77: Chapter 77 Top-Grade Pills Shock the Entire Audience

Gu Yan looked into Jin Feiyan's eyes, which were filled with solemnity and expectation, and did not say another word of nonsense.

In the face of absolute strength, superfluous words were all pale.

He merely reached calmly into his Storage Pouch and took out an unremarkable, most ordinary white jade porcelain bottle.

Then, he gently placed it on the tea table in front of him, which was crafted from precious golden nanmu wood, and slowly pushed it toward Jin Feiyan.

The entire movement was smooth and fluid, filled with a certain indescribable confidence and composure.

Jin Feiyan's gaze fell upon the small jade bottle.

A strong sense of curiosity surged in her heart.

What kind of miraculous item could it be that allowed this mysterious man to make such a bold claim?

She did not reach for it immediately, but instead respectfully bowed to the gray-robed elder behind her, who had been silent, resting with his eyes closed, as if in deep meditation.

"Old Sun, I must trouble you."

The gray-robed elder slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were murky, yet carried a hint of the gentleness of medicinal herbs.

This person was none other than the Chief Alchemist whom the Tianyi Chamber of Commerce had spent a great fortune to retain, Sun Baicao! A genuine First-Grade Alchemist!

Although his cultivation was only Level 8 Qi Refining, his status in the Alchemy world of Baifeng City was unmatched! Even the heads of the three great Families had to respectfully address him as "Great Master Sun" when they saw him.

Sun Baicao nodded indifferently, his gaze falling casually upon the jade bottle.

"Qi Gathering Pill?"

He merely took a light sniff through the jade bottle and immediately determined the type of Medicinal Pill inside; his tone carried a hint of obvious disdain and disappointment.

The Qi Gathering Pill was merely the lowest-level, most inferior existence among First-Grade Medicinal Pills.

He had thought the other party would be able to bring out something shocking.

After all that, just this?

A look of disappointment also flashed in Jin Feiyan's eyes.

She had originally thought Gu Yan would take out some rare Earth-Grade or even higher-level Medicinal Pill. She hadn't expected...

However, Gu Yan's face still bore a light and airy smile.

"Great Master Sun has sharp eyes."

"Please."

Sun Baicao's brows furrowed even deeper.

He felt that he had been offended.

A wild boy who popped up from nowhere dared to use such an inferior thing to toy with him?

He impatiently stretched out his thin, dry fingers, which were slightly yellowed from years of contact with medicinal herbs, and casually pulled out the stopper of the jade bottle.

He had intended to wait for the familiar, fiery, and dry aura of an inferior Medicinal Pill to dissipate before ruthlessly throwing this arrogant fool who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth out.

However.

The moment the stopper was pulled out.

A...

A pure, cool medicinal fragrance, refined to the extreme and rich to the extreme, without even a trace of fiery dryness or Impurities—a scent he had never smelled in his entire life—suddenly erupted from the small bottle mouth!

This fragrance seemed to possess life!

In an instant, it filled the entire VIP room!

It completely suppressed the original tea fragrance!

Sun Baicao's body jolted violently!

On his calm, old face, all disdain and disappointment faded away at this moment!

Replacing it was an unprecedented... shock! And... disbelief!

"This... this is..."

His voice became somewhat tremulous due to extreme excitement!

He dared not be the slightest bit negligent anymore and hurriedly extended two fingers to carefully pour out a Medicinal Pill from the jade bottle.

When the Medicinal Pill was fully revealed before him.

Sun Baicao's breathing completely... stopped at this moment!

Behold, the dragon-eye-sized Medicinal Pill was a perfect, flawless, emerald green color throughout!

The body of the pill was round and smooth, without a single flaw, like the most perfect work of art!

The most important thing was...

On the surface of the Medicinal Pill, there had naturally formed a circle, extremely faint yet incomparably clear...

Mysterious markings!

Pill Markings!

In legends, only when the quality of a Medicinal Pill is refined to the "Top Grade" realm, where there are no Impurities and the medicinal power is perfectly contained within, could these... Pill Markings appear!

"Top... Top Grade?!"

Sun Baicao's lips trembled as he let out a dreamlike, disbelieving exclamation!

His hands, which should have been as steady as Mount Tai and capable of threading a needle with a scalpel, were now uncontrollably shaking violently!

He even almost failed to hold onto the incomparably precious Medicinal Pill!

On the other side, when Jin Feiyan heard the words "Top Grade," her graceful body also trembled violently; she could no longer maintain her composure and stood up from her seat with a "whoosh"!

Although she was not an Alchemist, as the person in charge of the Tianyi Chamber of Commerce, she knew better than anyone what the words "Top Grade" meant in the Alchemy world!

It meant... perfection!

It meant... turning decay into magic!

It meant... enough to overturn the rules of an entire market!

"Quick! Quickly taste it!" Jin Feiyan's voice became somewhat shrill due to excitement!

Sun Baicao woke up as if from a dream!

He hurriedly steadied his mind and, with trembling fingers, carefully broke off a sesame-sized crumb from the Medicinal Pill, then, with a posture of piety almost like a pilgrimage, slowly placed it into his mouth.

The crumb entered his mouth and instantly transformed into an incomparably pure, incomparably gentle torrent of medicinal power that exploded on the tip of his tongue!

There was not a shred of the fiery dryness or stinging pain of pill poison!

All there was, was a... cool, pure, and all-nourishing extreme medicinal power, like a sweet spring!

Boom!

Sun Baicao's wrinkled old face instantly flushed bright red!

His Level 8 Qi Refining cultivation Bottleneck, which had been stagnant for several years and had long been calm as an ancient well, was, under the impact of this pure medicinal power, actually...

Actually showed signs of... loosening!

"Heavens!!!"

He could no longer suppress the shock in his heart, stood up abruptly, and let out a heart-wrenching exclamation filled with shock and wild joy!

"No pill poison! Absolutely no pill poison!"

"Its medicinal power is so pure, it's more than ten times that of a High Grade Medicinal Pill?! A hundred times! A hundred times!"

"This old man has practiced Alchemy for a hundred years and has never... never seen such... such a perfect Qi Gathering Pill!"

"A miraculous item! This... this is simply a miraculous item!"

Like a madman, he roared incoherently, and in his murky old eyes, there were already... tears streaming down!

[Did you see that! Host! Did you see that!]

In his mind, the System's voice was excitedly providing real-time commentary.

[This is what you call shock! This is what you call looking like someone who has never seen the world! Look quickly! The old man's beard is shaking! Hahahaha!]

[Host, this act of showing off was perfectly executed! It's practically a textbook-level dimension-reduction strike! Don't forget, this is all thanks to the S-Rank skill provided by me, your excellent System!]

Jin Feiyan stared blankly at the small, emerald-green Medicinal Pill in front of her, then looked at Great Master Sun, who appeared mad with excessive excitement.

Finally, her gaze slowly fell upon the mysterious young man who, from beginning to end, had just sat there with a faint smile on his face.

In her Phoenix eyes, which were usually shrewd and sharp, as if able to see through people's hearts, for the first time, they were filled with...

Unprecedented... shock! And... horror!

She knew.

The other party had not been bragging.

This small Medicinal Pill...

Really...

Enough to change the entire landscape of Baifeng City!