The Pill King's Precious Mirror, Comprehending the Art of Pill Dao

The cultivation of the Innate Realm was still a bit too low. To survive the coming chaos, he would need at least the Grandmaster Realm.

Of course, the Great Grandmaster Realm would be even better. If he could reach the Peak of Humanity, he could move freely through an army of three hundred thousand as if strolling through a back garden.

With the system's help, Ye Jing was confident he could reach the Peak of Humanity, or even become a God of Heaven and Earth. But all of this required time.

Three months. At most three months, and King Zhennan's three hundred thousand troops would have refined that Spirit Vein. Then they would surely march straight for the Imperial Capital.

Ye Jing only had three months. To become the Peak of Humanity within that time, even with the system's help, he felt it was a fool's dream.

Let alone the Peak of Humanity—even reaching the Grandmaster Realm in three months, Ye Jing had no solid confidence.

The Innate Realm was different from the Qi Refining Realm. Ye Jing had Heaven-Defying Comprehension, so he could refine spiritual energy extremely quickly. But in the Innate Realm, the effect of Heaven-Defying Comprehension was not as great.

The Innate Realm required forging an Innate Physique and shaping an Innate Dao Body, strengthening the physical body.

In this realm, one had to train the body step by step, with few shortcuts available.

Learning that King Zhennan was about to rebel, Ye Jing was greatly shaken and had no mind to continue talking with Hu Jie.

He now wanted to hurry and compile books, to see if he could once again glean something from them to improve his strength.

Approaching the desk, Ye Jing took a book from the pile stacked as high as a small mountain and began to read.

The book recorded the growth of a generation's Pill King.

Pill King Yao Xingchen was born a thousand years ago into a declining Pill Dao Family.

Yao Xingchen was born with insufficient Qi and Blood, frail and sickly. A Pill Dao Great Master once predicted he had a short-lived fate and would not live past three.

But Yao Xingchen was blessed by fortune and grew safely to the age of eighteen.

At eighteen, the Fifth Heaven and Earth Cataclysm descended. Living beings suffered, a thousand miles of barren earth, rivers of blood, and bones piled high.

Unable to bear this tragic sight, Yao Xingchen wanted to use the Art of Pill Dao to save the world.

Though Yao Xingchen had extraordinary comprehension and excellent talent in Pill Dao, his innate weakness doomed him to never achieve great success in the Pill Dao path.

And so it was. For the first thirty years, no matter how proficient he was in Pill Dao Pharmacology, he knew nothing of Cultivation Methods and could not condense an Innate Fire, making it impossible to refine pills.

Perhaps Heaven took pity, or perhaps the Dao favored him, a stroke of fortune descended, completely changing Yao Xingchen's life.

During a herb-gathering trip, Yao Xingchen stumbled into a Secret Realm. No one knew what he encountered there.

All that was known was that a hundred years later, Yao Xingchen emerged from the Secret Realm, not only with vigorous Qi and Blood but also with a miraculous Art of Pill Dao.

He could restore flesh to bones and raise the dead. With this divine Pill Dao art, whether you were a commoner or a Peak of Humanity standing above the world, no matter how severe your injury, as long as you had a breath left, one pill from Yao Xingchen could save you.

Later, with this unfathomable Pill Dao art, he helped the first Emperor Li Long Zhan establish the Ancient Dali Kingdom and pacify the Fifth Heaven and Earth Cataclysm.

Unfortunately, when he tried to defy fate and extend Emperor Li Long Zhan's life by five hundred years, he suffered backlash and died young, not even passing down the Pill King's Precious Mirror to his descendants.

[You have observed Yao Xingchen's life. You were very attentive, activating Heaven-Defying Comprehension.]

[With Heaven-Defying Comprehension, you have comprehended the Pill King's Precious Mirror.]

Ye Jing closed his eyes, sensing the changes brought by the system.

What appeared in Ye Jing's mind were Yao Xingchen's various encounters in the nameless Secret Realm.

After stumbling into the Secret Realm, Yao Xingchen was like a headless fly, searching everywhere for an exit.

In his stumbling, he saw two elders, one in black and one in white, both with white hair and youthful faces, refining pills in a thatched hut.

Yao Xingchen, already deeply obsessed with the Art of Pill Dao, couldn't help but step forward to observe.

After the pills were refined, the two elders each had Yao Xingchen taste their pills, asking him to judge which was superior.

After swallowing the pills, Yao Xingchen felt a sharp pain in his heart and fell into a coma.

When he woke, the two elders and the thatched hut had vanished. In Yao Xingchen's hand, a copy of the Pill King's Precious Mirror had inexplicably appeared.

And his understanding of Pill Dao had reached an unfathomable depth.

[You are deeply immersed. You have fully comprehended all the mysteries of the Pill King's Precious Mirror.]

The system's soft prompt snapped Ye Jing awake from Yao Xingchen's experiences.

He had mastered the Art of Pill Dao so easily!

Awake now, Ye Jing felt he had completely grasped the Pill King's Precious Mirror. The joy in his eyes was impossible to hide.

In the Ancient Dali Kingdom, Martial Arts reigned supreme, but a powerful Pill Master could be treated as an honored guest by even the strongest warriors.

This was because the pills refined by a powerful Pill Master could restore flesh to bones and raise the dead.

Who dared claim invincibility? Who in the world could call themselves undefeated? Even a Peak of Humanity could face death and the end of their Dao.

But if one held the pills of a powerful Pill Master, it was like having an extra life. In life-and-death battles, it could often turn the tide.

However, since the Fifth Heaven and Earth Cataclysm completely dissipated, the spiritual energy in the world grew thinner and thinner. Many heavenly treasures and rare wonders gradually vanished from the world.

Without heavenly treasures and rare wonders, even if a Pill Master's art was strong, it was difficult to refine pills with powerful effects.

Gradually, the path of the Pill Master declined. Especially in this Age of Dharma's End, the status of a Pill Master was no different from that of an apothecary.

But now, things were different. The signs of the Sixth Heaven and Earth Cataclysm had already appeared. Before long, the heavenly treasures and rare wonders of the world would reappear in Dali.

At that time, the path of the Pill Daoist would flourish once more.

Yao Xingchen was the most powerful pill daoist Dali had seen in a thousand years, and Ye Jing had now fully mastered the Pill King's Precious Mirror, giving him a measure of confidence.

Even if the Sixth Heaven and Earth Cataclysm appeared right now, Ye Jing wouldn't panic. With this art of Pill Dao in hand, he could refine many pills and rapidly boost his own strength.

Though they were still in the Age of Dharma's End, this art of Pill Dao was nothing short of a timely rain! It could greatly ease Ye Jing's current pressing troubles.

The Innate Realm was divided into three steps: the first was Body Refining, the second was Marrow Washing, and the final step was Shedding Mortal Fetus to forge an Innate Physique.

With this art of Pill Dao, Ye Jing could refine certain pills to quickly help himself skip the first and second steps, forging an Innate Physique in an extremely short time.

"Healing the world, great virtue and righteousness, revered for ten thousand generations, a model for later ages." After writing these sixteen characters, Ye Jing glanced at the sky and prepared to leave.

While it was still early, he needed to go to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to purchase some medicinal herbs, so he could refine Foundation Building Liquid and quickly strengthen his physical body.