347: I am a third-tier alchemist.

Outside the 'Imperial Kitchen,' An Yunmiao only tasted a bite or two of each dish, and the rest was immediately devoured by the three big bears: Fatty, Dashan, and Big Stone.

"Fatty Old Ancestor, please enjoy first!"

Dashan respectfully served the dishes in front of Fatty, and one could actually see flattery on a bear's Face.

Fatty sat upright in his chair, his pair of fat palms nimbly picking up a piece of roasted meat and putting it into his mouth.

"Hmm?"

His bear eyes lit up, he waved his claw, and one-third of the food on the plate disappeared. Chewing carefully, a look of enjoyment appeared on his Face.

Fatty ate the plate of roasted meat clean in a few bites, leaving Dashan and Big Stone to watch eagerly.

There was no help for it! Fatty was a Nascent Soul Yao Beast and their Old Ancestor; the two of them didn't even have the qualifications to be his underlings.

Fatty ate several plates of food alone in succession before he noticed Dashan and Big Stone. Seeing that the two juniors were so sensible, he felt embarrassed not to share at all, so he left a little less than half each time.

Inside the room, Liu Xuan smiled knowingly at the scene of the three Big Black Bears sharing food. He had ordered each dish to be made in larger portions specifically for them to eat.

The Mountain Shaking Sacred Bear has two great hobbies: eating and sleeping. Establishing a good relationship with this Nascent Soul Yao Beast, Fatty, would be a great help in winning over An Yunmiao.

Don't let the fact that Fatty looks similar to Dashan and Big Stone fool you; when he gets angry, he is extremely terrifying, and destroying the entire Bone Fiend City is just a matter of minutes.

After spending an hour making delicacies with An Yunmiao, seeing her interest gradually waning, Liu Xuan ordered Da Shuang and Xiao Shuang to continue making the roasted meat the three black bears loved most, then said to An Yunmiao:

"Senior Sister, have you heard that I am not just skilled in Talisman Drawing, but also in the four arts: Alchemy, Artifacts, Talismans, and Arrays?"

"Are you trying to say that your attainments in the other three arts are no lower than your Talisman Drawing?" An Yunmiao said with interest.

"Exactly!" Liu Xuan said with a smile, hands behind his back: "Talisman Drawing is actually my weakest skill; what I am most proficient in is actually Alchemy!"

"I will not hide it from you, Senior Sister; I am actually already a Third-Rank Alchemist and can barely refine a few types of third-rank pills."

"A Third-Rank Alchemist?!"

An Yunmiao was startled, then scoffed: "I admit you might have the talent to become a Third-Rank Alchemist, but Alchemy requires cultivation to support it. Wait until your cultivation reaches the Late Foundation Establishment Stage before you boast to me!"

"Under normal circumstances, the minimum cultivation requirement for a Third-Rank Alchemist is indeed the Late Foundation Establishment Stage, but I have a way to make up for this and can refine third-rank pills right now."

Seeing Liu Xuan so full of confidence and not like he was boasting, An Yunmiao said, "Since you put it that way, do you want to show me a trick?"

A Third-Rank Alchemist! And such a young Third-Rank Alchemist at that. If what Liu Xuan said was true, his value would have to be reassessed.

Liu Xuan nodded, "I recently happened to obtain some top-tier Materials and am preparing to refine a batch of third-rank pills. Would Senior Sister be interested in watching?"

"It would be my honor!"

An Yunmiao thought for a moment while looking at Liu Xuan and nodded gently. She wanted to see how Liu Xuan refined third-rank pills!

If becoming a First-Rank or Second-Rank Alchemist requires talent, then becoming a Third-Rank Alchemist requires the Luck favored by heaven and earth, plus countless days and nights of diligent study; both are indispensable!

Any cultivation art reaching the third rank is already considered to have entered the hall, worthy of being called a 'Great Master'!

Cultivation arts not only represent one's own cultivation Realm of the 'Dao', but can also continuously generate value. The higher the level of the artisan Great Master, the rarer they are, and the higher their status.

There aren't many Third-Rank Alchemists even in the entire Southern Courtyard of the Beast Taming Sect, and even she would give them Face when she met them.

No matter how confident Liu Xuan appeared, before seeing it with her own eyes, An Yunmiao felt it was unlikely.

"Senior Sister, please!"

Liu Xuan did not explain further; he had always preferred to let facts speak for themselves. He led An Yunmiao toward the largest Alchemy Room.

After a short while, Liu Xuan and An Yunmiao arrived at a palace complex. It was filled with smoke and fire, and a medicinal fragrance permeated the air. Over a hundred Alchemy Rooms were built here.

Mixed within the medicinal fragrance was a scent of blood. An Yunmiao twitched her nose, "Refining Beast Pills using monster beast flesh and blood? You are the first Alchemist I have seen who specializes in Beast Pills!"

The path of Alchemy is vast and complex, and Alchemists usually choose one or two directions to specialize in.

Refining Beast Pills is simple, but precisely because it is simple, it does not help much with improving skills, and the price is also relatively low.

Those who specialize in Beast Pills are naturally considered inferior. Even the Alchemists of the Beast Taming Sect are not very willing to refine them. It is strange that Liu Xuan, an Alchemist from the Heavenly Sword Sect, actually specializes in Beast Pills.

Liu Xuan smiled, "Half of the strength of our Beast Taming Sect comes from our life-bound Yao Beasts, so the demand for Beast Pills is very high. Aren't Medicinal Pills for improving cultivation? Useful pills are good pills!"

Liu Xuan waved his hand to dismiss the two pill boys guarding the door and used his magical power to gently push open the door of the Alchemy Room.

"Daddy?"

As the door opened, a little girl wearing a floral dress, with two buns in her hair and holding two cloth dolls, sat on the ground. Her cute big eyes looked blankly at the suddenly appearing Liu Xuan.

"Xin Ci?"

"Why are you here?"

The little girl was over a year old and was Liu Xuan's daughter, who possessed the Ten Thousand Poisons Spirit Body, Liu Xin Ci.

"Mom brought me here!"

The little girl climbed up from the ground and ran toward Liu Xuan, who picked her up.

"They said I was poisonous and wouldn't play with me; only Mom plays with me." The little girl pouted, her tone very disappointed.

Liu Xuan looked at Zi Ling, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the Pill Furnace, and roughly understood the reason.

Although he had refined a Magical Artifact for Xin Ci to wear to prevent the release of the poison gas from her body, allowing her to play with her brothers and sisters normally without issue.

But there are always accidents. Because of the Ten Thousand Poisons Spirit Body, Zi Ling had refined many snacks containing deadly poison for her daughter.

Once, a naughty boy secretly snatched the little girl's snacks to eat. If it hadn't been for the attending maid discovering it in time, it would have nearly led to a disaster.

After this incident, no children of the same age dared to play with her anymore. Zi Ling was also not at ease handing her over to others to take care of, so she always kept her by her side.

"Husband!"

Zi Ling performed a hand seal to stabilize the purple poison cauldron and looked back at her daughter in Liu Xuan's arms, "You have been busy for the past two days, so I haven't had a chance to bring our daughter to see you."

Liu Xuan carried his daughter forward and raised his hand to take over the purple poison cauldron, refining the semi-finished Medicinal Pill inside into a wisp of poison gas in a few swift moves, which was absorbed into the purple poison cauldron for storage.

An Yunmiao, who had followed inside, stared at the purple poison cauldron for a while and whispered: "A Magic Treasure?"

"A Magic Treasure-level Alchemy cauldron, and it also has poison and fire attributes? Where did you get this?"

Although this precious cauldron was only a Third-rank Low-grade Magic Treasure, it was an Alchemy cauldron and had the effects of poison and fire attack and defense. Its value was a grade higher than ordinary Third-rank Low-grade Magic Treasures. Even an ordinary Early Golden Core Stage Immortal Master would find it difficult to obtain, yet it appeared in Liu Xuan's hands.