Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill

The Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill

When the first ray of dawn tore through the darkness at the horizon, Xiao Yan and the others emerged from their cultivation.

Xiao Yan took out the detailed map Hai Bodong had left behind and studied it together with everyone.

The map was far more detailed than they had imagined.

Not only did it mark nearly every oasis and town in the Tagor Great Desert, but dozens of dangerous areas, large and small, had also been circled in crimson ink.

Several specific locations on the map were additionally marked with a peculiar symbol indicating an anomaly.

"Teacher, what could these places marked as anomalies be?" Xiao Yan pointed to the nearest marker and asked curiously.

"Most likely natural danger zones, or places with some kind of special energy field," Medicine Elder said thoughtfully. "The Green Lotus Core Flame was born within an underground lava world. The terrain and energy fluctuations where it lies are bound to differ from the surrounding area. Following these markers and investigating them one by one is better than wandering around like headless flies."

After some discussion, the group quickly decided on their next route.

They decided to head first to the nearest anomalous location.

Central Plains, Holy Pill City.

At the Alchemist Exchange, Han Feng had already gathered three sets of the dozens of rare auxiliary ingredients needed to refine the ninth-tier treasure pill, the Heavenly Soul Saint-Melding Pill. He had also fortunately found more than one set of several core main ingredients.

As for the seventh-tier high-grade Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill, he had gathered a full four sets of ingredients.

Looking at the aged medicinal herbs in his Storage Ring, as well as the several sixth-tier dragon beast cores radiating dense dragon might, Han Feng decided to refine the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill first.

Han Feng found Aunt Xuan and borrowed a highest-grade alchemy quiet room from her.

Naturally, Aunt Xuan readily agreed to his request and personally led Han Feng to a quiet room atop the Pill Tower, specially constructed for refining high-tier medicinal pills.

Inside the quiet room, Han Feng sat cross-legged, an ancient bronze medicine cauldron floating silently before him.

He did not immediately begin. Instead, he closed his eyes and focused, adjusting himself to peak condition.

A moment later, his eyes abruptly flew open!

"Rise!"

With a low cry, crimson Red Lotus Karmic Fire blazed to life. The terrifying heat caused ripples to spread through the surrounding space.

Immediately afterward, four sets of ingredients for refining the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill became four colorful torrents. Drawn by his vast soul power, they entered the medicine cauldron simultaneously with flawless precision!

One mind controlling four tasks, refining four seventh-tier high-grade pills at the same time!

Such an act could only be described as boldness born of supreme skill. Even throughout the Pill Tower's history, no one had ever dared attempt something like this.

Yet Han Feng did exactly that.

Because he had the qualifications.

His Late Heaven Realm soul power was like a boundless ocean, filling the entire interior of the medicine cauldron. Under the precise, minute control of that immense soul force, the four masses of medicinal liquid formed from the four ingredient sets remained distinctly separate. Each spun and purified itself in one corner of the cauldron, never interfering with the others, yet responding to one another through an inexplicable resonance.

Such miraculous fire control was rare in this world!

However, even with such astonishing soul cultivation, refining pills this way placed an enormous burden on the mind.

For five days and five nights, Han Feng neither slept nor rested. Every shred of his focus remained immersed in that small medicine cauldron.

Until dusk on the fifth day, when the medicinal properties of the four sets reached perfect balance and fusion within the cauldron, four faint yet incomparably clear dragon roars sounded from within!

Four pill embryos slowly took shape within the medicine cauldron, each flowing with black-and-white halos and bearing a faint circling dragon shadow. A rich medicinal fragrance mingled with dragon might and profound yin-yang power immediately swept across the entire Stargazing Platform!

The pills were complete!

Rumble—!

The cloudless sky above Holy Pill City darkened in an instant!

Heavy thunderclouds, dense as lead, gathered from every direction. Lightning serpents danced and thunder flashed within them as a terrifying heavenly might far surpassing ordinary pill lightning crashed down!

The simultaneous completion of four pills caused their medicinal power to resonate, summoning an unprecedented composite pill lightning tribulation!

Yet faced with heavenly might sufficient to make ordinary Dou Venerables pale, Han Feng's expression on the Stargazing Platform remained as calm as water.

He merely waved a hand, and two dark reddish-gold figures appeared out of thin air beyond the quiet room.

They were the two Heavenly Demon Puppets refined from Soul Hall Half-Saints!

A red gleam flashed through the hollow eye sockets of the two puppets. They shot into the sky, fearlessly meeting the thick silver lightning descending from above and allowing the violent thunderous power to silently temper their bodies.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The violent lightning fell like a burst celestial river, crazily striking the two Heavenly Demon Puppets and erupting in deafening detonations.

Yet the terrifying lightning force, enough to flatten mountains, failed to leave even a white mark upon the indestructible Half-Saint bodies of the Heavenly Demon Puppets. Instead, it was entirely absorbed and became nourishment for tempering their puppet bodies, making the dark reddish-gold sheen on their surfaces even deeper.

After several breaths, the thunderclouds roiled unwillingly a few times before finally dispersing slowly.

The four Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pills floated quietly out. Their surfaces were covered in profound pill patterns, their dragon shadows vivid and agile, their medicinal fragrance overflowing. Their quality was superb, without the slightest flaw!

Han Feng looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction, nodded, and waved his hand to store the four pills in jade bottles before placing them in his Storage Ring.

He pushed open the quiet room's door. The moment he stepped outside, a maid respectfully approached him.

"Young Master Han Feng, a seventh-tier alchemist named Sun Miao is waiting outside. He says he has gathered the medicinal ingredients for you and has been waiting for quite some time."

"Oh? He was rather efficient." Han Feng raised an eyebrow.

He nodded, signaling for the maid to lead the way.

In the Pill Tower's reception hall, Han Feng met the green-robed old man he had encountered at the exchange.

The moment Sun Miao saw Han Feng, he immediately rose and bowed respectfully. His attitude was several times more humble than before.

"This junior has fortunately fulfilled the task!" He excitedly took eight cold jade boxes radiating rich medicinal fragrance from his Storage Ring and neatly arranged them on the table.

"The Myriad-Year Blood Lingzhi, Soul Spirit Fruit, Creation Profound Heaven Vine, and Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Spirit Vine you required have all been found. There are two portions of each. Please inspect them!"

Han Feng swept them with his spiritual sense and confirmed that everything was correct. He was quite satisfied. Including these eight portions and the materials he had gathered afterward himself, he now had three full sets of ingredients for refining the Heavenly Soul Saint-Melding Pill. It could be said that nothing could go wrong.

"You found them rather quickly on your own," Han Feng casually praised.

Sun Miao's old face reddened. He hurriedly said, "I would not dare deceive you. This junior's connections are shallow. I only managed to gather them so quickly by joining forces with several close friends. I have already promised them that once I receive the pill formula bestowed by you, I will certainly share it with them..."

"No matter." Han Feng waved a hand, unconcerned with such details.

He did not break his word. With a flick of his finger, eight jade bottles containing eighth-tier low-grade medicinal pills, along with an ancient scroll recording an eighth-tier mid-grade pill formula, landed steadily before Sun Miao.

"Payment and goods are settled."

Looking at the treasures before him, enough to drive his old friends mad, Sun Miao trembled with excitement and gave Han Feng a deep bow.

"Thank you for granting this to me!"

After sending off the grateful old man, Han Feng returned to his room and considered his next plan.

The ingredients for the Heavenly Soul Saint-Melding Pill had been gathered. Now, he lacked only the final ingredient: essence blood containing immense vitality!

A place surfaced in his mind: the Beast Region, the Nine Netherworld Python Clan Territory.

There lay the inheritance of the Yellow Springs Demon Saint.

"The Yellow Springs Demon Saint's essence blood... that would be an excellent choice."

A determined gleam flashed in Han Feng's eyes.

Meanwhile, the Tagor Great Desert remained filled with endless blowing sand.

After several days of arduous travel, they had visited quite a few locations marked as anomalous, yet had found no Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan and his group arrived at the border city marked on the map, Stone Desert City, and decided to rest there briefly.

They stopped there for two reasons. First, the anomalous location marked on the map lay a hundred li east of Stone Desert City.

Second, Xiao Yan wanted to visit his eldest brother, Xiao Ding, and second brother, Xiao Li. The Desert Iron Mercenary Group they had established was now based in Stone Desert City.