Chapter 83: A Huge Uproar!

"Ye Yuan, you forced me to do this!" Lin Tiancheng looked at Ye Yuan, his eyes full of venom.

As he spoke, Lin Tiancheng's aura suddenly surged, and the surrounding primal energy crazily converged toward him.

Watching this, Ye Yuan's expression turned grave.

"Look! Senior Brother Lin... he's breaking through! He's about to break through to the Liquid Realm!"

"Senior Brother Lin could have broken through long ago, but he suppressed his strength to the Half-Step Liquid Realm just for the Earth-level advancement assessment."

"Alas, Senior Brother Lin was pushed to the brink by Ye Yuan. Who would have thought he could master Eightfold Waves? That's sixteen times the force!"

"Yeah, Ye Yuan is too strong. He's only at the sixth level of Primal Qi, yet he forced Senior Brother Lin, who's at Half-Step Liquid Realm, to this point! But... this is the end. Now that Senior Brother Lin has broken through to the Liquid Realm and Ye Yuan has used up all his trump cards, he has no chance of winning."

Everyone clearly didn't think highly of Ye Yuan. When Lin Tiancheng was at Half-Step Liquid Realm, Ye Yuan was already struggling. Now that he had broken through to the Liquid Realm, what could Ye Yuan use to fight him?

On a pavilion a hundred zhang away, Zuo Bugui patted his chest, looking startled: "Oh my god, that scared me to death. I almost lost the hard-earned Rhinoceros Beast Inner Core. I say, Old Dragon, now can you hand over your Spirit Essence Pill?"

Long Tang looked into the distance and sighed inwardly.

No matter how much Ye Yuan had calculated, he probably hadn't anticipated Lin Tiancheng's breakthrough in the midst of battle. Now he was truly on the defensive!

Though he didn't want to admit it, he knew that Ye Yuan's chances of winning were indeed slim.

But what he thought was one thing; what he said was another: "What's the rush? The fight isn't over yet!"

"Heh, you really won't give up until you see the coffin! It's already like this. Ye Yuan doesn't even have a one-tenth chance of winning. Why are you still stubbornly insisting?"

"You said it yourself, he still has less than a tenth chance. As long as the chance isn't zero, there's hope."

Though it sounded like he was just being stubborn, Long Tang himself was that kind of person. He wouldn't give up until truly hopeless.

Zuo Bugui was left speechless and had to say, "Fine! Let's just wait and see! When they're done, won't you obediently hand over the Spirit Essence Pill?"

...

On another pavilion, a young man and a middle-aged man stood casually.

"Second Uncle, what do you think?" the young man asked the middle-aged man.

"If this kid isn't eliminated, he will surely become a major threat to the Su family!"

"I think so too! I don't know what happened to him, but his progress this month has been terrifying!"

"No matter what happened, this kid cannot be spared! Ye Hang alone is already very troublesome. If his son grows up, the Su family might have to withdraw from the medicinal materials market!"

The young man nodded in agreement: "Second Uncle, what about the Punishment Hall...?"

"Don't worry, I've already informed the people below to pretend this incident doesn't exist. Let Ye Yuan and Lin Tiancheng fight first. Regardless of the outcome, Ye Yuan is dead."

Hearing this, the young man seemed relieved: "Those old fogies are quite patient. Second Uncle, you didn't make a move, and none of them showed up. It seems they have the same idea as us—to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight."

The middle-aged man sneered: "Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight? Hmph, just a couple of kittens."

Among these two, the young man was Su Yishan, the outstanding new generation of the Su family, while the middle-aged man was Su Yishan's second uncle, Su Yubai, who was also an elder of the Punishment Hall of the Danwu Academy!

Logically, they had long received the news and could have easily intervened to stop the fight.

But so far, not a single instructor had shown up, as if everyone had reached a tacit understanding to let Lin Tiancheng and Ye Yuan finish the fight!

...

Ye Yuan looked coldly at Lin Tiancheng, showing no intention of interrupting. Instead, he silently took out a super-grade Qi Recovery Pill and swallowed it.

A few days ago, when he returned to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion, Ye Yuan had casually refined a batch of practical pills.

With his strength, refining first-grade pills was basically a piece of cake.

After taking the super-grade first-grade Qi Recovery Pill, Ye Yuan's primal energy instantly returned to its peak state!

Such treatment was not something ordinary people could enjoy.

"What did Ye Yuan take? His primal energy recovered instantly!"

"Nonsense, it must be a Qi Recovery Pill!"

"But can a Qi Recovery Pill restore that much primal energy?"

"Well... maybe it's a higher grade?"

"How high a grade can restore primal energy to full?"

"This... Supreme grade? Super grade?"

"..."

Ye Yuan's act of swallowing the pill caught the attention of the onlookers.

Zuo Bugui seemed to notice something and exclaimed in surprise, "Old Dragon, look at Ye Yuan's chest!"

A martial artist's body, nourished by primal energy, far surpasses ordinary people. A distance of a hundred zhang wasn't too far for Liquid Realm martial artists.

Earlier, no one had noticed that Ye Yuan had an extra item on his chest.

But his act of swallowing the pill drew attention to the badge pinned on his chest.

Long Tang naturally saw that badge and couldn't help but gasp.

"Sigh... It's actually a Junior Alchemist badge!" Even the usually composed Long Tang was now astonished.

"Im... impossible, right? He's only at the sixth level of Primal Qi! Is that badge fake?" Zuo Bugui, like most people, thought the badge was counterfeit.

"How could it be? Who would dare to forge a badge issued by the Alchemist Guild? That would make them an enemy of all alchemists, and they'd definitely die without a burial place!"

"But with his soul power at the sixth level of Primal Qi, how could he refine second-grade pills?"

"I remember now. A few days ago, the academy organized a collective assessment, and Ye Yuan seemed to be among them! It looks like he went into seclusion after returning from the Alchemist Guild. That means when he became a Junior Alchemist, he was only at the fourth level of Primal Qi!"

Long Tang was also startled by his own analysis. If that were true, Ye Yuan was truly monstrous.

This discovery caused a huge uproar among the students, and everyone started discussing it. Of course, most of the talk was about... forgery.

Using a fake alchemist badge was far more serious than killing someone in the academy!

Su Yishan said gravely, "Second Uncle, what's with that badge? Did he really pass the alchemist assessment?"

Su Yubai's expression also darkened, but he nodded: "If Ye Yuan isn't an idiot, then the badge should be real! But... this kid is even more impossible to keep!"

"A Junior Alchemist at the sixth level of Primal Qi—Second Uncle, it might not be so easy to kill him, right?"

"Hmph! A dead genius... is no longer a genius! Could those old geeks oppose my Su family just because I killed a kid who violated academy rules?" Su Yubai sneered.

"Second Uncle, you mean...?"

Su Yubai made a throat-slitting gesture and said coldly, "When they're done, I'll go up and kill Ye Yuan directly!"