Nine Yang Alchemy Emperor

After the eight Alchemy Venerates reached a consensus, they immediately went to invite Dean Li to come out of seclusion.

The grand Alchemy Venerate Academy, usually arrogant and domineering, thinking it's invincible. Only now did it suddenly realize it's not as powerful as imagined.

Deep in the academy, there is a plum forest. Strangely enough, the plum blossoms never wither throughout the year.

Such a wondrous sight can only be found at the Alchemy Venerate Academy.

This plum forest did not exist before; it was personally planted by Dean Li after he arrived. When the plum saplings were planted, everyone laughed at Dean Li for trying to be elegant and join the ranks of the four gentlemen as the Plum Scholar.

Dean Li merely smiled without replying, saying only, "This plum is not that plum."

In the days that followed, Dean Li watered the plum trees with medicine soup daily. Ten years went by like this, and the plum trees grew into a forest.

After they bloomed in the first winter, the scent of the flowers drifted ten miles away.

The entire Alchemy Venerate Academy was enveloped in the mesmerizing fragrance of plum blossoms, reaching the heart.

Moreover, the fragrance had calming effects, allowing people to find peace of mind and eliminate distractions. This was certainly a great benefit for the nearly ten thousand students at the Alchemy Venerate Academy.

They could concentrate more on reading various pharmaceutical manuals.

Dean Li was a strange person. After personally creating a plum forest, he established a medicine pond deep in the forest, using mountain spring water to wash herbs. Moreover, he ingeniously set up a pill furnace on a stone platform facing the sun, channeling earth fire below and borrowing heavenly fire from above, conducting alchemy with both fires simultaneously.

This borrowing heavenly fire was not merely as simple as letting sunlight shine upon the pill furnace.

He arranged multiple mirrors around the pill furnace to gather all sunlight into the furnace.

The sunlight reflected by one mirror might not be very powerful.

But imagine hundreds of mirrors reflecting sunlight, converging at one point; one can easily imagine the incredibly high temperature.

No one knew exactly how many mirrors Dean Li arranged.

Because no one was allowed to easily enter the plum forest.

A student with exceedingly exceptional talent once gained Dean Li's favor and had the fortune to enter the plum forest twice. According to the student, the heavenly fire harnessed by Dean Li had temperatures exceeding a thousand degrees at least.

This was truly unfathomable.

"Burn the incense!"

Without permission, none of the eight Alchemy Venerates dared to enter Dean Li's plum forest casually.

Before Dean Li went into seclusion, he left a purple incense stick, instructing everyone that if there was a matter of life and death at the academy, they could burn the incense outside the plum forest, and he would come out to meet them.

To invite by burning incense, this kind of treatment is reserved for divine souls.

Once the purple incense stick was lit, thin purple smoke rose into the air. The smoke gathered without dispersing, seemingly pulled by an invisible force, and did not drift elsewhere.

It drifted towards the depths of the plum forest like a thread connecting the forest inside and out.

About an hour later, as the eight Alchemy Venerates grew anxious and impatient, a tall figure flew out from within the forest.

He was riding on none other than a plum blossom deer.

Only the deer was enveloped in overwhelming demon energy and possessed significant cultivation, likely at the Great Demon Level.

The deer should have the capability to transform into human shape, but it remained in its original form to serve as Dean Li's steed, convenient for him to ride.

"Welcome Dean's emergence!"

Seeing Dean Li appear, the gathered Alchemy Venerates all showed respectful expressions, bowing uniformly to greet him.

For these exceedingly proud old fellows to lower their posture and willingly bow in welcome enough to indicate that Dean Li must possess extraordinary power.

Far above theirs, sufficient to command their sincere approval.

"No need for formalities! You all invite me out by burning incense; what major incident has occurred at the Alchemy Venerate Academy?" Dean Li's face was solemn and unsmiling. His brows were furrowed, and with three long strands of beard, he resembled a stern Yama.

Moreover, Dean Li looked rather young, far from some elderly white-haired old man.

Instead, he was a middle-aged man around forty.

"Dean, our Alchemy Venerate Academy's Vice Dean Hong is currently kneeling for display outside a pharmacy called Longevity Hall!"

As they spoke, the gathered Alchemy Venerates began explaining the situation in great detail.

Naturally, they vilified Chu Feng to glorify their own.

They described how Chu Feng of the Longevity Hall was arrogant, repeatedly relying on his alchemy prowess to challenge the Alchemy Venerate Academy's authority, and used unscrupulous means to oppress the academy.

All sorts of things were said in great length.

After listening, Dean Li's complexion turned pale, full of dignity and evil qi within his furrowed brows.

"Daring to threaten the Alchemy Venerate Academy, truly bold as hell. I'll see if this Chu Feng has three heads and six arms, what capabilities he possesses!"

Amidst rage, Dean Li, without saying much, intended to head to the Longevity Hall to seek trouble with Chu Feng.

Anyone who could cultivate to the Alchemy Venerate Level or Supreme Sword God Realm would have a temper; none would be easygoing.

Can a little owner of Longevity Hall dare undermine the heaven with impunity?

"Oh, oh… Dean, don't be impulsive. Not only is Chu Feng outstanding in alchemy, but his sword dao cultivation is also formidable, with a particularly fierce refined corpse under his command. You going there rashly is too dangerous."

The eight Alchemy Venerates finally saw hope in bringing Dean Li out.

If Dean Li went recklessly and Chu Feng subdued him, forcing him to kneel on the street, they could no longer find rescue.

"Even raising a refined corpse, such wicked ways can't remain in Baihu City. The Divine Baihu Kingdom's Bai Xiansheng and others fear nuisances and are cowardly to the extreme; I don't believe such acts. Please rest assured; even though I did not reach the Supreme Alchemy Master Realm during this seclusion, I fortuitously crafted a Ninth Grade Talisman Elixir. I will make that Chu youngster regret."

Dean Li was brimming with confidence.

Being the most outstanding disciple at Shennong Mountain back then, he naturally had extraordinary talent in alchemy.

Ninth Grade Talisman Elixir is certainly not something everyone can successfully refine.

Even at the Alchemy Venerate Level, those who can refine a Ninth Grade Talisman Elixir are rare.

"Dean…"

"No need for more words; I have made my decision," Dean Li raised his hand to stop further comments and directly ordered someone to lead the way.

Heading towards Longevity Hall.

...

These days, Chu Feng had been worried and anxious about Chang'e.

Watching the days passing by, her remaining time was indeed running out.

Chu Feng deeply felt powerless and guilty, spending every day combing through various tomes, hoping to find a way to save Chang'e.

With the Seven Spirits lacking one, perhaps blood ginseng is not necessarily needed for replacement.

If another solution could be found, there was a chance.

But reality was cruel; Chu Feng scoured all available texts, nearly all saying that if one of the Seven Spirits is damaged, death was inevitable.

Thus, the method conceived by Beixie National Master for Chu Feng was already quite ingenious.