Chapter 64 – Shamelessly Refusing to Admit Defeat, Making Guo Ping Kowtow
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Yu Xian slowly rose to his feet, eyes calm and indifferent, as if he were staring at a dead man.
All around him, the crowd’s gazes turned toward Li’er—some filled with ridicule, others with pity.
Her talent in alchemy was undoubtedly exceptional—perhaps even superior to Yu Xian’s.
But it was precisely because she was so gifted that she constantly tried to tweak and “perfect” the formulas handed down by the sages.
That was how she ended up producing four upper-grade pills out of the hundred furnaces.
Ninety-six supreme-grade pills and four upper-grade ones—that was still an extraordinary result.
Unfortunately, she had encountered a monster.
Yu Xian’s refinement wasn’t dazzling—but he followed the pill formula to perfection, with zero deviation, as though carved from stone.
Because of that, every single one of his hundred furnaces had produced supreme-grade pills.
The crowd fell into silence.
Li’er was confused. A creeping sense of dread rose in her heart, and she quickly turned to her master.
Guo Ping was drenched in sweat, eyes bloodshot. He suddenly stepped forward, shielding Li’er and gritting his teeth.
“This was just a childish bet—a game. It doesn’t count!”
Yu Xian stared at Li’er and said coldly, word by word,
“I refined a hundred furnaces and obtained a hundred supreme-grade Spirit Pills. Now… I want her tongue. Cut it out.”
“What!?”
Li’er froze, her eyes wide in disbelief.
“Impossible! You couldn’t have refined a hundred supreme-grade pills! Not even my master can do that! You’re lying!”
Guo Ping pressed down on Li’er’s shoulder and shouted again,
“So what if you did!? This was just a joke between kids! Whether you did or didn’t—who takes childish words seriously!?”
Yu Xian narrowed his eyes and sneered,
“You call that a joke? Do you think all these senior cultivators around us are fools? This was an alchemy duel with stakes clearly set!
What—are you planning to go back on your word? Let’s ask these seniors, and let’s ask the honored judge from Medicine King Valley—will they allow this?”
Li’er stared at the hundred supreme-grade pills in front of Yu Xian and lost all color in her face.
The proud tilt of her chin now collapsed inward like a frightened quail, her whole body trembling.
“Why hasn’t she cut her tongue yet!?”
Another loud shout rang out, making Li’er shiver uncontrollably.
She rushed to hide behind Guo Ping, shaking her head frantically, crying out,
“No! No! I’m not doing it! I’m not cutting off my tongue! Master! I’m not doing it!”
“Cut what!?”
Guo Ping, like a madman, eyes bloodshot and face twisted with rage, shouted,
“Whoever lays a hand on her, you’re making an enemy of Xuantian Sect!!”
Xuantian Sect—publicly recognized as the strongest of the Six Great Sects.
“Hahahaha!”
Yu Xian suddenly burst into laughter, then pointed at Guo Ping and coldly shouted,
“Everyone saw that, right? This man is shameless beyond words! His disciple lost and now he’s trying to deny it! Even throwing around the name of Xuantian Sect to threaten people!
You think these seniors here will be scared by you? And what about the senior from Medicine King Valley who’s serving as our judge!?”
Yu Xian turned toward Li Hu Yang.
“You represent Medicine King Valley and its fairness. The outcome is clear—are you not going to enforce the wager?
If you don’t, won’t the Medicine King Valley be seen as partial and unjust from now on?”
Li Hu Yang’s brows furrowed slightly.
“Brother Li! It was just a game between youngsters! Surely, we can’t take this seriously!”
Guo Ping bellowed, sweeping his gaze across the crowd.
“They were just being impulsive! Fellow Daoists, surely you won’t take this kind of thing seriously, right!?”
A cold voice suddenly cut through his plea—Xiao Wusheng, face expressionless, looked at Li Hu Yang and said,
“There’s never been such a thing as ‘a joke’ in Medicine King Valley’s pill duels. If you make an exception today, then things will get real interesting in the future.”
Li Hu Yang’s pupils shrank.
“Xiao Wusheng!!”
Guo Ping turned and roared like a crazed beast, “You want to make enemies with Xuantian Sect over this!?”
“How ridiculous,” Xiao Wusheng said indifferently.
“You think you speak for the entire Xuantian Sect?”
“I don’t. But she does!”
Guo Ping laughed coldly and shoved Li’er forward.
“She is the thirteenth-generation granddaughter of the Sixth Elder of Xuantian Sect! A rare alchemical prodigy!
Hurt her today, and it will mean a blood feud with Xuantian Sect!”
The crowd instantly went silent.
The Sixth Elder of Xuantian Sect was a peak Golden Core cultivator.
No wonder this girl was so arrogant.
Even Xiao Wusheng narrowed his eyes and began to weigh the situation.
Yu Xian may have won, but if they actually cut out her tongue, he and his disciple would have provoked a truly fearsome enemy.
Once they left the protection of Baiyun Sect, who knew how long a Golden Core elder might lie in wait?
He himself didn’t care—but Yu Xian was still so young. His future was long.
Xiao Wusheng sighed and turned to Yu Xian,
“My disciple… perhaps we should change the wager?”
Yu Xian turned to his master, nodded, and said,
“Very well. I’ll listen to you, Master. Let’s change the bet.”
The crowd let out a collective sigh of relief.
Even Guo Ping and Li Hu Yang relaxed visibly.
This kid… if he had insisted on pressing this any further, it would’ve been a nightmare.
Li Hu Yang smiled and said,
“Brother Xiao is wise and reasonable. In that case, let’s resolve it with compensation—3,000 spirit stones, a third-grade magical treasure, and a high-grade third-tier pill.”
“I don’t want spirit stones. I don’t want a treasure. I don’t want a pill.”
Yu Xian shook his head.
Li Hu Yang’s face stiffened. He frowned and asked,
“Then what do you want? Surely you’re not asking for other body parts, are you?
If you’re just going to switch the tongue for an eye or an ear, what’s the point of changing the bet?”
Yu Xian remained unmoved. He turned his gaze toward Guo Ping and said coldly,
“I want him… to come over and kneel before my master and kowtow three times—respectfully.”
