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Inside the imperial palace of the Ancient Longevity City, the Xuanling Pavilion was where the junior disciples of the Gu Family cultivated pills and medicine.

Because of their lineage, almost all of the Gu Family disciples knew how to cultivate pills and medicine. Their standards were also quite outstandard.

In the Xuanling Pavilion, the Gu Family disciples had their own elders to guide them. As their cultivation increased and they grew older, the Gu Family disciples would not go to the Xuanling Pavilion when they reached a certain standard. They would prepare their own pill cauldrons and figure things out themselves in their own homes.

But the Xuanling Pavilion still prepared many top-quality pill cauldrons for the disciples. There were even the more normal ones for the younger disciples to practice first.

There were even Immortal Soul level pill cauldrons. But these cauldrons could not be touched by the junior disciples naturally.

Xiao Zhener and Xiao Yan entered the Xuanling Pavilion and saw a huge hall in the center of the pavilion. There were many seats around this hall, which surrounded a platform in the center. There was a huge, purplish-red cauldron on the platform.

This was the cauldron that the elders used to teach the disciples normally. Xiao Yan scanned it and nodded his head, “It was slightly inferior to the Ethereal Heart Cauldron. Since it’s placed here, it can’t be some inferior cauldron. But it can’t be a rare treasure too.”

“The power of tradition is indeed great. In this area, your family has a rather strong foundation.”

He scanned all around him and saw that at the edge of the hall, there were many doors along the walls. Each of these doors represented a chamber.

Xiao Yan’s nose raised a little and he could immediately sense that inside each chamber, there was a small cauldron. They must have been prepared for the disciples of the Gu Family to use.

In each of these chambers, not only did a pleasant medicinal scent diffuse out, there was also the smell of burnt matter. As they came together, there was a stench.

But Xiao Yan still smiled. When he first encountered pill cultivation, he did cultivate something of such a smell before.

In the Inferno Precipice, the disciples were mainly talented in pill cultivation or had a passion for pill cultivation.

There were times where good pills were created, but there were times where waste was created instead. At times, they were mixed together, that created this smell that Xiao Yan was familiar with.

“They should be on the second level.” Xiao Zhener said, “The third level is where the magic treasure cauldron should be at. As for the second level, it’s where all the successful pill cultivators are. There’s a better quality cauldron over there than the first level.”

Xiao Yan laughed, “Today, I can learn more along with them.”

Xiao Zhener rolled her eyes at him, “You are always around the Crucible of Divine Lands, so don’t act humble. Don’t even talk about the cauldrons on the second level and third level. Even the Barren Celestial Elder can’t compare to the Crucible of the Divine Lands.”

The Barren Celestial Elder was the original soul of the Mahayana level magic treasure, the Barren Celestial Cauldron.

In the art of pill cultivation, the Barren Celestial Cauldron was along with the Sun and Moon Divine Cauldron and Yan Heaven Crucible as the pill cultivation magic treasures that were beneath the Crucible of the Divine Lands.

Only in front of her parents and Xiao Zhener would Xiao Zhener act in such a bratty manner.

But Xiao Yan could only laugh bitterly in his heart. Xiao Zhener still did not know that he only managed to use the Crucible of the Divine Lands forcibly after so many years. If he wanted to perfect his pill cultivation skills and combine perfectly with the magic treasure, he had to wait for who knew how long.

The both of them went to the second level of the Xuanling Pavilion. They saw a bunch of people standing there, forming a circle. But there were three groups of people clearly separated from one another.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhener were of higher cultivations than them. When they came outside the circle, no one noticed their arrival, as if they did not exist.

In the center of everyone, there was a black-green, squarish crucible which looked normal. But as Xiao Yan swept his eyes across, he could tell that it was a comparable pill crucible as the Ethereal Heart Cauldron.

In the center of the crucible, streaks and streaks of greenish gas flow rumbled. These gases had a special effect of stabilizing the medicinal power and increased the success rate of the cultivation of powers, preventing the herbs from turning to waste.

The person standing in front of the crucible now was a charming youth. Golden flames surfaced above his hands, which flashed with red and blue. The flames were then added to the greenish-black, squarish crucible.

Xiao Zhener communicated with Xiao Yan, “It’s Liancheng.”

Xiao Yan nodded his head. He knew this youth. His name was Gu Liancheng and he was one generation lower than Xiao Zhener. After Xiao Zhener, he was the up and coming talent from the younger generation of the Gu Family. He was very outstanding and was already in the Nascent Soul Stage.

He once sparred with Tang Jun before and lost to Tang Jun. He wanted to challenge Tang Jun in pill cultivation this time.

Tang Jun stood opposite him and watched as Gu Liancheng added his powers to the crucible.

After a while, Gu Liancheng shouted, “Unleash!”

His palms slapped on the crucible and the green gas within the crucible dispersed. Medicinal smell filled the place and lights shot everywhere. A series of miraculous scenes appeared above the crucible without disappearing.

Amidst the lights, the scenes gathered to form a huge lotus flower that bloomed.

Gu Liancheng revealed a look of satisfaction. As he shrugged his sleeves, the lights disappeared and revealed 12 pieces of white pills inside the crucible.

Xiao Yan looked at it and knew that it was a pill called the Gas Revolution Pill. It was quite common in the Greater World, which was useful for one to cultivate. Many sects had this pill formula, including the Celestial Sect of Wonders and the Gu Family.

To many of the Gu Family disciples around, this was only basic stuff. When one started learning how to cultivate pills, he would encounter this pill. There’s no difficulty in cultivating it either.

But the question was, cultivating a cauldron of this pill would take up to one day of a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator’s time.

Gu Liancheng did not even use one day. In fact, before Xiao Yan went to look at the Catastrophic Broken Rock, Tang Jun and the rest of the Celestial Sect of Wonders’ Disciples were still resting.

The most was that when Xiao Yan encountered the Catastrophic Broken Rock, Gu Liancheng, Tang Jun and the rest had met here and were ready to compete.

Before half a day was even up, Gu Liancheng was already done. The talent of Gu Liancheng in the art of pill cultivation was exceptional.

Because he was not fooling around, he wouldn’t cultivate any inferior Gas Revolution Pills. That’s because Gu Liancheng had infused his own mantra essence in to the pills, thus the quality of the pills were much superior than the ordinary Gas Revolution Pills.

Tan Yunqing stood beside Tang Jun. As he saw this scene, he said softly, “It’s not even 2 hours, isn’t he a little too fast. But the quality of the pills seems to be very good. Tang Jun, are you confident?”

Tang Jun did not speak and only looked at the crucible, as he was distracted.

“Don’t worry, Tang Jun will be fine.” Yan Wuwei said from one side.

Fatty had been learning under Xiao Yan for years and he cultivated fire-type mantras. He cultivated the Nanming Saddharma of the Nanming Primordial Fire. Although he was still in the Aurous Core Stage, his pill cultivation skills were pretty brilliant already.

“If it was me, I will be unconfident. I must at least form the Nascent Soul first. But for Tang Jun, he will be fine.” Yan Wuwei said.

As they heard this, the junior disciples of the Emperor Gu lineage all stared at him. There were even the young kids who made a clown face towards him.

Yan Wuwei was not vexed and he returned the look. This enraged the young kids.

Some disciple beside Gu Liancheng mumbled, “What’s the point of bragging? We must see how good he is first. Before Brother Liancheng cultivates the pill, he has already let you familiarize yourself with the crucible. Don’t tell me that you still need time to familiarize yourself? He didn’t even use this crucible to cultivate before.”

For fairness’ sake, Gu Liancheng and Tang Jun agreed to use the same cauldron to cultivate as well as the same batch of medicine. They would also cultivate the same pills using the same pill formula. Eventually, the quality and quantity of the pills as well as the speed would be taken into account to determine the victor.

The first would be the quality followed by the quantity and followed by the speed.

Normally, when quality was ensured, the number of pills cultivated did not affect the speed. The quantity of pills mainly depended on the last step where the pills were retrieved from the cauldron. Those who were great in their technique would waste the least materials and form the most pills.

As for the mumbling of the Gu Family disciple, Tang Jun did not bother himself with it. He just stared at the crucible.

Ye Xinhui stood beside Yang Tie and asked, “Master, Elder Tang shouldn’t have cultivated the Nanming Saddharma before, will he be at a disadvantage?”

Yang Tie replied, “He has indeed not cultivated the Nanming Saddharma before or controlled the Nanming Primordial Fire either, but I can confirm that if he is lacking in confidence, he won’t be acting in this way.”

Ye Xinhui said, “But, from what I know, the best in pill cultivation among your generation is Elder Lin?”

The person that he was referring to was Lin Tong. She might look like a little girl, but her pill cultivation skills was the best among the second-generation disciples.

“That’s because she cultivated the Nanming Saddharma and controls the Nanming Primordial Fire.” Yang Tie smiled, “But in terms of technique, she may not be superior to your Elder Tang.”

“Your Elder Tang is one of the best among all of us, but maybe it’s because of his interest, he doesn’t find it taxing to cultivate pills.”

Just as Yang Tie and Ye Xinhui were talking, Tang Jun still remained unmoved. He was distracted as he looked at the crucible. More and more of the Gu Family disciples creased their brows.

“Does he think he can conjure pills just by looking? He should be putting this time to good use…” Someone mumbled. Gu Lianchang lifted his hand to stop him. He shook his head, expressing his intention that he wanted him to stop talking.

But this voice still landed in the ears of everyone. Duan Muhong stood beside Tang Jun and looked at Gu Liancheng. He opened his mouth and said, “Apologies for being reckless but please forgive me. However, the Gas Revolution Pills that you cultivated earlier were slightly lacking during the last part where you retrieved the pills out. If you change the proportion of your powers from 60% illusory and 40% real to 70% illusory and 30% real, the effects may be better. You could have gotten 13 pills.”

The entire Xuanling Pavilion quietened down.