Chapter 535: Pill King at the Grand Medicine Testing Convention (1/2)

Chapter 535: Pill King at the Grand Medicine Testing Convention

After Pill King asked his question, the crowd came to a realization. Qin Wangfei had been sitting so far away from the stage and had no prior knowledge of the full ingredients list. How was she so certain that the Xie Clan had cheated?

Isn’t that too miraculous?

Everyone looked at Han Yunxi to wait for an explanation, but she simply remained calm and said, “Your Excellency Pill King, I was familiar with the prescription for Sixty Rooms from the start. When I saw the Wang Clan Head pick out those ten ingredients for Xie Peng, this junior began to harbor my own suspicions. Then when Fourth Master Wang so easily gave up, this junior determined that there was something wrong with the ingredients.”

“You can determine it was Sixty Rooms just by seeing ten of its ingredients?” the Pill King clearly disbelieved her.

But Han Yunxi only grinned. “Your Excellency Pill King, this junior wasn’t certain at all. It’s just…I was about seventy to eighty percent sure, so I decided to take a gamble. Didn’t I bet on the right answer in the end?”

Naturally, it was the detox system that had helped Han Yunxi discovered Sixty Rooms. Its capability for breaking down medicinal ingredients and their proportions could topple any medical genius in an instant. Of course, it helped that the system had a record of Sixty Rooms in its archives to begin with. Sixty Rooms was a famous prescription; if this was some lesser-known, private creation hidden by its owner, then the detox system would have been at a loss all the same.

“You had a seventy to eighty percent certainty just after seeing 10 ingredients?” the Pill King was still doubtful.

Han Yunxi walked over and began to arrange the ingredients on the table according to scale. “Your Excellency Pill King, the theory behind Sixty Rooms comes mainly from its distribution of various proportions. The ingredients vary between inhibiting, balancing, or enhancing each other to create a cohesive fusion. The Wang Clan Head gave Xie Peng ten ingredients that made me suspicious, but Xie Peng’s leftovers allowed me to guess the proportions of ingredients he used for his pill. After figuring that out, I was seventy to eighty percent certain of my guess!”

Naturally, the detox system’s own tools had the credit for all that work. Han Yunxi didn’t explain herself thoroughly, but she hit the nail on the head when it came to the prescription, so Pill King understood her at once. He suddenly burst into laughter. “It was this old man who invented the Sixty Rooms prescription. I never thought that I’d live to see the day a junior unmasked the secret to my formula. This old man has seen my life’s desire fulfilled, haha!”

Both the crowd and Han Yunxi were stunned by his words. They never expected Pill King to be the inventor of Sixty Rooms! And yet, his next words shocked them utterly.

“Qin Wangfei,” he began, “Will you be willing to accept if this old man took you as my disciple?”

Han Yunxi was frightened by the proposal. After all, Pill King was the soul of Medicine City and its true master. So many people had begged to be his disciple but were turned away at the door because he never took any students. She subconsciously glanced towards Long Feiye, who was equally amazed. But he quickly gave her a comforting look. In his eyes, this was simply a honor that Han Yunxi deserved!

Leaving aside her talents and ability, her ploy to fix the prices for Pill Fiend Pharmacy’s ingredients had already brought happiness to the people. She was worthy of the highest honor in the medical community.

“Qin Wangfei…isn’t willing?” His Excellency Pill King asked in amusement.

“No!” Han Yunxi recovered her senses and immediately fell on her knees. “Master is above me. Please accept obeisance from your disciple! Master can simply call this disciple Yunxi.”

How could she refuse such a good thing? With Pill King’s support, would there be any difficulties facing her in Medicine City in the future?

“Haha! Good, good!” His Excellency Pill King was delighted. He strode forward with large strides to personally help her up. Although he was getting on his years, his movements were extraordinary and emanated an impressive, dignified bearing. With the exception of Long Feiye, everyone else was still stunned by the turn of events.

His Excellency Pill King actually took in an outsider as his disciple. Is…is this a dream?

Head Elder Xie was the most dumbstruck of all. He stood stock still until Han Yunxi looked his way. Her gaze made him unconsciously back away until he almost stumbled.

“Master, since you’ve come, please preside over matters to see justice done,” Han Yunxi said sincerely.

His Excellency Pill King had been observing the Grand Medicine Testing Convention from the shadows so he knew exactly what was going on. He was about to speak when Head Elder Xie cried injustice. “Old Senior, this one has never seen Sixty Rooms before. Even if I had, I wouldn’t dare to use it as a cheat and betray everyone’s trust! This is purely due to the good luck of my Xie Clan and all a coincidence. I won’t be able to wash my sins clean even if I jumped into the Yellow River, now that esteemed wangfei has denounced me on false charges! Old Senior, please have clear judgment!”

The facts were ironclad, but Xie Deyi still wanted to argue? He was probably forced to a point of no return like a dog anxious to jump off the wall.

“A coincidence? Heheh. Head Elder Xie, you ‘coincidentally’ didn’t know the formula for Sixty Rooms, but a little child of the Xie Clan did?” Han Yunxi’s laughter was frigid.

Now Xie Deyi was rendered speechless. He felt his vision go black as he narrowly avoided passing out. His eyes flickered to Ouyang Ningnuo in the seats offstage, but the man only avoided his gaze. Both the Sixty Rooms and Poison Roundworm had been given to Xie Deyi by Ouyang Ningnuo. Xie Deyi wasn’t an idiot and knew full well the consequences if he was caught cheating, but he risked everything regardless when he saw the old prescription.

A rare prescription like Sixty Rooms was something he’d never seen before, to say nothing of everyone else in Medicine City. He didn’t even guard against the likes of Gu Qi Sha because it should’ve been perfectly safe, and yet it was Han Yunxi, a poisons expert, who unmasked his trick in front of everyone and attracted His Excellency Pill King.

The end results left Xie Deyi with no choice but to resign himself to his fate. Victory or defeat was determined with only one move. The Xie Clan had utterly lost!

His Excellency Pill King gave Xie Deyi a stern look before raging, “You’ve already lost face for Medicine City and you’re still crying out injustice? As this old man sees it, you ought to be punished severely as a warning to others. It’ll give the rest a good lesson and rectify their views!”

His Excellency Pill King naturally wouldn’t be the one to issue those orders, but nobody would dare to defend the Xie Clan after those words, much less plea mercy for their sake.