Chapter 1417: Chapter 1417: Low Level Mistake?

"Damn it, that little bastard clearly only has Heavenly Rank Low Level soul power, how could he possibly refine a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill?"

As the most direct competitor, Gu Huashan felt as if his lungs were about to burst, and his deep roar showed his extreme anger.

This Gu Huashan, who loved to have control over everything, felt that there were numerous uncontrollable elements on that young man named Yun Xiao, such as the fact that a Heavenly Rank Low Level soul could refine a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill.

When something has a trace to follow, it may not drive people too crazy, but when it completely defies common sense and slips towards the other direction of truth, that’s what makes people frustrated and angry.

At this moment, Gu Huashan felt that all the Meridian Refining Techniques he had cultivated for hundreds of years had gone to waste, as this kid, only in his early twenties, achieved something more stunning than all his years combined.

"It seems I really underestimated that kid!"

Aside from the furious Gu Huashan, Lu Tianwen, Vice President of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, also watched from the sidelines, with a strange glint in his eyes, though his mentality was much calmer than Gu Huashan’s.

"It’s just that you’ve offended that existence. No matter how dazzling you are this time, you can’t escape the fate of annihilation!"

Of course, Lu Tianwen wouldn’t say these words out loud, and this was also the main reason he agreed to Qian Sanyuan’s proposal earlier, to buy himself more time.

However, upon seeing Yun Xiao refine a heaven-defying pill that attracted the Seventh Pill Thunder, Lu Tianwen was still shocked. Luckily, this maverick kid was going to die soon, allowing him not to lose his composure like Gu Huashan.

Aside from these onlookers with various thoughts, perhaps only the most shining figure in the field, Yun Xiao, knew how all this happened.

In truth, Yun Xiao only possessed Heavenly Rank Low Level soul power, and the reason he could refine a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill and attract Seven Pill Thunders this time was all thanks to his previous life experiences as the Long Xiao Battle God.

Back when Yun Xiao was just reborn in the Shang Family of the Xuanyue Empire, he had visited the Shang Family’s Medicine Pavilion and even surpassed his rank to refine a pill, astonishing many people at that time.

However, at this moment, Yun Xiao refined a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill with Heavenly Rank Low Level soul power, which was countless times harder than refining a Mortal-grade Elixir back then, and even he himself was not confident of success beforehand.

Aside from the alchemical techniques and experience of the Long Xiao Battle God from his previous life, half of the reason might also be attributed to this reborn body.

This body, which even Yun Xiao himself had not fully understood, often gave him unexpected surprises, and this time’s pill refining was no exception.

It was because of all these assorted reasons that Yun Xiao successfully refined this Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill, which he found incredibly unbelievable, let alone those outsiders.

The pill recipe that Yun Xiao obtained from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud had an extremely special feature, which was that if it couldn’t form a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill, it could still degrade to a Heavenly Rank Low Level Pill that attracted Six Pill Thunders.

In this way, Yun Xiao naturally stood invincible, as he was fully confident in refining a Heavenly Rank Low Level Pill. Since a loss was out of the question, why not take a gamble?

It must be said that Yun Xiao’s luck was quite good, as this gamble clearly was a correct one. The result of betting right was that the Seventh Pill Thunder struck, shocking everyone inside and outside the square, and igniting the entire scene.

No matter how the spectators didn’t believe this fact, the Seventh Pill Thunder ultimately struck the pill inside the medicine tripod. As long as that pill could withstand the tempering of the Seventh Pill Thunder, a miracle was about to be born.

"Explode, explode for me!"

At this moment, Gu Huashan could only pin his hopes on that most minuscule chance, which was that the pill Yun Xiao refined couldn’t withstand the ravaging of the Seventh Pill Thunder and exploded spectacularly.

At least at this moment, after Gu Huashan muttered his curse, he increasingly believed that this result was likely to occur, after all, it couldn’t truly compare to a pill refined by a true Heavenly Rank Intermediate Meridian Refiner, and Yun Xiao ultimately only had a Heavenly Rank Low Level soul.

Crack!

And just at this moment, while Gu Huashan harbored extreme curses in his heart, from the medicine tripod in front of Yun Xiao, a strange cracking sound indeed emerged, nearly causing the Huashan Old Monster to jump up in excitement.

"Could it really not withstand it?"

The murmured curse of the Huashan Old Monster just now was something many Meridian Refiners with powerful soul force could catch fragments of.

However, at that time, they all thought it was just Gu Huashan’s final unwillingness and wouldn’t cause the slightest harm to the pill inside Yun Xiao’s medicine tripod.

But now, the meridian refining masters with powerful soul power felt their hearts skip a beat upon hearing this sound, especially those like Mo Qing and Ye Ku who had a good relationship with Yun Xiao.

Because this sound was completely different from the one when pill thunder tempers an elixir. It was clearly something breaking, and in that tripod, there was only one smooth elixir.

"No, it’s not the elixir, it’s... the medicine cauldron!"

Comparatively, people like Qian Sanyuan in the north, who had already stood up, would definitely be able to sense faster than those meridian refining masters who hadn’t reached the Heavenly Rank, and after a moment, they exclaimed aloud.

Once this voice was heard, not only the three bigwigs on this side of Lianyun Mountain but also Lu Tianwen, Gu Huashan, and those Heavenly Rank meridian refining masters who had been eliminated, all felt a sense of something.

"Hahaha, is this what they call being hoist with one’s own petard?"

Especially Gu Huashan, who had just been looking sullen, seemed to change his expression suddenly, and a very excited smile emerged on his face, with no attempt to hide his laughter.

Although this was slightly different from Gu Huashan’s previous curse about the elixir shattering, the result was entirely the same. If the cauldron exploded at this time, Yun Xiao’s attempt to refine the Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill would still fall short.

After all, at this time the elixir was still inside the medicine cauldron. Given it was subjected to the ancestral vein fire’s cauldron, plus the sealing power of seven whole pill thunders, if it exploded, it might be no less powerful than a strike from a Heavenly Rank Lingyun Realm powerhouse.

No matter what, even though the elixir has undergone countless energy tempering, it is extremely fragile in itself and absolutely cannot withstand the impact of such violent energy.

Let alone these Heavenly Rank meridian refining masters like Gu Huashan, even a meridian refining apprentice who had just started learning alchemy would understand this principle: once the cauldron is destroyed, then this round of alchemy is a complete failure.

Upon hearing Gu Huashan’s laughter, almost everyone had a strange look on their faces and thought to themselves, this Huashan Old Monster was indeed correct; Yun Xiao’s own ingenuity led to his downfall this time.

Many people knew that Yun Xiao’s Waist Storage might contain a Heavenly Rank medicine cauldron, but to contest with Gu Huashan, he went ahead with just an Earth Rank Advanced Medicine Cauldron.

Everyone had reason to believe that if Yun Xiao were refining a Heavenly Rank Low Level Pill this time, even if it attracted the six-path pill thunder, the Earth Rank Advanced Medicine Cauldron could have at least survived this event.

But contrarily, Yun Xiao went against the heavens, using Heavenly Rank Low Level Soul Power and a batch of Heavenly Rank Low Level herbs to refine a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill.

The descent of the seventh path of pill thunder, which contained a much more violent force than the previous six, undoubtedly became the last straw that broke the Earth Rank Advanced Medicine Cauldron.

Under such force, the Earth Rank Advanced Medicine Cauldron clearly could not withstand it, and cracks started to climb from a certain point, and over time, the number of cracks obviously increased.

Sensing the increasingly dense cracks on the cauldron, Gu Huashan was so excited that he almost danced with joy, because he knew that the champion position of this Meridian Refining Conference in the Medical Pulse path was back under his control.

No matter how powerful the elixir refined by Yun Xiao this time, and even if it was a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill, once the cauldron exploded, everything would cease to exist, and he would no longer be a threat to Gu Huashan.

To win the competition, you first need a decent elixir. When this elixir vanished into smoke along with the cauldron’s explosion, Yun Xiao’s best result in this Meridian Refining Conference of the Medical Pulse path would be fifth place at most.

And it was apparent that with such a shock of power, Yun Xiao had no confidence in retrieving that Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill before the cauldron exploded.

Thus, whether it was Gu Huashan or the observing meridian refining masters, they all believed that Yun Xiao had no chance to turn things around. This time, he truly was hoist with his own petard.

"Could it really all be for nothing?"

All the spectators who had a good relationship with Yun Xiao turned a shade of despair, and some even felt a sense of hatred for not meeting expectations, thinking how could that guy be so insistent, using just an Earth Rank Advanced medicine cauldron?

If Yun Xiao really failed this time because of the cauldron, his stunning performance in the Meridian Refining Conference would not become a legend, but rather he might become the biggest laughingstock due to this inexplicable failure.

Destruction of the cauldron is something that meridian refining masters above the Spiritual Rank rarely experience, because before refining each elixir, they would certainly check the degree of wear on the cauldron to ensure no incidents occur.

But who could have predicted that a Heavenly Rank Low Level meridian refining master, using a batch of Heavenly Rank Low Level herbs, could actually refine a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Pill and attract seven whole pill thunders?

It was exactly due to these contradictions with logic that a Heavenly Rank Low Level meridian refining master made such a low-level mistake like destroying the cauldron.

At this moment, numerous people sighed with emotion, reflecting on Gu Huashan’s excited old face, as the final result seemed imminent.