My Master Knows It All-Chapter 397 - 163: Reincarnated Great Ability_3

Using a more familiar and suitable pill furnace naturally leads to a higher success rate in alchemy, and it’s also easier to refine pills of higher quality.

One could say that the pill furnace is the most important for an alchemist.

All alchemists are trying to get their hands on better pill furnaces; he had never seen any alchemist without their own furnace.

Even his disciples had at least one pill furnace each!

This Cao Zhen, being a Peak Master, claimed he didn’t have a pill furnace!

From a distance, Elder Huan Kong heard Cao Zhen’s words, and immediately remembered Cao Zhen’s performance when discussing Musical Rhythm before; at that time, Cao Zhen also didn’t have an instrument and had borrowed one.

Conspiracy, Cao Zhen was playing tricks again!

Fearing that Zhou Juedan would be deceived, Elder Huan Kong urgently transmitted a secret message: "Cave Master Zhou, you must not be careless. Previously, when that Cao Zhen debated with various masters of Rhythmic Cave, he also claimed to have no instrument and borrowed ours, yet he ended up winning the debate.

Even later, when he discussed with Liao Luoxia, he used our instrument too. He does this on purpose; he wants you to underestimate him. Once you let your guard down and don’t perform at your true level, his opportunity will come."

"Don’t worry, Elder. I understand, Thousand Caves Door can’t afford to lose anymore. I will be careful, this time I will make him lose convincingly," Zhou Juedan responded through secret transmission, lifting his hand from his Qiankun Bag with a claw, and in the next moment, a giant hand’s shadow appeared, revealing a pill furnace in Cao Zhen’s line of sight.

"Which of these furnaces would Peak Master Cao like to use?"

"Any one will do," Cao Zhen said casually, pointing to one of the pill furnaces.

Immediately, the sky’s giant hand shadow swept down, and the indicated pill furnace landed in front of him, letting out only a very faint sound; clearly, as a Cave Master, Zhou Juedan had a profound cultivation base, and his control was far from ordinary.

"Since this is a contest of the Way of Pill Refinery, for fairness, the pill furnaces we use must naturally be the same," Zhou Juedan said again as he grabbed another pill furnace from the Qiankun Bag, identical to the first.

Cao Zhen didn’t care about which pill furnace Zhou Juedan used. He looked at the pill furnace in front of him and directly ignited it with a fire spell, then turned back and called out to Zhou Juedan, "Let’s begin."

Zhou Juedan’s expression became serious upon hearing this, and with a light of fire to ignite the furnace, he quickly took out some herbs and started to carefully weigh them.

Although they were only refining a first-grade pill, he was representing Thousand Caves Door in a discussion, and they had been losing for a long time. He couldn’t afford to make mistakes.

He had just measured the weight of one herb when suddenly, a series of shocked exclamations erupted around them.

"What is this?"

"Can he even perform alchemy?"

"He... He threw all the herbs into the pill furnace at once!"

"What... What can he possibly refine from that?!"

"In pill refining, every single herb’s weight must be meticulously measured, yet he threw them all in without even weighing!"

Zhou Juedan paused, glancing in Cao Zhen’s direction, and at that moment, he saw all the herbs in front of Cao Zhen disappear, and the lid of the pill furnace was already closed.

All the herbs had vanished?

That means...

The surrounding disciples were still exclaiming in shock. Did Cao Zhen really throw all the herbs into the pill furnace at once?

Wasn’t that just messing around!

Indeed, these herbs were meant to refine a certain pill, but not all at once, as per the required method of refinery!

He had prepared additional herbs for different refinery methods to avoid being caught off guard if Cao Zhen used a different technique.

Throwing all these herbs into the furnace could only lead to two outcomes: if he was lucky, nothing would happen except for a waste of materials; if he wasn’t, the furnace would explode.

If his own disciples dared to perform alchemy like this, he wouldn’t hesitate to expel them from the sect.

And this man was challenging him in pill refining?

It was far too ignorant. How did someone like that become a Peak Master of the Hundred Peaks Sect?

He was amazed that those from Thousand Caves Door had previously lost to Cao Zhen. freewebnoveℓ.com

Around them, many disciples of Thousand Caves Door began to laugh openly: "Peak Master Cao, you should probably not compete. With what you’re doing, I feel like the furnace might explode at any moment."

"Peak Master Cao, just admit defeat. Sure, you are excellent in calligraphy, poetry, and Musical Rhythm, but you are not up to the mark in the Way of Pill Refinery."

"Peak Master Cao, you’re too arrogant for your own good, eventually losing sight of yourself."

Elder Huan Kong listened to the taunts of the disciples, finding the scene all too familiar. When Cao Zhen had previously participated in debates, it seemed to have been the same, especially during the Musical Rhythm debate where people laughed at him for not understanding Musical Rhythm, yet in the end even Liao Luoxia lost.

Could it be that Cao Zhen was again playing a trick, pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger?

Elder Huan Kong, still uneasy, transmitted another message to Zhou Juedan: "Cave Master Zhou, don’t be fooled by that Cao Zhen. That guy is cunning to the extreme..."

Zhou Juedan was speechless: "Elder, you are too cautious. You also practice alchemy. Have you ever seen anyone refine pills like this? Tell me, how could it be possible to refine pills by throwing all the herbs in at once."

"Logically, such an approach should not allow one to refine pills, but Cao Zhen winning so many times against us means he surely isn’t foolish. I’m worried he’s playing some trick," Huan Kong insisted.