Wasting Money to Become an Immortal-Chapter 171: What now

When I came out the next morning, I was surrounded right away by my senior disciples.

It seemed that all of them had been worried because of the lie that I told them, so the only thing that I could do was comfort them and tell them that I was fine.

Though I was certainly surprised by their reactions.

After all, it had only been a few days since we had met.

It wasn’t like the lackeys who had been with me for several months now.

Still, I was a bit touched by how worried they looked.

It seemed like the Star Peak Sect really was a good place.

Elder Wang and the Great Elder acted cool, but it seemed like they had also been worried about me.

It was just that they didn’t show it in the same way as the others.

After breakfast, we headed back to the same square as yesterday.

That was because they were holding the finals today.

When we arrived, I found that there were already many people who were gathered here.

It wasn’t that they were just gathered here to watch the competition, they were also here to build relations. The three that had also made it to the finals had arrived early and were setting up, so they seized this chance to build relations with them.

Though the three of them didn’t really seem concerned about them.

They just listened to what these people had to say and nodded in agreement from time to time.

Just like how everyone wanted a great alchemist to refine pills for them, a great alchemist needed people to refine pills for. If they didn’t have any customers, they wouldn’t be able to make any money and wouldn’t be able to get any ingredients to refine pills with.

It was a sort of give and take relationship.

With a reputation such as entering the finals of this tournament, it was already guaranteed that they would have customers in the future and with the reputation of their sects, it wasn’t as if there would be a lack of people who would want them to refine pills for them. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

But more was always better.

It was better to have more of these customers just in case anything happened.

As for the fourth finalist...

Well, when I arrived on the scene, there were people that tried to come to talk to me too.

It was just that I had no patience for them at all since I wasn’t planning on becoming an alchemist in the first place.

So I had the lackeys keep them all away while I just laid around eating some fruits.

Though I called them fruits, these things were anything but normal fruits.

They were Second Grade Herbs.

There were many envious looks that were cast in my direction, but it wasn’t as if anyone could do anything about me.

So they could only watch on in envy as I munched on these fruits.

The only one that my lackeys let through was Wang Jian.

Speaking of Wang Jian, I had to admit that I was wrong about him.

He might be a prodigal, but it seemed that he also had some talent in alchemy.

After all, Wang Jian had been placed in the same round as Jun Xiao, one of the top three seeded contestants. He had been able to reach second place in that round, pushing everyone beneath him.

It seemed that he really was quite the talented person when it came to alchemy.

It was to the point where even Jun Xiao let out a sigh of relief when he saw that he won.

But Wang Jian didn’t seem to care that he lost as he was back to his old self and was asking me to teach him the way of the prodigal again.

This was certainly a friend that was worth making as I needed other prodigal young masters to show off with me.

So I handed Wang Jian a few fruits to nibble on with me, but that turned out to be a mistake.

These fruits were just too nutritious for him, so it didn’t take long before he started to stink.

That was because all of the impurities in his body were being purified by these Second Grade Herbs.

Wang Jian wasn’t a genius at cultivating, his father had to even bribe his way into a sect. So the Second Grade Herbs had an even greater effect on him than they would on other people.

In the future, it would be hard to tell what his cultivation progress would be like now that he had his entire body purified of impurities by these fruits.

It could be said that he was a carp that had turned into a dragon.

But I didn’t think much of it.

I was just happy to help a friend like this.

Since he started to stink, Wang Jian actually missed watching the finals since he had to go and wash up.

I didn’t think that he missed anything, but everyone else certainly would have thought this.

When it was time for the finals, I went up to the stage with everyone staring at me.

The way that they were looking at me was as if they were wondering...

"What would he do now?"

This was a prodigal that had refined the Refining Stone with white specks and that pill line pill, so everyone couldn’t help wondering what he would show them this time.

Even the three seeded contestants were looking at him with the same look as everyone else.

However, there was also something else that was in their eyes.

For the first time, they were feeling pressure.

When they entered any competitions before, they would always be the top seeded contestant and would never feel any pressure from anyone else. But this wasn’t the case with this competition.

There was this unknown person who came out of nowhere and demonstrated skills that were far above their own.

So they couldn’t help feeling pressure from him.

I just walked onto the stage with a yawn and a lazy expression, wondering when this would be over.

There really was a big difference in how we treated this competition.