Gate of Immortality

" Hmm, Where did things went wrong? This formula should be flawless."

A white haired old man was gazing at a piece of paper as he murmured. He was constantly writing on another paper and calculating with his fingers. His expression was pensive as he scratched his head.

" Elder Lu!" The middle aged receptionist came running as he bowed in front of him.

" What is it?!" Elder Lu suddenly snapped as he glared at that receptionist. The outburst of Elder Lu scared the receptionist.

" How many times I have told you not to disturb me for unnecessary causes?" Elder Lu pinched his forehead as he tried to calm himself. " Now tell, What is it?"

" Elder Lu, a young man came and purchased medicinal herbs. But the amount he needed is vast, so naturally, I had to ask the elder." The receptionist said.

" Eh? Buying herbs in masses? How much he is asking?" Elder Lu asked.

The middle aged man gave Elder Lu a long list and said, " He wants a hundred taels of each of them."

" What?! Cheng Yu, are you messing with me?" Elder Lu's face turned dark as he looked at Cheng Yu.

" It is true, Elder Lu. He even gave around a dozen million gold coins. What's more, He is a Master grade blacksmith." Cheng Yu spoke slowly.

" What? Master grade blacksmith? Purchasing so many herbs? Who is he?" Elder Lu asked with a serious tone this time.

" A young man who doesn't even look 20." Cheng Yu said. " His name is Yang Shi."

"  Such a young Master grade blacksmith? I know three such young Master grade blacksmiths from Huang Clan, Dao Instructing Pagoda, and the Royal Family. Someone surnamed Yang…"

" Wait, wait! Yang Shi! I remember, isn't there was a person who recently got a resident in Longevity Hall? Yes, It has to be him." Elder Lu recalled some matter as he could vaguely guess Yang Shi's identity.

" Fine, Give him a permit of this once. But for next time, he has to use credit points of Longevity Hall to purchase herbs. As for how he will gain credit points, hehe, he will know himself." Elder Lu chuckled.

" Mm, Old Bao's seedling, eh? Then I have to squeeze a bit out of him."

Cheng Yu nodded as he went back.

" What? This permit works for only one time?" Yang Shi's face twitched as he asked Cheng Yu.

" Well, normally, getting the permit once, you can do transactions how much you want. But Elder Lu only gave you one time withdrawal permit. When brother Yang comes next time, he has to use credit points." Cheng Yu scratched his head. 

" How the hell I will get credit points in Longevity Hall? I am not even an alchemist." Yang Sh asked with vexation.

" Brother Yang need not be worried. For you, you can get a lot of credit points by forging us medicinal cauldrons and even exchange weapons for points."  Cheng Yu explained.

Yang Shi became speechless. He understood that cauldrons are the most important things for alchemists. But he didn't want to spend his entire time forging cauldrons.

" Fine, Fine! Give me the herbs first. I will see if I come next time." Yang Shi massaged his temples as he spoke.

Cheng Yu happily received money and gave Yang Shi a storage pouch full of herbs. Yang Shi bought herbs of almost nine million gold coins. But for current Yang Shi, such an amount of gold was akin to pocket change.

" Hmm, I have also bought some lower rank three herbs. It should be good to make a Body Cleansing Bath for Bai Ruxue." Yang Shi pondered as he came back to Mo Clan manor.

But as he was on his way, a person bumped into him. Yang Shi stumbled as he glared.

" I am very sorry." The person bowed as he apologized. After that, he left hastily.

" Eh? Yang Shi saw there is a storage pouch in his hands. When he looked inside it, he saw all sorts of metals and ores piled there.

" That Shen girl is really getting impatient." Yang Shi sighed as he kept it into his spatial ring. He immediately understood that Shen Yanyu gave him all this stuff to refine weapons for her.

Since the process of getting his new residence in the central market will take another one or two days, Yang Shi will stay in the Mo clan manor.

" Hmm, let's take care of this big fellow first." Yang Shi took out the ancient bronze cauldron which he got from the auction of Hundred Gold Pavilion. He was in his forging room, with his forging table placed near him.

Yang Shi's physical strength was already much greater than the cultivator of the same realm, but even he has to use quite a lot of his strength to lift the bronze cauldron.

" Damn, The amount of North Bronze Essence used in this cauldron create a high tier Spirit grade armor for an army of five thousand." Yang Shi sighed as he praised.

The cauldron looked heavy and bulky. It didn't have any air of a supreme treasure, But Yang Shi felt something was off. His eyes turned bright as the Celestial View was activated.

" Even someone was just squandering resources, they didn't need to make the appearance so ugly?"

"Moreover, the proportion of the North Bronze Essence applied here is quite off. It's like someone slapped a thick paste of North Bronze Essence around the cauldron, like someone slapping clay on bricks."

" Wait, Since there is so much amount of unnecessary amount of North Bronze Essence, taking a little out won't hurt, right?" Yang Shi giggled greedily as a lump of fire appeared on his palm.

His spirit flame blazed as it enveloped the cauldron. But to his surprise, the cauldron was barely heated.

" Well, North Bronze Essence really deserves its reputation." Yang Shi nodded as he started circulating his Great Yang Solar Flame Art. Moreover, he activated his Gold Devil Seal and channeled metal qi to his flame.

The spirit flame turned golden as the temperature rose abruptly. The cauldron started to heat slowly as Yang Shi's flames were on their maximum power.

Yang Shi became impressed a the spiritual qi in his dantian rolled like tidal waves. One has to know that his dantian was already ten times larger than the average Ninth stage Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator.

Because of this, he never cared about the usage of spiritual qi while executing battle techniques.

But this time, he checked that his spiritual qi was depleting slowly, but steadily.

Spirit flame for melting, Metal qi to weakening the bond and Celestial View to see the weak point, even with all these Yang Shi was having troubles to refine North Bronze Essence.

He didn't want to completely melt the cauldron. He just wanted to take a considerable amount of North Bronze Essence and keep the cauldron intact.

He didn't know how much time has passed, but Yang Shi felt that it was more than six hours. Due to continuous usage of spiritual qi, more than half of qi was already depleted from his dantian.

But Yang Shi's expression turned ecstatic. After such a long time of usage of spirit flame, his understanding of Great Yang Solar Flame Art has also increased.

He felt his meridians were being tempered by continuous channeling of Fire and Metal qi.

Layers after layers of North Bronze Essence peeled off, yet they are still a lot remaining. Yang Shi used the Celestial View to the peak as he saw faint spots on the cauldron.

" En, These should be weak points." Yang Shi stopped heating the cauldron as a whole as he concentrated the flame to the weak spots. 

His Metal qi congealed with Fire qi as it pierced the weak spots. It was like needles of golden flame stabbed in the cauldron.

*CRACK*