Dual Cultivation: Ying Yang is way to Chaos Chapter 465: What A Shame

Lin Feng wouldn’t have cared much and would have just given her the pill she wanted, but seeing her calmness in the face of that little outburst from cultivators, earned his little respect.

So, he decided to give her something which would heal her completely without leaving a trace of hidden injuries.

Right now, unknown to anyone, he wasn’t using the cauldron but just the space inside it to use far stronger flames than what he had used for the previous refinements.

The real difficulty wasn’t even refining the pill but making sure that the cauldron didn’t get destroyed from the sudden burst of heat from his flames. That’s why he had covered the inner walls of the cauldron with faint, almost invisible chaotic qi to protect it.

Unless someone very strong like Cui Shuyin used their spiritual sense to thoroughly inspect his cauldron, they wouldn’t suspect anything. No one would do that since using spiritual sense was also a form of distraction during pill refinement, as they could easily speak through it to disturb the alchemist.

This is the reason why most alchemists refine their pills in special chambers to avoid these types of situations completely.

Since till now he hadn’t felt anything like that, he was confident that no one had tried to do it.

As the pill refinement reached the critical phase, he became focused. After all, he wasn’t trying to refine a three-rune or even a four-rune pill, it was a five-rune pill.

He would discreetly pass this pill to the woman and give her a hint not to reveal it to anyone. He hardly trusted any strangers, but he wasn’t afraid in this case. If she kept it secret, then it was a good outcome, and if she didn’t, then it wouldn’t affect him much either, as that would just increase his status, and since he was about to join Mysterious Heaven Sect, they would give their all to protect him unconditionally.

In fact, he would get more supporters, and no one would openly become his enemy, but the term openly was the real issue here, since he would definitely get hidden enemies about whom even he wouldn’t be aware.

This was the primary reason he wanted to stay low for some time.

The ingredients in the cauldron combined flawlessly under his control, and his flames tempered them perfectly to give them the perfect shape of a sphere. Slowly, the pill glowed as all the ingredients complemented each other in this union, and this indicated the completion of the pill and the beginning of the rune formation.

The first three runes appeared immediately without any extra effort from him due to his flawless refinement, but the fourth rune needed a little nudge, while the fifth rune needed the complete formation since the herbs weren’t good enough to support it.

This is where the real talent as an Alchemist is needed to enhance the potency of a pill out of nothingness, and this is also the stage where the chance of failure is the highest, even for an alchemist like him.

Forming a rune isn’t like inscribing an array, it is more like stealing the laws from Heavenly Law to enhance the pill, which in turn develops the rune upon reaching a certain potency.

And anything which involves Heavenly Law has its own resistance, so the main purpose of an alchemist is to steal it while also suppressing any kind of resistance from the heavens, or the delicate pill which hasn’t been completed yet would be destroyed instantly.

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"Why is it taking so much time, did the refinement fail?" One of the cultivators spoke in a hushed tone, and those who were nearby heard it.

"I wouldn’t be surprised if he had failed, it’s not easy to refine such a pill..."

Another one chimed in, and soon a discussion in hushed voices started among the onlookers.

"I am feeling a little happy about this, humph!"

"You sure are brave enough to say that..."

...

Lin Feng didn’t pay any attention to the discussion and sighed in a little relief when the fifth rune finally appeared. It wasn’t hard in itself to create a five-rune pill since it was just a Mid Stage Initiation Grade pill. The difficulty was hiding and suppressing everything to make it look like a genuine refinement with the cauldron.

He gave it one last flame tempering to harden the pill and spoke softly, "Done..."

This made the cultivators who were discussing stop and look at Lin Feng incredulously, since they had become certain in their assumption that the pill refinement had failed.

Their eyes got fixed on the cauldron, waiting for him to take out the pill, as they wouldn’t believe it unless they saw it.

Lin Feng, on the other hand, used his spiritual qi to create a shining barrier around the pill to hide the runes from everyone before taking it out and putting it inside a pill bottle.

As expected, seeing that shining barrier hiding the pill made the onlookers believe that he had failed even more.

"What?"

"There is no need to hide it, it’s not like we are going to judge him or anything..."

"True, now he just wants to save his face after acting confident in front of us..."

"What a shame..."

...

Even Cui Shuyin raised her eyebrows, "Did he really fail?" She herself wasn’t able to see through the shining barrier since it was too bright.

"No way," Sun Xiurong denied it without a hint of doubt. She had seen him refine a Peak Stage Initiation Realm pill with four runes like it was nothing, so what was a Mid Stage Initiation Realm pill for him?

Cui Shuyin wad surprised before her expression turned a little playful, "Ohh my, so you trust him that much, and here I thought you don’t know him..."

Sun Xiurong knitted her eyebrows, "I spoke with just my intuition, nothing else."

"You do know that your expressionless face always gives you away when you try to lie your way out?" Cui Shuyin was having a little fun teasing her, and the more she tried to hide it, the more curious she became about how they were related.