Chapter 36: In Front of the Medicine Family's Gate

  Shen Xiang returned early and went out late, spending his days frantically refining pills in the shop, and his nights practicing outside the city. This kind of day had passed for twenty or so days. Now he not only improved his cultivation a lot, but also became extremely skilled at refining ordinary middle-grade pills, almost never failing, and the time it took to refine pills was getting shorter and shorter, even Shen Lü Zong, an old alchemy master, felt inferior to him.

  Shen Xiang had spent most of the money from selling that thousand-year-old Blood Spirit Mushroom, and he and Shen Lu Zong had also refined a considerable amount of ordinary middle-grade dan medicine, but it was still far from enough.

  Of course, the Golden Spirit Fruit tree planted by Shen Xiang was also about to bear fruit. For more than 20 days, he had been able to condense a lot of dragon saliva every day to induce its growth. This was his first time using such a long period of time to ripen a spiritual medicine, but it was well worth it.

  The golden spirit fruit tree was secretly planted in his own courtyard, and even Shen Lu Zong couldn't enter his small yard at will.

  "As long as I can recruit enough alchemists, I can take it easy!" Shen Xiang gently stroked the small golden fruit that had just formed after he watered the dragon's saliva this morning.

  Shen Xiang didn't want to spend all day refining pills to sell, he wanted to do many things, such as searching for some precious spiritual medicine, hunting some demon beasts, purchasing some suitable martial skills for his cultivation, and understanding this vast and boundless mortal martial world...

  At this time, there is still more than a month before the Wang City Martial Arts Conference begins. Shen Xiang has also gone to sign up now, but what makes him depressed is that the Wang City Martial Arts Conference is actually hosted by the Medicine Family, so the registration location is at the Medicine Family.

  Shen Xiang, who had been staying in the Imperial City all along, had already heard about the disappearance of Yao Tianhua and the Yao Family Elder. Fortunately, during this period, there were often some powerful martial organizations outside the Imperial City causing trouble and killing many young masters from various families who were on their way to the Imperial City, so Shen Xiang was not suspected.

  Due to the disappearance of Medicine House's genius and an elder, the entire Medicine House was enraged. The imperial family and some families who had a good relationship with Medicine House also condemned those evil forces, and in just a few days, they annihilated several of them. However, they still couldn't find out what happened to Yao Tianhua.

  Yao Tianhua and Yao Jiaolao were both killed by Shen Xiang, their bodies burned to ashes, and Shen Xiang was not worried that the Yao family would find out.

  Shen Xiang soon arrived at the Yao family's residence, which was extremely large. The enormous plaza at the entrance left Shen Xiang secretly amazed, not to mention what lay inside.

  The registration and competition venue are on the huge square in front of the Medicine Family's gate. The registration has started early, but there are still many people coming to register every day. The square is very lively, with many long queues like dragons.

  Shen Xiang waited for a good half day before it was his turn. He stood in front of a desk, where a young man around twenty years old was in charge. The young man yawned and picked up his pen and paper, lazily saying: "Name."

  "Shen Xiang!"

  The young man, who was originally listless, heard the two words and suddenly shook, carefully sizing up Shen Xiang! The people around also looked over, Shen Xiang's name was like thunder in their ears, not only could he refine the Washing Marrow Pill, but also had strength comparable to the seventh level of the Mortal Martial Realm, injuring the Medicine Family Elder, and even severely beating the City Master's son, earning the favor of the beautiful young mistress of the Dan Xiang Medicine Manor...

  Shen Xiang is a more talented figure than Yao Tianhua, and anyone who has been around has heard of this name. However, Shen Xiang is a thorn in the eye of the Yao family, so everyone in the Yao family dislikes him very much. Because Shen Xiang injured Yao Jiaolao and Yao Tianhua, causing them to disappear, the Yao family blamed Shen Xiang for this, thinking that if Yao Jiaolao hadn't been injured, they wouldn't have encountered danger.

  "Go over there for a strength test, if you pass, you can participate in the martial competition." The young man pointed to another row of people.

  Shen Xiang had also heard before coming that in order to successfully sign up, one would need to test their strength, and not just anyone could participate in the final martial arts competition.

  Shen Xiang took over the paper with his name on it and the seal, and walked towards the queue.

  At such a close distance, Shen Xiang's contact made many people overjoyed. Shen Xiang was an alchemist and the son of the head of the Shen family, with boundless prospects, which made many people consciously come forward to chat with him.

  Shen Xiang smiled and chatted with the young masters of these families, which could pass the time while also inquiring about other families' attitudes towards the Shen family. Many families were worried about offending the Medicine Family and didn't dare to form an alliance with the Shen family, but now Shen Xiang learned from these young masters that if the Shen family had a Dan medicine industry, they wouldn't be afraid of the Medicine Family's threats.

  It was Shen Xiang's turn before he knew it. The method of testing strength was to hit a peculiar giant stone, which was originally black in color. If the strength was strong enough, it could change its color!

  Shen Xiang stood in front of a stone that was even taller than him, and all he heard the person in charge of testing say was: "As long as you can turn the stone yellow, you'll pass."

  The stone can produce red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple colors according to the force it receives. Purple represents the highest limit of the force that this stone receives.

  Just now Shen Xiang saw that many people could only turn the boulder red, and even fewer turned it orange, let alone yellow.

  "I heard that when the Crown Prince takes the test, he can turn stones blue! His strength is unfathomable."

  "Also, a young brother of the Medicine Family is also very fierce and can produce blue punches."

  "What's this? The daughter of General Cold can turn stones into purple."

  “……”

  Shen Xiang suddenly heard many people discussing the strength of some famous aristocratic families' children, at this time many people focused their attention on him, everyone wanted to see if Shen Xiang was just a name, many people present had never seen Shen Xiang's power with their own eyes, didn't know how terrifying it was, and always heard about it.

  Shen Xiang rubbed his fist, staring at the stone in front of him. His family had a similar stone, only smaller, specifically used to test strength. Hitting it would also make his fist hurt. Shen Xiang had tested it before, but it was just a faint red color, indicating that his strength was very weak.

  At present, Shen Xiang has reached the sixth layer of the Mortal Martial Realm. He also wants to know his test results.

  After preparation, Shen Xiang slightly inhaled, circulating the Vermilion Bird True Qi and Azure Dragon True Qi within his body, merging them together. The two streams of True Qi merged, surging into his arm, instantly burning away the sleeve on his arm, revealing his robust arm with bulging veins.

  At this time, everyone held their breath, and those near him could feel the terror of that true energy. This sudden burst of power stunned the group of young men and women, and at this moment they had no doubt about Shen Xiang's defeat of Yao Jia Lao. It was just this true energy that intimidated them!

  Shen Xiang took a deep breath, and with the influx of this dual-attribute true energy into his arm, he clenched his fist and launched a punch! His fist was as fierce as a raging thunderbolt, as swift as lightning, and heavily struck the giant stone.

  All that could be heard was a loud "rumble" sound, and the huge boulder instantly turned into powder, scattering all over the ground, with smoke and dust flying everywhere along with the remaining true energy ripples!