Chapter 37 of 100

Chapter 37

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Shen Xiang returned home early and left late, crazily refining pills in the shop during the day and cultivating in the outskirts of the city at night. This kind of life continued for about twenty days. Now, not only had his cultivation improved greatly, but he had also become very proficient in refining ordinary-grade pills below the middle level, with almost no failures, and the time it took to refine pills was getting shorter and shorter, even surpassing the old alchemists of the Shen Lu Clan.

The money from selling the thousand-year-old blood spirit ginseng was almost used up. He and Shen Lu had refined quite a few commonly used ordinary-grade lower and middle pills, but it was still far from enough.

Of course, the golden spirit fruit tree that Shen Xiang planted was about to bear fruit. Over these twenty days, he could condense a lot of dragon saliva every day to promote its growth. This was the first time he had spent so long ripening a spirit medicine, but it was worth it.

Shen Xiang secretly planted the golden spirit fruit tree in his courtyard, and even Shen Lu could not enter his small courtyard at will.

"As long as I can recruit enough alchemists, I can live a leisurely life!" Shen Xiang gently stroked the small golden fruit, which had just grown after he watered it with dragon saliva this morning.

Shen Xiang did not want to spend all day refining pills to sell. He wanted to do many things, such as searching for precious spirit medicines, hunting demon beasts, purchasing suitable martial techniques for his cultivation, and exploring the vast and boundless ordinary martial world...

At this time, there was still more than a month before the start of the Imperial City Martial Arts Conference. Shen Xiang had already gone to register, but what depressed him was that the Imperial City Martial Arts Conference was hosted by the Medicine Family, so the registration place was at the Medicine Family.

Shen Xiang, who had been staying in the Imperial City, had long heard about the disappearance of Yao Tianhua and the Medicine Family elder. Fortunately, during this period, there were often powerful martial artists' organizations causing trouble outside the Imperial City, robbing and killing many young masters of noble families heading to the Imperial City, so Shen Xiang was not suspected.

Because of the disappearance of the Medicine Family's genius and an elder, the entire Medicine Family was enraged, and the royal family and some families with close ties to the Medicine Family also condemned those evil forces. In just a few days, several of them were exterminated, but they still could not find Yao Tianhua's whereabouts.

Yao Tianhua and the Medicine Family elder were both killed by Shen Xiang, and their bodies were burned to ashes. Shen Xiang was not worried about the Medicine Family finding out.

Shen Xiang quickly arrived at the Medicine Family. The Medicine Family was very large, and the huge square in front of the gate made Shen Xiang secretly marvel. Not to mention the inside.

The registration and competition venues were both on the huge square in front of the Medicine Family's main gate. Registration had already started, but many people still came to register every day, making the square very lively with many long queues.

Shen Xiang waited for a long time before it was his turn. He stood in front of a table, where a young man around twenty years old was in charge. He yawned, then picked up a pen and paper, lazily saying, "Name."

"Shen Xiang!"

The originally listless young man was suddenly startled and carefully examined Shen Xiang! The people around also looked over. Shen Xiang's name was well-known, not only for being able to refine the Bone Washing Pill but also for having the strength comparable to the seventh level of the Ordinary Martial Realm, injuring a Medicine Family elder, and severely beating the son of the city lord, earning the favor of the beautiful female owner of the Fragrant Pill Shop...

Shen Xiang was a more talented person than Yao Tianhua. Anyone who often moved around had heard of his name, but Shen Xiang was a thorn in the side of the Medicine Family, so the Medicine Family people all hated him. Because Shen Xiang had injured the Medicine Family elder and Yao Tianhua, leading to their disappearance, the Medicine Family blamed Shen Xiang, believing that if the elder had not been injured, they would not have been in danger.

"Go over there for the strength test. If you pass, you can participate in the competition." The young man pointed to another queue.

Shen Xiang had heard before coming that to successfully register, one needed to test their strength, and not everyone could participate in the final competition.

Shen Xiang took the paper with his name and the seal, then walked to that queue.

Such close contact with Shen Xiang made many people very happy. Shen Xiang was an alchemist and the son of the Shen Clan's patriarch, with a bright future. This made many people voluntarily come up to him and chat.

Shen Xiang smiled and interacted with the young masters of these families, which could pass the time and also allow him to gather information about other families' attitudes toward the Shen Clan. Many families were afraid of offending the Medicine Family and did not dare to ally with the Shen Clan, but now Shen Xiang learned from these young masters that if the Shen Clan had a pill industry, they would not fear the Medicine Family's threats.

Before he knew it, it was Shen Xiang's turn. The method to test strength was to hit a peculiar giant stone. The stone was originally black, and if the force was strong enough, it could change color!

Shen Xiang stood in front of a stone taller than him, and the person in charge of the test said, "As long as you can turn the stone yellow, you pass."

The stone could change to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple based on the force applied, with purple representing the highest limit.

Earlier, Shen Xiang had seen many people only turn the stone red, and even fewer could turn it orange. He had never seen anyone turn it yellow.

"I heard that the Crown Prince could turn the stone blue during his test! His strength is unfathomable."

"Also, a young disciple of the Medicine Family is very powerful and could turn it blue."

"What's the big deal? General Leng's daughter could turn the stone purple."

"..."

Shen Xiang suddenly heard many people discussing the strength of the young masters of noble families. At this moment, many people focused their attention on him, all wanting to see if Shen Xiang was just a name. Many people present had never seen Shen Xiang's strength and did not know how terrifying it was, only hearing about it.

Shen Xiang rubbed his fists and stared at the stone in front of him. His Shen Clan also had such a stone, though smaller, specifically for testing strength, and hitting it would make the fists very painful. Shen Xiang had tested it before, but it only turned a faint red, indicating his strength was weak.

Now, Shen Xiang had reached the sixth level of the Ordinary Martial Realm, and he also wanted to know his test results.

After preparing, Shen Xiang took a deep breath, circulated the Vermilion Bird True Qi and Azure Dragon True Qi in his body, and merged them together. The two true qi merged and surged into his arm, and his sleeve was instantly burned off, revealing his muscular arm with prominent veins.

At this moment, everyone held their breath, and those nearby could feel the terrifying true qi. This sudden burst of power intimidated the young men and women, and now they had no doubt about Shen Xiang defeating the Medicine Family elder, just by the true qi pressure that made them tremble!

Shen Xiang gathered his strength, and as the dual-attribute true qi surged into his arm, he clenched his fist and punched out! The punch was like a thunderbolt, fast as lightning, and struck the giant stone with great force.

A loud "boom" echoed, and the giant stone instantly shattered into pieces, scattering on the ground, with dust and true qi waves flying around!

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