Chaos Thunder: The Path!

Back at his courtyard, Li Qingshan laid down layer upon layer of restrictions. With a thought, he slipped into the Purple Void Immortal Mansion.

In the cultivation chamber, he sat cross-legged and took out the white jade bottle Tantai Xuanji had given him.

He pulled out the stopper. A cool medicinal fragrance washed over him as he poured the pill into his palm and examined it closely.

The Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill was the size of a longan, silvery white throughout, with two silver pill markings flowing across its surface.

The markings resembled two silver flood dragons swimming slowly over the pill, giving off profound fluctuations of law.

But Li Qingshan could sense that the pill had indeed lost much of its potency.

Its sheen had dimmed, its markings were less distinct, and though its fragrance was rich, it lacked a certain living vitality.

Time had taken its toll. Tens of thousands of years in storage had greatly diminished the pill's quality.

"What a shame... But perhaps the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd can improve this fifth-grade Origin Immortal Pill?"

Li Qingshan murmured as an idea struck him.

He placed the Heavenly Gang Void-Opening Immortal Pill inside the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.

Hum!

Chaos-colored light surged from the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and wrapped the pill in layer after layer.

The light was deep and mysterious, like the primordial radiance at the dawn of chaos, holding the mighty power to restore all things.

Li Qingshan sank his consciousness into the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and waited quietly.

One day passed, then two, then three.

After three days, the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd suddenly trembled, and the chaos-colored light contracted sharply.

A renewed pill flew out of the gourd and hovered before Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan stared at it, eyes wide with disbelief.

Its formerly dull silver-white surface now blazed like