So I Founded the Pill Tower?

[Considering that the opportunity should not be discovered too easily, you chose to leave it deep within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

You concealed your aura and went unnoticed by the magical beast overlords of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Something unexpected happened. While searching for a suitable place to leave your legacy, you actually encountered a nascent Mysterious Yellow Flame.

Overjoyed, you secretly took the Mysterious Yellow Flame away, then found a valley on the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and refined the Blood Lotus Pill needed to absorb Heavenly Flames.

You searched your Storage Ring. You had both ice spirit cold spring and a Spirit Receptacle, all prepared long ago with the thought that they would prove useful when you absorbed Heavenly Flames in the future.

After all, other Heavenly Flames were not like the Emperor Flame. Without a Spirit Receptacle's space to contain them, violent Heavenly Flames would turn on their master.

You began absorbing the Mysterious Yellow Flame.

This bottom-ranked Heavenly Flame, twenty-third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, normally possessed strength equivalent only to a Dou Huang expert. Now, in its nascent stage, it was weaker still, and you subdued it easily.

With that, you had subdued this Mysterious Yellow Flame.

Finally, you discovered that the valley you were in was quite well hidden, so you simply left your legacy there.

If you survived and reached a higher realm in the future, you would return to leave a stronger legacy.]

[Year twenty-one: you left the Northwest Continent and traveled through a space wormhole to the Northern Region of the Central Plains.

You encountered some trouble here, but easily resolved it with your Dou Emperor strength.

You did not linger in the Northern Region. After making some preparations, you headed to the Central Region, the true heart of the Dou Qi Continent.

The Central Region of this era had no so-called Two Sects and Three Valleys. Even the Pill Tower did not exist.

You asked around along the way and headed to a sect called the Profound Pill Sect.

The Profound Pill Sect was a Half-Saint power, with a high-level Half-Saint sect master and the First Elder at Nine Revolutions Peak Dou Zun.

Your Dou Emperor strength was somewhat lacking, but your status as a seventh-tier alchemist still earned you a measure of regard, and you joined as an alchemy elder.

You settled into the Profound Pill Sect.]

[Year twenty-two: to improve your alchemy, you took some pills and resources to visit the sect's First Elder of alchemy, an eighth-tier, five-colored alchemist, hoping to learn alchemy.

The First Elder of alchemy reluctantly agreed to teach you for one month. How much you learned was up to you.

At the same time, you discovered another person who, like you, had exchanged pills and resources for an opportunity to study alchemy.

He was a little older than you, in his thirties, and was also an early seventh-tier alchemist. His name was Dan Feng.

Your personalities suited each other. You studied alchemy together, occasionally testing your understanding against each other's and teaching one another, progressing at a tremendous pace.

Because both of you possessed exceptional talent for alchemy, the First Elder of alchemy gradually began considering taking you as disciples.

You refused, while Dan Feng agreed.

The First Elder of alchemy began focusing on teaching Dan Feng alone, but after his lessons, Dan Feng would secretly share some of what he had learned with you.

Before long, however, this was exposed, and both you and Dan Feng were expelled.

Dan Feng bore you no resentment over this, and you traveled the Central Region together.]

[Year twenty-three: you and Dan Feng ventured into a secret realm, obtaining a soul cultivation method and an alchemy legacy respectively.

Both of you chose to share the legacies you had obtained with each other.

You practiced the soul cultivation method, and your soul power broke through to the Spirit Realm.

That same year, you participated in an alchemy competition and refined an Eighth-Tier Pill, making a name for yourself throughout the Central Region. Dan Feng also refined a high seventh-tier pill.]

[Year twenty-four: neither of you joined any faction, continuing to roam as independent cultivators.]

[Year twenty-five: you and Dan Feng explored a Dou Sheng secret realm and obtained fruits that could strengthen soul power. After consuming them, you both entered seclusion.]

[Year twenty-six: in seclusion...]

...

[Year thirty-one: you and Dan Feng emerged from seclusion.

Your soul power had risen to the peak of the Spirit Realm.

Dan Feng's soul power was only a step away from the peak of the Spirit Realm.

Both of your cultivation levels had reached Peak Dou Zun.

Dan Feng skipped early eighth-tier pills outright and refined a mid eighth-tier pill that summoned five-colored pill lightning, succeeding on his first attempt.

You attempted to refine a high eighth-tier pill that summoned eight-colored pill lightning, but failed.

You knew your alchemy still needed time to mature.]

[Year thirty-two: you and Dan Feng chose to enter seclusion to improve your alchemy and assimilate the alchemy legacies you had obtained back then.]

[Year thirty-three: you continued assimilating the legacies...]

...

[Year fifty-two: you and Dan Feng emerged from seclusion. After twenty full years of studying alchemy, your skills had improved tremendously.

You decided to go out and show what you could do.

Only after emerging did you discover that, although your alchemy had improved, you lacked enough medicinal ingredients to refine pills. Were you supposed to obtain them yourselves?

To that end, you decided to establish a faction and have others collect medicinal ingredients for you.]

[Year fifty-three: relying on your and Dan Feng's reputations as grandmasters of alchemy, you swiftly established a faction and recruited many alchemists. You taught them alchemy, and they collected medicinal ingredients for you.

During this process, you met an eighth-tier alchemist named Xuan Dan who was utterly obsessed with the Dao of Alchemy.

Xuan Dan's talent fell short of yours, and he could not even match Dan Feng, but his obsession with the Dao of Alchemy far surpassed both of yours.

The three of you had plenty to talk about, and Xuan Dan quickly became part of your circle.]

...

[Year sixty: the faction you had established flourished more and more, and the three of you worked hard together as your alchemy slowly improved.

During this time, you also went out on adventures and even visited the Profound Pill Sect, only to discover that everyone in the sect had been slaughtered at some unknown point long ago. You and Xuan Dan sighed over it, but did not particularly care.

Your cultivation broke through to Half-Saint, and you could now reliably refine high Eighth-Tier Nine-Colored pills. You stood among the continent's best, and even members of several great Emperor Clans commissioned pills from you.

After one period of seclusion, you returned to the Fallen Heaven Empire on the Northwest Continent.

You searched for the One-Brow Old Man and discovered that the little old man had aged considerably.

The little old man was delighted to see you again. After learning of your accomplishments, he smiled with such pride that his eyes narrowed to slits.

You asked about the little old man's life over the past few years, then refined one pill to extend his lifespan, one to change his aptitude, and one to improve his cultivation.

Three high eighth-tier pills consumed quite a few of your resources, but you did not begrudge a bit of it.

Afterward, you visited the little valley in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Some magical beasts seemed to have wandered in, but none had discovered the legacy you left behind.

This time, you left a better legacy: Fire Control Art, alchemy, cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and pill formulas, all protected with spatial power.

You returned to the Fallen Heaven Empire and took the little old man to the Central Plains to enjoy a comfortable life.]

...

[Year eighty: as time passed, the alchemy and cultivation of you, Dan Feng, and Xuan Dan all continued to improve.

You and Dan Feng possessed outstanding talent. Your cultivation had already broken through to Dou Sheng, and your soul power had reached the Heaven Realm, allowing you to refine Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills.

Xuan Dan lagged somewhat behind, but he could now refine Eighth-Tier Nine-Colored Pills, and his soul power was not far from the Heaven Realm.

The faction you had established also continued to develop over the years, becoming a force of great consequence throughout the continent.

Meanwhile, a faction called Burning Flame Valley stirred your memories. You looked into it and learned that its founder was the Burning Flame Ancestor.

You thought that a faction and person you knew had finally appeared, and unconsciously said, "I wonder when the Pill Tower will appear."

Dan Feng looked at you in astonishment. "What nonsense are you talking about? Isn't the faction we founded called the Pill Tower?"

You were stunned. So... I founded the Pill Tower?]