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  Xiao Yan hurried to the door and ope with a creak. Standing behind it was Xun Er, dressed in a simple white dress.

  "What's the matter, Xun Er? It's so te." Xiao Yan fshed a fident smile.

  Xun Er blinked her beautiful eyes at him and pointed outside. "It's m now, Xiao Yan ge-ge."

  Xiao Yan's heart skipped a beat!

  He had spent half a day helping Medusa dense her body. What was inally nighttime had naturally turned int!

  "ht. Look at me—immersed in cultivation, I've lost track of time and didn't realize half a day has passed." Xiao Yan suppressed the pani his heart and smiled politely.

  Xun Er's eyes fshed with a hint of insight as she gazed into his eyes. Theilted her head to peer into the room, wearing a smile that wasn't quite a smile. "Won't Xiao Yan ge-ge invite me in to sit for a while?"

  Gulp.

  Xiao Yan swallowed hard. Was this the famed woman's sixth sense??

  He ughed, "Haha, Xun Er, really now... If you're tired, e in a for a bit."

  Xun Er smiled aered Xiao Yan's room with graceful, lotus-like steps. She looked left and right, but aside from a medial cauldron currently refining medial ingredients, there was nothing else.

  The entire room was filled with the st of medial ingredients.

  "My room is filled with the smell of medial residue. If it gets on Xun Er's clothes, I'd feel terrible," Xiao Yan hastily expined.

  Xun Er looked at his smile, blinked her beautiful eyes, and without saying more, took out a ste ring and ha to him. "Here is a rge batedial ingredients purchased using the Xiao Hall's Fire Energy. Is Xiao Yan ge-ge pnning to refine pills?"

  Xiao Yan spread his hands helplessly and said, "I'm out of Fire Energy. Cultivating in the No. 1 cultivation room costs thirty Fire Energy per day. Moreover, the Xiao Hall has just gotten on track; ine and expenses have only just banced out. The money I o spend only be earned by myself."

  Poverty was always a big problem; even Xiao Yan was not immune.

  Fortunately, he had a big money-making on called alchemy. In the Dou Qi ti, medial pills were precious odities everywhere and acted as hard currency.

  So he used the spare Fire Energy he had left in the Xiao Hall to purchase a batedial ingredients for tier 3 pills.

  In the Inner Academy, most were Dou Grandmasters, and even low-star Dou Dou Spirits could use tier 3 pills, so tier 3 pills were the best sellers.

  Xiao Yan suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, Xun Er, are there others in the Inner Academy selling medial pills?"

  At this, Xun Er's delicate brows furrowed slightly. She smiled wryly and nodded. "There are ihers selling pills, and not just one person but aire fa."

  "A fa?" Xiao Yan was a bit surprised.

  "This fa is called the Medie Gang. All its members are alchemists who ehe Inner Academy from the Alchemy Department. That Lu Mu, who once pursued Cousin Xiao Yu, has joihe Medie Gang," Xun Er expihoughtfully.

  Not all freshmen joihe Xiao Hall; only those without backgrounds joio seek Xiao Yan's prote.

  Xun Er tinued, "This Medie Gang has almost monopolized y pert of the medial pill sales in the Inner Academy. Other scattered alchemists find it hard to pete with them. It's said that the leader of the Medie Gang is a high-grade 4th-tier alchemist."

  "If Xiao Yan ge-ge also wants to sell medial pills, I'm afraid there will be a direct flict with this Medie Gang."

  Xiao Yan smiled faintly, took the ste ring Xun Er handed ently stroked her jade-like hand, and said fidently, "Just a 4th-tier alchemist? I, Xiao Yan, may not yet be the stro in the Inner Academy, but when it es to alchemy, I fidently say that I am the stro alchemist here!"

  When it came to alchemy, it was hard for him to keep a low profile.

  Since he was young, he had obtained a mysterious ste ring taining a powerful alchemist's iance. He had studied various herbal cssid memorized entire volumes of medial texts. He possessed a Heavenly Fme and the Fme Mantra, and his Spiritual Strength had reached the peak of Tier 6. Not long ago, he had even refined a tier 6 pill with the help of the Bck Demon Cauldron.

  Xiao Yan was truly the number one alchemist in the Inner Academy.

  "We don't o fear them. Natural sele favors the strong. petition is iable. As long as they don't py dirty, we'll pete fairly with our medial pills."

  Xun Er naturally kneerful Xiao Yan's alchemy skills were. In four months, he had helped Xiao Yu and the others advance from Dou Dou Masters to Dou Grandmasters, gainirao the Inner Academy. He had eveed a tier 5 pill recipe like the Four Lines White Spirit Pill and could refine Dou King Pills.

  He was the champion of the Alchemist Graing in the Jia Ma Empire!

  Xun Er nodded and smiled. "In that case, we at the Xiao Hall will help Xiao Yan ge-ge sell the medial pills. However, since you're the only one who refine pills, we only help lessen your burden on the sales side."

  Xiao Yaly stroked her silky hair and said tenderly, "It's me who needs Fire Energy, yet I'm troubling everyoo help. I'm the one who should feel bad."

  "Alright then, Xiao Yan ge-ge, it's up to you now." Xun Er smiled sweetly and slowly exited the room.

  Before closing the door, Xun Er poked her head ba with a smile and said, "Xiao Yan ge-ge, you mustn't sck off and go do uhings, okay?"

  Click.

  The door closed.

  ! ! ! !

  Xiao Yan's heart trembled. Was this a girlfriend's intuition?! Had she discovered something?!

  'Phew, I'd better cultivate the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique first to restore my Spiritual Strength.'

  After half a day, Xiao Yan's Spiritual Strength and Dou Qi returo their peak state. He took out three tier 3 pill recipes from his ste ring.

  One was the Qi Returning Pill, a low-grade tier 3 pill he had refined many times before. It could quickly restore a certain amount of Dou Qi for those at or below the Dou Grandmaster realm, with the amouored reted to the pill's quality.

  Another was the low-grade tier 3 Minor Blood Recovery Pill, which could quickly heal injuries, replenish blood, and mend bones, suitable for those at or below the Dou Grandmaster realm.

  The st one was Xiao Yan's main produake a name for himself—the high-grade tier 3 Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid. This was not a pill but a medial liquid for external use. It was a milky-white liquid that, when added to clear water and used for soaking the body during cultivation, could expel the fire poison within the body.

  This ill recipe Xiao Yan chose acc to local ditions. He remembered how Lin Yan had been afflicted with fire poison and realized that anyone who ehe Bzing Sky Qi Refining Tower would accumute some fire poison t degrees. Many students didn't dare to cultivate too intehere due to fear of fire poison.

  With this Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid, they could stay longer in the Bzing Sky Qi Refining Tower. Xiao Yan didn't o think twice to know this would definitely be a hot odity.

  'These three kinds of medial pills should be enough.'

  Xiao Yan took out the alchemy cauldron 'given' to him by the Amethyst Winged Lion King. When refining tier 3 pills, he no longer dawdled. The Nihility Dev Fme quickly raised the temperature of the cauldron with a flick of his fingers.

  Then, tless medial ingredients flew out from his ste ring with a wave of his hand and surged into the cauldron like a torrential flood.

  To Xiao Yan, refining tier 3 pills was like child's py. Although he hadn't yet reached the point of f pills in seds like Hun Huzi back then, with the help of the Nihility Dev Fme, extrag tier 3 medial ingredients was like assembly-line produ. In just an hour, he had turned a rge amount of ingredients into medial powder.

  Xiao Yan formed seals with his hands, his ten fingers movily. His immense Spiritual Strength transformed into a pair of dexterous invisible hands. Uhe trol of his Spiritual Strength and the Nihility Dev Fme, one pill after another was sent into pill bottles, and jar after jar of Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid was sealed and properly stored.

  After about two hours, the floor of his room was filled with a rge pile of bottles and jars, all taining round pills and spirit liquids.

  Looking at the assortment of medial pills and spirit liquids, Xiao Yan showed a satisfied smile.

  …

  Creak.

  Xiao Yan's door opened.

  Xiao Yu and the others heard the sound of the door opening and immediately raised their heads.

  They all khat Xiao Yan po refine pills to sell and had been waiting in the living room.

  Xiao Yan slowly walked out uheir gaze. Although his handsome face showed some fatigue, the joy between his brows was unmistakable.

  "You've only been refining pills for two hours. Is that enough? The Medie Gang has dozens of alchemists refining together." As usual, Xiao Yu's short skirt revealed those slender, lohat were still so eye-catg.

  Xiao Yan couldn't help but take a good look. Only when Xiao Yu's cheeks flushed did he withdraw his gaze. He tossed ste rings taining the pills to Hu Jia, Xiao Yu, and Xun Er, and said, "Hu Jia, your ste ring tains the Qi Returning Pills, which restore Dou Qi for Dou Grandmasters. You, along with Wu Hao and the other bro to the arena. That's where they'll need pills that quickly restore Dou Qi the most."

  "Xiao Yu, you, along with Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei, Xiao Yue Liang, and Xiao Meng, take the Minor Blood Recovery Pills to the Mission Hall to sell. Those heading out hese kinds of injury-healing pills the most."

  "As for the third type, the Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid, this spirit liquid clear fire poison from the body. I'll go with Xuo the Bzing Sky Qi Refining Tower to sell it. The Inner Academy students who cultivate there his the most."

  Everyone was stunned for a moment upon hearing about the effects of the Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid and excimed, "It remove fire poison!"

  Wu Hao said excitedly, "Even the Medie Gang doesn't have this! Many people don't dare to stay in the Bzing Sky Qi Refining Tower for long because they're afraid of fire poison. We're going to make a fortuhis time."

  They even wanted some for themselves!

  "Stop eyeing it greedily. Sell the pills and e back, and I'll refier Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid for you. I didn't put much effort into making these; the quality is just average," Xiao Yan saw through them immediately and gave a straightforromise.

  Hu Jia patted her chest fidently and said, "Hmph, you only spent two hours refining these. I'll help you sell them all in one day."

  Xiao Yan revealed a meaningful smile and said, "Oh, really? Then I'll be looking forward to it."

  Not long after, when Hu Jia sehe sheer quantity of pills ie ring, she cried out that she'd been tricked!

  …

  Without a doubt, as soon as the Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid was unched, it immediately caused a stir throughout the Inner Academy. Students, like parched nds in desperate need of rain, eagerly flocked to learn more.

  Although many initially doubted whether Xiao Yan's Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid could actually eliminate fire poison aated to purchase su expensive spirit liquid, once Xiao Yan brought in Lin Yan as a 'spokesperson,' all doubts vanished.

  "What? That madman Lin Yan's fire poison was really cleared?!"

  "I remember now! Two months ago, Xiao Yan seemed to have bought a medial ingredient from Lin Yan's stall. I heard that the dition Xiao Yan offered was to clear the fire poison in Lin Yan's body in exge!"

  "You've got to be kidding! Wasn't Lin Yan's fire poison something that eveire Alchemy Department was helpless against? I heard even the elders said they had no way!"

  Immediately, everyone's gazes were fixed on the small jar of Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid oall, as if they were looking at a treasure.

  A glint fshed in Xiao Yan's eyes as he showed a broad smile, rubbing his thumb and index fiogether. "Want the Marrow Washing Cold Spirit Liquid? It's not expensive. Not y-nine, y-eight. Today, for just five days' worth of Fire Energy, you buy a jar!"

  Everyone was stunned.

  Bck-hearted!