The Forgotten Storage Ring

"Oh? Really? Yao Chen, that's great!"

Xiao Yan had barely finished speaking when Feng Xian became even more excited than Yao Lao.

Seeing his friend's expression, the Yao Lao shook his head helplessly.

In fact, when they were still in the Northwest Continent, Yao Lao really wanted to be resurrected as soon as possible.

But now that he's back at the Starfall Pavilion, he's no longer in a hurry.

For him, resurrection was only a matter of sooner or later.

On the contrary, he placed even greater emphasis on Xiao Yan's improvement in strength!

Furthermore, he actually knew that Xiao Yan wanted to find the best for him.

Normally, his resurrection could have been achieved using the remains of Dou Venerable, but Xiao Yan was clearly unwilling to give up.

Yao Lao's peak strength before his death was that of Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable. If he wanted to be resurrected and regain his former strength, he would need the corpse of a Dou Venerable of the same level as him in life.

If the corpse used is not as strong as he was in his prime, then his strength will be weaker after he is resurrected.

Conversely, if a stronger corpse is used, Yao Lao might be able to further enhance his strength after being resurrected!

Xiao Yan does indeed possess the remains of Dou Venerable.

This was a generous contribution from the Ice Venerable.

His Acquired Calamity Poison Body was devoured by Xiao Yi Xian, and his remains became Xiao Yan's collection, as well as a testament to the reunion between Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.

You could say he's a really nice person!

Xiao Yan wanted to find something better for Yao Lao, so even though he now possessed the ability to revive Yao Lao, he wasn't in a hurry.

However, Xiao Yan still used the method he used to revive Yao Lao to practice his skills.

Ultimately, he used the remains of the Ice Venerable to resurrect the Heavenly Fire Venerable!

At his peak, Heavenly Fire Venerable was Five-Star Dou Venerable, while Ice Venerable's remains were those of Four-Star Dou Venerable —they were quite similar.

After being resurrected by Xiao Yan, Heavenly Fire Venerable chose to join the Starfall Pavilion to repay his debt of gratitude.

This further enhanced the strength of the Starfall Pavilion.

At the same time, Xiao Yan also took advantage of the opportunity to revive the Heavenly Fire Venerable to become more familiar with this resurrection method.

From simple to difficult.

This also means that Xiao Yan is even more confident in reviving the stronger Yao Lao!

This should be considered a good thing.

However, the only problem troubling Xiao Yan now is how to obtain a more powerful corpse.

In any case, Xiao Yan was determined to restore his teacher to his peak condition no matter what.

In other words, Xiao Yan's initial goal was to find at least the remains of a Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable.

Because his strength far surpassed Original Work of his contemporaries in the original story, Xiao Yan's ambition naturally grew even greater.

In the Original Work, Xiao Yan was only Four-Star Dou Zong when he participated in the Pill Gathering held by the Danta.

But now he's already Three-Star Dou Venerable!

The higher you stand, the farther you can see.

His strength has begun to gradually approach and even surpass that of the older generation!

"Hehe, this matter isn't urgent for now, Xiao Yan. You should be focusing all your attention on the Pill Gathering, not my resurrection. I'm really looking forward to your performance at the Pill Gathering!"

Faced with his friend's excitement and his disciple's enthusiasm, the Yao Lao remained calm.

Just as he said, he hoped that Xiao Yan would not be distracted by anything other than the Pill Gathering.

After all, Xiao Yan's cultivation talent has been growing stronger and stronger!

The stronger Xiao Yan becomes, the easier it will be to revive him!

This is just like when Xiao Lin first awakened his Past-Life Wisdom.

At that time, Xiao Lin spent six years advancing from the Dou Ling to the Dou Emperor realm in one go.

However, he actually spent more than four years deducing the Cultivation Method, and only the last year or so was spent practicing it.

It was precisely because of his superior Cultivation Method that Xiao Lin was able to make such a significant improvement in just over a year.

Of course, if Xiao Lin hadn't deduced the Cultivation Method and had focused solely on cultivation, he should have been able to reach the Dou Huang Realm as well.

However, that would likely require dedicating six years entirely to cultivation.

In this situation, which choice is better is almost obvious.

The same principle applies to Xiao Yan's resurrection of Yao Lao.

The stronger Xiao Yan becomes, the more confident he will be in reviving Yao Lao!

Furthermore, he wanted to find the remains of an even stronger person for the Yao Lao, which is why it has been delayed until today.

After all, the stronger a person's corpse, the more difficult it is to refine.

Therefore, the stronger Xiao Yan becomes, the easier it is for him to refine the corpses.

Therefore, given these concerns, the timing of starting the resurrection of Yao Lao is actually quite close.

The champion of this Pill Gathering is rumored to be able to make a request to the Danta...

Yes, because Xiao Lin had already taken the Three Thousand Burning Flames from the Danta, history had naturally changed.

However, compared to the previous Nihility opportunity to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flames, most Alchemists would probably value the current promise from the Pill Danta more.

You should know that if you were given a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flames, you would most likely fail.

But one promise from Danta was absolutely true!

Xiao Yan has already made up his mind: if he wins the Pill Gathering, he will ask the Danta for a corpse that has reached the Nine-Star Dou Venerable!

Given the resources of the Danta, producing a corpse that has reached the Nine-Star Dou Venerable is clearly not a difficult task.

The Danta might even possess the Dou Sheng Corpse!

This is also why Xiao Yan said he would revive Yao Lao after the Pill Gathering.

This shows that Xiao Yan is also very confident in himself!

Because now, Xiao Yan, when he goes all out, can already refine Tier 8 Medicinal Pill with Seven-Colored Pill Lightning pill lightning!

In the Original Work, Xiao Yan won the championship using Tier 8 Medicinal Pill made from Five-Colored Pill Lightning.

Moreover, this is the highest quality Medicinal Pill ever refined in all previous Pill Gatherings.

Therefore, given Xiao Yan's current Alchemist skills, if he still fails to win the championship, it's not necessarily due to any behind-the-scenes manipulation, but rather because some shameless old geezers have personally challenged him.

However, under normal circumstances, the strong still care about their reputation.

Who would lower themselves to compete with a junior for no reason?

Winning isn't honorable, losing is shameful!

In the Original Work, only Mu Gu didn't care about saving face.

Of course, he did indeed lose all face afterward.

Right now, even without a temporary breakthrough, Xiao Yan is more than capable of defeating Mu Gu!

It's safe to say that Xiao Yan is determined to win the championship of this year's Pill Gathering!

"Don't worry, teacher, I won't let you down! You won the championship back then, and as your student, I can do the same today!"

Xiao Yan's face radiated confidence.

"Alright, then I'll be waiting to see how you perform, Xiao Yan! Oh, by the way, for a competition of this caliber like the Pill Gathering, you need to bring all sorts of medicinal herbs yourself. You should have prepared them by now, right?"

The Yao Lao nodded with satisfaction at first, then seemed to remember something and quickly asked.

It would be such a shame if someone wanted to refine some kind of Medicinal Pill but was eliminated because they didn't have the necessary ingredients!

"Naturally, I have already prepared the ingredients for the highest-grade Medicinal Pills I can currently refine in my Storage Ring!"

That's what they said, but just to be on the safe side, Xiao Yan still checked his Storage Ring again.

After confirming that everything was correct, Xiao Yan prepared to turn his attention away from his Storage Ring.

But just then, he suddenly discovered another Storage Ring in one corner of his Storage Ring.

"Huh? I remember that was... Graduation Gift from Supreme Elder Lin to me before I graduated from the Jia Nan Academy, right? Ah, I remember Supreme Elder Lin said that I could only open this Storage Ring after I broke through to the Dou Zun Realm. How could I have forgotten?"

Upon noticing the Storage Ring, Xiao Yan's face promptly revealed a look of annoyance.

It's just that he's been too busy since arriving in Central Plains and has forgotten about this matter.

Fortunately, thanks to my teacher's reminder, I was able to check the Storage Ring again.

Otherwise, who knows when he would remember this!

Now that he had remembered, Xiao Yan didn't think much of it and took out the Storage Ring.

"Hmm? Isn't this Storage Ring the Graduation Gift Supreme Elder Lin Jia Nan Academy? Why did you take it out? Hmm~, Xiao Yan, you haven't forgotten to open it all this time, have you?"

At the same time, Nalan Yanran, who noticed Xiao Yan's actions, suddenly asked in confusion.