Beneath the stars, five-colored clouds churned like a canopy, like fortune made visible.
Rare treasures from the Dao Court's many storehouses flew in from every direction and fell into the clouds. Threads of Law Annihilation Sword Qi ground them down until they became part of the five-colored mass.
"The Imperial Mark puts me in a very strange state..."
Jiang Ding chatted with his fellow Daoists while refining pills with his sword. Most of his spiritual processing power, however, remained focused on the Imperial Mark within the Imperial Crown.
With the Imperial Crown upon him, he seemed to become part of the Heavenly Dao. It supported and amplified his every movement, allowing him to do things he could never have done before.
Take this pill refinement. With his sword, he split rare treasures down to their essence, then recombined the minute substances into the specific materials he needed. It was almost like creating matter from nothing—a true immortal's art.
He had also expected the recipe for the Leisurely Ascension Longevity Pill to take tremendous effort to derive. It had to suit local conditions and make full use of the treasures at hand. But through the Imperial Mark, he joined himself to the Heavenly Dao of the endless starry sky, vastly increasing his spiritual processing power. In only a short time, he derived this entirely new pill recipe, one that simulated alchemy through the sword.
After an unknown span of time, the five-colored clouds in the starry sky gradually settled.
"Has the immortal pill... been made?"
The eyes of many Emperor-realm cultivators and quasi-emperors reddened.
To the Emperor, this pill might fall far short of an immortal pill. To them, it was one. It would surely carry them a great step forward on their Dao Paths. This was the greatest opportunity cultivators