'What if I fail?'

If it's in normal circ.u.mstances, Yan Meng could do it so composed, that his nose would reach the sky and his eyes completely closed.

But right now, his confidence is dwindling.

Mo Xie sigh: "What are you so afraid of? I am your master, not some sort of verdict for your life."

Yan Meng smiled, he then shook his head: "I am just afraid that I might show a lot of flaws and couldn't match up to master's expectation."

Mo Xie hearing this laugh: "If you can match my expectations, then, you would already be a ruler of a realm, so don't worry about me seeing your flaws, it is the duty of the master to repair these flaws, n.o.body is perfect, and the dao of pill refining and martial dao is an endless path, It is the nature of a cultivator to challenge nature itself!"

Yan Meng couldn't help but look at Mo Xie speechlessly; 'Is this one an old expert in the skin of a youth? His profound words can easily be understood and give enlightenment!'

Yan Meng couldn't help but ask: "Master, it may be rude of me, but I wish to ask how old you are."

Mo Xie smiled, he pondered for a bit before answering: "How about I show you something first."

"Get up and watch from the side."

Yan Meng nods his head and immediately went to the side.

Mo Xie breaths in; 'I wonder what Aiqing's cultivation is at right now.'

Mo Xie looked into his soul sea and probed the spiritual energy quant.i.ty of the dark soul sea. He couldn't help but be astounded as he looked at the black soul sea's ma.s.s, it had already grown three times the size compared to his, and the energy it's exuding is... 'Immortal Foundation rank!'

"Daddeeeeeh! Do you want to borrow some of my power?" 

At this moment, Mo Xie became shocked as he heard the voice of Aiqing, he felt quite speechless before replying: "Yes, I want to refine some pills."

"Kaaaay~ I'm doing nothing really, just sitting here, so you could use it to your heart's content!"

Mo Xie nods his head: "How come you can talk to me?"

Aiqing chuckles: "I don't know, I just felt it that someone is probing my Soul Sea and noticed father's presence, I tried to talk to you and well, it worked!"

Mo Xie finally understood a cultivator can also send telepathic messages to one another once they reach Immortal Ascension rank, and such a thing wouldn't really bewilder him much: "Oh, okay then... Wait, you're doing nothing? Weren't you escorting your martial uncle?"

"Ah, father, are you saying anything? I think you're still there, why can't I hear a single thing?!"

"..."

"Father? I can't hear you!"

"Ah right, I just hope that you hear this father, or I'll just say it when you came again to check on me. I've sent a mysterious thing back to the Soaring Blaze Phoenix Empire, I hope father can check on it sooner or later. Bubye~~~"

"..."

Mo Xie couldn't help but sigh as he shook his head, he smiled and then thought; 'At least she's safe, I hope nothing untoward happens to their group."

As an individual himself, Mo Xie knew it himself that one will not be tied to their family forever, one needs to make his or her own path and create their own legends, he can't prevent it from happening.

And right now, he has no qualification to worry for somebody else with his weak self, since he now has a personal alchemist... his first disciple, he started to plan ahead.

"Remember, this is the peak of Immortal Alchemy Refining." Mo Xie's word sounded, causing Yan Meng to became speechless.

"Master, what's Immortal Alchemy Refining?" Yan Meng asked in confusion.

Mo Xie replied: "Well, there are four ranks for an alchemist, the first is the Mortal Alchemy Refining, second is the Immortal Alchemy Refining. For the following two, you should learn about it later on yourself."

"If you can't evolve on your own after this, I will only leave you to manage the lower branch of the family, so, study hard."

Mo Xie smirked, he looked at Yan Meng meaningfully; 'If he does not go lazy around, he can definitely reach the 3rd step with his current self, but if he becomes enlightened, I think the 4th step wouldn't be his limit at all.'Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Yan Meng sighed, but after a while, he looked at Mo Xie and spoke: "Master, I'm ready."

Mo Xie nods his head, seeing the resolute eyes within Yan Meng, he immediately started.

"Limit Breaking Pill will be the one I'll be refining, the refining technique is quite simple, but you'll have to watch it yourself, and what you learn is all up to you."

"Yes!"

Yan Meng replied excitedly. Then, the unexpected unfolded in front of his eyes.

Swooosh~ 

Mo Xie's body, something that looked like an ordinary pract.i.tioner's one suddenly burst fort with incredible power, it's like a sheep suddenly unfolding its skin releasing not a wolf, but a mighty dragon instead.

Yan Meng's mouth opened in shock; 'I-Immortal Foundation rank initial stage?!'

 He didn't dare utter this word. After all, complete silence is a must in pill refining.

Mo Xie closed his eyes, his chest heaves up as he slowly inhales. He then opened his eyes with a fierce light, then, his hand opened as Spiritual Energy ma.s.sed out of his hand immediately making their way towards the ingredients.

The ingredients flew up and flames started to wrap around each and every one of them, completely burning the physical body, the essence of the herbs remained as all of the droplets started to combine together.

Yan Meng's eyes couldn't believe what he's seeing!

Although all of the herbs are low-quality mortal ranked, it looked like something on par or even a few levels higher than a 1 star Immortal Herb!

Yan Meng this time couldn't help but utter in shock; "How pure?! The ingredients turned into pure essence, removing all physical forms and even destroying the impurities!?"

Mo Xie couldn't ignore it and frowned a little, but then, with his experience, it didn't even destroy his concentration and continued refining the materials.

Yan Meng couldn't help but face palmed himself, he would've slapped himself a hundred times, but then, Mo Xie might be disturbed further and thought that he'll accept the punishment later.

As Mo Xie finished refining the materials, he immediately started to combine all of the essences one by one, from the softest in the center to the hardest on the outer part.

Yan Meng couldn't help but be awestruck as he watched it, for the first time in his life, he's seen a pill forming in front of his eyes.

The next moment, the heat intensified further as the outer part solidified.

Yan Meng couldn't help but look at it in shock; 'Two different flames!'

The first one that Mo Xie used to purify the materials is a golden flame, completely destroying all physical forms of the herbs turning it into complete essence, the second flame is a mild blue flame, it hardened the properties of the pill's surface without much damage.

Yan Meng couldn't help but look at this refining process with awed expression: "T-this... Master..."

He couldn't even find his words to ask.

Mo Xie then smiled, he looked at Yan Meng, there are still other ingredients, the latter was about to ask what Mo Xie will do to the rest of the leftover materials but before a word could even come out of his mouth.

Mo Xie flicked his finger.

Plak~

All the leftover ingredients combined into nine other pills.

This caused Yan Meng to almost drop his jaw down the ground.

Mo Xie's cultivation immediately returned to gold rank, he couldn't help but sigh; 'Completely exhausted 25% of spiritual power from an Immortal Foundation rank, to think that I really need to be in the Celestial Phenomenon rank to continuously refine pills...'

The vast exhaustion of spiritual energy from refining mortal ranked pills is too huge for the current him, even borrowing Aiqing's spiritual energy isn't enough.

'With the help of Aiqing's power, I might be able to refine one Immortal ranked pill every month, but that's the lower level pills, if I want to refine mid and high ranked pills, then, I will definitely need to break through to a higher rank!'

Mo Xie then looked at Yan Meng, he sighs as Yan Meng still hasn't woken up from his shock.

After a while, Yan Meng woke up and looked at Mo Xie: "M-master... are you an Alchemy Emperor?"

Mo Xie's brows lifts up; 'Alchemy Emperor?...'

After thinking for a while, he had already surpa.s.sed the Alchemy Emperors of his previous life, but in this plain, he didn't know if there's someone better than him.

Mo Xie then smiled and answered: "Well, I think I'm still a few million years away from the peak, but I definitely have some attainment in Alchemy, the dao of pills.'

Yan Meng smiled, Mo Xie handed him the pills: "Examine."

Yan Meng gladly took the pills, but then, another shock surfaced from his face; "P-pinnacle grade?!"

"Wait! There's one here that's perfect flawless grade! This... even without knowing the effects of this pill, it can already buy half of the Alchemy a.s.sociation's treasures!"

"Master, a perfect flawless pill hasn't appeared even in the Myriad Earth Abyss continent! H-how?! From where are you from? Such great talents..."

Yan Meng stopped halfway, he woke up and immediately realized that he overstepped his boundaries.

Mo Xie didn't think that a perfect flawless grade pill would be this rare in this plain too, he couldn't help but be speechless.

"Oh, then how about pinnacle grade pills, are there any in the Myriad Earth Abyss continent?" Mo Xie asked.

Yan Meng shook his head: "Master, the highest grade of pills within the Myriad Earth Abyss... It's only of Sky grade, and it's also limited as only a few could refine such great pills."

Mo Xie couldn't help but become expressionless; 'Well, although I have no talent in the Martial Dao, I think I might be able to live with my life relying on pills then...'

Mo Xie joked to himself, an alchemist without power to back himself would only be prey to strong experts, becoming someone like Yan Meng... A pill refiner slave, a pill refining machine for experts to refine pills for them with so little benefits, unless one has a background, they will definitely be haunted down.

Yan Meng looked at the pills and noticed that there's one that has greater contrast than the other 9: "Master, this one is a Sky grade pill."

Mo Xie opened his mouth; "Oh."

He then explained: "That's the dregs, you place all of the impurities that couldn't be removed."

Mo Xie had a limited source of Spiritual Energy, hence, he could refine the pills with it and then throw those that he couldn't purify to the last pill.

"How about you sell that Sky grade pill, that way, we can buy as many Immortal herbs."

Yan Meng smiled wryly, to think that a Sky grade pill would one day become a useless thing for an alchemist. If one were to accidentally make one, then, they'd be so happy that they'd boast it to the world.

But then, looking at the other nine pills on his hand, he couldn't help but tremble and sigh; 'I wonder where master came from, which glorious family raised such a demonic genius like this.'

He then looked at Mo Xie and thought for some more; 'An alchemy emperor...'

Yan Meng started to think of the possibilities with following someone with this great, this amazing to the point that his smile couldn't be stopped from showing from his face.

"Stop smiling, it looks gross."

"..."

(Pill completion grade:

Garbage /dregs = 99~100% Impurities

Nomad grade = 91~98% Impurities

Mortal grade = 80~90% Impurities

Earth grade = 60~79% Impurities

Sky grade = 30~59% Impurities

Peak grade =  10~29% Impurities

Pinnacle grade = 1~9% Impurities

Perfect  Flawless grade = 0% no Impurities.

Impurities = unremoved parts of the herbs or other materials that mixed together with the pill's final form.)