Chapter Fourteen Invitation

  Returning home, Nie Kong immediately began to cultivate the "Wood Yang True Spirit Technique". After recovering his spiritual power, he then used the "Medicine Cauldron Phantom Body" to refine the "Purple Swallow Pill". Now that he had grasped the timing, he could refine another batch in ten hours, by midnight.

  As Nie Kong had expected, using the small guy's illusion to create a medicine cauldron to refine the "Purple Yun Dan" was indeed much easier. With his spiritual connection with the little pet, the entire refining process was as smooth as flowing clouds and water. The speed of the medicinal properties merging was also nearly twice as fast as in the secret room.

  In less than ten minutes, a round "Zi Xuan Dan" was already out of the oven. Now Nie Kong still can't do what Nie Xingyun and Lian Tianxin can do, which is to judge the quality of the elixir by smelling its fragrance. However, according to his estimate, the fusion degree of this Zi Xuan Dan should have reached 95%.

  This is still at the moment when "Zi Xun Dan" is about to be formed, Nie Kong deliberately made a little trouble. Otherwise, this "Zi Xun Dan" would not reach the degree of fusion of the original bottle of "Hui Chun Lu", but it can reach 97% or even 98%.

  One grain of Zi Xuan Dan was refined, Nie Kong didn't stop at all, and immediately took out the second batch of Zi Xuan Dan's medicinal herbs. An hour passed, in Nie Kong's prepared medicine bottle, five more grains of "Zi Xuan Dan" with excellent color and shape were successfully produced, and a strong fragrance filled the entire room.

  Outside, the snow fell even more happily, and the ground was already covered with thick accumulated snow.

  Huā Méi went out even less often, except for going out to buy vegetables. Most of his time was spent at home carving, and his fingers were often frozen like red radishes.

  Nie Kong felt a pang of sympathy and had initially planned to advise her to rest for a while. However, thinking again, since she couldn't cultivate, he let her carve as it could bring her some joy. He took the opportunity to sneak into the city center of Jieyang City, where the Lingbao Pavilion and Nie family were no longer searching, to buy a new debit card and a new spirit card. Then, Nie Kong spent 2,000 gold coins on a heater, so that Huamei wouldn't freeze at home.

  This world's heaters are very simple, actually just a piece of agate with spiritual patterns carved on it. No matter what kind of spiritual energy is input into it, it can continuously emit heat for over ten hours without stopping. This thing is usually made by low-level spiritual pattern makers as practice.

  Huā Méi was reluctant to spend such a large sum of money, but she wouldn't say anything about returning it since Niè Kōng had already bought it. However, from then on, every time Huā Méi met Niè Kōng, her eyes would dart around and she would often blush for no reason.

  Knowing that Huamei was very shy, Nie Kong didn't mind. The days passed in dry cultivation and alchemy, as well as a slightly ambiguous atmosphere.

  Six days later in the afternoon, the secret room behind the Alchemy Hall.

  "Is this all you've cultivated in six days?"

  Looking at the five small medicine bottles lined up on the desktop, Nie Xingyun and Lian Tianxin looked at each other in surprise. The five medicine bottles were all filled with "Zi Sui Dan", ten grains per bottle, which added up to exactly fifty grains, perfectly matching the amount of Zi Sui Dan that Nie Kong had taken away from the secret room six days ago.

  This means that in these six days, Nie Kong has successfully refined the "Purple Yun Dan" fifty times in a row, with no failures. What's more, the fusion degree of the medicinal properties of the "Purple Yun Dan" inside the bottle is all between 93% and 95%.

  "Yes."

  Nie Kong nodded helplessly. If he had known that Nie Xingyun and Lian Tianxin would be so shocked, he wouldn't have taken out all the refined spiritual medicine at once.

  "Huh?"

  Xian Tianxin suddenly grabbed one of the medicine bottles in surprise.

  Nie Xingyun subconsciously asked: "What's wrong?"

  Tian Xin didn't answer immediately, instead he brought his nose close to the bottle mouth and sniffed continuously for several times. Suddenly, his expression became excited: "Right! Right! 96% ! Indeed it's 96%! The fusion degree of 'Zi Xun Dan' medicinal power here has reached 96%!"

  "What?"

  Nie Xingyun was shocked, almost snatching the medicine bottle from Lian Tianxin's hand, and took a few fierce sniffs. A moment later, Nie Xingyun looked at Nie Kong with an expression of surprise, excitement, and a hint of incredulity, his face gradually flushing with a drunken red glow.

  Two old men stared at him with a hawk-like gaze, and Nie Kong smiled awkwardly: "Two masters, no need to be like this, it's just a 96% 'Zi Xuan Dan' after all."

  Seeing Nie Kong's nonchalant and careless appearance, Nie Xingyun almost vomited blood. His two small eyes bulged out as he puffed with anger: "Little guy, what do you mean by 'just' and 'only'? 96%, 96%!! Do you know what this means? Huh? Huh?"

  Tian Xin's heart was also uncontrollably excited, and he danced with joy, shouting: "Since ancient times, most medicine kings have refined second-grade spiritual medicines, but the degree of fusion of their medicinal properties is only between 93% and 96%. Moreover, the proportion of those who reach 96% is pitifully low. You, a small second-grade spiritual medicine refiner, can actually refine a 'Zi Xun Dan' with a 96% fusion degree - if this gets out, how will other spiritual medicine refiners survive?"

  "Cough! Cough!"

  Nie Kong cleared his throat twice. In fact, he really didn't think that 96% was very difficult to refine. If it weren't for the last moment of refining the Ling Medicine, most of the "Zi Yue Dan" here would have a fusion degree of over 96%. If he accidentally made a single pellet of 99% "Zi Yue Dan", wouldn't his two masters be so excited that they'd jump to the sky?

  Nie Xingyun suddenly thought of a question and asked urgently: "You Kong, which medicine cauldron did you use to refine the 'Zi Huan Dan'?"

  "This."

  Nie Kong took out the small medicine cauldron from his bosom, smiling and saying, "For my current cultivation level, controlling a large medicine cauldron is somewhat strenuous. Using this small medicine cauldron makes it much easier. However, it's not always successful either. During the intervals of refining the Zi Xuan Dan, I also refined several batches of Hui Chun Lu, and the degree of fusion of the medicinal properties was quite ordinary."

  Nie Xingyun grasped the medicine cauldron and, together with Lian Tianxin, examined it carefully from all sides: "Last time you refined the Spring Dew in the Spiritual Medicine Hall using this very cauldron, and at that time, you were able to achieve a 95% success rate. Now, using this same cauldron, you've actually managed to refine an ultra-high-quality product with a 96% success rate! To me, it looks like this little thing is quite ordinary?"

  Of course it's very ordinary! Nie Kong smiled secretly, the medicine cauldron he took out was not transformed from the Purple Luo Phantom Spirit Fragrance, but was specially made by someone last month.

  After a long while, the two of them calmed down and returned the small medicine cauldron to Nie Kong.

  Lian Tian Xin sighed, "Nie Kong, your efficiency in refining medicine is extremely fast, and the degree of fusion of the medicinal properties is frighteningly high. If you can achieve such results when refining high-grade spiritual medicines, that would be great." His words were also spoken with feeling, if high-grade spiritual medicines could also be refined to such a degree of fusion, then even if he and Nie Xing Yun were no longer around, or if they hadn't found a way to cure the disease, Nie Kong's Bottomless Pit could still use spiritual medicine to exchange for enough medicinal herbs.

  "Alright, let's not talk about this anymore."

  Nie Xingyun pulled out a red note from his pocket and smiled, "Little guy, you came just in time. Come, take a look at this thing."

  "Invitation?"

  Nie Kong was taken aback...

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