Chapter 70: Crazy Idea

Only various quintessences of fifth-grade spiritual herbs were seen, under Ye Qingxuan's control, beginning to collide and fuse in sequence.

The collision of the various quintessences of fifth-grade spiritual herbs did not fuse peacefully; instead, it triggered violent reactions, causing the entire alchemy furnace to shake continuously.

Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan had no choice but to increase his output of spiritual power to stabilize the changes within the furnace, forcibly controlling the degree of reaction as the quintessences of the fifth-grade spiritual herbs fused.

As time passed, Ye Qingxuan's consumption of spiritual power grew ever greater.

In the end, Ye Qingxuan was forced to attend to two tasks at once.

While refining the elixir, he controlled the power of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to reinforce himself, and used the power of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to forcibly suppress the increasingly violent reactions within the furnace.

In the final moment, the entire alchemy furnace had turned red and entered a spirit-gathering state, continuously pouring the dense spiritual energy from the surroundings into the furnace.

With this continuous influx of spiritual energy, the energy reaction within the furnace became even more intense.

Facing this energy that far exceeded his own realm, even with the assistance of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan gradually found himself unable to cope.

Ultimately, no miracle occurred; the spirit-gathering state of the furnace was directly shattered by the shock, and the massive energy within could no longer be suppressed by Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Qingxuan's expression changed sharply; he directly manipulated the power of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to hurl the entire alchemy furnace into the void outside the Blessed Land.

Deprived of Ye Qingxuan's control, the alchemy furnace, having just appeared in the void not far from the Blessed Land, was instantly shattered into fragments by the powerful energy within.

The aftershocks from the energy explosion, even with the suppression and restraint of void energy, caused the Blessed Land itself to tremble slightly.

Seeing this scene, Ye Qingxuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, still shaken:

"Good heavens, this power is comparable to the nuclear bombs of my past life, isn't it?"

The furnace was destroyed, but Ye Qingxuan felt no regret; this furnace was one he had forged himself, merely at the level of a high-grade true artifact.

It was not that Ye Qingxuan could not forge a furnace of supreme-grade true artifact; rather, his cultivation base was insufficient. Even with the assistance of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, wielding a supreme-grade true artifact furnace was too much of a strain.

A high-grade true artifact furnace, while still exceeding the range of his cultivation, was used just right with the assistance of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Ye Qingxuan did not regret the loss of the furnace, but he felt a pity that he could not cross two realms to forcibly refine a fifth-grade elixir and advance to a fifth-grade alchemist.

If he had succeeded in refining a fifth-grade elixir this time, then after breaking through to the Golden Core realm, he might have been able to refine sixth-grade elixirs.

Sixth-grade elixirs correspond to the Soul Transformation realm. If he could rely on the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land to refine elixirs two realms above his own.

Then, after breaking through to the Golden Core realm and forming an external avatar, taking the elixirs outside the Xuantian Sect would be enough to gain immense profit.

Pity, his idea failed.

Recalling the process and power of the explosion during the refining of the fifth-grade elixir, Ye Qingxuan still felt a lingering sense of fear.

"No wonder elixirs beyond the fifth grade are so expensive."

The elixir he refined was merely the auxiliary elixir Gathering Infant, containing the least amount of energy, yet its contained energy and explosive power were already this immense; let alone other elixirs.

This thing, if a ordinary cultivator made a mistake while refining it, would result in severe injury at best, and immediate death at worst.

Only after the void outside the Blessed Land returned to calm did Ye Qingxuan begin to sit in meditation to recover his spiritual power.

After his spiritual power recovered, Ye Qingxuan replayed the refining process once more in his mind.

His refining technique was not wrong; the fifth-grade inheritance was indeed fully comprehended under his own powerful comprehension.

But that energy, far exceeding his own cultivation base, even with the help of the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, he could not fully control.

After all, although the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was vast in size, he could not possibly draw upon the power of the entire Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

The Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was not a true world; most of its power was used to maintain its own stability.

Within the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan could at most mobilize one ten-thousandth of its power.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan felt so powerless regarding energy exceeding his own by two realms.

The refining process in his mind quickly replayed to the final explosion stage, allowing Ye Qingxuan to witness once again this destructive power comparable to the nuclear bombs of his past life. If not for the various rules in the Earthly Immortal Realm, which possessed extremely strong suppression, perhaps this power could have directly broken the constraints of the void and destroyed his Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land.

Thinking of the nuclear bombs of his past life, a sudden flash of inspiration struck Ye Qingxuan's mind, and he murmured: "Nuclear bomb? Elixir?"

"I wonder if it could work?"

Ye Qingxuan's mind began to race, calculating the feasibility of this method.

He certainly did not intend to manufacture nuclear bombs; that was not realistic, and in the Earthly Immortal Realm, the function of nuclear bombs was very limited, not worth the effort to research.

The inspiration Ye Qingxuan received was merely to see if there was any way to first control the massive energy within high-grade elixirs, detonating it only when needed.

In that case, a single elixir would be equivalent to a cultivator's self-detonation; the more energy an elixir contained, the greater the power of the self-detonation. This would be far stronger than talismans.

After all, talismans merely inscribe corresponding magical technique Dao patterns, infusing a portion of the cultivator's power to await activation; among the same realm, the danger is not great.

But high-grade elixirs are different; massive energy is condensed into a tiny pill. If this energy could be prevented from solidifying and made ready to detonate at any time, the power would be far greater.

Moreover, if this were truly realized, one might even, according to one's needs, infuse different batches of energy to control the power of the elixir's self-detonation.

"However, using the energy of spiritual herbs to detonate is somewhat too wasteful. Since it is for detonation anyway, what energy is not energy?"

Ye Qingxuan's mind raced furiously as he spoke unconsciously.

After browsing the elixir path inheritance in the Earthly Immortal inheritance and viewing the refining methods for various elixirs, a sharp light flashed in Ye Qingxuan's eyes: "Right, demon cores can be used."

Demon cores are things that only demonic beasts of the Foundation Establishment realm and above can condense, containing the entire cultivation base of the demonic beast.

In the Earthly Immortal inheritance, there are quite a few elixirs refined using demon cores.

However, the normal refining method is to purify and refine the energy within the demon core, expelling the vast majority of the impure demon core power, retaining only a tiny amount of pure energy to refine the elixir.

What Ye Qingxuan wanted to do, on the contrary, was to infuse more energy into the demon core, then find a way to put the demon core into an explosive state, and control the demon core's explosion, keeping it under his command.

Ye Qingxuan currently had only a rough plan in his mind, but whether it was feasible in detail required extensive trial and verification.

And this process would require a large quantity of demon cores.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan directly transmitted a voice to Zhu Dafu:

"Zhu Dafu, collect a batch of second-grade demon cores for me."

Second-grade demon cores are those of Foundation Establishment demonic beasts. Ye Qingxuan temporarily planned to start researching from the lowest-grade demon cores, as this would increase the success rate.

Once the second-grade demon cores were successfully refined according to the idea, gaining experience and a template, researching higher-grade demon cores would be much easier.

On the other side, after receiving Ye Qingxuan's voice transmission, Zhu Dafu was somewhat puzzled.

Demon cores, this thing, are not of much use within the Xuantian Sect.

The energy within demon cores is too impure; in the cultivation path of the Earth-Myst Realm, they have long been gradually phased out.

Nowadays, the Earth-Myst Realm has far too many heavenly treasures, medicinal herbs, and spiritual plants to replace the function of low-tier demon cores.

Therefore, except for certain special elixirs that require demon cores, most low-tier demon cores are of little use, of course, high-tier demon cores being the exception.

After all, no matter what the thing is, once it reaches the high-tier level, its utility is never small.

Even if it seems useless, one can still find a use for it through study.

"Never mind, let's buy them up!"

Although Zhu Dafu did not know why Ye Qingxuan was acquiring demon cores, he did not pry into the specific details.

In any case, it was not his money being spent.

Shortly after, Zhu Dafu gave orders for his subordinates to begin purchasing second-tier demon cores.

(End of this chapter)