Shen Qiang was confident, but beside him, the pure and exceedingly beautiful Wei Sheng Qian Dai heard his words and furrowed her delicate brows. As a jade girl with a transcendent status from Baihua Palace, she wasn't unfamiliar with elixir pills. In fact, every sect in the cultivation world places great importance on alchemists.

So, even sects that do not primarily focus on medicine will exhaust all means to nurture anyone discovered to have the talent of an alchemist. In the cultivation world, the presence of elixir pills is almost akin to cheats in online games.

They are magic devices, modifiers, existences capable of defying the heavens and changing fate.

Thus, Baihua Palace, which primarily teaches music, chess, calligraphy, tea ceremony, and etiquette, also has a dedicated department solely responsible for matters involving alchemists.

Specially designated for nurturing disciples who can refine pills and medicines.

However, unfortunately, becoming an alchemist demands incredibly harsh talent requirements.

Their first requirement is possessing spiritual power far superior to ordinary people, in other words, a strong sea of consciousness, strong divine sense.

And besides that,

the cultivation of alchemists is entirely different from ordinary cultivators.

Mental methods, skills, pill recipes, each is a secret that is never passed on.

For ordinary sects,

even for a formidable entity like Baihua Palace with a transcendent status and intricate power networks, it remains a mysterious realm that they have never been able to enter.

Despite hundreds of years of development, Baihua Palace's alchemists have resorted to high-priced purchases, competitions, and transactions, using every method possible, yet up to now, they have collected only about twenty odd pill recipes, most of which are of the spiritual medicine grade like Gathering Qi Powder.

Genuinely renowned elixir recipes can truly be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Upon hearing Yu Xinghuo say that the elixir he was about to refine is a unique, secret formulation, Wei Sheng Qian Dai's heart instantly tightened, knowing that elixirs are hard to come by, knowing that simply relying on exploration makes it impossible to refine spirit pills, so despite Shen Qiang's calm and steady demeanor, her inner thoughts became chaotic.

"Don't lose, Shen Qiang, I believe you're the best, but after all, Yu Xinghuo is a long-established figure in the cultivation world, go for it, you must go for it!"

At this moment, as the pure and beautiful Wei Sheng Qian Dai privately clenched her small fists, Yu Xinghuo, who was already standing haughtily in the center of the hall, regained his usual confidence. Although he was quite shocked by Shen Qiang's boldness, after all, he was also a renowned master who had weathered great storms.

There was still arrogance in his heart.

Therefore, he arrogantly glanced at Shen Qiang and then said coldly: "Shen Qiang, I admit, as the King of Demons, I am indeed inferior to you in demon suppression, and when speaking of power, I am but an ant before Heshenghe."

"But when it comes to alchemy and pill refining, my Yu Xinghuo's golden reputation is not something anyone can shake, so how about this, I will give you one last chance. If you willingly concede and promise not to boast again, our wager will stop here."

"Otherwise..." He arrogantly stole a glance at Wei Sheng Qian Dai beside Shen Qiang, noticing her tense expression watching Shen Qiang, and said with inexplicable delight, "I will not only kick you out of the alchemy field but also let all cultivators know that you, Shen Qiang, are nothing but a useless, talentless waste!"

His words caused Wei Sheng Qian Dai's delicate face to tense with increasing worry.

Impatiently, Shen Qiang replied, "Quit talking nonsense, my time is precious."

Hearing this, Yu Xinghuo suddenly took a step forward, his eyes fierce and excited as he said: "Alright, since you insist on flaunting skills, don't blame me for being impolite! The pill I am going to refine is a rare combat-type elixir in the cultivation world, named Fiery Sun Red Yang Pill!"

In an instant, all those present were shocked.

The barrage in the livestream exploded immediately.

"Combat-type elixir? Oh my, that's akin to a magical treasure, not only rare but also legendary, powerful beyond measure!"

"A legendary Combat Pill! It's equivalent to a super technique!"

"Astounding! As expected of Yu Xinghuo, one of the Four Little Dan Masters, who knew he could even refine the nearly lost Combat Pills from legend!"

Meanwhile, as the judges on the panel were stunned and the masses in the livestream were shocked.

Shen Qiang also cast a surprised glance at Yu Xinghuo.

In fact, in the Medical Saint Inheritance, Combat Pills are a relatively special category.

The pills in this category are not meant to save lives but for combat.

Because as elixir pills initially developed, alchemists tried little by little, perfecting step by step, leading to the current existence of elixir pills.

So, strictly speaking, although cultivation world alchemists have some relation to medical skills, from a strict perspective, alchemists are not doctors; they were the early scientists at the forefront of science in the cultivation world.

Through trial combinations of various drugs, minerals, and firing them together, alchemists discovered many unbelievable things thousands of years ago.

For example, mercury, arsenic, magnetic stone, and arsenic.

Through countless syntheses and attempts, when specific rules and inevitable outcomes were summarized, elixir pills became something that was passed down.

And while researching cures for illnesses,

because battles often occurred in the cultivation and immortal realms,

some alchemists, for self-preservation or other reasons, began using the power they mastered for combat.

That's Combat Pills.

In the past, before the concept of science became widespread, Combat Pills were more like powerful magical treasures difficult to explain with words.

But in the modern era of rapid technological development, these Combat Pills, plainly put, are weapons in the hands of alchemists. Depending on their quality and power, some are equivalent to grenades, some to missiles, possessing an undeniable destructive force.

Not only that, there are evidently three distinct categories of Combat Pills: The first category is pills equivalent to grenades, which, upon use, erupt with immense destructive ability based on their quality.

The second category is Soul Control type, typically sealing exotic beasts within pills, where during combat, they unseal and release powerful demons and exotic beasts for fighting.

The third category mainly involves enhancing oneself with techniques, for instance, pills that lend various abilities and shields to the user.

Thus, in the immortal realm, these Combat Pills are almost indispensable, and the Medical Saint Inheritance records over eight thousand methods for refining Combat Pills.

Conversely, these pills are rarely seen among cultivators, with more choosing to use pre-made talismans in battle, so Shen Qiang thinks this likely relates to the cultivation world's extreme backwardness in alchemy.

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