Chapter 963: Heavenly Snake Dry Corpse

And during the following two‑plus months, Lin Feng spent each day with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, the two women, tirelessly refining pills day and night.

As for Feng Er, she accompanied Cai Lin and Qing Lin, the two women, to find a new location and rebuild a city.

During this period, Lin Feng also erased the soul imprint on the Black Demon Cauldron and gave it to Cao Ying for use.

As for himself, he used the Dragon Soul Cauldron that Elder Zhu Li gave him.

Of course, Lin Feng's first Medicine Cauldron on the Heavenly Tripod List, the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron, was taken and used by Dan Chen.

And during those two months, news of the great battle between Lin Feng and Xiao Yan shocked the entire Zhongzhou Continent.

Countless people, after hearing the vivid descriptions from those present, were left open‑mouthed in amazement.

After all, nearly two hundred Dou Zun and five Half Saints clashing, even on the Zhongzhou Continent where power gathers, is a sight not seen in centuries.

Moreover, as the fight progressed, an Advanced Half Saint and two Intermediate Half Saints intervened to mediate, and only then did both sides cease.

And as the war's story spread, Lin Feng and Xiao Yan's fame once again rose across the Zhongzhou Continent.

As for Lin Feng's earlier claim that Xiao Yan stole the Fallen Heart Flame, some students from Canaan Academy stepped forward to testify, accusing Xiao Yan of betraying his master, annihilating his ancestors, and treacherously stealing the anomalous fire taught by the academy.

After those Canaan Academy graduates spoke up, over ninety percent of the Zhongzhou populace chose to believe the accusation that Xiao Yan stole the anomalous fire.

At the same time, Xiao Yan's already controversial reputation instantly dropped a great deal.

After all, any faction would certainly not want its members to emulate Xiao Yan's theft of a treasure and flee.

However, before the heat of Lin Feng and Xiao Yan's battle subsided, the latter clashed again with people from the Soul Hall in the Dead Soul Mountain Range.

In that fight, the Soul Hall not only dispatched the Fourth and Fifth Celestial Lords, whose powers reached the third‑turn Dou Zun and second‑turn Dou Zun respectively, but also the Second Celestial Lord Gu You, whose strength was at the Advanced Half Saint realm, personally entered the fray and tightly suppressed the Medicine Dust, the Medicine Saint.

As for Xiao Yan, he was nearly killed by the Soul Hall's Fourth and Fifth Celestial Lords.

Unfortunately, at the last moment, two unfamiliar Intermediate Half Saints who had appeared in the earlier Xiao Yan–Lin Feng battle showed up and saved him.

And shortly thereafter, they landed a few blows that grievously wounded the Soul Hall's Fourth and Fifth Celestial Lords, forcing even the Second Celestial Lord Gu You to retreat in angry curses.

However, to the amazement of countless Zhongzhou people, the Medicine Dust, upon seeing Mu Gu, suddenly erupted for unknown reasons.

It stubbornly endured the Advanced Half Saint Gu You's single combat move and blasted Mu Gu to ash.

But as the price for killing the former, the Medicine Dust was also badly wounded by Gu You and fled the battlefield in a ragged state.

Nevertheless, that action of the former sparked countless Zhongzhou people's speculation.

After all, from the Medicine Dust's behavior, Mu Gu evidently knew some secret, and was ultimately silenced by the former.

When the matter spread, the rumors across the Zhongzhou Continent grew increasingly bizarre.

From the initial Heavenly Step Technique combat skill, to later Dou Saint relics, and after a few transmissions, it even turned directly into a Dou Emperor inheritance.

And some ancient‑race peoples lingering on Zhongzhou's outskirts, upon hearing this, could not help but smile and mutter that these folks love to brag; claiming Dou Emperor relics, if a Dou Emperor inheritance were truly that easy to find, the Dou Qi Continent would already be crawling with Dou Emperors, and they would no longer be able to let the seven ancient tribes claim supremacy.

In contrast to the bustling Zhongzhou, the pitch‑black void deep down was exceedingly quiet.

After all, in this almost boundless void, one might not encounter a living person even after centuries.

Yet, in that dead‑silent place, a person sat cross‑legged, ignoring the wildly swirling void storm around, focusing all attention on a turquoise giant cauldron before them.

More precisely, it was the two pills inside the Medicine Cauldron before him.

Within that turquoise giant cauldron, the two nearly identical round pills were being refined by anomalous fire, becoming ever more pure.

If other Eighth Grade pill refiners saw this, they'd likely drop their jaws in shock.

Because simultaneously refining two Eighth Grade Intermediate pills is such a reckless feat that even within Xiao Dan Tower, only a handful of people could accomplish it.

But now, this young man, not older than thirty, not only succeeded, but did so with relative ease.

"This Dragon Soul Cauldron truly lives up to being the fourth Medicine Cauldron on the Heavenly Tripod List; its amplification effect is several times stronger than the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron,"

Lin Feng sat in the void's depths, gazing at the black flames churning within the giant cauldron before him, writhing like ghost claws, and murmured softly.

Don't be fooled that the pills he's refining now are only Eighth Grade Five Colors; even with the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron one could still refine two Eighth Grade Five Color pills simultaneously, but it would never be this easy.

Now, since acquiring this fourth Dragon Soul Cauldron on the Heavenly Tripod List, the difficulty of pill refinement has instantly dropped considerably.

"Swoosh~"

A moment later, with a flick of Lin Feng's hand, the pill inside the Medicine Cauldron swooped out and he caught it in his hand.

After confirming the pill's quality, he placed it into a jade bottle and then stored it in his talisman.

Having finished, Lin Feng quickly calculated in his mind that after he, Xin Lan, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying spent two months refining day and night, plus the three families Dan, Cao, and Ye sending over thirty Eighth Grade pills afterward, it should be enough to pay the Dou Zun's rewards.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng inhaled deeply, then formed a hand seal before him, and the Burning Manual inside him began to circulate rapidly.

In an instant, the Dou Qi in this void boiled violently like hot water.

Streams of quasi‑material Dou Qi surged continuously into Lin Feng's body!

After receiving this massive Dou Qi infusion, Lin Feng's Qi, which had been somewhat depleted from continuous pill refinement, was instantly replenished by more than half.

Sensing his body once again filled with Dou Qi, Lin Feng's expression hardened as he stared at the Dragon Soul Cauldron before him; then he lightly brushed his palm over the talisman, extracting hundreds of different herbs.

After scanning and confirming everything was in order, he used Dou Qi to control the herbs, tossing them all at once into the Dragon Soul Cauldron, then immediately raising the flame temperature inside the Medicine Cauldron to roast the hundreds of rare herbs.

The pill he is now refining is the Bodhi Pill he previously promised to Hou Lao Guai.

An Eighth Grade Eight Colors pill is no problem for Lin Feng, who has studied pill refinement for over a year under the Medicine Emperor and whose soul power has reached the Celestial Realm.

Indeed, aside from his pill‑refining experience and soul realm—where he still falls short of Medicine Dust—Lin Feng, having been personally taught by the Medicine Emperor, truly fears not the former!

Seizing this chance, he fully displayed his pill‑refining skill to attract more Xiao Dan Tower elites, and he chose to give his all to maximize the pill's quality.

Ideally, he hopes to summon a Nine‑colored Pill Thunder.

Thus, his influence across Zhongzhou could further increase!

However, Lin Feng did not know that while he was focused on refining the Bodhi Pill, his wife Feng Er, during a break while Cai Lin supervised city construction and while Qing Lin roamed controlling eight‑tier serpent magical beasts, happened upon a massive magical beast dry corpse in a valley.

According to the two women's rough estimate, the magical beast dry corpse was at least several thousand meters long!

And judging by its pitifully narrow width relative to its length, it was the corpse of a serpent‑type magical beast.

The dry corpse was entirely a bluish‑gray hue, and because it had fallen ages ago, its blood seemed to have evaporated; at least on the surface, no blood could be seen.

Its skin and flesh were dried like a withered branch, shriveled against the bones, displaying the beast's skeletal shape before the two women.

What was shocking was that this serpentine level Beast's dry corpse actually had nine heads!

"Feng Qinger sister, what kind of beast is this serpentine dry corpse? Why does it retain such massive size and oppressive aura after drying out?"

Her green‑scaled, beautiful eyes curiously surveyed the huge skeleton before her, while her pink lips barely touched and she asked in a crisp voice.

At this moment, because the oppressive aura of the beast's dry corpse was so strong, even Qing Lin, who had recently reached Four-star Dou Zun by cultivating Dou Saint marrow and subduing several level Beasts, felt his steps become more than twice as heavy the instant he came within a hundred meters of the corpse.

As for Feng Qinger standing beside her, after studying the dry corpse for a while, her exquisitely noble face—enhanced by bloodline evolution—suddenly turned solemn.

After Qing Lin's question lingered for a moment, Feng Qinger, who had been silent for a long time, finally exhaled a fragrant breath and answered: "If I am not mistaken, this beast should be the extinct ancient Celestial Snake; more plainly, it is a Nine-level ancient Celestial Snake with power of at least Six-star Dou Saint."

At the same time, Feng Qinger's pure purple eyes swept over the corpse's bizarre nine heads, continuing: "And according to my deduction, this ancient Celestial Snake may have undergone some mutation, making it far stronger than a normal ancient Celestial Snake. Otherwise, I would not feel such extreme apprehension now."

As she spoke, her beautiful purple eyes gradually showed a hint of apprehension.

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The monitor kept flickering for some reason, hurting my eyes; I'll just write something random for the next update and revise it later (about 2–3 hours). Sorry.