One pill meant a thousand years of life. Ten thousand pills added up to a full ten million years!
For the vast majority of people, that already deserved to be called immortality.
Of course, Chen Mu knew why the system had claimed such a check-in reward for him.
It simply wanted to slap those elders in the face.
All he could say was that this system fiercely protected its own!
It couldn't stand others treating him well, and could stand him being belittled or bullied even less.
He was a little touched.
"If you don't believe me, I have a few trial pills I refined here. You're welcome to try them." Chen Mu took out five Lifespan Pills.
Wrapping them in spiritual energy, he sent them over to Chen Xiang and several elders from the Alchemy Room.
"Heavens! This spiritual energy! Such immense medicinal energy and spiritual energy!"
"How could they not be immense? Pill Veins! They have Pill Veins!"
"Ninth-grade! With Pill Veins! Young Master, did you refine these pills yourself?"
"Yes." Chen Mu shamelessly admitted it, trusting that the system wouldn't mind.
"Young Master, you truly are an alchemical genius seen once in a thousand—no, ten thousand—no, no! Once in ten billion, a trillion years!" The elder revised his words again and again.
To put it bluntly, he was freaking awesome!
My Mu'er doesn't just possess peerless cultivation talent—he's actually just as peerless in alchemy?!
"..." Chen Xiang said nothing, but couldn't hide her astonishment, her beautiful eyes wide as she stared at Chen Mu.
"If you don't mind, please give them a try." Chen Mu's words snapped everyone out of their daze.
They hurriedly shook their heads and waved their hands. "We don't mind! Of course we don't!"
"In fact, being able to taste a pill you personally refined, Young Master, is a blessing we must have cultivated over a hundred lifetimes!"
"Then I won't stand on ceremony!"
Someone popped the pill straight into his mouth and swallowed it with a gulp.
Immediately, he felt an enormous surge of spiritual energy and vitality spread through his limbs, bones, and meridians, merging into every inch of his flesh!
It felt better than anything he had ever experienced!
For people at their cultivation level, sensing their own lifespan was no difficult matter.
After a quick calculation, his pupils contracted, then trembled. "It really added a thousand years to my life! Incredible! Absolutely incredible!"
"With these pills, our Tianyuan Holy Land will live as long as the heavens and endure for all eternity!"
"Hahaha, exactly! As long as we live long enough and outlast everyone else, the entire Great Cang World will become Tianyuan's territory."
"This formula has epoch-making significance for the Tianyuan Holy Land!"
"Young Master, could you be the reincarnation of the Alchemy Ancestor?"
"..." Those people had said everything Chen Xiang wanted to say.
She could only swallow the words on the tip of her tongue.
It didn't feel very satisfying.
"Little Mu, you've rendered a tremendous service to Tianyuan this time. Unfortunately, the Holy Lord has gone into seclusion."
"Otherwise, if he knew you'd comprehended a divine-grade pill formula like this, he'd be so excited he'd hand the position of Holy Lord straight over to you."
Hearing Chen Xiang's words, Chen Mu could only force a smile.
If he really became the Holy Lord, could he still laze around like this, leaving everything to others?
At that thought, Chen Mu suddenly felt very fortunate that he'd given Chen Tianlin the Enlightenment Tea, letting him enter seclusion early to break through to Great Emperor.
Chen Mu had no interest in taking over the reins of the Tianyuan Holy Land.
[Longevity Pill Formula successfully gifted! Hundredfold rebate triggered. Congratulations, host! You have received peerless pill formulas +100!]
A hundred formulas, each enhanced a hundredfold beyond ninth-grade pills.
Chen Mu gave them a cursory glance. Any one of them could establish an undying power!
This system was wealthy to an outrageous degree!
After that, Chen Xiang and the others didn't stay long.
There was no time to lose. They had to gather medicinal ingredients immediately, recruit Alchemists far and wide, and focus their efforts on refining Lifespan Pills!
They dispatched someone to send a letter by eagle, relaying the news in full to Chen Juexin.
No matter how precious or scarce the medicinal herbs were, obtaining them was as easy for her as plucking something from her own pocket.
It was no exaggeration to say that nearly all the medicinal ingredients used by the Alchemy Room were supplied by the merchant associations under Chen Juexin's name.
"Lifespan Pills that can extend one's life! My little brother comprehended this?" Unfolding the letter and reading its contents, Chen Juexin could no longer stay seated and rose to her feet.
"Low-grade pills add at least ten years of life, while a single pill with Pill Veins adds a thousand! That's outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!"
Even Chen Juexin couldn't help feeling her heart surge after learning of this, unable to calm herself.
Especially since the person who had comprehended this formula, unprecedented in the past and unsurpassable in the future, was her own precious little brother.
Pride!
Chen Juexin was bursting with pride.
She wished the entire world could know.
But she suppressed her impulse and desire to show off.
She hurriedly gave orders for people to gather the corresponding medicinal ingredients and deliver them to the Tianyuan Holy Land.
At any cost! No amount of money mattered!
Whoosh!
Flames rose from her palm and burned the letter to ashes.
Propping her cheek on her other hand as she watched the flames sway in the breeze, Chen Juexin couldn't help wondering aloud, "I really want to see just how powerful the Tianyuan Holy Land will become under my little brother's leadership."
She had evidently forgotten that Chen Tianlin was the Holy Lord of the Tianyuan Holy Land.
All her thoughts revolved around Chen Mu.
Knowing that everyone, from top to bottom, was working so hard, Chen Mu could rest easy.
He went back to sprawling bonelessly in his seat.
Unfortunately, Chen Mu wasn't particularly sleepy at the moment. Instead, he felt incredibly alert.
Far too alert.
Ye Qingcheng wasn't around.
His cook, Zhang Shengcai, had also gone down the mountain to replenish ingredients and research recipes, striving to satisfy Chen Mu's palate with something different every day.
A gentle breeze brushed his face, rustling the leaves.
"So peaceful..."
Bang!
Immediately afterward, the peaceful atmosphere he'd just praised was shattered by the sound of the door bursting open.
"Cousin! Cousin! I'm coming in!"
Just from the voice, Chen Mu knew without looking that it was Jiang Sheng, his younger cousin who excelled at artifact refining.
Most likely, he'd refined some new treasure and come looking for Chen Mu to test it.
"Ah..." He sighed.
Since he was pretty bored anyway, he figured he might as well play along.
This younger cousin was well worth nurturing.
"What brings you here?" Chen Mu sat up and asked.
Jiang Sheng came over, sat on a stone stool, picked up the teapot, and poured himself a cup without ceremony. "Cousin, actually, I've hit a bit of a bottleneck in artifact refining."
"So I thought I'd come to you and ask you to point me out of the maze."
"Ask me to point you out of the maze?" Chen Mu found that a little laughable. "You're the artifact-refining genius. I don't know anything about artifact refining. How am I supposed to teach you?"
[System attempting to upgrade...]
"..." Chen Mu fell silent.
``` [System upgrade attempt 24: failed!]
[System upgrade attempt 36: failed!]
[System upgrade attempt 52: data acquired successfully! Upgrading...]
[Upgrade successful! One-Click Artifact Refining module bound! New function unlocked: One-Click Artifact Refining!]
"..."
With One-Click Alchemy already serving as a shining example, Chen Mu could easily understand what kind of new function this was without much explanation from the system.
I only said that offhand. System, you're actually doing this?
Before you continue