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"Alas, it's too difficult to improve the Burning Technique after it reached Heaven Rank." What made Xiao Yan somewhat unhappy was that the Burning Technique still hadn't broken through the Intermediate-Level, but the quality of Xiao Yan's Dou Qi had improved somewhat, proving that the Burning Technique had indeed improved, but it hadn't reached the level where it could be upgraded.
"Are you really going to eat Strange Flame as a meal, kid?"
At this moment, Heavenly Flame Venerable slowly floated over, having also recovered his Soul power.
Heavenly Flame Venerable looked at Xiao Yan with a strange expression. After following Xiao Yan for so long, he had guessed that the Cultivation Method Xiao Yan cultivated required devouring Strange Flames. It was that special Cultivation Method that allowed Xiao Yan to recklessly devour so many Strange Flames.
"Tsk tsk tsk, you guy, you're really a freak. Your Soul power actually reached the Spirit Realm... This old man couldn't even reach the Spirit Realm Soul back then." Heavenly Flame Venerable was now convinced, truly not knowing how he cultivated.
Heavenly Flame Venerable was once a famous Dou Zun, but even after reaching Dou Zun, his Soul power couldn't break through to the Spirit Realm.
Xiao Yan shrugged, saying indifferently, "Although Spirit Realm Soul is good, I still want to be a Dou Zun myself."
Spirit Realm Soul power is indeed comparable to Dou Zun, after all, refining Rank 8 Pills requires Rank 8 Soul power. Rank 8 Pills are also known as Spirit Pills, requiring the pills to have spirituality.
And Rank 8 Pills are precisely the pills suitable for Dou Zun.
However, if we're talking about combat power, it's different. With Xiao Yan's current cultivation, even with Rank 8 Soul power, he's far inferior to a Dou Zun. After all, a Dou Zun's Soul power isn't weak either, even if it doesn't reach the Spirit Realm, it won't be too weak, so it can't be calculated one-to-one.
Not to mention that Xiao Yan only has one Soul Skill. Relying on Soul power to fight a Dou Zun is courting death.
Xiao Yan stood up, stretched, and after refining the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, Xiao Yan also slightly improved by one star, reaching Seven-Star Dou Huang.
Refining Strange Flames doesn't always improve cultivation, but in the process of refining, there are often some extra gains, such as entering a state of enlightenment, or absorbing Strange Flame energy in the Strange Flame Space to quickly improve cultivation.
Being able to improve by one star, Xiao Yan already felt good, after all, he didn't find it difficult to refine the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, but rather very easy.
"What are your plans now?" Heavenly Flame Venerable asked.
Xiao Yan smiled, raising his eyebrows at Heavenly Flame Venerable, "Pill Refining and helping Yao Old Mister refine your body."
Hearing that Xiao Yan finally understood his intentions, Heavenly Flame Venerable also revealed a smile. He worked so hard just to have Xiao Yan revive him.
"Although the materials for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill haven't been fully gathered yet, they're almost there. I'll help Yao Old Mister refine your physical body first, and then I'll improve my Pill Refining skills. When we go out, I should be able to improve to Rank 7 Intermediate-Level or even High-Level. By then, when we gather the materials for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, Yao Old Mister, you'll be able to be reborn!" Xiao Yan also revealed a proud expression.
His current Pill Refining level should be at the peak of Rank 7 Low-Level. Improving to Intermediate-Level isn't a problem. If he's lucky, he might be able to improve to Rank 7 High-Level Pill Refining before going out! Fortunately, Xiao Yan collected 'gifts' from hundreds of sects at the Sect Assembly. Now, there are too many Rank 7 Medicinal Herbs in his Storage Ring. Even after giving a portion to Zi Yan, he still has a massive amount of Rank 7 Medicinal Herbs.
In addition, there's a huge primeval forest beneath the Heavenly Stairway, where there are some low-level Medicinal Herbs that can be used as auxiliary herbs, giving Xiao Yan excellent conditions to improve his Pill Refining skills.
Xiao Yan waved his hand, and various brocade boxes flew out of the Storage Ring, all filled with Rank 7 Medicinal Herbs. Xiao Yan classified them according to quality, first going through the Rank 7 Low-Level main herbs in his mind, and after recalling the Pill Recipes that could use these main herbs, he flew down the Heavenly Stairway to find the auxiliary herbs needed for the Pill Recipes.
Of course, he started with Rank 7 Low-Level Pills to warm up.
After a month, Xiao Yan refined six Rank 7 Low-Level Pills. However, because Cai Lin's bloodline had an anomaly, Xiao Yan was distracted and failed one, but the others were successful. He even managed to refine two pills in one furnace twice, showing his high talent in Pill Refining. No wonder even Hun Xuzi took a liking to him.
"Alright, let's start refining Rank 7 Intermediate-Level Pills."
Xiao Yan became busy again. Xiao Yan already had the strength of Rank 7 Intermediate-Level. Although the success rate wasn't as good as Rank 7 Low-Level, the difference between Intermediate-Level and Low-Level Pills wasn't very big. With the Strange Flame and Spirit Realm Soul, Xiao Yan could refine some Rank 7 Low-Level Pills with Intermediate-Level quality.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Spirit Realm Soul is really powerful. Refining Rank 7 Intermediate-Level Pills feels like a dimensionality reduction attack." When Xiao Yan first started refining Rank 7 Intermediate-Level Pills, he discovered that his Soul power was terrifyingly strong.
When Xiao Yan concentrated his Soul power, he found that the flames he controlled seemed to be in slow motion. The timing of the Medicinal Herbs cracking, the timing of the fire becoming stronger or weaker, the appearance of the Medicinal Herbs' medicinal effects, the veins of the Medicinal Herbs, etc., couldn't escape Xiao Yan's perception at all.
Originally, Xiao Yan thought that he could only refine Rank 7 Low-Level Pills so smoothly, but who knew that refining Rank 7 Intermediate-Level Pills wouldn't be much more difficult than Low-Level Pills.
In other words, Xiao Yan's Soul power had reached the Spirit Realm, the refining difficulty of Rank 7 Intermediate-Level and Low-Level Pills was almost the same. That handy Soul power made even the calm Xiao Yan somewhat overjoyed.
"Of course, otherwise why do you think Spirit Realm Soul is the benchmark for Rank 8?" Heavenly Flame Venerable stroked his beard and said.
"Back then, even in Central State, pills and natural treasures that could improve the Soul power of a Seventh Grade Alchemist were highly sought after. Once such treasures appeared, countless Alchemists would offer crazy prices." Heavenly Flame Venerable slowly explained to Xiao Yan.
There was no choice. The Soul Cultivation Methods were monopolized by the Soul Palace. Not to mention Cultivation Methods, even Pill Recipes for improving Soul power were extremely rare in the Pill Tower.
The Mystic High-Rank Soul Cultivation Method that Xiao Yan used to exchange for the Transformation Pill with Gu He was definitely a great opportunity for Gu He. Although Mystic High-Rank wasn't that precious, it could at least help Gu He break through to Rank 7.
If Xiao Yan hadn't reached the Venerable Realm, he wouldn't have been able to impart Soul Cultivation Methods to others. The Soul Palace's Cultivation Methods had restrictions. Once learned, they couldn't be imparted, but even so, the trade of Soul Cultivation Methods was still strictly restricted.
Because the Soul Clan understood that as long as they could monopolize the Soul Cultivation Methods of the entire Dou Qi Continent, it would be difficult for the Dou Qi Continent to produce top-level experts, and the Soul Clan would be invincible!
Although it was very selfish, it had to be said that it was very clever.
After refining Rank 7 Intermediate-Level Pills for more than two months, Xiao Yan's success rate was finally almost the same as Rank 7 Low-Level, and he could occasionally achieve the feat of refining two pills in one furnace!
Seeing that Xiao Yan could already attract Pill Lightning comparable to a Seven-Star Dou Zong attack, Heavenly Flame Venerable shook his head in admiration.
After putting away the pills, Xiao Yan nodded in satisfaction, slowly sitting cross-legged to cultivate and restore his Soul power and Dou Qi.
After reaching the Spirit Realm, Xiao Yan's Soul power recovered several times faster than before.
After only half a day, Xiao Yan opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath. After refining pills for these past few months, Xiao Yan's cultivation had also improved quite a bit, reaching the late stage of Seven-Star Dou Huang.
Even with the support of a Heaven Rank Cultivation Method and the Fallen Heart Flame, the time required to advance one star after reaching the High-Level Dou Huang realm increased exponentially.
However, Xiao Yan wasn't worried, because he still had one Huangji Pill unused, and according to past experience, a Fifth Grade Peak Ba Wang Pill could guarantee a Nine-Star Dou Ling's breakthrough to Dou Wang, and a Sixth Grade Peak Huangtian Pill could guarantee a Nine-Star Dou Wang's breakthrough to Dou Huang.
Naturally, a Seventh Grade Peak pill could also allow a Nine-Star Dou Huang to break through to Dou Zong!
Xiao Yan didn't want to use the Sect Breakthrough Pill, because it not only required one's cultivation to reach the peak of Nine-Star Dou Huang, but it also only increased the success rate, and didn't guarantee a breakthrough.
Only Dou Huangs like Jia Xing Tian, who were unable to break through to Dou Zong on their own, would use it.
However, to Xiao Yan's regret, Medicine Venerable's collection didn't even have a Pill Recipe that could guarantee a breakthrough to Dou Zong!
But Xiao Yan wasn't in a hurry. His Soul Realm had already reached the Spirit Realm, so he could trade for a Pill Recipe from the Pill Tower. If that didn't work, he could trade with the Soul Palace. He was an Alchemist, so was he afraid of not having a Pill Recipe?
Xiao Yan had always relied on using Strange Flames to upgrade the Burning Technique, then quickly improving his cultivation, and then relying on his Pill Refining skills to refine higher-level pills, in order to break through realm bottlenecks, and then relying on refining new Strange Flames to suppress his unstable Dou Qi.
This set of upgrade combos had accompanied Xiao Yan for a long time, and he planned to continue doing so in the future.
With a snap, Xiao Yan threw Bone Child Old Man's corpse onto the ground from his Storage Ring. Seeing Bone Child Old Man's corpse appear, Heavenly Flame Venerable's Soul Body couldn't help but fluctuate.
He had been under the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Refining Tower for so many years, dreaming of rebirth, and now it had finally come to this step.
In addition to Bone Child Old Man's corpse, Xiao Yan also released a Jade Bottle, which contained a portion of essence blood, the essence blood of a Seventh-Order Magical Beast.
Refining a body not only required the skeleton of a Dou Zong expert, but also the essence blood of a Seventh-Order Magical Beast. These materials were naturally not precious to Xiao Yan, who had reaped a wave of benefits from the various Sects in the Northwest Region.
In addition, Xiao Yan also took out a skeleton from his Storage Ring. This was Heavenly Flame Venerable's skeleton from the Mountain Cave back then. After all, this was a Dou Zun's skeleton, and it was his own, so Xiao Yan planned to replace his bones and condense a body! After thinking for a while, Xiao Yan summoned the Fallen Heart Flame and the Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame.
Xiao Yan didn't use all the Strange Flames to refine together. It wasn't that the more Strange Flames or the higher the level, the better. What was suitable was the best.
There was no need to mention the Fallen Heart Flame. Heavenly Flame Venerable was once the holder of the Fallen Heart Flame. And Xiao Yan's second Strange Flame didn't use the Ten Thousand Beasts Spirit Flame, after all, Heavenly Flame Venerable wasn't a Magical Beast.
The Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame controlled Yin and Yang, life and death. The black and white fish possessed two kinds of power, breathing Yin and Yang fire. The Life Flame saved people and was endlessly regenerating, while the Death Flame killed people and left no bones behind, which was just right.
Xiao Yan concentrated his Soul power, his eyes flashing with Soul light. The Death Flame turned into a scalpel, dissecting Bone Child Old Man's corpse directly, burning all two hundred and six bones in his body into nothingness without harming the flesh.
With a draw of his Soul power, he extracted all of Bone Child Old Man's blood, leaving only a pale body.
Mystic Rank, Xiao Yan squeezed his palm hard, and the Jade Bottle burst open, and the large mass of blood floated out, and then, as Xiao Yan waved his palm, it was poured onto the corpse wrapped in flames.
As soon as the blood touched the corpse, it burst out with bursts of sizzling sounds. The skin of the corpse actually began to rot rapidly.
This change didn't cause Xiao Yan to change color. After a faint glance, he controlled the Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame to suddenly increase in temperature.
As the temperature of the Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame increased, the blood attached to the corpse's body actually began to slowly seep into it in a strange way. The skin and muscles, which were originally pale, gradually became full of vitality as the essence blood merged into them.
Then, Xiao Yan waved his hand, and the body wrapped in Strange Flames floated into Heavenly Flame Venerable's skeleton.
With a buzz, Xiao Yan's fingers quickly formed seals, and the Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame merged into the Fallen Life-Death Flame, constantly refining this body.
The flesh and blood that could be seen with the naked eye continued to merge, and then the flesh and blood seemed to have life, slowly merging into the skeleton, and were being reorganized! Seeing this scene, even Heavenly Flame Venerable, with his temperament, clenched his fists nervously.
A day and a night passed, and a body like a jade soul appeared, but this body now was more like a white object with limbs and a head, without any human characteristics.
This would have to wait until Heavenly Flame Venerable's Soul Body completely merged into the body, and the external characteristics would be shaped according to Heavenly Flame Venerable's Soul.
"Yao Old Mister, this body will be placed in the Storage Ring. You can slowly shape it with your Soul power at ordinary times. When I refine the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, Yao Old Mister, you will be reborn." Xiao Yan smiled. This secret method was possessed by Medicine Venerable, and using Strange Flames to condense a body was the first time.
This method of rebirth was indeed magical.
"Good, good! Xiao Yan, this old man owes you a favor." Heavenly Flame Venerable laughed and said.
Xiao Yan shook his head and said, "I agreed with Yao Old Mister that I wouldn't be greedy."
"Hahaha, it doesn't matter, this old man will remember it, even if the ten-year period passes, this old man will keep it in mind." Heavenly Flame Venerable nodded with a smile.
After putting the body into Heavenly Flame Venerable's Storage Ring, Heavenly Flame Venerable also returned to the Storage Ring and began to shape it.
Xiao Yan looked in the direction of Qing Lin and Cai Lin.
Qing Lin was only one step away from completing the inheritance, and Cai Lin had obtained the Demon Saint Essence Blood, and her cultivation had skyrocketed, and now she had actually improved to the level of Nine-Star Dou Zong. Looking at the situation, she actually had a chance to break through to Dou Zun! It was no wonder that the people of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion had been thinking about the Demon Saint Essence Blood for generations. Not to mention Dou Zong, even for Dou Zun, it was a rare treasure.
Essence blood was not ordinary blood. This was the essence core of a Magical Beast. Even a Dou Sheng didn't have much essence blood in their body.
Seeing that the two still needed some time, Xiao Yan's eyes flashed, and he took out a brocade box, which contained a small grass.
Transformation Grass! Xiao Yan had a lot of Rank 7 High-Level medicinal pills, and the main medicinal herb was the Transformation Grass for the Transformation Pill. Yun Yun gave him one, he obtained Transformation Grass in the Black-Corner Region, he also bought some from the Yellow Springs Rare Goods Pavilion, and he also received Transformation Grass as gifts. It was a bit too much.
The Transformation Pill's reputation among Rank 7 medicinal pills could be said to be the most well-known. Almost every Magical Beast wanted one.
Although among the Rank 7 High-Level medicinal pills, the difficulty of refining the Transformation Pill was not the most difficult, it was not simple either. It was rumored among Alchemists that as long as you could refine a Transformation Pill, then you would be considered a Rank 7 High-Level Alchemist. It was the benchmark for entering Rank 7 High-Level.
One could imagine what level of difficulty the Transformation Pill was at.
"It's also time to repay the Lion King's favor. I've been owing it for quite a while." Xiao Yan touched his nose and smiled, remembering that the first 'investor' he scammed was the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, and it was also the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King who helped him obtain his first complete Strange Flame, the Ten Thousand Beasts Spirit Flame.
CEO Xiao would definitely not let his shareholders lose money! Thinking about Shareholder Yao, and then thinking about Shareholder Hai, which one of them didn't get back many times their investment, with both principal and interest?
Now it was the Lion Shareholder's turn.
Refining the Transformation Pill was definitely the most difficult medicinal pill Xiao Yan had ever encountered in his life. The auxiliary medicinal herbs alone almost covered the entire ground. Xiao Yan even took out Black Demon.
First, he would use Black Demon's energy to refine a Transformation Pill, to get a feel for it, and then use the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron to refine it. Black Demon had made great contributions to Xiao Yan's rapid breakthrough in Pill Refining.
Black Demon's ability allowed Xiao Yan to refine super-level medicinal pills earlier and faster. After finding the right feeling, he could better refine high-level medicinal pills, thereby breaking through the Pill Refining bottleneck.
Even with Black Demon's help, Xiao Yan spent a month, failed twice, and wasted two Transformation Grasses before successfully refining a Transformation Pill.
Then, after spending another month constantly polishing his skills, Xiao Yan was finally able to refine the Transformation Pill on his own! "*Destruction Fire Lotus!*"
Facing the Pill Lightning that struck down, Xiao Yan snorted coldly, and the five-colored Strange Flame instantly fused. The terrifying temperature burned a hole in the sky.
Xiao Yan renamed the five-colored Fire Lotus to Destruction Fire Lotus, representing destruction.
Rumble!!!! Even in the space of the Azure Snake Three-Flower Pupils, Pill Lightning was still unavoidable. This was a universal truth. Refining Rank 7 or higher medicinal pills where there was the power of heaven and earth would result in Pill Lightning.
The Pill Lightning, comparable to an attack from an Eight-Star Dou Zong, struck fiercely on Xiao Yan's Destruction Fire Lotus, but what surprised Xiao Yan was that the Pill Lightning was actually melted by the fire! When the Pill Lightning reached its critical point, a shocking nuclear explosion rang out, so terrifying that even Xiao Yan was a little frightened.
He was now an Eight-Star Dou Huang, and the power of the Fire Lotus had also increased with the improvement of his cultivation.
Normally, for a High-Level Dou Huang, it would take a year or two to improve by one star even with an Earth Rank Cultivation Method, but Xiao Yan had been refining pills for the past six months.
Yet he had still improved by one star. This speed of improvement was simply cheating! "After my Soul power reached the Spirit Realm, even fusing Strange Flame has become easier. I feel like I can use Destruction Fire Lotus again right now," Xiao Yan murmured.
Xiao Yan looked up. The Destruction Fire Lotus had not only destroyed the Pill Lightning, but even blasted away the thunderclouds. This power could only be described with four words.
Terrifying!
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