I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 168 - 166: The Outlandish Pill

Li Xing’s fingers moved like flying, and in a few minutes she had processed the spirit plants. The parts that could be used as medicine were thrown into the Shennong Cauldron, and she covered it with the lid, instructing the Three Thousand Lotus to increase the firepower. Then she closed her eyes and sat on her meditation mat, seemingly resting, but in fact using her Divine Sense to feel the situation inside the Medicine Cauldron.

The Healing Masters were waiting to see Li Xing show her skills, but they only saw her split the plants and toss them into that gray cauldron, and then nothing happened.

The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, just this? Is this a joke?

It is taboo to disturb Healing Masters when they are making medicine, so despite their many questions, no one dared to speak, only silently complaining to themselves.

Ye Chun sneakily mouthed to Ye Qingting, asking what was going on, to which the latter gave him a reassuring look. Ye Chun could only wait patiently.

Inside the Medicine Cauldron, the spirit plants turned into medicinal liquid under the fire. Li Xing used her Divine Sense to separate different liquids, merging them bit by bit according to proportion and sequence.

The liquid gradually solidified, forming elixirs, and a peculiar medicinal fragrance slowly emitted from the cauldron.

An hour later, the elixir was finished. Li Xing opened her eyes and said to Ye Chun, who was nervously rubbing his hands: "Ye Family Master, has the Mountain Protection Array been activated?"

"Activated, activated. Mr. Li can rest assured; Medicine Mountain is now like a fortress. Without the passage key, no one can enter or exit."

Li Xing nodded, instructing the Three Thousand Lotus to extinguish the fire. After waiting for another half hour for the cauldron to cool, she lifted the lid, revealing the elixir inside.

Li Xing took out the elixir, admiring it and silently praising it. The Nine-Curve Spirit Ginseng truly was of celestial spirit level; adding just a little allowed even a lower-tier formula to produce elixirs close to heavenly grade.

Ye Chun stared at the bizarrely large elixir in Li Xing’s arms, unable to utter a word. What on earth is this?

Li Xing labored for half a day and produced only one elixir, but this single elixir was larger than if a hundred had been combined, the size akin to a bowling ball, requiring open palms to hold it.

The elixir’s scent was somewhat fragrant, but its texture was coarse and dark, making it difficult to see any appeal in it.

Ye Chun seriously doubted it was a failed product, yet Li Xing’s expression of pride and satisfaction was indeed baffling.

Not only Ye Chun, but other members of the Ye Family also showed expressions of confusion and disappointment upon seeing the giant elixir.

In stark contrast to the situation when Li Xing first began her alchemy, no one came forward, and no one spoke; there was an awkward silence around.

Only Ye Qingting, Cui Tianxiao, and Qi Ming remained around Li Xing, studying the giant elixir carefully.

"Xing, brother has eaten many of your elixirs, the biggest never exceeded the size of a fingertip, why is this one so large?"

"This is for the Wu Tu True Locust to eat, so naturally it has to be big."

Ye Qingting: "Ah Xing, does this elixir have a name?"

Li Xing’s eyes and brows were full of smiles, clearly satisfied with the elixir.

"It does; I made slight improvements on the Spirit Feeding Elixir to create a new medicine, Super Spirit Feeding Elixir, hehe."

Elixirs for spirit beasts to advance in the cultivation world—Li Xing thought she’d never see them appear on the Qianyuan Continent where star beasts rampaged. Unexpectedly, fate is unpredictable, and today she had a chance to indulge in the craft.

Qi Ming: "What’s the function of the Spirit Feeding Elixir? Does the Wu Tu True Locust lose its combat power after eating it?"

Li Xing shook a finger: "Wrong! The main function of the Spirit Feeding Elixir is singular: it shortens the growth cycle of the star beast that consumes it, accelerating its advancement speed."

Qi Ming: "Ah???"

Everyone was shocked: "What—?"

The Wu Tu True Locust was already hard to deal with, and advancing it leaves no chance for the Ye Family.

Not only were Ye Qingting and the other two scared by Li Xing, but even the Ye Family members standing outside could no longer maintain silence. A hot-tempered Healing Master came forward and loudly reprimanded Li Xing.

"You’re really causing trouble!"

"Family Head, I think she came to make a mockery of the Ye Family. Let me drive her out!"

"Li Xing, get out of the Ye Family!"

Ye Chun kept a stern face, signaling for everyone to be quiet.

"Mr. Li, the Wu Tu True Locust is an earth attribute star beast, strong, fast-flying, with thick skin and resistance to hits. One or two can be dealt with, but if they gather in groups, even at a lower stage, it’s a bitter battle for Elemental Spirits."

"I’m also gambling. If these hatched locust eggs don’t reach high levels, there’s still a thread of hope to preserve the clan land."

"If half the Wu Tu True Locusts exceed level five, whether it’s natural hatching or elixir elevation, the vast majority here might have to pay with their lives."

"Mr. Li, I’ll ask one last time, do you still want to use your method against the Wu Tu True Locusts?"

Li Xing nodded earnestly: "I believe my method is the best."

Ye Chun stared into Li Xing’s eyes, clear and clean like glass, full of certainty and belief, with an inexplicably reassuring power.

Ye Chun laughed heartily: "Alright! You’re young and reckless; not reckless, not young. Today I’ll also indulge my youthful madness and gamble with you!"

At Li Xing’s request, Housekeeper Hu instructed the servants to set up a twenty-meter-high platform beside the ginseng garden. Li Xing sat atop the high platform, tying the giant Spirit Feeding Elixir with the Immortal Binding Rope, suspending it below.

Li Xing dangled her legs over the edge of the platform, swinging them back and forth, relaxed and leisurely, as if she were sitting there enjoying the view.

The surface of the medicinal garden was quiet, but in Li Xing’s Divine Sense, besides the impenetrable ginseng garden, the rest of the area had eggs in the soil already changing.

Egg shells shaped like drill tips rotated gently upwards, moving from the ground depths of ten to twenty meters to the surface.

Li Xing was unsatisfied with the egg’s moving speed, and tapped the Spirit Feeding Elixir with her toes. The elixir swung like a pendulum, releasing waves of fresh medicinal fragrance rapidly.

The egg larvae in the soil perceived this, quickly speeding up like drill tips, shooting out of the ground.

Within a few breaths, the surface of the medicinal garden was filled with dense holes and emerging eggs, a terrifying sight.

The Ye Family watching the medicinal garden became immediately tense, holding weapons, their bodies filled with Elemental Power, ready to fight the Wu Tu True Locust desperately.

The first egg emerging from the ground quickly expanded, the shell cracked. Four jointed forelimbs freed themselves from the egg first, followed by a massive square head with dazzling metallic sheen jaws particularly striking.

The front half of the body broke free from the egg’s constraints, and the newly hatched Wu Tu True Locust thrust outward with powerful rear legs and long abdomen, completely detached from the egg shell.

The entire hatching process took only three to four seconds, after the first Wu Tu True Locust hatched, other eggs also reached the hatching end stage. In the blink of an eye, the land was filled with wings ready to fly.

The Ye Family martial masters and talisman masters, watching the medicinal garden full of Wu Tu True Locust, felt as if plunged into an ice cave.

Looking around, this batch of Wu Tu True Locusts had more than half with seven red marks on their foreheads.

Lingering on Medicine Mountain for over twenty years, often nourished by nutrient solutions used to irrigate the field, this batch of Wu Tu True Locusts had evolved far more than those that attacked the Ye Family years ago. If a fight broke out now, they absolutely stood no chance.