Chapter 400

Two days later, in the Soul Study, Long Xuan looked at the pill formula filled with writing on the table and smiled slightly.

Enlightenment Dao Tea was indeed powerful; in the two days that had passed in the outside world, the Aphrodisiac Pill had already been successfully researched by him.

The function of the Aphrodisiac Pill was to make spirit insects go into heat, and once in heat, they would definitely lay eggs.

Such a function was not just generally heaven-defying; as long as there were enough Aphrodisiac Pills, it could be said that one could have as many top-grade spirit insects as one wanted, and it would not produce any side effects on the spirit insects.

Of course, there were drawbacks; the biggest drawback was probably that the materials were hard to find and expensive. Limited by the materials, the Aphrodisiac Pill could certainly not be obtained in batches.

The characteristic that the Aphrodisiac Pill was hard to obtain in large quantities meant that it would also take him quite some time to accumulate a scale of ten thousand Gold-Eating Worms.

However, Long Xuan was already satisfied; at worst, he would just wait a hundred years, or even a thousand years; he had plenty of patience.

He thought for a moment, suddenly put away the Aphrodisiac Pill formula, and took out a blank sheet of paper.

He felt that the Aphrodisiac Pill was still a bit too heaven-defying, and he was reluctant to hand it over.

He decided to research an abridged version of the Aphrodisiac Pill with much weaker medicinal power.

The medicinal power of the abridged Aphrodisiac Pill was insufficient; it could only make spirit insects below the upper grade lay eggs with 100% certainty, while making top-grade spirit insects lay eggs required luck.

At this moment, Long Xuan suddenly felt a dull pain in his brain, and he knew that although he still had six days left and time was very sufficient, researching another pill formula was already his limit.

Enlightenment Dao Tea also had side effects; it could make the human brain operate at overload, which was extremely damaging to brainpower. Therefore, Enlightenment Dao Tea could not be consumed many times; one could only drink it about once every fifty years.

At this moment, his brain was almost at its limit after creating two pill formulas, and there was not much time left for him.

Long Xuan dared not delay; he gritted his teeth and immediately began the work of abridging the pill formula.

Creating a pill formula was hard, but abridging one was much easier; the abridged Aphrodisiac Pill would surely not waste much of his time.

At the same time, on his right side, Duan Tianwu, who had been keeping his eyes closed, suddenly raised the corners of his mouth in a smile; clearly, the pill formula he was researching had also succeeded.

The pill formula he was researching was the Inheritance Pill. After taking the Inheritance Pill, one could directly obtain a certain inheritance, saving the hard work of a hundred years of study; it could be described as heaven-defying enough.

Any heaven-defying pill would have certain flaws, and the Inheritance Pill was naturally no exception. Refining the Inheritance Pill required living people as materials, which was definitely one of the flaws for righteous Gu cultivators.

In addition, the Inheritance Pill he created was not perfect; although it could seal a person's inheritance within the pill, it would also bring a person's will into the pill.

Absorbing the will of many different people was definitely not a good thing, and in the end, it was very likely to lead to mental disorder and madness.

However, even so, this pill could be called a divine pill.

A fourth-grade Inheritance Pill could make a novice instantly possess the alchemy skills of a fourth-grade alchemist, or the artifact refining skills of a fourth-grade artifact refiner...

How could such a pill not be heaven-defying?

In the Gu World, it was almost impossible for an alchemist to become a fourth-grade alchemist before the age of fifty; in ten thousand years, only Fen Tian Old Ancestor and he had appeared as exceptions.

If this pill had appeared in this world long ago, the number of fourth-grade alchemist participants in this Alchemy Competition would probably have been flooded long ago.

Such a heaven-defying pill had already seriously disrupted the world's balance, and he was really reluctant to hand it over. After pondering for a moment, he did not open his eyes, preparing to use the remaining time to create another pill formula.

At this moment, his brain was already aching dully; under the medicinal power of the Enlightenment Dao Tea, his brain was almost reaching its limit. It was clearly impossible to research another pill formula of the same level as the Inheritance Pill, but researching another pill that consumed less time was still no problem.

As a demon cultivator, what he first thought of was still a demon pill using living people as materials.

What if a Gu King was thrown into an alchemy furnace and his spiritual power was refined into a pill?

As long as a Spirit Gathering Stage Gu cultivator ate this pill, they could absorb the spiritual power of a Gu King and instantly become an early-stage Gu King powerhouse. However, the ultimate price of such forced growth would inevitably be that their lifelong cultivation would not be able to advance even an inch.

Such a demon pill would definitely not be wanted by genius Gu cultivators, but those poor scattered cultivators with terrible aptitude would definitely flock to it.

This was a heaven-defying pill that could manufacture Gu Kings in batches for a family; the force that mastered this pill formula could easily dominate a region.

No need to think, such a pill formula would definitely be fought over by major forces at all costs; one could imagine its value.

Since the scoring standard for the fourth round was based on the value of the pill, he really didn't believe that this kind of pill wouldn't get the highest score.

Duan Tianwu curled his lips and immediately began researching the Gu King Pill. That's right, he named this pill the Gu King Pill; he was too lazy to waste time thinking of a good name. Anyway, he wouldn't use it himself, so he just gave it a name that didn't require brainpower.

At this time, on his right side, Fen Tian Old Ancestor's brows also relaxed, and a smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

After many days of enlightenment, his Hundred Lives Pill formula had finally been successfully researched.

His Hundred Lives Pill could make a person recall the memories of their past life. This past life was not limited to one life; after taking the Hundred Lives Pill, the probability of awakening the memories of the immediate past life was the highest, and there was also a small probability of awakening the memories of the life before that, or even the memories of the past hundred lives.

But the more distant the memory, the lower the probability of recalling it.

At the same time, any pill had limitations, and the Hundred Lives Pill was no exception.

After taking the Hundred Lives Pill, which memory one could recall was random, and one could only capture a small segment; one could not recall the memories of an entire life from a past life.

This meant that after taking the Hundred Lives Pill, the memory recalled might just be a segment of useless daily life, causing the precious opportunity to be wasted in vain.

The reason for this flaw was also because the grade of the Hundred Lives Pill was too low.

A mere fourth-grade pill was far from being able to support the massive medicinal power required to recall an entire life.

To possess such medicinal power, it had to be a twelfth-grade pill.

Fen Tian Old Ancestor sighed in his heart; he was really not satisfied with this level of the Hundred Lives Pill.

But so be it; since recalling past life memories was random and limited, he would make up for it with quantity.

He would take the Hundred Lives Pill a hundred times; he didn't believe that every time he would recall daily life.

Fen Tian Old Ancestor suddenly frowned again, no longer showing the joy he had before.

Although the Hundred Lives Pill had many flaws, the ability to recall past life memories was too heaven-defying; how could he be willing to hand it over?

Fen Tian Old Ancestor thought for a moment and finally decided to hide the Hundred Lives Pill formula and use his spare time to create another pill formula.

Anyway, most of the Enlightenment Dao Tea's medicinal power had been used up, and it was impossible to create another pill formula of the same level as the Hundred Lives Pill, so he would use the remaining medicinal power to create another pill formula that was just above standard.

Fen Tian Old Ancestor pondered for a moment, his worried look disappeared, and he soon had an idea.

He was a towering demon cultivator; naturally, he would create a demon pill using people as materials.

Then he would throw a group of Gu cultivators into an alchemy furnace and refine their soul power together into a pill.

This pill was named the Soul-Nourishing Pill; the Soul-Nourishing Pill contained the soul essence of a group of Gu cultivators, and eating it could increase innate soul power.

This idea was truly not bad; Fen Tian Old Ancestor curled his lips into an evil smile.

Although this pill was not as heaven-defying as the Hundred Lives Pill, the medicinal power to increase innate soul power was enough to be called heaven-defying.

He didn't believe that if he brought out such a heaven-defying pill formula, he wouldn't get the highest score in this round of the competition. (End of chapter)