Chapter 970: Sixfold Alchemy

There's one more thing to do: test the power of those Martial Dao stone engravings.

He took out the first stone engraving, which bore a simple opening move. But when Yan Buji focused his mind on it, the engraving suddenly came to life, a vague figure demonstrating a world‑shattering punch!

"What is this..." his pupils contracted sharply.

The intent behind the punch was far stronger than imagined. It wasn't the elegance of the technique, but a will that surged forward, breaking all laws. Compared with the Extreme Desire Path, this Martial Dao was purer and more domineering!

Yan Buji unconsciously began to practice along.

At first his movements were stiff, but as time passed the fist flow grew smoother. Strangely, this Martial Dao did not conflict with the fundamental method; rather, it was like two parallel avenues, each with its own merits.

When he finished the final form, the stone engraving suddenly shattered, turning into a flash of light that entered his brow. A strange memory surfaced: it was the Martial Ancestor's youthful training beneath a waterfall...

"So that's it," Yan Buji realized.

Nine stone engravings recorded nine different true meanings of the Martial Dao. After mastering them all, perhaps one could glimpse the path of "proving the Dao through martial arts"!

Add the Ten Directions Fist Engravings Yan Buji has learned, melt and combine them, and it isn't just...

"Chaotic Martial Dao... this isn't the Martial Ancestor's Primordial Martial Dao, but a… powerful true meaning that opens the heavens through martial arts… tsk tsk tsk, unfortunately I have already abandoned Martial Dao cultivation, even though the Dao Strategy Mysterious Chapter elevated the Martial Dao realm to the Hearing‑Dao level, it's hard to replicate this path now."

Yan Buji exhaled, not hurrying to leave, but intending to sort through what he had learned so far.

Whether it be divine techniques, various great Dao, or the celestial accumulation within his body.

Most importantly, Yan Buji still wanted to improve his Alchemy Technique.

Because he knew that once he entered the Great Vehicle Stage, he would inevitably become an enemy of cultivators worldwide.

At that point, achieving self‑sufficiency during raids without relying on others would require his Alchemy Technique to be raised.

He could no longer use Spiritual Stones to restore strength; that would be too wasteful.

Now Yan Buji is an Alchemist near the Sixfold Transformation, but in recent years he simply lacked time to study Alchemy Technique; even though he had previously looted many pill formulas and some alchemical lineages, he never had time to comprehend them.

"Take advantage of this rare tranquil period and study quickly,"

Yan Buji sat cross‑legged in the hastily opened alchemy chamber, dozens of floating jade slips before him, each recording precious pill formulas and alchemical insights.

The foundation he had amassed from years of campaigning and looting finally came into use. He lightly tapped a teal jade slip, which shattered on cue, and a torrent of information surged into his sea of consciousness.

"'Essential Techniques of Mysterious Alchemy'..." Yan Buji closed his eyes to digest the content. It was obtained from a pill cultivator, recording many alchemical methods that had already been lost.

What intrigued him most was the "Heart Fire Pill Forging Method", which uses the spirit as a furnace and intention as fire, allowing alchemy without external materials.

After a few attempts, Yan Buji had to abandon it temporarily.

The method demands a high level of divine consciousness; at his current realm, he could at most forge a Threefold Transformation pill.

However, the theory of "mutual generation and restriction of medicinal properties" suddenly enlightened him.

"So that's it..." he took out a millennial snow ginseng and paired it with an earth‑fire lotus: "The clash of cold and heat isn't a flaw; if the eruption rhythm can be controlled, it can actually increase the pill‑making success rate."

No hesitation. Flames rose from Yan Buji's hands; accustomed to external refining, he began to transmute the elixir.

"Begin!"

A cultivation formula struck the ingredients, slowly simmering with Wenwu Fire. When it turned into a milky liquid, he suddenly tossed in the earth‑fire lotus!

"Boom!"

A burst of red‑white interwoven mist exploded from his hand.

Ordinary alchemists would already be flustered at this moment, but Yan Buji remained calm, his eyes of law‑breaking opened, directly perceiving the crucial nodes of the medicinal conflict.

Power surged from his fingertips, precisely enveloping each eruption point, forcibly suppressing them.

After three hours, the elixir in his hand finally settled. Upon completion, twelve red‑white pills flew out, each radiating astonishing spiritual energy fluctuations.

"Fivefold Mysterious Ice‑Fire Spirit Pill..." Yan Buji pinched one for close inspection. The pill's surface naturally formed a Taiji pattern, with cold and heat perfectly balanced.

This already exceeded the description of the original formula; it was the result of his impromptu refinement.

"Not bad, but it's already useless to me,"

Besides regaining a feel for crafting these Fivefold Transformation pills, he also intended to expand his knowledge reserve; since it succeeded, he could proceed to the next step.

After tasting the sweet reward, Yan Buji began to systematically study various lineages.

From the foundational "Classic of Hundred Herbs" to the obscure "Record of Ninefold Golden Core", he read each repeatedly. When encountering uncertainties, he verified them through practice.

One day, in a tattered jade slip, he found an intriguing entry: "When the alchemical Dao reaches its realm, all things can become medicine. It was once seen that a senior used thunder as a guide, taking a cultivator's inner demon as material, forging a Sixfold Crossing Calamity Pill..."

"Inner demons can be used for alchemy?" Yan Buji was greatly intrigued.

He was already adept at manipulating desires, his understanding of inner demons far surpassing ordinary people. After seven days of deduction, he actually designed a brand‑new pill formula: the Seven‑Emotions Demon‑Refining Pill.

This pill uses one's own seven emotions as a catalyst, and another's inner demon as material.

During fabrication, the seven emotions—joy, anger, sorrow, thought, grief, fear, and shock—must first be separated, then the inner demon guided to merge with them.

Theoretically, once formed, the pill could help a person overcome a heart tribulation, but Yan Buji coveted another effect: after devouring, it could temporarily grant some abilities of the inner demon's original host!

The first attempt ended in failure.

When separating emotions, "anger" and "fear" unintentionally fused, causing the elixir to explode outright.

Half of Yan Buji's body was blackened by the blast, yet he was unfazed, instead excitedly recording the failure data.

"The emotional ratio needs adjustment... the inner demon's purity is insufficient..."

During the third attempt, he finally found the balance point.

The moment the pill formed, the entire alchemy chamber was swept by a sudden gust of dark wind, the pills turning into seven streams of differently colored light that fled in all directions. Yan Buji was prepared; his desire‑thoughts formed a Heavenly‑Earth Net, capturing all the pills.

"It's done!" Seeing seven vividly colored pills in his palm, Yan Buji laughed out loud.

This already touched the pinnacle of the Fivefold Transformation, just one step away from the Sixfold.

Sixfold pills are called "Celestial Pills" because each contains a fragment of the laws of heaven and earth.

Yan Buji combed through all lineages and found a common point: to forge a Sixfold Pill, one must "enter the medicine through the Dao".

"My Dao is Extreme Desire..." he pondered for a long while, then a flash of insight struck: "Why not use the desires of all beings as fire and forge a 'Extreme Desire Dao Pill'?"

The concept quickly took shape: the main material is ten‑thousand‑year blood spirit fungus to bear the desires, supplemented with Nine‑abyss Yellow Spring water for harmony, and finally infused with his own Extreme Desire Path as the catalyst.

But the difficulty followed: how to materialize the intangible, ethereal "Dao"?

After three days of fruitless pondering, Yan Buji decided to change his approach. He took out the already fused black ice, thoughtful: "The Cold Heaven Venerable could entrust the 'Dao' to ice crystals; why can't I?"