Night fell, like a Hei Mu enveloping the entire Xiao Clan. Bright moonlight streamed through the thin clouds, making the city as bright as day.
Inside the bedroom, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed. Moonlight shone into the room from outside the window, spreading out softly and illuminating the room.
A tangible energy lingered around Xiao Yan's nose, then entered his body through his breath. After being refined several times, it transformed into streams of pure Origin Qi, which flowed into the Qi Cyclone Space.
After a long while, Xiao Yan slowly opened his tightly closed eyes. He felt the muscles all over his body throbbing with excitement due to the surge of power, and he couldn't help but smile slightly. Although he had been out all day and was exhausted, he felt no fatigue at all. On the contrary, after this short period of cultivation, his spirit was even more abundant.
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan flipped his hand, and a jade box immediately appeared in his palm. Opening it, a mottled pill lay quietly inside. This pill was naturally his greatest gain at today's auction: an eighth-grade Creation Pill.
Although this pill is a failed product, judging from its appearance, it still retains its original form, and some of its medicinal power is still intact. As long as he can figure it out, with his current abilities, restoring the formula for the Creation Pill should not be difficult.
He gently raised his hand, placed his palm over the pill, and gave it a light tremor. A suction force surged out, and then he tossed the Creation Pill into the air. With a thought, the vast Spiritual Strength between his brows immediately surged outward, transforming into invisible threads as thin as wheat awns, slowly approaching the pill before him.
To understand its mechanism, one must delve into the interior of the elixir. Although this approach may have some impact on the elixir itself, since it is a damaged elixir, there is no need to worry about it.
"This..."
However, just as Xiao Yan was slowly approaching the Creation Pill with his Spiritual Strength, he suddenly discovered that there were several tiny holes on the surface of the pill that were difficult to see with the naked eye. This meant that someone had already explored the inside of the pill before him.
Upon realizing this, Xiao Yan frowned immediately. Since someone had already made a move on this pill, the most likely outcome of putting it up for auction was that the person hadn't obtained any valuable information from it. In that case, wouldn't this Creation Pill be worthless?
With this thought in mind, Xiao Yan's heart sank, and his Spiritual Strength, which was slowly approaching the pill, stopped. Since he already knew that he couldn't get a result, what was the point of continuing to investigate?
"But what if..."
Just as he was about to give up, Xiao Yan thought of the seven seventh-grade pills he had spent on this pill, and immediately felt a sense of unwillingness. Although the previous owner of this Creation Pill had tried it, the former's Spiritual Strength was not necessarily as strong as his. Even so, he might be able to find out the result that the other person failed to find. Even if he still couldn't reach any conclusion in the end, he still had to try to find out!
With his mind made up, Xiao Yan relaxed again, took a deep breath, held his breath and focused his mind, and once again controlled those few strands of Spiritual Strength, slowly bringing them into contact with the surface of the Creation Pill.
Spiritual Strength as fine as a wheat awn approached the surface of the pill at an extremely slow speed, then gently caressed it, slowly climbing along the surface of the pill like an earthworm seeking its way, until at a certain place, Xiao Yan sensed that the medicinal power was more concentrated there, and then he controlled the fine soul thread and carefully inserted it.
Under Xiao Yan's deliberate control, the entire process was extremely slow. Besides worrying about not getting the result he wanted, Xiao Yan was also afraid that any slight movement would affect the unstable medicinal power of the pill. Once the remaining medicinal power was also damaged, all his efforts would be in vain.
Time passed slowly, and Xiao Yan's expression gradually became solemn without him realizing it. The Spiritual Strength that had penetrated into the pill finally began to reach the core of the pill, and the final result was about to surface.
Inside the room, the air was completely silent. A vast amount of Spiritual Strength surrounded Xiao Yan, his eyes fixed on the pill before him. Success was just a hair's breadth away.
After several breaths, Xiao Yan, whose eyes were wide open, suddenly raised his head, closed his eyes tightly, clenched his teeth, and looked utterly disappointed.
"Well..."
Despite his utmost caution, the final result of examining the pill was exactly as he had known: its medicinal properties were in complete disarray, its potency weak, and there was no possibility of separating and organizing them. At this moment, this pill was truly a worthless waste pill.
Reflecting on everything that happened at the auction today, he was even disappointed that he had returned empty-handed from the most valuable Creation Pill. It seemed that today's trip had yielded very little.
Just then, a knock sounded on the door, followed by Bai Hua's voice. Xiao Yan greeted her, and she pushed the door open and entered.
Seeing Xiao Yan's disappointed expression, Bai Hua seemed unsurprised, simply smiled slightly, and stepped forward to ask:
What was the result?
Xiao Yan shook his head, casually waved the pill in his hand, and said helplessly:
"It has no practical value whatsoever. The only thing I discovered throughout the entire process was that the person who refined this pill initially intended to refine it to the level of a ninth-grade pill, but an accident occurred midway, which destroyed the pill. Apart from that, I gained nothing."
Bai Hua reached out his hand, and Xiao Yan casually tossed it to him. The latter caught it, held the pill in his palm, closed his eyes, and with a thought, streams of milky white, peculiar energy flowed along his arm and gathered in his palm. Upon seeing this, a look of hope appeared on Xiao Yan's disappointed face.
He almost forgot that Bai Hua's true form was a pill. Compared to him, this Creation Pill could be considered to be of the same kind, and the latter's understanding of pills was naturally superior to his own.
However, after a long while, Bai Hua spoke again, and the words he uttered instantly discouraged Xiao Yan.
"Indeed, the medicinal power is weak and the properties are chaotic; this is indeed a damaged pill."
Bai Hua smiled slightly, Xiao Yan immediately fell silent. The result was already known, so why bother to verify it again?
"But..."
Then, Bai Hua continued:
"Although the medicinal properties of the pill itself are chaotic, fortunately its essence has not changed; the Creation Pill is still the Creation Pill."
"Is there any chance?"
Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow, looking surprised.
"I wouldn't dare say it will fully restore it to its original state, but I can at least dissolve its medicinal properties, giving it some of the effects of the Creation Pill."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he stared intently at Bai Hua, smiling with slightly excited emotions:
"That's enough. Even if it's not a complete pill, as long as we can analyze its pharmacology and reconstruct the formula, it won't be difficult."
After speaking, Bai Hua extended a finger, drew a line on it with his thumb, and a drop of bright red blood containing gold shot out. Under Bai Hua's control, it landed on the surface of the Creation Pill, and then gradually merged into it along the small holes on it.
Under Xiao Yan's hopeful gaze, after just a few breaths, the drop of blood completely dissolved into the pill. Immediately afterwards, a rich fragrance of the pill suddenly spread out from it, forming a layer of mist, and even faintly showing signs of transformation.
"It's done!"
Xiao Yan was overjoyed. He indeed sensed that the medicinal power within the pill was rapidly increasing, and the chaotic medicinal properties were gradually separating. Moreover, an astonishing energy was rapidly increasing within the pill, to the point that the surface of the pill began to writhe in a terrifying and eerie way...