"Esteemed guests, please follow my imperial clan members to your respective residence halls. You may also move freely within Dan Tian City, but there are certain areas you must not enter without permission. Violators, even as guests, will face severe punishment." After issuing this warning, the Great Power Dan Chen led the other imperial clan experts away.
Dan Tian City was vast and prosperous, boasting auction halls, taverns, alchemy workshops, cultivation grounds, and more. Aside from the pervasive atmosphere of alchemy, it was no different from the outside world.
However, it housed the majority of the Dan Realm's most powerful experts. It was a place where dragons and tigers lurked hidden, far more formidable than the Emperor City of the Ancient Emperor Realm in its prime. Yet, the Ancient Emperor Realm had declined after suffering the most terrifying Emperor War and the disappearance of the Tenth Heaven.
Holding a first-class invitation, Ye Chen was directly escorted to a floating treasure pavilion at the city's center for accommodation—a privilege reserved for figures of his stature, such as Great Powers from the myriad heavens or Alchemy Masters.
Thus, Ye Chen settled into the treasure pavilion for a temporary rest. Seizing this opportunity, he decided to attempt alchemy.
With the Dan Ceremony approaching, it was the perfect time for Ye Chen to refine pills and gauge the extent of his progress after receiving Master Qing Ye's alchemy inheritance. Although he felt his current alchemy level was at most sixth-rank, with more practice, improvement was certainly possible. After all, he hadn't fully digested Master Qing Ye's legacy.
Ye Chen pondered briefly, and an alchemy recipe surfaced in his mind—the Spirit-Restoring Pill, a sixth-rank low-grade pill capable of rapidly repairing damaged divine souls and healing Dao injuries. It required Summer Withered Flower, Seven-Colored Leaf Fruit, eight-thousand-year-old Dan Heart Fruit...
All the information from the recipe flowed swiftly through his heart. This knowledge originated from Master Qing Ye's inherited memories, which contained numerous precious pill recipes that Ye Chen quickly comprehended.
Soon, all details about the sixth-rank low-grade Spirit-Restoring Pill were clear in his mind. Ye Chen opened his inner space, from which streams of light shot forth—each a Heaven and Earth Treasure, typically over five or six thousand years old.
Among them were the required six-thousand-year Summer Withered Flower, seven-thousand-year Seven-Colored Leaf Fruit, eight-thousand-year Dan Heart Fruit, and over fifty-five-hundred-year Dongting Luo Shen Flower... Ye Chen possessed all the spirit herbs listed in the recipe.
Over the years, traversing the first dozen or so passes of the Ultimate Ancient Path, slaying young Supremes and Great Powers, and achieving one glorious feat after another, he had also amassed an incalculable wealth of divine treasures. His inner space held countless priceless Dao treasures, including no shortage of corresponding precious Heaven and Earth Treasures and even ten-thousand-year medicinal treasures.
*Hum—*
The Chaos Great Cauldron was summoned. Generally, refining pills required a specialized alchemy cauldron—distinct from ordinary Dao weapons and artifacts—specially forged and inscribed with relevant Dao patterns to increase success rates.
However, the Chaos Great Cauldron was exceptional. Forged from primordial Chaos Qi, the origin of all things that could give birth to the myriad Daos of the heavens, it could also serve as an alchemy cauldron. Thus, Ye Chen's Chaos Great Cauldron was equally suitable for pill refinement, and its enhancing effects likely rivaled those of the divine cauldrons used by Alchemy Masters or even grandmasters.
"First, place one six-thousand-year Wu Teng Lan into the cauldron and burn it with Dao Fire to liquefy..."
Following the recipe, Ye Chen retrieved a Wu Teng Lan.
Though called a 'lan' (orchid), it was actually a peculiar fruit. Its form resembled a seductive, peerless beauty—alluring, with a curvaceous figure, full breasts and hips, utterly naked, and exuding a special fragrance that could stir the heart. Unconsciously, Ye Chen recalled certain blush-inducing aphrodisiacs from the mortal world.
From his knowledge, Wu Teng Lan was generally a fire-attribute Heaven and Earth Treasure and also beneficial for dual cultivation. He hadn't expected it to be a primary ingredient for the Spirit-Restoring Pill, which healed divine souls and Dao injuries.
Nevertheless, Ye Chen tossed it into the Chaos Great Cauldron, and Chaos Dao Fire instantly engulfed it.
*Pfft—*
Under the Chaos Dao Fire, the Wu Teng Lan turned to ash in less than a blink.
Faintly, a shrill, piercing feminine scream seemed to be heard.
Frowning slightly, Ye Chen could only attribute this to the overwhelming dominance of Chaos Dao Fire, which could incinerate and refine virtually anything, leaving no room for resistance.
But Ye Chen wasn't discouraged. He naturally had more than one of these herbs. He retrieved a second Wu Teng Lan.
Learning from the first attempt, Ye Chen proceeded with extreme caution this time. He fully released his Saint Soul, unleashing a divine soul power far more terrifying than that of an ordinary Great Power, thoroughly enveloping the interior of the cauldron. With precise control, he drastically reduced the power contained within the Chaos Dao Fire.
Tossing the Wu Teng Lan into the Chaos Great Cauldron, under the controlled burn of the Chaos Dao Fire, the seductive, peerless-beauty-shaped fruit gradually began to burn, melting into a pool of sparkling liquid. From time to time, wisps of crimson, blood-like mist rose, capable of affecting the divine soul.
This was the negative attribute contained within Wu Teng Lan. In a sense, Wu Teng Lan belonged to the category of lust-inducing Heaven and Earth Treasures, a natural super aphrodisiac. To refine the Spirit-Restoring Pill, these negative attributes had to be neutralized.
Fortunately, Chaos Dao Fire could be deemed capable of refining all things. All the crimson mist was directly evaporated into nothingness, leaving behind a pool of crystal-clear, transparent medicinal liquid—the purest essence of the Wu Teng Lan.
At this point, Ye Chen began tossing the second spirit herb into the Chaos Great Cauldron. Under the terrifying control of his Saint Soul power, it wasn't incinerated but perfectly refined into medicinal liquid.
In the following time, Ye Chen continuously threw in one Heaven and Earth Treasure after another. Under the burn of Chaos Dao Fire, they each transformed into pools of medicinal liquid, suspended within the Chaos Great Cauldron.
Finally, after a full hour, all forty-five Heaven and Earth Treasures were successfully refined into medicinal liquids. Aside from the initial failure with the first Wu Teng Lan, all others succeeded, indirectly proving Ye Chen's terrifying control.
Now, the refinement of the Spirit-Restoring Pill entered its second stage: fusing the different pools of medicinal liquid together to truly begin forming the pill.
Ye Chen focused intently, slowly merging two pools of liquid. Special changes occurred, and they even began to burn, threatening to turn to ash.