I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 199 - 197: Xi Yuan Tournament (Part 23)

Bai Ling asked nervously, "Xiao Yu, how are you?"

"Sister Bai, this medicine is amazing!"

Forget the advertisements, the real proof is Xian Yu’s reaction. Clear Wind Powder is worth buying!

Bai Ling immediately declared, "Li Xing, give me another bottle!"

"I want one too, I want one too! My brother hasn’t eaten yet! Brother, stop sleeping, wake up and take your medicine!"

Lin Yuan: "..."

Li Xing beamed, "Thank you for your patronage, you two keep it well—!"

Chen Qi saw his teammates all captivated by the effect of the medicine and wanted to try a bottle for himself. But when he tried to transfer money to Li Xing, it was unexpectedly refused.

"Li Xing, what do you mean? Why won’t you sell it to me!"

Li Xing looked troubled but maintained a standard smile, explaining, "Brother Chen, the amount you transferred is incorrect."

Chen Qi looked down, counting carefully while muttering, "Ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand... Three hundred and twenty-five thousand, no mistake, how is it wrong?!"

"When Sister Bai bought it, it was indeed three hundred and twenty-five thousand, but for you, it’s not the same price, it’s three hundred and twenty-nine thousand."

Chen Qi felt a rush of a thousand curses speeding through his mind, holding back his anger as he asked:

"What kind of pricing rule is this, why does it keep changing? Are you intentionally making it hard for me?!"

Li Xing raised their wrist, pointing to the Qianyuan time on the wrist computer, smiling brightly:

"Brother Chen, no need to rush, it’s all about destiny pricing, based on the order time! When Sister Bai placed the order, it was 3:25, and when you did, it was 3:29, naturally it’s different. Oh! Now it’s 3:30, sorry, you need to pay me three hundred and thirty thousand now!"

Chen Qi: "..." Heavens, strike down this troublemaker!

Under the sand dunes, the blood-sucking vine moved like gears, continuously grinding against the sand. Tens of thousands of blood-sucking vines attacked the dunes, using their sharp spikes to dig out the sand. The originally solid sand dune now appeared narrower at the bottom and wider at the top.

Li Xing frowned; the sand dune wouldn’t hold for much longer. A strategy must be devised before it collapses.

If Li Xing encountered the blood-sucking vine in the desert alone, she wouldn’t be worried at all, as she could just release Little Fatty. After all, once the abnormal fire appears, who can contest it? No matter how formidable the biological glue secreted by the blood-sucking vine is, it would still meet its match in the face of the abnormal fire’s temperature.

But now everyone thinks that the Three Thousand Lotus is her original fire. If she really uses the Three Thousand Lotus to burn the blood-sucking vine, how would she explain how her original fire is different from others’?

The abnormal fire cannot be revealed, so she must think of another way.

"Sister Bai, do you have any Gen Mountain Branches and Prospective Lychees with you?"

Bai Ling nodded, "Yes."

"Give me three of each; I need to do some alchemy."

Bai Ling was surprised, "Here?"

"Yes. I want to create an elixir that can help us escape. As compensation, once the crisis is over, our ’Special Treatment Team’ will let you go free."

Li Xing’s words were incredibly bold, but Bai Ling inexplicably felt that Li Xing was not bluffing.

"Alright!" Bai Ling straightforwardly took out the Gen Mountain Branches and Prospective Lychees and handed them to Li Xing, saying, "Do you need my help?"

"This small task doesn’t require Sister Bai’s assistance; your observation is enough."

Bai Ling was already incredibly curious about Li Xing’s way of alchemy, and now having the opportunity to observe closely, she naturally wasn’t going to hold back, sitting cross-legged not far away, watching with wide eyes.

Actually, everyone on the Red Armored Scorpion’s back was focused on Li Xing. Whether they understood the pharmacology or not, they all wanted to know what the elixir that could help them escape would be like.

Li Xing laid out all the plants she needed, deftly breaking down the necessary parts and tossing them one by one into the Shennong Cauldron, then had Little Fatty separate a flame to heat the cauldron.

The process turned liquids into elixirs, and an hour later, the Shennong Cauldron began to emit large amounts of white smoke.

Xian Yu nervously grabbed Lin Yuan’s arm, "It’s smoking, it’s smoking! It’s not going to fail, is it?"

Lin Yuan didn’t understand either, so he could only look to Bai Ling for reassurance. Bai Ling showed a relaxed expression. She knew that the failure rate of the ancient method for medicine-making was high, but the refreshing medicinal fragrance pervading the white smoke was definitely not a sign of failure.

Sure enough, when the white smoke dissipated, Li Xing opened the cauldron lid and took out three emerald green pills.

Seeing the quality of the elixirs, Li Xing nodded in satisfaction.

Cui Tianxiao asked, "Li Xing, what kind of medicine is this?"

"Vitality Pill."

"Hiss—!"

Cui Tianxiao had known Li Xing long enough to find some patterns in the medicines she made.

All the medicines Li Xing concocted had astonishing effects, there was no doubt about it. However, those with four-character names often had a hint of quirkiness to them. Such as the Unstoppable Pill and the Beauty Pill.

So Cui Tianxiao was secretly looking forward to seeing what kind of effect the Vitality Pill would have.

At this moment, the dunes were swaying as if about to collapse due to the attack of the blood-sucking vine. The Red Armored Scorpion already sensed the danger, nervously snapping its huge pincers and swaying its tail.

Li Xing put away the Shennong Cauldron, held the Vitality Pill in the palm of her hand, and began to issue commands.

"The dune is about to collapse; in a moment, I will maneuver Da Hong to break out. Everyone stand on a different leg, each guard a position, and use physical attacks on the blood-sucking vines; don’t let them affect Da Hong’s speed!"

Just as Li Xing’s words fell, a violent tremor reverberated beneath their feet, and the dune collapsed with a roar.

With a large amount of sand as a buffer, the Red Armored Scorpion was not injured when it fell. Most of the blood-sucking vines assembled beneath the dunes were buried underground. The remaining half sensed the Red Armored Scorpion’s presence and immediately charged toward it at high speed.

"Hyah—!" Li Xing flicked the reins, and the Red Armored Scorpion raised its front two legs like a horse, let out a roar, and charged toward the gap in the blood-sucking vines’ encirclement that hadn’t merged together.

The blood-sucking vines buried in the sand quickly spun out, rapidly approaching the Red Armored Scorpion like a tide.

One particularly high-jumping vine managed to pierce a blood-sucking spike into the scorpion’s shell. But before it could inject sedative, it was mercilessly slashed in half by a longsword.

The injured vine didn’t die but rolled on the ground a few times, splitting into two smaller half-sized ones, continuing to hop after the Red Armored Scorpion.

Everyone used all their might to strike with weapons desperately, preventing the vines from latching onto the scorpion.

Da Hong also did its job well; under Li Xing’s command, it finally escaped the sea of blood-sucking vines and gradually widened the distance from them.

"Well done, Da Hong!"

Li Xing was overjoyed; as long as Da Hong could escape the blood-sucking vines, this crisis would be resolved.

Li Xing ran to the Red Armored Scorpion’s tail, took out a Vitality Pill, and threw it forcefully towards the blood-sucking vine cluster behind them.

"Bang—!"

Green smoke spread, like an invisible wall, obscuring everyone’s vision and blocking the vines.

When the smoke cleared, everyone was stunned by the scene before them.