The pills' potency had surged, and their yield had doubled...
Without exaggeration, this was a fundamental improvement.
It left Ji Yang beside himself with excitement.
And this was not even the limit of his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.
Once he refined another immortal herb, he might gain another enormous improvement of a different kind.
Ji Yang could vaguely sense it.
"Amazing!"
Hearing about Ji Yang's progress, Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling cried out in astonishment.
Such a tremendous improvement was almost impossible for them to believe.
Was this the miraculous power of immortal herbs?
If even Xiao Wu and Ye Lingling were this shocked, there was no need to mention Dugu Yan beside them.
At that moment, her mouth hung wide open, and she stared in utter disbelief.
A level sixty-five Soul Emperor-was this Ji Yang's true Soul Power cultivation?
Ji Yang looked so young, several years younger than her, yet he had already reached the Soul Emperor realm at such an age.
Ji Yang was probably going to rewrite the Douluo Continent's record for its youngest Soul Emperor!
Shocked as she was, when she recalled the formidable spiritual power Ji Yang had unleashed earlier, Dugu Yan soon found an absurd feeling inexplicably rising within her.
Somehow, level sixty-five Soul Emperor cultivation seemed too low for Ji Yang.
Even if Ji Yang had the cultivation of a Titled Douluo, it would hardly seem all that astonishing.
After all, what Soul Emperor possessed such formidable spiritual power?
Ji Yang had no idea what complicated thoughts were running through Dugu Yan's mind. After chatting a little more with Xiao Wu and the others, he prepared to continue refining immortal herb pills.
He then swept the nearby cockscomb phoenix sunflower into his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, ready to begin his second round of immortal herb refinement.
A few breaths later, a crimson Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill emerged.
Without hesitation, Ji Yang tossed it into his mouth and swallowed it whole.
Just as with the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill, pure medicinal power immediately surged out of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill.
Whether because the immortal herbs themselves were different or because their effects differed, the medicinal power of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill was far stronger than that of the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill, and far hotter as well.
Of course, it was a harmless heat, brimming with fire-attribute Soul Power.
After flowing throughout Ji Yang's body, that scorching medicinal power finally headed toward the Martial Soul Origin space in his dantian.
It reached the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, which had returned to Ji Yang's body, and merged into it.
In terms of its flame attribute, the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul already possessed ultimate fire, making further evolution difficult.
Yet nourished by the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill, the temperature and properties of the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul's flames still improved considerably.
As the flames grew hotter, they also took on more of the characteristics of Phoenix Fire.
Besides these changes, his Soul Power level naturally rose once again.
This time, he gained another four levels, reaching the realm of a level sixty-nine Soul Emperor.
His progress seemed smaller than after taking the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill, but this advancement had come almost entirely from the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill itself.
Moreover, his cultivation had already reached the Soul Emperor realm, so raising his Soul Power level had inevitably become somewhat harder.
Had the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul not enhanced the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill's potency, he might not have gained even those four levels.
However, neither the improvement to the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul's flames nor the increase in his own Soul Power level was what interested Ji Yang most.
What interested him most was the new change in abilities that the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill had brought to his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.
Just as he had sensed earlier, his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul had undergone another enormous improvement.
But unlike the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill, which had improved the potency and yield of its pills, the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill had changed the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul's alchemy itself.
He could now exercise precise control over the pills themselves, refining the pills he wanted rather than only the fixed pills a given ingredient would produce.
For example, when using a Soul Beast as an ingredient, he could now refine a Soul Spirit Pill while also producing the seven kinds of pills that included Soul Power Pills.
That had been impossible for him before.
Although doing so would reduce the potency of both the Soul Spirit Pill and the seven kinds of pills that included Soul Power Pills, perhaps even by half, the improvement brought by the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill meant the final pills' effects would remain essentially unchanged.
In effect, he could use one portion of ingredients to produce two types of pills of the same grade.
And this would also reduce the loss of Soul Beasts.
After all, if Soul Beasts were refined into Soul Power Pills and similar pills, they would perish.
Now that he could have the best of both worlds, they had hope of returning to life and could be repeatedly cycled through pill refinement.
Who said there was no such thing as a "perpetual motion machine"? Wasn't this one right here?
Ji Yang thought.
Of course, this was not the full extent of the changes brought by the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill.
As mentioned above, he could now refine pills according to his own needs.
Taking Soul Beasts as an example again, if a Soul Beast possessed an organ, trait, ability, or anything else he wanted, he could refine it into a corresponding pill, either separately or as an additional product.
After taking that pill, he would gain the corresponding feature or ability.
Dugu Bo was one example. He had previously suffered from the poison of his Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul.
Yet Jade Phosphor Snakes themselves actually possessed poison glands, which could store toxins without being harmed by them.
But because Dugu Bo was human, and the Jade Phosphor Snake Martial Soul was merely his Martial Soul rather than his actual body, he lacked a similar poison gland in which to store toxins.
If he used the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to refine a Jade Phosphor Snake or another Soul Beast with a poison gland, he could produce a corresponding "Poison Gland Pill."
After taking the Poison Gland Pill, Dugu Bo would gain a poison gland in his body to store his Martial Soul's toxins, freeing him from the torment of its poison.
Ji Yang himself certainly had no need for a Poison Gland Pill or anything similar, but through this principle, he could obtain the abilities he wanted from Soul Beasts or other targets in the future.
This was the true value of the improvement the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill had brought to the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.
If Ji Yang had previously lacked confidence in using the aromatic silk beauty immortal herb to lift the curse on Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul, he was now at least ninety percent certain.
As long as he used this ability of the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul to specifically extract aromatic silk beauty's Martial Soul Evolution power into a pill and strengthen its effects, even if the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul truly was restricted by the Heaven and Earth Laws, it would still have a chance to evolve.
"Ha, now I really am an all-purpose alchemist!"
Ji Yang was rather elated.
This time, his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul's abilities had truly undergone a remarkable transformation.
He had never expected the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill and the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill to bring such incredible changes to his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul.
However, rather than saying the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill and the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill had brought new evolution to the Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, it would be more accurate to say they had unlocked its deeper abilities.
After all, neither eight-petal immortal orchid nor cockscomb phoenix sunflower possessed such abilities in themselves.
The role and effect of the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid Pill and the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower Pill were actually more akin to those of a "catalyst."
If his innate Soul Power had not been level one, but instead the full level ten or even level twenty, his Bagua Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul might have possessed this ability from the outset.
Ultimately, this was still a consequence of his own weakness.
Ji Yang could hardly deny that.
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