Immortal Herbs into Pills, Shui Bing'er Breaks Through Level Seventy, Then On to the Extreme North Ice Plains

After absorbing the Ice-Fire Dragon Soul, Meng Chen leaped out of the Ice-Fire Dual Eye.

"Master!"

Shui Bing'er hurried forward to greet him.

Meng Chen smiled faintly and swept his gaze over the surroundings.

Since they were already here, wouldn't it be far too wasteful to leave such a treasure trove empty-handed?

With a sweep of his sleeve, Meng Chen stored all the various immortal herbs around him into the small world within the Chaos Bead.

The Ice-Fire Dual Eye, once resplendent with precious light and thick with medicinal fragrance, was instantly left in complete disarray.

After finishing this, Meng Chen said to Shui Bing'er, "Bing'er, the spiritual energy around here is especially dense. Find a place to cultivate in seclusion for a while. Your master will take the opportunity to refine some pills."

Shui Bing'er agreed.

Meng Chen returned to a small world within the Chaos Bead and examined each of the immortal-grade medicinal herbs he had gathered from around the Ice-Fire Dual Eye.

The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Infernal Delicate Apricot, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass... every single one exuded a rich medicinal fragrance.

"You said you were not from this world, so why did you know there was such a treasure land here, with a dragon soul hidden within?"

Just as Meng Chen was planning to refine pills, the Snow Empress suddenly spoke.

Meng Chen smiled. "The spiritual energy around here is unusually concentrated. Besides, after spending so long in the human world, haven't you heard of Poison Douluo's reputation as well? They say he guards a mysterious medicinal garden."

The Snow Empress stared at Meng Chen with her beautiful eyes for a long while, but his expression was utterly open and calm. She could not detect the slightest sign that he was lying.

Could it really be that simple?

As the Snow Empress pondered, Meng Chen changed the subject. "Next, I'll have to ask the Snow Empress to protect my disciple and me. Sorry to trouble you."

The Snow Empress agreed. Meng Chen then sat down cross-legged in relief and began sensing and testing the medicinal properties of the immortal herbs one by one.

With his attainments in pill refinement, even in his Soul Body state, he could estimate the properties of these immortal herbs with near-perfect accuracy.

After examining them all, Meng Chen closed his eyes and considered how best to refine them into pills.

After a long while, Meng Chen opened his eyes, and a sharp glint flashed through their depths.

Then he beckoned with his right hand, and an ancient medicinal cauldron floated over.

The cauldron was pitch-black throughout, while Chaos Sacred Light identical to that of the Chaos Bead shimmered across its surface.

He had obtained this medicinal cauldron along with the Chaos Bead. It was called the Chaos Sacred Cauldron.

Meng Chen gently stroked the Chaos Sacred Cauldron, and memories of his days on the Fierce-Flame Continent surfaced in his mind.

From transmigrating into a disciple of a small clan in the Central Plains, to reaching the Dou Saint realm in fifteen years, everything had gone smoothly. He founded the Heavenly Court, only to be targeted by the Eight Ancient Clans working together...

Meng Chen drew a deep breath and suppressed the countless thoughts in his heart.

Soul power surged from between his brows. Though invisible and intangible, it made the Chaos Sacred Cauldron shine even more brilliantly.

His spiritual perception entered the cauldron, and everything within it instantly fell under Meng Chen's control.

Next, Meng Chen lightly flicked a finger through the air. A wisp of Chaos Energy shot from his fingertip and entered the body of the Chaos Sacred Cauldron.

All things in heaven and earth had been born from Chaos Energy. Having undergone the cleansing of the Chaos Origin, Meng Chen could directly summon the Chaos Energy within the Chaos Bead to refine pills. He had no need for any Heavenly Flames.

After receiving the Chaos Energy Meng Chen had flicked into it, crimson-gold flames erupted from within the Chaos Sacred Cauldron, heating the entire cauldron until it glowed red-hot.

Meng Chen's soul power immediately transformed into an invisible giant hand, and the violent flames quieted down.

The heat was held within the range he required, neither hurried nor slow, perfectly controlled.

Seeing that the heat had stabilized, Meng Chen beckoned again, and an immortal herb drifted over.

This herb was entirely golden, its petals layered upon one another. Every petal was as thin as cicada wings and gleamed with a faint golden halo.

It hovered above the medicinal cauldron, trembling slightly.

Meng Chen did not hesitate and tossed it into the cauldron.

The crimson-gold flames suddenly pounced forward and swallowed the entire herb.

The immortal herb was not burned to ash. Instead, it rapidly melted into golden liquid.

Though a rich medicinal fragrance had already begun to spread from the cauldron, Meng Chen remained utterly focused on the refinement process, not daring to relax in the slightest.

Soon, as the refinement continued, specks of black impurities rapidly precipitated from the golden liquid.

Meng Chen waved his hand and used his soul power to strip away the impurities.

As more and more impurities were extracted, the golden liquid grew increasingly transparent. In the end, it shone as brilliantly as the crimson-gold flames themselves, as though the two were indistinguishable.

Yet under Meng Chen's perception, they remained clearly separate.

Once the golden immortal herb had been fully refined, Meng Chen summoned another herb, entirely snow-white and smooth as jade, save for a faint hint of pale green at its stamen.

It melted much faster in the flames than the golden herb. The white petals turned into milky-white liquid almost the instant they touched the fire.

After the snow-white herb transformed into milky-white liquid, Meng Chen did not continue refining it. Instead, he carefully controlled it as it merged with the golden liquid.

Once the milky-white liquid gradually fused with the golden liquid, Meng Chen paused for a breath.

Sensing that the newly fused mass of liquid was completely stable, Meng Chen swiftly tossed a fruit into it.

The moment the fruit entered, Meng Chen refined it into carbonized matter before fusing it with the liquid mass.

Meng Chen suddenly pressed his hands together. Pill formation!

"Fuse!"

Meng Chen shouted in a low voice.

His soul power surged severalfold in that instant. Under his forceful control, the refined medicinal ingredients gathered toward the center. After a clear phoenix cry, it seemed as though a phoenix flew out from the cauldron, while at its center was a pill glowing with a lustrous sheen.

The pill was only the size of a longan, yet a mass of light within it seemed to take the form of a soaring phoenix. There was even the faint sound of a phoenix's cry.

The pill was complete.

Meng Chen withdrew his soul power and slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.

The Snow Empress stared at everything before her in astonishment. Though she had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she had never seen such a method. He could actually refine stalk after stalk of immortal herbs into extraordinary spirit pills, multiplying their effects!

Compared to that, the method of directly swallowing them on the Douluo Continent was simply pathetic.

After refining the pill, Meng Chen saw the Snow Empress standing nearby with her cherry lips parted in shock and could not help asking curiously, "Snow Empress, shouldn't you be keeping an eye on my good disciple? What if some creepy uncle tricks her away?"

The Snow Empress: "..."

She had originally thought Meng Chen was unfathomable, but the moment he opened his mouth, that mysterious impression was utterly destroyed.

What a handsome man. It was a shame he had a mouth.

Still, the Snow Empress obediently left her body to check on Shui Bing'er.

Meng Chen, meanwhile, rested briefly where he was before continuing to refine pills with the remaining immortal herbs...

Time flew by. On this day, Shui Bing'er experienced the union of dragon and tiger energies and successfully broke through to level seventy.

After reaching level seventy, Shui Bing'er opened her eyes.

It seemed as though a galaxy flowed within her eyes, but the radiance vanished in an instant, so quickly that it felt like an illusion.

"Level seventy. Not bad." Meng Chen nodded in satisfaction. "Let's go. We'll make another trip to the Extreme North Ice Plains."

The Extreme North Ice Plains again?

Shui Bing'er was somewhat confused, but the Snow Empress seemed to understand something. She shot Meng Chen a disdainful look.