Chapter 509: Another Breakthrough

Finally succeeded.

In the alchemy room, Lu Xun let out a long breath.

After his pill-refining mastery broke through to the Immortal stage, Lu Xun spent considerable time and produced the first sixth-grade Immortal-stage pill.

"These phenomena... good thing I prepared in advance."

When Lu Xun looked around, he found the entire alchemy room already enveloped by splendid radiant light.

Rosy light swirled, spiritual mist lingered, as if faint immortal music echoed, and as if auspicious beast phantoms flickered within the pill aura.

Even Saint-stage pills produce phenomena upon completion, let alone Immortal-stage ones.

Fortunately, Lu Xun had anticipated this, set up a formation, and thus prevented the phenomena from leaking out.

Saint-stage pills alone are enough to drive people mad.

Immortal-stage pills would likely cause a worldwide sensation.

"Wow, boss, what pill is this? It's so beautiful..."

At the side.

Bai Ling let out an exclamation.

While refining the Immortal-stage pill, Lu Xun also brought Bai Ling over to be his assistant.

The Immortal-stage pill is indeed beautiful.

The pill's body is crystal clear like jade, its surface entwined with seven splendid pill patterns, each pattern shining like a galaxy, radiating iridescent light.

The pill's fragrance is restrained, yet faintly exudes a vast Dao rhythm, as if containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth; merely gazing at it for a moment makes one's mind sway, as if falling into a dream.

If one takes a whiff, it even makes the whole body feel refreshed, as if ascending to immortality.

Saint-stage pills merely have colored patterns.

Only at the Immortal stage does one get the authentic seven-colored pill patterns.

"Bai Ling... huh?"

Lu Xun turned his head and saw that after Bai Ling's exclamation, she stared at the Immortal-stage pill, dazed.

Seeing her like that, Lu Xun did not disturb her further.

This girl, could she have had an epiphany upon seeing the Immortal-stage pill?

She had watched Lu Xun refine pills the whole time.

If so, that would be a good thing.

Bai Ling's pill-refining skill might therefore improve further.

Lu Xun's gaze once again fell on the Immortal-stage pill.

"This pill should enable a Six Realms cultivator to raise their cultivation by several minor stages without problem... unfortunately, it's only sixth-grade."

Lu Xun couldn't help feeling somewhat regretful.

What he refined this time was a sixth-grade Purple Mansion Return to Origin Pill, which can directly increase a Six Realms cultivator's cultivation.

One pill can let a Six Realms cultivator jump from early stage straight to mid stage, or even higher.

The impressive part is that,

Immortal-stage pills have no pill toxicity at all.

That is, as long as a cultivator can resolve their inner demons and unstable foundation, they can keep taking them without issue.

Of course, these two problems are still quite serious.

The cultivation gained from the pill is ultimately inferior to that earned through personal training, so even Immortal-stage pills require considerable time to consolidate after each dose.

Even so, it's still much faster than personal training.

Taking one every so often makes the cultivation increase speed faster than riding a rocket.

Especially when encountering a bottleneck, taking one is simply exhilarating.

The problem is that among Lu Xun's current bound targets, there are none at the Six Realms level.

So, while this Immortal-stage pill is good, it's currently unusable.

"Keep it for now."

Lu Xun pondered for a moment and made a decision.

Immortal-stage pills, he does not currently plan to sell them.

First prepare some for Chu Youqing and Murong Wan, then we'll talk.

From Heavenly stage to Saint stage to Immortal stage, even the same pill requires somewhat different materials.

The change from Heavenly to Saint stage is fine; the material variation isn't particularly large.

Upon reaching the Immortal stage, one needs some exceptionally rare materials.

Additionally, one must add a thread of innate qi during the pill refinement.

For example, the innate spiritual qi Lu Xun obtained from an ancient path node.

This makes the cost of Immortal-stage pills much higher, and their rarity greatly increased.

It's not something that can be casually refined.

Therefore, Lu Xun decided to use it himself first.

Bai Ling remained in her dazed state.

Seeing this, Lu Xun did not disturb her, left the alchemy room on his own, found Xie Yuyan, and gave her a list.

"Xie Yuyan, purchase the items on this list, the more the better."

"Okay, boss."

The list contains some of the items needed to refine Immortal-stage pills, especially innate spiritual qi, which only exists at ancient path nodes.

After giving the instructions, Lu Xun returned to the alchemy room.

Bai Ling was still acting foolish.

Lu Xun waited patiently, and at the same time began to plan the next step.

By now, Lan Xing has been at this ancient road node for half a year, and will likely leave in a few months.

Lu Xun must deal with the witch before Lan Xing leaves.

Thus, if unable to settle it, we can also take Barbara to the Star Gate.

This witch is far stronger than the Chi Sha Yao Huang, her methods are extremely troublesome; even though Lu Xun has now fully merged with the primal ancient blood, he still doesn't have much confidence.

"Shall we call her again too?"

Lu Xun thought of Gu Yao.

After thinking, Lu Xun rejected this idea.

Gu Yao bears a deep grudge against Lu Xun; maybe unwilling to trade with Lu Xun again.

Better to rely on oneself for now.

"Why hasn't she broken through yet?"

It's almost been a month since killing the Chi Sha Yao Huang, yet Gu Yao still shows no movement.

Don't know what she's doing.

"Ah... Boss, I want to make pills."

At this moment, Bai Ling finally came to her senses.

"She wants to make pills?"

Lu Xun realized, Bai Ling surely gained something in her epiphany.

"Bai Ling, come, I'll help you."

Thus, Lu Xun acted as assistant, preparing everything for Bai Ling.

Bai Ling didn't waste time, began to refine pills.

【Bai Ling's pill-refining expertise broke through to Sixth Grade Mystic Tier, you gain seventy times Bai Ling's harvest.】

A few days later, Bai Ling successfully refined a Sixth Grade Mystic Tier pill.

In just a few days, she went from a Fifth Grade Pill Master to a Sixth Grade Pill Master.

Lu Xun's Immortal Tier pills gave Bai Ling a considerable harvest.

"Seventh Grade Saint Tier!"

On Lu Xun's side, his pill-refining expertise broke through again, enabling him to refine Seventh Grade Saint Tier pills.