Chapter 1451: Cutting and Refining Pills

"After feeding it, it needs to rush to that blood pool within five breaths. Otherwise, it will collapse on its own and be discovered by that blood toad."

"If swallowed too early, before the medicinal effect takes effect it dies, then the effect hasn't even had time to seep into the blood, and it dies for nothing!"

Ye Liuyun calculated the distance; five breaths' time is definitely not enough.

But this poses no problem for Ye Liuyun. He can control the crocodile, first holding the medicinal pill in its mouth, then swallowing it when close.

Although the crocodile sent to its death was extremely unwilling, Ye Liuyun still controlled its soul, holding the medicinal pill as it charged toward the blood pool.

When there were roughly five breaths left to the blood pool, Ye Liuyun controlled the crocodile to swallow the medicinal pill.

But as it neared the blood pool, the crocodile, fearing death, desperately resisted. Consequently, its speed slowed, and though still far from the pool, it became somewhat unsteady on its feet.

Fortunately, the golden toad couldn't wait any longer, leapt out, and a blood line pierced the crocodile's skull.

The crocodile's hide was so thick, yet it couldn't even block that blood line—showing the attack power of the Blood Toad King is not trivial.

After the crocodile died, the Blood Toad King fired another blood line, piercing its artery.

But it discovered that the crocodile was a bit far away.

Thus, it simultaneously spat out two blood lines, entangling the crocodile, dragging it to the edge of the blood pool, watching the blood flow into the pool before it satisfiedly jumped back into the pool.

"How is it? Did it succeed?" Luo Yun's Divine Sense couldn't reach that far, so she anxiously asked Ye Liuyun.

"Success, success. But the blood line spat out by the blood toad can still turn!" Ye Liuyun couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Hearing Ye Liuyun say it succeeded, Luo Yun stopped worrying. She explained to Ye Liuyun: "The blood toad's most formidable ability is not only controlling its own blood, but also others' blood, even condensing blood into a humanoid form to fight."

"That powerful? I've really never heard of this before! But how can we confirm he's been bewitched?" Ye Liuyun asked.

"Silly! Just wait for it to float to the surface of the blood pool!" Luo Yun laughed.

"If it floats up, isn't that dead?" Ye Liuyun was somewhat puzzled.

Luo Yun laughed: "Impossible! Toads are naturally aquatic creatures; how could they drown in water? Besides, it has a cultivation level—rest assured, it definitely won't die! I've seen this method of catching blood toads before."

"Alright, as long as you're sure!" Ye Liuyun stopped arguing and waited to see the result.

Less than half an hour later, the blood toad indeed floated belly‑up. But it wasn't just one—there were two, both at the Ninth Heaven of the Celestial Venerable realm.

"Good heavens! They're two Blood Toad Kings! Fortunately we didn't rashly charge in. But now they're both belly‑up, and we don't know if they're dead or alive!" Ye Liuyun told Luo Yun.

"No problem! They won't die! Just in case, have the ferocious beast fish them out!" Luo Yun told Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun immediately commanded a ferocious beast to go fish out the blood toad.

The ferocious beast steeled itself, and from a distance directly sucked up the two blood toads, wrapped them in True Essence, and brought them back.

Luo Yun picked up a branch, poked the two golden toads, saw no reaction, then immediately took out a small knife and, at top speed, sliced off the meat of both golden toads.

"This… wasn't the plan to capture them alive? Why did you just slice them up!" Ye Liuyun was speechless.

Then Luo Yun immediately tossed the minced meat into a small cauldron and began refining pills.

Guo Da, seeing this, immediately set up a formation around her.

"Aren't we not taking the Yuan pill? It hasn't been detoxified yet—is there poison on the meat?" Ye Liuyun had many doubts in his heart, but seeing Luo Yun fully focused, he didn't want to disturb her, so he could only wait until she finished to ask.

He himself wasn't idle either, directing the ferocious beasts to patrol the area, guarding against any hidden blood toads.

The ferocious beasts patrolled back and forth many times in this area, yet they found no more golden toads.

Ye Liuyun still felt uneasy, so he had two fire‑attribute ferocious beasts burn the area once more, incinerating all blood traces, leaving no hiding place for the blood toad.

Just as those two ferocious beasts were about to finish burning the blood pool dry, they discovered something at the bottom of the pit.

Ye Liuyun hurried over to inspect, finding a golden metallic substance at the bottom. He didn't know what it was, but he could sense that the metal's power was tremendous. He guessed the blood toad had turned golden by absorbing this metal.

There was also another thing: a blood‑red bead condensed from essence blood, which the two careless ferocious beasts overlooked because its color matched the blood water.

If Ye Liuyun hadn't come to check, those two ferocious beasts would likely have burned it all to ash in the end.

Ye Liuyun took the two items back to show Meng Zhangxing and Guo Da.

"This is variegated gold! It has a metal attribute and can be absorbed!" Meng Zhangxing happened to recognize that metal.

"Why is it called variegated gold?" Ye Liuyun asked, puzzled.

"Look closely: within the gold are many subtle other colors. The Empire has this material; it's very expensive and usually used for crowns. Metal‑attribute Martial Cultivators could also use it for tempering, but that would be too extravagant!" Meng Zhangxing explained to him.

"Oh!" Ye Liuyun nodded, not paying it much mind.

After all, he isn't a metal‑attribute Martial Cultivator, so absorbing this would be of little use. Such a valuable thing is better exchanged for resources.

As for that blood‑red bead, Ye Liuyun knew it was refined from essence blood, but he didn't know its specific function. It could certainly be used for absorption, yet it contained little energy.

So he could only put it aside for now, to ask Luo Yun after she finished refining the pill.

While Luo Yun was refining the pill, Ye Liuyun also paid attention.

He noticed that in some steps Luo Yun's pill‑making was very crude—just good enough to get by, like the forming stage where she'd slap it together and call it done. The pills she made weren't even very round.

Yet in other steps she pursued extreme meticulousness, such as the merging of medicinal effects, even spending large amounts of Divine Soul Power and True Essence, proceeding slowly.

This is related to her having been familiar with this method of operation from the very start of her pill‑refining.

He thought this pill‑refining approach wasn't bad—especially pragmatic, seeking only efficacy, nothing else. But its drawback is that the pills produced are destined to be low‑grade.

Ye Liuyun even suspected she might end up refining the pill into slag.

After several hours, the pill was finished and came out of the furnace.

Luo Yun excitedly took the pill and distributed it to everyone.