Nine-Revolutions Immortal Physique Method

"Boom!"

The pill room on Lesser Qiong Peak exploded again. Before long, Li Yang crawled out, his face black with soot.

"Senior Brother, what happened to you?"

Seeing Li Yang in such a sorry state, Lan Ling'e, who had been lounging around like a Salted Fish, was stunned.

Senior Brother had already become an immortal, and the Melting Immortal Pill Master needed had been successfully refined. So why was he working even harder?

Hadn't they agreed to lounge around together after becoming immortals?

"Cough, cough, cough. I'm fine!"

Li Yang coughed a few times, spewing black smoke from his mouth. He looked utterly disheveled.

Seeing this, Lan Ling'e knitted her brows. "Senior Brother, what on earth happened? Ever since Master's mishap began over half a year ago, you've been holed up in this pill room, blowing up the furnace almost every day!"

"Has that much time really passed?"

Li Yang didn't answer directly. He seemed to drift off, looking somewhat melancholy.

Without realizing it, more than half a year had passed. Only a year remained until Master's Tribulation Transcendence.

Yet refining the Three-Revolutions Golden Core was still fraught with difficulties, so there was no way to replenish Master's Dao Foundation.

Master had once been the sect's prodigy and had been an immortal seedling. If nothing had gone wrong back then, Master would have at least reached the peak of the True Immortal Realm by now, just half a step away from becoming a Celestial Immortal.

Unfortunately, an injury sustained years ago had damaged Master's Dao Foundation.

Although the sect's elders had used a great many pills to save Master's life, and the sect had provided many healing pills and pills to replenish the Dao Foundation, they lacked some rare natural treasures. As a result, Master's Dao Injury had only seemed healed. In reality, it had caused severe damage, making it difficult to repair afterward.

So, during a thousand years of cultivation, Master had spent most of the time improving their cultivation.

But with a damaged Dao Foundation, advancing along the Great Dao was difficult. That was why Master's chances of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation were so slim.

That was why Li Yang planned to refine a Three-Revolutions Golden Core to repair Master's Dao Foundation.

There were actually two ways to repair a Dao Foundation. The first was the Three-Revolutions Golden Core, created by the Grand Pure Sage. Bringing the dead back to life and restoring flesh to bare bones were trivial feats for this pill; even rebuilding the foundation of a Qi Practitioner in the Mortal Realm was easy.

The second was to destroy the cultivation Master had painstakingly accumulated over the past few centuries, then forcibly reopen the healed Dao Injury and fill it with natural treasures.

Not only was this process extremely dangerous, it would also cause Master immense pain.

And natural treasures were just as hard to find. Even then, there was no guarantee the Dao Injury could be repaired.

So Li Yang knew exactly which option to choose.

Seeing Senior Brother lost in thought, Lan Ling'e quickly patted him.

"Senior Brother, what's wrong? Did the explosion make you stupid?"

Li Yang came back to his senses and used a cleansing spell to wash himself off. "I'm fine. I've thought of another way."

With that, he went straight back into the pill room.

"Senior Brother!"

Lan Ling'e stamped her foot in frustration, but Li Yang had placed a restriction on the pill room. She couldn't sneak inside.

And Li Yang?

As soon as he entered the pill room, he carefully examined the fragment of the One-Revolution Golden Pill recipe he had obtained.

It was thanks to this recipe that he had fashioned so many bizarre Golden Pill clones and even deduced several kinds of Immortal and Poison Pills, from the first to the third revolution.

I've mostly completed the recipe. I've even spent the past six months blowing up the furnace to build up experience. So the next step is to try deducing the real recipe.

Li Yang had planned this out long ago. The Nine-Turn Golden Pill method was far too advanced. Before becoming an immortal, even the Work-Life Balance entry hadn't been enough to complete it. But now, he was an immortal.

He had saved up all his time over the three years since becoming an immortal, even at the cost of delaying his cultivation, all for this.

After becoming an immortal, there was a rapid ascension period. If he'd used his entry on that, perhaps his foundation would be more solid now—or he might already have broken through to the True Immortal Realm.

"But I don't regret it!"

Li Yang muttered to himself and opened the Entry Panel.

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

With more than three months of enlightenment, maybe I really can do it!

Li Yang wasn't actually sure he could succeed, but he was willing to take the chance.

"Cultivate!"

With the time set to zero, Li Yang immediately entered a state of enlightenment.

The Late Bloomer entry's enhancement brought about a tremendous change in him.

[Late Bloomer: The older you are, the higher your comprehension and the better your cultivation results. Current age: 21.]

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

So even while immersed in enlightenment, Li Yang was surprised to discover that his comprehension was now far better than before.

He had intended to deduce the Three-Revolutions Golden Core, but all the knowledge, insights, and ideas he had gained after becoming an immortal were also turning into resources for his growth.

The Great Dao and Dao Rhyme carried by the Heavenly Tribulation, the visions and Dao Rhyme from his ascension, the cultivation techniques...

Far too many things became nourishment for him. Combined with the fragment of the One-Revolution Golden Pill recipe and the lessons from countless failed attempts at pill refining, they drove his cultivation forward at a frenzied pace and pushed him toward completing the One-Revolution Golden Pill.

Soon, he had fully completed the One-Revolution Golden Pill. Next came the Two-Revolution Golden Pill.

To deduce this Golden Pill method, Li Yang had collected plenty of cultivation techniques and scriptures related to the Grand Pure Sage.

Relying on those scriptures, extracting their ideas, and using the One-Revolution Golden Pill recipe as a foundation, he struggled to deduce and refine the recipe for the Two-Revolution Golden Pill.

At the same time, his cultivation began advancing in sync with his insights into the Great Dao. Li Yang had a Shelter Grotto-Heaven that could produce spiritual energy on its own.

As he meditated, countless streams of spiritual energy poured into his body, driving his cultivation forward.

But because of the Nine-Turn Golden Pill method, just as his cultivation neared a breakthrough to the True Immortal Realm, it quickly fell back, returning him to the early Origin Immortal stage.

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

The Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method drew on the first revolution of the Nine-Turn Golden Pill. At the peak of the Origin Immortal stage, he completed one revolution and returned to the early Origin Immortal stage, solidifying his Dao Foundation and strengthening his Immortal Body.

His current self was no weaker than he had been upon breaking through to the early True Immortal stage. In fact, he was even stronger.

That was a good thing.

But it didn't help.

Progress on the Two-Revolution Golden Pill remained difficult.

This is the destruction and Creation of the Immortal Ascension Tribulation. These Dao Rhymes can be incorporated into it, too.

This is the ability of the Star Stone Golden Core Clone to transform Chaos Qi. So that's how it works. I can incorporate that, too.

This is the formation...

This is...

Li Yang turned everything into fuel to advance 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 is done, but I've only completed half of the Three-Revolutions Golden Core.

This is so frustrating. Who would've thought that when the Three-Revolutions Golden Core wasn't finished, the Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method would reach the third revolution first?

Damn it, why do I need this thing right now?

But it's not a total failure. Some ingredients can be substituted, though the effect will probably be weaker, and the success rate will drop a lot. I'll have to study those substitutes carefully."

Li Yang walked out of the pill room, looked up, and calculated the date with his fingers.

"Hm? Something's not right."

Li Yang was stunned, then calculated again.

"Wait, Master's Tribulation Transcendence isn't in nine months—it's in eleven months?"

What was going on???