Yin Sea Sect's Young Master

Sheng Zhen went back to his dwelling. Closing the door, he sensed Daiyu was sleeping in the bedroom.

Sniffing a yawn, he looked at the three Five Elements pills in his hands. After weeks of finding, he could finally got them. They cost him seventy-five thousand pill contributions, a lot less than he was expecting, but on the other hand, he was also expecting to get at least a superior grade pill. That would have cost a lot more.

He cleared the Alchemy workshop ground with his spiritual energy, blowing away the gunk and dust to get a clean floor, and unceremoniously sat there.

Popping a single pill into his mouth, he swallowed it in a single gulp.

Soon a warmth bloomed in his chest, flowing to every part of the body and then...nothing. The warmth which was a product of the pill's alchemic properties just vanished.

Sheng Zhen frowned and took another pill. Again the same result, the warmth just lasted for a second before vanishing.

He looked at the last pill in his hand, and after some thought, swallowed it too. This time, he barely felt any change.

Sheng Zhen facepalmed, he should have expected the result. The pills were not faulty or something, he had checked them properly before eating, it was just that pills were not potent enough to affect his Qi foundation.

The Five Elements Pill subtlely changes the foundation of the cultivator, give them the five elemental attributes.

But a single pill can only change a certain amount of Qi foundation, and better the foundation, more pills are needed. A single Five elements pill is more than enough for a normal cultivator. Sheng Zhen thought three may be enough for him but...

He did not even feel the effect of three pills. Closing his eyes, he decided to check for himself.

He sent his spirit inwards, into the dantian to look at pills effects.

Sheng Zhen arrived at an infinitely vast ocean, filled with liquid glowing a benign blue. Hundreds of humongous pillars rose from the ocean, extending into infinity.

It was his dantian, an enormous plane of existence as large as a higher realm. The Ocean at his feet was the Qi sea, his reservoir of Essence Qi, and the three hundred and thirty-three pillars rising from the Qi sea were his spirit veins.

For a normal cultivator, the qi sea at the Foundation establishment realm is the size of just a large lake, and there is no world in inner dantian, but Sheng Zhen cultivated Realm Apothesois art, with turns his dantian into an entire world. The Qi he has at disposal is leagues more than that of other cultivators because of the three, 'greatest in the cosmos', cultivation techniques he practices.

But he was not here to admire his inner world.

Waking towards one transparent pillar, he puts his hands on it and commands it to manifest its elemental properties.

A small portion of pillar, a line the size of his hand turned into a rainbow of five colors, highlighting the portion of his foundation that had gained the elemental attributes. Such lines also manifested on all other pillars, but compared to glass-like pillars that were wider than the Alchemy tower, it was nothing.

Sheng Zhen feared that would happen.

"Five Elements Pill is not going to cut it unless I somehow got hundreds of them."

He knew of a substitute, a pill that can actually work and lay an even better elemental foundation than Five elements Pill, but the problem was it was Rank Seven pill, near-mythical in Blue Wind Dynasty.

"Looks like I have no choice."

He summoned Skyword and began the search for a Rank Seven, Sevenfold Nirvana pill.

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Same time, the Top Floor of the Alchemy Tower

"Elder Jiang, good for you to finally join us", The purple-robed Grand Elder greeted the newest arrival.

Elder Jiang just shrugged, "I got the news later than usual."

"Yeah, you should make better excuses", Elder Wen, the only female elder present at the moment pointedly said.

Sensing an argument brewing, Grand Elder Jin stepped in before it could escalate.

"Enough with the bickering, Yi Jiangshi would be arriving any moment now."

That immediately shut up the two elders. None of them wanted to be on the bad side of Young master of the Yin Sea Sect, the strongest demonic sect in the entire continent.

It did not help that it Yin Sea Sect was a Demonic sect, with an equally demonic reputation. By the mandates of the righteous sects, Yi Jinagshi should not even enter the city of Ifre, but who dare oppose Yi Jinagshi. Most here were from individual powers, which could not afford to offend a figure like the heir of the Yin Sea sect. The only one who could was the Grand Elder Jin, and it was because he was from the main branch of Alchemist Hall.

Just then the Grand Elder received a transmission, and he spoke, "Jinagshi's flying ship was sighted, lets go the greet him."

Following him, the elders went to the roof of Alchemy Tower, looking in the sky.

Before long they spotted an enormous black ship, suspended in the air like it was treading water instead of the sky. There was just a single small sail on it, but dozens of artifact canons were visible on the deck.

It trended sky silently, swiftly, and smoothly, but within a few breaths, it was upon the Alchemy Tower.

It stopped there, and a young man dressed in Black cultivator's robes stepped out. His feet stopped in the air like it was solid ground, unaffected by the bounds of the earth. His face was handsome beyond compare, his eyes red and skin white like a corpse. The aura leaking off him was blacker than midnight and tinted with the blood of thousands.

He took one step, then other, and another, ascending down like he was walking down the stairs.

Everyone standing there bowed to him, almost unconsciously. Despite being their junior, his aura almost suffocated them, giving them visions of their death. Only the Grand Elder looked unaffected.

Just as he reached the tower roof, two more figures jumped down from the Air Ship and stood behind him.

Grand Elder immediately recognized them as corpse puppets, feeling no breath of life from them.

"Well Jin Donghai, I want something that your Alchemist Hall has."