Chapter 484: Chapter 12: Am I, Wang Shouye, Suddenly Invincible?_3
“Miss Gu, how many pills have you successfully created?” A few heavyweights, who were standing quite far away and had their view blocked by Dongfang Yuxi, couldn’t help but ask curiously.
If it weren’t for the fact that using Spiritual Sense within Danfang might cause misunderstandings, they were afraid they might have directly peeked at the situation using Spiritual Sense.
“Pills…” Gu Hanyu looked up and glanced at Wang Shouye in a peculiar way, “Eight. The quality is excellent.”
“What?! Eight?! And they’re excellent quality?”
The influential figures present were instantly shocked.
Yuwen Jinghong, Qian Jingde and the others exchanged glances, then looked at Wang Shouye oddly.
Eight successful pills was something only seasoned pill masters of the Third Grade could achieve.
Dongfang Yuxi, being able to concoct seven successful pills at the age of around thirty-seven, was already considered a genius. But Wang Shouye, who was even younger, could actually make eight successful pills. Wasn’t this a bit too amazing?
How exactly had the Changning Wang Clan managed to nurture such a prodigy?
“Impossible!! There must be something wrong!”
At this point, Dongfang Yuxi finally snapped out of the huge shock that the eight pills brought him.
He grabbed the pill box and suspiciously picked up a pill to scrutinize it.
The pill in his hand, however, had a lustrous surface, emitted a faint glow, and even subtly released the scent of medicine, just like it was fresh out of the oven!
He nervously checked one pill after another, yet he couldn’t find any issues whatsoever, causing his face to pale a little.
Out of character, he yelled at Wang Shouye, “You, you… didn’t you say you didn’t perform well?”
“Well… I really didn’t perform well…” Wang Shouye scratched his head, looking wronged when faced with this angry questioning, “Usually, when I’m in good form, there’s a high probability of producing nine pills. But this time, I was too nervous when extracting the pills, which affected my performance, so I only produced eight.”
Eight successful pills due to underperformance, and he emphasized “only”?
Upon hearing these words, everyone present, except for Wang Shouzhe, looked extremely puzzled.
Dongfang Yuxi was even so angry that both his hands were shaking, and he almost spat out blood.
Nine successful pills in a session is the level of a top-tier Third Grade Pill Master!
With this level of skill, given his age and cultivation base, any Alchemy Grandmaster, let alone Master Danding, would be eager to accept him as a disciple if they knew about his results.
But he’d pretended as if he was about to lose and had deliberately played him for a fool. Did he think fooling others was fun?! Huh?!! Was it entertaining?
“Ahem~ Brother Shouye, that’s enough.” Seeing Dongfang Yuxi in this state, Qian Xuefu couldn’t help but feel a bit sympathetic towards him. He quietly nudged Wang Shouye, “Dongfang Yuxi is already on the verge of spitting blood from anger. Don’t intentionally rile him up any further. Be careful, the Dongfang Family might hold you accountable if he dies from anger.”
“Old Brother Qian, I didn’t intentionally want to upset him…” Wang Shouye sheepishly said, “I’ve been solely focusing on alchemy these years, and no one has ever told me about the level of other people’s alchemy skills… I genuinely did not expect his capabilities to be this weak.”
“…” Qian Xuefu’s mouth twitched uncontrollably from the shock. So, such a thing could actually happen? This kid had practiced and practiced, and before he realized it, he’d become invincible.
At that moment, Qian Xuefu genuinely felt a pang of sympathy for Dongfang Yuxi.
Poor Dongfang Yuxi, if he hadn’t insisted on this competition, he would have been praised wherever he went, and people would have said it was a shame that he had been crowded out.
But no one could have predicted that Wang Shouye, who looked a bit simple and weak, had turned out to be an extraordinarily tough nut to crack. By kicking him, Dongfang Yuxi had basically broken his own foot.
Once today’s events spread out, everyone would praise Master Danding for his discerning eye and knack for spotting talent. They’d also say that Dongfang Yuxi had overestimated himself, repeatedly harassing an opponent who was clearly superior and refusing to admit defeat.
The reputation that Dongfang Yuxi had painstakingly built up was instantly destroyed.
What left Qian Xuefu lost for words was the fact that the kid didn’t even know his own strength…
Only Wang Shouzhe remained as calm and composed as ever.
Joking aside, his seventh brother, Wang Shouye, now possessed the Threefold Lihuo Bloodline. He had to refine more than a hundred batches of Large Solid Yuan Pills each year, and just the cost of raw materials was nearly two hundred thousand Qian Gold!
Moreover, he had been refining for several years, and he was far from making up for the loss. Hence, one can imagine that with such resources thrown in, even a pig would become a pill master!
Besides the Wang Clan, which family can afford to spend so much to cultivate an alchemist?