236: Quasi-Alchemy Supreme Grandmaster! Get ready to begin!

Under Dan Ding's righteous and awe-inspiring words, the Elders, though half-believing and half-doubting, ceased their obstruction.

Shortly thereafter, the helpers sent by Hu Mingda arrived in Danling State, located the Ancient Pill Sect, met with Dan Ding, and handed over the supplies from Hu Mingda.

The massive influx of resources brought by Hu Mingda gave the Ancient Pill Sect a much-needed breather!

With this large batch of supplies, the difficulty for Lu Hao and his companions to purchase Materials increased sharply once again. Even with the secret assistance of the Miao Dan Sect, their progress remained extremely slow.

For the final four Materials, after several days had passed, they had not even managed to uncover a single shred of information.

However, it was precisely because of the movements of the Miao Dan Sect that Dan Ding was basically certain of the situation.

It was likely that the Miao Dan Sect had given Lu Hao the Nine-Rank Pill Formula. Pang Gaoming was very angry about this, but he was currently helpless to do anything.

Consequently, the various factions fell into a strange state of equilibrium.

On the surface, everyone appeared to be at peace, but beneath the surface, undercurrents were surging!

Another month passed, and with Lu Hao's help, Yin Xiaotong finally succeeded in breaking through to become a Sixth-Rank Alchemist!

At the moment of Yin Xiaotong's Breakthrough, an immensely vast amount of Alchemy cultivation surged directly into Lu Hao's body, propelling his Alchemy Realm to continuously rise.

Countless insights regarding Alchemy techniques emerged out of thin air within Lu Hao's mind.

Eighth-Rank Early Stage Peak!

Eighth-Rank Middle Stage!

Eighth-Rank Middle Stage Peak!

Eighth-Rank Late Stage!

Lu Hao's Alchemy cultivation soared directly. Consuming nearly half of the returned cultivation, Lu Hao had already ascended to the Eighth-Rank Peak!

At this very moment, Lu Hao was already the number one person among Eighth-Rank Alchemists!

However, the cultivation return was still ongoing, and Lu Hao's Alchemy cultivation continued to rise incessantly.

His heart felt somewhat nervous, and he was incomparably eager for this round of return to allow him to successfully break through to become a Nine-Rank Alchemist!

Finally!

Lu Hao felt his internal Alchemy Realm being filled to the brim with cultivation, surging directly into the Nine-Rank Realm!!

"Quasi-Nine-Rank Alchemy Supreme Great Grandmaster!"

It finally succeeded! Lu Hao was incomparably exhilarated; after working busily for more than a year, he finally saw the dawn of hope!

However, if he wanted to complete the System's mission, he would likely need to successfully refine a Nine-Rank Medicinal Pill.

Only an Alchemist who has truly refined a Nine-Rank Medicinal Pill can be considered to be in the complete Supreme Great Grandmaster Realm!

But the problem followed immediately; he should currently only be able to refine the simplest Elementary Nine-Rank Medicinal Pill.

Regarding that Advanced Nine-Rank Tai Xu Nirvana Pill, Lu Hao currently did not have even a ten-thousandth of a chance of success!

But there was truly no other way. He had only been able to find this one Pill Formula, and it was even a gift from someone else; he simply had no other Pill Formula.

Therefore, Lu Hao had no choice but to bite the bullet and push forward...

Thus, for the sake of caution, Lu Hao decided to wait for a period of time to let his Alchemy cultivation consolidate slightly, which would give him a better chance of success.

After all, the Materials for a Nine-Rank Pill Formula were incredibly rare. If he were to accidentally fail, he had no idea when he would be able to gather them all again...

Furthermore, there were still a few types of medicinal Materials missing, so he would wait a bit longer...

Consequently, Lu Hao patiently waited for the Disciples of the Qingxuan Medicine Sect to return a bit more cultivation to him, helping him consolidate his foundation.

This wait lasted for about two years!

For Lu Hao, a period of about two years could already be considered a very long time.

During these two years, Lu Hao seemed to have completely changed his personality!

He frequently traveled back and forth between the village and the Sect, providing all sorts of guidance on Alchemy!

Furthermore, he increased his investment, sparing no cost to buy back anything available on the market that could assist Alchemists in their progress.

Sometimes, when he got busy, he would even forget to eat his three daily meals.

Seeing their own Sect Master working so hard for their Alchemy path, sacrificing so much time and resources, the Sect's Disciples were all moved to tears!

In their hearts, their approval rating for Lu Hao and the Qingxuan Medicine Sect had risen to an extreme point.

Even their previous masters had never treated them this well, let alone the Sect Master of an entire Sect?

It could be said that the investment Lu Hao had made in them over these years had long since exceeded their own worth by hundreds of times! It would have been enough to buy their lives a hundred times over!

How could they ever repay this!!

The key point was that Lu Hao had said more than once, "As long as you can Cultivate diligently and achieve Breakthroughs as soon as possible, that is the greatest reward for me."

A scholar will die for one who appreciates him!

Most of the Sect Disciples now could truly do whatever Lu Hao asked of them; even if it meant climbing a mountain of blades or plunging into a sea of fire, they would never frown!

As for Yin Xiaotong, after she initially broke through to become a Sixth-Rank Alchemist, she had relaxed slightly and started eating her three daily meals with Lu Hao.

But when she saw Lu Hao working so hard, she was also infected and inspired!

If a master with such a laid-back personality could work so hard—although she did not know why her master cared so much about their cultivation—she instinctively felt that her own Alchemy cultivation seemed to be very important to her master!

Since that was the case, her master's business was her business, so she once again returned to a state of desperate Alchemy practice.

The number of times Lu Hao personally guided Yin Xiaotong also increased at a speed visible to the naked eye, from once a month to once a week, and then to once every three days!

This state continued for two years.

The progress speed of the ten thousand Disciples of the Qingxuan Medicine Sect had greatly exceeded the five-year plan initially set by Shi Yi!

It had been only a little over three years since the Sect was established, and the Qingxuan Medicine Sect had already produced hundreds of Fifth-Rank Alchemists, and several had even become Sixth-Rank!!

One must know that even among the top one hundred at the Alchemy Conference, those who joined the Three Great Sects, the most dazzling among them were only Fifth-Rank Alchemists!

Of course, these were just the icing on the cake. What made Lu Hao ecstatic beyond measure was that Yin Xiaotong had miraculously broken through to become a Seventh-Rank Alchemist!!!

This truly exceeded everyone's expectations, including Lu Hao and Yin Xiaotong herself!

One must know that Yin Xiaotong's original talent for Alchemy was really not high. Even with the support of Lu Hao's System, she should not have been able to achieve the status of a Seventh-Rank Alchemy Grandmaster from a Sixth-Rank Alchemist within two years!

An Alchemy Grandmaster under twenty-five years old?! If this were spoken aloud, it would directly trigger a massive earthquake in Danling State!

Therefore, Lu Hao told Yin Xiaotong not to expose it yet, and that she could only make this matter public when he had become famous throughout Danling State. Yin Xiaotong herself agreed.

On the day Yin Xiaotong broke through to become an Alchemy Grandmaster, Lu Hao once again received a ten-thousand-fold return of cultivation!

He finally felt that he had a high degree of certainty that he could successfully refine that Advanced Nine-Rank Tai Xu Nirvana Pill!

Consequently, he headed to the Miao Dan Sect to see how the collection of medicinal Materials was going over there.

Having not seen the Qi Sect Leader for two years, Lu Hao did not know if he had finished collecting them.

Lu Hao gave some brief instructions to those around him and then headed to the Miao Dan Sect alone. A few days later, Lu Hao arrived at the Miao Dan Sect.