"Buzz!"
Just as Long Chen was about to call Lei Ling'er out for dinner, the Qiankun Cauldron suddenly trembled violently, and then the thunder serpents in the sky vanished in an instant.
At that moment, the world instantly fell silent, as if nothing had happened. On the nine golden cores inside the Qiankun Cauldron, thunder patterns appeared, clearly indicating they had become tribulation pills.
"This... Is that all? Long
Chen looked dazed, feeling like it was over before it even started, too fast to react.
That endless thunderous power was almost equivalent to the tribulation of an ordinary Twin Pole Supreme Immortal King expert. Before it even hit the ground, it was absorbed by the Qiankun Cauldron.
In the blink of an eye, the heavenly tribulation vanished, and the Golden Core tribulation was complete. Everything happened so fast that Long Chen had no chance to react. Staring at the Immortal King Pill flashing with golden light and swirling thunder patterns, Long Chen was completely baffled. He admitted, he was indeed shocked.
At first, Long Chen thought that refining pills with the Qiankun Cauldron would be extremely difficult, but after passing through the heater and sacrificial furnace, everything became so easy—so easy that Long Chen couldn't believe it, as if he had just dreamed and everything felt so unreal.
When he took the pill and felt the surging waves of medicinal power within it, each pill seemed to be a world, with endless energy circulating and evolving its own laws.
"This top-grade Golden Core is too powerful. I've never seen a Golden Core so powerful. Long Chen, you're truly amazing." Yu Qingxuan looked at these golden cores, her eyes filled with excitement.
"It's not that I'm too strong, but it's just too strong—so strong I can't even believe it's real." Long Chen said with a bitter smile.
"Whoosh"
Long Chen continued refining the pill, tossing the rare herbs into the cauldron. The powder was instantly refined, and everything was just as before.
After several breaths of breaths, the furnace was sealed. Long Chen's large hand slapped the Qiankun Cauldron, and the immense suction force reappeared, draining his essence and spirit once again.
"Rumble rumble rumble... The
tribulation clouds appeared again in the sky, thunder serpents descended, the Qiankun Cauldron trembled, the thunder vanished, and nine supreme Golden Cores were completed.
"Boom boom boom... Then
, the heavenly tribulation kept descending and disappearing, falling again, disappearing again.
In just a few breaths, a batch of pills was finished. After two full hours of refining, Long Chen was utterly exhausted, his face pale, his breath unsteady, and his energy and spirit seemed drained, forcing him to stop.
During these two hours, Long Chen refined more than 240 times, producing more than 2,000 Golden Cores.
Each batch of pills contained top-grade Golden Cores, with no other quality and no wasted pills. Looking at over two thousand top-grade Golden Cores, Long Chen felt as if he was about to faint from happiness.
"I understand now. Alchemy gathers the essence of plants and trees, gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into one. Between heaven and earth, humans act as bridges. In this way, heaven, earth, and humans are all one.
The three treasures of heaven—the sun, moon, and stars—are the three treasures of humanity: essence, energy, and spirit. Only by channeling essence, energy, and spirit into the elixir can one connect heaven and earth, making the elixir a unified whole. Yu Qingxuan said with a look of understanding.
While Long Chen was draining his essence, energy, and spirit, Yu Qingxuan had been pondering deeply why the Qiankun Cauldron had to do this. Now she understood. After enlightenment, Yu Qingxuan's pretty face was full of excitement. She had broken through another bottleneck in her alchemical path.
"Qingxuan, try refining pills with the Qiankun Cauldron. That way, the two of us can rest without the cauldron, and take the opportunity to refine more pills." Long Chen said.
The Qiankun Cauldron cannot be exposed to light; there is no one above the Milky Way, so it can be used boldly and safely. But once inside, the cauldron dares not be used recklessly.
But to Long Chen's frustration, the Qiankun Cauldron was not controlled by Yu Qingxuan, and her flames could not power it, so he ultimately had to give up.
However, Yu Qingxuan was not disappointed. She took out her pill furnace and began refining pills. The Qiankun Cauldron greatly inspired her, and after finishing the pill furnace, she immediately triggered a heavenly tribulation.
This time, the Qiankun Cauldron did not actively absorb it, as if it wasn't the heavenly tribulation it had provoked. It disdained absorbing it.
Long Chen directly summoned Lei Ling'er and devoured the heavenly tribulation. Yu Qingxuan lifted the furnace lid and saw a supreme golden core inside, jumping up in excitement.
You have to understand, in the past, even if she refined dozens or even hundreds of batches, she might not have produced a top-grade Golden Pill. Now, each batch produced one top-grade pill, and the quality of the other pills was much better than before. Clearly, this wasn't luck or coincidence, but a huge improvement in her alchemy skills.
However, Yu Qingxuan's Golden Core had not undergone tribulation. Long Chen asked Yu Qingxuan to give the Golden Core to Lei Ling'er, who quickly returned a tribulation-surviving Golden Core to Yu Qingxuan.
"Is that even possible?"
Yu Qingxuan was stunned. How is this any different from cheating? But this was indeed a Tribulation Pill. She had never imagined that a Tribulation Pill could operate in such a way.
After resting for several hours, Long Chen continued refining pills. Because the effects of top-grade golden pills were so strong, he didn't distribute them to Guo Ran and the others, fearing something might go wrong.
However, since no one was above the Milky Way, he needed to hurry and refine pills. So while Long Chen was refining, Yu Qingxuan helped him guard the Dharma and continuously sensed the fluctuations of the Qiankun Cauldron, using it to verify the Dao of alchemy.
While Long Chen rested, Yu Qingxuan began refining pills, integrating the insights gained from the Qiankun Cauldron into her own alchemy path. Even with a domain-level artifact-grade furnace, she could still refine top-grade golden pills, and almost every batch contained a supreme golden core.
Although both were supreme-grade Golden Cores and their quality was much inferior to those refined by the Qiankun Cauldron, Yu Qingxuan had improved greatly compared to before.
Yu Qingxuan didn't care how many supreme Golden Pills she could refine. What excited her most was that her understanding of alchemy had reached a new level—she had already obtained the golden key to unlock the treasure.
The two frantically refined pills, the heavenly tribulations above their heads kept coming. They were either absorbed by the Qiankun Cauldron or by Lei Ling'er. The scene was bizarre and terrifying.
While Long Chen and Yu Qingxuan refined pills, the others didn't sit idle either; each began their own cultivation. They didn't dare eat the Golden Core Long Chen refined, but they could eat Yu Qingxuan's Golden Pill.
The supreme golden pill refined by Yu Qingxuan was equally astonishing. Even Guo Ran and the others struggled to withstand it, some unable to suppress the medicinal power. After swallowing the pill, their bodies felt the urge to break through to the eighth level of Immortal King.
But if he breaks through like this, it will be bad—it will cause his foundation to become unstable, and he won't be able to advance his realm in the short term.
They desperately suppressed the medicinal power of the pills while cultivating with all their might, trying to dispel some of the undigestible medicinal power. Although it was a bit wasteful, for the sake of stabilizing their realm, they had no choice but to do so.
The efficacy of a top-grade Golden Core Immortal King Pill is incomparable to that of an ordinary Immortal King Pill. There is a qualitative difference between the two, much like the barrier between Earth Venerable and Heavenly Venerable—the gap is vast.
A whole month passed. Under the influence of a top-grade Golden Core, Guo Ran, Xia Chen, and the Dragon Blood warriors directly broke through their realms and reached the eighth level of Immortal King.
On this day, Long Chen stopped refining pills. He looked into the distance with a serious expression and said, "
The wind is picking up. Everyone, get ready. The ghost ship is about to land and we will set foot on Nie Ying Tian."
Everyone perked up. Nie Ying Tian was an even older world than Ziyan Tian, with endless experts here. They would face brand-new challenges, and at the same time, they had to contact the brothers scattered throughout Nie Ying Tian.