Elixirs and Poison Go Hand in Hand

"So, did I succeed?"

"Your learning is so limited..." The Immortal Fairy, with her meager vocabulary, found it difficult to answer Lu Yang's question.

"It's like a universe in the palm of your hand, but the size isn't quite right."

The Immortal Fairy gestured. "It's about the size of a village. Your move should be called 'Village in the Palm of Your Hand'."

Lu Yang glanced at the small space in his palm; it was indeed not very large.

"A village in the palm of your hand" sounds awful, he argued. "How can it be called a village? The space may be small, but it's still a universe. Look, there are even stars rotating. It should be called a miniature universe in the palm of your hand!"

The Immortal Fairy scoffed at Lu Yang's explanation. "Come on, a pile of sand spinning in circles trying to pass itself off as a star."

She blew a breath into Lu Yang's palm, and the stardust scattered and disappeared.

Seeing that he couldn't fool him, Lu Yang had no choice but to admit defeat. "Fine, a village in the palm of your hand is a village in the palm of your hand, it's still a spatial Law Technique."

Lu Yang quickly put the matter of the Law Technique's name out of his mind and began to explore how to cast the Palm Village spell.

"If a universe in the palm of your hand can crush an entire world, making it impossible for anyone to resist, then a village in the palm of your hand should be able to do the same!"

Following the example of the Immortal Fairy, Lu Yang pressed his right hand down.

"A village in the palm of your hand!"

Boom--

A giant hand descended from the sky, the size of a village, exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression; the shock to the soul was even greater than the actual event!

Before the giant hand could land, it gradually faded and disappeared.

"Whoosh--"

Lu Yang gasped for breath, opening his mouth to absorb Spiritual Qi, like a drowning person who had been rescued and was desperately trying to breathe.

He didn't intentionally disband the village in his palm just now; rather, his own spiritual power was insufficient to maintain the village's state.

That single strike drained his spiritual power.

"This move is still too difficult for you at your current level." The Immortal Fairy shook her head. Even if it's a child's palm technique, it's not something a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator can execute.

However, if one could fully unleash this move, no one in the Golden Core stage could withstand it!

Even a peerless genius at the Golden Core stage wouldn't be able to stop it!

Lu Yang quickly found a solution. "Perhaps we can consume the pills while simultaneously using the Palm Village technique."

He sat cross-legged and spent about fifteen minutes recovering his composure, adjusting his mood, and starting over.

He took out his medicine gourd, which was full of Great Rejuvenation Pills. He had been eating these since he was a child and was very familiar with them.

Lu Yang poured out a Great Rejuvenation Pill from his medicine gourd, put it in his mouth, and once again used the Palm Village Technique.

Before his hand could even land, it vanished into nothingness, and Lu Yang collapsed onto the ground, utterly exhausted.

"No, one Great Rejuvenation Pill isn't enough."

Another quarter of an hour passed, and Lu Yang swallowed three Great Rejuvenation Pills and used the Palm Village technique.

The giant hand vanished into nothingness in mid-air.

"Three pills aren't enough?"

Lu Yang grinned, "Just how many Great Rejuvenation Pills do I need to consume to succeed?"

Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten...

In the end, Lu Yang concluded that his mouth needed to be stuffed full of Great Rejuvenation Pills.

Then another problem arises—it's too full to swallow, and if you try to swallow it in parts, you can't get it back to normal.

"By the way, we can ask the Seventh Elder for help!"

The Seventh Elder is the foremost alchemist in the Central Continent; he can definitely refine a pill that quickly restores spiritual energy!

Moreover, because Lu Yang gave the Seventh Elder a Shepherd Grass that had developed sentience, the Elder offered to help Lu Yang refine pills three times!

Let's do it!

Lu Yang found the Seventh Elder, who was refining pills in a furnace. The aroma of the pills was wonderful, and he could tell at a glance that they were not poisonous.

"Haha, my meticulously crafted Breakthrough Pill is finally complete!"

The Seventh Elder laughed heartily, feeling a great sense of accomplishment after refining an unprecedented elixir.

"Congratulations, Seventh Elder!" Upon seeing this, Lu Yang raised his hand to offer his congratulations. He had been standing not far away, not disturbing the Seventh Elder's alchemy, and only stepped forward after the alchemy was completed.

"It's Lu Yang! It's a pity you're only at the Golden Core stage, so you can't try the Breakthrough Pill I just refined. This is a pill that has never been made before!"

Lu Yang hesitated for a moment. From what the Seventh Elder said, it seemed that taking this pill would allow him to advance to the Golden Core stage. As far as he knew, such a pill had existed for a long time.

The Seventh Elder waved his hand. "How can the pills refined by those commoners compare to mine? The breakthrough pills from the outside world are crudely made and have no aesthetic appeal whatsoever!"

Lu Yang asked cautiously, "Then the pills you refine..."

"The breakthrough pills refined outside are only meant to help Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators advance to the Golden Core stage; their effects are too mediocre!"

"These Breakthrough Pills I refined can not only allow Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators to advance to the Golden Core stage, but also cause Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to regress to the Golden Core stage!"

Lu Yang: "..."

He felt that there was a reason why the Seventh Elder had a bad reputation.

Although elixirs and poisons are often linked, Alchemist are more or less proficient in the pharmacology of poisons.

However, it is rare to see someone like the Seventh Elder who has developed a balanced condition with erysipelas.

Lu Yang still remembers the first time he came to Elixir Cauldron Peak, he was so poisoned by the aroma of the pills that he fainted. Under the guidance of the Seventh Elder, all the senior brothers and sisters of Elixir Cauldron Peak were proficient in poisons and pharmacology, and their skills were no less than those of alchemists.

Of course, even if they were refining pills, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't contain poison, perfectly embodying the idea that pills and poisons are inseparable.

"It's fate that we met. Here's one for you." The Seventh Elder flicked his middle finger, and the Azure-Patterned Pill fell into Lu Yang's arms.

"What do you want with me?"

"Here's the thing, I just learned a Law Technique that consumes a lot of Law Power. I run out of Law Power halfway through casting it and have to stop. I tried casting the spell while simultaneously using the Great Restoration Pill, but the pill's mana Law Power speed still can't keep up with my consumption rate. I would like to ask you to refine a pill that can quickly restore my Law Power."

"Hmm, there are precedents for your situation. It's not difficult to refine it. Come, let me feel your meridians."

The Seventh Elder squeezed Lu Yang's wrist, slightly surprised. "When I was at your level, I didn't have such a large reserve of spiritual energy. That shouldn't be the case. With your amount of spiritual energy, you shouldn't run out of energy when casting any Law Technique."

"Oh, it's fine if you don't want to say what kind of Law Technique it is. It's normal for cultivators to have secrets. For example, the Ninth Brother has a High Antiquity ferocious beast sealed inside him, and the Fourth Brother had a bunch of erotic pictures under his bed when he was a child."

Lu Yang felt that these secrets might not be limited to cultivators.

"It's not that I'm unwilling to tell you, it's just that it's a bit troublesome to explain. I'll demonstrate it for you once."

Lu Yang wasn't afraid of revealing the existence of the Immortal Fairy, since everyone would assume that it was his senior sister who taught him.

Lu Yang arrived at an open space and slammed his palm down. A giant palm descended from the sky, blocking out the sunlight, covering the mountaintop, and the palm wind was astonishing, causing the green grass to lie flat on the ground.

The giant hand vanished in mid-air.

The Seventh Elder's pupils constricted slightly upon seeing this scene, deeply moved. He had never seen such a move before. Judging from the aura just now, this move should not be something that Golden Core cultivator could use. Lu Yang's ability to use it was already against common sense.

"What a powerful Law Technique! What's the name of this Law Technique?!"

Lu Yang said earnestly, "High Antiquity martial arts, immortal inheritance, supreme divine Divine Ability, a village in the palm of your hand."

The Seventh Elder turned to look at Lu Yang in surprise. Why did the name of the Law Technique seem unworthy of its prefix?