Mastering Pill Devourer, Ascending to the Heavens

Inside the Tang Sect's secret chamber, Indra followed Tang Bingwen's instructions, swallowing the secret medicine and then applying the medicinal liquid as he swiftly refined its potency.

[Pill Devourer], this supreme art, had a great many prerequisites.

It required the Tang Sect's [Freedom Contemplation Method] as a foundation, combined with the [Five Treasures Body Protection Method] to refine poison into qi before one could begin the initial stages of cultivation.

The [Freedom Contemplation Method] required a long period of cultivation to control one's emotions and command one's thoughts. He had no way of getting started with it quickly.

However, the [Five Treasures Body Protection Method] was nowhere near as complicated.

With the qi circulation method provided by the Demon Blade Hirumaru, combined with Tang Bingwen's explanations, Indra grasped it at once.

He mobilized the qi of his five viscera, using heart fire, lung metal, and kidney water—the three forms of qi—in conjunction with external medicine to refine poison.

Although there were a few minor mistakes along the way, Indra, with his infinite margin for error, forcibly ground out a result in an extremely short time.

Fire, metal, and water qi perfectly fused with the poison in the external medicine, transforming into purple-black poison qi.

"The next method is to combine poison qi with your own true qi, completely altering the nature of your qi."

"I don't need to do that. I only need to preserve the [Poison Seed]."

Once poison qi fused with chakra, all the chakra he refined in the future would be filled with poison.

That did not matter to Tang Sect disciples, but Indra had no intention of dedicating himself to the path of poison. Learning [Pill Devourer] was merely another means at his disposal.

Yet once the poison qi had been refined, it uncontrollably tried to merge with his chakra.

Indra immediately focused his mind to separate them, but the process went unexpectedly smoothly.

"It's the Tiger Talisman. It balanced my chakra and qi."

Looking at the faintly glowing Tiger Talisman in his arms, Indra took a deep breath and compressed the poison qi, storing it in his lower dantian.

A purple-black sac of qi condensed within his lower dantian, like a beating heart.

All he needed to do later was guide chakra through this qi sac to refine pure poison qi.

"Both medicinal poison and qi poison have been condensed. Now, it's time to achieve [Pill Devourer]!"

Indra guided chakra from his upper dantian as the starting point, while his middle dantian generated qi at the same time. It traveled downward to the lower dantian, where it refined the medicinal poison and qi poison into one, before finally returning this ultimate poison, [Pill Devourer], to the upper dantian.

During the circulation and condensation process, Indra sensed his innate qi merging with Pill Devourer.

"No wonder Pill Devourer can break through every kind of defensive method. Fundamentally, the defensive methods of the Under One Person World are all made of qi.

"Pill Devourer, fused with innate qi, is the original qi. It can assimilate and pierce defenses formed from qi."

As he looked inward and watched the purple-black [Pill Devourer] transform into a colorless mass of qi, Indra understood the essence of this secret art.

Distracted, Indra lost control for a moment, and that colorless, odorless, formless mass of qi flowed out.

In an instant, the qi poison entered his meridians and raced through his entire body.

Veins bulged all over Indra's body as agony like being sliced alive struck him.

"Can I reconstruct myself with Reverse Birth Triple Layer?"

"No. The qi poison has completely fused with my innate qi. Even after reconstruction, the qi poison will remain—unless I can maintain the Reverse Birth state forever."

After finding that it would not work, Indra took out the Horse Talisman and the Dog Talisman.

Bzzzzz!!!

The instant the talismans lit up, the horrifying qi poison vanished without a trace.

"Phew... I can't lose focus. Continue refining [Pill Devourer]."

Indra settled his mind once more and refined it according to the qi circulation method.

The process went exceptionally smoothly. Within a few minutes, Pill Devourer condensed in his upper dantian.

"Ten stored at a time, each about the size of a thumb. Range..."

The moment Indra made his move, the aura of Pill Devourer enveloped his body.

Pill Devourer itself was colorless, odorless, and formless, yet it truly existed. It perfectly concealed and hid his own aura, making him seem as though he had vanished into nothingness.

The next instant, Pill Devourer shot forth, only dissipating into the air after crossing nearly thirty meters.

"Maximum range: thirty meters."

Indra committed the data to memory, while also finding it strange that his cultivation had progressed so smoothly.

Hadn't they said that cultivating [Pill Devourer] required overcoming the barrier between life and death?

Why had he felt nothing at all?

"Maybe it's because I knew I wouldn't die. I was fearless during the refinement process, which happened to meet the requirement."

Indra muttered to himself and did not dwell on the matter.

[Pill Devourer] was extremely difficult to learn, but once one got started, one had mastered it.

As Indra manipulated Pill Devourer at will, he discovered something rather interesting.

Because his Pill Devourer had been mixed with chakra, it seemed somewhat different from the traditional version.

Indra formed a Rasengan and merged Pill Devourer into it.

The aura of the Rasengan suddenly vanished, and this state lasted for around thirty seconds.

"For thirty seconds, the poison of the Pill Devourer will remain inside the Rasengan. The same goes for other ninjutsu.

As a Pill Devourer formed from innate qi, it can perfectly accommodate and merge with ninjutsu, using them as a medium to spread poison.

This is ridiculously useful for ambushing people, hehehe!"

Indra wore a sunny smile. His own ninjutsu could conceal poison within them—who could possibly anticipate that?

Unless they were someone proficient in medical ninjutsu like Tsunade, or possessed inhuman physical qualities like Hashirama Senju, an ordinary ninja would absolutely be unable to withstand this move.

Having finished mastering [Pill Devourer], Indra then helped Yang Lie and Tang Guanhai learn [Pill Devourer].

Yang Lie did not need Indra's help and passed on his first try. Tang Guanhai, however, made mistakes and had to "die" three times in a row before succeeding.

Still shaken by the experience, Tang Guanhai immediately knelt before Indra to thank him after learning [Pill Devourer].

To Indra, he was merely fulfilling a promise. But to Tang Guanhai, Indra had saved his life completely!

"Brother Qiao, this is the Invisibility Haori you wanted. I've fully repaired it.

And this [Black Snake Armor]—if you do not mind it, please take it as well."

Liang Wuer's intentions were obvious: he was representing the Tang Sect in extending goodwill toward Indra.

Since such good items had been delivered right to his doorstep, Indra naturally had no reason to refuse.

[Black Snake Armor] had been invented by Li Ding of the Mian Mountain Ten Heroes. It was a black, form-fitting soft armor made of densely packed iron scales, whose movements could be controlled through qi.

Its defensive power could withstand rifle bullets and ordinary samurai swords. It could also be used together with qi poison as a concealed weapon.

Its only drawback was that changing its form consumed too much qi, while the scales it fired had limited penetrating power.

For Indra, this armor was not actually all that useful.

What truly caught Indra's interest was the Black Snake Armor's craftsmanship.

"If I can recast one using chakra metal, it will definitely become a divine artifact!"

After putting away [Black Snake Armor], Indra nodded in satisfaction.

"I like this gift very much. Then, farewell."

Indra bent his legs slightly before shooting into the sky, streaking into the distance like a supersonic missile.

In the blink of an eye, his figure had become a tiny black dot in the sky.

Gulp!

The many Tang Sect disciples present were profoundly stunned by the sight.

Tang Bingwen stared blankly after him and sighed from the bottom of his heart. "Flying through the heavens and burrowing into the earth, reviving the dead and restoring flesh to bare bones... This is a true immortal!"

After this day, the Tang Sect's unchanging rules gained one more regulation.

Tang Sect disciples were forbidden from accepting any business involving the Three One Sect or anyone named Indra.

Tang Bingwen even had someone paint a portrait of Indra and hang it on the wall of the Tang Sect's inner courtyard, ensuring that none of the sect's disciples would ever cross him!