Immortal Pills

Xiao Hua lowered his head to look at the chip. His Heart God swept the chip into space, then emerged a moment later. The chip recorded how to use it and the location of the Immortal Market. With this item, Xiao Hua could enter Helan Que's Immortal Market. But after briefly examining his Nascent Soul Body, Xiao Hua gave a bitter smile. Shuobing had been right—his injuries were quite severe. With injuries like these, and given Xiao Hua's knowledge of Yunmeng Marsh, it would truly be difficult for him to make his way out.

"Better find a place to rest first!" Xiao Hua thought, preparing to leave.

But as soon as he turned around, Xiao Hua stopped again. Looking at the still-falling rain of fire nearby and the mountain peaks struck by Gilded Fireballs, he smiled. "The most dangerous place is the safest place. This is the nest of the Roaring Beast and the Toad Faced Toad; I fear no other Immortal Beasts would dare come here. As for Yuanzi, if he had dared return, he would not have left today. Besides, even if he does not leave Yunmeng Marsh, this place no longer has any value. He cannot possibly turn back. Would it not be best for Xiao to cultivate quietly here?"

Because of the Gilded Fireballs, Xiao Hua activated the Mitian Ring and hid nearby to observe. The Soul Suppressing Bell Yuanzi had left him had long since been put away in space. After about an hour, the Gilded Fireballs and rain of fire gradually ceased. Xiao Hua flew closer and looked at the mountain peak pitted with craters from the Gilded Fireballs. Only then did he understand the origin of the marks on the stone walls.

Entering the cave and seeing the chaotic spatial aura within, Xiao Hua sighed. He collected the Roaring Beast's remains and Jing Sheng's Hundred-Gathering Bag, which had been blasted to pieces. As for Jing Sheng's corpse, Xiao Hua carefully buried it as well.

The cave had originally carried a strange smell, but the spatial explosion had dispersed it. Xiao Hua found a clean spot, sat cross-legged, and took out Jing Sheng's Hundred-Gathering Bag to inspect it. Jing Sheng apparently had not been as good at managing his household as Chu Yu. Coupled with the damage to the Hundred-Gathering Bag, there were not many things inside. Apart from some Immortal Crystals, there were scattered Immortal Beast corpses and several Ink Immortal Pupils. Of course, just like Chu Yu, Jing Sheng also possessed several strange and peculiar objects.

Looking at a bronze chess piece, half of a ten-foot flagpole, and a bloodstained iron sheet, Xiao Hua felt as though he had encountered a kindred spirit. It was as if the him in his memories had loved collecting such scraps from a very young age.

Xiao Hua had originally wanted to carefully investigate the origins of these unknown items, but after taking the Ink Immortal Pupils into space for a look, Jade Tablet Xiao Hua tossed those objects into space and ignored them. These Ink Immortal Pupils recorded simple methods for refining Immortal Talismans, Immortal Pills, and Immortal Artifacts. One Ink Immortal Pupil even contained a cultivation technique called the Bone Cleansing Technique!

Although the Bone Cleansing Technique was clearly the crudest and most basic of cultivation methods, it was still the first cultivation technique Xiao Hua had obtained in the Immortal Realm. Jade Tablet Xiao Hua therefore took it in wild delight and began studying it carefully.

After finishing it, Xiao Hua's Heart God withdrew from space, and he secretly pondered, Jing Sheng cultivated the Nascent Soul, so the technique he obtained is suited to Xiao as well. But this Bone Cleansing Technique has four layers, each explaining how to open a meridian within the Nascent Soul Body and how to use the physical body to temper Immortal Spiritual Energy in the new meridian into Immortal Power. This is of no use to Xiao at all! Not to mention that Xiao has no physical body—even if I did, the meridians within my Nascent Soul Body are identical to those of a physical body. There is no need to open them at all! Thus, Jing Sheng's Bone Cleansing Technique is not even as useful as Chu Yu's Immortal Arts.

At that thought, an idea flashed through Xiao Hua's mind, but when he tried to think further, he could not grasp it. He had encountered such situations before and knew the opportunity had not yet arrived, so he simply stopped thinking about it. He took out the Ink Immortal Pupils concerning the refinement of Immortal Talismans, Immortal Pills, and Immortal Artifacts.

The Ink Immortal Pupils contained little concerning Immortal Talismans, recording only the refining method for a talisman called the Fire Wyrm Talisman. Seeing that it required splitting a Fire Wyrm essence soul into a thread and refining it into a jade crystal, Jade Tablet Xiao Hua immediately lost interest. He would rather use the Five-Colored Divine Fire than torment a Fire Wyrm essence soul. Of course, the Ink Immortal Pupil did offer a few scant words regarding Immortal Talismans. It said only that low-grade Immortal Talismans were made of jade crystal, either fused with the essence souls of exotic beasts, fused with Spirit Body avatars, or condensed with highly powerful Immortal Arts. As for what intermediate-grade and high-grade Immortal Talismans were like, the Ink Immortal Pupil did not mention them.

If possible... Jade Tablet Xiao Hua pinched his chin and pondered. Xiao must learn the methods for making basic Immortal Talismans, then obtain some jade crystals and first refine the Dutian Star Array, the Rooster Sun Devouring Demon Immortal Array, and the like. Those are all excellent things for preserving one's life!

At this thought, Jade Tablet Xiao Hua smiled bitterly again. Even if he understood the methods for refining Immortal Talismans, what then? Without a basic cultivation technique, he simply did not have enough Immortal Power within his body to use!

The Ink Immortal Pupils contained far more information about Immortal Pills than Immortal Talismans. Besides introducing the seven grades of Immortal Pills and explaining that each grade suited Immortals of different realms, they listed representative pills for every grade. What delighted Jade Tablet Xiao Hua even more was that the Ink Immortal Pupil also explained in detail a seventh-grade Immortal Pill called the Dust Dissipating Pill. This pill was specially for newly ascended Immortals. After an Immortal washed their spirit and cleansed their marrow, it could stabilize their realm and Immortal Spiritual Energy. Moreover, its refinement method seemed simple, and the Immortal materials required were easy to obtain. Xiao Hua was an alchemy grandmaster; after reading it, he had already roughly understood it. After silently memorizing the pill-refining methods, he looked at the descriptions of the seven grades of Immortal Pills.

Besides the Dust Dissipating Pill, seventh-grade Immortal Pills included the Calamity-Resolving Pill. This pill could regulate disordered Immortal Spiritual Energy within an Immortal's body, especially the adverse effects caused by improperly cultivating basic Immortal Arts.

The sixth-grade Immortal Pills listed were the Spirit Nurturing Pill, the Tranquil Joy Pill, and the Nature Illuminating Pill. After taking the Spirit Nurturing Pill, Immortal Spiritual Energy could immediately be generated. Though its restorative effect was not especially great, it could give low-level Immortals more opportunities to form hand seals for Immortal Arts and cast Immortal techniques. The Tranquil Joy Pill was rather special, with only one effect: taking it during cultivation could produce twice the effort for half the result, especially when cultivating mental techniques and thoroughly comprehending the laws of heaven and earth. Because this pill had but a single effect and its output was not low, it was ranked sixth-grade. As for the Nature Illuminating Pill, only its name was written, with no further explanation.

This Spirit Nurturing Pill shares a name with the Spirit Nurturing Pill of the mortal realm, but its effect resembles that of the Residue Cleansing Pill. This Ink Immortal Pupil contains no record of the Residue Cleansing Pill; presumably, the Residue Cleansing Pill does not even merit a rank! Xiao Hua thought as he continued reading.

The fifth-grade Immortal Pills recorded the Star Plucking Pill. It said only that this pill was generally suitable for Golden Immortals and above. Its effect was to instantly stimulate the Immortal Spiritual Energy within a Golden Immortal's body, allowing one foot to step into the Five Elements and half the body to pass through the Nine Palaces, gaining Immortal Power beyond one's current strength. However, its duration was short, and once the Immortal Spiritual Energy had been stimulated, the user would remain weak for a long time afterward.

The fourth-grade Immortal Pills recorded the Spirit Returning Pill. Refining this pill was beyond all but Taiyi True Immortal grandmasters. To refine it, one needed the blood of the nine spirits of the Immortal Realm, golden flowers, silver grass, bronze wood, and iron fruit from the four extremities of the Immortal Realm, all refined together. There were also forty-nine pill formulas, requiring the infusion of vast quantities of Immortal Spiritual Energy. It had to be warmed over low fire for three hundred years, then heated with fierce fire for two hundred years, repeated twice, requiring a total of one thousand years before the pill was complete. After taking this pill, any Daluo Immortal or lower, no matter how severe their injuries, could have their wounds treated in a short time. If they could calmly recuperate for three years, they could even recover completely. Because this pill was difficult to refine, it was further divided according to the refinement period and the age of its ingredients: low-grade Spirit Returning Pills were effective only on Golden Immortals and below, with merely thirty percent recovery; middle-grade Spirit Returning Pills were effective on all Daluo Immortals and below, with fifty percent recovery; high-grade Spirit Returning Pills not only possessed their full effect, but could also prove useful if a Taiyi True Immortal or Primordial Immortal suffered temporary injuries.

The third-grade Immortal Pills recorded the Immortal Fusion Pill. This pill was specially used by newly advanced Taiyi Immortals or Primordial Immortals to consolidate their realm and Immortal Spiritual Energy. Although it was not mass-produced, it could still be obtained through certain channels. After taking this pill, early-stage Taiyi Immortals and Primordial Immortals could completely transform within a hundred years, their strength advancing by leaps and bounds.

The second-grade Immortal Pills recorded the Demon-Slaying Pill. This pill was refined by an Immortal Venerate-level Primordial Immortal. As its name implied, its greatest effect was helping those undergoing a Great Tribulation resist attacks from heavenly demons beyond the domain, leaving them to deal only with the mighty power of heaven and earth throughout the Great Tribulation. However, this pill was also exceedingly rare. The materials required were extremely difficult to obtain, and each refinement took more than ten thousand years.

Seeing this, Jade Tablet Xiao Hua became doubtful. The seventh-grade Dust Dissipating Pill had been recorded in detail, while the sixth-grade pills were already vague. By the fifth-grade Immortal Pills, the account jumped directly to pills for Golden Immortals, without saying what pills Immortals of the intervening realms should take. Moreover, the higher the grade of Immortal Pill, the more unfathomable its effects became. But Jade Tablet Xiao Hua had no time to think further. His brows furrowed, and his Heart God withdrew from space. Almost without hesitation, he activated the Mitian Ring. Weak clear light poured down like flowing water, and Xiao Hua's seated figure swiftly vanished. Several breaths later, a speck of clear light appeared on a distant stone wall. It flew into the Toad Faced Toad's nest and, riding the wind, transformed into an ethereal phantom of a Wood Spirit. The phantom looked around, identified the direction, and then became light as it flew through the entire nest. Finally, the Wood Spirit descended where Yuanzi had previously obtained the Beast Egg. A strand of Emanated Thought, seemingly weak yet meticulous as a net, swept through once more. Yuanzi's somewhat embarrassed and angry voice rang sharply from the Wood Spirit's mouth. "That little Nascent Soul truly took the Roaring Beast's remaining corpse and the Toad Faced Toad's eggs! And that mutated dead egg—if the waterfall wood thunder were mixed into the Roaring Beast's flesh and blood and refined a little, it could become a weapon for killing. This old man was careless then; in one moment of inattention, I actually gave it to that little Nascent Soul. Remembering it now is already somewhat too late. Damn Shuobing, this old man will remember this grudge..."

After speaking, the Wood Spirit phantom bearing a thread of Yuanzi's Primordial Spirit rushed toward the stone wall. Without even stirring a ripple, it vanished.

After waiting a full half hour, clear light flickered faintly elsewhere, and Xiao Hua's figure emerged. Narrowing his eyes, he said thoughtfully, "Yuanzi truly has not given up his thief's heart. It seems this dead egg and the Roaring Beast's corpse really moved him! Yet he does not dare return in person, only using his Primordial Spirit to drive a Wood Spirit back here. Hehe, if Xiao's strength recovers, and I crush this Primordial Spirit lodged in the Wood Spirit with one hand, would Yuanzi be so furious that he leaps and rages like thunder?"

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