Chapter 792: Pill Refining Methods Not of the Great Thousand World

Finally, Cao Zi opened the furnace and retrieved the pill, placing it inside a treasure box before stabilizing the fire source and retracting the Alchemy Furnace.

"Please Elder Mu Chen and all others examine the pill." After everything was settled, Cao Zi solemnly opened the treasure box, a look of pride on his face as the pill finally appeared before everyone.

The moment the treasure box opened and the pill emerged, a series of radiant rings floated around it—merely these rings alone were enough to make one's mouth water.

"A pill emitting light rings—unbelievable! Truly worthy of the ancient Wancao Prairie's Pill Refining Method." Even those unfamiliar with alchemy couldn't help but gasp at the concentric light circles on the pill.

Unlike the Dou Qi Continent, in the Great Thousand World, pills of Supreme rank must absorb Heaven and Earth Power, so they manifest peculiar phenomena.

For example, light rings appearing on a pill generally require extremely high quality—akin to a recognition from the spirits of Heaven and Earth. Such pills typically cost several times more than ordinary ones and possess significantly greater efficacy, even reducing drug tolerance.

Cao Zi was utterly confident, smiling as he gazed at Elder Mu Chen and several other venerable elders, certain of his pill's excellence.

Even among the young generation of Alchemists from the ancient Wancao Prairie, fewer than ten could produce such a pill.

"Then let this old man test the pill myself." Mu Chen bowed slightly; he was not only revered but had sworn a Supreme Oath to guarantee fairness and impartiality.

Mu Chen picked up the pill and swallowed it. Instantly, a soft hum sounded as faint luminescence shimmered across his body, and a look of bliss appeared on his face.

Moments later, the glow on Mu Chen's body faded slowly, and all returned to stillness. After all, Mu Chen was an Earth Supreme—a Two-Rank pill could hardly affect him.

"Excellent! Truly worthy of being a child of the ancient Wancao Prairie. This pill's quality is among the top three I've ever used." Mu Chen's expression turned wistful. Though the pill's rank was low, such quality was beyond even the reach of most Nine-Rank Alchemy Masters.

This had reached its peak.

"Impressive—to receive such high praise from Elder Mu Chen."

"Indeed, Elder Mu Chen isn't just powerful—he's deeply obsessed with Pill Alchemy. For him to say this, the pill's quality must be extraordinary." Hearing this, many were moved.

Yet, while everyone was still discussing Cao Zi's pill, Xiao Yan's side finally showed a change!

"Hey, hey, look! The Spirit Hall's Flame Sovereign is about to pour in Supreme Spirit Liquid!"

Someone suddenly shouted, and only then did people remember this was a competition—and there was another contestant!

"I'd forgotten entirely."

"His flame is still so weak, but he's an Upper Earth Supreme—grind tofu and he'll squeeze out juice."

"If it were a battle of martial strength, this Flame Sovereign is an Upper Earth Supreme, but in Pill Alchemy, how can he compare to Cao Zi of the ancient Wancao Prairie?"

Clearly, in the Great Thousand World, the ancient Wancao Prairie and the Dan God Clan were like the Dan Tower and the Yao Clan—any unknown Alchemist daring to challenge their disciples was as laughably overreaching as it would be on the Dou Qi Continent.

Yet, just as everyone deemed Xiao Yan overconfident and incapable, the impossible happened.

The instant Xiao Yan took out the Supreme Spirit Liquid jade bottle and poured a large quantity into the Alchemy Furnace, the seemingly ready-to-extinguish flame was completely doused by the Supreme Spirit Liquid!!!!

A hissing sound—thick, unyielding Spiritual Energy filled the entire Alchemy Furnace.

"Wait… how did he just douse the fire?"

"Can he even refine pills? Is he just here to cause trouble?"

"I think he's here to die—he really believes his Upper Earth Supreme status will save him? Haven't you heard the Heavenly Saint Sect has Upper Earth Supreme experts, several Lower Earth Supremes, and their Sect Master is an Earth Supreme Perfect? He might even be guarding the entrance."

"Sigh… could this Flame Sovereign really be from a Lower Plane? Does he think the Great Thousand World is still his backward realm? The ancient Wancao Prairie is a true behemoth!"

Before this, everyone had been captivated by Cao Zi's refining and nearly forgotten Xiao Yan. Now, seeing him extinguish his own furnace flame, many were speechless, some even suspecting he was here to sabotage.

"Does he really think he can beat an Alchemist from the ancient Wancao Prairie? That's a pill with Dan Rings!" Someone internally resented Xiao Yan and snorted coldly.

"Hm?" Suddenly, Elder Mu Chen of the Wood Spirit Tribe frowned—he, as an Earth Supreme, had sensed something unusual.

"Something's odd!"

At that moment, inside the furnace filled with white vapor, after the flame vanished, the medicinal materials scorched black suddenly shattered open, revealing their purest essences!

The instant the Supreme Spirit Liquid extinguished the flame, its evaporation triggered a wondrous chemical reaction, merging everything instantly—the entire furnace now held an unimaginable concentration of essence.

Everyone froze again, for no one had anticipated such a result—especially since medicinal materials with incompatible properties could never be refined simultaneously; each required different timing!

Unless Xiao Yan's flame control and extraction precision reached the millisecond level—reaching a divine, transcendent state, separating the burning degree and temperature of every single medicinal material.

"Impossible!"

"Even as an Upper Earth Supreme, how could he achieve such precision?!"

"Why is his flame control so powerful?!"

In that instant, as all extracted medicinal essences merged, there was not the slightest conflict—so natural, so harmonious—this process defied imagination.

"Something's wrong—when he extracts the medicinal materials, it's as if he's physically present, as if he himself is the flame, observing every movement of the herbs. This Pill Refining Method is unheard of!" Mu Chen stared at Xiao Yan with shock.

"This isn't the ancient Wancao Prairie's Pill Refining Method, nor the Dan God Clan's! What method are you using?!" Cao Zi, witnessing this, could no longer sit still—his face filled with dread.

In the Great Thousand World, the supreme Pill Refining Inheritances are only the ancient Wancao Prairie and the Dan God Clan—there are no others.

At this moment, in the Ling Realm, waiting for the mysterious island to open, Zhu Ku, the ancient ancestor of the Fire Spirit Clan, frowned—he had heard a legend.

"Zhu Ku, do you know something?" The ancient ancestor of the Ice Spirit Clan asked, voice grave.

Hearing this, the elders of the other two clans turned to Zhu Ku.

Zhu Ku frowned tightly, then fixed his gaze on Xiao Yan's direction and said solemnly: "Long ago, before the Domain Beyond's demonic clans appeared, there once existed an immensely powerful Alchemist—he came from a mysterious Lower Plane."

"That Alchemist's Pill Refining Method involved merging his Spiritual Soul into the Alchemy Furnace, using his own Spiritual Soul to control the flame—thus achieving perfect command over the fire to extract medicinal essences with exquisite precision."

Hearing Zhu Ku's words, all present were stunned!

The Spiritual Soul fears fire most—merging one's Spiritual Soul into flame isn't suicide?!

In the Great Thousand World, Pill Refining does not use Soul Force to control flame—it uses Spiritual Energy perception, or Spirit Energy perception.

In the Great Thousand World, the first cultivation realm is called the Sensory Realm—almost everyone is born with the innate ability to sense Spiritual Energy; flame control relies not on Soul Force but on Spiritual Energy.

As a higher-tier force, Spiritual Energy doesn't require cultivation of Soul Power like on the Dou Qi Continent—Spiritual Energy alone can control flame.

In the Great Thousand World, the Spiritual Soul is called the Divine Soul, but there is no cultivation system for Divine Soul Power. In later stages, the Divine Soul is replaced—or rather, the Supreme Body is the Great Thousand World cultivator's soul.

"Cultivating Divine Soul Power? Like the Domain Beyond's demonic clans?" The Ice Spirit Clan's ancient ancestor frowned.

All present were ancient ancestors of major factions—Earth Supremes who had even encountered Heavenly Supremes—how could they not know of the Domain Beyond's demonic clans?

The Domain Beyond's demonic clans cultivate Soul Power, though they do not call it Soul Power—they call it Divine Soul.

The Domain Beyond's Divine Soul also has realms, divided into four stages, identical to those on the Dou Qi Continent.

Void Realm, Solid Realm, Transformation Realm, and Wandering Spirit Realm—each with Early, Mid, Late, and Perfect stages, nearly identical to those on the Dou Qi Continent.

The Great Thousand World does not cultivate the spirit soul; they cultivate Supreme Forms, Supreme Manifestations, and at the Supreme Heavenly Sovereign level, they develop Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Bodies—each distinct.

"It isn't the Domain Beyond's demonic clan," Zhu Ku said. "The powerhouse from that Lower Plane was extremely powerful. In that battle fifty thousand years ago, that Lower Plane's powerhouse killed more Domain Beyond demons than any other Lower Plane, even slaying numerous Demon Emperors."

"How is that possible? When the Domain Beyond's demonic clan invaded, they wiped out countless Lower Planes and seized many supercontinents. The number of Demon Emperors far exceeded the number of Heavenly Sovereigns in the Great Thousand World—how could a single Lower Plane possibly do that?!" The elder ancestor of the Wind Spirit Clan, hearing Zhu Ku's words, naturally did not believe it.

"Exactly! Fifty thousand years ago, most Lower Planes were still in a primitive era, their World Embryos not even formed—how could a powerhouse rivaling a Demon Emperor possibly emerge? It's utterly impossible."

The secrets of fifty thousand years ago—even the Wind Spirit Clan, the Wood Spirit Tribe, and other factions without a Heavenly Sovereign—don't know them. Even the Ice Spirit Clan today doesn't know.

Especially regarding the lost five Original Forms—those were jointly concealed by the Five Great God Tribes.

"Your Fire Spirit Clan's elder ancestor may have become a Heavenly Sovereign the longest, but it's been less than ten thousand years. Moreover, our Five Spirit Clans nearly went extinct in that battle fifty thousand years ago; even our ancestral homeland, the Five Elements Spirit Soil, was shattered, and countless legacies and Ancient Texts were lost. How could your Fire Spirit Clan possibly know this?!" At this, the Ice Spirit Clan's elder ancestor gazed at Zhu Ku with suspicion.

The Ice Spirit Clan had always believed they were no different from the Fire Spirit Clan. Now they learned such a secret, yet the Ice Spirit Clan knew nothing.

Zhu Ku let out a bitter laugh and shook his head helplessly: "Don't go suspecting everything. Our elder ancestor hasn't reached that level—"

Before Zhu Ku finished speaking, a sudden thunder cracked across the Sky. After the Supreme Spirit Liquid was poured in, Xiao Yan's Pill was nearly complete.

Everyone on Fire God Mountain turned toward Xiao Yan's Alchemy Furnace. Unlike Cao Zi's Blood Spirit Liquid, the Supreme Spirit Liquid entering the furnace produced no roar, no violent force.

The Supreme Spirit Liquid evaporated into vapor, flowing like rivers and mist—sometimes leaping, sometimes frolicking—mixing with the medicinal decoction inside the furnace, as if wrapping it entirely.

The entire process was the complete opposite of Cao Zi's: no violent chaos, no roaring, no outbursts—everything was utterly natural.

Eventually, the medicinal substances slowly fused with the vapor of the Supreme Spirit Liquid, gradually merging into the decoction—like snow melting under spring sun—the vapor of the Supreme Spirit Liquid dissolving away, perfectly natural!

Xiao Yan looked up at the Sky. As the Black God Thunder descended, he formed a hand seal and deliberately opened the Alchemy Furnace, drawing the Pill Lightning into it.

"Kuang?! What the hell is he doing?!"

"That'll destroy the Pill and shatter the furnace!"

"Come out, Nine Mystery Golden Thunder." As the Black God Thunder struck, Xiao Yan smiled, gently pressing his palm against the Alchemy Furnace. A slender golden dragon surged from his arm into the furnace.

Simultaneously—BOOM! —flames and golden thunder erupted from the furnace. At that moment, the Fire God Mountain Cauldron seemed like Fire God Mountain erupting—a volcanic surge of heavenly fire and thunder.

"Roar! Roar!!"

A dragon's roar rang out as a colossal golden dragon opened its maw and swallowed the Pill Lightning—even the entire thundercloud. Under Xiao Yan's control, the Heaven and Earth Power of the Black God Thunder flowed like a river into the Pill.

"Swallowing Thunder into the Pill! Replacing Heavenly Earth Spirit Qi with Pill Lightning! What Alchemy Technique is this?!" Seeing this, everyone was stunned, some utterly bewildered.

At first, everyone wondered why Xiao Yan hadn't manifested his Supreme Form or absorbed Heavenly Earth Spirit Qi—now they were completely dumbfounded!

Replacing Heavenly Earth Spirit Qi with Pill Lightning!!

"This might work… but won't the Pill be destroyed?"

"Wait—how many Pill Lightning strikes is this?"

"Who knows? He swallowed the whole thundercloud—what the hell do you expect?!"

Such an absurd, bizarre scene—even witnessed firsthand—was impossible to believe. It was utterly ludicrous.

This Alchemy had completely surpassed everyone's understanding; even Mu Chen and Cao Zi had never seen such an Alchemy Technique!!

(End of Chapter)