Taking an Unconventional Path

Xiao Yan unfolded the map. Xiong Zhan's location was in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. There were two other places marked with red circles on the map, which were treasure lands of the same level as the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.

Since he was already here, he certainly couldn't leave empty-handed. Xiao Yan n't keep any of the Medicinal Herbs from the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range for himself, but he gladly accepted the things from these two treasure lands.

After plundering the entire last day of the Pill Realm, Xiao Yan finally left, his pockets overflowing with riches, and headed towards the exit of the Pill Realm.

Since it was the last day, Xiao Yan didn't encounter many people on the way and arrived at the plaza where the exit was located without any obstacles.

There was also a Pill Tower Elder waiting there.

His job is to check whether the list of Medicinal Herbs matches the Medicinal Herbs collected by the participants. If they match, the contestant passes; otherwise, they fail.

Xiao Yan and his two companions successfully passed through the spatial passage and returned to the starting plaza.

The final step of the Pill Gathering is to refine one's best Pills on the Stone Platform under the watchful eyes of everyone, and compete with everyone in terms of raw strength!

After Xuan Kongzi announced the official start, figures landed on the Stone Platform, and heavy medicine cauldrons were taken out of their Storage Ring. Colorful flames rose from the cauldrons.

Xiao Yan didn't rush to start refining medicine. Instead, he rested his chin on his hand and looked at the flames of various shapes and colors with great interest.

Cao Ying's flames were an extremely conspicuous bright red, even more intense than blood. As the flames rose, a tiny figure could be vaguely seen, like an elf, tumbling and flying within them.

This is the Blood Fiend Flame Fire. It requires the blood of nearly a thousand fire-attribute Magical Beast to be collected, then fused together, and finally condensed into the shape of a flame using the fire-attribute energy within the blood.

The more complete the figure, the stronger the flame. Cao Ying's Blood Fiend Flame Fire is probably formed mainly from the blood of several Eighth Rank fire-attribute Magical Beast, supplemented by the blood of thousands of fifth-order fire-attribute Magical Beast.

Dan Chen's flame is also special, very similar to the flame that Tang Zhen gave to Xiao Yan. It is also Prosperous Fire, and it was most likely nurtured and strengthened by the crimson flame of the Body Burning Valley before being given to Dan Chen to devour and refine.

This flame can devour the Spiritual Qi existing in the world, and Dan Chen himself can devour the Soul Power. The combination of the two will result in Pills with a spiritual quality that is probably stronger than that of Cao Ying.

Then there was Xiao Yi Xian's Netherworld Poison Flame, a ghostly green flame surrounded by poisonous mist; anyone who touched it even slightly would surely die.

As soon as the fire appeared, muffled sounds came from the inside of large cauldrons around it. The suppression of the Heavenly Flames left the Alchemist helpless, and they made up their minds that they must buy a Prosperous Fire after the Pill Gathering.

Finally, Xiao Yan looked at Gu Xun'er in the distance.

Gu Xun'er kept a low profile and had already begun refining medicine. In front of her was a dark golden medicine cauldron, its brilliant Golden Flame slowly burning inside, but most of the fluctuations were isolated by the cauldron.

If it weren't for the lingering unease emanating from his Soul Origin, Xiao Yan would have had no chance of discovering Gu Xun'er in that direction.

After everyone in the square had seen it, Xiao Yan figured out how to refine the medicine.

Xiao Yan took out the Myriad Beast Cauldron, flicked his fingers, and a wisp of deep purple flame appeared out of thin air inside the cauldron.

Exhaling a breath of stale air, Xiao Yan began refining the Supreme Pill.

The Supreme Pill is Seventh Grade Advanced Pill. Its effect is to increase the probability of breaking through to the Dou Zun level by at least 10%. As for how much it can increase, it depends on the Alchemist's skill.

With Xiao Yan's current skill level, refining the Supreme Pill is naturally a piece of cake. He can easily refine all kinds of Medicinal Herbs, then fuse them together and condense them into a pill.

Alchemy is an extremely time-consuming task, especially the refinement of high-level Pills, which often takes ten days to half a month.

But this did not dampen the enthusiasm of the audience, who were all quite skilled and had only been in seclusion for a month.

Under countless expectant gazes, five days passed in the blink of an eye.

In these five days, only a small number of Alchemist successfully refined the Pills, but they also understood that it was impossible for them to achieve any good rankings.

Advanced Alchemist can refine multiple Medicinal Herbs simultaneously using their techniques, and possessing sufficiently powerful flames can also shorten the time required for alchemy. Therefore, some Alchemist can refine Pills much faster.

Generally speaking, the higher the grade of the Pills, the longer it takes to refine. Since they only took five days to refine it, they can basically only be relegated to the bottom of the Pill Gathering.

However, on that very day, something happened that shocked everyone present.

Xiao Yan, who had recently risen to fame and was highly anticipated by everyone, actually ended his alchemy practice after the fifth day.

The energy emanating from the Pills surged skyward, followed by dense dark clouds, from which streaks of lightning of various colors flashed and weaved.

Everything indicates that this Pills is Eighth Grade Pill!

Xiao Yan only took five days!

"Eighth Grade Four-Color Pill Lightning ... This shouldn't be his limit, and he still has plenty of time. Why doesn't he spend more time refining an even better one?" Xuan Kongzi frowned.

"In previous years, Pills of this level would have been enough to win the championship. This year, with the Three Thousand Burning Flame as a reward, I'm afraid the Eighth Grade Four-Color Pill Lightning will be hard to beat all the others!" Tian Lei Zi was also a little displeased. He was naturally aware of the deal between Xuan Kongzi and Xiao Yan. If Xiao Yan did not win the championship in the end, wouldn't the Pill Tower be in a very awkward position?

"This child isn't arrogant. He probably knows Yao Chen's Spirit Ascension Method, and with more than twenty days left, he can naturally refine an even better Pills." Xuan Yi spoke up for Xiao Yan.

"I see that his Soul Realm has made a breakthrough. He must have found some rare and precious treasures in the Pill Realm. Now he seems to be not much different from us." Xuan Kongzi's expression was conflicted as he thought of a possibility.

Having refined the Supreme Pill, Eighth Grade Four-Color Pill Lightning, Xiao Yan showed no joy or sorrow. He grabbed the Pills that was trying to escape and calmly let the Heavenly Demon Puppet take the blow.

The golden, glittering Heavenly Demon Puppet faced this level of Pill Lightning with no resistance, recklessly absorbing Pill Lightning power and growing stronger.

Afterward, Xiao Yan stopped paying attention to the scene in the sky and began to close his eyes and ponder the pill formula given by Void Venerate.

The prescription requires only a few hundred kinds of Medicinal Herbs, among which only seven main Medicinal Herbs are crucial: Empty Filter Fruit, Profound Constant Wood, Great Void Yin Yang Vine, Son Yang Divine Soul Grass, Yin Spirit Stone, Long Life Spring Water, and Green Wood Saliva.

After meeting, Void Venerate gave Xiao Yan three portions of each of the seven Medicinal Herbs he had collected. However, the remaining hundreds of herbs were mainly used to assist these seven Medicinal Herbs, so different Alchemist might have different needs, and Void Venerate did not prepare any.

At this moment, Xiao Yan was considering the medicinal properties of the seven main Medicinal Herbs in the Pill Recipe in order to select the appropriate quenching temperature and method, as well as the auxiliary ingredients for refining the medicinal properties.