Return Of The Demon - 141 The young man takes the barrier breaking pill

“Were you successful?” The young man asked Bai Yun nervously.

“Of course.” Bai Yun said with a smile. He then picked up the pill he had kept in the store yesterday and handed it to the young man.

The young man held the medicine in his hand nervously. To him, the value of this pill was indescribable. It was this pill that would decide whether all of his efforts for the past few years had been successful or not.

The young man stood in the store and looked over the pill in the bottle. But the more he looked at it the weirder his eyes became.

“This looks different than the barrier breaking pills I have seen before in the other shops?” The young man asked.

“That is because this one is better.” Bai Yun simply replied.

The young man looked a bit confused at this. But then he took a close look at the pill, and his eyes bulged. That was because he just noticed the circle on the pill. No matter what the pill was, a pill with a circle was extremely valuable. While a single circle pill might not be too valuable in a place like yellow city, it was not the case in terracotta hill. Here the value of a circle pill, even if it was a defective one was incalculable.

“So did you bring the payment?” Bai Yun asked.

“Yes, yes.” The young man nodded. He was still a bit distracted by the value of the pill.

“Well then.” Bai Yun asked. The young man looked up sharply and slowly pulled out a pouch from his chest. He held it in his hand and kept on looking back and forth between the pill and the pouch.

“Are you worried if this pill will be as effective as I said it would be?” Bai Yun asked, noticing the young man’s nervousness.

The young man nodded. He was indeed worried about this. He was worried that the pill might be fake. After all, he hadn’t seen a pill like this before.

“In that case, why don’t you take the pill here.” Bai Yun suggested. “You can pay me after the pill works. And if it fails, all the people here can act as your witnesses when you go to the alchemy association.”

The young man looked at Bai Yun for a moment, before he nodded. He then kept his pouch by his side, and opened the pill bottle. As he did so, a refreshing medicinal scent wafted out. The young man took a deep breath and unconsciously smiled. But Bai Yun frowned when he smelled the scent of the pill. From the god of alchemy, he had heard that a true pill would be completely a single product, and it should not have any scent. Bai Yun thought that he still had to go a long way in the alchemy path.

Bai Yun sat back on his chair and calmly watched the young man use the barrier breaking pill. He was fully confident in his abilities and was sure that things would not go wrong.

As time progressed the young man’s body started to fill up with impurities. These were the impurities that were pushed out of his body’s meridians by the pill.

As the young mans digested the barrier breaking pill, many people from the nearby shops as well as some people walking on the road would occasionally look inside Bai Yun’s store. It was not every day that they got to see someone take a barrier breaking pill in an alchemy store in front of them.

There were two reasons Bai Yun decided to let the young man try the barrier breaking pill in his store. One was that he could see that the young man was confused, and he wanted to calm him down.

But there was another reason too. Bai Yun knew that the sight of the young man would inevitably draw in crowds. And seeing how successful the young man was, that would increase their confidence in Bai Yun. Free advertising never hurt anyone.

And time passed by quickly. Nearly an hour later, there was a sudden explosion from where the young man sat. A spiraling wind rose up from where the young man was sitting. Bai Yun smiled when he saw this. Bai Yun knew that this phenomenon was caused due to the young man breaking through to foundation establishment.

A few minutes later the young man opened his eyes wide open. Unmistakable joy could be seen in his eyes. Since he only condensed a single qi spiral instead of two like Bai Yun when he broke through to foundation establishment, it only him a short while to do so. He didn’t expect that the barrier breaking pill will not only help him break the barrier, but also break through to the foundation establishment realm in one scoop.

It wasn’t just the young man who was surprised. There were many whispered coming from around Bai Yun’s store. No one could believe the efficacy of Bai Yun’s medicine. Bai Yun simply sat in the middle of all this smiling.

The young man suddenly stood up rapidly and jumped towards Bai Yun with his arms outstretched to hug him. But Bai Yun quickly pulled out his sword and pointed it at the young man. A moment later the young man came to a stop with Bai Yun’s sword pointed at his throat.

Seeing the confusion and fear in the young man’s eyes, Bai Yun smiled. “Before you go hug someone, why don’t you look at yourself first.”

Hearing this the young man looked down at himself. He then realized that he was covered in the impurities that the barrier breaking pill had pushed out of him. He gave a wry smile when he realized this.

“There is a shower upstairs. You can go and take a quick shower.” Bai Yun said. The young man nodded and walked upstairs. Bai Yun continued to sit in his chair with a smile.

A few minutes later, the young man came down. He had showered off all the dirt. But since he did have a change of clothes, he wore his wet clothes on him.

“I have no words to thank you. Your pill worked better than I could have ever expected.” The young man said, nearly crying.

“I don’t need thanks, just the payment.” Bai Yun replied.

“Yes yes.” The young man nodded. He quickly picked up the pouch from inside his clothes and handed it over to Bai Yun. Bai Yun quickly swept the inside of the punch with his soul sense to confirm that the full payment was there, and put it away.

“If I wasn’t wet I would hug you.” The young man said once again.

Bai Yun only chuckled in response. The young man thanked him for a while more before leaving. As he left, he loudly shouted the virtues of Bia Yun’s shop. He had clearly understood that Bai Yun had used him as a promotion. But he was grateful for Bai Yun’s pill’s efficiency and didn’t mind advertising Bai Yun’s shop a bit.

Bai Yun chuckled and closed down his shop. It had already taken an hour for the young man to break through to foundation establishment.

Bai Yun then went back up to the training room and continued his training regiment that he had come up with yesterday. He stated with false armor, then lions roar, followed by moonlight sword and finally soundless motion. Bai Yun once again felt the same feeling he felt yesterday, that he was close to a breakthrough, but it did not happen.

The next day Bai Yun opened the shop on time, but nothing special happened. There were definitely more glances here due to the commotion yesterday, but no one came in.

Bai Yun closed the shop and went back to training. His training went smoothly, and the feeling of a breakthrough in soundless motion arrived, but it did not lead to anything more.

The next day Bai Yun was surprised when he opened the door of the shop. There was actually someone waiting in front of his door.

After a moment Bai Yun realized that he recognized the man. It was the shopkeeper of the alchemy shop opposite to him. The alchemy shop opposite to him was run by a local family. It wasn’t a large shop but it did okay.

Bai Yun quickly invited him in. The shopkeeper sat down opposite Bai Yun and quickly explained his problem.

It seemed that yesterday one of the clerks in the shop took a large order for many pills from a customer. The shop does this kind of orders often. But what the clerk didn’t know was that many of the store’s alchemists were currently busy with other big orders and some were not here.

But this was not an unprecedented problem for the store. Such incidents of taking more orders than they could handle had happened in the past. At those times they would call upon some freelance alchemists in the city, or go to some smaller stores and have them prepare the pills. This was usually costlier, but it was worth it for getting the trust of the customers.

So this time also the shopkeeper went to his usual alchemists. But due to the explosion of raw ingredients from the poison valley, the alchemist association had rented out many of them. So there was a shortage of alchemists in terracotta hill.

So the shopkeeper had been going about looking for alchemists to hire. It was at this point that he remembered Bai Yun and that he had made a pill that helped the young man breakthrough a few days ago. Without a lot of choice, he came to Bai Yun to ask him to make a few pills.

Bai Yun thought about the shopkeeper’s offer for a while and finally agreed. Not only would this mean that he would be able to make some money, he could also have a good relationship with the store.

The two of them then spent the next few minutes haggling over the price. The two of them finally settled on forty percent of a pill as the fee, and one and a half times the sets of raw materials as the number of pills. That is, if there were a hundred pills that Bai Yun had to give to the shopkeeper, then the shopkeeper would give Bai Yun one hundred and fifty sets of raw ingredients. Bai Yun also made the shopkeeper promise that if the shopkeeper ever came across a pill he couldn’t refine, then he would direct the client to Bai Yun.

Bai Yun took a good number of pills to be made. When the storekeeper heard the number of pills that Bai Yun was ready to accept, he was surprised, as he didn’t think that Ba Yun could finish them all in time. But Bai Yun tried to calm him down by saying that he had some helpers. He also asked for a few extra cauldrons from the shopkeeper. Bai Yun was sure that once he was familiar with the pill, he would be able to make multiple pills at the same time.

Finally, the shopkeeper and Bai Yun came to an agreement. The shopkeeper left the raw ingredients with Bai Yun, and quickly left.

Bai Yun closed the door behind the shopkeeper and hung up the sign that said that he would be busy for a few days.

As Bai Yun turned around, he had a faint smile on his face. This was a good haul for him.