Chapter 124: Dignified Fifth Circle Pseudo Xian!

"Junior Brother, why are you going to die??" A young woman’s gentle voice sounded in his ear.

"Ehh?" Xiao Shen opened his eyes wide and looked around him. A gentle breeze swept past the grasslands and several pagodas stood out in the grasslands.

"Junior brother, are you alright?" The fairy maiden asked with a cute smile.

"I..." Xiao Shen blinked in confusion.

Just what the f*ck was happening?!

The last thing he remembered was that he was falling...

Considering the fact that Lady Master of Heaven said that was to introduce variables to see how much the timeline would change, could he, perhaps, have fallen into a different timeline or something?

But why did he not faceplant into the ground?

[Lady Master of Heaven has joined the stream!]

[Lady Master of Heaven: Oho, this is quite an interesting thing. I thought of taking a look to see your situation and ended up running into the Great Golden Threads spreading past Heaven and Earth]

"Ah, Senior Master of Heaven, you’ve joined my real life livestream??" Xiao Shen asked.

"Hm? Junior Brother, what are you talking about?" The fairy maiden tilted her head slightly.

At the same time, VA message appeared in the bullet chat.

[Lady Master of Heaven: Real life Livestream? I guess you can call it that. At this point, it really does resemble the livestreams of today. To think you also have this complicated thing attached to you!]

She sent another message:

[Lady Master of Heaven: Anyways, prepare yourself. The calamity that befell the Great Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect is about to begin! Good luck~]

[Lady Master of Heaven has gone offline and left the stream!]

"Hey, at least tell me what the calamity is!" Xiao Shen said in exasperation.

"....." The fairy maiden.

Was this Junior Brother sick??

She shook her head. "Aiyah, come on, Junior Brother. It’s time for Master Li’s lectures!"

Xiao Shen pursed his lips and decided to play along. He nodded his head. "Alright."

"Great! Let’s go~" She grabbed his hand and dragged him over to one of the pagodas.

There, several people were already there, sitting in the lotus position and listening to a white haired grandpa give a speech.

It was then that he noticed that everyone was wearing those ancient han dynasty type clothing used in xianxia and wuxia dramas. Including him.

This was when he realized that he had really fallen into a different alternate universe!

That, and, well, the fact that the white haired grandpa making the speech was using a flame talisman to generate fire beneath a giant cauldron and levitating several spiritual and medicinal plants with his mental energy. As he spoke, he would put in a medicinal plant, explaining it’s effects and it’s methods of refining.

"This purple leaf stone grass is a spirit plant that can be used to make a petrification pill that will temporarily harden your flesh and skin." The white haired grandpa said as he willed the grass into the cauldron. Immediately, the medicinal liquid took on a dull grey color similar to that of weathered rock. He nodded in satisfaction and continued. "To successfully refine this plant, you must first beat it with a large stone for thirty days, until it’s own original will has been squashed. Then, you boil it in hot water for seven days to soften it. After doing so, you can now pour in your spiritual energy and store it for future use, or directly use it to brew the petrification pill..."

As he spoke, the several dozen disciples seated in the pagodas were swiftly using their ink stones and brushes to quickly write down his words.

"Junior Brother, are you not going to write?" The fairy maiden gave him a questioning look.

Xiao Shen blinked and looked at the plain sheet of paper and the brush by his side. As someone born and bred in the 21st century, he naturally had no idea how to use an ink stone!

"I will, I will," Xiao Shen waved her off. "I just need to, uh, gather my thoughts first. I am receiving many insights at this moment and, if I try to write one of them down, I’ll most likely end up losing the rest."

"Oh." The fairy maiden nodded her head. She had heard of such states of enlightenment before, but could one really be enlightened from listening to the refining methods of ordinary spirit and medicinal plants?

Xiao Shen heaved a sigh of relief as she turned her attention away from him and continued to write down the white haired grandpa’s lecture for further study.

He was Xiao Five Star General of the Convenient Lying Army Shen!

The grandpa made a hand seal and the medicinal liquid in the cauldron suddenly compressed into a small pill. He said. "By using spiritual energy and mental energy to forcefully crumple the medicinal liquid, while using sealing techniques to keep it from spilling out..."

As he spoke, he quickly applied several seals on the compressing medicinal liquid, making it turn into a solidified oval object.

This was a medicinal pill!

Xiao Shen blinked his eyes. That’s how medicinal pills are made?!

What happened to the pill furnace?!

What happened to the special heavenly yang whatever flames?!

What happened to the arduous task of slowly refining the item over several hundred years?!

Simply throwing it in a cauldron and compressing the liquid, was that not too easy!

It was unscientific!

No, it was uncultivational!

The white haired grandpa waved his hand and the Petrification Pill flew out of the cauldron, landing on a pile of discarded pills.

Pills were a very important aspect for a cultivator, yet the Great Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect discarded them like they were nothing. If a loose cultivator were to see this scene, surely they would cry themselves to sleep!

He then pulled out an aged ginseng and continued. "Now, a ginseng is a spiritual plant that you’re all familiar with. Refining one that is, at least, a thousand years old starts by conquering it’s will. Naturally, its done using spiritual energy in a battle of wills lasting for you a long time. Talented genius pull refiners finish this in minutes, while an average pill refiner could take a week."

Xiao Shen’s eyes lit up.

This was information that he needed!

He could remember that the Young Miss of the Jiang family, who was actually an ancient powerhouse of the cultivation system, Fairy Silver Star Sage, had been taken from the Jiang family mansion. As he had successfully retrieved her, would people not think that he was the one who kidnapped her in the first place?

That was why he needed to refine the three thousand years old ginseng he had gotten from Chu Miao of the Witch system into a medicinal pill that would allow her regain her power. If she regained her power and was able to speak up once again, then there would be no misunderstandings as she would explain the situation herself!

The white haired grandpa continued as he raised the ginseng, "Now, to effectively do this, we must first..."

As he spoke, Xiao Shen perked his ears to listen.

"You must first turn your spiritual energy into AAAH!" The white haired grandpa said, only to suddenly scream.

"....." Everyone.

All the disciples were at a loss for words.

"..." Xiao Shen.

Really?! Just when it was going to somewhere I needed?!!

The roof of the pagoda was forcefully ripped out and a man with multiple arms came into view. "Ahaha, Surnamed Li, I’ve finally found you! How do you like my Soul Searing Spear technique?"

The white haired grandpa spat out a mouthful of blood and gritted his teeth. "So it was you Asura Demon sect bastards!"

The Asura Demon sect and the Great Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect had been in a blood feud for several hundred years. A Great Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect expert and an expert of the Asura Demon sect had both invented a medicinal pill with wondrous effects, only to claim that the other party had stolen the recipe. Pill formulas in Pill Smithing sect’s were closely guarded secrets, so it was only fair for an altercation to occur. This led to the deaths of both experts on both side.

However, while the Asura Demon sect forever lost the pill and the ability to make it, the Great Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect had several disciples quickly research the pill and replicate it. So, seething with rage, the Asura Demon sect swore to completely erase the Great Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect from the very surface of the earth.

The several disciples all stood up and took fighting stances, but they were slightly trembling.

"Go away, Asura Demon sect expert!"

"Leave our Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect alone!"

Many of them yelled to boost their morale.

"Humph! Today is the day that the Nine Provinces Pill Smithing sect will fall!" The man with multiple arms waved two of them and threw the pagoda’s roof to the side. "I am now a dignified Fifth Circle Pseudo Xian realm Cultivator!"