Sanhua Tongjin Dan

Long Chen's single sentence instantly reignited the anger Luo Bing had just suppressed. She pointed a trembling hand at Long Chen and said, "You…"

Watching a generation of Innate Realm experts trembling with rage because of Long Chen, Elder Tu Fang could not describe how satisfied he felt.

If this scene were seen by those who held a grudge against Luo Bing, they would definitely award Long Chen a medal for being a good person.

Although Luo Bing was not the most wicked person in the branch, she was definitely the most annoying person in the branch. Almost everyone loathed her, and many wished she would die immediately.

Because her mouth was truly infuriating enough to make people grit their teeth in hatred, especially those Elders from lower-ranked branches; there wasn't one who didn't hate her.

"What 'you'? Did I wrong you by saying you're sick? You say we fight, so we fight? Do you think this is a monkey show?"

"Let me tell you, without a wager, who would play with you for nothing? Do you think everyone is like you, bored and having nothing to do?" Long Chen said disdainfully.

Hearing Long Chen say this and seeing that he was not refusing the challenge, Luo Bing felt much more at ease. If he wanted to wager, that was even better; she had absolute confidence in the Disciples under her sect.

One had to know that their Disciples were the elite of the elite, and the resources consumed by their Disciples were absolutely dozens of times that of Long Chen's group.

The Spirit Stones here at Long Chen's place were supplied in limited quantities, whereas in the 36th Branch, the Spirit Stone arrays inside any Disciple's Immortal Cave were kept on day and night.

As for Medicinal Pills and weapons, as long as one was an outstanding Disciple, they were readily available. Therefore, most of the Disciples in the 36th Branch were in the Middle to Late Stage of their cultivation, and their Aura was extremely solid.

Looking from afar, their Aura alone was a cut above Long Chen's side, so Luo Bing simply did not put Long Chen and his group in her eyes.

Now that she heard Long Chen actually wanted to wager, Luo Bing couldn't help but show a mocking expression: "What kind of decent things can you take out in a backwater place like yours?"

"If it's just some torn clothes or tattered pants, forget it. We couldn't find that kind of garbage even if we worked ourselves to death."

After Luo Bing finished speaking, the Disciples behind her immediately burst into loud laughter:

"A bunch of poor ghosts, have you gone crazy from poverty? You actually want to wager?"

"Our monthly benefits are more than you get in a year. What do you have to bet against us with?"

"You can't say that. Didn't Elder Luo say they are just a bunch of pigs wasting food? They can use pork to bet."

"I don't want to eat pork. If you eat that stuff, it will make people as stupid as them. Better forget it."

Listening to the mockery from the Disciples opposite, Gu Yang and the others were so angry that their eyes seemed to be spitting fire. It was one thing for Luo Bing to mock them.

After all, she was an Innate Realm expert, a figure on the level of a Sect Leader. Being mocked by her, they could only endure it; after all, in front of an Innate Realm expert, they didn't even count as ants.

However, facing mockery from Disciples of the same rank, the nature of the situation was different, and everyone was gnashing their teeth in anger.

Long Chen smiled slightly and didn't get angry. These petty tricks were not enough to make him angry. If he got angry, wouldn't that mean the other party succeeded?

Therefore, Long Chen had summarized an experience: when an enemy wants to make you angry, you must not get angry, at least not show it on the surface, otherwise you would fall into their trap.

The more indifferent you are, the more the other party feels like they are punching the air, and it is they who feel uncomfortable instead. This is a strategy.

"That's right, we are in a backwater, and we don't have anything decent to bring out, so let's just bet with this."

After saying that, Long Chen took out a jade bottle from his spatial ring, poured out a Medicinal Pill, and flicked his finger. The pill cut through the air with a gust of wind and flew straight towards Luo Bing.

Clap!

Luo Bing reached out and caught the pill, a mocking expression appearing on her face. Medicinal Pills were nothing in their 36th Branch; presumably, it was treated as a treasure here.

After taking a slight look at the pill in her hand, Luo Bing's expression changed instantly. Thinking she had misread it, she brought it to her nose to smell it, then looked at it again carefully, saying somewhat uncertainly: "Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill?"

The Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was an extremely precious pill among Tier 3 Medicinal Pills, especially since its main ingredient, the Three-Pass Flower, was very rare.

Even in the branch, such medicinal materials were very precious and the price was very high.

The Three-Pass Flower was a very strange flower; one stalk bloomed three flowers, and the three flowers were connected, yet their colors were different, and they grew in bitterly cold places.

Furthermore, the Three-Pass Flower needed for the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill had to be over a hundred years old. If it were just the medicinal materials being precious, that would be one thing.

The most frustrating thing was that refining the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was very time-consuming and the difficulty of refining was extremely high. Even for Long Chen, wanting to refine a furnace of Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills required six hours.

There was no way around it; refining the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill required four stages and five different heat controls to be switched back and forth, and the failure rate was extremely high.

Therefore, ordinary alchemists were least willing to refine the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill, because an ordinary alchemist needed at least three days to refine a furnace of Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills.

Because the super high failure rate reached nearly eighty percent, thinking about working hard until one's eyes were as red as a rabbit's, only to see that one had painstakingly refined a furnace of waste pills—that feeling was absolutely enough to make one want to commit suicide.

Therefore, the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was very rare. Long Chen had also refined a few furnaces, but he couldn't continue; this thing was too exhausting.

However, although the process was exhausting, the value of the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was absolutely immense. It could greatly nourish the Meridians of Tendon-Clearing Realm experts.

The so-called Tendon-Clearing was the strengthening of a person's tendons. Tendons were an important part connecting bones and muscles. If only the flesh and blood were strong, but the tendons were not strong, they would directly shatter.

The first Realm of cultivation is Qi Gathering, and the second Realm is Blood Condensation; using Qi to nourish blood, and using blood to nourish flesh, allowing muscle strength to reach the extreme.

However, having strong muscles alone was useless. How much power muscles could exert depended on how strong a person's meridian resilience was.

Without tendons, no matter how strong the muscles were, they were dead meat. Therefore, Tendon-Clearing stood at the third Realm, like a natural chasm, blocking the path of cultivation.

Therefore, the Tendon-Clearing Realm was crucial for cultivators; only with strong Meridians could one unleash the true power of the Physical Body.

And the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill did not raise one's Realm, but specifically nourished Meridians; for a Tendon-Clearing Realm expert, it was simply a divine medicine.

However, the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was extremely precious. Even in the 36th Branch, a core Disciple could only receive ten per month, and an Inner Sect Disciple only got one per month.

As for Outer Sect Disciples, they couldn't get such good Medicinal Pills at all and could only find other pills to replace them. Such pills were only available in the top fifty branches; logically, Long Chen and his group shouldn't even have heard of them.

Not to mention Luo Bing, even Elder Tu Fang and the others felt it was incredible. He had seen the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill, but where did Long Chen get it?

Although he had heard that Long Chen seemed to be able to perform Alchemy, he didn't quite believe that this Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was refined by Long Chen, because even a seasoned alchemist found it very difficult to refine a High Grade Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill.

"That's right, it is the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill. We are in a backwater here, and I really don't have anything good, so I can only take some snacks to gamble with for fun."

After Long Chen finished speaking, a few more Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills appeared in his hand, and he reached out and tossed one into his mouth.

"Crunch, crunch."

Just like chewing candy beans; the relaxed and comfortable manner made even Tu Fang's face twitch. It was too wasteful.

That Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill needed to be taken with other auxiliary medicines, and even more so, it needed Dragon Whisker Root water as a medicinal primer to unleash its maximum power.

Long Chen eating it dry like this meant he couldn't even absorb half of the medicinal power, so Elder Tu Fang and the group of Elders all felt a twinge of heartache.

Actually, Long Chen's heart also ached; he had worked himself half to death to refine only a dozen or so. Most importantly, he hadn't even entered the Tendon-Clearing Realm yet.

This Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill was really eaten as candy; it had no effect. The only effect it was intended to have was to show off.

"Hey, hey, what do you say? Are you going to bet or not? It's just betting some snacks, don't act like your man died and put on a widow's face. If you're not betting, you can get lost." At this moment, Guo Ran stood beside Long Chen and seized the Opportunity to interject.

With Long Chen by his side, mocking an Innate Realm expert was a huge Opportunity.

In the future, he could brag to his partners: When I was still in the Tendon-Clearing Realm, I dared to point at the nose of an Innate Realm expert and scold her, and she didn't even dare to talk back.

Luo Bing's expression sank: "Hmph, it's just a Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill. It's a treasure in your branch, but it's nothing in our branch. Speak, how do you want to bet?"

Long Chen shook his head and said: "What treasure or not, I don't understand at all. I already said it's just betting some snacks."

After speaking, Long Chen took out three large jade bottles more than a foot high and pulled out the stoppers. A rich medicinal fragrance radiated out, causing everyone's expressions to change.

That scent was indeed the scent of the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill. Long Chen shook the jade bottles to show they were full, and poured out a few pills from each jade bottle to show everyone. They were indeed all Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills, each with pill halos, all of them High Grade.

In fact, before Luo Bing issued the challenge, Long Chen had already anticipated this outcome and had beforehand packed the refined Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills into several bottles separately.

Actually, those bottles were filled with other Medicinal Pills, only the medicinal properties were similar to the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill.

And the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills that Long Chen put in were all at the mouth of the bottle, covering up the other pills. In fact, if one carefully distinguished, one could still tell the difference.

However, everyone was misled by Long Chen's preconceived notion, because he really ate the Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pill as a snack, so they naturally believed in Long Chen's subsequent actions.

After proving it, Long Chen put the Medicinal Pills away and looked at the dumbfounded Luo Bing, saying: "Actually, I was just bragging earlier, don't take it to heart. I don't have that many Three Flower Tendon-Clearing Pills, just over eight hundred."

"Over eight hundred?"

Even though Luo Bing was an Innate Realm expert, she couldn't help but feel her heart jump wildly, and she looked at Long Chen with some disbelief.

"Since we are competing ten times, let's do this: eighty pills per time, how about that?" Long Chen said very generously.

"This…" Luo Bing hesitated.

Long Chen frowned and sneered: "Who was it that said just now, something about a backwater, something about torn clothes and tattered pants, saying we couldn't bring out anything decent?"

"I don't have a very good memory; I forgot who exactly said that earlier. Could you please tell me, Senior?"