Chapter 30: The Master’s Teachings

"Is Su Chen crazy? Or is he drunk and talking nonsense?"

"It's okay for him to offend the alchemist himself, but don't implicate our Jiang family!"

Jiang He's face was also extremely ugly. He never dreamed that Su Chen would say such a thing. He looked at Su Chen with a gloomy face and said, "Su Chen, I invited you to the banquet, not to make you crazy. From the look of you, do you intend to ignore our Jiang family?"

"Third brother!" Xu Yin also stood up and said, "Xiao Chen must have a reason for saying that, why not let him finish!"

Jiang He said with a gloomy face, "Let him finish? Listen to what he said, he wants to make our Jiang family offend Mr. Qian!"

As he said, Jiang He walked towards Su Chen, and said as he walked, "Su Chen, don't blame me, you are so outspoken, and I don't know how many people you will offend in the future. Instead of that, I might as well teach you a lesson now so that you will remember it."

As he said, Jiang He planned to teach Su Chen a lesson in person in front of everyone.

It was at this moment.

"Wait!" Master Qian Dan suddenly spoke up and interrupted Jiang He's actions directly.

Then, Master Qian Dan slowly walked to Su Chen, looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze, and asked: "Young man, are you saying that what I just said was wrong?"

Su Chen smiled faintly, and said without raising his head: "Whether it is right or not, you should know it very well. It is obviously a wrong answer, but you still teach it. Do you want to say that you are misleading the students?"

As soon as these words came out, Master Qian Dan's face changed drastically, and the muscles on his face trembled uncontrollably, looking at Su Chen in disbelief.

Jiang Minghao on the side couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and immediately shouted angrily: "Su Chen! You are a lowly thing, don't be rude to my teacher!"

As soon as the voice fell, Master Qian turned around and scolded Jiang Minghao: "Shut up!"

Jiang Minghao was surprised and said in disbelief: "Teacher, he was rude to you, why did you ask me to shut up?"

"Just shut up when I told you to shut up, why are you asking so many questions?" Master Qian's face was extremely serious. After saying that, he ignored Jiang Minghao and turned around to pay respect to Su Chen. "The master just taught me a lesson! I didn't know the master was here before, please forgive me!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a strange silence in the whole banquet hall!

Jiang Minghao blinked, almost thinking that he was dreaming, and the others present looked at each other in disbelief.

Master Qian actually called Su Chen a master?

Is this world broken?

Master Qian ignored the shock of the crowd and said to Su Chen earnestly: "I hope you can teach me why my answer to the question about the eight-leaf potato root and the blue ash is wrong?"

Seeing Master Qian being so respectful to Su Chen, Jiang Shan and Jiang He on the side just couldn't accept it. Who is Master Qian? He is the person whose status in the Qinghe City Alchemy Guild is second only to Master Mo. If you want to say who can make Master Qian so respectful, I'm afraid only Master Mo can do it?

And now, the high and mighty Master Qian is respectful to Su Chen, who is only fifteen years old, and even calls him "master", obviously treating Su Chen as a person like Master Mo.

Why? Is it just because of what Su Chen said just now?

Jiang Shan and Jiang He stared at Su Chen with complicated feelings, but Su Chen seemed not to see their gazes, and just said to Master Qian Dan lightly: "It seems that you know that the answer just now is problematic?"

Master Qian Dan nodded heavily: "Junior naturally knows. In fact, junior has doubted the answer to that question for a long time. Because every time I use eight-leaf potato roots to refine the God-Transforming Pill, the slight toxicity in the God-Transforming Grass can never be completely neutralized, and the quality of the refined God-Transforming Pill is always average. So, I have always doubted whether adding eight-leaf potato roots to the God-Transforming Pill is the best choice."

In fact, this problem has troubled Master Qian Dan for nearly ten years. During this period, he has consulted a lot of information, but in every alchemy book, the formula of the God-Transforming Pill contains eight-leaf potato roots, not blue yam or other materials.

Only in an ancient book of a very long time did Master Qian Dan see a record different from other books. In that ancient book, a completely opposite view from other books was given, saying that adding eight-leaf potato roots to the God-Transforming Pill is not the best choice!

But unfortunately, the ancient book did not explain why, nor did it say which material was the best choice. Moreover, few people had read that ancient book, and now alchemists generally believed that eight-leaf potato roots should be added to the Huashen Pill. Over time, eight-leaf potato roots became the standard answer.

Only alchemists like Qian Danshi, who are more serious, always have doubts about eight-leaf potato roots.

It is precisely because Qian Danshi pondered this issue every day that he unconsciously asked this question when he tested Jiang Minghao just now.

However, Su Chen said categorically that it was wrong to add eight-leaf potato roots to Huashen Pill, which was exactly the same as the view in that ancient book!

This made Qian Danshi realize that Su Chen's alchemy attainments must be extremely extraordinary!

Therefore, he immediately paid a visit to Su Chen and called him a master!

Master Qian was so surprised that he didn't expect that there was such a low-key alchemy master hidden in the Jiang family!

At this moment, Master Qian suppressed the feeling of being frightened and looked at Su Chen with extremely hopeful eyes, hoping to get Su Chen's advice.

"Do you know what's wrong with the eight-leaf potato root?" Su Chen said.

Master Qian immediately restrained his expression and said, "Please teach me."

Su Chen said, "In fact, the reason is very simple, just as you said, the eight-leaf potato root is not able to neutralize the toxicity, resulting in the quality of the Shenhua Pills refined every time is always average. If you use Lanwuzi instead, there will be no such problem."

"But if you use Lanwuzi, won't it make it difficult to condense the pill?" Master Qian couldn't help showing a trace of disappointment on his face. He thought Su Chen could say something that would make people suddenly enlightened, but he didn't expect it to be a cliché. Lanwuzi has long been proven to be unsuitable for refining Shenhua Pills, and it has been verified many times.

But, just when Master Qian Dan was secretly disappointed, he heard Su Chen say calmly: "Blue Wuzi will indeed make it difficult to condense the pill, because the mature blue Wuzi contains a special substance that will counteract the medicinal properties of the small jade grass."

"But if you use immature blue Wuzi instead, there will be no problem."

When Su Chen said this, Master Qian Dan was stunned on the spot.

Use immature blue Wuzi?

Why didn't he think of it?

Master Qian Dan immediately calculated quickly in his mind: "Immature blue Wuzi will not emit that special substance, so it will not counteract the small jade grass. However, immature blue Wuzi still has the effect of neutralizing the toxicity of the divine grass, so..."

Scenes of the refining process flashed through Master Qian Dan's mind quickly, and his eyes became brighter and brighter. Finally, he slapped his thigh and sighed: "Yes! Why am I so stupid! Just use immature blue Wuzi instead!"