Shrouding the Heavens: Starting as Ye Fan's Cousin
Chapter 32

One-Turn Golden Core Completed

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So, before the elders noticed her, they wanted to create some opportunities for her younger brother.

They wanted her brother to win over Xia Weier, then have the two become Dao companions.

They simply had not expected Xia Weier to have long known what kind of person Chen Feng was.

How could she possibly be moved by their staged damsel-in-distress act?

Now that everything was clear, there was no need to keep Chen Feng alive. Jiang Yun sent him off to reunite with his dear sister.

After Jiang Yun destroyed the evidence.

He bought some more materials for refining Hundred-Grass Liquid and returned straight to the courtyard.

There was no one in the courtyard, so Jiang Yun went directly to the alchemy room and took stock of his gains.

Their magical artifacts had all been brutally crushed by Jiang Yun, leaving nothing behind.

He had only gained a dozen or so bottles of Hundred-Grass Liquid.

Jiang Yun reflected on it and felt a little pained. It had been too wasteful.

Even if he had no use for those magical artifacts, they could still have been traded for resources.

He would need to pay attention next time.

This interception also exposed some problems.

Jiang Yun realized that he still lacked sealing techniques. If he could not kill an enemy instantly and was held up for a while—

Some people might escape and spread the word, easily drawing even stronger enemies.

People in the Big Dipper had no sense of fair play. Beat up the small ones, and the big ones came out.

Beat up the big ones, and perhaps the old ones would not come out; they might just bring out an Imperial weapon directly. Then he would be finished.

After some time, he would have to study Nine Secrets: Zu and Dao-Script Formation.

Then he could refine several Heaven-Sealing Grand Formations to imprison enemies and prevent them from escaping.

If he encountered a powerful enemy he could not resist, he could also use them to buy time.

Having made up his mind, Jiang Yun began refining Hundred-Grass Liquid.

Today, he did not merely want to refine Hundred-Grass Liquid. He was preparing to refine a One-Turn Golden Core.

He first refined two batches of Hundred-Grass Liquid to warm up the furnace.

Jiang Yun took a Little Divine Crocodile he had collected on Yinghuo out of the Source Pearl.

Back then, they had killed over three thousand little crocodiles in total, and Jiang Yun had collected around twelve hundred of them.

He had not dared to collect them all. Too many would have made others notice something unusual.

Jiang Yun used the divine power of the Sea of Bitterness to inscribe mysterious Dao patterns across the medicinal furnace.

After repeatedly refining Hundred-Grass Liquid, Jiang Yun had become thoroughly adept at copying Dao patterns.

Then Jiang Yun took out a Little Divine Crocodile and placed him into the medicinal furnace.

Pale cyan Fire Fiend condensed, and dense spiritual energy enveloped the pill furnace.

Little Divine Crocodiles were descendants of the Crocodile Ancestor and possessed a Saint bloodline. They could not be compared to ordinary exotic beasts.

Thus, Jiang Yun's extraction of Blood-Origin Essence was somewhat slow.

It took roughly two hours to refine a palm-sized Divine Crocodile into dense Blood-Origin Essence.

Jiang Yun guided it out of the medicinal furnace with his divine sense.

Looking at the Blood-Origin Essence before him, which had barely reached the size of a grain of rice, Jiang Yun's expression darkened.

Dense life essence flowed within the Blood-Origin Essence, and rays of rosy light flickered from it from time to time.

In terms of life essence alone, it already surpassed Divine Spring Fluid.

But this was far too little. A Little Divine Crocodile could not even condense half a drop of Blood-Origin Essence?

The only explanation was that the Five-Colored Altar on Mars had previously drained too much divinity from the Little Divine Crocodiles.

It was already quite good that they could leave Jiang Yun even a tiny bit of Blood-Origin Essence.

If quality was lacking, he could make up for it with quantity. Four or five Little Divine Crocodiles should always yield one drop of Blood-Origin Essence.

It was just too time-consuming. Refining one One-Turn Golden Core would consume roughly five drops of Blood-Origin Essence.

Refining the Blood-Origin Essence alone would take a great deal of effort.

Over the next ten days, Jiang Yun spent much of his time refining Little Divine Crocodiles.

His speed gradually increased, and in the end, he refined over twenty drops of Blood-Origin Essence.

After ten days of preparation, everything was ready. All that remained was to open the furnace and refine the One-Turn Golden Core.

Jiang Yun informed Jiang Shuanglan, Xia Weier, and the others that he was entering seclusion, then walked into the alchemy room.

Inside, Jiang Yun sorted and arranged the materials for the One-Turn Golden Core. Refining pills was not as easy as refining Hundred-Grass Liquid.

With so many precious materials, he could not afford to be careless.

First came the refinement of the Immortal Elixir's Divine Essence. Jiang Yun was reluctant to use the branches of the Immortal Elixir he had picked in the Desolate Forbidden Land.

Instead, he used the remains of the Divine Bodhi Tree from Mars.

Although the six crystalline, jade-like Bodhi Leaves that had originally grown on the Divine Bodhi Tree had already recovered under the nourishment of Divine Spring Fluid

Jiang Yun had no intention of using them. They would still be useful in the future, so he would keep them for now.

The remains of the Divine Bodhi Tree were large enough to require five or six people to wrap their arms around them. Even though the inside was hollow, it was still enormous.

It could easily be made into two or three coffins.

Taking out a section of branch, Jiang Yun found that compared to the coffin board Pang Bo would chew on in the future—

The withered remains of the tree were clearly easier for people to accept.

However, after the Bodhi Seed's nirvana, it remained uncertain how much of the Immortal Elixir's medicinal potency the Divine Bodhi Tree's remains could retain.

Jiang Yun also laid down layer upon layer of Dao scripts within the alchemy room, ensuring that it became a world unto itself.

He could not allow the scent of the Bodhi Immortal Elixir to leak out.

After making all these preparations, Jiang Yun began processing the Bodhi Immortal Elixir.

To Jiang Yun's surprise, the Divine Bodhi Tree contained a fairly rich amount of Divine Essence.

Just one dried branch yielded a drop of Divine Essence from the Divine Bodhi Tree.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath, inhaling the fragrance of the Bodhi Immortal Elixir.

It made his entire body feel as though it were floating in the air, and he could not help but lose himself in it.

The divine veins above his Sea of Bitterness extended by a section out of nowhere.

Questions regarding cultivation that had troubled him suddenly became clear, and his comprehension seemed to improve dozens of times over in an instant.

The Bodhi Tree had other names as well: the Tree of Wisdom, the Tree of Enlightenment, and the Tree of Thought. Legend said it could awaken the divinity within a person and bring enlightenment to oneself.

Suppressing his intense urge to swallow it, Jiang Yun sealed it inside a jade bottle made of spiritual jade.

This drop of Bodhi Divine Fluid resembled a Bodhi Tree, radiating emerald light. It was dazzling and brilliant, and faintly, grand Buddhist chants could be heard from it, ethereal and extraordinary.

After sealing away the divine fluid, he put it away and stopped looking at it. Otherwise, Jiang Yun feared that he would be unable to resist eating it early.

Jiang Yun estimated that refining the remains of the entire Divine Bodhi Tree would yield at least twenty-odd drops of Divine Essence.

He was overjoyed. That spur-of-the-moment idea on Yinghuo Ancient Star had unexpectedly brought him such an astonishing harvest.

With the Bodhi Divine Fluid extracted and the Blood-Origin Essence prepared, the rest of the One-Turn Golden Core refinement went very smoothly.

After three days and nights of uninterrupted refining, Jiang Yun finally produced one One-Turn Golden Core.

The instant the pill formed, the phantom of the Divine Bodhi Tree emerged above the medicinal furnace.

The Bodhi Tree's phantom seemed carved from a piece of green jade. Its entire body gleamed lushly green and brilliantly emerald, standing exactly one zhang and six chi tall.

Streams of divine radiance shot from the medicinal furnace like bolts of silk, while divine halos and immortal mist rose in waves.

It was as though some astonishing rare treasure was about to emerge into the world.

Fortunately, Jiang Yun had made preparations in advance.

Otherwise, if this sky-filling spectacle had burst from the alchemy room, who knew how much trouble it would have attracted.

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