Dual Cultivation With My Yandere Disciples

Chapter 144: Elixir Recipe! Honglan’s Accident!

Chen Xuan stared at the two jade hairpins for a long time, using several methods to investigate their function.

Sight, divine sense, even the Heavenly Insight Eye.

Unfortunately, no matter how carefully he examined the two hairpins, he found nothing special about them.

It was as though they were nothing more than ordinary ornaments, and their beauty was simply an innate trait.

’No wonder no one managed to discover anything unusual about them. I previously thought the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s appraiser simply wasn’t skilled enough.’

’Now it seems it’s not their fault. These hairpins are just too strange.’

In the end, Chen Xuan could only conclude that the hairpins themselves might truly be ordinary. What made them special was likely not their nature as treasures, but the identity they represented.

’Perhaps they merely serve as a means of identification rather than being actual treasures.’

After several more minutes of investigation, during which he still failed to uncover anything, Chen Xuan finally decided to set the matter aside for now.

If he wanted to learn the truth, he would likely have to wait until his demonic clone discovered what was hidden on Scorpius Island.

Of course, there was a high chance that Chi Yao knew something about them as well. Unfortunately, since she hadn’t explained anything and had simply handed him the hairpin, there was little he could do.

’I should have thought of it earlier. If it were truly a treasure, Chi Yao wouldn’t have given it away so easily.’

That alone was enough to show that either Chi Yao lacked the means to make use of it, or the time for its purpose to be revealed had simply not yet come.

With that thought, Chen Xuan put the two hairpins back into his spatial ring.

Then, he waved his hand and picked up the jade talisman beside them. As his divine sense poured into it, a stream of information flooded his mind.

With his current cultivation, digesting it posed no difficulty.

Soon, a name surfaced in his thoughts: Beast Essence Pill.

Just as the name implied, this elixir required beast Blood Essence as its main ingredient. The stronger the beast, the higher the quality of the pill that could be refined from it.

The value of the elixir itself was not too shocking, as it was merely a High-Grade Heaven Elixir. What truly drew Chen Xuan’s attention was its effect.

Unlike ordinary pills, it neither increased cultivation nor aided recovery.

Instead, it strengthened the cultivator’s physical body.

Although it was a Heaven-grade elixir commonly used by Nascent Soul cultivators, even Soul Formation experts could make use of it.

Its value, naturally, could be imagined.

In truth, a recipe of this level would not normally be sold so easily. The only reason Chen Xuan had managed to obtain it was because of the current situation.

’The higher-ups of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion are quite shrewd. By selling this recipe, they can encourage ordinary cultivators to hunt sea beasts.’

’Then, once those cultivators realize how difficult it is to refine a High-Grade Heaven Pill, they’ll either sell the materials back to the pavilion or pay the pavilion’s alchemists to refine the pills on their behalf.’

In a sense, this recipe was a trap—or at the very least, it was for ordinary cultivators.

For Chen Xuan, however, there was no such issue. Although he was unable to consistently refine such a pill at the moment, there was no reason to do so.

For Chen Xuan, however, there was no such issue.

His gaze shifted toward the Four Myths Cauldron.

As he approached it and transmitted the Beast Essence Pill recipe into it, the patterns of the four mythical creatures carved along its body lit up one after another.

Then, after tossing in a beast corpse along with the other materials he had purchased, flames surged within the cauldron, instantly melting the ingredients and condensing them into several flawless pills.

A rich medicinal fragrance spread through the first level of the Seven Trials Tower.

After collecting the pills, Chen Xuan immediately tossed in another batch of ingredients.

However, after repeating the process several times, a thought suddenly struck him.

Why was he personally doing all this hard work?

He was a Nascent Soul cultivator, damn it!

Rather than handling everything himself, he should obviously find a subordinate to do it for him.

Thankfully, he already had the perfect candidate in mind.

The next moment, his Dantian trembled, and a golden sword materialized in his hand.

Honglan’s figure hovered above it. For the first few moments, she didn’t even seem to realize that she had been summoned.

She was holding a piece of metal in her hand and nibbling on it lightly, looking cute, like a rabbit munching on a snack.

She was clearly completely immersed in whatever she had been doing.

It was only after several seconds, when Chen Xuan deliberately cleared his throat, that she seemed to notice that her surroundings had changed.

She raised her head and looked at Chen Xuan. Then her gaze shifted to the piece of metal still in her hand.

Her face instantly flushed crimson.

She waved her hand in a panic, then hurriedly looked down at her dress as though searching for a pocket to hide it in.

When she failed to find one, inspiration struck her.

Without hesitation, she dropped the metal onto the ground and kicked it into a corner of the room.

As if she felt that this was not enough, she moved to the side, blocking Chen Xuan’s line of sight to the evidence.

Only then did the redness on her face fade.

She clasped her hands behind her back and looked at Chen Xuan.

Seemingly unwilling to look up to face him properly, she controlled the sword to float a little higher in the air, causing her tiny phantom to rise a few feet above his head.

Then she tilted her chin upward slightly, looking down at him through her nostrils before finally speaking.

"Junior, have you finally decided to come looking for me again? Let me tell you, I’ve been keeping count of how many times you’ve used me these past few days."

"I won’t agree to help you with anything unless you offer me ten—no, twenty precious resources like that Star Metal Essence."