133: This shocked everyone once again!

A look of solemnity and fervor also appeared on Yan Linger's stunningly beautiful face.

The simplified Pill Formula for the Nirvana Rebirth Pill held immense significance for the Fentian Sacred Valley.

However, she wasn't very interested in the Azure Nether Separation Fire at the moment. She already possessed a heavenly grade strange fire herself and could not subdue and refine another. If two powerful strange fires tangled and clashed within her body, her Physical Body wouldn't be able to withstand the immense energy, and the final result would be exploding and dying!

Although she couldn't refine it herself, she wouldn't allow anyone else to take her heavenly grade strange fire!

Other prodigies, such as Lin Zheng from the Pill Tower, Qing Xuan from the Azure Luan Clan, and even Ghost Hand from the Demon Domain, all erupted with astonishing Battle Intent in their eyes.

Where there are heavy rewards, there will be brave men, especially for a reward like this, enough to change one's destiny!

Lu Yu rubbed his nose, feeling the scorching gazes from all directions, but he felt a bit like laughing inside.

Were they treating him as the number one enemy?

On the high platform, Yan Mo was very satisfied with the effect the reward had brought. Waiting for the clamor to die down a little, he then said in a deep voice:

"Now, let the drawing of lots begin to determine your core main materials and directions!"

A hundred Jade Slips flew out from the high platform, accurately landing in each Alchemy area.

Lu Yu reached out and caught the one belonging to him, sending his Divine Sense inside.

Information appeared within the Jade Slip:

Optional Core Main Material Direction: Realm-Breaking Type

Core Main Material: dragon blood bodhi fruit (Fifth-grade medicinal ingredient, contains violent dragon essence and Bodhi vitality. The medicinal properties conflict intensely and are difficult to balance.)

Requirement: Deduce and refine a pill that aids Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators in breaking through the Soul Transformation Bottleneck. The pill must be no lower than fourth-grade Pure Quality.

A fourth-grade Pure Quality pill was something many fourth-grade Alchemists found difficult to refine.

Due to these different quality standards, each grade of Alchemist was also subdivided into several minor Realms: Early Stage, Middle Stage, Late Stage, and Peak.

But even a Peak fourth-grade Alchemist couldn't claim a one hundred percent success rate in refining a Pure Quality fourth-grade pill; they could only say the odds were high.

After all, in Alchemy, no one could guarantee a one hundred percent success rate.

As for achieving Perfect quality in a pill, that was even more difficult. Even a Peak fourth-grade Alchemist only had a fifty percent probability of refining a fourth-grade Perfect Quality pill. For Pure Quality, the probability was around seventy to eighty percent.

As for the even higher level, Pill Veins, that couldn't be explained by Realm alone. It required powerful innate Alchemy talent, a special sensitivity to medicinal ingredients, precise control over the pill's own medicinal properties, and extreme mastery of heat control!

Without the support of a strange fire, it was almost impossible to refine one.

However, Lu Yu just smiled.

Pill Veins?

Before his Immortal Rank Alchemy knowledge and techniques, it presented no difficulty.

He would give them a little shock!

dragon blood bodhi fruit?

Lu Yu knew about this thing. Its medicinal properties were indeed domineering. The dragon blood was violent, and the Bodhi was gentle. If not handled properly, it would lead to a furnace explosion.

Using it to refine a Realm-Breaking Pill... was indeed suitable, but the equilibrium point was extremely difficult to find. But it wasn't a big problem.

His gaze swept towards several adjacent areas.

Lin Xiaoyou held the Jade Slip, still with that calm expression, as if whatever she drew made no difference to her.

Xiao Yan looked at the Jade Slip, his face first showing a moment of surprise, then a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth, his eyes revealing strong confidence.

Yan Linger, however, slightly furrowed her brows, seeming to have drawn a type she wasn't very adept with.

"The drawing of lots is complete!"

An Elder announced loudly.

"Time starts now! Three hours!"

As his words fell, a phantom image of an hourglass lit up simultaneously at the edge of each Alchemy area, fine sand beginning to flow slowly.

Almost at the same time, most of the Alchemists sprang into action.

Some immediately took out various medicinal ingredients from their storage equipment, spreading them all over the ground, and began frantically calculating and matching.

Others stared intently at the core main material that appeared in the center, protected by a light shield, lost in deep thought.

The plaza was quickly enveloped in an atmosphere of extreme tension, leaving only the sounds of flames rising, ingredients being handled, and the occasional urgent noise of calculations.

Lu Yu, however, wasn't in a hurry to start.

He first poked with his finger the strange fruit inside the light shield before him, about the size of a fist, with dark red dragon patterns on its surface and faint golden light spots within.

Hmm, excellent quality. The dragon blood essence is strong, and the Bodhi vitality is fine too.

Then he simply sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes to rest.

This scene nearly made many people who were watching him stumble.

Brother! Three hours! To deduce the formula and refine the pill!

And you still have time to meditate?!

Xiao Yan glimpsed this from afar and sneered inwardly:

"Putting on an act! Balancing the dragon blood bodhi fruit is so difficult that even with my teacher's guidance, careful deduction is needed. How dare you be so overconfident?"

He no longer let himself be distracted. Deep purple flames, the 'Purple Abyss Earth Core Fire', rose from his palm, beginning to burn a pile of auxiliary medicinal ingredients before him for property testing and deduction.

The Purple Abyss Earth Core Fire was a heavenly grade strange fire he had found in an earth core cavern with his teacher's help. Although it wasn't among the highest quality within the heavenly grade, it was sufficient for him now!

Where the flames passed, the medicinal ingredients reacted sensitively, displaying his exquisite control over the fire.

Yan Linger also focused her mind. Pale golden Golden Crow Flames enveloped the core main material she had drawn. Runes swirled in her beautiful eyes, clearly using some secret technique to analyze the medicinal properties.

As for Lin Xiaoyou... she took out a small notebook and a charcoal pencil, scribbling and drawing while facing that "Shadow Ghost Vine," her expression as serious as if she were solving an interesting arithmetic problem.

Time passed bit by bit.

One hour later, some people had already begun attempting to refine.

The aura of failure and occasional low, dull rumbles began to appear. Some were covered in dust with disheveled hair, others gritted their teeth in unwillingness.

But more were still struggling with their deductions.

Lu Yu finally opened his eyes.

Within his Immortal Rank Alchemy knowledge repository, data on the medicinal properties of the dragon blood bodhi fruit, thousands of related cases of ingredient combinations, and dozens of ideas for balancing the dragon blood and Bodhi vitality had long been sorted out clearly in his mind.

He even had a bold idea, combining the ultimate Yang characteristic of his Nine Yang Haori Body and the purifying, harmonizing Origin Concept of the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire.

He stood up and patted his robe.

Then, under the gaze of countless eyes, he did something that left everyone dumbfounded.

He didn't reach for the conventional auxiliary ingredients prepared beside him.

Instead, he directly raised his hand and summoned the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire.

A cyan-blue fire lotus hovered before him, slowly rotating.

Lu Yu lightly guided with his finger. A wisp of green flame, thin as a hair, penetrated the light shield, gently winding around that "dragon blood bodhi fruit."

He didn't directly burn it. Instead, he made the flame vibrate the fruit with an extremely slow, gentle frequency.

At the same time, with his other hand, he drew in the air. Profound runes, formed purely from spiritual power, were imprinted into the area where the flame made contact with the fruit.

"He... what is he doing?"

Someone in the viewing seats asked blankly.

"It seems like... resonating with the medicinal properties using fire? Directly processing the core main material?"

A knowledgeable and experienced Alchemist said uncertainly.

"Nonsense! The dragon blood bodhi fruit has a tough shell, and the medicinal properties inside conflict. One needs to use gentle methods to first separate the dragon blood and Bodhi parts, then process them separately! Directly vibrating the whole thing like this, isn't he afraid of triggering the internal conflict to erupt prematurely?!"

A Pill Tower Elder couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.

However, in the next moment, a shocking scene appeared.

Under the gentle yet rhythmic vibrations of the cyan-blue flame, the dark red dragon patterns on the surface of the dragon blood bodhi fruit actually began to squirm slightly, as if coming to life!

And the golden light spots within the fruit, where the Bodhi vitality resided, also seemed to be drawn by something, their light becoming gentle and stable.

Wisps of dark red dragon blood essence were slowly drawn out from the squirming dragon patterns by the flame. Yet, they didn't run wild. Instead, they formed a faint red halo around the periphery of the flame.

Simultaneously, a faint golden aura of vitality also spread out from within the fruit, intertwining with that red halo, actually forming a subtle balance!

"Using fire as a medium, resonating with medicinal properties, guiding separation?!"

On the high platform, Yan Mo's eyes widened sharply, and he leaned forward.

"His understanding of fire and medicinal properties has already reached such a microscopic level?!"