Chapter 1302: The Pill Is Formed!

"Hongyin, you're usually never wrong, but today you've made several mistakes already. Have you encountered something recently? You seem a bit distracted today." An old man said to Hongyin.

Hongyin had worked for Wanbao Tower for a long time and had never made a mistake.

But today, she seemed completely out of sorts, either miscalculating the divine essence stones or handing customers the wrong items.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper couldn't help but come up to remind her.

Hongyin said apologetically, "Manager Su, I'm really sorry. For the mistakes I made today, just deduct them from my wages!"

Manager Su shook his head and said, "That's not what I meant. I've seen how you work, so how could I deduct your wages for such a small matter? I noticed you've been looking around all day, as if waiting for someone. Could it be... you've taken a fancy to some young master?"

Hongyin's face flushed bright red, and she waved her hands repeatedly, saying, "Manager Su, where are your thoughts wandering? I'm just... just a bit curious."

"Curious?" Manager Su asked, puzzled.

Hongyin nodded, not intending to hide anything, and recounted the strange situation with Ye Yuan from that day, saying, "Today is exactly the tenth day. I don't know if he succeeded or not, so I've been restless."

Manager Su laughed heartily upon hearing this and said, "Hongyin, you're also an old hand at Wanbao Tower. How can you have such naive thoughts? How could someone without even a trace of divine essence possibly refine a divine pill? You said that young man is only thirty or forty years old. At that age, he can't even enter the door of the Dao of Alchemy, let alone use formation Dao to refine pills? What do you take the city's alchemy masters for?"

Hongyin was stunned upon hearing this, realizing that she had indeed been a bit stubborn.

Thirty or forty years old was merely a youth in the Tongtian Realm.

As Manager Su said, how could someone of that age refine a divine pill using formation Dao?

As Hongyin was lost in thought, a figure in a blue robe walked out from the inner hall.

That was the direction leading to the cultivation room.

Ye Yuan walked straight up to Hongyin and said, "Miss, you said earlier that Wanbao Tower accepts mid-grade Divine Essence Pills. Does that still hold?"

At these words, not only Hongyin but also Manager Su was shaken, looking at Ye Yuan as if they had seen a ghost.

"You... you... you really refined a Divine Essence Pill?" Hongyin stammered.

Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Naturally, I refined it, but only one. Does Wanbao Tower accept it?"

Hongyin didn't answer Ye Yuan but instead looked him up and down with a strange gaze.

She wanted to find a trace of divine essence fluctuation in Ye Yuan.

Unfortunately, she was disappointed.

No divine essence!

Not even a shred!

"Could it be... could it really be that you..."

Before Hongyin could finish her question, Manager Su interrupted her.

He smiled at Ye Yuan and said, "Of course! Wanbao Tower never refuses to cooperate with alchemists. As long as the Divine Essence Pill you refined meets the requirements, we'll accept them all!"

Ye Yuan nodded and took out a gray-black pill, its fragrance permeating the air.

Hongyin and Manager Su's eyes focused—the quality of this Divine Essence Pill was even better than they had imagined!

Mid-grade Divine Essence Pills were not all the same.

Good quality ones could approach high-grade; poor ones were not far from low-grade.

The mid-grade Divine Essence Pill Ye Yuan took out was of quite good quality.

Though not approaching the level of high-grade, its quality was significantly better than ordinary mid-grade Divine Essence Pills.

Manager Su said, "Young friend, Wanbao Tower deals fairly with everyone. This mid-grade Divine Essence Pill of yours is of good quality, so its price will be higher than ordinary mid-grade pills. I'll give you twenty-eight divine essence stones for this pill."

Ye Yuan's eyes lit up, and he cupped his hands, saying, "You must be the shopkeeper. Thank you very much! But just give me sixteen divine essence stones. I still have three divine essence stones here, and I need to rent the cultivation room for another day. Exchange the rest for materials for Divine Essence Pills."

The remaining three divine essence stones were naturally what Ye Yuan had left over from evolving the formation.

The formation for refining Divine Essence Pills was called the Minor Divine Essence Formation.

This was a formation specifically created for Divine Essence Pills, requiring only eight divine essence stones.

Ye Yuan had sixty-seven left before, meaning he only had eight chances.

Although the Minor Divine Essence Formation only required eight divine essence stones, its complexity far exceeded Ye Yuan's imagination!

Lu Linfeng's formation Dao was at the pinnacle in the Immortal Forest World.

He had even deduced his own Heavenly Dao.

But those formations were nothing compared to this tiny Minor Divine Essence Formation!

The two were not on the same level at all!

A formation built from just eight divine essence stones had nearly exhausted all of Ye Yuan's mental energy.

Fortunately, Ye Yuan's foundation in formation Dao was much more solid than Wuchen had imagined.

Back in the Peach Blossom Formation, Ye Yuan's comprehension of formations had laid a solid foundation for divine Dao formations, allowing him to glimpse the whole from a part.

Under immense pressure, Ye Yuan unleashed his infinite potential.

He frantically deduced the formation, pushing himself to the limit over the next fifty-five days.

That frenzy even made Wuchen secretly click his tongue and exclaim that he was a freak.

But what surprised Wuchen even more was that Ye Yuan had come within a hair's breadth of entering the state of selflessness again!

At that time, Ye Yuan had entered a mysterious state, but in the end, he fell short.

The state of selflessness was too difficult to enter!

However, Ye Yuan didn't come away empty-handed. It was precisely because of this borderline state that his formation Dao skills advanced by leaps and bounds, and he finally comprehended the Minor Divine Essence Formation.

At that time, even the arrogant Wuchen exclaimed that he was a freak.

He never expected that Ye Yuan would actually accomplish the impossible in just a hundred days!

Ye Yuan had comprehended both formation Dao and medicinal properties, leaving only the final step of refinement.

Logically, once the Minor Divine Essence Formation was completed, placing the medicinal herbs in the right positions within the formation would automatically complete the refinement.

But Ye Yuan's understanding of the Minor Divine Essence Formation was still shallow, and various unexpected situations could occur during the alchemy process.

With five days left, Ye Yuan had only twenty-seven divine essence stones remaining, meaning three chances to refine.

Because once the formation was activated, the energy in the divine essence stones would be depleted, turning them into waste stones.

On the first attempt, Ye Yuan's refinement failed without surprise.

Ye Yuan spent three days summarizing the experience of the first failure.

On the second attempt, he finally succeeded!

Unfortunately, the pill refined this time was only a low-grade Divine Essence Pill.

Ye Yuan calmed down and studied for another day before finally refining this mid-grade Divine Essence Pill at the last moment!

After Ye Yuan returned to the cultivation room, Hongyin and Manager Su exchanged glances, seeing shock in each other's eyes.

"This child's talent is truly terrifying! Hongyin, continue to keep an eye on him. If he needs any help, spare no expense! Also, purchase all the Divine Essence Pills he refines at a high price!" Manager Su said with a grave expression.