Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit Chapter 265 – Betting

Lu Ping was baffled as he never thought that he would get involved in this matter. This Mister Yue was a strange guy, why was he trying to provoke him?

The Shangguan Clan head didn't say anything, while Li Mao-Lin was quietly shocked.

In his early years of cultivation, Mister Yue had taken a wrong step in his cultivation leading to irreversible damage to his cultivation foundation. As a result, he could never advance to the Core Forging Realm, which put an unbreakable limit on his alchemy achievements.

Hence, although Mister Yue's alchemy was extremely good, even better than some of Master Alchemists at concocting half-step Core Forging Realm medicinal pellets, he could never concoct Core Forging Realm pellets and become a true Master Alchemist.

Overtime, his awkward situation had created a twisted personality – he was extremely jealous of young and talented alchemists, and couldn't stand to see them surpassing him in becoming Master Alchemists.

Mister Yue had convinced himself that fate was jealous of his potential, and so it stripped him of his potential and gave it to others. He became resentful and hated every talent, so he always criticized them, trampling on their confidence and self-esteem.

Alchemists always knew how to recognize other alchemists. While the Shangguan Clan's clan head was speculating who the Li Clan's representative in the Alchemy Conference was, Yue Jiang-Rui already knew it was Lu Ping.

In order to take part in the Alchemy Conference for medium-sized organizations, alchemists had to be at least capable of concocting Late Blood Condensation Realm medicinal pellets. However, in order to avoid being laughed at, the alchemists would have to be able to concoct half-step Core Forging Realm pellets, or in other words, be Quasi-Master Alchemists.

Lu Ping wasn’t even 30 years old, yet, not only was he in the Peak Blood Condensation Realm, he was also a Quasi-Master Alchemist. Hence, in Yue Jiang-Rui's view, it was almost guaranteed that Lu Ping would become a Master Alchemist after he advanced into

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