Xiao Yan suppressed the excitement in his heart and licked his lips. This item was indeed extremely useful to him.

  "Hehe, since Virtuous Nephew Xiao Yan cured the old master's Searing Poison, this Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva is rightfully yours now," Nan Su said with a smile, having naturally noticed the eagerness in Xiao Yan's eyes.

  "Then you have my utmost gratitude. I do indeed he Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva to increase my Spiritual Strength." Xiao Yan didn't stand on ceremony. Although he hadn't initially expected any reward, if they were it to him, he would of course accept.

  Xiao Yan cupped his hands in gratitude toward Nan Su and said nothing else. Stepping forward, he carefully pced the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva into his ste ring.

  "Although this Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva be stored in a ste ring, you must expose it to sunlight for an hour every day, or else it will wither away on its own. You must remember this," Nan Su reminded him.

  "Mm, I uand," Xiao Yan nodded.

  Nan Yanran couldn't help but feel extremely frustrated as she watched Xiao Yan take away the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva. The assistance of Spiritual Strength in battle was not small. Now her ces of victainst him were even slimmer.

  It was truly disheartening!

  After making a round in the medie room and colleg some medial ingredients to refine pills for Nan Jie, Xiao Yan didn't trouble them further. He walked out of the medie room and randomly found a courtyard, took out his medial cauldron, and was about to start refining pills.

  "Yoing to refine pills here?!" Nan Yanran excimed in surprise. Don't alchemists usually find a quiet pce to refine pills, afraid of being disturbed by others? A, you're just going to refine pills in this bustling courtyard?!

  Aren't you afraid of others spying on your teiques?!

  Xiao Yan tossed a cluster of the Ten Thousa Fme into the medial cauldron with a puff. As he added the medial ingredients, he said nontly, "It's not like it's some high-tier pill, just a tier 2 Hydrating Pill and a tier 3 Blood Replenishing Pill."

  ! ! ! ?

  "Tier, tier, tier 3?! Isn't that high enough?" Nan Yanran was utterly astonished. She knew of two 3rd-tier alchemists herself.

  One was the imperial family's Little Princess Yue Er, the apprentice of the deputy chairman of the Alchemist Association. She was extremely talented and had been exposed to alchemy from a young age, yet even she had only reached tier 3 now.

  The other was Gu He's direct disciple Liu Ling, who had followed Gu He since childhood to learn alchemy and was also a 3rd-tier alchemist.

  These two were both hot tenders for the championship of the Alchemist Graing!

  Yet when they refiier 3 pills, they o treat it seriously, and their success rates were not guarao be 100%.

  As Xiao Yan began refining pills, many of the Nan 's servants curiously gathered around to watch.

  "Huh? The Master and Young Miss are both here?"

  "ho's that handsome fellow? He's actually refining pills in the courtyard?"

  "Why does this young man look so familiar?"

  "Anyone who has worked in the mansion for ten years should knht? Is that not the young master-in-w, Young Miss Nan's fiancé, Young Master Xiao Yan of the Xiao ?"

  Many long-serving employees reized Xiao Yan's appearand started gossiping.

  Hearing some servants refer to Xiao Yan as 'young master-in-w,' Nan Yanran instantly felt strange and unfortable all over.

  "What's the matter? It's not too te to ge your mind," Nan Su said teasingly as he g his daughter's expression.

  "The e is something I will never agree to, and I will not lose to him," Nan Yanra Nan Su and decred firmly before looking at Xiao Yan's back as he refined pills.

  "Sigh, you... sigh." Apart from sighing, Nan Su had nothing else to say. He had tried reasoning with her for three years, said everything he could, but it was of no use.

  Soon, uhe astonished eyes of the father-daughter duo, Xiao Yan smoothly finished refining the two medial pills and pced them in a brocade box, which he hao Nan Su.

  Looking at the two pills ihe box, Nan Su early looked at Xiao Yan and asked, "Are you really not participating in the Alchemist Graing? With your exceptional alchemy skills, your ces of winning the championship are quite high, aren't they?"

  Xiao Yan shrugged nonittally and said, "I've always been cultivating and practig alchemy outside. I haven't even goo the Alchemist Association to take the test yet, and I don't want to bother with it."

  "Virtuous Nephew, if you wish to participate, our Nan vouch for you and exempt you from the preliminaries," Nan Su offered decisively with a wave of his hand.

  "Thank you for your kind offer, Unan. I'll sider it, but this tour doesn't hold much appeal for me. I still prefer cultivating alone," Xiao Yan cupped his hands and smiled. "I'll return to my room to cultivate first, lest I fall behind a surpassed by others."

  He waved his hand and strode directly toward the guest room, leaving only a carefree silhouette behind.

  Nan Su looked at Nan Yanran, who was grittieeth and g her fists, and said, "Daughter, if you lose, will you really bee his servant or sve? I feel your ces of winning are slim."

  Although Nan Su hadn't witnessed Xiao Yan's true strength, the fact that he could easily kill Mo g proved that his strength was definitely far greater than his apparent cultivation level suggested.

  "Though I, Nan Yanran, am but a woman, my word is as solid as stone. And I refuse to admit defeat in this manner!"

  Xiao Yan naturally didn't know what Nan Yanran was thinking. He only sidered her vow to bee a servant or sve as a mere jest. Right now, only three words occupied his mind: Hall of Souls.

  'I'm really fed up with that old fellow Hun Huzi. Jia Ma Sacred City is so big; who knows in which er the Hall of Souls is hiding!' Xiao Yan looked at the Soul and Token oable that showed ion at all. He felt mentally exhausted.

  He had inally thought that upon arriving in Jia Ma Sacred City, the Soul and Token would react as it did ba Peace Town and guide him to the Hall of Souls.

  But there was no respo all!

  He hadn't even caught a glimpse of the Hall of Souls up to now.

  'Fet it, there's still time anyway. If I search the entire Jia Ma Sacred City, I should be able to find it eventually.'

  Xiao Yan didn't bother thinking too much about it. Since he'd e to Jia Ma Sacred City, could the Hall of Souls grow legs and run away?

  He slowly closed his eyes and began to circute the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique. He didn't immediately use the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva. He o cultivate the Soul Trainihod to a bottleneck, and thehe Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva to break through in one go!

  ...

  The following feassed as a rare period of leisure for Xiao Yan. Apart from once when Ya Fei brought a batch of preedial ingredients for him to practice with, he spent every day either cultivating or refining pills.

  The power of the Di Css Qi Method allowed him to cultivate Dou Qi at aremely rapid paot long ago, he had just broken through to bee a 4-star Dou Grandmaster. Xiao Yaimated that in one or two more months, he could advanother star.

  He might even reach the Dou Spirit realm within a year! A 19-year-old Dou Spirit had never appeared in the history of the Jia Ma Empire.

  Moreover, this was without using any medial pills or fortuitous enters—just purely relying on secluded cultivation at home. If he added the assistanedial pills, Xiao Yaimated he could reach the Dou Spirit realm in just half a year!

  But pared to the speed of cultivating Dou Qi with the Di Css Qi Method, the cultivation of his Soul Trainihod was not gging behind in the slightest.

  "It's time."

  Xiao Yan calmed his mind and took out the Bck Demon Cauldron and the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva. Without aatiohrew the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva into the Bck Demon Cauldron. Then, he sent in the merged Heavenly Fme formed from his three kinds of Heavenly Fmes. The terrifying temperature of the merged Heavenly Fme rapidly melted the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva.

  The reason why the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva was sidered a heavenly treasure rather than a mere medial ingredient was because its medial effects alone were parable to those of medial pills!

  inally, medial pills were made by catalyzing, merging, and refining low-grade medial ingredients to grant the pill the efficacy of heavenly treasures.

  But the Seven Magical Green Spirit Saliva was a heavenly treasure in its ht.

  Even rare heavenly treasures could hardly withstand the smelting of the merged Heavenly Fme. In no time, a sphere of green spiritual liquid was extracted.

  Xiao Yan parted his lips slightly and sucked the green spiritual liquid enveloped by the merged Heavenly Fme into his mouth.

  An intense sensation shot straight into the depths of his mind. Xiao Yan swiftly began to circute the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique and a rge mass of green spiritual light densed in his dantian uhe perception of his Spiritual Strength.

  As the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique circuted, that rge mass of green spiritual light followed the flow of the Soul Trainihod and merged into his soul.

  Finally, the green spiritual light was pletely absorbed after Xiao Yan circuted the Soul Trainihod imes. Unknowingly, his Spiritual Strength had already advao the level of a 6th-tier alchemist.

  He slowly opened his eyes. His terrifying Spiritual Perception spread to the extreme. The range of his Spiritual Perception had actually increased tenfold after being increased by a level!

  The entire Nan Mansion was within his perception, and he could even clearly 'see' the streets.

  'Hmm? Old Ling? Hadn't he already returned?'