Blue Phoenix Chapter 417 - Candy Apple

The days passed by quietly as Hui Yue spent all his time in his room refining medicinal pills. The only time he left his room was when he needed to visit the Black Market Auction House or the Alchemist Guild to trade his pills for other formulas or ingredients.

Although Hui Yue wished to support the Ma family’s auction house as much as he could, he knew that they had almost emptied their treasury of herbs to obtain the flying swords he made. Even for the Ma family, they could only buy so many herbs from mercenaries entering the city. The herbs Hui Yue needed now were no longer easily attainable. The plants he needed were increasingly rare and very hard to come by.

This was the reason why Hui Yue had to visit both places to get his materials.

At first, Hui Yue was nervous that someone would comment on a second-ranked alchemist trading medicinal pills of the seventh rank but he soon found that the Alchemist Guild asked no questions. Whether it was about buying pills or selling materials, no questions were asked. This made everything much easier for Hui Yue.

While Hui Yue spent every day refining medicine he found that his strength was constantly growing. His internal energy felt much more profound than it had before, and it had noticeably increased.

A smile played on Hui Yue's lips as he clenched his hand and felt the raw strength surge through his body. His decision to focus on increasing his strength had without a doubt been the right one.

'Tomorrow the annual pill auction will begin. Another two days after the start of the auction the alchemist’s contest will begin as well. I suppose I have trained enough for the contest,' Hui Yue told Lan Feng while at the same time trying to convince himself that he was proficient enough in pill concocting. Not knowing the strength of his opponents was enough to make him feel worried.

'Are you going to sell some of your pills at the auction?' Lan Feng asked curiously, but Hui Yue just shook his head. 'All the pills I possess are pills of the seventh rank. Although they are high

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