It didn't take long for the Xu Family to prepare these items.

They had been a family that had a long history of several thousand years, so they had a bit of resources accumulated.

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Not to mention that the ingredients that Lin Fan needed weren't considered very rare. They were rare, but they were only slightly rare.

Most of them were already in the Xu Family's storage and the ones that weren't were easily brought over from stores that were under the Xu Family's management.

Xu Lin had the subordinates of the Xu Family bring all the ingredients to a quiet room that he had prepared for Lin Fan.

All of this had only taken fifteen minutes, but during those fifteen minutes, Xu Lin's father had fallen unconscious again.

While most of the elders were watching over him, Xu Lin, his second uncle, and his fourth uncle all came to watch over Lin Fan.

But when they were about to enter the room, Lin Fan suddenly stopped them and said, "You can't come in and watch my refining process."

The two elders immediately knitted their brows when they heard this.

The second uncle came forward and said, "How can you expect us to trust you if you're not even willing to let us see what you make? I will not let you feed whatever you make to big brother like this! Who knows if it is poisoned or not!"

Lin Fan gave a shrug and said, "This is my recipe, you should know what that means."

The second uncle wanted to say something else, but he swallowed his words since he knew what Lin Fan meant by these words. This was a principle that had come from the Alchemy King Hall, but it had spread all over the upper realm.

Most alchemists had their own private recipes which they relied on to make money, or rather most of the famous ones.

Since that was the case, if they were to allow others to watch them refine pills, that would be showing their recipes to them which they definitely could not allow. It would be equal to taking away their livelihoods.

Even though he understood, the second uncle seemed like he still wanted to argue, but Xu Lin came forward to say, "Second uncle, there are enough ingredients here to refine more than one pill and I'm sure there won't be just a single pill in each batch, isn't that right, Senior Lin?"

Lin Fan looked at him for a bit before giving a nod.

Xu Lin then continued, "Since that's the case, how about we test one of the pills before feeding it to my father?"

The second uncle looked like he still didn't want to agree, but this was the best compromise for everyone, so he had no choice but to agree.

Since that matter was settled, Lin Fan went right into the room and closed the door.

It didn't take him long to finish refining this pill, but during the process, there was a lot of heat and sound that came from the room. It almost sounded like he was fighting a battle in there.

But once he opened the door and appeared again, Lin Fan shocked everyone who had been waiting there.

It wasn't his appearance that shocked him, but rather the appearance of the pills that were floating in his hands covered in flames.

When he took the first step out of the room, the flames around the pills dissipated and they fell down into Lin Fan's palms.

The three people waiting outside couldn't help rubbing their eyes before moving forward to look at the pills in Lin Fan's hand. When they saw the pills in full, they were shocked once again.

It hadn't been a mistake, they had actually seen the pill line on the surface of the pill.

The grades of pills used in the lower realm were only for pills that hadn't reached the Soul Realm yet, but once a pill reached the Soul Realm, it was no longer classified with the same grading.

Once a pill reached the Soul Realm, it was graded with pill lines that formed on the surface of the pill.

There were a total of nine pill lines that could form on a pill and the limit of the Soul Realm was three lines, but just forming a single pill line was already hard enough. Those that could surpassed the normal grading for alchemists, reaching the level of Pill Line Alchemists.

There were few Pill Line Alchemists in the entire upper realm, almost all of them were in the Alchemy King Hall.

That was because to push a pill to the Pill Line Grade, it required not only one to have a powerful cultivation, but also incredible skill in refining pills.

Most people only focused on one thing or the other, no one usually mastered both to the level of becoming a Pill Line Alchemist.

The status of a Pill Line Alchemist was much higher than normal experts since they were much rarer.

But one couldn't look down on Pill Line Alchemists either since they definitely weren't weak either. After all, these Pill Line Alchemists needed high enough cultivations to refine their flames to the point where they could refine Pill Line Grade Pills.

While the other three people looked at Lin Fan in shock, Lin Fan himself was quite a bit disappointed.

When he saw that there was only a single pill line on the pill that he had refined, he was filled with disappointment since he had expected it tok form at least two pill lines. But Lin Fan really was expecting too much since his spiritual sense had just reached the bottom line to refine Two Pill Line Pills.

After they were shocked for a while, they suddenly heard the boom of thunder over them.

Everyone with a bit of knowledge on alchemy knew that this was the thunder tribulation that was caused by the formation of a Pill Line Pill.

The three people surrounding Lin Fan backed away and Lin Fan looked up at the thunder cloud above him with a look of expectation.

After his tribulation last time, he hadn't been able to find a way to provoke lightning to fall down on him again. After all, he had gained quite a bit from his tribulation last time, so now he had become somewhat addicted to being hit by lightning.

It didn't take long for the lightning bolt to finish gathering since this was only a weak tribulation for a One Pill Line Pill, which should only be in the peak of the Fragmented Soul Realm.

But before the bolt of lightning fell down, it was almost as if the lightning cloud could feel how heaven defying Lin Fan naturally was, so it suddenly gathered even more lightning. The lightning continued to churn in the cloud until it reached the level of a Two Pill Line Pill lightning tribulation, which was equal to the Child Soul Realm.

Lin Fan's body was currently only at the level of the Embryo Soul Realm…

Once it finished gathering, the lightning fell right down onto Lin Fan, but surprisingly, it still couldn't do a thing to him.

That was because Lin Fan had used his absorption force to take away most of the power behind the bolt of lightning, making it weak enough for him to resist it with his body alone.

As his body was hit by the lightning, he slowly refined its power to make his body stronger and stronger.

Finally, the bolt of lightning disappeared, completely being absorbed by Lin Fan, but he still wasn't able to break through with this bolt of lightning.

After that bolt of lightning finished, the clouds dissipated in front of Lin Fan's disappointed gaze.

He couldn't help thinking, "Why is there only one bolt of lightning? Shouldn't there be nine of them?"

What Lin Fan didn't know was that Pill Line Pill Lighting Tribulation was completely different from the tribulation one went through when breaking through to the Soul Realm.

This tribulation only sent the same number of bolts of lightning as the number of pill lines on the pill, unlike the nine nine tribulation one faced when breaking through.

While Lin Fan looked at the dissipating clouds with a disappointed gaze, the other three looked at Lin Fan with gazes of shock that had traces of fear in them.

Xu Lin's second and fourth uncle were experts that were in the Peak Fragmented Soul Realm, but even then, they could tell that they couldn't last a single second under that bolt of lightning.

However, Lin Fan had been able to take it head on with his body and he acted like it was nothing to him…

What kind of a monster was Lin Fan?

Wouldn't he be able to easily destroy their Xu Family by himself?

Why was he doing all of this?

Lin Fan finally put away his look of disappointment after the clouds had fully dissipated and he turned back to look at the three staring at him in shock. He calmly said, "Well, shall we go?"

Only when he said this did the three of them finally come back to their senses.

But when they did come back to their senses, the second uncle immediately said, "Not so fast, we still have to test this pill first! I'll personally test it and if anything happens to me, you better forget…"

Before he could even finish, Lin Fan flicked his finger and one of the three pills that were refined flew into the second uncle's mouth.

He couldn't help swallowing it from the force it was flicked into his mouth at.

But when he did, the second uncle's expression suddenly changed.