Wuji Pill was a formula Long Chen had never seen or heard of in the pill academy, but it awakened together with the Purple Que Pill. Long Chen knew this pill was his Four Extremes Pill.
However, the formula for the Wuji Pill contains 3,600 kinds of medicinal ingredients, more than ten times more than ordinary Four Extremes Pills. Long Chen has never advanced because he simply can't refine pills.
When a strong cultivator cultivates, pills are merely auxiliary tools to help people better absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, achieving twice the result with half the effort.
But Long Chen was different. If he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate, the speed would be hopelessly slow, and because of the Heavenly Dao's targeting, it would be very difficult for Long Chen to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Even if he used the divine ring to forcibly absorb it, for Long Chen it was still just a drop in the bucket. So for him, pills were the only way to advance his realm.
The Wuji Pill contains almost all the energy contained in a cultivator's body that Long Chen could imagine, and the energy is almost evenly distributed. If an ordinary Four Extremes Realm expert took it, it could actually be harmful.
It divides the energy within the body evenly, so the Heavenly Dao runes captured during the tribulation are wasted, and all attributes are balanced, leaving them useless.
To others, the Wuji Pill is like poison, but Long Chen insists on taking it to advance his realm.
Moreover, the Wuji Pill is very complicated to refine and requires extremely high technical skill, so Long Chen didn't directly refine it, but first helped the Luo Clan refine the Blood Extreme Pill.
Fortunately, Huo Ling'er could multitask: helping the Demon Moon Furnace refine medicinal powder while also refining pills with the Moon Refining Star Furnace. Moreover, as the furnace improved, and with Huo Ling'er's mastery of the power of flame,
The Moon Melting Star Refining Furnace began to master the furnace within a furnace. The so-called furnace within a furnace means using the power of flame to condense more pill furnaces inside the pill furnace. Previously, the Moon Melting Star Furnace had a limit of nine.
In other words, nine flame pill furnaces could be condensed inside the furnace, effectively refining nine pills at once, greatly saving time and improving efficiency.
Now that Huo Ling'er had fully transformed and her control over the power of flame had become increasingly refined, the Moon Melting Star Furnace condensed eighty-one inner furnaces at once, which meant one batch could refine eighty-one furnaces of pills at once.
This is an extremely astonishing ability—seven hundred and twenty-nine pills are produced at once. If word got out, countless people would be terrified.
Although the quantity is astonishing, the quality declines somewhat. Such large-scale pill refining is impossible for treasure-grade pills to appear, though they are basically top-grade spiritual pills.
Although its medicinal properties are somewhat inferior to ordinary top-grade elixirs, after Lei Ling'er's nurturing and removal of impurities, its efficacy is almost identical to top-grade elixirs sold on the market.
But this was already quite satisfying for Long Chen, because the mainstream Four Extremes Pills among Luo family disciples were mostly mid-grade, with very few high-grade pills, let alone top-grade Four Extremes Pills.
However, the Luo family also has its own cultivation path. Mid-grade pills contain too many impurities and pill poison. Taking too many can cause serious problems.
Because the Luo family possesses the Blade Sharpening Ladder, when the pill poison accumulates in their disciples to a certain extent, they will use the ladder's power to forcibly remove the pill poison from their bodies.
The method is good, but removing the pill toxin inside is like scraping the bones to cure poison—it causes unbearable pain. Moreover, after expelling the poison, the person is nearly dead, usually requiring one to three months of rest before recovery.
However, the impurities in top-grade pills are extremely low. Although they can produce pill poisons, they are minimal and very easy to expell. The price of top-grade pills is over a hundred times that of mid-grade pills, while their efficacy is only a few times higher.
So comparatively, cheap mid-grade pills became the Luo family's first choice. But even so, supporting so many first-generation Four Extremes Realm cultivators was unaffordable for the Luo family, because first-generation experts consumed more than ten times more pills than ordinary disciples.
This was also why Luo Changwu was worried. However, for Long Chen, this was nothing special. As long as he was given some time, everything could be sorted out. After all, pills could be mass-produced here.
In just one day, Huo Ling'er helped him refine more than fifty thousand Blood Extreme Pills. Long Chen immediately had the sisters, Luo Bing and Luo Ning, deliver the pills back to the Luo clan.
When the brothers Luo Changwu and Luo Changwen saw the more than fifty thousand top-grade Blood Extreme Pills, they could hardly believe their eyes.
Moreover, Long Chen had Luo Bing relay a message: this is only a portion. More and more Blood Extreme Pills will be sent in the future. If the pills can solve the problem, then it's not a problem.
Luo Changwen and his brother were overjoyed, but secretly wondered if the clan leader had suddenly disappeared and handed over such a large family to them—had they already figured something out?
Luo Bing and Luo Ning returned to the Luo clan and only then learned that the spatial ring contained fifty thousand top-grade Blood Extreme Pills. Their faces turned pale with fear. Long Chen had actually asked the two of them to transport such a precious item.
After returning to Lingxiao Academy, Luo Ning immediately gave Long Chen a harsh complaint. Such a big matter and not giving advance notice — if he lost it, wouldn't he be paying with his life?
Long Chen just smiled. There are as many of these as you want. Besides, if you find out about this, who wouldn't notice the tension and caution in your eyes?
For an ordinary first-generation Four Extremes Realm expert, advancing to the first level usually requires only three to five top-grade Blood Extreme Pills.
Of course, if you use them sparingly, you don't have to worry about spending extra time—one tablet is enough, but progress will be much slower.
However, these more than fifty thousand top-grade Four Extremes Pills are enough for those first-generation experts to use for several months. After a few months, who knows how many pills Huo Ling'er will refine.
After finishing the Blood Extreme Pills, Long Chen refined several batches of other types of Four Extremes Pills, saving them for those around him. Since the Four Extremes Pills needed to be custom-made, he didn't make too many, thinking it was just enough.
During this time, Long Chen secretly swapped the fruit on Mu Qingyun's plate for the Heavenly Dao Fruit. Mu Qingyun, along with Zhong Ling and Zhong Xiu, accidentally ate them, and in a confused way, activated their bloodline and became first-generation powerhouses. The three were overjoyed, but had no idea what had happened.
The appearance of the Heavenly Dao Fruit awakened Long Chen's boundless ambition. He was preparing to cultivate a first-generation army, though the Luo family was the real target. As for Mu Qingyun and the others, since they had just met, they couldn't be left too far behind.
Besides, Luo Bing and Luo Ning are already the first generation, so you can't favor one over the other. After all, Mu Qingyun always calls him 'third brother' and treats him like his own brother.
With all these arrangements made, the powder for the Wuji Pill on Huo Ling'er's side was also ready. From now on, Long Chen had to make arrangements for himself.
When the 3,600 herbs merged into the furnace, he suddenly sensed something was wrong. Looking up at the sky, Long Chen's expression changed:
"What's going on?"