Pill Refining, Settling Karma

(Princes, please read!)

Zhuang Xingyu first used Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, together with water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, to refine ten Ice Fire Immortal Pills. Each pill had the same effect as directly consuming Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot!

Not only did they perfectly enhance the medicinal effects of both herbs, they also tempered the body and cleansed the marrow.

They could also allow a Martial Soul to control the two ultimate elements of ice and fire, granting Ice Immunity and Fire Immunity. If the Martial Soul already possessed both ice and fire abilities, it could evolve once more. Grandmother Murong Yunxue's Martial Soul was the Ice Fire Luan Bird, making her the most suitable person to take this pill.

Using Aromatic Silk Beauty as the main ingredient and several Precious Medicines as supplements, he refined Detoxification Pills. They could neutralize all poisons and were the bane of every toxin. After taking a Detoxification Pill, one would fear no poison—at the very least, no poison on Douluo Continent would ever pose a threat.

He refined 8,000 of them, enough for the family's main disciples and contributing outsiders to take upon returning.

In the original story, Yang Wudi, the patriarch of the Breaking Clan, had joined the Tang Sect and served Tang San solely for Aromatic Silk Beauty's detoxifying effect.

Yet every single soul master of the Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan could receive one. The difference was obvious.

Using Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum as the main ingredient, he refined Nine Heavens Vajra Pills. Upon consumption, one's qi would flow through the limbs and blood through the eight meridians, allowing one to forge an indestructible Vajra body. This was something Chrysanthemum Douluo of Spirit Hall had pursued bitterly his entire life.

He refined thirty pills. The Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Martial Soul was already renowned for its powerful physique, making it an excellent match for the Nine Heavens Vajra Pill. After taking one, there was a high chance that the family's Martial Souls would evolve, or at the very least, reach a new level in terms of strength.

Using Water Immortal Jade Bone as the main ingredient, he refined fifty Water Immortal Jade Bone Youth Preserving Pills. They could nourish the tendons and bones, allowing qi to flow through the seven meridians and eight vessels.

After taking one, not only could one increase Soul Power and improve one's innate foundation, but more importantly, it could make the skin smooth and preserve one's appearance forever! They were perfect gifts for Grandmother, Mother, Aunt, Zihan, and the others.

Using Eight-petaled Immortal Orchid as the main ingredient, he refined roughly 3,000 Great Returning Pills.

Their medicinal nature was gentle yet exceptionally pure, making them easy to absorb. Taking one directly could strengthen one's foundation, nourish one's vitality, expel impurities from the body, and accelerate future cultivation.

Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower was an herb that greatly replenished pure yang energy and could also purify impurities within a Martial Soul. Using it as the main ingredient, he refined fifteen Phoenix Transformation Pills and fifteen Yang Strengthening Pills.

As the name implied, taking a Phoenix Transformation Pill could evolve bird-type and flying-type Martial Souls into true Phoenix Martial Souls. They were especially suitable for Grandmother Murong Yunxue's Ice Fire Luan Bird Martial Soul and Zihan's Bright Space Butterfly Martial Soul.

As for the Yang Strengthening Pills...

Using Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew as the main ingredient, he refined a total of three hundred Spirit Sense Pills.

Taking one could enhance Spiritual Power!

One had to know that increasing Spiritual Power was the most difficult thing. Throughout all of Douluo Continent, aside from Zhuang Xingyu's Supreme Clarity Profound Dao and spiritual-type Spirit Bones, there was no method capable of directly enhancing Spiritual Power.

Even Tang San's Purple Demon Eye and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Heart Separation Control method could only enhance Spiritual Power indirectly.

There was also an Immortal Herb that had never appeared in the original story: Quantum Space Grass. This Immortal Herb was spatial in nature. Whenever strangers approached, it would hide within space. What could the young Tang San from the original story possibly know about space? He did not even grasp the basics, so naturally, he could never have discovered it.

Using it as the main ingredient, he refined ten Supreme Space Immortal Pills. Taking one could grant a Martial Soul spatial abilities.

They could evolve Mother's Thousand Heavy Iron Ruler Martial Soul and Zihan's Bright Space Butterfly Martial Soul. The Thousand Heavy Iron Ruler in particular—once it possessed the space attribute, its attacks could be unleashed in advance within space.

Then, thousands of attacks could erupt in an instant, wave after wave, each ruler strike stronger than the last. The crucial point was that all those attacks came from space. Enemies would be unable to guard against them and would have no idea where the next attack would emerge from.

There was also Lovesick Heartbreak Red, said to be a divine treasure among Immortal Herbs. It was no ordinary flower and would serve only the one it chose. Consuming it was said to grant one the power to endure alongside heaven and earth.

Moreover, Tang San had made up a tragic love story around it. In truth, that story was merely a story. It could not possibly test whether someone truly loved another.

Its principle was similar to testing one's willpower. Simply put, you thought about one thing and saw whether you could think of only that one thing without thinking of anything else.

Besides, the human heart was complex and unfathomable, possessing limitless imagination. That was also why humans stood at the head of all living beings.

True love did not need a flower to prove it, and a flower had no right to measure true love!

Even the soul-searching arts of cultivation worlds could only view past memories, while mind-reading arts could only read what one was currently thinking. Yet if there were feelings one did not think about, they could not be read.

Much less by a soulless plant?

If it were really that powerful, then why would those high-level cultivation worlds, such as Shrouding the Heavens and Eternal Life, have so many deeply concealed traitors?

One had to know that those true cultivation worlds possessed far more rare treasures than Douluo Continent, and far more powerful ones as well.

"Mm, oh! So that's how it is." Zhuang Xingyu observed Lovesick Heartbreak Red with the Chaos Bead and quickly discovered its secret.

No wonder Lovesick Heartbreak Red had been praised so extravagantly.

It turned out that Lovesick Heartbreak Red's true origin was that it had once been tainted by a trace of Innate Spiritual Qi. As mentioned before, God Kings and those below them were a kind of authority formed by the fusion of God Realm laws and Innate Spiritual Qi.

Without hesitation, Zhuang Xingyu directly merged Lovesick Heartbreak Red into the strand of Chaos Qi he had obtained earlier. The Chaos Qi instantly devoured it.

Though it had only increased by a tiny amount, it gave him a little more confidence in creating his own Creation God divine position in the future.

It took about a full day to finish refining everything. Aside from the pills listed above, he also refined some other pills with their own unique effects. (To avoid being accused of padding the word count, they would not be listed.)

Of the pills mentioned above, each type could only be consumed once. Taking more would be useless.

However, there was no limit among different kinds of pills. One could take as many types as there were.

After calculating the time, Zhuang Xingyu estimated that Dugu Bo would return in about a day. It was time to head to the cave where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had once been and leave Dugu Bo three Detoxification Pills and three Great Returning Pills.

The Detoxification Pills could completely remove the poison from Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan without consuming their Soul Power! Nor would it affect their descendants again. It could even allow Dugu Bo's accumulated potential to burst forth, letting him break through a level on the spot.

The Great Returning Pills could improve their talents. Dugu Bo had cultivated to the rank of Titled Douluo on his own, which was sufficient proof that his talent was quite good. On that basis, after taking a Great Returning Pill, breaking through to Rank 96 in a few decades would not be a problem. It would also give Dugu Yan a great chance of becoming a Titled Douluo.

He left three of each because one was for Dugu Bo to test. Otherwise, who would be foolish enough to swallow a pill of unknown origin? The remaining two would be for him and his granddaughter to take separately.

"Dugu Bo is also a pitiful man. In the original story, he served Tang San loyally, bore the infamy of slaughtering a city, and ultimately never reached Rank 96."

"Could it be that Tang San lacked the ability to slaughter a city with poison? He had so many highly toxic Precious Medicines in his hands and so many methods of creating deadly poisons. Tang San's skill with poison was far superior to Dugu Bo's."

"And in the end, his granddaughter Dugu Yan faded into obscurity. She never even broke through to Titled Douluo. Her descendants also lacked the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul, and the inheritance ended there."

"He served Tang San so much, yet gained nothing in return. He originally had the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Using it to suppress the poison in himself and his granddaughter would not have been a problem."

"If he had been a little sharper and gathered more relevant information, he could have learned how to use Immortal Herbs."

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Yang Wudi knew some relevant knowledge, proving that Douluo Continent did have records of Immortal Herbs, though they were relatively obscure. But precisely because they were obscure, many people did not value them. As a Titled Douluo, it would have been even easier for him to obtain them.

"Or he could have captured some soul beasts to test the herbs on and gradually figure out how to use Immortal Herbs. Then he could have completely resolved his family's poison problem and risen to another level."

There was no point saying more. By doing this, Zhuang Xingyu had been benevolent and righteous to the utmost toward Dugu Bo. This karma was settled.

Nor was he worried about raising a tiger that would later become a threat. Once Zhuang Xingyu returned, the family would soon have several Titled Douluo, and every member would gain poison immunity.

Even now, the Rank 96 Puppet could kill Dugu Bo.

If Dugu Bo later dared to become an enemy of the Pure Yang Sacred Leopard Clan, then he should not blame Zhuang Xingyu for slaughtering his entire family.

However, before that, Zhuang Xingyu needed to obtain his fourth soul ring first.