Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor-Chapter 2219: Phoenix City Powerhouses

"Don’t worry! The fragrance of good wine is not afraid of deep alleys, customers will come eventually!"

Xiao Ping was anxiously pacing outside the stall, while Fang Bai sat cross-legged inside the stall, calm and motionless.

In the distance, the Ancient Alchemy Master Gu He seemed rather idle at the moment, chatting and laughing with several alchemists and artifact refiners beside him, occasionally glancing over with a smug smile on his face.

Ice Emperor City is a sleepless city, and so is the cultivation resource exchange market here, open day and night.

In the Immortal Realm’s nine Heavenly Domains, each has a Golden Crow taking turns, rising in the east and setting in the west daily, hence there is a distinction between day and night.

That evening, as the Golden Crow set in the west and night fell, the immortal stones embedded throughout Ice Emperor City lit up, making this immortal city, home to millions of immortals, as bright as day.

And this moment saw even more immortals coming to the cultivation resource exchange market for alchemy and artifact refining than during the day.

Gu He received some business at this time and thus sent a voice transmission to several of his subordinates, instructing them carefully before turning to enter the Pill Room.

Gu He’s subordinates, wearing malicious smiles, loitered around Fang Bai’s stall, seemingly up to no good.

Gu He no longer glared at Fang Bai’s stall with a menacing gaze, which gave Xiao Ping a sigh of relief, feeling it was a good chance to attract business for Fang Bai, so she enthusiastically started calling out again.

Her sweet smile, crisp voice, and the content on the sign attracted the attention of many immortals who had just entered the market.

However, those immortals were intercepted by Gu He’s subordinates before they could get close.

"He’s a newcomer and a rival of Ancient Alchemy Master Gu He."

Gu He’s subordinates whispered to the approaching immortals.

In Ice Emperor City, many immortals had heard of Ancient Alchemy Master Gu He’s reputation and knew his close ties with the Ice Emperor City, so upon hearing Fang Bai had a grudge with Gu He, most of those immortals stopped and watched from afar.

Fang Bai was new to Ice Emperor City and not recognized by any immortals, and seeing his young age, those immortals speculated that his alchemy and artifact refining skills wouldn’t be very high, so there was no need to risk offending Gu He to have him refine immortal pills and artifacts.

However, a few powerful immortals or those with strong backing were not much daunted by Gu He or Ice Emperor City.

"I urgently need an immortal artifact, and finding other artifact refiners would mean waiting in line for many days, which I don’t have the patience for! This refiner here is available, so I’ll give him a try! Good dogs don’t block the way! Get out of my sight!"

A red-robed immortal in the fifth-grade Immortal Venerable Realm released his immortal might, forcing back a subordinate of Gu He who was blocking his way, striding towards Fang Bai’s stall.

"Who are you, immortal? Do you know the consequences of offending the Ancient Alchemy Master?"

The forced-back subordinate of Gu He asked harshly, looking at the back of the red-robed immortal.

"I am Chiyu Immortal Venerable from Phoenix City!"

The red-robed immortal named Chiyu Immortal Venerable strode forward without looking back.

"Pho... Phoenix City..."

The subordinate of Gu He mumbled, then after looking at Chiyu Immortal Venerable’s attire, his expression changed and he dared not speak further.

On Chiyu Immortal Venerable’s robe front, there was an emblem of a phoenix rising from the ashes, which was the mark of a Phoenix City disciple, and given his fifth-grade Immortal Venerable Realm, he certainly wasn’t an ordinary disciple of Phoenix City.

Phoenix City held power equal to Ice Emperor City, and having an Immortal Emperor backing it, such a powerful figure was not someone Gu He’s subordinates dared provoke.

Seeing Chiyu Immortal Venerable reach Fang Bai’s stall, several other immortals who were unafraid of Ice Emperor City also pushed away Gu He’s subordinates and strode towards Fang Bai’s stall.

Chiyu Immortal Venerable, upon reaching Fang Bai’s stall, glanced at the upright sign beside it, then with a "bang," placed three sets of artifact refining materials on the stall, saying to Fang Bai, "Can you help me forge a three-foot, fourth-grade Immortal Venerable level immortal artifact?"

Fang Bai glanced at his artifact refining materials and smiled, asking, "Your cultivation level is in the fifth-grade Immortal Venerable Realm, and these refining materials aren’t bad, so why forge a fourth-grade Immortal Venerable artifact? That’s a waste of resources!"

Chiyu Immortal Venerable replied, "Your cultivation level is just at the fourth-grade Immortal Venerable Realm, afraid you can’t refine a fifth-grade Immortal Venerable artifact, so I must settle for the next best thing..."

After advancing to the fifth-grade Immortal Venerable Realm, Chiyu Immortal Venerable was eager to refine a suitable fifth-grade Immortal Venerable artifact for himself, but in his previous experiences with carrying multiple refining materials across various Immortal Cities, he encountered either artifact refiners whose cultivation wasn’t high enough or those with low crafting success rates, resulting in the loss of many refining materials without success. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Seeing his stock of refining materials diminishing, Chiyu Immortal Venerable became more cautious about making moves.

But the "failure results in double compensation" written on Fang Bai’s stall sign reduced this particular worry for Chiyu Immortal Venerable.

In his view, given that Fang Bai was an artifact refiner of the fourth-grade Immortal Venerable Realm, he must surely have plenty of refining materials at his disposal, so regardless of the crafting result, Chiyu Immortal Venerable would not incur losses—why not take the chance?

Of course, if he had known that Fang Bai’s Five Elements Space Ring was empty, he would not have entrusted Fang Bai to refine the immortal artifact under any circumstance.

Fang Bai chuckled and said, "Actually, I have successfully refined fifth-grade Immortal Venerable level artifacts before, so... I can give it a try for you."

Chiyu Immortal Venerable’s eyes lit up, he asked, "With these three sets of refining materials, what are your chances?"

Usually, an artifact refiner has a crafting success rate of about thirty to forty percent. If Fang Bai’s was below this rate, Chiyu Immortal Venerable would not let him attempt it.

Fang Bai said, "About forty to fifty percent!"

Chiyu Immortal Venerable was astonished: "Forty to fifty percent? Are you really that confident?"

A crafting success rate of forty to fifty percent is exceedingly high in the Immortal Realm; if what Fang Bai said was true, then his business in Ice Emperor City is likely to boom.

Fang Bai smiled, "Confidence isn’t just about what’s said—let’s give it a shot!"

Chiyu Immortal Venerable nodded and then asked, "How many days until the artifact is completed?"

In his impression, artifact refining was usually even slower than alchemy, taking a minimum of three to five days, or even as long as ten days or half a month, so he was prepared to wait a long time in front of Fang Bai’s stall.

Fang Bai thought for a moment and said, "Three to five hours... it should be about done by dawn."

After saying this, under Chiyu Immortal Venerable’s stupefied eyes, he got up and entered the Pill Room behind the stall.

Xiao Ping happily picked up the three sets of materials from the stall, took them into the Pill Room where Fang Bai was, and then withdrew to stand quietly outside the room.