As Song Bao said, with Lou Yuehua’s token, Ye Fan’s business in Pill Capital went extremely smoothly, and no one stopped Ye Fan from selling medicinal pills.
Ye Fan’s shop soon opened.
Ye Fan had advanced to Golden Core, and many of the medicinal pills he carried with him were no longer useful for their level of cultivation. Ye Fan took out a lot of medicinal pills and sold them in the shop. During the three years that Ye Fan followed Sheng Zhihao, he also drew a lot of talismans. Ye Fan also took out a lot of talismans and sold them in the shop.
Ye Fan saw that Song Bao was quite clever, so he left this guy to do odd jobs in the store.
Ye Fan had Lou Yuehua’s VIP token in hand, and many people knew that Ye Fan and Lou Yuehua had some friendship.
When Ye Fan’s pill shop opened, many well-informed shop owners came to show their support.
Many of the medicinal pills sold by Ye Fan were rare treasures. The cultivators who originally just wanted to buy something to establish a relationship with Ye Fan saw the medicinal pills sold in the shop and spent money generously.
“Lou Yuehua’s name is so useful! There is not even a troublemaker,” Ye Fan said.
Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan and said angrily, “Do you really hope for someone to come and make trouble?”
Ye Fan shook his head and said, “Of course not. The business is so good that half of the medicinal pills and talismans I have on hand have been sold.” Ye Fan’s income during this period was about four million spirit stones. Ye Fan estimated that the store could close after another half month of sales.
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Yuehua Pill Building.
“President.”
As soon as Lou Yuehua came back, he met Fan Tianqin, the vice president of the Alchemists Association.
“It’s you, Tianqin! You are a very busy person and never show up for no reason. What’s the matter?” Lou Yuehua asked.
“President, did you give away your last VIP token?” Fan Tianqin asked.
Fan Tianqin frowned and thought secretly: When Shen Qiuyue, the disciple of Shen Manqing, the Nascent Soul-level Valley Master of Medical Immortal Valley, came over, she asked Lou Yuehua for a VIP token, but at that time, Lou Yuehua refused. Lou Yuehua rejected Shen Manqing’s valued disciple, but gave the VIP token to an unknown person.
“How did you know?” Lou Yuehua asked.
“There is a cultivator who is not certified as an alchemist, but using your token, he opened a pill shop in Pill Capital,” Fan Tianqin said.
Lou Yuehua said with some surprise, “He came to Pill Capital and opened a pill shop? Then I should go and pay a visit.”
Fan Tianqin looked at Lou Yuehua in confusion and said, “President, is this person so important? He requires you to visit in person?”
Lou Yuehua nodded and said, “Don’t underestimate him. He is definitely a genius in alchemy. In time, he will definitely surpass me. There is probably an extremely skilled Master above this person, whose skill far surpasses mine.”
Fan Tianqin’s original intention was to ask that alchemist to go to the Alchemists Association to get an alchemist’s badge.
After all, Pill Capital had its own rules. However, hearing that Lou Yuehua valued this alchemist so much, Fan Tianqin didn’t say what he originally wanted to say. There were only so many elder seats in the Alchemists Association. If this alchemist really had the ability that Lou Yuehua said, and he participated in the assessment, he was afraid that they would have to add an elder seat in the Alchemists Association.
Fan Tianqin chatted with Lou Yuehua for a bit and then left.
Lou Yuehua hesitated for a while before saying, “Li Yan, call Cheng’er* over here.”
“Young Master Cheng? President, are you going to take Young Master Cheng to go visit that alchemist?” Li Yan asked.
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The names Ye Fan and Fan Ye could no longer be used, so Ye Fan chose the name Bai Ye* this time. Ye Fan wanted Bai Yunxi to be called Bai Fan, but Bai Yunxi was not willing and thought it sounded like Bai Fan*, so he used Bai Yunjin’s name*. His name was Yun Jin.
Ye Fan looked at Song Bao and said, “You don’t stay at the front to look after the shop and instead run back here. The things in the store will be robbed.”
Bai Yunxi looked at the panicked Song Bao and asked, “Did someone come?”
“Alchemist Lou is here. President Lou is here.” Song Bao said with red eyes, unable to contain his excitement.
Ye Fan looked at Song Bao and felt that Song Bao was like a fan who was scared out of his mind when seeing his idol.
“Alchemist Lou is here. It’s just Alchemist Lou coming over, yet you’re frightened to this extent. Really little courage.” Ye Fan curled his lips disdainfully.
There was a burst of chuckles, and Lou Yuehua walked in with a young man, “Fellow Daoist Bai, I’m sorry to bother you.”
Ye Fan waved his hand, and Song Bao immediately slipped out to watch the shop.
“It’s Senior Lou! I didn’t know the identity of Senior before and was rude.” Ye Fan stood up respectfully and said with cupped hands.
“Alchemist Bai’s alchemy skills are superb and are not inferior to mine. You and I can be considered equal peers,” Lou Yuehua said.
Ye Fan shook his head and said, “This is not appropriate.”
Ye Fan glanced at the cultivator next to Lou Yuehua and asked, “Who is this?”
“This is my nephew, Lou Cheng,” Lou Yuehua said.
Bai Yunxi looked at Lou Cheng and said, “Senior’s nephew is at the peak of Foundation Establishment at a young age. He is a giant among men*!” Bai Yunxi complimented.
“Cheng’er’s qualifications are good, but…” Lou Yue spoke halfway and did not continue.
Lou Yuehua looked at Ye Fan’s thoughtful expression and asked, “Has Fellow Daoist Bai seen something?”
“Loss of soul.” It was similar to Xu Mingyang’s symptoms. “What happened? Someone plotted against you?” Ye Fan held his chin and thought to himself: No one should dare to plot against Lou Yuehua’s nephew!
Lou Yuehua shook his head and said, “Nothing like that. A few years ago, Cheng’er got a special ore with very special properties. He originally wanted to use it to refine a spiritual weapon, but he didn’t expect his soul power* to be absorbed by the ore.”
Ye Fan’s eyes suddenly lit up and he said, “It’s Nine Netherworld Iron*.”
Lou Yuehua looked at Ye Fan’s shocked face and said, “Fellow Daoist knows the origin of the ore?”
Ye Fan looked at Lou Yuehua and said, “I just know a legend. There is a race in this world called the demon race. They invaded the cultivation world tens of thousands of years ago and left behind some demonic cultivation methods. Now there are many demonic cultivators. The cultivation techniques are said to have evolved from the cultivation techniques of the demon race. The demons came from the demon world. The cultivation world is filled with spiritual energy, while the demon world is filled with demonic energy. Nine Netherworld Iron is a thing from the demon world and can absorb the soul.”
“Fellow Daoist Bai is really knowledgeable. I have never heard of this legend,” Lou Yuehua said with admiration.
Ye Fan shrugged and said, “I just heard it from Master.”
“I wonder if Your Excellency’s Master has ever talked about the characteristics of Nine Netherworld Iron?” Lou Yuehua asked.
Ye Fan said calmly, “Master said that the tentacles of the Nine Netherworld Iron are cold and very heavy. If you are not strong enough, you cannot control it. Nine Netherworld Iron contains demonic energy. People with weak minds may be affected by the demonic energy and experience qi deviation. However, for cultivators who are determined and strong enough, this thing can be refined into a good spiritual weapon.”
Ye Fan rolled his eyes. Nine Netherworld Iron was a very precious weapon refining material in the Southern Continent. Incorporating Nine Netherworld Iron into completed spiritual weapons that had already been refined could also greatly enhance the power of a spiritual weapon. Ye Fan knew that Ye Qixian had tried to find Nine Netherworld Iron before, but couldn’t find it.
Was it possible that no one recognized such a precious thing in this place?
Lou Yuehua sighed and said, “It’s my nephew who is unlucky after all! He found a treasure, but didn’t know how to use it, resulting in a loss of soul power and an inability to improve his strength. I don’t know, Fellow Daoist Bai, looking at my nephew’s condition, whether you have a solution?”
“If there is a loss of soul, the Soul Replenishing Pill can solve it! Senior is a heaven-level alchemist. You should be able to refine it, right?” Ye Fan said.
Lou Yuehua shook his head and said, “I spent a lot of effort to get the pill recipe for the Soul Replenishing Pill. However, I have tried to refine the pill more than a dozen times without success. Fellow Daoist Bai, please check for me whether there is any problem with the pill recipe?”
Ye Fan took the pill recipe handed over by Lou Yuehua, looked at it, and said, “There is nothing wrong with the pill recipe. This is indeed the right one.”
“There is no problem with the pill recipe? That’s strange,” Lou Yuehua said with some surprise.
Bai Yunxi thought of Xu Mingyang’s words and said, “The Soul Replenishing Pill needs to be refined using soul power alchemy. Ordinary refining methods are ineffective.”
When Lou Yuehua heard Bai Yunxi’s words, he couldn’t help but glance at Bai Yunxi, “Soul power alchemy? Your Excellency also understands alchemy?”
Bai Yunxi shook his head and said, “I don’t understand. I just know a little bit through seeing and hearing so much.”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Ah* Jin is right. It requires soul power alchemy.”
Lou Yuehua nodded and said, “So that’s the case. No wonder every time I tried to refine the pill, it didn’t take long before the furnace exploded.”
Lou Yuehua had always found it strange. With his alchemy skills, even if he failed to refine other medicinal pills, he usually failed in the last step. However, when refining this Soul Replenishing Pill, the furnace often exploded not long after starting. Lou Yuehua originally thought that the problem was with the pill recipe, but unexpectedly, the problem was with the alchemy technique. However, even if he now knew, it was of no use. Lou Yuehua did not know soul power alchemy techniques.
Lou Yuehua looked at Ye Fan and said, “Alchemist Bai, can you refine the Soul Replenishing Pill?”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes! It’s not difficult.”
Bai Yunxi couldn’t help coughing twice and glaring at Ye Fan.
Bai Yunxi gritted his teeth. Xu Mingyang said that soul power alchemy was several times more difficult than spiritual power alchemy. However, because Ye Fan was born with strong soul power, he didn’t think it was a big deal. Things that this guy found not difficult, were more difficult than ascending to heaven for others.
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi inexplicably. Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan’s stupid face and was very depressed.
“Can Alchemist Bai please help me refine a furnace for my nephew?” Lou Yuehua put his attitude very low.
“I have the medicinal pill on me. I can give it to you, but what are you two going to use to exchange for it?” Ye Fan asked.
Lou Yuehua smiled and said, “How many spirit stones does Alchemist Bai need?” Lou Yuehua had been a heaven-level alchemist for many years, and there was no shortage of spirit stones.
“I want Nine Netherworld Iron. This medicinal pill can only be exchanged, not sold. Nine Netherworld Iron or a place where Nine Netherworld Iron can be found is fine.” Ye Fan thought for a while and said this.
Lou Cheng, who had remained silent, suddenly said, “I’ll exchange it for the location where I found Nine Netherworld Iron.”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Okay, but you have to ensure that there is Nine Netherworld Iron in that place.”
Lou Cheng nodded and said, “There is definitely Nine Netherworld Iron in that place, but once I say it, I’m afraid you won’t dare to go.”
“You don’t have to worry about this. Where is it?” Ye Fan asked.
“The Bloody Wasteland. That Nine Netherworld Iron was taken out from the Demon Abyss Well in the Bloody Wasteland,” Lou Cheng said.
Lou Yuehua frowned and said with displeasure, “Cheng’er, when did you go to the Bloody Wasteland?”
“A few years ago,” Lou Cheng said calmly.
“Why haven’t I heard you mention it?” Lou Yuehua frowned and asked.
“If I told you, Uncle, you wouldn’t let me go,” Lou Cheng said lukewarmly.
Lou Yuehua looked at Lou Cheng and said helplessly, “You…”
Bai Yunxi: “…” What a rebellious boy!
“I seem to have heard of the Demon Abyss Well in the Bloody Wasteland. That well is known as the Well of Death. If you go down, you can’t come up,” Ye Fan said, holding his chin.
Lou Cheng nodded and said, “Yes, that Nine Netherworld Iron was carried up by a strange beast. The beast died not long after it came up.”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “I see!”
Ye Fan took out a pill bottle from his storage ring and threw it to Lou Cheng.
After Lou Yuehua’s soul power quickly swept over the pill bottle, he knew that what Ye Fan had given him was the Soul Replenishing Pill. Lou Yuehua couldn’t help but feel a little confused. The Soul Replenishing Pill should be a relatively rare medicinal pill, but Bai Ye coincidentally had it on hand.
Lou Yuehua looked at Ye Fan and said, “This news is a bit vague. I will give another one million spirit stones to Fellow Daoist Bai.”
Ye Fan raised his eyebrows and thought secretly: The net worth of a heaven-level alchemist was really rich! He casually gave out one million at the drop of a hat. “If Senior Lou gives me some soul replenishing grass, the spirit stones can be a little less.”
“I happen to have a few soul replenishing grasses here, so I’ll give them to Fellow Daoist Bai.” Lou Yuehua secretly thought: Soul replenishing grass was of no use except for refining Soul Replenishing Pills. Since Bai Ye wanted them, it was good to take them out and do a favor at little cost to himself.
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T/N: I’m surprised Lou Yuehua apparently doesn’t know any soul power alchemy techniques? Remember, each floor of the Pill Pagoda teaches a soul power alchemy technique and you must master it to light up the pill diagram. In all these years of the Pill Pagoda being in Pill Capital, he hasn’t gone to visit to learn some soul power alchemy techniques? Even if his soul power is just average, that really makes no sense to me.
*Adding 儿 (er), meaning child/son, to the end of someone’s name is an affectionate way to refer to them, similar to adding Xiao (small/little) in front of names.
*白叶 (Bai Ye) – same Bai as Bai Yunxi and Ye as Ye Fan.
*Ye Fan wanted Yunxi to call himself 白凡 (same Bai as his name and Fan as Ye Fan’s name), but Yunxi thinks it sounds like 白矾 (Bai Fan, but different “Fan”) and doesn’t want to use this name. I’m not actually sure why he doesn’t like this name as it doesn’t sound like any curse/swear words I know and I didn’t get any insight after googling.
*If you guys have forgotten, Bai Yunjin is Yunxi’s elder brother’s name. Yunjin is his elder brother’s given name, but Yunxi is using the name as his full name, so Yun is the surname and Jin is the given name for Yunxi’s current pseudonym.
*人中龙凤 (ren zhong long feng) – literally dragon and phoenix among people, an idiom that means a giant among men, extraordinarily talented.
*Kind of annoying – the author goes back and forth between loss of soul and loss of soul power. Theoretically, once soul power is exhausted, it recovers over time (like spiritual power), so for permanent damage, it should be loss of soul, not soul power, but I’m just gonna translate whatever is in the raws.
*九幽冥铁 (jiu youming tie) – Nine Netherworld Iron. The author sometimes shortens this to just 冥铁 (mingtie), which could be translated as Nether/Hell/Underworld Iron, but I’ve elected to use the full term (Nine Netherworld Iron) everywhere for consistency.
*Putting 阿 (Ah or A’) in front of a name is an affectionate way to refer to someone. Different from Xiao and Er, which are commonly used with children or the younger generation, Ah is more commonly used with peers.
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👻💊💕= Soul Replenishing Pill
📖❓= “Next chapter when?” or maybe “what prescription?”
Thanks for the update 😘❤