780: Chapter 780 Your stuff is all garbage!

Ning Wanqing snorted coldly.

"What does 'Thick Earth Technique' count for? When my Ning Family's 'Ice Heart Formula' is cultivated to its peak, it can freeze a thousand miles in a single thought. Can your broken cultivation technique compare to that?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou was unconvinced: "Freeze a thousand miles? That's only in the Antarctic! Why don't you come to my Dantai Family's Red Flame Valley and try it? Let's see how many inches your ice can freeze there?"

"You..."

"Me what? Am I not speaking the truth?"

The surrounding disciples could hold back no longer.

Damn it!

If they wanted to cultivate those first-class techniques, they had to be in the top three of the family rankings.

Not to mention going into the family treasury to select items every month.

Even the prodigies within the family didn't have such treatment!

Yet that Ye Chen actually achieved it so easily...

It really makes others envious!

However, for Ye Chen, this was making things difficult for himself.

After all, two days ago, he had just rejected the Yan Family, and now this... two other families had come directly to him?

It was simply torture!

He rubbed his temples and was about to speak...

Ning Wanqing gritted her teeth, took a jade box from her sleeve, held it with both hands, and opened it in front of Ye Chen.

Inside the jade box lay a pill as white as snow, emitting a chill.

Moreover, the pill fragrance was overpowering; just smelling it made one feel refreshed.

"Mr. Ye, this is the ninth-grade pill 'Ice Soul Profound Pill' left behind by my Ning Family ancestors!"

"After consuming it, one can significantly increase their Mental Power, and there is even a certain chance to directly master ice-attribute power!"

"Now, our Ning Family only has this one."

"To express my sincerity, please accept it!"

When Great Elder Tantai Honghou heard this, his eyes widened like a bull's.

That was a ninth-grade pill!

Was this woman crazy? She actually! Actually! Actually! Even took out such a clan-protecting treasure?

Damn it!

Is it necessary to go this far just to recruit someone?

It's not like you're recruiting your ancestors...

He gritted his teeth and suddenly pulled an ancient wooden box from his bosom.

Then, he snapped it open.

Inside the wooden box lay a scroll of animal hide, with three large characters written in ancient seal script — 'Indestructible Body'.

"Mr. Ye, this is the body-refining technique 'Indestructible Body' left behind by my Dantai Family ancestors!"

"Once cultivated to the great completion, the physical body will be indestructible and immune to all techniques!"

"It's much stronger than that broken pill!"

Ning Wanqing's face turned cold: "Who are you calling a broken pill?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou glanced at Ning Wanqing.

"I said it, so what?"

"Once a pill is eaten, it's gone, and there's only a probability of mastering ice-attribute power."

"But my family's technique can be passed down for a lifetime!"

"Mr. Ye, you be the judge, which one is more worth it?"

Ning Wanqing was furious: "A technique that can be passed down for a lifetime? Your Dantai Family has been passed down for hundreds of years; has anyone actually mastered the 'Indestructible Body'? What is the difference between something that cannot be mastered and waste paper?"

"You! How many have mastered your Ning Family's 'Ice Heart Formula'?"

"At least one more than your family!"

"You have the nerve to say that just because you have one more?"

The two started arguing again.

So much so that the old men and women doing their morning exercises in the distance couldn't help but stop and look over curiously.

Ye Chen sighed and said helplessly,

"Can you two listen to me for a moment?"

Both of them shut their mouths again and looked at Ye Chen with anticipation.

Ye Chen looked at the two people in front of him—one holding a pill and the other holding an ancient body-refining technique—with a helpless expression.

"Um... can I exchange these for gold?"

"These two things of yours are useless to me. In other words, they are both trash."

Ning Wanqing: "???"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou: "???"

Ye Chen shrugged and continued: "However, your attitudes are much better than the Yan Family's, so I'll help you turn this waste into treasure."

Ning Wanqing: "???"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou: "???"

What?

The treasures they had cherished for so long were just trash in Ye Chen's eyes?

Did he have to be so exaggerated!

Huh?

He could even turn waste into treasure?

This... could he be bluffing?

Whether it's pills or techniques, how can they be changed just like that?

Wait... their pills and techniques were not waste!

Ning Wanqing and Great Elder Tantai Honghou looked at each other, their expressions extremely vivid.

They had seen arrogant people, but never anyone this arrogant.

A ninth-grade pill is trash?

An ancient body-refining technique is trash?

If this were to spread, the entire cultivation world would explode.

But for some reason, looking at Ye Chen's calm and composed face, they actually started to doubt in their hearts if their things were truly trash?

Damn it!

This thought is absolutely unacceptable!

However, Ye Chen didn't wait for them to react. He reached out and took the jade box from Ning Wanqing's hand, taking out the snow-white Ice Soul Profound Pill.

The pill lay in his palm, cold air overflowing, and the surrounding temperature dropped by a few degrees.

"Watch closely," Ye Chen said indifferently.

The next second, a blue flame rose from his right palm without any warning.

The flame was not big, only the size of a fist, but that blue was as deep as the deep sea, pulsing with a heart-palpitating deterrence.

The moment the flame appeared, the surrounding temperature soared.

Ning Wanqing subconsciously took a step back, her pupils shrinking suddenly: "This is... Pill Fire???"

Pill Fire is a flame generated by an alchemist using their internal true energy; its quality directly determines the success or failure of alchemy.

Ordinary Pill Fire is red, high-level is purple, and the legendary Heaven-grade Pill Fire is blue.

In the entire cultivation world, there are almost no alchemists who can generate blue Pill Fire!

That's right! There are none!

But Ye Chen... damn, a youth in his twenties not only generated Pill Fire, but it was also a blue Heaven-grade Pill Fire!

This guy... does he want to let people live?

Just how monstrous is he!!!

Before Ning Wanqing could recover from the shock, an even more shocking scene appeared...

Under the burning of the blue flame, the Ice Soul Profound Pill began to melt.

The white pill liquid rolled in the flames, impurities being stripped away bit by bit, turning into black smoke and dissipating into the air.

The originally turbid pill liquid became clearer and clearer, more and more transparent, and finally turned into a mass of crystal-clear liquid, like a drop of morning dew.

Ye Chen's left hand wasn't idle either. He produced the shanhai bottle from his pocket.

Then, he poured a stream of true energy, letting it gush out into the flames.

That materialized true energy, wrapped in the blue flame, perfectly fused with the pill liquid, undergoing changes visible to the naked eye.

Ning Wanqing was stunned. Although she was not an alchemist, the Ning Family employed a sixth-grade alchemist, and she had seen the scenes of that alchemist refining pills.

Every time he refined pills, that alchemist had to bathe and burn incense, sitting quietly for three days to adjust his state.

Then, when opening the furnace, he had to be even more cautious, and adding a single ingredient required extreme care.

It could be said that every step was like walking on thin ice, fearing that one careless mistake would cause the furnace to explode and ruin the pill.

But what about Ye Chen?

Wearing big shorts and flip-flops, holding the flame with one hand and adding true energy with the other, his casual appearance didn't look like he was refining pills, but rather like he was cooking instant noodles.

Even more outrageous was...

He didn't even use a furnace!

Refining pills with bare hands—this was unheard of in the alchemy world!

Not to mention that Ye Chen, who was operating all of this, was only twenty-five years old.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou stood to the side, his eyes also wide open. He didn't refine pills, but he wasn't stupid; he could see what this feat of Ye Chen's meant.

It meant that their Dantai Family's 'Indestructible Body' technique might truly be trash in this young man's eyes.

After all, someone who could refine pills like this, what technique couldn't they get???

Time passed minute by minute.

No one dared to disturb Ye Chen's actions.

After about ten minutes, Ye Chen put away the shanhai bottle.

The next second, the pill liquid inside the blue flame suddenly condensed into shape.

Suddenly, a brand-new pill floated in the flames, crystal white all over, with cloud-like patterns faintly flowing on its surface.

The most astonishing thing was that the pill was surrounded by a faint halo. That halo was like a rainbow after rain, setting off the pill to look dreamlike and illusory.

When Ning Wanqing saw that layer of halo, she almost fainted. It wasn't because the pill was ruined, but because she recognized that layer of halo—it was the legendary...

"Pill... Pill Cloud?!"

She was completely dumbfounded.

Pill Cloud is a legendary pill phenomenon. Once a pill condenses a Pill Cloud, it means its quality has transcended the realm of ordinary goods and reached another level.

Such pills are no longer measured by grade, but are called... Saint Pills.

In the entire cultivation world, Saint Pills haven't appeared for hundreds of years.

But now... Ye Chen actually used their Ning Family's ninth-grade pill and, in front of everyone, directly transformed it into a Saint Pill?

And it only took ten short minutes!

"This... how is this possible?" Ning Wanqing muttered to herself, her eyes unfocused due to panic.

"Saint Pills can only be refined by Alchemy Saints, and Alchemy Saints haven't appeared for hundreds of years. You... could you be an Alchemy Saint???"

Ye Chen waved his hand, and the blue flame dissipated. The pill with the Pill Cloud fell back into the jade box.

But the cold air it emitted was several times stronger than before, and the entire surface of the jade box had frosted over because of it.

He closed the jade box, tossed it casually to Ning Wanqing, and said indifferently: "Alright, now it's not trash anymore."