"So strong!"
Fei Tuo's expression changed. Only by facing him head-on in battle could one truly perceive the Battle Saint King's formidable power, which far exceeded imagination.
However, he was, after all, a young generation's supreme of his era and had already stepped into the Great Power realm. He wasn't seriously injured. Gripping his spiked club, he charged back, unleashing a world-shaking divine ability unique to the Dwarf race. His bloodline surged, and the divine ability's dao principles pierced through the sky, annihilating everything as he directly clashed.
Ye Chen collided with him, summoning his Chaos Great Cauldron. The cauldron was extraordinary, permeated with primordial Chaos Qi and accompanied by one rotating immortal star after another as it met the attack.
*Clang!*
The collision naturally shook heaven and earth, tearing apart countless miles of sky. The entire ancient star was on the verge of shattering.
At the same time, Ye Chen personally controlled the great cauldron. Ancient qi erupted, containing an entire starry sky within. He slapped out, hurling the cauldron forward to smash directly into Fei Tuo.
Seeing this, Fei Tuo paled, hurriedly using his spiked club to block in front of him.
*Boom!*
The ancient star shattered, the sky exploded, and Fei Tuo was sent flying backward. Many spikes on his club were broken, and he himself was blasted away.
This scene was shocking. Could even a Great Power-level young supreme as extraordinary as Fei Tuo be so utterly outmatched?
Of course not. Without using his enhancement secret technique, no matter how powerful Ye Chen was, he couldn't reach such a level. He couldn't casually blast Fei Tuo away. It was just that he had raised his combat power to its limit and condensed hundreds of moves into two or three, thus possessing world-destroying might.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, he would need at least hundreds of moves to gain the upper hand against Fei Tuo.
Simultaneously, Ye Chen suddenly turned back, instantly appearing before the Unique Life Tree.
Dan Xian naturally refused to give up. He was also a young supreme, similarly at the Heavenly King peak, and had sufficient backup plans. He erupted with dazzling divine light, countless chains of order soaring into the sky, tearing through the void as they fully blasted toward Ye Chen.
*Crack!*
Unfortunately, he was facing Ye Chen, the strongest among his peers. Both were young supremes, but Ye Chen belonged to the most powerful tier. Dan Xian was far from being a match, even if he displayed astonishing divine abilities.
It wasn't that he wasn't strong enough. On the contrary, those who could become ten-layered heavenly young supremes all possessed shocking potential as supreme geniuses, qualified to charge into the Emperor domain in the future. But facing the strongest young supreme, they were simply not on the same level.
*Boom!*
Ye Chen's entire body erupted with boundless chaos light. Primordial Chaos Qi struck the heavens, permeating all directions, impervious to all laws. He directly neutralized all of his opponent's attacks, preventing them from reaching him.
Dan Xian paled at the sight. This Chaos Dao technique was indeed too extraordinary. No wonder it was said that when truly perfected, it had the chance to break through the Emperor's shackles and achieve eternity.
At this moment, Ye Chen made his move. He used the Heaven-Summoning Technique, a great dao divine ability he had imitated and obtained from the Void Heaven Domain back then. Now he displayed it, evolving it to its extreme, likely even more powerful than the ancestor of the original enemy.
A phantom of the heavens rumbled forth, directly crushing and obliterating everything, causing the entire ancient star to completely disintegrate into fragments of starlight that scattered across the sky.
*Rumble!*
A massive wave of divine power swept over. The unprotected star fragments were directly struck and annihilated into dust, leaving nothing behind.
Dan Xian was personally swept away. In a battle of the same realm, he was no match, suffering severe injuries and continuously coughing up blood.
Ye Chen remained unmoved. Moreover, he used Chaos to seal the heavens and lock the earth, giving the Unique Life Tree no chance to escape. He also offered primordial Chaos Qi, causing the Unique Life Tree to cease its escape and subsequently submit to Ye Chen.
Seeing this, both Dan Xian and Fei Tuo deeply understood that seizing the Unique Life Tree from the Battle Saint King was impossible. They could only retreat helplessly.
After collecting the Unique Life Tree, the main ingredients for refining the God King Pill were essentially all gathered. The other auxiliary medicinal materials had also been collected one after another.
Without a doubt, Ye Chen had already decided to refine the God King Pill. However, the biggest problem now was that his alchemy skill simply didn't reach that level. He couldn't even refine a seventh-rank low-grade pill. This was the greatest issue.
Thus, how to refine the God King Pill became the biggest question.
Immediately, he thought of the Small Alchemy Cauldron and his heart stirred.
All along, he had never truly used the Small Alchemy Cauldron for alchemy. The Small Alchemy Cauldron contained alchemy information that could even allow an ordinary person to walk the path of a peak master. Perhaps it could also be used for alchemy and multiply the effects of refinement.
With thought came action!
Ye Chen decided to use the Small Alchemy Cauldron for alchemy. Naturally, he wasn't foolish enough to think the Dan Emperor Clan wouldn't monitor the entire Dan Ruins Ancient Realm. To avoid major problems, he descended on an ancient star, had the Nine-Headed Serpent stand guard, directly used primordial Chaos Qi to seal the heavens and lock the earth, isolating all probing. He even summoned the Heaven Desolation Great Halberd, making it impossible for the outside world to spy.
At the same time, he was extremely cautious, integrating the Small Alchemy Cauldron into the Chaos Great Cauldron, layering isolation upon isolation before finally feeling completely at ease.
Ye Chen began his work, refining the Nine Revolutions Illusory Divine Pill, a seventh-rank low-grade pill. It was one of the pill formulas obtained from the earlier struggle for light orbs, and he had also gathered the corresponding medicinal materials.
During the previous period, he had been sensing the Small Alchemy Cauldron and obtained the corresponding refinement method. Now, with a thought, the Small Alchemy Cauldron directly enlarged, overlapping with the Chaos Great Cauldron. He opened his mouth and spat out wisps of Chaos Dao Fire, sending them into the cauldron.
Following the Nine Revolutions Illusory Divine Pill formula, he threw in one heavenly treasure after another.
Soon, Ye Chen's brows relaxed, showing delight.
Indeed, this cauldron lived up to being one of the Nine Cauldrons. For alchemy, it could greatly enhance the refinement effect. All aspects of alchemy felt perfectly natural and smooth. What had seemed obscure and difficult now appeared so effortless.
Ye Chen felt that refining this Nine Revolutions Illusory Divine Pill, while not yet completely effortless, was at least comparable to refining a sixth-rank mid-grade pill—not very difficult.
After a full half-day, a dazzling light suddenly surged from within the cauldron—pill light—but it was blocked by the primordial Chaos Qi. Otherwise, it would certainly have been detected by the outside world.
Inside the cauldron, a pill shot into the sky, trying to escape.
But at the seventh-rank level, such pills generally possessed a trace of spiritual intelligence. Unfortunately, it couldn't avoid Ye Chen's grasp. A hand reached out, then turned over, directly and completely seizing it, leaving it no room to struggle.
Looking at this pill with seven colored patterns, its body displayed a purplish-blue hue, crystal clear, with pill fragrance permeating the air. Just one whiff was enough to make one feel refreshed and delighted.
Ye Chen's face showed joy. Indeed, this Small Alchemy Cauldron was so extraordinary, giving him a greater chance of success at the Alchemy Canon Grand Ceremony.
Over the next few days, although Great Power-level battles continued outside, the entire Fallen Monarch Divine Sea constantly stirred with unparalleled destructive power, as if about to completely turn heaven and earth upside down and destroy everything, the ancient star where Ye Chen resided remained quiet. He was focused on alchemy.
Naturally, no one knew Ye Chen's situation. But everyone saw the Nine-Headed Serpent standing guard, and the Heaven Desolation Great Halberd faintly exuding an immortal divine might that shook past and present. No one dared to disturb the Battle Saint King, fearing to provoke this invincible great slaughter god, which would be the greatest trouble.
A full three days and nights passed before Ye Chen truly emerged from seclusion. Prolonged alchemy was quite taxing on the spirit; even he showed a trace of fatigue in his expression, but his brows contained excitement.
Because these days of continuous alchemy had made him increasingly proficient with the Small Alchemy Cauldron. Refining pills also seemed easier. For seventh-rank pills, he basically had a ninety percent success rate; for seventh-rank mid-grade, it was as high as seventy percent; even for seventh-rank high-grade, he could manage thirty percent.
As long as nothing went wrong, for every three attempts at refining a seventh-rank high-grade pill, one would succeed.
But soon he showed a helpless expression. Although the God King Pill was also considered seventh-rank high-grade, this pill, hailed as the number one among seventh-rank pills, had a difficulty level completely comparable to eighth-rank low-grade.
It must be known that for each rank a pill ascended, its difficulty would multiply. This also meant that successfully refining the God King Pill would be far more difficult than imagined. The success rate was probably less than twenty percent, maybe only ten percent.
Thinking of this, even Ye Chen couldn't help but feel his heart sink.
Actually, he also wanted to refine other seventh-rank high-grade pills with higher success rates, but they might not secure him a top-three position in the younger generation's alchemy competition. Moreover, what made the God King Pill more important was actually its heaven-defying effect—it could assist in breaking through to the Ancient Great Power realm.
Even if Ye Chen consumed it might not guarantee success, it would certainly increase his success rate by a considerable margin. This was the effect that truly tempted Ye Chen.
He had stayed in the Heavenly King realm for too long; he needed to break through quickly.
If others knew this, they would probably fight him desperately. After all, ordinary people cultivated for seven or eight thousand years before barely breaking through. He had cultivated for a full three hundred years at most, and achieving Heavenly King status was only a little over a hundred years ago—deemed incredibly young.
Ordinary people might not even break through a single heavenly layer in two or three hundred years, yet he had reached the Half-Step Great Power realm, deemed a world-shaking monster. Now he thought it was too long. If word got out, who knows how others would live with themselves.
But the enemies Ye Chen needed to face were the Overlords of the Ancient Path. Even his former great enemies had reached the Great Power realm. Without breaking through, he simply couldn't match them.
Those Ancient Path Overlords even faced Ancient Monarchs without fear.
If he didn't break through, it really wouldn't do.
At this time, Ye Chen emerged from seclusion. After emerging, he found the entire Fallen Monarch Divine Sea nearly dyed red. One enormous body after another floated in the divine sea, accompanied by towering waves, each radiating unparalleled great dao divine might. Ordinary beings could hardly approach.
Among them were overlord-level existences from the Fallen Monarch Divine Sea and also Ancient Great Powers from the outside world. Clearly, to compete for these medicine spirits, both sides had paid an unbearable price, suffering heavy casualties.
A considerable number of those alchemy prodigies had also fallen, paying a great price.