Absorbing the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid

Without the slightest hesitation, he swallowed the Hundred-Year Whale Glue.

Having absorbed Hundred-Year Whale Glue before, Wang Chen found this absorption process effortless and highly familiar.

In the time it took to burn half an incense stick, Wang Chen had completely absorbed the Hundred-Year Whale Glue.

This absorption of Hundred-Year Whale Glue did not produce effects as great as the last time.

Afterward, Wang Chen took out the rest of the Hundred-Year Whale Glue and absorbed it all.

By the time he reached the final piece, Wang Chen could feel that the Hundred-Year Whale Glue no longer improved him much.

Without any hesitation, Wang Chen took out the Thousand-Year Whale Glue and began swallowing it.

With his many experiences absorbing Hundred-Year Whale Glue, Wang Chen encountered no difficulties when absorbing the Thousand-Year Whale Glue. His physical strength simply improved rather slowly, making the process somewhat grueling.

After absorbing the first piece of Thousand-Year Whale Glue, Wang Chen proceeded to absorb the second, continuing until he had absorbed all the Thousand-Year Whale Glue and Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue.

After absorbing the whale glue, Wang Chen rose from the ground and walked over to an immortal herb beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Before Wang Chen was a large pale pink flower with purple stamens and soft, jade-like petals.

Even standing nearby, he could smell its elegant, refreshing fragrance.

This was the Fragrant Silk Tulip, capable of effectively suppressing poison simply by standing within its floral scent.

The Fragrant Silk Tulip could purify the poisonous miasma around it, making one immune to all poisons.

"Good stuff. It'll come in handy when dealing with poison-using experts like Tang San in the future. I'll take it."

Gathering the Fragrant Silk Tulip required no special methods. It was one of the few immortal herbs that could be picked directly by hand.

However, this thing was not meant to be eaten directly, so Wang Chen did not put it into his mouth.

Instead, he stored it in a jade box and placed it among the items Qian Renxue had sent him.

After collecting the Fragrant Silk Tulip, Wang Chen came to a piece of pitch-black, heavy Black Absolute Stone.

Growing from the Black Absolute Stone was a flower shaped like a heart, with blood-red petals that possessed the luster of bloody tears and a crystalline translucence.

The flower had neither leaves nor a stem, its roots directly connected to the Black Absolute Stone.

This was the king of immortal herbs, the Yearning Heartbroken Red.

The Yearning Heartbroken Red recognized those capable of the deepest love and devotion.

Only when a sincere person dripped blood to claim it as their master would it bloom. Once it bloomed, it would never wither.

It possessed the effects of reviving the dead, restoring flesh to bare bones, and protecting one's heart meridians.

At the same time, it contained the ultimate vitality.

But if it lost love, the flower would wither.

This flower had originally been given by Tang San to the hundred-thousand-year rabbit Xiao Wu.

Wang Chen did not even have a girlfriend right now, much less a lover.

Naturally, Wang Chen had no way to make the Yearning Heartbroken Red acknowledge him as its master through blood, nor could he refine it.

Wang Chen could only store the Black Absolute Stone together with the Yearning Heartbroken Red growing on it in his spatial soul tool.

Next, Wang Chen came before a strange flower with layered petals, a golden-red sheen, and a fiery red color like a cockscomb.

This was the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, a supreme pure-yang tonic that contained the energy of the vast blazing sun.

The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower could suppress evil fire, cleanse the yin toxins within the body, strengthen fire-attribute martial souls, and even evolve martial souls with Phoenix bloodlines.

What Wang Chen's five Alchemy Furnace Martial Souls needed were fire-attribute and metal-attribute origins to improve their quality.

Although the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower possessed a fire attribute, that fire attribute came from its Phoenix bloodline, rather than being a concentrated fire-attribute origin.

Even if Wang Chen deliberately absorbed it, it would not greatly improve his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.

Moreover, Wang Chen felt that if he merely wanted to strengthen his fire-attribute origin, consuming the Fiery Apricot Delicate would be more effective.

The Fiery Apricot Delicate and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass were immortal herbs Wang Chen had to consume during this trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Because he wanted to see whether the remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King truly lay beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

He wanted to see whether there were any remnants of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's souls, as well as soul bones.

Wang Chen took out a jade knife and carefully cut the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower from its roots. He placed it into a jade box, then stored it in his spatial soul tool.

Wang Chen then came before an entirely snow-white herb shaped like an eight-petaled orchid, its fragrance crisp and cool.

This was the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, said to remain unwithered for a thousand years. It had the gentlest medicinal nature and was suitable for nourishing and stabilizing one's foundation.

The Eight Petal Immortal Orchid could strengthen one's foundation, replenish vital energy, nourish the meridians, and solidify one's base.

There was no attribute requirement for consuming the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, and it could greatly increase the cultivation speed of food-system soul masters.

"I'll take it."

The low rank of Wang Chen's martial soul was due to the insufficient origin it contained, but also because his own foundation was too weak.

This Eight Petal Immortal Orchid was perfect for making up for Wang Chen's deficient foundation.

After picking the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, Wang Chen put it directly into his mouth.

The instant the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid entered his mouth, Wang Chen felt a rich orchid fragrance and a faint herbal scent fill his nostrils.

After chewing it, Wang Chen swallowed the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid.

As soon as the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid entered his stomach, a warm current immediately surged forth from within.

That was the medicinal power of the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid.

This warm current was very gentle, releasing itself slowly without showing any signs of impacting his meridians.

Wang Chen used the cultivation technique he had developed from his own meditation method to guide this medicinal power and accelerate its absorption.

Fifteen minutes passed, and Wang Chen finished absorbing it.

Wang Chen summoned his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul and discovered that it had not evolved as a result. However, an additional strand of medicinal power had appeared within the furnace.

From the information fed back by the martial soul furnace, Wang Chen learned that when he used the Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to refine pills in the future, he would be able to form pills faster and preserve their medicinal properties more effectively.

At the same time, when the furnace analyzed the ingredients of medicinal herbs placed inside it in the future, both its speed and accuracy would improve by a great margin.

Afterward, Wang Chen sensed the Meridian Martial Soul within his body.

He found that the effects brought by cultivating the Meridian Martial Soul had grown stronger, and its resilience had increased.

This was especially true in terms of recovering soul power, where the improvement was substantial.

Wang Chen knew that although the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid had not caused either his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul or Meridian Martial Soul to evolve, the origin of both martial souls had increased.

Now, these two martial souls were in the process of accumulating their origin.

Only after accumulating enough origin could a martial soul trigger an evolution.

Wang Chen examined the strength of his physical body and found that it had not increased much. However, when absorbing soul rings and facing the impact of a soul beast's soul power, he would be able to endure for longer.

Simply put, his strength had not increased, but his resilience had improved, allowing him to last longer.

Wang Chen continued toward the next immortal herb.

Before him was a flower with a rich fragrance, its multicolored petals layered atop one another. Under the sunlight, it gleamed with flowing radiance.

This was the Silk Tulip.

The Silk Tulip was considered one of the most noble immortal herbs, and its quality was extremely high.

In the original work, Ning Rongrong used the Silk Tulip to evolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

The Silk Tulip's effects did not match what Wang Chen needed. Even if he absorbed it, the benefits it brought would be inferior to those of the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid.

For the time being, Wang Chen had no intention of absorbing the Silk Tulip and instead stored it in his storage soul tool.

Next, Wang Chen arrived beside a slender, jade-green herb with three long, narrow snow-white leaves like willow leaves growing from its center.