The God of Medicine is Strong Without a Match

Patriarch Selection Meeting

Today, Chen Xiang did not go to speed up the growth of the spirit herbs. Early in the morning, he instead went to the field located in the middle of the Chen family villa, as today was the day to settle the position of the new patriarch. The position of the patriarch of the Chen family had been vacant for three months, causing the Chen family to be somewhat chaotic.

The Chen family villa grounds were covered with bricks, and many important children from the entire Chen family stood there, which roughly numbered three hundred elite juniors of the Chen family.

Everyone from the Chen family surrounded the field, and the large area in the middle was left empty, where five middle-aged men stood, one of whom was Chen Tianhu.

Chen Xiang was also present among the crowd, watching everything happily, and was ready to plunge at any time to help his father compete for the position of patriarch.

A middle-aged man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, gray hair, said as he sneered, “Chen Tianhu, you know we have one very important condition for the position of the patriarch of the Chen family.”

The middle-aged man's name was Chen Haohai, and he was the commander of the Chen family branch. He was also older than Chen Tianhu and was at level 7 of the Mortal Martial Realm. This branch of the Chen family was also quite strong, so he thought he had the qualifications to become the patriarch of the Chen family. In seniority, Chen Xiang needed to call him uncle.

Chen Tianhu's eyes, which were filled with anger, looked at Chen Haohai and he coldly said, “Of course I know, the patriarch's relatives should have good potential, to avoid misuse of resources to waste to their family members.”

Chen Xiang's mother was already dead, and because Chen Xiang was wise he never asked about how he died, so Chen Tianhu was Chen Xiang's only close relative.

“Ha-ha..but your son does not have a Spiritual Vein, so if you get the position of patriarch, you will definitely spend a lot of precious pills for him! Everyone knows over the years you have bought many potions and spirit pills and used them on him. Aren't you going to help your son again?” Chen Haohai laughingly said, “Everyone knows he is a waste that can never progress!”

Chen Tianhu naturally knew that his son was a genius amongst his peers, but he only wanted to hide his strength and not expose it, otherwise it would cause trouble.

“My son can release the fire of True Qi! He could potentially become an alchemist, who said he was useless? The elder of the Chen family would probably have another opinion. ” Chen Tianhu said while sneering.

At this moment everyone started to discuss. Chen Xiang rejected the offer to become a disciple of the Spirit Dan Hall master already scattered throughout Wohu city. Although Chen Xiang did not possess the Spiritual Vein, but he was still able to release the True Qi flame so he had a chance to become an alchemist.

Chen Haohai snorted and said coldly, “But he refuses to become a Spirit Dan Hall master disciple. He doesn't even have a teacher so he'll have trouble becoming an alchemist.”

At this point, Chen Xiang's calm and steady voice was heard by everyone, “I can now fix ‘Quenching Body Dan’ Low level Mortal.”

Hearing Chen Xiang's words, everyone stared blankly, and Chen Haohai started laughing: “Huang Kou Xiao Er, you are only sixteen years old and can already refine pills? Don't think lying will help your father fight over the patriarch's position. Also, lying in front of an elder can cause you to have some severe punishments.

[TLN: Huang kou xiao er is a Chinese proverb meaning stinky mouth, I can not find a similar saying in English, it is used to mock someone younger, it is, if you can think of anything, please comment.]

“You think you are the genius of the Yao family? The people from the Yao family belonged to one of the pill-making aristocratic families! They have a strong heritage.”

Chen Xiang walked over from within the crowd, and with a steady gaze and calm complexion, he filed an alchemy furnace, looked at the sneering Chen Haohai, and said, “Do you dare to bet with me? I can fix ‘Quenching Body Dan’ in one try. If I succeed, how about you kowtow to apologize to me in front of everyone? ”

Chen Haohai started laughing again, and everyone became dumbfounded, they did not even think that Chen Xiang could be this presumptuous in front of an elder!

Chen Haohai became angry because of Chen Xiang's attitude. Not only was Chen Xiang much younger than him and he was also opposing him in front of everyone.

Chen Tianhu fully supported his son's actions, and he was currently proud of his son's response.

Chen Haohai's face was full of anger, and he heavily said, “What are you saying!” On the sidelines of the conversation, True Qi rushed towards Chen Xiang, but was actually dispersed by Chen Tianhu.

Chen Xiang repeated it with a serious face making sure no one thought of it as a joke, let alone his expression was also filled with arrogance. Could a teenager face an older person like this, not many within the Chen family would dare to think of doing something like this.

Chen Haohai trembled in anger, as he saw Chen Xiang asking with a serious gaze, and he did not dare to comply immediately, but everyone around was waiting for a response.

Chen Xiang watched Chen Haohai ama, as he continued, “You slandered me in public by declaring me a useless piece of trash, and now I want to prove myself, he said, at the same time make you apologize to me! As a senior you still refuse to bet with me?

Chen Haohai wanted to defeat this little brat, but he actually did not dare. After all, killing a child from the Chen family was a very serious matter.

An old man said, “Because it is like that, Chen Haohai you bet with him, but kowtow's apology is excluded, after all, it is just a few angry words from a brat. If he can refine the pill in one attempt, your Chen Haohai will have to compensate accordingly.

“I agree, if my son loses, I will not fight for the position of patriarch!” Said Chen Tianhu, then nodded his head towards Chen Xiang.

Chen Tianhu's words caused an uproar!

Chen Haohai as he snorted said, “Oke, I'll bet, if I lose, than I will give him my thousand-year-old Blood Spirit Grass.”

A thousand year old Blood Spirit Grass! Everyone together shouted in a low voice. How could they not be surprised, the Blood Spirit Grass that had grown for a thousand years was an extremely expensive and profound low-level spirit herb.

“Chen Xiang, if you start alchemy now about how long do you need?” The old man asked, He is an elder of the Chen family and carries a certain prestige.

According to everyone's understanding, refining a low-tier Mortal Level pill would at least take half a day, and the fastest one would be two or three hours, but now it is being perfected by a sixteen year old teenager.

“Quickly, we don't need to delay much time!” In between the conversations, Chen Xiang sat down cross-legged, and that elder and Chen Haohai came to inspect the alchemy furnace, to prevent Chen Xiang from cheating.

“Low alchemy furnace, it seems that Chen Tianhu, that you are very poor!” Chen Haohai started sneering, as everyone knew that all of Chen Tianhu's money was spent on Chen Xiang.

Chen Xiang finished taking out the herbs from his storage pouch, resetting and examining them. While pouring his warm True Qi flame into the furnace, he put all the herbs into it, and each movement was meticulous.

But that True Qi fire also made everyone a little surprised. Although many people can release fire to attack but they can only do so through some martial skills and that fire can only be released for the purpose of attacking. In simple words, they could not control fire as freely as Chen Xiang, and only if they practiced any type of fire control exercise could they do it, but this exercise was extremely rare and difficult to do.

Chen Xiang was constantly pouring fire into the alchemy furnace, and currently, from within the alchemy furnace, the smell of some herbal scents leaked out.

An hour had passed, and everyone was looking with their eyes closed that Chen Xiang's brows suddenly started twitching. The audience knew he was in the most important phase, and Chen Haohai who was also watching this started to sweat. He was worried that he would have to hand over the thousand-year-old Blood Spirit Grass if he lost.

Everyone saw smoke drifting out from within the alchemy furnace, and at this moment Chen Xiang also opened his eyes and with a happy expression stood up and said, “Please check.”

“What? Finished in an hour?” Everyone's expression was full of questions.

The elder started to check first! Although he did not know much about alchemy, he was fully aware of the alchemy process, and he had observed Chen Xiang closely, knowing that Chen Xiang was following the basic steps of alchemy. Although he was unclear about the situation inside the alchemy furnace, he was able to feel the heat in the furnace constantly changing, and this change was extremely subtle.

Opening the lid of the furnace, everyone smelled a faint fragrance of herbs, and they were completely familiar with this scent. Moreover, they had also witnessed the refining process, and when they saw the elder take out five snow-white pills, everyone could not help but exclaim.