The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron

Chapter 1618: Chapter 1715: White Dragon Tripod

Huang Hanqing’s expression stiffened, and he glared at Su Xiaotong.

“You don’t know what you’re here for?” Huang Hanqing asked with an expression that was quite a spectacle.

Su Xiaotong nodded her head in a wronged manner.

Standing opposite, Gongsun Xuan’s mouth twitched twice. Was this Su Xiaotong brain-damaged? Or was she pretending to be stupid on purpose?

“You’re already up here, could it be you don’t know you have to compete with someone next?” Huang Hanqing said impatiently.

Below, there was laughter all around, finding this Su Xiaotong really amusing, while the big shots on Tang Tower exchanged bewildered glares, completely at a loss about what was going on with Su Xiaotong.

Only Fang Lin and the Heaven King of East Pole understood that Su Xiaotong had always been this way; her memory was exceptionally poor. She might forget something she was doing just a moment ago.

A person she remembered just a moment ago, she might forget who they were after a short while.

The Heaven King of East Pole smiled bitterly in his heart. If Su Xiaotong’s accomplishments in Alchemy Tao hadn’t already been extremely formidable, he probably wouldn’t have permitted her to represent the Pill Alliance in battle.

This girl knew almost nothing besides pill refining, she was practically a blank slate.

Yet it was precisely because of this that Su Xiaotong possessed terrifying talent in the field of alchemy. Despite her weak memory, she could fully memorize a Pill Formula after just one glance or flawlessly imitate someone else’s pill refining process having seen it once.

Such was Su Xiaotong’s astonishing talent in Alchemy Tao; saying she was born for Alchemy Tao was by no means an exaggeration.

Su Xiaotong looked at Huang Hanqing with a confused face: “Compete? With whom should I compete? With Grandpa You?”

Huang Hanqing pointed at Gongsun Xuan, saying impatiently, “With him! Not me!”

Su Xiaotong uttered an “oh,” then turned to look at Gongsun Xuan with a puzzled expression.

“Brother, who are you?” Su Xiaotong asked.

Gongsun Xuan frowned. He had just introduced himself a moment ago, yet Su Xiaotong was still asking who he was?

Nevertheless, Gongsun Xuan still maintained good composure and gave a fist salute to Su Xiaotong, “I am Gongsun Xuan.”

“Wait a moment,” Su Xiaotong said as she fished out a small booklet from somewhere, flipping through it rapidly as it appeared she was searching for something in it.

After a while, Su Xiaotong’s delicate eyebrows furrowed: “You’re not in here, so I probably don’t know you.”

Following that, Su Xiaotong started scribbling in the booklet, completely ignoring both Gongsun Xuan and Huang Hanqing.

Gongsun Xuan looked towards Huang Hanqing, whose expression was grave. Huang Hanqing approached Su Xiaotong, glanced at her booklet and saw that the girl was actually drawing Gongsun Xuan’s portrait, and neatly wrote down the three characters of Gongsun Xuan below it.

Huang Hanqing grew somewhat curious: “What are you doing?”

Without lifting her head, Su Xiaotong replied, “I am trying hard to remember this Brother Gongsun. As long as it’s recorded in this booklet, I won’t forget.”

Huang Hanqing was stunned, his anger subsiding substantially, and he turned to glance at the Heaven King of East Pole at Tang Tower.

“Why are you doing this?” asked Huang Hanqing again.

Su Xiaotong raised her head, a dim look on her face: “My memory is bad; I always forget people’s names, so I record everyone I know in the booklet, and if I forget, I can just flip through it.”

Hearing this, Huang Hanqing finally understood—it turned out this Su Xiaotong really did have a problem with her brain.

No wonder this girl seemed different from normal people. With this realization, Huang Hanqing’s annoyance lessened considerably, replaced by a mixture of emotions.

“All done!” Su Xiaotong finished the last brushstroke, looking very satisfied.

“Now that you’re done drawing, let’s begin,” said Huang Hanqing.

Su Xiaotong looked bewildered again: “Begin what?”

Huang Hanqing took a deep breath: “The alchemy competition with Gongsun Xuan.”

“Oh, oh,” Su Xiaotong nodded repeatedly and turned to look at Gongsun Xuan, who had also realized that Su Xiaotong was indeed different from normal people, so he didn’t show any signs of impatience.

Huang Hanqing coughed and said loudly, “For the second match, the competitors will each refine the Grade Five Intermediate Golden Essence Damascene Pill within a time limit of seven hours.”

As soon as his words ended, Su Xiaotong put away her booklet, slapped her Nine Palace Bag, and a Pill Furnace appeared in front of her.

At that moment, Su Xiaotong’s expression also changed completely. The confusion and innocence disappeared, replaced by intense concentration.

It was as if everything around her had been forgotten by Su Xiaotong, leaving only the Pill Furnace in front of her eyes.

Huang Hanqing was slightly shocked; once Su Xiaotong entered the state of Pill Refining, she actually had such terrifying concentration.

Huang Hanqing, being a Seven Cauldrons Pill Refiner, could tell that Su Xiaotong had entered the optimal state for Pill Refining, undisturbed by anything, fully devoted to the pills she was concocting.

Such concentration is difficult for many Pill Refiners to achieve, and even if they can attain it, it usually takes a considerable amount of time to adapt.

Yet Su Xiaotong could enter this state in an instant, as if it were an innate ability.

Gongsun Xuan was also taken aback but did not fall too far behind, promptly taking out his own Pill Furnace.

By then, the people from Tang Country had already brought up the ingredients for refining the Golden Essence Damascene Pill, signaling the start of the second match.

Once Su Xiaotong was in her Pill Refining state, she would no longer have eyes for anyone else, focusing solely on perfecting the pills she was refining.

And the Pill Furnace she was using left many Pill Refiners dumbfounded.

It was a pure white Pill Furnace, adorned with two lifelike True Dragons coiled together, each dragon clutching a pearl in its mouth.

This white Pill Furnace appeared quite aesthetically pleasing, but its color was rare since white Pill Furnaces were seldom seen.

“It is said that before the East Pole Heaven King became the Heaven King, he once used a White Dragon Tripod; could this be the very same one?” an elderly Pill Refiner remarked.

As soon as these words were spoken, many others exclaimed, the more they looked, the more Su Xiaotong’s Pill Furnace resembled the one spoken of in rumors.

Atop Tang Tower, Dragon Haotian looked at the East Pole Heaven King and said indifferently, “You really are generous, entrusting the White Dragon Tripod you once used to this girl.”

The East Pole Heaven King laughed: “It’s just a tripod; I have plenty more.”

Upon hearing this, the others realized that it was indeed the White Dragon Tripod formerly used by the East Pole Heaven King.

“Is there anything special about this White Dragon Tripod?” Fang Lin asked curiously.

The East Pole Heaven King mysteriously replied, “You will find out soon.”

Fang Lin curled his lips, but was also very interested in how Su Xiaotong would perform next. After all, she was one of the few friends he had, and she too had come from Qian Country.

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