C85 He's Even Worse than a Fool

Hearing that, Chen Fengmin was ecstatic, but he pretended to be embarrassed.

"Then... Then I'll have to trouble Master Zhan to demonstrate it again, and let me gain a deeper understanding of the technique."

Chen Fengmin felt that the excuse made by him was actually quite brilliant.

Zhan Tianming laughed inwardly.

At the same time...

He felt a sense of derision in his heart.

'Pretend.'

'Just keep pretending.'

'There will be a good show for you to watch later.'

After coming out of his thoughts, Zhan Tianming reminded him again, "Then I'll demonstrate it once more. Master Chen, look at it carefully."

Saying that, Zhan Tianming threw all the ingredients needed to refine the Floral Jade Pill back into the Pill Cauldron, and covered it with the lid.

This movement had no systematic pattern to it at all.

Even the herbs were randomly thrown into the cauldron.

Chen Fengmin frowned.

'No, it shouldn't be a problem here. The order in which I refined the pill twice was completely different, but there is no particular pattern here. In other words, the crux of this brand new alchemy technique is not here.'

With his train of thoughts, Chen Fengmin continued to stare at Zhan Tianming's movements.

Meanwhile, Zhan Tianming didn't even glance at him.

With a flick of his hand, True Qi was injected into the Pill Cauldron.

Buzz…

The Pill Cauldron floated up in the mid-air.

Then, Zhan Tianming raised his palm and gently held up the Pill Cauldron.

'It's Warm.'

The Fire Attribute gushed out and instantly surrounded the Pill Cauldron.

A few moments later.

Zhan Tianming bellowed in his heart.

'Pill refined!'

"Ding dong! You have succeeded in concocting the pill. You have obtained one Floral Jade Pill. Your proficiency has increased by 3 points."

'I succeeded again.'

Zhan Tianming pretended to refine it for a while, then he sneakily retreated his True Qi.

"Alright."

With that, Zhan Tianming once again took out a shiny, round, and jade-like pill from the cauldron.

Looking at it, it was another pill with 80% Fusion Rate.

The corner of Chen Fengmin's mouth twitched.

In his mind, he kept replaying Zhan Tianming's previous actions.

However…

The more he thought about it, the more incredible he felt.

The more incredible it was, the more confused he became.

He was on the verge of going crazy.

He couldn't figure it out even after looking at it two times.

He could not understand it at all.

How could this be called pill refining technique? It was completely different from the alchemy skills that he had been learning all his life.

Could it be that the things he had learned his whole life were all trash?

Chen Fengmin was about to go mad.

Zhan Tianming waved his hand in front of Chen Fengmin's eyes.

"Master Chen, are you alright?"

"Master Chen! Master Chen... Hey! Master Chen, are you alright?"

Zhan Tianming shouted in the end, shocking Chen Fengmin out of his frenzy.

Chen Fengmin mumbled something a few times, then shook his head, "I'm fine, I'm fine."

"Oh, it's good that you're fine." Zhan Tianming nodded, then said, "Master Chen, if there's nothing else, then I will be leaving first."

Chen Fengmin stood there blankly, and could only nod his head like a puppet.

Zhan Tianming turned around and left.

In the end, his mumbling voice echoed again.

"Sigh, I never thought that a dignified Earth Pill Refiner would actually be inferior to even an idiot."

Shaking his head, Zhan Tianming left.

Chen Fengmin blushed with shame.

Anger welled up in his heart.

However, he couldn't bring himself to hate Zhan Tianming.

He just hated himself in his heart.

'Could it be that I… Am I really worse than an idiot?'

'My god!'

'I... I'm not even as good as the second fool…'

Chen Fengmin had never thought that there would actually come a day where he would doubt his intelligence to this point.

However…

If that wasn't the case, then why couldn't he understand something that even the second fool could understand?

Chen Fengmin was completely stupefied.

Zhan Tianming, who was walking out of the courtyard, had an indifferent face, but in his heart, he was laughing like a maniac.

"Haha…"

"Chen Fengmin, you had cheated me, and now you have a taste of your own karma."

"Hmph, I'm not that easy to mess with."

Outside the courtyard.

Zhan Tianming placed all the wrapped up ingredients into the system space.

All of a sudden, the system space on which he had spent a lot of effort to empty, was filled to full again.

However, Zhan Tianming didn't mind it at all.

He stopped a servant and asked, "Does the Duke's Palace have a library for guests to view?"

"Young Master Zhan, within the Duke's Palace, only the prince has a library, there is no other library. However, if the Young Master Zhan wants to read books, there is an Thousand Literature Pavilion in the northern part of the Linshang City, where there are tens of thousands of books. As long as you pay a certain amount of silver coins, you can browse through it as you wish." The servant replied respectfully.

Hearing that, Zhan Tianming was overjoyed.

"Here's your reward."

Zhan Tianming casually threw out ten silver coins and walked out of the Duke Palace with satisfaction.

"Thank you, Young Master Zhan." The servant hurriedly thanked him.

Soon, Zhan Tianming left the inner courtyard. Riding on his horse, he directly rushed to the main entrance of the Duke's Palace.

After exiting the main gate.

Zhan Tianming felt as if he had suddenly entered a whole new dimension.

Inside the gate, it was quiet and elegant.

While outside the gate, it was bustling with noise and excitement.

The wall was separating a completely different world.

"No wonder the people on the television used to say that once you enter the palace, it's as deep as the sea. This is just the Duke Palace, it is already as deep as the sea, I guess the royal palace of the Sky Wind Country must be even deeper than the sea." Zhan Tianming muttered.

He shrugged his shoulders abandoning meaningless thoughts, and asked for directions on the street before heading to the north.

Thousand Literature Pavilion.

A five-story circular building.

The whole building had carved beams and columns, eaves and corners, with wind chimes hanging high in the air. There was also a white fence around the outside, separating a hundred meter square courtyard, with chess tables and stone chairs, and a stone path paved above the grass for people to walk on, giving this place quite a bit of the peaceful atmosphere that scholars long for.

Zhan Tianming did not spend too much effort to find this place.

After paying two taels of silver coins, he entered the library.

The first floor was wide.

Inside were many rows of bookshelves, all of which were filled with thread-bound ancient books.

Unfortunately, there were only a few people who liked to read books.

As such, there were only a few people here and there.

After scanning the entire floor, he did not find the book he desired, so he went up to the second floor.

There were a lot of books on the second floor as well, and they were all ancient books.

Unfortunately, there was nothing that Zhan Tianming desired.

Then, he went up to the third floor.

There were a lot fewer books on the third floor, but he had finally found what he was looking for.

Zhan Tianming immediately started reading it.

The book had the most basic of common sense regarding Nine Dragons Continent. But unfortunately, Zhan Tianming had never even stepped outside of Nanqing Village, and the most informative source was to listen to the villagers talking about how wonderful and dangerous the outside world was.

Other than that, no one had told him anything else.

But now, he had to learn everything that a Martial Practitioner should know.

It would also be beneficial for him in the future when he explores Nine Dragons Continent and completes that damned ultimate mission.

Otherwise, if the quest failed…

"Hiss…"

Thinking about the mission's failure penalty, Zhan Tianming's entire body was filled with cold sweat.

'Too terrifying!'

'Forget it, I won't think about it anymore.'

He continued reading.

Just as Zhan Tianming continued to look at those books, the convoy from the Jiuyuan County Prince's Mansion finally arrived at Linshang City.

It was a grand event.