The Supreme God

He had finally succeeded in bringing up the fire! Excitement flooded Austin's handsome face.

According to the tenets of the Elixir Foundation, making the fire was the first step to becoming a pill refiner. And his ability to call it forth meant that he had the potential to become a pill refiner. A lot of people who had just started learning to refine pills couldn't even make the fire.

Only ones with a strong, good-quality vital energy had a chance. Besides, it also required having good control of the vital energy. Not meeting these requirements meant that they couldn't conjure the fire.

At first, Austin had only wanted to try if he could make it. But he hadn't expected to be successful just days after his first trial.

Other pill refiners would surely be astonished at this fact. And they had reason to disbelieve it, because it usually took a regular pill refiner one, or even a few years to make the fire. And Austin bringing it up after mere days of learning was nothing short of a miracle.

Austin let out a happy sigh of relief as he looked at the fire glowing in his hand.

With just a flicker of his will, the fire disappeared immediately. What was more, it reached his elixir field through the energy meridian, and settled down in a quiet corner.

"So this is the fire of a pill refiner!"

Austin mumbled to himself. Willing it to change yet again, Austin made the fire pass back through the energy meridian into the palm of his hand, appearing with a sharp crack. He repeated the process a few times, and found that he was getting better at controlling the fire with each round.

It was a pleasant surprise to Austin that he was able to finish the first two steps of pill-refining in just a few days. All that remained was to buy some spiritual herbs to assist him in refining pills.

He also needed a cauldron. Once he had everything ready, he was going to learn how to do it.

He knew that he would use up a lot of the vital energy crystals it held, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad about it.

no other way. This was the money he needed to spend if he wanted to learn pill-refining. And if he could succeed in doing that, he would surely make a lot of money in

his black robe before opening the door that had been shut for five days now. After all, he had killed Marvin,

been staying in, to do a bit of shopping. He decided to look for some spiritual herbs first, and then a cauldron. He wondered where he could find

cultivation base was probably at the medium stage of the Earth Realm. Austin wasn't afraid of confronting him, but he couldn't say for sure that he would definitely win against him. What was more, now was not a

had to keep a low profile for now and gain more power in the meantime. And when the time came and he achieved his goal, he would kill Johnson, because he was still a threat to him no matter

pill trading streets in town. Since he only needed the spiritual herbs to practice by burning them and extracting the liquid medicine, he'd only get the

there were two other martial artists dressed in black robes, also shopping for spiritual herbs.

on display and started to look for what

of the two martial artists, who kept glancing at Austin with confusion in their eyes.

his strong spiritual sense. So the fact that the two strangers were glancing at him from time to time obviously

also clearly hear what both

a part of the

in the way. Can't see

he greet

just happens to dress the same way as

"That's true.

need to hurry up, though. Let's just pick some spiritual herbs soon and leave before

get the powerful crystal without anyone finding out about it. The Cloud Cave actually hasn't been found by any martial artist of the Violet Orchid Empire. Or the treasures there would have already attracted every capable martial artist in the