Chapter 2534: Drops of Water Wear Through Stone!

Ye Yuan rubbed his chin, looking innocent.

He wasn't particularly dejected, just a bit helpless.

Ye Yuan's starting point was simply too low.

Who could have imagined that a former minor playboy from the Qin Kingdom would break through to the Heavenly Position and reach his current realm?

However, one cannot choose one's birth, but can choose to face it calmly.

Along the way, Ye Yuan had encountered countless difficulties.

He had never feared difficulties, nor would he give up the Dao of Alchemy just because his affinity was only one point.

In fact, the scene of refining the Dragon Bone Grass earlier had already said a lot.

At the very least, his instinct could support him in refining Dragon Bone Grass!

Poor refinement was only because his instinct was not strong enough!

It's not that you can't do it, it's just that you haven't worked hard enough!

"It seems... becoming a Heavenly Alchemist will take some effort," Ye Yuan said helplessly.

"Becoming a Heavenly Alchemist? Hah, boy, did you not understand what I meant? Even if you cultivate until the end of time, you can never become a Heavenly Alchemist! With your talent, if your affinity could reach thirty points, you could definitely become an extremely powerful Heavenly Alchemist! But I have never heard of someone who didn't even react to the Innate Cloud Stone becoming a Heavenly Alchemist! That is absolutely impossible!" Gu Mao said resolutely.

Even Tang Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Big Brother, don't waste your efforts. Your affinity is less than one point; you can never become a Heavenly Alchemist! You tried it yourself—you can't even refine Dragon Bone Grass, let alone Heavenly Pills."

It wasn't that he didn't believe in Ye Yuan, but Ye Yuan was simply too poor.

With less than one point of affinity, wanting to become a Heavenly Alchemist—if this got out, it would probably make people laugh their teeth out.

Ye Yuan just smiled and said, "This Dragon Bone Grass shouldn't be too expensive, right? Prepare a secluded place for me, and send me a thousand stalks of Dragon Bone Grass!"

Here, quite a few Dragon Bone Grass were casually placed on the table, obviously for disciples to practice with, so naturally it wouldn't be too expensive.

Ye Yuan wouldn't stand on ceremony with Tang Yu either; he directly gave orders.

Seeing Ye Yuan unwilling to give up, Gu Mao sneered, "Boy, you really won't cry until you see the coffin! If someone with one point of affinity could become a Heavenly Alchemist, then pigs could climb trees! Not to mention anything else, if you can refine this Dragon Bone Grass to my quality, I'll kneel and acknowledge you as my master in front of the whole city!"

Ye Yuan glanced at him and said indifferently, "Forget it, your aptitude is too poor; I won't take you as a disciple. If you really want to bet, just teach me what you know. If I lose, I'll help you detoxify the fire poison. As for becoming my disciple, let's skip that."

Tang Yu was speechless, and Gu Mao flew into a rage.

A guy with one point of affinity actually looked down on him!

"Fine! I'll bet with you! If someone with one point of affinity can become a Heavenly Alchemist, then all the Heavenly Alchemists in this city would be a joke!" Gu Mao said angrily.

Ye Yuan ignored him and turned to leave.

Tang Yu trotted up and said with a wry smile, "Big Brother, why bother with this bet?"

Ye Yuan just smiled and said nothing.

Bet?

He, Ye Yuan, would bet, but not with someone like Gu Mao.

He also didn't think much of Gu Mao's skills; the reason he wanted to learn was just to get started.

He, Ye Yuan, would not walk the path of others.

But he would not look at others with colored glasses either.

Since the Tang family heavily promoted Gu Mao, he must have his merits.

Starting from him was obviously the most convenient.

...

Thus, he began a long seclusion.

What Tang Yu prepared for Ye Yuan was naturally the finest seclusion spot.

Although the Dao Fire was inferior to Gu Mao's, its quality was still quite good.

These Dao Fires were only the lowest grade wild fires, low in quality and full of impurities.

Therefore, Heavenly Alchemists would more or less accumulate some fire poison in their bodies.

However, some Dao fires had more impurities, while others had fewer.

Gu Mao's Dao fire was very powerful, but it was extremely impure, difficult to control, and its fire poison was even harder to expel.

Heavenly Physician was a healer himself, so he naturally had means to expel fire poison.

However, when the fire poison accumulated to a certain extent and became deeply rooted in the body, it was difficult to expel.

In his pursuit of the power of the Dao fire, Gu Mao was now afflicted by fire poison, suffering greatly.

But Ye Yuan's skill in controlling fire was far superior to Gu Mao's.

This Dao fire was extremely docile before him; how could the fire poison harm him?

However, the refinement did not go smoothly.

One plant, two plants...

Ye Yuan spent a month refining all one thousand Dragon Bone Grass plants.

But the effect was not obvious.

Ye Yuan finally realized that affinity simply could not be improved.

No matter how hard he tried, there was always chaos before him.

He was like a blind man, seeing nothing.

Even his fire control skills, which were superb, could not help!

A month later, Ye Yuan called Tang Yu and asked him to prepare another thousand Dragon Bone Grass plants.

Tang Yu glanced at the secluded cultivation site, which was filled with the black paste-like Dragon Bone Grass, and knew that Ye Yuan had made no progress at all in this month.

In fact, he had not held out much hope.

Being able to refine Dragon Bone Grass into a paste was already a miracle.

To reach Gu Mao's level would require a miracle that was ten thousand times, or even a hundred thousand times, harder than the previous one!

This was simply impossible!

"Big brother, your martial arts talent is also extremely strong. Why waste time on something impossible? In Tai Ming Yu Wan Tian, even with an affinity of less than one point, let alone twenty-nine, it's impossible to become a Heavenly Physician! Thirty points of affinity is a watershed! Moreover, you don't even have one point!" Tang Yu pleaded bitterly.

However, Ye Yuan was unmoved and only said calmly, "From now on, have someone send me a thousand Dragon Bone Grass plants every month."

Tang Yu shook his head helplessly and left.

He found that Ye Yuan was as stubborn as a mule and could not be moved.

In the secluded cultivation site, Ye Yuan refined Dragon Bone Grass plant after plant, as if never knowing fatigue.

At this moment, Ye Yuan seemed to have returned to his previous life.

To understand the medicinal properties of herbs, he had once spent hundreds of years immersed in herbs below the third rank.

Back then, he refined and concocted over and over again.

Now, he was back to the old days.

But this time, it was tens of millions of times harder than before!

After all, back then his perception could clearly sense the medicinal properties.

But now, he could not sense them at all!

That natural repulsion prevented him from getting close.

However, he did not care.

This kind of extremely tedious refinement would be unbearable for any Heavenly Physician.

But Ye Yuan found it sweet!

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter passed in endless cycles.

Year after year.

In the blink of an eye, eighteen springs and autumns had passed.

Around Ye Yuan were piles of paste-like Dragon Bone Grass.

However, these paste-like Dragon Bone Grass were crystal clear, almost transparent!