Before leaving the imperial capital city, Austin had bought enough materials to make the Energy-prevailing Elixir. The shortage of elixir was the last thing on his mind.
Using the purple brown herbal pot, Austin began practicing how to make the Energy-prevailing Elixir. After he failed almost forty times, Austin was finally able to grasp the skills of making the Energy-prevailing Elixir. He could now make it successfully and easily.
The elixirs that were spent in the failed forty attempts were obviously wasted. Those elixirs were worth an estimated hundred thousand vital energy crystals. Hence, if a person wanted to be a pill refiner, he must have ample resources to practice his skills. The road of growing into a successful pill refiner was really made up with vital energy crystals.
Austin was fortunately rich enough. The spending of such an enormous amount of vital energy crystals did not ruffle him.
After Austin could successfully make the Energy-prevailing Elixirs, he made much more taking his count to over 20. He consumed all the materials that he had bought from the imperial capital city.
Austin's skill in making grade three pills had reached a sufficient mark and he was now completely qualified to be a grade three pill refiner.
A grade three pill refiner could enjoy a high position within the Violet Orchid Empire.
Grade three pills, like the Energy-prevailing Elixir, were rare even for the Sun Sect which was one of the top five sects of the Violet Orchid Empire. As a matter of fact, they were only provided in limited amounts to highly talented disciples.
In the Sun Sect, it was only the inner disciples and the principal disciples that had the chance to be offered some Energy-prevailing Elixirs.
So if there was a pill refiner who was able to make grade three elixirs, all the sects, including Sun Sect, one of the top five in the Violet Orchid Empire would try their best to keep a good faith with him and keep him happy.
After putting away all the Energy-prevailing Elixirs and the herbal pot, Austin stretched his body lazily and gave off his spiritual sense into the atmosphere.
Deep in the valley, Violet was chatting with other demonic foxes who were her best friends. The gnome however was nowhere to be found.
In the last few days whenever Austin indulged himself in alchemy, Violet would spend time with her good friends. The gnome, being exuberant in nature, found it difficult to stay at one place all this time. This implied that Austin didn't always know where the gnome was.
Sometimes the gnome was interested in watching Austin practice making pills, so he would stay beside Austin for a while. When he got bored, the gnome would go on a search for some herbs to eat.
Austin had found out that most of the time he couldn't sense where the gnome was through his spiritual sense force. Austin had noticed this when he was in the valley in the Mysterious Nether World where Angus lived.
In that small valley, Angus had set up a huge array with great spiritual sense, which gave off extremely tremendous spiritual sense force. Covered by that, both Austin and Violet felt impossible to take a small step. However, the gnome could run around as usual, as if the spiritual sense force had no effect on him whatsoever.
From then on, Austin started to pay attention to the gnome's talents.
Austin found that sometimes even when the gnome was nearby, he could not feel the gnome's existence with his spiritual sense at all. When his spiritual sense force swept over the body of the gnome, he found nothing there.
As Austin had expected, the gnome appeared out of thin air not far after a short while. He had herbs at the fifth or sixth grade in his arms and ate the herbs leisurely, enjoying the activity thoroughly. The gnome seemed comfortable in the warm sunshine.
On seeing Austin looking at the herbs in his arms, the gnome became alert. He pulled the herbs towards him and hugged them tightly and tried to hide them behind his back.
Austin smiled patronizingly while shaking his head.
The level six rhinoceros king had almost recovered by now. Violet had not attempted to kill it and hence it was not injured badly. Plus, Austin had given it a great many elixirs of high grades.
So the rhinoceros king was almost as healthy as before other than some wounds on its skin.
It had been staying around Austin for these days, being loyal to its benevolent master.
All the demonic beasts and diabolic beasts were absolutely loyal to their master as long as they had been subdued with the Beast-subduing Skill. They were supremely obedient.
Austin felt content with the loyalty of the rhinoceros king.
"It seems I shall subdue more demonic beasts or diabolic beasts soon," Austin murmured.
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