Chapter 209: Pill Refining

Xu Chen had seemingly had a small idea, but it was interrupted in an instant, and he had no choice but to sigh and stand up.

Walking to the door, he saw Feng Yi talking nineteen to the dozen with the Clan Leader and the Elder, while Feng Feiyi stood to the side with a nervous expression; seeing Xu Chen come out, he hurriedly pulled Feng Yi and said a few words.

Feng Yi looked at Xu Chen excitedly and shouted, and Xu Chen frowned and sent a voice transmission to Feng Feiyi: "What does he want to say?"

Feng Feiyi hurriedly replied: "My brother says that before he went into hibernation, he almost succeeded in activating a Divine Pattern, so he wants to come and ask you for advice!"

Xu Chen originally wanted to refuse upon hearing this, but suddenly his eyes lit up sharply, feeling that the key point he had been unable to fathom just a moment ago had suddenly appeared.

A long time ago, the Nether Human Race used the Creation Pool to improve their cultivation and obtain Divine Pattern Battle Techniques, while also being able to use the Divine Blood Paste in the Creation Pool to repair physical injuries.

In other words, the Creation Pool itself possessed very powerful auxiliary healing methods.

And the strange characteristics of the Divine Patterns left a deep impression on Xu Chen.

Because every Divine Pattern seemed to be alive; it was not immutable, but rather, after fusing with flesh and blood, it was constantly changing. In Xu Chen's view, these Divine Patterns would even continue to fuse and advance into more advanced Divine Patterns based on the warrior's body or the strength of their Soul, eventually even forming a complete system like a cultivation technique.

At present, he had already obtained over a hundred Divine Pattern Marks from the hibernating people, which were over a hundred ancient runes.

However, among these runes, there were probably fewer than ten that could truly be used as battle techniques. He had only sensed these runes briefly with his Divine Sense and had not activated them, while the remaining runes that could not cause consciousness fluctuations in the Soul were likely auxiliary-type runes that needed to be combined or fused into more complex runes to take effect.

Although this was his first time coming into contact with such magical ancient runes, Xu Chen still had a sense of familiarity, and that was the Array.

In the Immortal World, any crafting of artifacts or talismans required the use of Arrays.

And an Array was a channel for vital energy constructed from a varying number of runes.

Most runes did not possess any meaning individually, and even some auxiliary arrays were actually meaningless, but once they were combined or fused with other arrays or runes, the effect would manifest.

Therefore, Xu Chen speculated that the remaining majority of the Divine Pattern Marks were in a similar situation.

However, the Arrays and runes of the Immortal World had complete systems and had long since formed mature theories.

But he had no clue about these Divine Patterns now; perhaps only by finding the ancient materials left behind by the ancient Nether Human Race could he understand them.

At present, there was actually someone in the Feng Clan who had almost succeeded in activating a Divine Pattern, which showed that the Divine Patterns within the bodies of the Feng Clan people were always in a hidden, active state and were still constantly fusing and operating. In other words, as long as he could simply clarify the laws of the Divine Patterns' changes, he could use the Divine Patterns to let the hibernating people autonomously cooperate with medicine to repair their bodies and awaken their Souls; thus, this thorny problem would be completely solved.

Thinking of this, Xu Chen sent a voice transmission to the group: "Let Feng Yi come in; it just so happens that I also have some things regarding Divine Patterns to discuss with him, which might be of great help in saving people this time."

Consequently, the Elder and the Clan Leader hurriedly let Feng Yi in. Xu Chen simply let the whole group follow him into the stone chamber, and after sitting down, he directly asked Feng Yi about the situation where he had almost activated the Divine Pattern back then.

Feng Yi was the strongest warrior among these three generations of Feng Clan people, no weaker than the Elder and the Clan Leader. It was precisely because he had been too aggressive in using Divine Blood Paste to improve his strength that his Blood Poison had begun to flare up very early, and he had been forced to begin hibernation at a young age.

And the reason he had ignored the warnings of the Clan Leader and the Elder and consumed large amounts of Divine Blood Paste was because he had sensed a hidden Divine Pattern, and thus wanted to completely activate it.

It was just a pity that the Feng Clan had already lost the inheritance for activating Divine Patterns; relying solely on his own aimless groping and reckless consumption of large amounts of Divine Blood Paste, he had never succeeded.

Even until before he went into hibernation, he still hadn't found any clue; he just had that feeling.

Feng Yi excitedly described in detail the state and process of him sensing the Divine Pattern, but it was all very vague insight with no operability at all, so Xu Chen frowned continuously as he listened.

He was also only coming into contact with Divine Patterns for the first time, and he knew even less about so-called Divine Pattern Battle Techniques than the Feng Clan people did.

The reason he could activate them was not because he understood them, but because of the magical effect brought by the Blue Light Jade Bottle.

However, through Feng Yi's description and his own process of activating Divine Pattern Battle Techniques, after some thought, he still had a rough, vague inference.

That was, if one wanted to activate a hidden Divine Pattern, the Blood Poison in the body must be sufficiently accumulated; otherwise, the Divine Pattern could not take shape and would remain hidden in the tendons, bones, and flesh, impossible to sense or touch.

Additionally, certain conditions might also be required.

Because when he replicated the Divine Pattern, there was God Crystal involved, and he felt that the God Crystal might also be a very important condition for activating the Divine Pattern, but whether it was a necessary condition could not be determined at the moment.

If he let the Feng Clan people fuse with a piece of God Crystal, he wondered if it could completely activate the Divine Patterns within their bodies?

Xu Chen guessed as much, but he did not reveal the God Crystal, deciding instead to wait until he found a way to wake up the hibernating people before seeing how things went.

After all, God Crystal was a very powerful and magical Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, and he had also stolen a few pieces; if he spoke of it now, even if the Feng Clan people didn't care on the surface, it might cause some resistance and influence on future cooperation.

Feng Yi's account made the Elder, the Clan Leader, and the others very excited.

Xu Chen also asked about some details via voice transmission from time to time, but Feng Yi's descriptions were vague no matter how he repeated them. In the end, Xu Chen explained to the group:

"I have also just come into contact with Divine Patterns and do not have much understanding. Feng Yi's situation is very special; although he did not succeed in activating it, at the very least it makes me more certain of one point: the appearance of Divine Patterns has a great relationship with the intensity of the Blood Poison. The stronger the strength and the more Blood Poison accumulated, the greater the possibility of activating a Divine Pattern."

Feng Yi hurriedly nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, that's it. I also felt that the more Divine Blood Paste I drank, the greater the damage the Blood Poison did to my body, and the more clearly I could sense the Divine Pattern. It's just a pity that I couldn't withstand more Blood Poison, and in the end, I never fully succeeded until I went into hibernation. Actually, I feel that if I were given more time and drank a few more pots of Divine Blood Paste, I would have succeeded!"

Xu Chen was between laughter and tears, and he shook his head sternly: "I advise you not to take risks. Although Blood Poison is related to Divine Patterns, before finding a way to completely control the flare-up of Blood Poison, this kind of reckless experiment is very dangerous. At present, I may have already found a small method for how to suppress the Blood Poison and awaken those in deep hibernation, but it still requires careful research and testing. By the way, I may need a large amount of Ghost Soul Water, and I might even need to use a Wangchuan Flower as a material; I hope you can help prepare them."

Upon hearing this, the Elder and the Clan Leader were overjoyed and hurriedly nodded: "Don't worry about that; we can collect all the medicine the tribe currently has and send it over. You can also experiment with this Wangchuan Flower here as you please. As long as you can find a way to wake up the hibernating people and use the Divine Patterns, even if we old bones have to pay with our lives, it will be worth it."

Xu Chen shook his head: "That's too serious. I will be careful. Whether it succeeds or not, I will have an answer after testing two or three times. For now, everyone go and prepare!"

"Good!"

The group stood up and left the stone chamber quickly. Not long after, people came one after another to deliver several types of medicinal materials; although there were only four or five types, the total quantity was quite large.

After everyone had left, Xu Chen finally calmed his mind, took out the Pill Furnace and activated it, then took one of each medicinal material and put them in to try refining them.

Because the medicinal materials of Minghuang had no Spirit Qi fluctuations and he could not sense Five Elements attributes, he could only use the Five Elements Array to test them one by one.

The first medicinal material he put in looked like brown soil. He first activated the Earth Array, but under the roasting of the Spirit Fire, it was quickly burned to nothing.

So he could only put in another batch and activate the Water Array to refine it, but the result was still a failure.

However, when he used the Wood Array to refine it for the third time, the situation suddenly changed. After the brown soil was largely burned into furnace ash under the roasting of the Spirit Fire, a bean-sized clump of brown mist actually remained in the center of the array. Although there was still no Spirit Qi fluctuation, it made Xu Chen incredibly pleasantly surprised.

He had originally thought that the Minghuang medicinal materials could not be refined, but something had actually been refined out.

Xu Chen did not know the working principle of the Pill Furnace too well, but after observing and studying a large amount of artifact-refining knowledge in Yuqing Hall, he knew that anything that could be refined by the Five Elements Array within a Pill Furnace must be a life element that conformed to the rules of the Five Elements and could be refined and absorbed by a cultivator.

This brown soil was the material the Feng Clan used to make the Universal Pill, so the Feng Clan people should be able to absorb and adapt to what was refined from it, and it would have great benefits for their bodies.

This success suddenly greatly increased Xu Chen's confidence. He put the remaining four types of medicinal materials in one by one, activated different Five Elements Arrays to refine and test them in turns, and the final result did not disappoint him; all four medicinal materials were refined into a clump of substance without any Spirit Qi fluctuations.

Among them, what made him happiest was the Ghost Soul Water; what was refined was a clump of clear, emerald-green water droplets, filled with a rich, warm, and moist aura, and it even carried a faint fragrance. It looked different from the other few medicinal materials and actually had a bit of the feeling of Spirit Liquid.

However, Xu Chen was certain that this thing should have nothing to do with Spirit Liquid.

Looking at the few clumps of medicinal essence suspended in the Five Elements Array of the Pill Furnace, Xu Chen began to scratch his head again.

At present, he had no pill formula to refer to; he didn't know if these few types of medicine could be successfully combined into a pill, or if, even if they were successfully combined, what effect they would have. He didn't even know if the attributes between these medicinal materials would conflict with each other.

Because there were a total of five types of medicinal materials: three Wood-type, one Water-type, and one that was actually Metal-type. According to the theory of the Five Elements generating and overcoming each other, they were completely impossible to combine into a pill.

(End of chapter)