Qin Xin-xin’s figure appeared at the entrance of the small courtyard, one hand still frozen in the motion of knocking, covered in wood chips, utterly stunned.
“Bro... b-b-b-brother... what are you doing?”
“Cultivating!”
Qin Ning said indifferently, “Just exercising my body a bit, otherwise my bones will get rusty!”
“Even so, you don’t need to smash the door, do you?”
Qin Xin-xin looked at the door, muttering inwardly.
This gate was made from the finest red sandalwood. At the very least, a martial artist who had reached the seventh gate of the Zimen realm, possessing abundant spiritual energy and sixty horsepower of strength, would be needed to break it. Yet, Qin Ning had smashed it to pieces!
“Bro, what are you cultivating? How are you so strong?”
“Oh, it’s Tiger Roar Dragon Chant Fist!”
“Oh, it’s Tiger Roar Dragon Chant Fist... huh? What did you say?”
Qin Xin-xin suddenly jumped up.
“Tiger Roar Dragon Chant Fist, what about it? Isn’t this the most common mortal technique?”
Qin Ning’s expression was utterly calm, his hands continuously demonstrating various stances, recalling the punch he had just executed.
Qin Xin-xin swallowed hard, then quickly pulled Qin Ning back, his eyes narrowed in suspicion.
“Brother Ning, you... you explain clearly!”
Qin Xin-xin said in alarm, “Tiger Roar Dragon Chant Fist? How could you have cultivated it? This fist technique, though said to be a common mortal technique, is rumored to have been passed down for over ten thousand years, and it was created by the illustrious Great Emperor Jiuyou!”
“Great Emperor Jiuyou? You know about him too...?” Qin Ning asked with a strange expression.
“Nonsense!” Qin Xin-xin flared up, talking so intently that his spittle flew everywhere. “This mortal technique was very popular back then! All martial artists who reached the nine gates of the realm on the continent practiced this mortal technique, with the goal of discovering the secret to entering the Linghai realm!”
“Great Emperor Jiuyou, his era was truly mighty!”
Looking at Qin Xin-xin’s demeanor, it was as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
Of course, Qin Ning understood these matters even better.
“Unfortunately, Great Emperor Jiuyou later disappeared without a trace. There were rumors that he had left the mortal world, ascending to godhood, and also rumors that he had passed away!”
“As for this Tiger Roar Dragon Chant Fist, although it was passed down, powers continuously shifted on this continent, and the divine technique gradually became incomplete. Later, only descendants could comprehend the mortal techniques within it.”
Qin Xin-xin sighed, saying, “Like Tiger Roar Fist, Flying Dragon Fist, Subduing Dragon Fist...”
“So that’s how it is...”
“Still ‘so that’s how it is’!” Qin Xin-xin grabbed Qin Ning and wouldn’t let go, laughing heartily as he said, “Brother Ning, you... where did you learn this?”
“Me?”
Qin Ning nodded and said, “This was because Great Emperor Jiuyou appeared in my dream and taught me the complete Tiger Roar Dragon Chant Fist!”
“Boasting! What nonsense are you spouting!”
“Don’t believe me?”
Qin Ning didn’t explain much; he simply took a step back.
“Crouching Tiger Stance!”
“Flying Tiger Stance!”
“Reclining Tiger Stance!”
“...”
The moves were executed continuously, and Qin Xin-xin became more and more stunned the more he watched.
Nine sets of moves, the first four were Tiger stances, the last five were Dragon stances, truly... divine and masterful!
“Bro, did Great Emperor Jiuyou really appear in your dream and impart it to you?” Qin Xin-xin truly didn’t know what to say.
“Of course, why would I lie to you!”
“I understand, I understand!”
At this moment, Qin Xin-xin suddenly realized with a start and said, “I understand now why, after your Star Gate was taken, you not only didn’t die but even improved your strength. This is… the Great Emperor Jiu You took a liking to you and imparted divine techniques to you!”
Hearing this, Qin Ning’s expression became strange. This kid’s imagination was even wilder than his own.
“Alright, come with me to the pill street. I need to refine a few types of pills!”
“Mm, okay!”
Qin Xin-xin had just nodded when he suddenly froze.
“Brother Ning… when did you learn to refine pills?” Qin Xin-xin was completely bewildered.
He had grown up with Qin Ning since childhood. Qin Ning diligently practiced martial arts every day and had never made a single pill before, yet now he was saying he wanted to refine pills?
“You guess?”
“Ah, ah, I get it now! That was also taught to you by the Great Emperor Jiu You!”
Qin Xin-xin said mysteriously, “Brother Ning, don’t worry, I will definitely keep this a secret for you. Otherwise, if it gets out, how could our Qin family protect you!”
“Let’s go!”
The two left the Qin Manor together and entered the Qin family’s pill street.
The Qin family was one of the four great families in Lingyun City, so naturally, they had their own pill street.
At this moment, on the Qin family’s pill street, people were constantly coming and going.
“The Third Young Master wants to refine pills?”
A middle-aged man looked at Qin Ning and Qin Xin-xin, his mouth agape.
He had never heard that this Qin Ning knew how to refine pills!
“Stop talking nonsense! Quickly go prepare the medicinal ingredients and a pill furnace for the Third Young Master!” Qin Xin-xin then slapped the table and said, “Don’t ask so many questions. There are things you shouldn’t know, shouldn’t ask, understand?”
“Your subordinate obeys!”
Rong Wei immediately withdrew to prepare.
However, after preparing the medicinal ingredients, Rong Wei ran to the backyard and rushed to the rooms of the three grandmasters on the pill street.
“He wants to refine pills?”
Inside the room, a grizzled old man frowned and snorted coldly, “Nonsense, what does he know about pill refining? Could he possibly condense pill-refining flames?”
“Exactly, it’s all rubbish!”
Another grizzled old man also snorted coldly in agreement.
“Xu Yuan, Chen Feng, the Third Young Master isn’t someone who just talks nonsense casually. Perhaps he really can do it. If he wants to do it, just let him!”
Another alchemist said.
“Qin Fenggui, how can we let him do something so reckless?”
Xu Yuan stood up, hands clasped behind his back, and snorted coldly, “He doesn’t even know enough to stay quietly in the Qin Manor, yet he’s not even afraid that the Ling family will send people to kill him!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Yuan abruptly pushed open the door and walked out.
He also wanted to see what Qin Ning was really up to.
Chen Feng also immediately stood up and followed.
At this moment, Qin Fenggui stood up again, looked towards Rong Wei, and said, “Quickly go tell the Second Master.”
“Yes!”
At this moment, Qin Ning and Qin Xin-xin were in a pill-refining room.
Inside the room were over a dozen medicine bottles. In the center stood a majestic pill furnace, over a foot tall. This pill furnace had three legs, and its walls were very thick. At the bottom of the furnace were some black carvings, and all around the pill furnace were countless holes of various sizes.
However, these holes were sealed. These were holes used to adjust the temperature inside the pill furnace, and also where alchemists observed the state of the pills.
“Medicinal ingredients…”
Qin Ning walked over to the medicinal ingredients rack and frowned when he saw the ingredients on it.
This time, he was preparing to refine three types of pills.
First, there was the Shu Gu Dan, intended to treat second brother Qin Hai’s leg condition, though it still needed to be fused with a Heavenly Fire Spirit Crystal to truly be effective.
However, before the fusion, he needed to clear the meridians in his legs. This Shu Gu Dan was merely a low-grade mortal pill, something even a low-level alchemist could refine.
He, however, had great confidence in himself.
Second, he prepared to refine a mid-grade medicinal pill, the Tuo Men Dan, for his own cultivation.
To refine the Shu Gu Dan, three main medicinal ingredients were required.
“Shu Lun Grass, Gu Dou Root, and Bai Hua Fruit.”
But at this moment, the three medicinal ingredients on the herb rack were either withered, or missing branches and leaves; none of them were completely intact.
Using such ingredients to refine a pill, if consumed, could even kill someone!
With a creak, the door to the alchemy room was suddenly pushed open.