Senior Brother, You Smell So Good

Li Yang didn't understand, but the extra two months still made him very happy.

Two extra months means six more days of cultivation and enlightenment. I need to plan this carefully.

Refining Three-Revolutions Golden Cores also takes forty-nine days, but I need to leave a hundred days in case I fail. So I have to subtract those three-odd months from the eleven months.

Then, after subtracting the time I spend cultivating and seeking enlightenment, I can save up seven months.

Seven months, plus more than twenty days of cultivation—that's just enough time for the alchemy.

With just over a hundred days, he had managed to deduce things to this point. With more than seven months of accumulated experience, another twenty-odd days might really let him improve the Three-Revolutions Golden Core further.

If he was lucky enough and accumulated enough experience, it wasn't impossible that he could completely deduce the formula.

While Li Yang was working out the details, a figure slowly came up beside him, then opened her enormous mouth.

"Crack!"

With a sharp snap, Lan Ling'e clutched her mouth and whimpered.

"Junior Sister, what are you doing?"

Li Yang looked at the bite marks on his arm, the teeth and blood on the ground, and Lan Ling'e hopping around in pain, clutching her mouth as blood poured out. A huge question mark appeared over his head.

He'd let Lan Ling'e bite him before he knew what was happening.

That brat had quite the bite. She'd actually knocked several of her own teeth loose.

Seeing that Lan Ling'e had come out in her true form only left Li Yang even more baffled.

Her true form had appeared—now that was rare!

"Open your mouth!"

When Lan Ling'e didn't answer and just clutched her mouth, fat tears rolling down her cheeks, Li Yang helplessly took out an Immortal Pill and tossed it into her mouth.

The Immortal Pill melted as soon as it entered her mouth. The bleeding stopped, and even the teeth she'd knocked loose started growing back.

"Senior Brother, why is your body so hard?"

Perhaps because Li Yang had restored her health, Lan Ling'e turned the blame back on him.

"What do you mean, my body is too hard? You still haven't answered me. Why did you bite me?

Do you know that if I hadn't held back, I would've shattered your head?"

Lan Ling'e didn't know what had happened either. She scratched the spot near her temple with a finger.

"I don't know either. I smelled something fragrant while I was in a daze, and then I just did that."

A fragrance?

Li Yang furrowed his brows and sniffed. He couldn't smell anything fragrant.

By then, Lan Ling'e had already walked closer, her eyes growing hazy.

Gradually, she rested her head on Li Yang's shoulder. Looking at his neck, she couldn't help swallowing.

"Senior Brother, you smell so good!"

Inside the alchemy room, Li Yang's expression was dark.

He'd just confirmed that the fragrance Lan Ling'e had smelled came from his own body.

According to Lan Ling'e, Senior Brother, I feel like eating a bite of your flesh would greatly benefit my cultivation.

What did that mean?

It meant that the Nine Revolutions Immortal Physique Method he'd unconsciously deduced had a serious problem.

After all, whose damn cultivation method turned its practitioner into an Immortal Pill?

Li Yang was completely shaken. Utterly shaken.

After a simple analysis of himself, he found that his medicinal properties were almost the same as those of a Three-Revolutions Golden Core.

What did that mean?

It meant he didn't need to refine a Three-Revolutions Golden Core to replenish his Master's Dao Foundation. He could just eat himself.

"What the hell is this?"

Li Yang cursed, grumbling under his breath.

He'd meant to continue deducing the Three-Revolutions Golden Core, but now it seemed he had to work on the cultivation method too, and try to eliminate this side effect as much as possible.

Until he'd eliminated the side effect, he couldn't let his true form go outside. He'd have to hide as much as he could.

His Three-Revolution Immortal Body could already beat up his normal self after he'd entered the early Celestial Immortal stage. It could even exchange a few blows with Golden Immortals from the outside world.

But walking around outside as a giant Immortal Pill was far too conspicuous. Some powerful being might capture him.

"Immortals are extraordinary by nature. Their bodies, mana, and souls all undergo great transformations, but my situation is still far too abnormal.

"Still, this could be a good thing. Perhaps my Immortal Blood can serve as the main ingredient for refining the Three-Revolutions Golden Core.

"The resulting Three-Revolutions Golden Core might even be more potent."

With this idea and a plan in mind, Li Yang had truly opened the door to a whole new world.

For the next seven months, he did only two things.

Refined pills and read scriptures.

Seven months passed in the blink of an eye. Looking at the number of days he had left to rest on the panel, Li Yang began his final use.

In an instant, countless formulas and refining methods for Three-Revolutions Golden Cores using his blood as the main ingredient were rapidly deduced and revised.

More than twenty days later, Li Yang finally emerged from that state.

"The formula's done, and so is the refining method. Now all that's left is to refine the Golden Cores, but..."

Li Yang looked at the more than eight thousand formulas for Three-Revolutions Golden Cores he'd deduced, and hesitated.

He would have to shed a great deal of Immortal Blood, and with so many formulas, he had no idea which one was best or which one would work.

"Forget it. I'll refine them!"

He couldn't refine all eight thousand formulas in the alchemy room. He would have to do it in the Shelter Grotto-Heaven.

Only here were the conditions suitable for refining pills and magical treasures on a large scale.

"Hmph!"

With a muffled grunt, Li Yang's Immortal Blood poured out in a torrent. Before long, his face had turned as pale as gold paper.

That wasn't because his Immortal Body was weak. In fact, it was precisely because it was so powerful.

This Immortal Blood wasn't ordinary blood. Though it couldn't compare to his vital essence blood, it still contained his mana and cultivation, making it a heavenly treasure.

Losing so much Immortal Blood hadn't damaged his foundation, but it had left Li Yang severely weakened.

"Fire!"

Li Yang didn't hesitate. He formed a hand seal, dividing his Immortal Blood into more than eight thousand portions, then drew in large quantities of Spiritual Medicine from the planets and the starry sky to refine the pills.

"When the Circulating Star Dou converts Chaos Qi into spiritual energy, a high-quality kind of spiritual energy is produced in that instant. It closely resembles the legendary Innate Qi. So, infusing this energy into the pill while refining it can increase its medicinal potency and improve the chances of success."

Li Yang carefully analyzed every aspect of the refining process. He'd obtained and perfected all of this through enlightenment and deduction.

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

One batch of pills after another exploded in the void of the grotto-heaven. The refining had failed.

That proved that many of the formulas still had problems, and that Li Yang hadn't yet mastered the refining method.

"Pfft!"

Li Yang released more Immortal Blood and refined the pills again and again.

"It's done!"

Before long, a Golden Pill was successfully refined.

"Next, the first revolution."

Facing the pills, Li Yang wore a solemn expression. He formed his hand seals with the utmost caution.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Amid the explosions, some of the Golden Pills failed at the first revolution, but others succeeded.

"Begin the second revolution!"

The refining couldn't be stopped midway. If it stopped, that would be the end of it, so the One-Revolution Golden Pills had to undergo the second revolution.

Amid a series of explosions, every pill in this batch of One-Revolution Golden Pills failed.

"Keep going!"

Li Yang released more Immortal Blood again and refined them over and over—refined, refined, refined.

No one knew how long it took.

Inside the grotto-heaven.

A beam of golden light shot into the sky, stirring the Grand Formation of Celestial Stars. Then Li Yang's wild laughter rang out.

"Ha ha ha ha ha! I did it! I did it! The Three-Revolutions Golden Core is complete!!!"