Chapter 107: Huangji Pill and Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill

In the path of alchemy, besides talent, resources also play an extremely important role.

Medicinal herbs, magic cores, cauldrons, and pill formulas—these are all indispensable.

Without extensive alchemical experience, it is difficult to improve the success rate of pill refinement and advance to become a higher-level alchemist.

Under the temptation of rapid strength enhancement, it took only a little over half a year for Wu Ya and the others to collect sufficient materials.

Most cultivators in the Chu Yun Empire are poison masters, and the resources they use, such as medicinal herbs, differ greatly from the materials required for alchemical pill formulas.

Moreover, since there are no sixth-tier alchemists within the Chu Yun Empire, the rare materials needed for the Huangji Pill and Po Zong Pill were largely collected by forces like Wu Ya's, but they had no idea how to use them.

After learning their purpose, Wu Ya and the others desperately had their subordinates gather these materials, which is why they were able to collect what was needed so quickly.

Generally, alchemists have a failure rate when refining pills, so Xiao Yan naturally didn't just ask Wu Ya and the others to submit one set of materials.

Two sets were the minimum, with no upper limit.

Today, the Poison Sect headquarters in Tian Du City was under unusually tight security.

Several Dou Huang experts stood on watchtowers, their eyes scanning the surroundings like hawks.

On all four sides of the Poison Sect, teams of Dou Wang experts were stationed.

Although few forces in the Chu Yun Empire would dare to cause trouble at the Poison Sect headquarters given its current prestige, the thought that their strength in recent years might undergo significant changes depending on the alchemical activities within the building behind them made every Dou Huang expert extremely vigilant.

Not only were they personally attentive, but they also urged the Dou Wang experts in their respective areas to be equally meticulous.

Coming from the mountain outside the city to the alchemy room at the Poison Sect headquarters, Xiao Yan glanced at the tables of materials submitted by Wu Ya and the others and nodded in satisfaction.

With his current alchemical abilities, about 90% of these materials could be transformed into pills.

Taking out a fifth-tier cauldron newly transported from the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan took a deep breath and flicked his finger, sending a black-and-white flame into the dark red cauldron.

Since this was a fifth-tier cauldron with exceptional quality, the initial step of warming the cauldron took a bit longer than usual.

But with the strength of the Heavenly Flame Xiao Yan controlled, it wasn't much trouble.

After the black-and-white flame danced in the cauldron for about two minutes, Xiao Yan waved his hand toward a table with several medicinal herbs, and a green herb flew directly into the cauldron.

The formula for the Huangji Pill had long been deeply imprinted in Xiao Yan's mind, and he had even innovated to create a new pill—the Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill.

Although the Huangji Pill had remarkable effects, it had a high resistance.

A Dou Huang expert could only take one Huangji Pill in their lifetime.

Xiao Yan delved deeply into the Huangji Pill formula and, using many rare herbs, created a new pill—the Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill.

The Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill's effects were even stronger than the Huangji Pill, allowing a Dou Huang expert to gain three stars of strength with 100% certainty. Additionally, its ability to strengthen meridians and refine bones was significantly enhanced, thereby improving the user's cultivation aptitude.

Of course, with such a substantial increase in potency, the requirements for the user also changed.

To take the Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill, one needed to be at least a five-star Dou Huang.

An ordinary Dou Huang expert who took it would not only fail to gain strength but would also suffer from the violent medicinal energy, damaging their meridians and becoming crippled.

Generally, developing a new pill formula requires years of careful experimentation.

Even a powerful alchemist like Yao Lao spent several years experimenting before finalizing the formula for the Foundation Building Spiritual Liquid.

But with his exceptional comprehension, Xiao Yan could deduce the effects of refining and combining materials based on their properties alone.

The materials required for the Huangji Pill and the Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill were quite different, so the two pills could be taken in combination.

If Dou Huang experts knew about the existence of these two pills, they would undoubtedly worship Xiao Yan as a god.

With good luck, the Huangji Pill could boost strength by two stars, allowing a three-star Dou Huang to advance to five stars. Combined with the terrifying effects of the Dou Huang Star-Rising Pill, which could boost strength by another three stars, one could become an eight-star Dou Huang expert.

Such a terrifying level of enhancement would be something many people could never achieve in their lifetimes.

With such deep research into the Huangji Pill, Xiao Yan found refining the pill to be quite effortless.

As the flame continued to roast the herb, emerald-like droplets seeped out from the surface of the herb, sliding down and hovering above the flame, continuously rolling around.

After a moment, the herb's green color completely faded, turning into a withered gray.

By this point, the pure medicinal energy within the herb had been completely extracted by the flame.

Thus, the herb itself had become completely useless waste.

Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed, and with a wave of his hand, the withered herb flew out of the cauldron and landed on the ground.

The force was ordinary, but the moment it touched the ground, the herb turned into a pile of ash.

Most alchemists would simply burn the herb completely during extraction, and Xiao Yan had done the same when he first started refining pills.

But as his experience in alchemy grew and his understanding deepened, Xiao Yan's control over the flame had reached a truly masterful level.

Even while manipulating the increasingly powerful fusion of four Heavenly Flames, he could throw the herb out of the cauldron the moment its medicinal energy was completely exhausted, ensuring the medicinal liquid was free of impurities.

As the sun rose and the moon set, and the moon rose and the sun set, thick beams of energy occasionally shot into the sky from the Poison Sect headquarters.

Standing on the mountain outside Tian Du City, Little Doctor Xian gazed at the phenomena in the city, her beautiful eyes narrowing.

Currently, the only force in the Chu Yun Empire that could rival the Poison Sect was the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. The continuous changes at the Poison Sect headquarters over the past few days were hard to miss, and it was unlikely that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect hadn't noticed.

Although Scorpion Mountain, the sect leader of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, might not have seen the celestial phenomena accompanying the refinement of a sixth-tier pill, he had likely heard of it.

Even if he hadn't, the shocking changes at the Poison Sect headquarters over the past few days would have prompted some action from the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, or they wouldn't deserve their reputation as the top force in the Chu Yun Empire.

"It seems a battle is inevitable," Little Doctor Xian murmured, her delicate hands slowly clenching as she prepared to repel any invaders.

Half a day later, just as Xiao Yan had recovered his Dou Qi and began refining the Po Zong Pill, the air in Tian Du City suddenly became oppressively heavy. Those with lower strength turned pale and found it difficult to breathe.

"They're here!" Little Doctor Xian's vast Dou Qi surged out like floodwaters breaking through a dam, her white robes fluttering without any wind.

As Little Doctor Xian gathered her strength, a loud laugh echoed from the sky, resounding throughout Tian Du City.

"Poison Sect Leader, hand over the sixth-tier pills!"

(End of Chapter)

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