Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World

In the Jiushan Realm, on Heavenly Palace Island, the furnace fire was blazing, and Elder Xiong's anger was blazing just as fiercely.

He had been studying that Nameless Pill Recipe for two months.

"Using the Five Elements Orchid as the main ingredient, supplemented by Frost Leaf and Spirit-transforming Herb, and assisted with... it can be made into a Great Pill, extremely useful for our cultivation. Alas, the Melt God Flower is also rare."

This was the original text of the recipe.

The Jiushan Sect merely reverted the Concentrating God Flower back to its original name, the Five Elements Orchid.

Perhaps out of superstition, or simply not knowing the complete recipe, the senior from the Tianhe Sect left no proportions of ingredients or alchemy process.

Therefore, Zheng Fa wanted to seek the help of the Qingmu Sect—

Elder Xiong, a seasoned master, even though unaware of specific alchemy techniques, could sometimes deduce the idea and processing method of the pill from observing the ingredients.

This recipe was originally a Golden Core level Spirit Pill, not really complicated. It consisted of just eight ingredients combined, and Elder Xiong was quite familiar with six of them, enough to surmise its effects and processing methods.

Thus, the research progressed smoothly at first.

But later encountered difficulties, with no progress for more than a month, and repeated failures, it was discouraging.

In the alchemy furnace, the fire alternated between purple and gold, casting Elder Xiong's face in shifting shades of light and dark.

The changes in the spell of his hand grew faster.

An hour later, the lid of the alchemy furnace suddenly exploded open.

The Fire Extinguishing Pill appeared, but there were only about ten of them, lying blackly at the bottom of the furnace.

Elder Xiong's face turned even darker, and she sniffed with her nose, looking increasingly irritable, as a Spiritual Fire ignited in her hand, and she slammed it towards the furnace.

Suddenly her body stiffened, as if she had remembered something, and looked to the side.

Standing there were four disciples of the Jiushan Sect, all with Foundation Establishment cultivation, and one of them had silver light gleaming in his eyes.

Elder Xiong hesitated for a while, waved his hand towards them, but turned his neck in the opposite direction, unwilling to look at them.

Beside her, Zhao Jingfan noticed that his own elder initially intended to destroy the wasted pills from this furnace, but... Zheng Fa had set a rule:

Regardless of success or failure, wasted pills must be collected for research.

He couldn't help but chuckle quietly:

This elder held a high status in the sect, with strong abilities, and acted and spoke without reservation.

What amused him more was the rumor in the sect that this elder demanded the utmost of herself. Once a pill failed, she habitually destroyed all wasted pills and thoroughly cleaned the alchemy furnace.

Not only that, she would seethe in anger.

Her bottled-up anger would inevitably spill onto those around her.

These past days, he had felt it:

A few days ago, a failed alchemy attempt led Elder Xiong to reprimand him—because he had rubbed his eyes after looking at the furnace for too long, and as a result, the elder accused him of disturbing her.

The failure of this furnace of pills was supposed to be Zhao Jingfan's fault!

What a grievous injustice!

No wonder it was rumored among the sect that Elder Xiong was extremely difficult to get along with, none of the disciples dared to breathe heavily in front of her.

But facing the disciples of the Jiushan Sect whom she clearly disdained, Elder Xiong dared not rebuke them either...

Laughable!

"What are you laughing at? Have you learned anything yet that you're laughing?"

Zhao Jingfan was taken aback, looked up, and saw Elder Xiong glaring at him, and scolding: "Always messing around in the alchemy room, learning nothing with all your meddling!"

I dared not even blink, fearing that any excessive movement would extinguish the Spiritual Fire in the furnace. Where did this meddling come from?

But upon catching Elder Xiong's gaze, he followed her line of sight to the four Jiushan Sect disciples and immediately understood—

Elder Xiong was using insinuations to scold them.

To her, these four Jiushan Sect disciples were nothing but eyesores.

Among these disciples, the one who knew the "Void Spirit Eye" had silver light in his eyes, carefully examining those wasted pills.

After that, they brought them one by one to the new Spiritual Energy Scanner to measure.

Finally, they discussed together, brushing ideas onto paper, seeming quite earnest.

Zhao Jingfan noticed a hint of impatience in Elder Xiong's expression.

He also understood why Elder Xiong was so impatient:

Initially, when these Jiushan Sect disciples came, Elder Xiong didn't mind.

Let them learn.

Since they were prepared to sell their ancestral secret techniques, she didn't mind them learning.

But then some issues arose—one of these Jiushan Sect disciples, a rather bold one, suddenly suggested that Elder Xiong should improve some techniques.

The other three nodded at the time, appearing quite in agreement.

This was unbearable for Elder Xiong!

Setting aside the disparity in strength between Jiushan Sect and Qingmu Sect, these Jiushan Sect disciples and Elder Xiong had a huge gap both in the Alchemy Dao and cultivation!

Elder Xiong was the chief elder of the Qingmu Sect, and the top figure in the Alchemy Dao of the Hundred Immortals Alliance, a Nascent Soul cultivator.

These four, though they had studied Alchemy Dao, were only at Foundation Establishment level, how could they compare to Elder Xiong?

Now they dared to guide Elder Xiong in alchemy? How audacious they were!

Since then, Elder Xiong took a strong dislike to these four, even though restrained by Zheng Fa, she refrained from speaking harsh words, her bad temper and pent-up anger could only vent through insinuations and sarcasm.

Zhao Jingfan was directly in the line of fire.

These four seemed aware that Zheng Fa valued Elder Xiong highly, and fearing to offend a Nascent Soul cultivator naturally would not say anything further...

Merely continuing their work quietly.

In these days, they didn't have any disputes, but they hadn't exchanged much conversation either.

Their notes grew thicker and thicker, whatever they were writing, Elder Xiong hadn't read a word of it, showing complete disdain.