Ever since Xiao Yan decided to go all out, he had already formed a basic plan for the entire process. It included the Fire Gathering Method at the start, the use of the Wind-Driving Palm, and, of course, what he intended to do next.
All of this was based on Xiao Yan's clear understanding that it would be difficult for the pill he refined to directly break through the limit of an eighth-tier pill with five-colored Pill Lightning. Soul strength was fair to everyone. The limit of what an early Spiritual State Soul could refine was an eighth-tier pill with two-colored Pill Lightning. Correspondingly, even a peak mid-stage Spiritual State Soul would find it exceedingly difficult to break through the limit of four-colored Pill Lightning.
The finished pill Xiao Yan ultimately refined also proved this point well. Although it was already a pill on the verge of producing five-colored Pill Lightning, it had not truly broken free from the refining limit of a mid-stage Spiritual State Soul.
However, Xiao Yan had indeed prepared a way to break this deadlock. Ling Zhuo could consume his own blood essence to raise the quality of his pill, and Xiao Yan possessed a similar method. Moreover, this method was better than Ling Zhuo's, which harmed his blood essence, and it would not inflict such severe damage upon Xiao Yan himself.
The reason Xiao Yan had insisted on emphasizing, before the countless spectators at the Pill Convention, that his background and support came from Venerable Yao, Yao Chen, was because this method, like the Fire Gathering Method, had also been created by Yao Lao.
Unlike the Fire Gathering Method, however, when Yao Lao had first mentioned this method to Xiao Yan, he had strongly supported Xiao Yan learning it. Back then, Yao Lao had even