At the same time, while you were still in Qing Tong Residence assisting Yuanjie with alchemy, making a final effort to mend the fold after the sheep had escaped, you suddenly felt a reverse current rushing downward into your Sea of Consciousness. In an instant, it jolted you fully awake and nearly severed Yuanjie's operation. Fortunately, this was not a critical moment, and Yuanjie was still able to regain control...
In the 777,386th year, after nine years of Yuanjie patching things up in every possible way and consuming countless more of your four-ring and even Five-Ring Dao Grade Dao herbs, it finally reached Yuanjie's target.
Because the objective had changed from producing multiple pills in one furnace to preserving a single pill, the time and cumbersome procedures required afterward had been greatly reduced. At this point, all that remained was to wait for the final Pill Condensation. According to Yuanjie's calculations, it would take more than 5,300 years. For most of that time, you would be free to act on your own—cultivate or attend to other matters.
Although you were a layman in alchemy, your comprehension was high, and you had learned quite a lot while assisting Yuanjie this time. Yet the more you understood, the more you marveled at Yuanjie's accomplishments in alchemy.
Both Dan Yuan and Yuanjie had failed to refine an eight-ring Creation Dao Pill, but they were not remotely on the same level. The gap between them might have been even greater than that between a Supreme Dao Alchemist and an alchemist capable only of refining four-ring and five-ring Dao pills... Through these repeated encounters, you seemed to glimpse Yuanjie's former splendor. He had truly been a peerless prodigy whose cultivation and alchemy had both stood at the pinnacle...
After leaving the Alchemy Room, you quickly