Immediately afterward, an exceptionally dense mass of energy rapidly took shape above the pill, then surged up from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and shot straight into the clouds!
Lin Xuanchen looked up at the sight and nodded in satisfaction. This phenomenon of heaven and earth only occurred when a Sixth-Grade Pill took shape.
In other words, only the appearance of this phenomenon meant that a Sixth-Grade Pill had been successfully refined.
With a beckoning motion of Lin Xuanchen's hand, the blue-green Soul Restoration Pill floating inside the cauldron slowly flew out and finally hovered steadily above his palm.
"A-Chen, what kind of pill did you make? I can feel such powerful spiritual pressure coming from it." Wang Dong'er leaned closer to the ice-blue Soul Restoration Pill hovering above Lin Xuanchen's palm and asked curiously.
"This is called a Soul Restoration Pill. I made it especially for you. It can greatly increase your spiritual power," Lin Xuanchen replied with a faint smile.
"Huh?" Wang Dong'er froze for a moment. It took her a while to process his words before she exclaimed in delighted surprise, "A-Chen! Did you really make this for me?"
Just looking at it, Wang Dong'er could sense the immense energy contained within the pill. At first, she had thought Lin Xuanchen had made it for himself.
Now that she knew Lin Xuanchen had made it for her, sweetness welled up in her heart.
"Didn't I just tell you?" Lin Xuanchen rubbed Wang Dong'er's little head. "I made this pill for you."
"Hehe." Wang Dong'er giggled and reached for the blue-green Soul Restoration Pill hovering above Lin Xuanchen's palm.
Wang Dong'er had taken plenty of Lin Xuanchen's pills lately, so she was naturally familiar with the process.
Lin Xuanchen glanced at the blue-green Soul Restoration Pill hovering above his palm, then at Wang Dong'er's soft red lips. A naughty idea surfaced in his mind.
A mischievous smile slowly curled across Lin Xuanchen's lips. He flipped his hand and tossed the blue-green Soul Restoration Pill into his mouth, leaving Wang Dong'er grasping at empty air.
Before Wang Dong'er could react, Lin Xuanchen stepped forward, slipped an arm around her slender waist, and pulled her into his embrace.
"A-Chen, why did you... mmph, mmph..."
Wang Dong'er's red lips parted slightly, but she had only voiced half her question when Lin Xuanchen bent down imperiously and kissed her soft red lips, sealing the rest of her words inside.
Then the Soul Restoration Pill Lin Xuanchen had held in his mouth slid along their tongues and into Wang Dong'er's mouth.
"Mmph, mmph..."
Wang Dong'er's beautiful pink-blue eyes suddenly narrowed. Her delicate hands clutched the front of Lin Xuanchen's clothes tightly. She wanted to say something, but only a few broken whimpers escaped her throat.
Only after Wang Dong'er had swallowed the pill completely did Lin Xuanchen slowly release her, drawing out a clear, glistening silver thread between them...
"A-Chen... you... you're bad! How could you feed me medicine like that!" Wang Dong'er protested in bashful indignation, her pretty face flushed red.
She had thought she would take the pill the same way as before. She hadn't expected Lin Xuanchen to suddenly play a trick on her and feed it to her mouth to mouth.
"What?" Lin Xuanchen smiled mischievously and raised a hand to wipe the moisture from Wang Dong'er's red lips. "Didn't you like it, Dong'er?"
"It... it's just my first time doing it like that... I'm a little unaccustomed to it, that's all..." Wang Dong'er stammered.
"Come to think of it, Dong'er, I haven't seen you blush in a long time." Lin Xuanchen raised his eyebrows.
As far as Lin Xuanchen remembered, aside from doing those things, his other intimate gestures toward Wang Dong'er basically no longer embarrassed her.
Yet Wang Dong'er was actually embarrassed now, which he found rather novel. It seemed he still hadn't fully explored her.
"N-no, I'm not! I'm not embarrassed!" Wang Dong'er stubbornly insisted.
"All right, all right." Lin Xuanchen smiled and instructed her, "Dong'er, sit cross-legged now and hurry up and refine the medicinal power of the Soul Restoration Pill."
"Mm-hmm." Wang Dong'er nodded lightly, steadied her breathing, then sat cross-legged and began refining the Soul Restoration Pill's medicinal power.
"Now I can harvest the remaining immortal-grade medicinal herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well." Seeing Wang Dong'er begin refining the medicinal power, Lin Xuanchen turned his gaze back toward the immortal herbs.
You can't see me... you can't see me... I'm Blue Silver Grass... I'm Blue Silver Grass... I'm a weed... I'm a weed... I'm mugwort... I'm mugwort...
The moment the immortal herbs that had awakened their intelligence noticed Lin Xuanchen's gaze, they buried their heads in the soil of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, praying silently over and over that they wouldn't be discovered.
After all, the fates of the aromatic silk beauty and infernal delicate apricot were still vivid in their minds. None of them wanted to be kicked to death like a roadside weed.
Soon, Lin Xuanchen fixed his gaze on one immortal herb.
It was a very peculiar immortal herb. Rather than an ordinary flower or plant, it was a stalk of purplish-black bamboo.
The bamboo had around eleven segments, and a faint purple glow shimmered over its surface, giving it a rather uncanny appearance.
"This immortal herb..." After pondering briefly, Lin Xuanchen murmured, "Could this immortal herb be ink jade divine bamboo?"
The only bamboo-type immortal herb recorded in the original story seemed to be ink jade divine bamboo. In any case, judging by his memories, the purplish-black bamboo before him should undoubtedly be ink jade divine bamboo.
"Hey." Lin Xuanchen walked up to the ink jade divine bamboo and kicked her. "Speak."
Lin Xuanchen's kick elicited no response.
"Senior Ice Empress!" Seeing no response, Lin Xuanchen immediately called out to the Ice Empress.
"Human! What are you trying to do!" Hearing Lin Xuanchen call for the Ice Empress, the ink jade divine bamboo no longer dared to play dead. A clear female voice rang out from her stalk.
"Oh, so you can talk after all." Lin Xuanchen grinned.
"Since you can talk, that makes things easy," Lin Xuanchen said coldly. "I'll give you two choices."
As he spoke, Lin Xuanchen held up one finger. "First, sacrifice yourself to me. You can preserve your soul within the Soul Ring. When I become a god, I can resurrect you and grant you eternal life."
"Become a god? That's impossible! How could you possibly become a god?" At those words, the ink jade divine bamboo shook her leaves violently and flatly rejected his claim.
"No one on this continent has become a god in tens of thousands of years. What makes you think you can?" the ink jade divine bamboo challenged.
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