Clearing the Loan, Lightening the Load

After reaching a preliminary cooperation intention with Ancestral Witch Houtu, Xuan Wazi became even more motivated. He found a secluded valley on the outskirts of Mount Buzhou with relatively stable earth fire. After simply setting up a few concealment and protection formations, he placed the Eight Trigrams Furnace there and officially began his great endeavor of "refining pills to repay debts."

Ancestral Witch Houtu's efficiency was extremely high. Before long, warriors from various Witch Tribe tribes arrived outside the valley, carrying large bags and packages of spiritual materials, Fierce Beast blood essence, bones, and various strange but energy-rich items. These supplies piled up like mountains, with a wide variety of types. Many were "scraps" that the Witch Tribe itself could not effectively utilize, or that they felt were less effective than directly absorbing the spiritual essence of heaven and earth.

But in Xuan Wazi's eyes, these were excellent pill refining materials! The Chaos Alchemy Technique was all-encompassing and had corresponding methods for processing and integrating all kinds of spiritual materials.

The first things he began to process were the largest quantities of Fierce Beast blood essence and bones. These materials had violent blood essence and were full of impurities, making them a burden for the Witch Tribe to consume directly. Xuan Wazi used the Eight Trigrams Furnace as a base, drew upon the earth fire, and tempered it with his own Primordial Chaos Magic Power to remove impurities and refine the essence, fusing the boundless Bloodline Power with the earth's vital energy.

For his first large-scale furnace opening, he cautiously chose the relatively simple "Blood Strengthening Pill" and "Bone Strengthening Pill." As he cast incantations, the Eight Trigrams Furnace hummed, and auspicious light flowed within the furnace. Gradually, a medicinal fragrance permeated the air. Several days later, the furnace lid was opened, and hundreds of pills, the size of longan fruit, with alternating crimson and light gold colors, flew out. Each one was round and full, with its own aura!

"It's done!" Xuan Wazi's face lit up with joy. The quality of this batch of pills far surpassed his previous practice attempts. Their medicinal properties were gentle yet potent, perfectly suited for Witch Tribe warriors to temper their physical bodies daily.

He handed this batch of pills to a Great Witch from Houtu's tribe, who was responsible for the handover. The Great Witch tentatively took a "Blood Strengthening Pill." Moments later, his eyes shot out with brilliance. He felt a warm current surge through his entire body, his blood essence became active, and his physical strength subtly increased, all without any side effects!

"Good! Good stuff!" the Great Witch praised in a deep voice, looking at Xuan Wazi with fervent eyes. Soon, the effects of these pills spread within the Witch Tribe. The Witch Tribe members who came to deliver materials became even more enthusiastic. Some Witch Tribe members from other tribes, having heard the news, also brought their tribes' specialty spiritual materials, hoping to exchange them for these miraculous "pills."

Xuan Wazi accepted everything, as long as the materials were useful. His pill refining skills improved rapidly through extensive practice. From initially only being able to refine basic pills, he later began to attempt refining "Berserk Pills" that could temporarily unleash potential, "Life Creation Pills" that could quickly heal severe injuries, and even began researching how to refine malevolent energy into pills to form "Malevolent Essence Pills" that provided special attack enhancements for the Witch Tribe.

As the pills he refined became more advanced, the disturbances they caused also began to grow.

One day, he was refining a batch of "Crimson Sun Blood Melting Pills" with the heart blood of Golden Immortal-level Fierce Beasts as the main ingredient. If this pill could be successfully refined, it would significantly enhance even Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Witch Tribe members. At a critical moment in the refining process, the Eight Trigrams Furnace vibrated violently, and the furnace mouth spewed out blazing crimson light, drawing the spiritual energy above the valley into a vortex. There were even faint signs of pill tribulation thunderclouds gathering!

The soaring pill radiance and anomalies, even with the formations concealing them, inevitably leaked out a trace of their aura.

In the Heavenly Court of the Demon Clan, far away in the Thirty-three Heavens, Di Jun, who was discussing with Eastern Emperor Tai Yi how to deal with the increasingly powerful Witch Tribe and Xuan Wazi, whom they hated to the bone, suddenly felt something. His gaze pierced through the endless void, looking in the direction of Mount Buzhou.

"Hmm? Such strong blood essence fluctuations and the vitality of creation... It doesn't seem like a naturally born spiritual object is emerging?" Di Jun frowned slightly, calculating with his fingers, but only found the heavenly secrets to be chaotic and unclear.

"Brother, have you discovered something?" Tai Yi asked.

"There is an anomaly in the direction of Mount Buzhou. It seems related to the Witch Tribe, but it also carries an unfamiliar Dao rhythm... Send someone to investigate." Di Jun said in a deep voice.

Just as the pill tribulation was about to descend, Xuan Wazi calmly took out the Chaos Bead and suspended it above the Eight Trigrams Furnace. The Chaos Bead rotated slightly, and the converging thunderclouds and heavenly anomalies seemed to be wiped away by an invisible hand, instantly dissipating into nothingness. The pills in the furnace were successfully nurtured. When the furnace was opened, nine pills, as red as blood, with Dao patterns flowing on their surface, flew out. Their aroma filled the entire valley, making one's blood boil just by smelling it.

[Ding! Successfully refined 'Crimson Sun Blood Melting Pill' (Peak Immortal Grade), Dao cultivation greatly increased! The scale of transactions with the Witch Tribe has expanded, gaining 150,000 Unfilial Points! Acquired Postnatal Merit +50,000 strands!]

[Notification: Continuous 'resentment' from the Witch Tribe, due to the pills being too effective, has led to increased internal competition and converted into points +20,000/month.]

[Current Debt: -392,157 + 170,000 = -222,157 points.]

"Haha, at this rate, I'll be able to pay off my debt soon!" Xuan Wazi was in a great mood.

As time passed, the pills provided by Xuan Wazi began to become gradually popular within the Witch Tribe. Although the number of pills exchanged per individual Witch Tribe member was limited, it couldn't withstand the Witch Tribe's massive population base. Moreover, the pills' effects were truly significant, leading to a subtle but imperceptible improvement in the overall strength and recovery ability of the Witch Tribe. This minor change was quietly affecting the balance of power between the Demon Clan and the Witch Tribe.

Xuan Wazi, meanwhile, was immersed in the cycle of refining pills, collecting materials, and refining pills again. He not only used Witch Tribe materials to refine pills but also began to use some of his own hidden collections, marked and gathered during his previous "map runs," to try refining pills that were beneficial to his own cultivation or had more peculiar functions.

Several months later, when he delivered another large batch of "Blood Strengthening Pills," the system's prompt sound rang out again:

[Ding! Detected that the host has completed the 'Witch Tribe's Pill Supplier' mission. Accumulated Unfilial Points have exceeded the debt!]

[Automatic Debt Repayment: -222,157 points!]

[Current Unfilial Points: 0 (No Debt)!]

[Congratulations to the host for shedding the identity of 'debtor'! Bonus Reward: Free Attribute Point ×1 (Can temporarily increase Comprehension/Luck/Charm, valid for one Epoch)!]

"A light heart without debt!" Xuan Wazi let out a long sigh, feeling as if even his breathing had become smoother. Looking at the mountains of various Primordial Era specialties in his system space, exchanged for with pills, and the significant progress in his pill refining skills, he felt that this "job" was an absolute windfall.

With the debt cleared and his pill refining skills on the right track, the connection with the Witch Tribe was initially established. Xuan Wazi knew it was time to consider his next move. Burying himself in pill refining was not his style. The Primordial Era was vast, and there were so many "exciting" events waiting for him to participate in, to "be unfilial."

He put away the Eight Trigrams Furnace, removed the valley formations, and looked towards the peak of Mount Buzhou. He then glanced in the direction of the Heavenly Court, a familiar, slightly cunning smile appearing on his face.

"It's time to go out and stretch my legs. Always refining pills has made my bones rusty. I wonder if there's any 'excitement' to be found with the Demon Clan lately?"

His figure flickered, transforming into a gust of clear wind, and he left the valley that had brought him his first fortune (and cleared his debt). He once again merged into the vast Primordial Era, ready to seek new "opportunities."