The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron
Chapter 1615: 1712: Yin-Yang CauldronChapter 1615: Chapter 1712: Yin-Yang Cauldron
Gao Yun glanced at Long Cai’er opposite him and then looked up at the Quadrant Cauldron forcibly refining pills with the power of the four elements; his face remained expressionless, quite serene.
The flames of the Black White Furnace before him were surging, already undertaking the final step of nurturing the pills; as long as this step was completed, his pills would be considered successfully refined.
Since Gao Yun defeated Long Cai’er in the Shaking Three Mountains duel, causing her attempt at Shaking Three Mountains to fail while his succeeded.
Thus, with an already existing gap in progress between the two, the disparity in their pill refining process was once again widened, leaving Long Cai’er with no chance of catching up.
It could be said that for Long Cai’er to be able to competently refine the Clear Heart Pill within the limited ten hours was already quite impressive.
The worst-case scenario would be that Gao Yun’s pill refining completes early, while Long Cai’er fails to successfully refine the Clear Heart Pill even as the ten hours come to an end.
This is the gap created by Shaking Three Mountains!
Since both exhibited Shaking Three Mountains, aiming to break the opponent’s final shake, it turned out that Gao Yun persevered, breaking Long Cai’er’s final shake, rendering her use of Shaking Three Mountains entirely in vain.
If not for Long Cai’er’s decisive action at the last moment, tossing the Pill Furnace into the air to avoid the medicinal materials inside being destroyed by Shaking Three Mountains, she likely would have already lost by now.
But in terms of progress, Long Cai’er was well aware that she could no longer catch up.
However, Long Cai’er hadn’t necessarily lost; she still had the advantage of the Quadrant Cauldron. As long as it could refine the Clear Heart Pill with the aid of the power of heaven and earth, she could still surpass Gao Yun in terms of pill quality.
Of course, that’s merely a possibility. At this point in the situation, Long Cai’er was essentially halfway to defeat.
Long Cai’er glanced over at Gao Yun, her eyes filled with a measure of respect and gravity.
Previously unaware that Gao Yun could also execute Shaking Three Mountains, and that he surpassed her in the mastery of this technique, had she known earlier, Long Cai’er wouldn’t have used Shaking Three Mountains and allowed her opponent to gain such a significant advantage.
Still, Long Cai’er genuinely admired Gao Yun. In the Pill Alliance, he was a character of unassuming fame, very low-key. Even over ten years ago, he didn’t stand out much, with several of his peers being able to surpass him easily.
But until now, among those Pill Alliance talents who rose to prominence alongside Gao Yun back then, how many are still active in the Alchemy Tao World?
Some have become mediocre, indistinguishable from the rest, while others pursued power to become high-ranking figures in the Pill Alliance, neglecting their cultivation in the Art of Alchemy.
Gao Yun alone has been honing his Alchemy Tao over the years; he certainly isn’t the most outstanding amongst the generational talents of the Pill Alliance, but he is one of the hardest working.
Particularly his exceptional fire control ability, something that cannot be achieved purely by talent, but must be forged through years of tempering.
What’s most commendable is that Gao Yun does not come from a noble family, one might even say his background is quite ordinary, hailing genuinely from common folk.
Yet it is this man who, relying on his talent not inferior to others, coupled with effort far surpassing his peers, has arrived at this day where he can represent the Pill Alliance in battles against the Alchemy Tao aristocratic families as an Alchemy Tao prodigy.
If the battle with the Taoist Sect’s Pill Refiner in Flat Sea City seven years ago was the battle that made the world aware of the name Gao Yun.
Then today’s battle with Long Cai’er is to prove that the origins of a Pill Refiner do not dictate everything.
Although Long Cai’er admires Gao Yun at heart, this is a competition, and a victor must be decided between them.
Above the four legs of the Quadrant Cauldron, light was entwined, and in the next moment, the powers of wind, thunder, water, and fire poured down.
These four powers were precisely targeting Gao Yun, aiming to thwart his final step in pill refining.
Although somewhat overbearing, this was within the rules, and this power was intrinsic to the Quadrant Cauldron itself; Long Cai’er was merely making full use of it.
Gao Yun’s expression remained unchanged, as if he had anticipated Long Cai’er’s attempt to prevent his pill refining. With a pat on the Black White Furnace in front of him, the color of the furnace turned pitch black, like ink.
Flames rose and engulfed the black pill furnace, blocking the assault of the four elemental forces from outside.
This scene surprised many spectators; Gao Yun actually let the pill furnace endure the rampage of the four elemental forces—was he that daring? Weren’t he afraid that the pills inside the furnace would be directly damaged?
After all, these were elemental forces of nature, not just any ordinary powers. If strong enough, they could even destroy both the pill furnace and the pills within it.
Yet Gao Yun confronted these four elemental forces head-on with the pill furnace. Visibly, the now wholly black furnace seemed to struggle under the bombardment of the elemental forces, emitting sounds of cracking and shattering.
However, on the surface, the black furnace did not seem to have any actual fractures.
Moreover, a trace of joy was even apparent on Gao Yun’s face.
Long Cai’er’s brow furrowed sharply, and she immediately ceased the bombardment on Gao Yun’s furnace, sensing that something was amiss.
Gao Yun revealed a rare smile, as if a great burden had been lifted.
With a hiss, a large amount of white smoke rose from the black furnace, and the rich scent of pills permeated the air.
The lid of the black furnace flew off, and inside, there was surprisingly a white pill furnace; faint flames still enveloped this white furnace, putting the finishing touches on the process.
“Yin-Yang Cauldron!” Long Cai’er was startled by this scenario, feeling a sense of powerlessness surging within her.
She had not anticipated that the pill furnace Gao Yun was using would be the rare Yin-Yang Cauldron; the previous black and white colors were merely a ruse.
Within the major tripod was a minor one, and the real pills were in the Minor Tripod.
The advantage of the Yin-Yang Cauldron lay in utilizing Internal and External Fire to enhance the efficiency of pill refining. However, few Pill Refiners used this type of furnace and technique because controlling the flames was extremely difficult and required too much focus and effort.
But Gao Yun chose the Yin-Yang Cauldron precisely because he had profound mastery over flame control, which the Yin-Yang Cauldron could bring into full play.
Furthermore, the black major tripod had a special feature of absorbing external forces into the flames to increase their intensity.
The four elemental forces unleashed by Long Cai’er not only failed to achieve their purpose but actually aided Gao Yun, allowing him to complete the final step of pill refining even faster.
In just ten hours, Gao Yun had completed the refinement of the Clear Heart Pill!
“What a talented young man, truly the new waves that overcome the old in the Yangtze River,” Huang Hanqing could not hide his admiration for Gao Yun and praised him openly.
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