Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method

"Boom!"

The furnace in Lesser Qiong Peak's alchemy room exploded once again, and before long, Li Yang crawled out with a face full of black smoke.

"Senior Brother, what happened to you?"

Seeing Li Yang in such a miserable state, Lan Ling'e, who had been lying around like a salted fish, was utterly stunned.

This senior brother had already become an immortal, and the Melting Immortal Pill their master needed had been successfully refined—so why was he working even harder?

Weren't they supposed to lie low together after becoming immortals?

"Cough, cough, cough! It's nothing!"

Li Yang coughed a few times, spitting black smoke from his mouth, looking thoroughly disheveled.

Seeing this, Lan Ling'e frowned deeply. "Senior Brother, what exactly is going on? Ever since Master's mishap half a year ago, you've been holed up in this alchemy room, blowing up furnaces almost every day?"

"Has it really been that long?"

Li Yang didn't answer directly. Instead, he seemed dazed for a moment, a trace of melancholy in his eyes.

Before he knew it, over half a year had passed, leaving only one year until Master's tribulation.

Yet refining the Three-Revolutions Golden Core remained fraught with difficulties, and replenishing Master's Dao Foundation was still out of reach.

Master had once been a genius of the sect, a seed of immortality in his youth. If not for that accident back then, he would at least be a True Immortal at the peak, half a step from a Celestial Immortal now.

Unfortunately, an injury in his early years had damaged Master's Dao Foundation.

Though the sect's seniors had used a mountain of pills to save Master's life, and even provided him with many healing and foundation-replenishing elixirs, the lack of certain rare heavenly treasures meant that Master's Dao injury appeared healed on the surface but was in fact severely weakened. Later attempts to replenish it proved futile.

Thus, for a thousand years of cultivation, Master had spent most of his time merely maintaining his cultivation level.

With a damaged Dao Foundation, the path to the Great Dao was arduous—this was the root of Master's slim hope of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation.

So Li Yang's plan was to refine a Three-Revolutions Golden Core to repair Master's Dao Foundation.

In truth, there were two ways to mend a Dao Foundation. The first was the Three-Revolutions Golden Core, a pill created by the Dao Ancestor Taishang himself. Bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh and bone was trivial for it; reshaping the foundation of a Mortal Realm Qi Practitioner was equally effortless.

The second was to discard the centuries of hard-earned cultivation Master had accumulated, use precise force to tear open the healed Dao injury once more, and fill the wound with heavenly treasures.

This process was not only extremely dangerous but would also cause Master immense pain.

Moreover, such heavenly treasures were just as hard to find, and even then, there was no guarantee the Dao injury could be fully repaired.

So Li Yang knew very well which choice he had to make.

Seeing her senior brother lost in thought, Lan Ling'e quickly patted him.

"Senior Brother, what's wrong with you? You haven't been blown stupid by the explosion, have you?"

Li Yang snapped back to reality, cast a cleansing spell to wash himself clean, and said, "It's nothing. I've thought of another way."

With that, he turned and ducked back into the alchemy room.

"Senior Brother!"

Lan Ling'e stomped her foot in frustration, but the alchemy room was sealed with Li Yang's restrictions—there was no way she could sneak in.

As for Li Yang?

Once inside the alchemy room, he carefully examined the incomplete recipe for the One-Revolution Golden Pill he had obtained.

It was by relying on this recipe that he had churned out so many freakish 'Golden Core' avatars, and even deduced several one-to-three-revolution immortal pills and poison pills.

'I've basically completed the recipe. Even the half-year of furnace explosions was just to accumulate experience. The next step is to attempt a full deduction of the true recipe.'

Li Yang had long had a plan. The method of the Nine-Turn Golden Pill was far too advanced; before becoming an immortal, even with the Work-Life Balance entry, he couldn't complete it. But now that he was an immortal...

In the three years since his ascension, he had saved up all his time, not hesitating to delay his own path, all for this.

He knew that after becoming an immortal, there was a rapid ascension period. If he had used his entries on that, perhaps his foundation would be even sturdier now, or he might have already broken through to True Immortal.

"But I don't regret it."

Li Yang muttered to himself, opening his Entry Panel.

[Work-Life Balance: The longer the rest time, the better the cultivation effect. Current rest time: 3 years, 21 days, 5 hours, 3 quarters.]

'An epiphany lasting over three months... maybe, just maybe, it can work.'

Whether it would work, Li Yang had no confidence in his heart, but he was willing to gamble.

"Cultivate!"

The time dropped to zero, and Li Yang immediately fell into an epiphany.

The boost from the Late Bloomer entry brought him a tremendous change.

[Late Bloomer: The older the age, the higher the comprehension, the better the cultivation effect. Current age: 21]

The comprehension granted by Late Bloomer was applied to his base, then multiplied by the comprehension from Work-Life Balance.

Thus, even in the midst of his epiphany, Li Yang was astonished to find that his current comprehension was far better than before.

He was supposed to be deducing the Three-Revolutions Golden Core, yet all the information, insights, and ideas that came with becoming an immortal were simultaneously transforming into resources for his growth.

The Great Dao carried by the Heavenly Tribulation, the Dao Rhyme, the phenomena of ascension, the Dao Rhyme, the cultivation method...

Too many things had turned into his nourishment, merging with the fragments of the One-Revolution Golden Pill, drawing on countless alchemical failures to madly push his cultivation forward and drive the completion of the One-Revolution Golden Pill.

Soon, the One-Revolution Golden Pill was fully completed, and then came the Two-Revolution Golden Pill.

To deduce this Golden Pill Method, Li Yang had spared no effort in collecting scriptures and Daoist texts related to the Grand Pure Sage.

Thus, relying on these scriptures, extracting their ideas, and using the One-Revolution Golden Pill formula as a foundation, he painstakingly deduced and refined the Two-Revolution Golden Pill formula.

At the same time, this comprehension of the Great Dao—for Li Yang, who possessed the Shelter Grotto-Heaven capable of generating spiritual energy on its own—began to synchronize with his cultivation.

Countless streams of spiritual energy poured into his body during his enlightenment, pushing his cultivation forward.

Yet, because of the Nine-Turn Golden Pill method, just as his cultivation was about to break through to the True Immortal stage, it rapidly fell back, starting over from the early Origin Immortal stage.

Vaguely, he understood that he had subconsciously deduced a Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method.

The Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method referenced the first turn of the Nine-Turn Golden Pill. Completing one revolution at the peak of Origin Immortal, he returned to early Origin Immortal, solidifying his Dao Foundation and strengthening his immortal body.

Now, he was no weaker than when he had just broken through to early True Immortal—in fact, he was even stronger.

This was a good thing.

But it was useless.

Progress on the Two-Revolution Golden Pill remained difficult.

'This is the destruction and creation of the Immortal Ascension Tribulation—these Dao Rhymes can also be integrated into it.'

'This is the ability of the Star Stone Golden Core Clone to transform Chaos Qi—so this is how he executed it. Incorporate it as well.'

'This is the formation...'

'This is...'

Li Yang turned everything, absolutely everything, into fuel to drive the progress of the Two-Revolution Golden Pill.

In a daze, three months and two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Yang opened his eyes, his expression grim.

"The Two-Revolution Golden Pill succeeded, but the Three-Revolutions Golden Core only got halfway done.

This is unbearable. Who would have thought the Three-Revolutions Golden Core wouldn't succeed, but the Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method would complete its third revolution first?

Damn it, do I even need this right now??

Still, it's not a total failure. Some things can be substituted, but the medicinal effect will probably be weaker, and the success rate will drop significantly. These substitutions all need detailed experimentation."

Li Yang walked out of the alchemy chamber, looked up, and extended a finger to make a quick calculation.

"Hm? Something's off."

Li Yang was stunned, then calculated again.

"Wait, isn't Master's tribulation supposed to be in nine months, not eleven?"

What the hell???