Supreme Hidden Dragon in the City
Chapter 234 Qin Yiyi

Chapter 234: Chapter 234 Qin Yiyi

The girl in the white dress lifted her head and glanced at Chen Fan, her eyes filled with indifference as she said coldly, "Move aside, don’t cause trouble here."

"Uh..." Chen Fan, left with no choice, turned around and no longer disturbed her.

Yang Tianzhen leaned in and whispered, "What did you do?"

Chen Fan said, "The elixir she was concocting had one ingredient placed wrongly. I merely reminded her, but she didn’t seem to appreciate it."

Yang Tianzhen looked at the girl in the white dress and felt that the other’s beauty posed a certain threat to her. She turned her head and said, "If she doesn’t appreciate it, then stop talking to her. You don’t have to chat up every girl you meet."

Chen Fan could only laugh and cry. He had just kindly reminded her, for if that particular ingredient was wrong, the elixir would not be successfully concocted.

As expected, within a mere ten seconds or so, a ’bang’ was heard from within the Medicine Cauldron.

The girl in the white dress immediately furrowed her brows and muttered to herself, "Why has it failed again? Although the Guiyang Pill is a fourth-grade elixir and my current level only allows me to concoct fifth-grade elixirs, I have the elixir recipe given to me by Grandpa. If I follow the steps, even if it doesn’t turn into a pill, it shouldn’t explode like this."

The Medicine Sect categorized elixirs based on their effects and potency into grades one to nine, with nine being the lowest and one the highest.

A fourth-grade Guiyang Pill, as recorded in the Elixir Recipes of the Medicine Sect, was already considered a high-quality elixir.

Seeing the girl’s puzzled look, Chen Fan couldn’t help but smile and decided to leave with Yang Wanli and Yang Tianzhen.

At this moment, the girl in the white dress turned her head to look at him and said irritably, "You, stop right there!"

Chen Fan asked in confusion, "What’s wrong?"

The girl in the white dress stormed over and said, "It’s all your fault. If you hadn’t interrupted me midway, my concoction wouldn’t have failed. Whose disciple are you under? Leave your name; I’m going to penalize you!"

Chen Fan was speechless, "The elixir you were concocting should be the Guiyang Pill, right? The main ingredient for this pill is the Dragon Kui Seed, but what you put in was Tianyuan Grass which negates its medicinal properties, hence the explosion. Your recipe is wrong, which is why the concoction failed. What does that have to do with me?"

The girl in the white dress furrowed her brows, "What nonsense are you saying here! The recipe was personally given to me by my grandpa; how could it possibly be wrong? Moreover, the Guiyang Pill is a fourth-grade elixir. Anything above fourth-grade are considered precious elixirs, and such recipes wouldn’t be available to ordinary disciples. How would you even know I was concocting a Guiyang Pill unless you’ve spied on our sect’s elixir recipes?"

Chen Fan thought to himself that the Guiyang Pill was just a commonly used elixir for restoring vitality; how had it become a precious elixir.

Just as he was about to speak, Yang Wanli quickly came over to smooth things over, "Young lady, I am very sorry. My name is Yang Wanli. Many years ago, I was a disciple of the Medicine Sect. I am here by invitation of Elder Xie to participate in the Alchemy competition. Chen Fan is my junior, and he is not from the Medicine Sect. Today is his first visit here, so he definitely has not seen the Medicine Sect’s elixir recipes. Please do not misunderstand."

The girl in the white dress gave Yang Wanli a dismissive once-over, her eyes becoming disdainful, "Are you the Yang Wanli that Elder Xie mentioned?"

Yang Wanli nodded.

The girl in the white dress scoffed, "No wonder. I was wondering why someone would come and disrupt my alchemy. Turns out it’s a layman."

Chen Fan couldn’t help but laugh, not expecting to be referred to as an outsider.

Yang Wanli, sensing the girl’s unusual status and wanting to avoid trouble, quickly said, "I’m truly sorry. Please continue with your alchemy, young lady. We won’t disturb you anymore."

He then led Chen Fan and Yang Tianzhen out.

The girl in the white dress said indifferently, "Elder Yang, I address you as a senior because you are older than me. I’ve heard a bit about you and Elder Xie. I advise you to give up on this Alchemy competition because I will also be participating, and the first place will be mine. There is no hope for you."

Yang Wanli gave an embarrassed smile and didn’t say anything, taking Chen Fan and Yang Tianzhen out of the courtyard.

A look of arrogance appeared on the girl in the white dress, and she snorted lightly, "The Medicine Sect has developed rapidly over the years. You were merely a disciple here twenty years ago. Not to mention me, any current disciple of the Medicine Sect could outperform you by streets. How can you possibly compete with us?"

After that, she returned to the Medicine Cauldron and planned to try refining again.

At this moment, a disciple came running, "Miss, the sect leader asked me to give you a message. He said the Guiyang Pill recipe he gave you the other day had a mistake, accidentally including Tianyuan Grass. Don’t add Tianyuan Grass when you refine it."

The girl in the white dress turned abruptly, her pretty face full of astonishment.

The disciple was somewhat puzzled, "Miss, what’s wrong?"

The girl in the white dress did not respond, just staring blankly.

After a long while, she took a deep breath and a sneer of disdain appeared on her face again, "It must be a fluke that got it right, nothing to fuss about."

Then she turned around and continued alchemy.

...

On the cobblestone path.

Yang Tianzhen pouted, "That woman just now was making trouble out of nothing. When she can’t match others in ability, she blames them."

Yang Wanli looked at Yang Tianzhen, "Tianzhen, this is the Medicine Sect. That girl evidently is not simple, mind your words."

Yang Tianzhen stuck out her tongue, then ran over to Chen Fan, linking her arm with his, "Chen Fan, was I wrong?"

Chen Fan smiled, "Right."

Yang Wanli sighed helplessly but didn’t continue the topic since the girl’s attitude indeed had been quite arrogant.

The three of them continued to stroll around the Medicine Sect, and by the afternoon, they headed towards the square in front of the Herbal Pavilion.

Many disciples of the Medicine Sect had also run over there to watch the excitement.

Although this alchemy competition was only a test of the disciples’ level of Pill Refinement, it still offered plenty to see.

The three arrived at the location of the Herbal Pavilion.

The square was neatly filled with Medicine Cauldrons, surrounded by bustling crowds.

Yang Tianzhen immediately spotted the white-dressed girl standing at the forefront of the crowd, with many people maintaining a distance from her, seemingly afraid to get too close.

Yang Tianzhen rolled her big eyes and asked a nearby disciple, "Who is that girl in the white dress?"

The disciple looked at her in surprise, assessing Yang Tianzhen, "You don’t recognize Qin Yiyi? She’s the sect leader’s granddaughter, the top young alchemist of the younger generation in the Medicine Sect, and the most likely candidate to win first place in this alchemy competition. You don’t know her? Are you not from the Medicine Sect?"

Yang Tianzhen said, "No, I’m just on a tour."

Then she snorted softly, muttering, "So she’s the sect leader’s granddaughter, no wonder she’s so full of herself."

At this moment, Yang Wanli was observing the Medicine Cauldrons on the square, slowly knitting his brow.

Chen Fan asked, "Doctor Yang, what’s the matter?"

Yang Wanli pondered for a moment, then said, "Have you noticed that none of these Medicine Cauldrons has a place for starting a fire?"