Zi Yan's Perception (Daily Update)
After Qing Lin left, Little Fairy Doctor's cheeks flushed slightly. Were they now alone in a room together, just the two of them?!
"It's your turn, Little Fairy Doctor."
Startled, Little Fairy Doctor quickly clutched her clothes, wondering if he was going to use the Strange Flame again! Seeing Little Fairy Doctor's appearance, Xiao Yan coughed lightly and touched his nose. He would like to, but he had no excuse.
"What are you thinking? The Poison Pill has already been refined, but I do need to refine another Poison Pill, though not for you." Black Flame appeared, and with a thud, a corpse fell from the void.
It was the corpse of Ice Venerable!
Seeing Ice Venerable's corpse appear, Little Fairy Doctor breathed a sigh of relief, but also glared at Xiao Yan. It was all this guy's fault, giving her a psychological shadow!
Seeing Little Fairy Doctor's somewhat reproachful gaze, Xiao Yan also looked away. He couldn't blame the Strange Flame for this.
"You want to extract the poison from Ice Venerable's Acquired Calamity Poison Body and refine it into a Poison Pill?" Seeing that Xiao Yan had preserved Ice Venerable's corpse, Little Fairy Doctor quickly understood what Xiao Yan was going to do.
Ice Venerable possessed an Acquired Calamity Poison Body. Generally, a Congenital Calamity Poison Body would explode with poison upon reaching the Dou Zun realm, but Ice Venerable, to avoid this, only condensed his Calamity Poison Body after reaching the Dou Zun realm.
He used his Dou Zun body to condense the Calamity Poison Body, and it was a Calamity Poison Body condensed using his own secret poison techniques, allowing him to control the amount of poison. This was unlike Little Fairy Doctor's Congenital Calamity Poison Body, which could even convert the surrounding Heaven and Earth energy into poison with every breath, absorbing it into her body.
"Yes, this guy's Acquired Calamity Poison Body used a lot of precious poisonous substances and natural treasures. I plan to use the Poison Pill Method to condense this Acquired Calamity Poison Body into a Poison Pill," Xiao Yan nodded. Flame Venerable didn't like wasting things.
Little Fairy Doctor, however, looked disgusted, her delicate eyebrows furrowing slightly. Using a person to refine Pills and then giving it to her to use was a bit difficult for a beautiful little fairy to accept.
"Just think of him as a Magical Beast, and the Poison Pill as a Magic Core. Besides, it's not for you to eat, it's for the Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen."
Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen was the name Xiao Yan had given to that Pill Beast. Xiao Yan had consulted many Magical Beast books, but none recorded what that Pill Beast was, so Xiao Yan named it Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen based on its appearance, which resembled a Zhen Bird with a thousand eyes.
As for what powerful abilities the Pill Beast possessed, Little Fairy Doctor was still exploring. Therefore, Xiao Yan planned to feed it some potent poison to see if there would be any changes.
Hearing this, Little Fairy Doctor could only nod. Now, because of Xiao Yan, her Calamity Poison Body had already embarked on another path, a path different from any previous Calamity Poison Body.
Little Fairy Doctor's red lips parted slightly, and a dark green Poison Pill appeared from within. With a whoosh, a Zhen Bird, resembling an ordinary crow in appearance, flapped its wings and flew in the air.
In the end, it actually landed on Ice Venerable's corpse, its eyes flashing with a hint of greed.
"It seems this guy is very fond of Ice Venerable's Calamity Poison," Xiao Yan said, stroking his chin. This guy was different from Little Fairy Doctor and could be said to have perfectly inherited the nature of the Calamity Poison Body, possessing a natural craving for poisonous substances.
Although Xiao Yan didn't have Bodhi Transformation Saliva now, it was just as Ice Venerable had thought. In reality, the Poison Pill Method was just an ordinary method for body tempering and poison extraction. Xiao Yan used to think that the Poison Pill Method was very profound, but after reaching the Eight Grade, he felt that the Poison Pill Method was just average.
With the means of an Eight Grade Alchemist, he could come up with more than ten ways to replace the Bodhi Transformation Saliva and the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core.
Xiao Yan didn't lack Medicinal Herbs at all. Although the Ye Family had declined, they now regarded Xiao Yan as their savior. Xiao Yan was unwilling to acquire them for free, but the Ye Family's Medicinal Herbs inventory was practically given to Xiao Yan as a gift.
Little Fairy Doctor didn't leave these past few days, staying by Xiao Yan's side and observing how 'Flame Venerable' dissected corpses and extracted 'corpse oil'.
Ordinary Alchemists didn't have the techniques to handle the corpses of cultivators, but the Soul Palace did, and they had quite a few. With the spirit of learning being boundless, Xiao Yan had naturally learned some.
After several days of processing, Ice Venerable's corpse had long been disfigured, completely unlike a person, resembling a lump of dough.
Chirp!!! The Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen spat out a ball of dark green poisonous fire, enveloping the corpse, and Ice Venerable's corpse visibly melted and shrank.
It even had a sense of baking bread.
"What a fierce poisonous fire! This is even fiercer than the original Netherworld Poison Flame!" Xiao Yan's pupils shrank. The Netherworld Poison Flame spat out by this Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen was even more poisonous and the fire even stronger than when he possessed it!
Even the corpse of a four-star peak Dou Zun was easily refined.
Xiao Yan controlled the flames, using the Poison Pill Method to condense the Calamity Poison from Ice Venerable's body.
"Pill Formation!"
With a whoosh, a pale white Pill appeared in mid-air. Xiao Yan couldn't help but sigh. Ice Venerable was indeed an old-timer Dou Zun. The poisonous substances and natural treasures used in his Calamity Poison Body were all extremely precious. This Poison Pill not only contained terrifying toxins but also possessed astonishing energy.
One could imagine how much effort Ice Venerable had put in to create the Acquired Calamity Poison Body.
And Ice Venerable's corpse was completely burned to ashes by the Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen. The pitiful Ice Venerable was left with only a pile of ashes in the end.
"Huh? What's this?" At this moment, Xiao Yan frowned, looking at the ashes on the ground. He gently blew on them, and a Map, only the size of a palm, appeared before him.
Xiao Yan picked it up and, seeing the lines and words on it, was immediately overjoyed! "Damn! Ice River Valley's treasure!"
Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor exchanged glances, unable to contain their joy. Everyone had thought that this treasure was gone, but they didn't expect Ice Venerable to be so perverted as to hide the treasure map inside his body!
Xiao Yan looked at the proud Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen and gave it a thumbs up. This guy was good, knowing that the Map couldn't be burned and deliberately leaving it behind.
The Thousand-Eyed Night Zhen ignored Xiao Yan, using its beak to preen the feathers on its wings, looking incomparably arrogant.
"Let's leave this treasure map to Heavenly Flame Venerable to handle. With his strength and experience, he should be able to deal with it." As a Soul Palace Venerable, Xiao Yan naturally knew how to 'outsource'. He couldn't do everything himself; he still had to go to Holy Pill City.
Xiao Yan placed the Pills in a brocade box and handed it to Little Fairy Doctor, saying seriously, "This Poison Pill is for you. It contains the toxins that Ice Venerable has used over the years. Although some were eliminated during the refining of the Poison Pill, it still contains terrifying poison."
"I'm afraid even an ordinary Four-Star Dou Zun would find it difficult to resist."
That Poison Pill not only contained Ice Venerable's Calamity Poison, but also some precious Medicinal Herbs used to replace the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core and Bodhi Transformation Saliva.
The fact that it didn't attract Pill Lightning already indicated that it wasn't a Pill, but merely a collection, compression, and refinement of toxins. However, if it were a Pill, judging by the grade of the Medicinal Herbs, it should be no less than an Eight Grade Pill with Three-Colored Pill Lightning.
Xiao Yan was also a little uneasy, wondering if this Poison Pill was too potent. Could Little Fairy Doctor's Strange Flame and Poison Pill withstand it?
Little Fairy Doctor nodded heavily, carefully putting away the brocade box, and said, "I understand. I will wait until I am confident before refining this Poison Pill."
But Little Fairy Doctor didn't say when she would be confident. It would be when Xiao Yan's opponents became stronger and he needed more powerful assistance—that would be when she had confidence.
Although there were still about six months left until the Pill Gathering, Xiao Yan wasn't going to Holy Pill City only after half a year.
He needed to arrive in Holy Pill City four months in advance to help the Ye Family with their assessment, which meant Xiao Yan had only two months left to cultivate.
Xiao Yan spent these two months in the Yang Fire Ancient Altar, constantly cultivating to improve his strength. Qing Lin and Little Fairy Doctor were the same, both starting to cultivate.
This made Zi Yan suffer, but fortunately, the Ye Family was at least one of the former five great families, and Great Elder Ye Zhong was a Seventh Grade Alchemist who could refine some Seven Grade Medicinal Herbs for Zi Yan to eat as candy.
More than a month later, Heavenly Flame Venerable returned. Heavenly Flame Venerable, this outsourcing company, was still very qualified, successfully retrieving the Ice River Valley treasure hidden by Ice Venerable.
"Ninth Grade Treasure Pill, Taiyi Treasure Pill, a healing Pill. Can be taken by those below Three-Star Dou Sheng. It can heal all injuries, including Soul injuries, and the medicinal properties are extremely mild, even ordinary people can take it. It will not cause damage to the already injured body, and even a Soul Body can regenerate flesh and blood. It can be called the Taiyi Pill."
Xiao Yan looked at this scroll of Ninth Grade Treasure Pill Pill Recipe, and a gleam flashed in his eyes. Good heavens, Ice River Valley was indeed worthy of being one of the Three Valleys, rampaging in Central State for countless years, actually allowing Ice Venerable to collect such a precious Pill Recipe.
For an Alchemist, this Taiyi Treasure Pill Pill Recipe was equivalent to a Heaven Rank Low-Level Dou Technique, its value immeasurable.
As for the other things in the treasure, besides those few scrolls of Eight Grade Pill Recipes, some Magic Cores, and Medicinal Herbs, Xiao Yan wasn't interested. He disdained the Earth Rank High-Level Ice Venerable Strength Cultivation Method and the two quasi-Heaven Rank ice-attribute Dou Techniques that Ice Venerable had cultivated.
It wasn't that Xiao Yan couldn't cultivate ice-attribute Dou Techniques. He possessed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, so he could cultivate ice-attribute Dou Techniques, and even Cultivation Methods, possessing dual attributes.
However, those two Dou Techniques were quite useless, their power not even as good as the Five Round Li Fire Method and the Five Seals Combined Emperor Seal Technique. Moreover, Xiao Yan's Cultivation Method was fire-attribute, so ice-attribute Dou Techniques couldn't unleash their full power.
"Forget it, let's give it to that old man Hai Bo Dong."
Hai Bo Dong probably never imagined that one day he would receive the Ice River Valley's inheritance!
Two months passed in the blink of an eye. To Xiao Yan's dismay, even with the help of the Ancient Altar, he was only at the peak of Five-Star Dou Zong, still a bit short of Six-Star Dou Zong. He was afraid he would only be able to break through to Six-Star in Holy Pill City.
What made him even more speechless was that Qing Lin had actually reached Six-Star before him.
"Is this 'Absorption Technique' really so perverted?" Xiao Yan sized up Qing Lin, the Azure Snake Three-Flower Pupils could absorb the cultivation of snake slaves and convert it into her own, which Xiao Yan called the Absorption Technique.
Feeling Xiao Yan's gaze sizing her up, Qing Lin lowered her head shyly, nervously playing with her fingers, looking a bit like a maid waiting for her young master's favor.
Seeing Qing Lin's expression, Xiao Yan finally realized he had been staring for too long.
But he had to admit, Qing Lin had indeed 'grown up' quite a bit.
Even wearing a plain green dress, her snake-like waist, bound by a silk ribbon, still attracted attention. Now, this shy appearance added a touch of moving charm.
Qing Lin's beautiful appearance coupled with her shy expression was extremely lethal.
He wondered what it would feel like to hold that soft, boneless waist, and how it would compare to Cai Lin—who was softer? "Cough." Little Fairy Doctor glared at Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan finally came back to his senses, awkwardly touching his nose, and said, "Great Elder Ye Zhong, let's go. It's time to go to Holy Pill City to complete that assessment."
Little Fairy Doctor had been with Xiao Yan for so long that she naturally knew that when Xiao Yan touched his nose, it meant he was feeling guilty.
It couldn't be blamed on Xiao Yan, mainly because Xun Er had stirred up something in him that night.
As for Cao Dan of the Cao Family coming to cause trouble because the Ye Family had canceled the engagement during these two months, such a trivial matter wasn't worth mentioning.
Xiao Yan and the others arrived in Holy Pill City, the most famous place in Central State, very smoothly along the way.
"This is really exaggerated..." Xiao Yan said with a wry smile. It was the first time he had encountered an exit from a space passage that required queuing!
Spacecraft after spacecraft filled the entire space passage, the number of spacecraft coming from all directions in the void was simply ridiculously large. And this was still four months before the Pill Gathering.
"Brother Xiao Yan, when the Pill Gathering really starts, the number of people will be even more exaggerated, as if the entire Central State is squeezing into Holy Pill City," Xin Lan explained to Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan rubbed his forehead, that was really something.
After about a quarter of an hour, Xiao Yan and the others landed on the square of Holy Pill City. At this time, the entire square was bustling with noise. This square, which couldn't be seen to the edge at a glance, was just a landing point for a space passage! "There are as many as eight such space points in the entire Holy Pill City," Ye Zhong explained, "And this is the Outer City of Holy Pill City, while the Pill Tower is in the Inner City."
Hearing this, the corner of Xiao Yan's mouth twitched. Just this one square was probably half the size of Gama Holy City, but Holy Pill City actually had eight of them? And this was just a stop in the Outer City!
"Just how big is this Holy Pill City!"
"This Holy Pill City is probably comparable to the entire Gama Empire." Qing Lin was also surprised by this scene, murmuring.
"Where do we go first?" Xiao Yan shook his head and asked.
Xiao Yan and the others all looked towards Ye Zhong. This was the first time Xiao Yan and the others had come to Holy Pill City, and they were not familiar with it at all. Everything had to rely on this old horse, Ye Zhong.
"In a few days, the assessment of the five great families will arrive. We've been on the road for a day, so let's find a place to rest first. Tomorrow, I'll take you to a test point of the Pill Tower. You need to obtain an Alchemist Rank Badge certified by the Pill Tower." Ye Zhong pondered slightly and said.
"Alchemist Rank Badge?" Hearing this, Xiao Yan was stunned and said, "Is this thing necessary?"
Xiao Yan had only obtained the Alchemist Rank Badge once, when he won the championship in the Alchemist Convention of the Gama Empire and obtained a Rank 5 Alchemist Badge and robe. Xiao Yan has been using that Rank 5 Alchemist robe until now.
"Hehe, the Pill Tower's certification is not comparable to other places. It is famous for its strictness. Precisely because of this, its Rank Badge can be used throughout the continent. However, I believe that with Grandmaster Xiao Yan's strength, you will definitely astonish the audience." Ye Zhong said with a smile, hinting that this was a good opportunity to show off! Xiao Yan nodded slightly. He didn't have much resistance to this, and he also wanted to see how strict the assessment of this Holy Pill City was.
Seeing that Xiao Yan had no objection, Ye Zhong also smiled, identified the direction, and was about to take a few people to find a place to rest first, when suddenly a violent spatial fluctuation arose in the distant sky behind him. Immediately, a snow-white carriage pulled by several Void Pegasus Beasts with a bright silver body appeared in the sky.
"It's actually a Void Pegasus Beast! Who has such a big show?"
"Void Pegasus Beast?"
Zi Yan frowned when she saw the Pegasus in the sky. This kind of Pegasus Beast has the same ability as their Void Ancient Dragon clan, that is, they have the Beast Skill to travel through the void. Even if they have not reached the Eight Grade, they can still travel through.
However, it cannot be compared with the Void Ancient Dragon clan.
Ye Zhong frowned and said in a deep voice, "That badge is from the Dan Family."
"Dan Family?" Xiao Yan also looked at the badge, then shook his head and didn't wonder who was sitting inside. He didn't care whether the Dan Family was the strongest of the five great families. This time, whether it was the assessment or the Pill Gathering, he, Xiao Yan, would win the championship! The champion, who else but him! Such a small episode did not hurt Xiao Yan and the others. Soon, they came to a large mansion of the Ye Family in Holy Pill City to rest.
Late at night, Xiao Yan stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, looking up at the stars in the sky.
"It's strange, I've already come to Holy Pill City, there's no reason why I still don't feel anything." Xiao Yan opened his hand, and two Yin-Yang Fish swam happily in his palm.
What made Xiao Yan a little puzzled was that the Yin-Yang Dual Flame left by the Old Ancestor had no reaction at all.
According to the Soul image left by Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan judged that the Strange Flames Xiao Xuan possessed were black and white, red, and purple. The black and white colors are naturally the Yin-Yang Dual Flame, and according to Xiao Yan's deduction, only the eighth Red Lotus Karma Fire or the seventeenth Volcano Stone Flame is red.
Of course, there are also some Strange Flames whose colors are not fixed, just like Xiao Yan's Ten Thousand Beasts Spirit Flame, its color is not fixed.
Only the purple color made Xiao Yan a little confused, because there is no Strange Flame whose color is purple, which means that the Old Ancestor's last Strange Flame is a Strange Flame whose color is not fixed.
Originally, when Xiao Yan heard Ye Zhong say that the Three Thousand Yan Flame sealed by the Pill Tower was purple, he ran over with confidence, thinking whether he could rely on the glory of his ancestors to directly refine the Three Thousand Yan Flame.
As a result, he had already arrived in Holy Pill City, but the Yin-Yang Dual Flame still had no reaction.
"Could it be not? Or is it that the seal prevents the Yin-Yang Dual Flame from sensing it?" Xiao Yan sighed inwardly. Sure enough, the matter of Strange Flames was not so smooth.
At this moment, Zi Yan walked over with a solemn expression: "Hey, Xiao Yan, I seem to sense something."
"What's wrong, are you homesick?" Xiao Yan touched Zi Yan's little head and asked comfortingly.
"No, home is over there, but this time I feel like there's something over there..." Zi Yan pointed to two directions with her left and right hands respectively, one was the direction of the Beast Domain, where the Void Ancient Dragon clan was located, and the other was actually the inner city of Holy Pill City!
"You mean?"
"I don't know, I can't sense it clearly either, it seems to be shielded by some force."
Zi Yan looked at Xiao Yan and showed a mischievous smile: "Why don't we go and see?"
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