Chapter 270: Grinding Dao Stone

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He Pingsheng tossed the elixir aside and began refining the second batch.

For this batch, he did not use his Golden Bee Sacred Juice.

Because the 【Heavenly Fragrance Elixir】 had already been refined, whether this second batch succeeded or failed didn't matter.

As expected, the second batch failed.

There were some duds.

Even duds are fine!

"Strengthen them!" He Pingsheng first took out the batch of duds and tossed them into the Treasure Basin to strengthen them.

After one night, under He Pingsheng's constant intervention, these twelve duds were strengthened into two batches.

One batch contained twelve supreme-grade elixirs.

The other batch contained two supreme-grade and ten high-grade elixirs.

This second batch was meant to be delivered to Mi Cangyuan.

After completing the elixir refining, He Pingsheng put away the elixirs, stepped out of his small courtyard, circled around Hongshi City several times, then returned to his elixir workshop.

The name of the elixir workshop had been changed—it was now called 【Grand Void Elixir Workshop】.

Whoosh…

Just as he stepped into the back courtyard, Mi Cangyuan—who had been sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard for who knew how long—suddenly stood up.

His face was uneasy, his whole body trembling as he stepped forward to He Pingsheng and asked: "Young brother, how… how did it go?"

He Pingsheng nodded and said: "It succeeded!"

"What… succeeded? Really succeeded?" Mi Cangyuan was overwhelmed with excitement.

He Pingsheng could hear the tremor in Mi Cangyuan's voice.

It had changed pitch slightly.

That was normal—when a person was extremely excited, they reacted this way.

Whether you were a Golden Core or a Nascent Soul, you couldn't hide your truest self.

Of course, at this moment, Mi Cangyuan made no attempt to hide it.

"Senior, your disciple has not disgraced your trust!" He Pingsheng pulled out an elixir vial and said: "My master exerted every ounce of strength, added numerous supreme-grade spiritual liquids, and finally refined this batch of elixirs for you!"

"Twelve in total: two supreme-grade, ten high-grade!"

"Take a look!"

He Pingsheng handed the white jade vial to Mi Cangyuan.

Mi Cangyuan reached out to take the vial, his hand trembling slightly.

He took a deep breath, hastily suppressing his inner excitement, then slowly opened the vial—and the moment he saw the two supreme-grade elixirs inside, tears streamed uncontrollably down his face.

He didn't cry aloud; he simply wept silently.

"Su Yin… Su Yin… I did it!"

"After a hundred years, I've finally obtained the elixir to save you…"

"Wait—I'll bring you back to life right now!"

Mi Cangyuan wiped the tears from his face, then looked at He Pingsheng and asked: "Young brother, may I borrow your cultivation ground to revive my wife?"

He stared at He Pingsheng, unable to wait a moment longer.

He Pingsheng nodded: "Of course—Senior, please proceed!"

He Pingsheng waved his hand, and the array set up outside a certain room behind him activated fully.

Mi Cangyuan entered the small room, then tossed over a block of blue stone, roughly a foot square, and said: "Young brother, thank you…"

"No matter the outcome, you helped me refine the supreme-grade elixirs!"

"I have nothing valuable on me except this one piece of Grinding Dao Stone—it has some use."

"From today onward, it belongs to you!"

Boom…

With that, Mi Cangyuan sealed the door and array of the room.

He Pingsheng held the heavy stone in both hands, puzzled: What is this?

Grinding Dao Stone?

What use is this thing?

Just a rock?

But Mi Cangyuan's tone implied this Grinding Dao Stone was something extraordinary?

Wait—I'll check!

He Pingsheng pulled out a book from his storage ring.

Miscellaneous Records of Cultivation.

He'd bought this back when he was at Grand Void Gate.

He Pingsheng flipped through the Miscellaneous Records of Cultivation for a long time but found no information about the Grinding Dao Stone.

"Hmph…" He Pingsheng shook his head and put away the Grinding Dao Stone.

I'll visit the Crimson Moon Trading Society later—see if they have more complete reference books on cultivation world basics. Buy one and check then.

…

Meanwhile, Mi Cangyuan carried the elixirs into He Pingsheng's cultivation ground.

He waved his hand, and a golden cushion spread out on the ground.

The cushion was huge—over three meters across.

Then, on top of the golden cushion, Mi Cangyuan placed several miscellaneous items and began setting up an array.

It took him several days to complete the arrangement.

Once done, he waved his hand again and tossed out a corpse from some storage space.

It was a woman.

She wore a pure white Dao robe, her face breathtakingly beautiful, her black hair flowing like a waterfall.

She even breathed.

But her eyes were closed.

Like a living corpse.

"Su Yin…" Looking at the woman, Mi Cangyuan's expression softened: "There… wait!"

"You'll be revived soon!"

Hummm…

Mi Cangyuan swept his sleeve, and a green wooden stick flew out, hovering in midair.

Within the green stick was a tiny, palm-sized human-shaped shadow.

It was a soul.

Or rather, one of Su Yin's three souls—it took the shape of a woman, eyes closed, drifting within the Soul-Nourishing Wood.

Mi Cangyuan rested briefly, then pulled out a supreme-grade elixir, pried open Su Yin's lips, and slipped the supreme-grade 【Heavenly Fragrance Elixir】 into her mouth.

The elixir dissolved instantly.

Soon, it merged completely into Su Yin's body.

"Fall…"

At that moment, Mi Cangyuan roared—the soul within the Soul-Nourishing Wood was pulled by his spiritual sense, stretched out horizontally, expanded to match the size of Su Yin's body, then descended.

Soul and body merged perfectly, seamlessly.

Mi Cangyuan, seeing this, was overjoyed.

Previously, every time he tried to reunite the soul with the body, it failed.

This time, it succeeded.

Indeed, the 【Heavenly Fragrance Elixir】 worked.

Boom…

At that moment, the array Mi Cangyuan had set up activated.

Waves of yin energy surged upward as if rising from the deepest abyss, bursting from the array.

Rolling yin energy resembled a vast black smoke.

Outside, Old Cheng cried out in panic: "Disaster! Disaster! Young master, the back is on fire! There's a fire!"

He Pingsheng was startled.

He rushed out immediately.

But he saw—it wasn't fire at all, but a spectacular outpouring of dense yin-evil energy.

"Strange…" He Pingsheng frowned: "Isn't this supposed to be soul fusion?"

"Why is so much yin energy emerging?"

This sight reminded him of what had happened years ago in the Grand Void Hall.

Even Grand Void Old Man knew to use a Nine Yang Array to conceal yin energy—why didn't Mi Cangyuan set up any array?

If outsiders saw this, trouble would follow.