The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron

At this moment, Li Jianlong once again challenged Fang Lin, attempting to salvage his lost dignity and reclaim the Heavenly Blue Liquid.

“These people from Qian Country are really interesting, also loving to fight amongst themselves.”

“Hehe, seems like this Li fellow has some personal grievances with Fang Lin.”

“He lost to Fang Lin once before, does he still want to try again?”

Everyone cast playful glances at Li Jianlong, many of them making fun or laughing at him.

No wonder, as there have never been internal fights among the people of Yun Country and Meng Kingdom, but it has happened in Qian Country.

Elder Su sighed to himself in secret. He had foreseen this; the grudge between the Li family and Fang Lin was too deep to be resolved.

Furthermore, Li Jianlong had lost to Fang Lin before and had even handed over the Heavenly Blue Liquid. How could he swallow this?

However, in Elder Su’s opinion, Li Jianlong’s actions were undoubtedly extremely foolish.

Fang Lin looked at Li Jianlong, his face wearing a half-smiling expression, thinking about what good things he could get from Li Jianlong this time.

Li Jianlong had hesitated a long time before making such a move, almost reluctantly challenging Fang Lin.

He was very clear that if he lost again this time, he would be completely humiliated in front of Fang Lin.

But Li Jianlong had no choice. The Heavenly Blue Liquid was in Fang Lin’s hands. This was a treasure that their Li Family had painstakingly collected. Just one gourd had benefited Fang Lin. This, for Li Jianlong, was a major sin.

Therefore, he had to risk his last bit of dignity, go all out, and win back that Heavenly Blue Liquid.

It could be said that Li Jianlong had let go of all inhibitions. Anyway, it couldn’t get any worse. He wasn’t afraid of losing once more.

At the moment, Li Jianlong strode onto the stage in high spirits, disregarding the strange gazes from below, telling himself that these people were all admiring him.

“Fang Lin, do you dare to gamble with me again?” Li Jianlong glared at Fang Lin, saying combatively.

Fang Lin waved his hands repeatedly: “No, no.”

Li Jianlong was choked on the words on the tip of his tongue. This guy was going off script.

Immediately, Li Jianlong’s face turned red, speaking fiercely: “You won my Heavenly Blue Liquid, now aren’t you daring enough to gamble with me again?”

Fang Lin sneered: “Why should I gamble with you again? Unless you can take out something of equal value to the Heavenly Blue Liquid, then I may consider it.”

His words left Li Jianlong in an awkward position. He touched his Nine Palace Bag, which indeed contained one item of equal value to the Heavenly Blue Liquid.

But that was his last trump card, a treasure that Li Zhendong, the Head of the Li Family, had given him when he reached adulthood. It had hardly ever been shown in public.

Should he really bring out this item to gamble with Fang Lin?

If he lost, wouldn’t he have squandered all his assets?

When Li Jianlong thought of this outcome, he couldn’t help but tremble. Losing the Heavenly Blue Liquid was already a grave sin. Losing another item of equal value would be utterly catastrophic.

“So? Do you have it or not? Don’t waste my time.” Fang Lin urged impatiently, his eyes constantly darting over to Li Jianlong’s Nine Palace Bag.

After much hesitation, Li Jianlong did not dare to bring out his treasure as a bet.

Because failure would have dire consequence. Li Jianlong is not so irrational.

“Tsk, you don’t have a treasure but still want to win back the Heavenly Blue Liquid? Do you think you just woke up?” Fang Lin said disdainfully.

Li Jianlong seethed with anger, his chest rising and falling. When was the last time he, as the talent of the Li family, had been spoken to like this?

“I have a vial of Mysterious Golden Sparrow’s essence. I will gamble it.” Li Jianlong said.

The Mysterious Golden Sparrow was a demon beast with the bloodline of an ancient divine bird. It had the power of the two transformations upon birth, and when it grew up, it could undergo the four transformations.

This vial of Mysterious Golden Sparrow’s essence was one of the most valuable things on Li Jianlong. He had originally planned to use it to augment his own strength, but now he could only use it as a bet.

On hearing this, Fang Lin frowned, “A vial of Mysterious Golden Sparrow’s essence? It doesn’t seem that valuable. Forget it, let’s do it. But I can only wager half of the Heavenly Blue Liquid.”

Li Jianlong clenched his fist silently, he felt rather helpless too.

Although the vial of Mysterious Golden Sparrow’s essence was quite valuable, it still fell short compared to the Heavenly Blue Liquid. Fang Lin betting half of the liquid seemed quite fair.

Li Jianlong comforted himself, half was alright. If he could win back half of the Heavenly Blue Liquid and seize Fang Lin’s position as the champion, he could use that to enter the Pill Pole Tower. That would still be a great gain. Losing half of the Heavenly Blue Liquid, he should be able to absolve himself of some of the sin.

“Deal!” Li Jianlong took out the vial of essence and handed it to the Steward of the Pill Alliance.

Fang Lin also poured out half of the Heavenly Blue Liquid from the gourd, filled it into a jade bottle, and handed it to the steward.

Having received these two items, the steward of Pill Alliance had a strange look on his face. He really wanted to run away and claim these items as his own.

But it was just a thought. He’d probably be caught and beaten half to death before he even got off the stage.

“The pill you two need to refine is the Body Tempering Pill.” The steward of the Pill Alliance stated before stepping aside.

The Body Tempering Pill was a three-star pill highly sought after by martial artists. It had the effect of enhancing the physique and promoting health.

It was not easy to refine and demanded much from a Pill Refiner’s abilities.

The two of them did not have a Pill Pavilion, so they started refining right away.

Li Jianlong took out his Pill Furnace, which was a rare Four-footed-square-ding. On the sides of the furnace, four mighty beasts were engraved.

“Not bad at all.” Fang Lin glanced at Li Jianlong’s furnace and commented with a smile.

Li Jianlong snorted, his own furnace was good, but compared to Fang Lin’s Shenlong Cauldron, it was still a bit inferior.

But Li Jianlong was very confident in his alchemy skills. Even if Fang Lin possessed an ancient technique as powerful as Shaking Three Mountains, Li Jianlong had his countermeasures.

Everything proceeded as usual; both of them almost simultaneously entered the stage of igniting the fire and putting in the herbs.

At that moment, the difference in their methods became apparent. Li Jianlong pat the four beast heads on the Four-footed-square-ding, which immediately spewed out four different types of flames from their mouths.

“Huh?” Witnessing this scene, Fang Lin was slightly surprised, as were the people below.

Li Jianlong sneered. His Four-footed-square-ding was not ordinary. It had four different types of beast fires. When used in alchemy, it could improve the quality of the pills.