Nascent Souls into a Plane in his body. But this elder couldn’t have reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
The red-robed elder coughed and said, “You can call me Elder Liu. As disciples of a Cultivators’ sect, the elixir-refining technique is essential. Now, I’ll tell you something about it.”
He said a bunch of esoteric theories and then picked up the cauldron, saying, “As you can see, this is only a normal mini-cauldron. But, the secrets of the heaven and earth lay inside it. Now, I’ll show you how to refine an elixir.”
After saying so, he threw the cauldron up and it suspended in the air. The students exclaimed upon seeing this. This was the psychokinesis of the Immortals.
“The mortals need fire to refine elixirs. But as Cultivators, we use the power of our Energies.” Elder Liu sent some medicinal materials and minerals into the cauldron while speaking. He then channeled his Energy through his arms, and white smoke started to emit from the top of the cauldron.
He carefully controlled the duration and degree of heating while he was introducing the alchemy techniques because otherwise, a minor mistake might turn the materials in the cauldron into charred coke, and embarrassed himself in front of all the new disciples.
About one hour later, his forehead sweated heavily and the students were watching attentively. Half an hour later, the cauldron started to effuse the fragrance of elixir.
Elder Liu smiled and said, “Done! Unlid!”
Xiao Chen sighed inwardly. It was supposed to be an elixir of good quality, but this elder was not calm enough and hurried in the final step. As a result, the temperature was not high enough, and the outcome was useless.
A rough but spherical elixir in greyish white slowly floated out from the cauldron. The students acclaimed upon seeing this. This was amazing. Those messes now became an elixir.
Elder Liu took the elixir and said with a smile, “This is the rudimentary Qi-refining Pill. You can smell it.” He then gave the elixir to the child beside him.
The child gave the elixir to a student, who then passed it to other students to have a close look. Everyone praised it. Finally, when it was passed into Prince Zhao’s hand, he sized it up and asked, “Can I eat it?” At that moment, he was ready to throw it to his mouth.
The faces of Elder Song and Elder Liu changed upon seeing this. Elder Liu said, “Don’t!”
Prince Zhao frowned and said, “What? Are they meant to be eaten?” He again wanted to throw it to his mouth.
Elder Liu shouted, “You can’t eat it! This one is for demonstration only. I saved many steps in the progress. It will do nothing good for your body. Give it to me.”
“Okay. I won’t eat it then.” Prince Zhao returned the elixir to the child.
Xiao Chen shook his head and smiled inwardly. It would be more than useless to take this elixir. The proportion of the materials was totally wrong. Taking this elixir would be worse than having a plate of Fried Loquats.
The two elders secretly wiped some cold sweat. Elder Liu looked around and said with a smile, “Now, I want to ask one of you to come here and demonstrate.”
The students lowered their heads upon hearing this. Who could learn such a complicated skill after only having watched it once?
Elder Liu’s eyes moved slowly in the crowd and found that Xiao Chen was not as nervous as the others. He smiled, walked to Xiao Chen, looked at Xiao Chen and the girl beside him, and finally said to the girl with a smile, “Would you please demonstrate to the others?”