Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 408 - 268: Extra Edition 2

Is it really the work of one person?

He immediately returned to the county government office to report to several county officials.

But just after those government officials left.

On the mountain road to the Three Dragon Mountain, a person slowly walked up, holding a feather fan in his hand, gazing at the corpses of bandit leaders scattered all over, especially seeing the traces of Chen Ku’s single staff sweep collapsing a forty-meter radius.

Mr. Tianji’s heart shuddered:

"The power of this staff!"

As he continued upward, he saw the ground outside the hall littered with corpses. Based on Mr. Tianji’s battlefield-hardened experience on Liang Mountain, how could he not discern that this was clearly the work of one person?

"One person, cutting through a lair of over a thousand bandits, killing three stockade masters!"

Even for Mr. Tianji, who ranked in the top three seats of Liang Mountain, he couldn’t help but take a deep breath, his heart racing:

"Killing enemies like cutting grass, with such a mindset and methods of ’killing as if it were nothing,’ this person is no less than the deceased Qing Niu brothers, or even the Wushang brothers. Such a figure is simply born for the battlefield, or as a seedling for our Liang Mountain."

Yet he vaguely realized that he was already a step too late.

Now the entire Three Dragon Mountain had been cut through. Judging from the marks, that youth should already have gone to the prefecture city with heads in hand to claim a reward. All of his plans were now a step behind, leaving no time to implement them.

"How could this happen?"

Mr. Tianji thought to himself:

"My plan, while not intricately linked, is extremely practical. Once implemented, he would definitely come up the mountain. How could it go wrong? First, something happened to Qing Niu, and then I was a step too slow. Could it be... Chen Ku’s fortune is so high that even the heavens are helping him? Or, did he learn of my plan?"

Since both layers of his sinister plots had already come to naught,

he had no choice but to reinitiate new arrangements.

"Framing and slander won’t work, so..."

Just as Mr. Tianji was planning to return to Qiu Dragon Mansion to prepare for his next scheme against Chen Ku,

he lifted his foot, intending to head towards Qiu Dragon Mansion.

An unsettling feeling suddenly shook his heart.

A suffocating sensation surged across his mind.

"What’s going on, this feeling?"

His heart trembled.

Immediately, he thought of something, and took out a bronze mirror from his sleeve, looking at his own face.

On the glabella, there was unexpectedly a mass of black air.

And this black air, reflected in Mr. Tianji’s eyes, showed a verdict in his pupils:

Bloodshed ahead!

"What?"

Mr. Tianji muttered in disbelief:

"If I enter Qiu Dragon Mansion again, there will be bloodshed?"

However, the more he disbelieved, and as he tried to take a few more steps towards Qiu Dragon Mansion, he found the words ’Bloodshed ahead’ grew even more intense in its bloody aura, turning from red to black!

Mr. Tianji deliberated for a moment.

He tentatively took a step in another direction.

Immediately,

the black air on his glabella instantly dissipated, transforming into an evaluation he often saw, which pointed in a familiar direction:

Kwai Gang Nobleman.

This was not his own evaluation but indicated that in that direction, he would encounter a Kwai Gang Nobleman.

Just like how heading towards Qiu Dragon Mansion would lead to bloodshed.

The direction of the Kwai Gang Nobleman was precisely Liang Mountain.

How could Mr. Tianji not understand what his Observing Fate Divine Power was trying to tell him?

He pondered in place:

"I can’t go to Qiu Dragon Mansion anymore?"

How could it be like this?

What on earth is the reason that would lead to calamity if I go to Qiu Dragon Mansion?

...

Qiu Dragon Mansion.

In the East District.

Inside the Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association, in front of two furnaces, gathered a large group of people, all members of the association.

However, one of the pill furnaces had a strange appearance, resembling a gigantic teapot, standing three feet tall.

And the ’Seventh Realm Pill Master’ in front of the pill furnace, despite having his face concealed by a conical hat, gave an impression of unusual youth.

"It’s about to open, it’s about to open!"

Almost at the same time, both pill furnaces began to show activity.

The lids trembled.

Next, the pill masters in front of the furnaces stepped forward. The white-haired elder in front of the standard furnace slowly exhaled, lifted the lid, and retrieved the pills made this time.

"Five Fourth Realm Bone Strengthening Pills, five pills formed, one of supreme quality, four of ordinary quality..."

Everyone saw the five pills in the tray in the hands of the white-haired old Pill Master and praised: 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"No wonder he’s the only Sixth Realm Pill Master ’Ancient’ in our Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association. With just a casual refinement, there’s a fifty percent formation rate, and he even refined a supreme-grade Solid Bone Pill."

"Just one supreme-grade Fourth Realm Bone Strengthening Pill is worth ten thousand taels of silver!"

Among the discussions at the Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association.

Yang Luochen nudged Kou Ming with his elbow, took a drag from his dry tobacco pipe, and quietly asked:

"Kou, is that Seventh Realm Pill Master my disciple found reliable? This old fellow is truly a Sixth Realm Pill Master, and it’s said that he has a thirty percent success rate in refining Sixth Realm Pills."

In the Jianghu Martial World, the criteria for dividing the realms of Pill Masters are actually very rough, meaning if you can refine pills of a certain realm, then you’re a Pill Master of that realm.

For instance, the now-deceased Pill Master Nong Baosen from the Medicine King Hall could barely refine one pill from ten sets of Fourth Realm material with a single batch, which still made him a Fourth Realm Pill Master.

As for the strength between different Fourth Realm Pill Masters, that depends on their success rate.

The higher the grade of the pill, the lower the success rate.

This ancient fellow of the Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association can maintain a fifty percent success rate with Fifth Realm Pills and a thirty percent rate with Sixth Realm Pills, which already makes him an extremely rare Alchemy Dao expert.

Kou Ming, hearing this, wasn’t very confident either, but he said: "Junior Brother Chen wouldn’t lie about this..."

Just as he finished speaking.

"Fifth Realm Pill! It’s out!"

"Supreme Quality! The first one that came out is supreme!"

Kou Ming and Yang Luochen were immediately attracted by the veiled young Seventh Realm Pill Master’s actions of pouring pills from the pot.

Even the elder from the Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association instantly showed a serious expression in his eyes.

The first one is a supreme Fifth Realm Pill?

Is it luck?

Or is it...

But soon, his eyes widened.

It could be seen,

As the young man tilted the Fire Beak Pot, pouring the pills from the pot onto a plate like pouring beans from a bamboo tube...

One... two... three... six... nine...

Supreme! Supreme!

Even the tenth one was poured out!

Supreme!!

All are supreme quality Solid Bone Pills of the Fifth Realm!

"Ten supreme pills! A success rate of ten percent! And all are supreme pills!"

"This... this this this..."

The old fellow seemed unstable, as if he couldn’t stand upright.

"Quick, support the old fellow!" Yang Luochen immediately shouted loudly seeing this.

This was the treasured old relic of the Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association, in case anything happened...

Immediately, young disciples rushed forward.

But unexpectedly...

"Don’t touch the old man!"

The elderly man threw off the supporting youth with one hand, and instead of being filled with sorrow or despair from being surpassed, his face showed sheer joy and admiration, rushing towards the young man in a few steps:

"You... you, you, you... how did you do it? How did you do it? It took me a hundred years to barely refine a supreme pill among the Fifth Realm Pills and maintain a success rate of fifty percent, how... how did you do it?"

Er Lang lowered his hat brim, gently coughed, seemingly a bit embarrassed, looked at the Fire Beak Pot in his hand, and softly replied:

"Talent!"

"Talent, talent..."

The elder was stunned, then, seemingly about to cry, and then crying and laughing, then bursting into laughter:

"Indeed, indeed, yes, it’s talent, truly talent!!"

At this moment, everyone watching the elder crying and laughing before the youth all turned their gaze to the youth in the conical hat.

Seventh Realm Pill Master!

It’s undeniable, only Pill Masters of the Seventh Realm and above can have such a high success rate and pill quality!

Fifth Realm Pills, ten supreme, what does that mean...

The entire Three Emperors Ancestral Masters Association was in an uproar.

Kou Ming’s eyes were filled with fervor:

"Really, it’s true, Junior Brother Chen was right about everything..."

By this time, what he saw was countless wealth rushing towards them.

And when this news quickly reached the ears of the Twelve Guardians of the Qiu Dragon Association...

It also shook them as if an earthquake had struck.

"Is there really... a Seventh Realm Pill Master?"

Qin Fang incredulously asked:

"Little Master Uncle, how did he know him?"

"It doesn’t matter how he knows him..." Situ Chun’s eyes lit up exactly like Kou Ming’s: "I acknowledge this Little Master Uncle!"

And as they were shaken and digesting the benefits this Seventh Realm Pill Master could bring to the Qiu Dragon Martial Meeting.

By the afternoon.

"Extra, extra!"

The paperboys dispatched by the Ming Family’s ’Jianghu Mansion Report’ were shouting in every street and alley:

"Today’s extra! Martial Scholar Chen Ku has pacified Three Dragon Mountain single-handedly, and the Martial Temple has bestowed upon him the title of ’Martial Arts Scholar’!"