"Greetings, Alliance Leader."
"Greetings, Alliance Leader Xiao."
As Xiao Se, accompanied by Medusa, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei, stepped onto the VIP platform of the plaza, various prominent figures of the Jia Ma Empire, including Hai Bodong, Fama, Jia Xingtian, Nalan Jie, and Mu Chen, came forward to greet them with respectful bows.
"Everyone, please, no need for such formalities." Facing the bows of the crowd, Xiao Se accepted them readily. Times had changed; given his current strength and status, he could well afford to accept their respects. Furthermore, to be the leader of a major force, if one were too amiable to everyone, one would lack deterrent power, and the faction would sooner or later fall into chaos.
"Let me introduce everyone. This is Queen Medusa of the Snake-People Tribe, my wife. You are all familiar with Yun'er and Feier, so I won't make any lengthy introductions." Xiao Se gestured toward Medusa. Although many people present knew her, for those who didn't, an introduction was still necessary.
"Greetings, Your Majesty the Queen." Hearing this, the crowd bowed once again.
Medusa was clearly satisfied with Xiao Se's introduction. Her beautiful eyes swept over, finally resting on Hai Bodong, Fama, and Jia Xingtian. Covering her red lips, she chuckled: "Hai Bodong, Old Man Fama, Jia Xingtian, it has been nearly twenty years. I really didn't expect us to meet in such an occasion."
Upon hearing Medusa's words, Fama was fine, as he hadn't had any conflict with her in the past. However, Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian's expressions were somewhat awkward. The former had been sealed by Medusa for over a decade, and the latter had frequently clashed with her. Now that Medusa had already broken through to the Dou Zong Realm, and judging by her aura, it was not inferior to Protector Wu, whom Xiao Se had killed a few days ago, she was undoubtedly a mid-level Dou Zong.
It would be strange if they weren't jealous!
"The Queen is joking. We apologize for any past offenses." Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian smiled helplessly.
"Hehe, that's nothing. The past is in the past." Medusa smiled faintly. She looked at Hai Bodong, then turned her beautiful eyes toward Jia Xingtian, her red lips curving into a cunning arc as she chuckled: "But then again, Jia Xingtian, why are you still lingering at the Dou Huang Peak? Hai Bodong, who is much younger than you and was sealed by me for over a decade, has already caught up to you. If you don't consume the Break-Sect Pill refined by my husband today, you'll never catch up."
As Xiao Se's wife, Medusa naturally knew the internal affairs of the Sea Alliance. Looking at the entire Jia Ma Empire, the only forces worthy of her attention were the Cloud Mist Sect, the Mittel Family, the Gama Royal Family, and the Alchemist Guild. Among them, the Cloud Mist Sect and the Mittel Family had already joined the Sea Alliance, and Xiao Se had said he had a way to make the Alchemist Guild join later, leaving only the Gama Royal Family wavering. Therefore, out of mischief, Medusa subconsciously wanted to disgust Jia Xingtian, her old rival. At the same time, it was also a warning, telling him that if he missed this opportunity today, there wouldn't be another one like it.
Sure enough, after hearing Queen Medusa's words, Jia Xingtian's expression turned pale and green, and his sense of crisis increased several times over. Queen Medusa was right; if Hai Bodong broke through to the Dou Zong Realm, the Mittel Family would leap to become the second most powerful force after the Cloud Mist Sect, and his Gama Royal Family would be left behind forever.
Immediately, Jia Xingtian cupped his hands at Xiao Se: "Alliance Leader Xiao, regarding the matter you raised last time, the Gama Royal Family will give you an answer before sunset."
"Then I hope Old Jia will not disappoint me." Xiao Se didn't pay much attention and gave Ya Fei a look.
Ya Fei nodded, spread her Dou Qi wings, and flew to the jade platform in the center of the plaza, taking on the hosting work she was best at. After Ya Fei introduced the Sea Alliance, influenced by her highly infectious speech, almost everyone in the plaza, except for a few families loyal to the Gama Royal Family, chose to join the Sea Alliance one by one. Even the two Dou Wangs, Mad Lion and Feng Li, who had always favored the Gama Royal Family, joined.
"Now, let us invite our Alliance Leader Xiao of the Sea Alliance to the stage to refine the Medicinal Pill." Ya Fei's jade finger pointed at Xiao Se in the VIP seating, her beautiful eyes filled with admiration and love. This was her man. A man who, at such a young age, had made the entire Jia Ma Empire bow down.
Awe-filled gazes followed the direction of Ya Fei. Under everyone's gaze, without any movement from Xiao Se, his figure flashed and instantly disappeared from where he was. Before anyone could react, he had reappeared on the jade platform in the middle of the plaza where Ya Fei had been.
"Leave the rest to me." Xiao Se said softly to Ya Fei.
"Mm." Ya Fei returned a reassuring smile and flew to the highest VIP seating area where Medusa, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei were sitting.
On the highest VIP seating area, Medusa, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei sat in order.
As the saying goes, where there are people, there is Jianghu, especially when there are three women, and all three are Xiao Se's wives.
Just after sitting down, Queen Medusa began to assert her sovereignty: "Sect Leader Yun, oh no, Sister Yun'er, I really didn't expect us to meet on such an occasion."
"I wonder what advice Sister Medusa has?" Although Yun Yun was indifferent by nature and disliked fighting, she was also a proud person at heart. Hearing Medusa treat herself as the primary wife of Xiao Se, she showed an unyielding spirit and countered.
Ya Fei, who was on the side, keenly sensed the gunpowder between the two and smiled helplessly. She knew that these two sisters were fighting for the position of the main wife. Facing these two sisters whose talent, strength, and status were far superior to her own, Ya Fei indicated that they could fight as much as they wanted, as long as that little man loved her.
Queen Medusa continued: "It's not really advice, I just wanted to ask when Sister Yun'er started being with Xiao Se?"
"One year and eight months." Yun Yun reported the time she and Xiao Se met in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
Hearing this, Medusa did not show the slightest surprise. She gently stroked her slightly protruding lower abdomen and smiled triumphantly: "Is that so? I was with him when Xiao Se was thirteen. Since then, I have stayed by his side and never separated. Even when you met him on the flying Demonic Beast, and during the Alchemist Convention, I was there. And I became pregnant with his child two years ago."
As she spoke, Medusa raised her beautiful eyes and looked at Yun Yun, but found that the other party did not have the slightest anger or unwillingness.
"Isn't it just a child?" Yun Yun's red lips curled slightly, and she learned from Medusa to stroke her lower abdomen.
Hearing Yun Yun's words, Ya Fei, who was sitting on the side as a spectator, could finally not sit still. She looked at Yun Yun's not-so-obvious lower abdomen in disbelief and exclaimed: "Sister Yun Yun, could it be that you also…"
"Mm." Yun Yun nodded with a slightly red face and replied: "It's been over a month. It should be from that time at the Mittel Auction House." She also didn't expect that she would get pregnant after having a one-night stand with Xiao Se.
"Does Xiao Se know now?" Ya Fei asked with some envy.
Yun Yun shook her head: "At the Three-Year Agreement, I was afraid he would be distracted. Later, he went to pick up Medusa. With the time delay, I haven't had a chance to tell him yet."
Ya Fei smiled and said: "Then Xiao Se will be overjoyed later. After Sister Medusa, Sister Yun Yun is also pregnant."
While speaking, Ya Fei touched her own lower abdomen. Why was her stomach so unpromising? She had clearly been unable to get out of bed several times by that bad guy.
Yun Yun nodded, her eyes turning to Medusa on her left, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, "I heard from Xiao Se that the pregnancy period of the Snake-People Tribe is relatively long, at least three years, and at most five years before it is born. You have been pregnant for two years now, and the child will take at least another year, or even longer, to be born. By the time your child is born, I guess it will have to call my child sister or brother."
"You! Hmph!" Medusa clenched her fingers tightly, snorted coldly, turned her head to look at Xiao Se in the plaza, and said nothing more.
Yun Yun's pregnancy caught Medusa off guard.
This round, Yun Yun won.
On the other side, Xiao Se had already taken out the myriad beast cauldron. With a flick of his finger, the golden strange fire was released and poured into the Medicine Cauldron. As pieces of rare medicinal materials floated out of the storage ring, Xiao Se began to officially refine the Break-Sect Pill.
"That is actually the tenth-ranked myriad beast cauldron on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking (PS: The original work didn't mention its ranking, so I just made one up)." On another VIP seat, Fama saw Xiao Se take out the huge, dark red Medicine Cauldron covered with beast patterns and couldn't help but exclaim.
myriad beast cauldron?
Fama's voice was not small, and everyone present was almost at the Dou Ling level, so they heard it clearly. When they heard that the Medicine CauldronXiao Se possessed was the myriad beast cauldron on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, they were all stunned, and the whole plaza was in an uproar.
"Great-grandfather, what is the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking?" Princess Yao Yue, who was standing behind Jia Xingtian, couldn't help but ask when she heard Fama's words. She was also an Alchemist, so she was naturally very curious about Medicine Cauldrons.
"Great-grandfather is not an Alchemist, you have to ask Old Man Fama about this." Jia Xingtian smiled bitterly. To make Fama, who was usually old and frail, lose his composure like this, this Medicine Cauldron must be extremely extraordinary. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worthy of Xiao Se, a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
"Guild Leader Fama? What is the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking!" Princess Yao Yue asked Fama respectfully.
Fama laughed loudly and explained: "Like the strange fire ranking list, in the Alchemist world, there is also a Heavenly Cauldron Ranking. As the name suggests, the cauldron list records those extremely perfect and outstanding Medicine Cauldrons. There are thirteen cauldrons in the list, and every one of these Medicine Cauldrons has a magic that makes countless Alchemists flock to it. This myriad beast cauldron is among them, ranked tenth."
Hearing this, Princess Yao Yue nodded as if she understood, and her gaze toward Xiao Se was filled with even more admiration. It was enough for her to hear that this myriad beast cauldron was the tenth-ranked Medicine Cauldron on the continent, and it belonged to her most admired Big Brother Xiao Huohuo.
The Break-Sect Pill, as a Sixth-Rank PeakMedicinal Pill, even for Xiao Se, who was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist, it took a lot of time to refine. Quietly, three hours passed, but no one in the plaza felt annoyed. Especially those Alchemists, who were staring intently, not even willing to blink. Being able to witness the birth of the Break-Sect Pill with their own eyes was a scene that would make them unforgettable for a lifetime.
"Strange, with Alliance Leader Xiao's alchemy skills, plus the strange fire and the myriad beast cauldron, the Break-Sect Pill should have been refined long ago. Why is there no movement in the Medicine Cauldron? And the consumed medicinal materials also seem to be too many, as many as three portions." Watching Xiao Se sitting cross-legged in front of the myriad beast cauldron refining the pill in the center of the plaza, Fama stroked his beard, his eyes full of doubt.
"Could it be that he failed? After all, the Break-Sect Pill is a Sixth-Rank PeakMedicinal Pill, and even Alliance Leader Xiao does not have absolute certainty to refine it successfully at once." Chemier, the Vice President of the Alchemist Guild standing behind Fama, asked in a low voice.
"It shouldn't be. Alliance Leader Xiao hasn't made a single mistake from beginning to end. His alchemy skills are the highest I have ever seen." Fama shook his head, pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyelids lifted sharply, exclaiming: "Could it be…"
Fama's words were not finished, when a loud bang was heard.
Three brilliant beams of light, as thick as buckets, erupted from the myriad beast cauldron, shooting straight into the sky, creating ripples of milky white in the air. The light beams trembled violently, causing the entire huge plaza to shake. Some Dou Lings who were close were blown away by the milky white ripples, falling in a mess.
Accompanying the light beams was an unprecedentedly rich medicinal fragrance, which permeated the entire Gama Holy City in an instant.
For a time, the sky of the entire plaza was dyed a faint milky white. Contrasting with the golden flame on the plaza, it looked exceptionally magnificent and beautiful.
The light beam lasted for a long while before gradually fading, and finally, it completely turned into fine light spots and slowly dissipated...
As the light beam completely dissipated, three thumb-sized light clusters floated out from the myriad beast cauldron and appeared under the gaze of many eyes in the plaza. As soon as the light clusters appeared, the light suddenly increased, and their figures moved, as if they wanted to escape into the sky.
Just as the light was about to escape into the sky, Xiao Se suddenly gave a cold snort, and then a suction force from his hand burst out!
Under that fierce suction, the three light clusters had no power to resist. They didn't even stalemate for a moment, and finally, under the greedy and envious gazes of the crowd, they fell into Xiao Se's hands. The Break-Sect Pill was refined!
"Teacher, that is…" On the top of a tall building near the Royal Plaza, Xiao Yan, who had personally escorted Xiao Qing to the Sea Alliance because he was worried about her, was now staring at the three Medicinal Pills in Xiao Se's hands in the plaza with shocked eyes, speechless.
"Break-Sect Pill, a Sixth-Rank PeakMedicinal Pill. It can help Dou Huang Peak experts increase the probability of advancing to Dou Zong. And even if the promotion fails, the Realm will not drop. A Heaven-DefyingMedicinal Pill. This kid is really a Genius, he was able to refine three Sixth-Rank PeakMedicinal Pills at the same time in just three hours. His future is limitless." Yao Lao praised with amazement.
"Sixth-Rank PeakMedicinal Pill… Break-Sect Pill." Hearing this, a huge sense of powerlessness surged into Xiao Yan's heart. He asked in a low voice: "Teacher, do you think I can catch up to him?"
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Yao Lao was stunned for a moment. After thinking for a long time, he did not give an answer. If Xiao Se had not practiced the Flame Mantra, he would definitely say yes, but now… Even with his guidance, whether it was alchemy or cultivation, Xiao Yan seemed unable to catch up to Xiao Se anymore.
(End of Chapter)
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