Sixth-Tier Breaking Misfortune Pill

Seeing this, Hai Bodong stepped forward and said, "Queen Medusa, about what happened before... I..." He stopped there, fists clenched, bitterness written across his face.

Medusa folded her arms, her cold, beautiful eyes sweeping over Hai Bodong. "Forget it. Let the past stay in the past. I have no way to undo this seal either. Once you are afflicted by it, the only solution is to use a Breaking Misfortune Pill."

"However, I happen to have that ingredient."

As Medusa raised her hand, a Sand Mandala appeared in her palm.

Upon seeing the final medicinal ingredient he needed, Hai Bodong's eyes widened. As long as he obtained it, he could recover his strength.

However, Medusa quickly clenched her hand, withdrawing the Sand Mandala. Her icy gaze fell upon Hai Bodong. "But why should I give it to you?"

Hai Bodong froze slightly. "This..." Sure enough, Medusa was not so easy to reason with.

Xiao Tian stepped forward. "Medusa, what are you doing?"

After seeing Xiao Tian's reaction, Medusa directly tossed the Sand Mandala to Hai Bodong. Then she turned around and faced away from them, clearly still angry about what had happened before.

Having obtained the Sand Mandala, Hai Bodong was ecstatic. "Great! I finally have it! Xiao Tian, thank you so much."

Xiao Tian walked over. "Let's begin refining it now!"

"Now?" Hai Bodong handed the Sand Mandala to Xiao Tian. The sooner, the better—he could not have asked for more.

Hearing that Xiao Tian intended to refine a sixth-tier pill, Medusa slowly turned around, a faint look of surprise surfacing in her eyes. This guy was actually going to refine pills? Could he be an alchemist as well?

Driven by curiosity, Medusa looked over. Since when had the Jia Ma Empire produced such a formidable figure? Not only was he a Dou Zong powerhouse, but he was also an alchemist—and he looked so young.

Xiao Tian sat cross-legged on the ground. With a lift of his hand, Samadhi True Fire condensed into a pill furnace.

The sight left both Hai Bodong and Medusa dumbfounded.

The alchemists they usually saw all required pill furnaces.

Yet Xiao Tian had directly formed one from a Heavenly Flame. Such terrifying control over fire was unheard of.

Moreover, judging by the peculiar aura emitted by this flame-condensed pill cauldron and the fiery energy it radiated, it clearly provided an enormous boost to pill refinement.

At that moment, Medusa's beautiful eyes blinked, the emotions in them plainly visible. It seemed this fellow had not been lying earlier. She would tentatively believe him for now!

Hai Bodong narrowed his eyes. Xiao Tian really was an alchemist. This time, he could truly remove the seal on his body.

Xiao Tian raised his hand and controlled each medicinal ingredient as it entered the pill furnace. Finally, he placed the last ingredient, the Sand Mandala, inside. With a flick of his fingertips, the blazing flames obediently split into dozens of tiny fire clusters, enveloping the herbs that had just been added.

Watching Xiao Tian's fluid movements, Hai Bodong and Medusa both narrowed their eyes. He was so skilled. Such alchemical talent could not be developed without decades of experience.

Yet Xiao Tian before them looked only a little over eighteen. His actions shocked them even further.

Medusa's attitude toward Xiao Tian gradually changed as well. After all, an exceptional person stood out wherever they went.

Using the Samadhi True Fire to refine the ingredients into medicinal liquid before condensing them, Xiao Tian found refining a sixth-tier pill relatively easy as a seventh-tier alchemist.

Even for a sixth-tier pill, Xiao Tian had to treat it seriously. One careless mistake could still result in failure. In alchemical circles, failed pill refinement was commonplace. Even master alchemists failed often, and only by drawing experience from those failures could they improve their alchemy.

Even one proficient in alchemy could not guarantee a one-hundred-percent success rate.

That was everyone's concern.

Within the pill cauldron, where flames churned, a thumb-sized, pale-purple pill embryo gradually began to take shape amid the burning fire. A rich purple pill fragrance suddenly wafted out from the cauldron, spreading through the surroundings and lingering for a long time.

"It's about to succeed?" Hai Bodong was stunned. Great! Once he had learned Xiao Tian was an alchemist, he had known there would be no problem. After all, Xiao Tian's strength had already reached the Dou Zong level.

He had initially thought Xiao Tian lacked experience in pill refinement, but it seemed he had overthought it. Xiao Tian's alchemy was probably on par with Pill King Gu He.

As the pill embryo formed, the Samadhi True Fire at Xiao Tian's fingertips rapidly compressed. Moments later, it had been compressed to a terrifying extent, becoming incomparably tiny.

This power was extraordinarily terrifying. A trace of shock flashed through Medusa's eyes. He had actually compressed such terrifying flames.

With a gentle flick of Xiao Tian's finger, it shot into the pill embryo, skillfully merging into every part of the pill. Boom! The flames suddenly erupted, beginning the final tempering.

The next moment, under Xiao Tian's precise control, the flames slowly faded away. A thumb-sized, round pill, pale purple throughout and radiating a faint glow, spun within the pill furnace.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The instant the purple pill formed, a violent surge of energy erupted from within it and spread outward, forming wave after wave of ripples!

"The power of a sixth-tier pill is actually this strong?"

Medusa raised her hand to block the shockwave, her beautiful eyes filled with shock. The red brocade draped around her fluttered wildly as she instinctively reached out to press it down.

Hai Bodong wore the same expression of shock. This seemed far stronger than an ordinary sixth-tier pill. Its aura even carried the imposing presence of a seventh-tier pill.

Glancing at the rapidly spreading energy waves, Xiao Tian casually waved his hand, and a powerful force of soul enveloped the surroundings!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The spreading energy struck it, sending ripples across its surface.

The force was gradually neutralized, weakening from strong to faint until it slowly vanished.

The moment the energy ripples disappeared, Xiao Tian raised his hand and grabbed. The pale-purple pill inside buzzed and trembled, then, as if summoned, turned into a streak of light and flew into his palm.

Seeing this, Hai Bodong's eyes widened. It had been refined so quickly? This was far faster than any alchemist he had ever seen.

However, pills refined by alchemists could vary in quality.

Xiao Tian glanced at the pill in his hand. "Not bad." Then he directly tossed it to Hai Bodong.

Hai Bodong raised his hand and caught the still-warm pill. After taking one look, his pupils contracted, his face filled with shock, and both hands began to tremble slightly. "Th-this... is this a pill pattern?"

Hearing this, Medusa abruptly lowered the arm resting on her slender waist and slithered over on her snake tail!

A pill pattern!

It really was one!

In such a short time, he had not only refined a sixth-tier pill, but it even had a pill pattern!

Pill patterns were special markings formed on the surface of a pill during refinement due to the extreme condensation of energy and perfect fusion of medicinal potency. Their effects were far stronger than those of ordinary pills.

Medusa's beautiful eyes widened as she stared at Xiao Tian, feeling that this fellow was nothing less than a little monster.