Pill Emperor Reborn

At dawn, the Orthodox Unity Sect, nestled within the Profound Clear Mountains, lay shrouded in a faint mist, like a celestial paradise.

"After investigation, it has been confirmed that Su Chen, a disciple of Endless Peak of the Orthodox Unity Sect, stole ten Qi-Gathering Pills from the sect. The evidence is conclusive!"

"His conduct is vile and has gravely violated the rules of the Orthodox Unity Sect."

"According to sect rules, his dantian shall be crippled, he shall be expelled from the mountain gates, and he shall never be permitted to set foot within the Orthodox Unity Sect again for the rest of his life."

Just as daylight broke, such a resonant and imposing voice, like the tolling of great bells, rang out from the majestic hall of the Orthodox Unity Sect.

Within the hall stood several thousand disciples of the Orthodox Unity Sect, all expressionless as they watched the gray-robed youth below, whose fate for the rest of his life had just been pronounced.

Having his dantian crippled and being expelled from the sect meant his future was utterly ruined. From then on, he could only live as a cripple.

The gray-robed youth kept protesting, "I didn't do it," but his voice was drowned beneath the cold judgment, and no one cared.

Just then.

The gray-robed youth's body suddenly shuddered. He looked blankly around him, then lowered his head to stare at his fair, youthful palms. An inconceivable light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

"This is... the Punishment Hall of the Orthodox Unity Sect?"

"I, Su Chen, really returned to my youth?"

At that moment, Su Chen's soul no longer belonged to the fifteen-year-old boy who had been falsely accused of stealing pills. It belonged to a Pill Emperor of a generation who had once dominated the Pill Domain.

If Dust Pill Emperor's attainments in alchemy were called second under heaven, then no one would dare call themselves first.

Whether imperial rulers of sacred dynasties, Martial Dao Supremes, or fairies from the Nine Heavens, all had once emptied their fortunes just to obtain a single pill personally refined by Dust Pill Emperor.

No one knew that when Dust Pill Emperor had been young, he had actually been a discarded disciple of a sect.

At fifteen, he had been falsely accused of stealing pills and expelled from the sect, his dantian crippled. From then on, he had drifted through life in a muddle.

It was not until he was thirty, when he had fallen as low as a dog, that he was discovered by the Azure Phoenix Alchemy Venerable, who happened to be passing through this continent. Sensing his astonishing talent in the path of alchemy, the Azure Phoenix Alchemy Venerable brought him back to the Pill Domain.

In only a few short years, he had surpassed his master in alchemy, outshining the blue from which he came, and exceeded the Azure Phoenix Alchemy Venerable to become a Pill Emperor of a generation.

Yet despite the boundless glory he had attained in this life, he had never been able to let go of Martial Dao cultivation.

His dantian had been crippled when he was expelled from the sect, and he had missed the best time to repair it. No matter how miraculous his alchemy became, he could not restore the damaged dantian of his youth to its original state.

This became the regret of his life. A dignified Pill Emperor of a generation had been unable to even step into the most basic First Martial Dao Realm.

Though he possessed countless supreme Martial Dao scriptures, he could not cultivate them himself. He possessed only a vast ocean of theoretical Martial Dao knowledge.

Only decades later did he finally comprehend the supreme Reincarnation Dao Intent and refine a furnace of the legendary Great Dream Millennium Pills.

He had merely wanted to give it a try, yet that furnace of Great Dream Millennium Pills truly allowed him to reverse time and reincarnation, returning him to his youth.

Moreover, he had returned to the very day when he was fifteen and falsely accused of stealing pills.

That day had been the turning point of his life!

His dantian had been crippled, he had been expelled from the sect, he had drifted through life in a muddle, and he had become a worthless cripple...

Every tragedy that followed had begun on that day!

Now, he had returned. He had returned to the moment before his dantian was crippled!

This time, everything could still be saved!

"Su Chen!"

At that moment, a thunderous shout rang out.

"You stole ten Qi-Gathering Pills from the sect. The evidence is conclusive, yet you still deny it! Why haven't you confessed your crime?"

An elderly man with graying hair, clad in a robe embroidered with stars and moon, pointed at Su Chen and shouted with full vigor.

The old man was Elder Xing Yun, the Orthodox Unity Sect elder responsible for alchemy. He was the one who had accused Su Chen of stealing the ten Qi-Gathering Pills he had just refined.

But Su Chen knew that the charge of stealing ten Qi-Gathering Pills was nothing but a frame-up.

It was because his Martial Dao talent had been too outstanding. In only three years after entering the Orthodox Unity Sect, he had cultivated to the Seventh Stage of the Qi-Attraction Realm, accomplishing what many could not achieve even in ten years. For a time, he had caused a sensation throughout the entire Orthodox Unity Sect.

At the same time, he had also provoked the jealousy of Lu Yuan, Elder Xing Yun's chief direct disciple.

Lu Yuan feared that Su Chen would surpass him in the future and eventually threaten his position as the Orthodox Unity Sect's chief disciple. Thus, he and his master, Elder Xing Yun, had joined hands to stage this fine performance of framing Su Chen for stealing pills.

At that moment, Lu Yuan, dressed in white and carrying himself like an immortal banished to the mortal world, slowly approached. He leisurely waved the folding fan in his hand, glanced down at Su Chen, and said lightly, "Junior Brother Su, the evidence is already nailed to the board. You should confess as soon as possible, so you can suffer a little less."

Heh heh!

You are going to cripple my dantian and drive me down the mountain, yet you are still telling me to suffer less?

Even Dust Pill Emperor's heart, as still as an ancient well for ten thousand years, could not help but blaze with fury at that moment. Thinking of the suffering he had endured over the next fifteen years, he wanted nothing more than to personally slaughter the old man and youth before him.

However, he still suppressed the emotions in his heart.

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In his previous life, he had experienced many regrets. The one he regretted most was having his dantian crippled.

Even after becoming a Pill Emperor of a generation and attaining boundless glory, those past regrets could never be remedied.

Now that Heaven had allowed him to live another life, he would surely restart his life and reverse every regret.

The first thing he had to reverse was the crippling of his dantian!

In his previous life, the evidence that he had stolen the Qi-Gathering Pills had seemed irrefutable. Thus, although he had refused to confess, his dantian had still been crippled before everyone.

This time, the same thing would not happen again.

Facing Elder Xing Yun's questioning and Lu Yuan's smiling dagger, Su Chen wore a disdainful expression. With a derisive laugh, he uttered only eight words:

"If one wishes to condemn, why fear a lack of words?"

For a moment, Elder Xing Yun thought he had heard wrong.

"What did you say? Are you saying that this old man is framing you?" Elder Xing Yun pointed at Su Chen with a trembling hand, looking thoroughly enraged.

But in truth, Elder Xing Yun had been startled by the contempt in Su Chen's eyes.

An inexplicable instinct told Elder Xing Yun that Su Chen, this young disciple, seemed to have changed.

The former Su Chen had possessed astonishing talent, but he had still only been a fifteen-year-old boy, with many immature aspects in both temperament and conduct.

But the Su Chen before him now carried that contemptuous gaze and that aura of looking down upon all things, as though he were a born superior gazing down upon a swarm of ants.

Leaving aside anything else, if this were the former Su Chen, how could he possibly have dared to contradict them like this?

Yet the current Su Chen showed not the slightest fear. Instead, he looked down on everyone present.

Su Chen merely sneered again and again. "Heh heh, isn't that so? You and your precious disciple Lu Yuan planned this entire affair to frame me, yet you want me to confess?"

The moment those words fell, disciples of the Punishment Hall immediately rebuked him. "Insolence! How dare you slander the sect's chief disciple!"

"Why don't you piss and take a look at what you are? Would Senior Brother Lu Yuan even need to target someone like you?"

Even most of the ordinary disciples around them thought Su Chen had gone mad and was biting anyone he could.

"Senior Brother Lu is far stronger than Su Chen. Why would he possibly frame Su Chen?"

"Su Chen is truly shameless. He stole pills himself, yet he is biting back!"

Even Elder Xing Yun sneered. "You stole pills, and the evidence is conclusive, yet you dare bite back at this old man?"

"Evidence?"

Su Chen gave a casual, scornful laugh. "You mean the matter of finding ten Qi-Gathering Pills in my residence?"

"That's right. While this old man was not paying attention, you stole ten Qi-Gathering Pills from my alchemy room and hid them in your own residence. The physical evidence has been found. You still want to deny it?" Elder Xing Yun sneered repeatedly.

"If I could refine Qi-Gathering Pills with a flick of my hand, would I need to go through all that trouble to steal them?"

The moment Su Chen spoke those words, the entire hall fell silent.

The next moment, everyone erupted in uproar!

"What did Su Chen just say? He can refine Qi-Gathering Pills with a flick of his hand?"

"What a joke that would make the world laugh! Everyone knows that only Elder Xing Yun in the entire Orthodox Unity Sect can refine Qi-Gathering Pills!"

"What does Su Chen even count as? No one has ever heard that he knew how to refine pills!"