Chapter 2559: Do You Think I'm Short of Money?

"Oh? The furnace hasn't even been opened yet, and the National Preceptor already wants my life?" Ye Yuan said leisurely while circulating his cultivation technique to recover his strength.

Lin Lan sneered, "With your kind of refining, there's no need to open the furnace. The cauldron definitely contains waste pills!"

Refining a celestial pill imposes extremely high requirements on the material of the cauldron.

Therefore, before opening the furnace, one cannot know the quality of the celestial pill inside the cauldron.

Judging from Ye Yuan's performance, this batch was undoubtedly waste pills.

In fact, it wasn't just Lin Lan who thought so; everyone present thought the same.

Ye Yuan's refining had become unwatchable in the later stages.

The masterly demeanor from the beginning was completely gone!

It was most aptly described as precarious.

It was barely hanging by a thread!

How could such refining possibly produce a finished celestial pill?

Moreover, it was the extremely difficult Jasper Renewal Pill.

"Hahaha... With you flustered like that, why even open the furnace? It's good enough that it didn't explode!" Xie Hua sneered.

Ye Yuan smiled, "Better to open it; otherwise, I won't give up, and the soul contract can't be fulfilled, right?"

Lin Lan nodded slightly, "Fine, let's put your mind at ease!"

Ye Yuan waved his hand, "I don't have much strength left, so I'll trouble the National Preceptor to open the furnace personally."

With a disdainful look, Lin Lan approached the cauldron.

At this moment, the emperor on the second floor slowly stood up and said indifferently, "Alright, the outcome is settled. I'll take my leave now!"

This statement about the outcome being settled carried a double meaning.

On one hand, it referred to the contest between the National Preceptor and Ye Yuan—the outcome was settled.

On the other hand, it referred to the struggle between the First Prince and the Second Prince—the outcome was also settled.

Therefore, he had no further interest in staying.

The remaining matters would be handled by the National Preceptor.

"Farewell, Imperial Father!" The First Prince was overjoyed and bowed to see Qiao Kaiyuan off.

The Second Prince did not turn around; his gaze was fixed downstairs.

Suddenly, his body trembled, and a dazzling light burst from his eyes!

"Hahahaha..." The Second Prince laughed wildly, the pent-up emotions in his heart erupting completely at this moment.

The First Prince, with his back to the scene downstairs, had no idea what was happening.

Hearing the Second Prince's manic laughter, he thought the other had been driven mad by the blow.

"Second Brother, why care so much about temporary gains and losses? We are always brothers!" The First Prince hypocritically consoled him.

Just then, exclamations came from below, instantly drowning out his voice.

"He did it! He really did it!"

"Unbelievable! He was in such a state while refining, yet he still managed to form the pill?"

"A miracle! It's truly a miracle! Within five years, he actually refined the Jasper Renewal Pill!"

...

The First Prince's expression changed drastically. He turned to look downstairs and froze on the spot.

Qiao Kaiyuan, halfway out, also stopped in his tracks!

Downstairs, Lin Lan was dumbfounded, and Xie Hua's face was blank.

Beside them, a pill lay quietly in a vessel.

In front of Tiancui Tower, the crowd was in an uproar.

"This... this... what's going on?" The earlier elation had vanished without a trace.

With the appearance of that celestial pill, a thick cloud of gloom settled over the First Prince's heart.

The Second Prince laughed heartily, "Elder Brother, temporary gains and losses, no need to mind! No need to mind! Hahaha..."

Suddenly, his expression changed. The emperor had somehow appeared beside him.

But his gaze was fixed below.

At this moment, the emperor's face finally showed astonishment.

Clearly, he too could not believe what he saw.

The Jasper Renewal Pill was a success!

The National Preceptor had lost!

Lost completely!

"Imperial Father, can this prove my judgment now? Ye Yuan has once again created a miracle!" The Second Prince spoke with full confidence.

At this moment, he was immensely grateful to Lu Yun.

If not for Master Yun, he would never have turned the tables in such a desperate situation!

It wasn't that his judgment was good, but that Master Yun's judgment was good!

Master Yun had long said that Ye Yuan was a dragon among men, an outstanding figure among the ascendants!

Now, the dragon had taken flight!

"National Preceptor, I recall you said that if I could refine the Jasper Renewal Pill, you would swallow the cauldron whole? Now, will you swallow it or not?"

"And you, Brother Xie, you were quite pleased earlier, saying you didn't need to buy the Jasper Renewal Pill from me? I beg you, never come to me to buy it! I won't sell it!"

These two remarks stung Lin Lan and Xie Hua almost to the point of madness.

Lin Lan's old face nearly wanted to burrow into a crack in the ground.

The moment the furnace was opened, he was completely dumbfounded.

The Jasper Renewal Pill had really been refined!

But how was that possible?

"Impossible! You were clearly done for earlier, your refining technique had already deteriorated—how could you have formed the pill!" Lin Lan roared.

He thought Ye Yuan couldn't possibly refine a celestial pill, yet Ye Yuan refined a Foundation Establishment Celestial Pill.

He thought Ye Yuan couldn't possibly refine the Jasper Renewal Pill, yet Ye Yuan really did refine the Jasper Renewal Pill.

This kind of thing was simply too demoralizing!

Ye Yuan smiled, "When it comes to alchemy, you're still far off! Let me tell you, everything later was done by instinct. Do you believe that?"

Before Lin Lan could speak, Ye Yuan continued, "Of course you don't believe! Just like if I told you that in these five years I only studied a little over twenty basic celestial pills, you definitely wouldn't believe it either. If I told you that these celestial herbs were all refined by me for the first time, you still wouldn't believe it! Yet, these are all facts! The things you look down on may not be useless; the people you look down on may not be inferior to you! In alchemy, you are nothing but a frog at the bottom of a well!"

Lin Lan trembled, feeling that his alchemical beliefs had completely collapsed.

Everything Ye Yuan said was beyond his imagination!

Yet, Ye Yuan had truly done it!

He had refined the Jasper Renewal Pill!

Lin Lan looked utterly dejected, no longer bearing the demeanor of a National Preceptor.

Thump!

Suddenly, Xie Hua knelt directly before Ye Yuan, weeping, "Master Ye, I... I was wrong! I beg you, sell me the celestial pill! I'm willing to pay ten times, no, a hundred times the price!"

Xie Hua wanted to become a celestial alchemist, and for that reason, he hated Ye Yuan even more.

Initially, he didn't believe Ye Yuan could refine the Jasper Renewal Pill, especially after learning from Xiao Qi about Ye Yuan's situation over the past few years.

But now, Ye Yuan had actually succeeded!

Ye Yuan just smiled and said, "I've said it, and I mean it. I said I won't sell it to you, so I won't! Even if you offer a thousand or ten thousand times the price, I still won't sell it to you! Besides, do you think I'm short of money?"

With that, he raised the Jasper Renewal Pill in his hand and smiled, "Who wants the Jasper Renewal Pill?"

"I do!"

A man with a severed arm reacted the fastest, immediately jumping out.

This man was one of the guards who had beaten the Tang father and son earlier!

Ye Yuan smiled slightly, "You're lucky. This celestial pill is yours for free!"

With that, Ye Yuan directly tossed the Jasper Renewal Pill to him!