Demonic Winds Swirl Around the Sea of Trees, Urging the Waves

He carefully contemplated the effects of the surging medicinal power within his body after swallowing the pill fruit.

Liu Dongqing pondered for a dozen breaths before raising his hand to pluck three pill fruits from the Medicine Vine Fruit Tree.

Only this time.

Liu Dongqing did not swallow the pill fruits directly.

Instead, as a point of azure light bloomed between his brows and the light of heaven descended, a mass of pure Bing Fire Azure Flame coalesced in his palm.

At this moment, Liu Dongqing completely restrained the Crimson Crow Spirit Incantation and the Lesser Thought Art, mobilizing only his own Primordial Candle Flame to carefully and meticulously envelop the three pill fruits.

In an instant.

The moment the pill fruits touched Liu Dongqing's mana, they dissolved directly into clear medicinal pulp.

The azure flame swirled, cradling the pulp in its center to refine it into a perfectly round sphere. Following the unfamiliar pill-gathering method recorded in the Ghost Vine Lineage's manual, Liu Dongqing slowly cast several hand seals with one hand.

Looking again, as the spiritual light flickered, the medicinal pulp within Liu Dongqing's Primordial Candle Flame had transformed into a solid, rounded precious pill.

The precious pill remained a pale azure color, but as the pill-gathering hand seals landed, the medicinal power of the pulp inevitably underwent a change; the strand of natural energy inherent in the pill fruit was deliberately stimulated and expelled.

However, as the natural energy dissipated, the energy consumed and radiated during the process fused into the spiritual light of the pill-gathering hand seals.

In the end, faint white smoke-like traces were left upon the originally clear, pale azure precious pill.

At a glance, they looked like wisps of clouds; upon closer inspection, one could discern the charm of sigils within them.

A look of disbelief flickered across Liu Dongqing's face.

Though he was indeed unversed in orthodox Pill Dao.

He had seen enough to know the basics.

Liu Dongqing had some understanding of precious pills and knew that above ordinary pills, there existed a class of top-tier precious pills that bore unique pill-pattern imprints upon their surface.

Only an alchemist who was extremely seasoned and gifted in a particular type of pill could achieve this.

The pill pattern revealed the alchemist's technique or innate talent.

But regardless of the pattern, it meant that while the precious pill possessed potent medicinal power, it had also achieved the most balanced and harmonious medicinal properties possible.

Well, I've actually gone and refined a pill pattern.

But it makes sense; what I'm actually doing is a degradation process of the pill fruit's medicinal power. Those three precious strands of natural energy were consumed, and as the pulp condensed into a pill, what else could remain but this balance and harmony...

He gently pinched the blue-and-white mottled precious pill. It was fragrant, warm to the touch, and still carried a hint of heat.

Anyone looking at this precious pill would assume it was the result of Liu Dongqing having just opened a furnace to refine it.

The Medicine Vine Fruit Tree blossoms and bears three hundred and sixty fruits; three fruits refined into one Li Fire Void-Soaring Origin-Unity Pill in the true sense.

Six portions of precious medicinal materials for a furnace, yielding one hundred and twenty finished precious pills.

Twenty precious pills per furnace, all imprinted with pill patterns—do any of the cultivators with Pill Dao talent on Departure Peak have my efficiency?

And I have experienced it myself.

The efficacy of this pill is a match made in heaven for the Little Thought Primordial Furnace Fire-Nurturing Art!

No, to be precise, it is likely a match made in heaven for all the techniques of the Seven Emotions Enter the Flame lineage!

This is also why Zhang Qiwei herself once studied this pill formula.

And this indirectly points to another situation—

Why would Zhang Qiwei study pill formulas? It is highly likely she lacks a channel to purchase finished precious pills directly!

Considering that Zhang Qiwei is already capable of modifying ancient formulas, her orthodox Pill Dao talent and aptitude must be quite high. If even she cannot master the Li Fire Void-Soaring Origin-Unity Pill formula, it shows the difficulty of refining this precious pill.

Perhaps, within the Rising Mist Dao Academy, among her generation of aristocratic descendants, there is no alchemist capable of refining this pill!

At this moment, if a finished precious pill were placed before you...

Senior Sister Zhang, would you be tempted?

And what would you be willing to trade for it?

The first batch of Jade Cloud Fruit hasn't even been delivered yet; good Senior Sister, I am already actively creating new demand for you!

Between the cloud-covered mountains of Departure Peak.

Mei Ran walked slowly into the familiar cave dwelling, which radiated a gentle warmth, and saw the young man sitting cross-legged on the cloud bed, one hand slowly lifting in a hand seal.

Above his hand seal, the sky-azure flame was condensed to the extreme, its light splitting frantically as it flickered.

When Mei Ran first looked, there were only a dozen lifelike birds fluttering within it, but by the time she walked closer, the frantically splitting birds had already reached over a hundred.

Dense and numerous, they looked like a swarm of bees at first glance.

When Mei Ran stood still.

The young man shook his head, bored.

With a wave of his hand, the sky-azure flames filling the room first turned dim and obscure, then dissipated into nothingness in the moment the light shifted.

"Being able to split flames and condense spiritual images is not actually much of a skill. I use Ding Fire to control Bing Fire, and Earth Yin to counter Heaven Yang; I could do the same thing in an instant, and perhaps even better than that person."

"That is because Bing Fire itself possesses the spiritual essence of a bird soaring across the sky."

"The fact that he can condense the image of a bird does not necessarily mean he has high talent; it is likely he simply sensed the spirituality within the fire, much like I did, and followed the current to achieve it in an instant."

"Compared to that, the obvious traces of the Flame of Wrath are actually more worth discussing."

"Being able to enter the path of Seven Emotions Enter the Flame so quickly—that is what truly shows this person has some real talent."

Speaking of this, the young man's eyes suddenly turned dark and gloomy.

"But none of this—neither the spiritual bird image nor the Seven Emotions Enter the Flame—is what I truly want to see or know!"

"What exactly did he and Little Seven obtain on the Autumn Water Plateau?"

"He was bullied for three or four years, so how did he manage to stand out so abruptly just by going out for one trip?"

"If he has turned his fortunes around, does that mean Little Seven is also about to, or perhaps has already quietly done the same?"

"The real deal!"

"What I want to see is this person's real deal!"

As he spoke, the young man's gaze fell upon Mei Ran.

"Go tell Zhao Ruiyang—"

"Since this person has already mastered Seven Emotions Enter the Flame, his next move must be a clash between the Seven Astral Rainbow Lineage and the Seven Emotions Enter the Flame lineage!"

"For some of the more extreme methods, if they need to be used, use them decisively!"

"In the struggle for positions within the inner sect, if things get heated and our own child acts a bit out of line, it is no great harm..."

"As long as he wins, as long as he proves that the introductory techniques of the Seven Astral Rainbow Lineage are superior to those of the Seven Emotions Enter the Flame lineage, the elders of our lineage will naturally step in to shield him."

"I am already on the path of Yin-Yang Origin-Unity, Bing-Ding Return-to-Truth, and condensing Innate Li Fire."

"I can be considered half a member of the Seven Astral Rainbow Lineage, and half an elder to him, Zhao Ruiyang."

"Therefore, what I say, he must listen to carefully, and after listening, he must act upon it earnestly!"

"If he can make Liu Dongqing reveal even more of his true abilities..."

"If anything goes wrong, I will cover for him!"