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Chapter 137: The Yanlie Clan Breaks the Contract

"Friend Huo, it's been almost two years now, and I've fulfilled most of the terms of the contract. Can you deliver the elixirs you helped me collect?" Shi Chen asked Huo Yao while sitting in the side hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Please understand, Brother Shi. I'm already collecting the funds, but the elixir for the Infant Transformation Pill is very hard to find. Please rest assured, Brother Shi, we will definitely fulfill the contract agreement." Huo Yao said helplessly.

"Five days ago, I said that the two hundred pills used for alchemy research have been refined, and now my pill success rate can be stabilized at 60%. Therefore, the nobles should fulfill the contract and give me the Infant Transformation Pills they have collected." Shi Chen said angrily.

"The spiritual medicine is in our clan's treasury and is being mobilized now. Please rest assured, Master Alchemist, we will fulfill our promise."

"Send us the remaining 100 spiritual medicines, and also send us the spiritual medicines for the Infant Transformation Pill that you have collected. If you don't receive the promised spiritual medicines, then you don't need to refine these 100 spiritual medicines. You'll have to take care of yourself!" Shi Chen said angrily, and walked away.

After Shi Chen left the side hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Huo Yao said to the compartment in the side hall: "Ancestor, what should we do? Should we send the elixir for the Infant Transformation Pill over there?"

The door of the compartment slowly opened, and the current city lord Huo Liao walked out. He looked at the palace door that was closed after Shi Chen left.

A hoarse voice rang out, "According to him, he won't help us refine a hundred doses of the Infant Transformation Pill if we don't get the spiritual medicine he wants. You should first give him ten doses of the spiritual medicine to keep him steady. Finish refining the pills first, and I'll take care of the rest."

"Yes! Ancestor!" Huo Yao responded.

When Shi Chen returned to his cave, Liang Ruyan came to greet him immediately and held Shi Chen's arm as they walked into the main hall together.

Walking into the main hall, Shi Chen opened his arms and hugged Liang Ruyan, kissed her forehead and said, "You are such a clingy person. You can't bear to leave even for an hour."

"I just want to stick to you. You are my husband, husband~~!" Liang Ruyan hugged Shi Chen's neck and said in a low voice.

Shi Chen held Liang Ruyan's buttocks with both hands, sat on the chair beside him, put her on his legs, looked into Liang Ruyan's charming eyes and said, "Okay, my lady, there is a long way to go, let's finish the business first."

"Okay, husband, I'll listen to you." Liang Ruyan leaned into Shi Chen's arms and said.

"The contract with the Yanlie Clan may change. They haven't given me any of the elixirs they promised me yet, and they also asked me to finish refining the agreed-upon pills first. I think they might default on their promise." Shi Chen said angrily.

"Then you can just refuse to cooperate with them and help them make the elixir. Now they are the human coalition. Do they dare to force you?" Liang Ruyan said, regaining some composure.

"The combined cultivators can indeed do whatever they want. The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces will not cause trouble to the Yanlie clan for such a small matter, so I will definitely bear this loss." Shi Chen said helplessly.

Liang Ruyan sat up, turned around and faced Shi Chen and said, "It's because our cultivation is too low and we don't have a say. Otherwise, we can't let a Yanlie clan with only the second level of fusion cultivation bully us. Husband, why don't we apply to go to another immortal city, closer to Linyang Immortal City, where those big families and aristocratic families can't bully us so obviously."

"Let's talk about it after this contract is completed. If the Yanlie Clan is really so shameless as to refuse to pay, I will find a way to teach them a lesson. I didn't charge them for refining the alchemy, but only asked them to help raise spiritual medicine. I will still pay for the military merits and spirit stones, but I get such perfunctory treatment." Shi Chen said angrily.

"Husband! Don't be angry. The world of cultivation is full of intrigue and deception. Let's take this as a lesson. In the future, if there are people asking for pills like this, we can collect the payment first and then help to refine the pills." Liang Ruyan comforted.

"That's the only way. Let's not talk about this. Has your cultivation improved recently? I feel like you're about to break through the third level of Golden Core?" Shi Chen asked, hugging Liang Ruyan who was sitting on his lap.

"My husband has found out. Oh! In these few days, I should be able to break through the third level of the Golden Core and reach the fourth level of the middle stage of the Golden Core, and catch up with you, my husband. Hehe!" Liang Ruyan said happily.

"Well, that's good, but it will be difficult for you to catch up with me. I'm almost at the fifth level of the Golden Core. You have to work hard to practice." Shi Chen scratched Liang Ruyan's nose and said.

"I have been practicing very hard. Ever since my husband gave me a few bottles of elixirs for practice, my cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds. In just one year, I have reached the third level of Golden Core. Now I have crossed another three levels and reached the fourth level of Golden Core. I never thought that my cultivation could be improved so fast. My husband is so good to me! Wow!" Liang Ruyan said excitedly, and finally kissed Shi Chen again.

"After a while, the efficiency of cultivation will be higher, there will be no shortage of elixirs, and there will be no wars. We should improve our cultivation as soon as possible so that we can control our own destiny." Shi Chen said gently to Liang Ruyan.

After kissing Shi Chen and listening to his gentle words, Liang Ruyan's face gradually turned pink. She noticed that Shi Chen was acting strangely, as if an iron rod was slowly rising and poking at her thigh.

"Husband! I~~~want~~~" Lying beside Shi Chen's neck, Liang Ruyan's soft and charming voice reached Shi Chen's ears.

Shi Chen picked up Liang Ruyan and walked towards the bedroom on the second floor.

At noon the next day, Huo Yao personally delivered a hundred spiritual medicines to Shi Chen's cave, fifty each of Spiritual Fire Pills and True Fire Pills. He then took out ten spiritual medicines for Infant Transformation Pills and gave them to Shi Chen, and apologized to Shi Chen very sincerely.

After some pretense of flattery, Huo Yao left Shi Chen's cave.

Shi Chen offered ten portions of the Infant Transformation Pill to Huo Yao in the form of military merit or spirit stones, but Huo Yao refused to accept them.

Looking away, Shi Chen knew that the reward for helping the Yanlie Clan to refine the elixir was these ten portions of the Infant Transformation Pill.

But it’s okay. At least there are ten doses of spiritual medicine. If the Yanlie tribe really doesn’t give him any, he won’t be able to question them.

Three months passed quickly, and as soon as the two-year contract was up, Shi Chen brought the refined pills to the City Lord's Mansion early in the morning.

A total of three hundred spiritual medicines were refined, one hundred and fifty of which were Spirit Fire Pills and the other one hundred and fifty were True Fire Pills.

For the first two hundred pills, Shi Chen started calculating the output only after refining thirty of them. Based on a 20% success rate, he made seventy batches of each, with fourteen batches of Spirit Fire Pills and thirteen batches of True Fire Pills, for an average of four pills per batch.

There were fifty furnaces of pills in the following batches, twenty-eight furnaces of Spirit Fire Pills and twenty-five furnaces of True Fire Pills, with an average of six pills in each furnace.

There are two hundred furnaces of pills. Shi Chen has already given the calculated output of the pills to Huo Yao. The pills he is delivering now are the output of the next one hundred furnaces.

These one hundred furnaces, each with fifty furnaces, produced one hundred and sixty-eight Spirit Fire Pills, including eleven mid-grade Spirit Fire Pills, and one hundred and forty-six True Fire Pills, including eight mid-grade True Fire Pills.

Shi Chen has already divided the pills according to the success rate of 50% to 60%, and also included some mid-grade pills.

Only Shi Chen himself knew how many pills were actually produced. He withheld all the pills of medium quality and above. The number of Spirit Fire Pills was as high as more than 1,300, and the number of True Fire Pills was more than 1,200.