"What are you shouting for?! Don't you know Old Gu is still breaking through!"
At some unknown point, probably having anticipated it, Chen Junting appeared beside Wu Feng and lightly slapped her forehead. The force was enough to daze her without hurting, and coupled with that scolding, the excitement and agitation in her eyes instantly cleared into lucidity.
"Oh, oh…" Wu Feng covered her head, nodding repeatedly in obedience.
But immediately after, she couldn't hold back her excitement. The moment her dragon scales faded, she continuously patted her chest. "Sword bastard, the God of Fire just came to me! He gabbed on and on about a bunch of stuff, but the general idea is that I'm very suitable, and as long as I reach Level 99, I can inherit his god position!"
"Hahaha—" Thinking about how she had the chance to become a god, Wu Feng laughed triumphantly, even sticking her tongue out, extremely unladylike.
"Congratulations."
Seeing her like this, Chen Junting didn't say much more, just sincerely expressed his congratulations, and similarly felt happy for her in his heart. Although it was a few months late in terms of time, presumably it was because of the difference in the flow of time between the Divine Realm and the mortal world. And since Wu Feng had gained the God of Fire's approval, then as for the others...
Thinking of this, Chen Junting looked at Gu Tianchen.
Right now, the others weren't by his side, so next it depended on whether Old Gu could smoothly gain the God of Space's favor.
After a while, Wu Feng, whose excitement had passed its peak, also stopped her unladylike loud laughter, and then holding the same thought, revealed an expectant gaze toward Gu Tianchen's direction.
At this moment, Gu Tianchen's surroundings were entirely filled with the surging of heaven and earth origin energy, coupled with continuous spatial fluctuations, making his entire figure difficult to see. As time passed, a violent soul power fluctuation suddenly erupted, but flashed and vanished in an instant. After that, the spatial fluctuations dissipated, and a mist of origin energy slowly converged, revealing the safe and sound Gu Tianchen inside.
Five black and four red; every single red soul ring was wrapped with golden patterns, clearly having all transformed to the vicious beast level, and the last soul ring even had as many as six golden lines, a testament to its terrifying nature.
Besides these soul rings revolving Gu Tianchen's body, from the soul power fluctuations he emitted, it could also be seen that not only had he smoothly condensed his spatial soul core, but he had also pushed his cultivation to Level 96. Presumably, he was not far from the next level either.
As his aura converged, Gu Tianchen slowly opened his eyes, his black pupils as deep as a black hole. His entire person appeared even more extraordinary after absorbing the "Void Immortal Mushroom" and condensing his spatial soul core. The layer of illusiveness formed around his body was like a mirage; when he stood up from the ground, his every move gave people an unreal feeling, as if he was situated in another space.
If it's coming, it should be here now.
Ignoring Gu Tianchen's strange phenomena at this moment, Chen Junting and Wu Feng simultaneously looked up toward the sky, to see if the next divine sense light would come knocking.
Coincidentally, just as they expected, Whoosh—
A streak of silver light flashed across the sky, pausing intermittently under the shining sun as if lagging. But in reality, it was piercing through layers of the void; under an unpredictable trajectory, it sank into Gu Tianchen's glabella before anyone could react.
Suddenly, Gu Tianchen's converged aura surged out once again; the dazzling silver light distorted the surrounding void, transforming into a pillar of light that shot up into the sky and formed a phantom silhouette.
This momentum was even more exaggerated than the descent of the God of Fire's inheritance!
'Good, good, good, another one succeeded,' Chen Junting thought to himself, swinging his fist in a cheering motion.
However, compared to his secret joy, Wu Feng was not reserved at all. Seeing Gu Tianchen showing signs of opening his eyes, she directly pounced on her lover; there was no desire, only pure joy.
"Hmm?"
As a fierce wind struck, Gu Tianchen, who had just opened his eyes with the excitement of having his wish fulfilled, saw a fiery red figure pouncing toward him. Sensing the familiar aura, Gu Tianchen naturally opened his arms and embraced the fiery red figure into his chest.
"Tianchen, you also received the inheritance, right!"
"Yeah, now I finally have the chance to become a god." Gu Tianchen lowered his head, looking eye to eye with Wu Feng, naturally also seeing the flame on her brow. "It seems you received the God of Fire's inheritance one step ahead of me. How is it? Are your trials difficult?"
"Trials?"
Wu Feng tilted her head, her face full of confusion. "Isn't it just that as long as my cultivation reaches Level 99 I can go inherit the god position?"
"Oh, then my inheritance must be rather special."
Hearing Wu Feng say this, Gu Tianchen, who needed to pass three trials, didn't feel it was unfair. Because according to the explanation given by the divine sense, it was to improve his comprehension of the Dao of Space.
Regarding this, Gu Tianting expressed understanding.
After all, although his soul skills possessed quite a few powerful spatial attribute abilities, they ultimately didn't occupy the main core like Wu Feng's fire attribute, let alone compared to her Ultimate Fire.
"Cough, cough, that's about enough, there are still other people here."
A voice, plain yet carrying a bit of teasing, rang out. Chen Junting, with his arms crossed, looked at the two who kept hugging with no intention of separating, and chose to be a third wheel, speaking up to remind them.
"Really, what's the rush, can't you let people celebrate a bit. If it were you and Xiao Tian, you'd probably be kissing by now."
Interrupted by Chen Junting, Wu Feng was quite reluctant, but after hearing that remark, the two still released their embrace.
Chen Junting, who was also called out, wasn't embarrassed either; instead, he slid his finger over his storage soul tool.
Dong
Accompanied by a muffled sound, a pill cauldron steadily landed on the ground.
This move directly aroused the curiosity of the two.
"What are you planning to do?"
Gu Tianchen asked while sizing it up.
"This is my second purpose for coming here."
Pointing at the Level 9 pill cauldron, Chen Junting's tone was certain. "I plan to use these heavenly treasures to refine pills and medicines for you, thereby helping you improve your cultivation while ensuring your foundation is stabilized. After all, you know time waits for no one."
Gu Tianchen nodded, expressing understanding.
As for Wu Feng, she didn't care much about the reason for refining pills.
Instead...
"Hah? You said you're going to refine pills yourself!?"
Hearing that Chen Junting was going to personally refine pills, Wu Feng, who had somehow snuck up next to the pill cauldron to feel it, looked back in shock as if she had heard something incredible.
"How come I didn't know you could refine pills?"
"Whether I can or not, you'll know in a while."
Chen Junting didn't explain this point, then walked to the side of the pill cauldron. Then with a light palm strike, the pill cauldron let out a muffled metallic roar, flew straight up, and then, under the precise control of soul power, stopped in mid-air.
Subsequently, Chen Junting also sat down cross-legged, and then, lifted by soul power, rose into the air until he was level with the pill cauldron.
"Little Feng, you light the fire. I want to use your Ultimate Fire to refine pills. But not too much, just fill the cauldron."
"No problem."
Clang—
With the opening of the cauldron lid, Wu Feng didn't waste words. A faint fluctuation was produced as soul power circulated; the next second, a stream of high-temperature dragon flame hot enough to distort the surrounding space gushed out, then steadily stopped in her palm, glowing red.
Wu Feng gently tossed the flame in her palm, and Chen Junting took the opportunity to shoot out a strand of soul power. Instantly, the tossed dragon flame seemed to meet a fierce suction force, shooting like a swift fire snake, and then burrowed into the pill cauldron through the lid.
Puff—
With a muffled sound, after the dragon flame fell into the pill cauldron, it was as if it was stimulated by something, beginning to constantly tumble and burn within the cauldron.
Seeing the fire was almost ready, Chen Junting casually summoned a few herbs he had long since picked out from the ground, threw them into the pill cauldron, and then slammed the lid of the pill cauldron shut.
Wu Feng saw that these few weren't even considered treasures, at most they were just herbs of slightly higher age, and couldn't help but blurt out, "What kind of good pills can be refined from just these herbs."
Chen Junting didn't speak, just single-mindedly refined pills.
Fortunately, although this girl Wu Feng didn't have much of a brain, she still showed trust in her actions and wouldn't act rashly. And even if she lacked brains in this regard, Gu Tianchen had them.
"Little Feng, Old Chen is just practicing."
Gu Tianchen looked at the pill cauldron faintly emitting black smoke. "You don't want those heavenly treasures to be wasted on this, do you?"
"Oh, that's true."
So, she watched Chen Junting perform with great interest. Speaking of which, she had never seen how pill refining was done before.
...
"What time is it?"
From being full of interest at the beginning to being so bored now that she was poking the dirt with a wooden stick, Wu Feng raised an eyebrow and looked at Chen Junting.
As for the pile of ashes on the side, they were all the products of Chen Junting's failed pill and medicine refining during this period. However, Wu Feng had to admit that Chen Junting's progress speed in pill refining could also be called incredibly fast. From throwing herbs into the pill cauldron at the very beginning, failing to control the flame size due to lack of experience, causing the flame to flare up and reduce those herbs to ashes in the blink of an eye, to now being able to precisely control the flame and high temperature, and extract a portion of the medicinal power.
"Hmm? It's done."
At this time, Gu Tianchen, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes. Coincidentally, he saw the cauldron lid open, and a few very ordinary pills flew out.
"Looks pretty good."
Chen Junting pinched a pill in his hand, just about to try the effect himself, when his peripheral vision caught the curious Wu Feng.
So, he handed this pill over.
"Do you want to try the effect?"
"You're using me to test the medicine."
Although she complained like this, Wu Feng still grabbed it and threw it into her mouth, not giving Gu Tianchen a chance to stop her at all.
Wu Feng chewed away, glancing up from the corners of her eyes, seemingly savoring and appraising it at the same time, "Mm, sweet, a bit sour, tastes pretty good, just like a jelly bean."
'What exactly are you tasting? What I want is the effect! Sigh, really can't do anything with you.'
Chen Junting was helpless, so he could only toss a pill to Gu Tianchen. "Old Gu, you try?"
Catching it in one go, Gu Tianchen didn't decline. So after trying it a bit, he gave his evaluation: It had an effect, but the effect was extremely minimal, almost negligible.
"Then it's a success."
What was used for the experiment were just some ordinary herbs; did they really expect it to have an effect on a Super Douluo? Anyway, as long as there was an effect, it was fine.
Since this was the case, they could prepare to officially start refining pills. But before that, he still needed to practice more.
So next, furnace after furnace of pills came out; as the number of pill refinements increased, he became more and more proficient.
Not long after, Chen Junting began to take it strictly seriously.
Because what followed could not tolerate the slightest carelessness from him.
Accompanied by the heavenly treasures collected from here at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, as well as from the Valley of Life, being thrown in one by one, Wu Feng's Ultimate Fire instantly swallowed them, and then began to extract them.
As time passed minute by minute, Chen Junting gradually didn't even dare to breathe heavily. Wu Feng and Gu Tianchen even retreated to the edge of the entire treasure land, and using spatial means, locked down the entire treasure land, not allowing the slightest disturbance to interrupt Chen Junting's pill refining.
As the extraction of the heavenly treasures' essence neared its end, the entire pill cauldron began to take on a golden-red color, and the four vent holes at the top of the pill cauldron occasionally emitted wisps of airflow.
The sealed space was instantly filled with a rich medicinal fragrance.
Chen Junting clearly felt that this rich medicinal fragrance was constantly seeping through his pores into his limbs and bones.
But the closer he got to this step, the more solemn he became.
He had even already deployed arrays to assist.
Now only the last step was left, condensing the pill!
But perhaps because there were too many medicinal herbs, it caused even the Level 9 pill cauldron to show a trend of gradually being unable to bear it. So while Chen Junting focused on the pill, he also split his attention to set up outside the pill cauldron, using an array to cover the area around it.
He decided that the final pill condensation would not be carried out inside the cauldron.
Hiss—
As the sound of venting came from the vent holes once again, immediately after, the entire pill cauldron completely turned into a blinding golden color.
Intense golden light flickered, the fragrance spewed out, and then suddenly retracted, and a strong golden light soared into the sky.
At this moment, clusters of liquefied essence slowly floated out from the pill cauldron. If Chen Junting hadn't sealed it with an array, more than half of the medicinal power might have already leaked. But now, even the medicinal fragrance was locked within the array, unable to drift out at all.
The next second, Chen Junting extended both hands.
A terrifying soul power instantly enveloped the pill liquid! At the same time, the flame inside the pill cauldron instantly soared out!
Under this two-pronged attack, Chen Junting's palms suddenly clapped together.
The pill liquid actually split into several portions, and then respectively began to converge towards their own centers, gradually solidifying.
Obviously, for this final step of pill condensation, Chen Junting was no longer like the previous few times where it was all technique, but rather relied on brute force to create a miracle, directly solidifying the pill liquid through sheer power!
It seemed reckless, but in reality, it was precise and effective.
Thus, the moment Chen Junting dispelled the array, bursts of fierce energy fluctuations violently rippled out, and in an instant, like a ripple, spread out from within.
A layer of precious light also surged out along with it, forming a crystalline light membrane, and faintly revealed a scene of the sun and moon alternating.
At this point, the pill was completed!
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