If thunderbolts were ranked like the Heavenly Flame Ranking, then Nine Profound Golden Thunder would hold a status equivalent to that of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame or even the Nihility Devouring Flame.
Only when a Nine-Rank Golden Pill was refined would this Nine Profound Golden Thunder appear in the world. Every appearance of it was earth-shattering, making heaven and earth tremble. Even Dou Sheng experts were pitifully insignificant beneath its thunderous might. In some ancient texts passed down from remote ages, there was no shortage of records of peak alchemists drawing forth such heavenly phenomena when refining Nine-Rank Golden Pills...
The most shocking of these phenomena was the Nine Profound Golden Thunder. Even an ordinary Dou Sheng expert would be reduced to ashes in an instant upon touching even a trace of it.
Of course, Nine Profound Golden Thunder had been extremely rare even during the flourishing ancient era. On the present continent, there had been no news of its appearance for several thousand years. In other words, no Nine-Rank Golden Pill had appeared on the Dou Qi Continent during those thousands of years!
Perhaps no one on the current continent could refine that near-divine medicinal pill.
Even Xiao Yan could only remain silent regarding such a claim. Looking across the continent, he did not dare claim that his alchemy skills ranked first, but entering the top three would probably not be difficult. Yet even he had only managed to refine Ninth-grade precious pills at the highest. He had never even attempted a Nine-Rank Profound Pill, much less the higher-level Nine-Rank Golden Pill. Thus, his understanding of the legendary Nine Profound Golden Thunder had only come from ancient texts. Yet though he had never seen it with his own eyes, his sharp soul perception still allowed him to recognize