However, when the Qiankun Cauldron opened, there was no sign of pills rushing out, nor any monsters transforming. The fist-sized stone simply floated quietly in the air.
"This ..."
If Long Chen hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he might have suspected someone had swapped his pills and brought a stone to trick him. Long Chen reached out and grabbed the stone.
Sss!
White smoke instantly rose from Long Chen's hand, and a bone-chilling cold swept over him. His entire arm was instantly covered in frost. Long Chen hurriedly gathered his strength to resist, but his entire body remained covered in frost, forming an ice sculpture.
"Boom!"
The ice on Long Chen's body exploded with a thunderous crash, revealing his true form. The frost had just been shattered, and another layer of frost came from the stone, quickly covering his arm.
"How could this be?" Long Chen said in shock.
The Qiankun Cauldron explained, "This water of heavenly yin is the utmost yin and softest substance. However, yin generates yang, softness produces hardness. Once it encounters fierce fire, it will unleash the power of extreme cold."
The Dragon Blood Extreme Yang Pill is supremely hard and yang; without the power of heavenly yin, it simply cannot condense into a pill and will eventually explode.
Only this Heavenly Yin Water is a yin-cold force, which can stabilize the pill's power and lock all its essence within.
The surface of the stone you see is the water of heavenly yin, which removes all the impurities from the pill to form a pill coat.
But this was no ordinary pill robe; it was covered with a natural Heavenly Yin Formation. Only inside this formation could the Dragon Blood Extreme Yang Pill sleep obediently. Without it, the pill could not be stored. Long
Chen looked deeply impressed. The world was vast, and there were so many things he didn't understand. In the past, he only knew that Tianyin Water was precious, but never how it was used.
"So what grade and what kind of pill is it that you can't even look at?" Long Chen asked. This "stone" was as hard as iron and cold as ice; his divine sense couldn't penetrate, so he couldn't see what was happening inside.
"If you can't see it, I can't see either. If you force a X-ray view, it will only destroy the Tianyin Formation. Once the formation is destroyed, you must take it immediately.
Otherwise, once the Dragon Blood Extreme Yang Pill awakens, devouring it would be no different from suicide. "The Qiankun Cauldron replied.
"Damn, I don't even know its situation. If it's too strong or too weak, wouldn't that be ...?" Long Chen hurriedly said.
"Well, there's nothing we can do. This kind of thing can only be a gamble. But based on my experience, its efficacy definitely won't be bad. As for how strong it is, I can't say."
As for whether you can withstand it, I don't think it's a problem. It's refined from your essence blood, and as long as you swallow it before it awakens, you can unleash the strongest Dragon Blood Battle Body. As a life-saving trump card, it's quite good." "Qiankun Cauldron said:
"Although you have many trump cards, with your current strength, you simply can't control them. For example, although you've already refined the Star Bone Claw, it's powerful, but due to your own strength, the power you can exert is limited.
And the Nine-Star Secret Technique you learned from that stone is the same. With your current strength, your palm simply can't withstand such a powerful impact and will shatter instantly.
These two trump cards will be very useful in the future, but not now. This Dragon Blood Extreme Yang Pill is your greatest reliance right now. Long
Chen nodded. The Qiankun Cauldron's analysis was spot on. Although his Star Bone Claw was powerful, once used, it would consume all his star power. No matter how strong it was, it could only be used once.
As for the Cross Annihilation God, this move was even more beyond what he could use right now. Even though Long Chen had already comprehended it, he didn't dare to try, and this Dragon Blood Extreme Yang Pill was what he needed most.
Long Chen put away the "stone," rested briefly, and once his body recovered, immediately activated the teleportation array to return to the place where he had met the Ghost Nether Rat King.
Long Chen checked the surroundings and found nothing unusual; it seemed no one had been here. He continued walking deeper into the grasslands.
Meanwhile, the Qiankun Cauldron and Huo Ling'er were in the chaotic space, helping Long Chen refine the remaining essence blood. According to the Qiankun Cauldron, although this essence blood was not as powerful as the Rat King's essence blood, the refined Tianyin Water was the same.
Although the purity of the Heavenly Yin Water contained in their essence blood was not high, the large quantity of them made the final refined Heavenly Yin Water no less than the Rat King's. However, it would require some time.
With the Dragon Blood Extreme Yang Pill in hand, Long Chen simply let go, didn't care whether he was hiding or not, and simply spread his thunderous wings and sped forward.
However, Long Chen did not encounter the Ghost Nether Mouse again, probably because rats were not everywhere in this gloomy grassland.
Long Chen sped at full speed. The strange grass ahead grew taller and taller, resembling trees. The gloomy aura in the world grew denser. Suddenly, the grass vanished, replaced by a patch of black earth.
When Long Chen stepped onto that black soil, he suddenly realized he could no longer fly. It seemed some law had stuck to him, and he had lost the ability to fly.
"There are footprints."
Long Chen suddenly noticed two rows of footprints in the distance. He hurried over and found they were two human footprints, but one of them still carried demonic energy, likely left by a demon clan expert in human form.
"A demon clan expert actually sneaked in—this is not a good sign." Long Chen became alert.
The opening of Tianmu Mountain has always required the power of the Fangtian Seal, and Demon-Subduing City has always been the nemesis of the demon race. Whenever Tianmu Mountain opens, the identity of disciples entering is strictly checked, just to prevent any demons from sneaking in.
This time, the opening of Tianmu Mountain happened suddenly, leaving no time to control the number of people entering or to check each individual, resulting in the demon clan members sneaking in.
The other footprint belonged to a true human. Long Chen carefully examined the footprints and realized that the two had not arrived at the same time.
The demon clan powerhouse arrived first, and that human arrived later. Including Long Chen's footprints, this was the third one. The strangest thing was that including Long Chen, the three of them actually came from the same place.
This grassland looked vast and boundless, with no end in sight, yet the three of them had come from the same place, which was a bit puzzling.
"There's something strange."
Long Chen didn't dwell too much on the matter and simply walked forward following the footprints of the two. He didn't even hide his own footprints, just kept walking forward.
As he walked, Long Chen began to sense something was wrong. The surrounding soil emitted a foul stench, like rotting flesh and blood, making him nauseous.
"Whoosh"
Long Chen grabbed a handful of soil and threw it onto the black soil of the chaotic space. The soil was absorbed by the black soil, and a dense spiritual energy immediately began to appear.
"As expected, the soil here is all rotting corpses." Long Chen was secretly alarmed.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the ground beneath Long Chen's feet trembled violently, and a vast divine might shot up into the sky.