134: Refining pills in the void

Beside Yan Mo, at some point, Nangong Yun, the Deputy Valley Master of Pill Valley, had appeared. She looked at Lu Yu, who was the center of everyone's attention below, her eyes filled with complex emotions!

That was the Immortal Fire she had been eyeing for decades, and now it was displaying such power in the hands of another!

If it were in her own hands, she wouldn't dare claim she could achieve such a level.

"With this Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire in your hands, it has not disgraced its reputation."

Nangong Yun sighed helplessly.

Failing to obtain the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire was likely destiny.

"Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire... as expected of an Immortal Fire! To possess such spirituality and harmonizing ability!"

The gaunt Elder from the Pill Tower was also visibly moved.

Xiao Yan was carefully dripping the juice of an "Ice Soul Orchid" into the refined Dragon Blood Essence, attempting to neutralize its violent nature with coldness.

Suddenly sensing the strange medicinal fluctuations from afar, he jerked his head up. Seeing the strange red and gold interwoven scene at Lu Yu's side, his hand couldn't help but shake, nearly dripping the Ice Soul Orchid juice in the wrong place!

"How is that possible..."

His heart shook violently. His teacher had clearly said that the first step of processing the dragon blood bodhi fruit was the most difficult, requiring meticulous effort to slowly peel it... How did he dare?

How could he handle it with such ease?!

Lu Yu seemed oblivious to the reactions around him.

He focused all his attention on controlling the fire's vibration frequency, feeling the delicate balance as the two medicinal properties were gradually "coaxed" out.

This wasn't a standard method recorded in the Immortal Rank knowledge base, but an unconventional method he had conceived on the spot based on his own conditions.

The effect seemed quite good.

With Immortal Rank Alchemy knowledge at his disposal, even crude techniques could exert a massive effect.

Gradually, the entire dragon blood bodhi fruit became somewhat transparent, its internal pulp turning into two clear air currents.

One was a fierce, violent dark red, and the other was a gentle, peaceful golden yellow. Enveloped by the blue-green flame, they rotated slowly like a miniature Taiji diagram.

"Step one, complete."

The corner of Lu Yu's mouth curled slightly.

He flicked his finger, and the flame sphere containing the two medicinal currents gradually closed, beginning the purification of the Medicinal Pill!

That's right, he didn't use a Pill Furnace at all, but performed Void Realm Alchemy directly!

He was using the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire for Void Realm smelting and purification!

This operation left everyone in all directions dumbfounded!

Void Realm Alchemy wasn't something they couldn't do, but the problem was that these old monsters were already seventh or eighth-grade Alchemists; they could naturally achieve forming a pill in the Void Realm when refining a fourth-grade Medicinal Pill.

But the problem was, how old was this kid now?

To be so confident in his own technique?

Lu Yu ignored the shocked gazes around him and leisurely began processing the other auxiliary medicinal Materials.

He continued to refine the medicinal power of the dragon blood bodhi fruit within that ball of flame floating in the Void Realm.

They weren't any particularly expensive items.

A piece of five-hundred-year-old "Crimson Sun Ginseng", a few "Fire Maple Leaves", a pinch of "Blazing Sun Sand", and a small bottle of "Earth Fire Slurry" containing a hint of Phoenix True Flame aura.

These auxiliary Materials were all provided by the Fentian Sacred Valley.

They were all Yang-attribute and Fire-attribute Materials, and their grades weren't considered very high.

"What... what does he want to do?!" someone exclaimed.

"Dragon blood is already violent, yet he's adding so many Yang-fire items? Isn't he afraid of blowing up?!"

"Madness! Pure madness! Is he trying to refine an 'Explosive Pill'?"

Even Liu Yunshu, who had been calmly brewing tea, stopped her movements, worry showing in her beautiful eyes.

Luo Qingxue also subconsciously clenched her fingers within her sleeves, and the Yan Lingluo opened her eyes, her red pupils staring at the field, her brow slightly furrowed.

The moment Xiao Yan saw those medicinal Materials, he was first stunned, then almost laughed out loud!

Seeking death! Purely seeking death!

He could already see the image of Lu Yu's flame-furnace exploding and him being covered in soot!

However, Lu Yu's next actions once again overturned everyone's understanding.

He didn't follow common sense by using cold or neutral Materials to harmonize the dragon blood's violence.

Instead, he used the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire to refine the Crimson Sun Ginseng, Fire Maple Leaves, and other items into medicinal essences, and then... in one go, injected them into that already separated dark red Dragon Blood Essence!

Sizzle—!

Like hot oil poured into ice water, the dark red Dragon Blood Essence instantly boiled and expanded violently, its color becoming deeper and more piercing, emitting heart-palpitating violent fluctuations!

The flame sphere wrapping all the medicinal Materials began to vibrate slightly!

"It's going to explode!"

Many people subconsciously shrank back.

Lu Yu's gaze, however, remained as calm as water.

He formed hand seals, and the fire suddenly changed!

Half of the blue-green fire lotus split off, transforming into countless fire threads of extreme fineness, like an exquisite woven web, wrapping layer by layer around the expanding and rioting "Dragon Blood Yang Fire mixture".

The fire threads did not use force to suppress it, but instead used a strange rhythm to constantly pierce, comb, and guide... even more miraculously, the other half of the flame firmly guarded the gentle golden yellow bodhi vitality nearby and sent out a sliver of cool, pure fire breath, which, like a bridge, established an extremely weak connection with the violent energy being combed.

On one side was extreme Yang violence being "tamed" and "guided" by the fire.

On the other side was extreme gentleness and peace being "nourished" and "resonated" by the fire.

Fine beads of sweat broke out on Lu Yu's forehead.

Simultaneously controlling the fire to perform two completely different and insanely delicate operations was a massive drain on his mind.

But his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Using Yang to guide Yang, using fire to refine fire... then using the bodhi vitality as the final 'buffer pad' and 'binder'..."

He silently recited the logic he had deduced in his mind.

"Others think of neutralization, but I want 'Extreme Yang to produce change', breeding a Breakthrough's violent power in the extreme, and then using the bodhi vitality to protect the Cultivator's Origin... This pill should perhaps be called..."

In his mind, a prototype Pill Formula was rapidly being perfected.

Time passed for another hour in an atmosphere so tense it was suffocating.

Most of the sand in the hourglass had already fallen.

The scene inside Lu Yu's flame-constructed furnace also gradually stabilized.

Although that dark red energy was still fierce, the amplitude of its turbulence had lessened significantly, and its color shifted from a piercing dark red toward a restrained dark gold.

The golden light of the bodhi vitality next to it became even more mellow and full.

Between the two, the bridges formed by those blue fire threads had become quite stable, and energy began to exchange in a slow and orderly fashion.

"Almost there..."

Lu Yu took a deep breath, knowing that the most critical "pill fusion" moment was about to arrive.

At this moment, over a dozen people on the square had successfully refined their Medicinal Pills and were being inspected by the Elders; some were joyous while others were dejected.

The Pill Furnace in front of Xiao Yan had also reached the final stage, the Purple Abyss Earth Core Fire burning fiercely, a medicinal fragrance faintly wafting from the furnace, clearly indicating its grade was not low.

At Yan Linger's side, the Golden Crow Flame transformed into a small Golden Crow phantom circling above the Pill Furnace. An anomaly had already appeared, clearly indicating it was at least a perfect fourth-grade Medicinal Pill.

Lin Xiaoyou... she had finished refining at some unknown point. Her Medicinal Pill was kept in an ordinary jade bottle to the side, and she had pulled out a leisure book to read, as if everything around her had nothing to do with her.

Everyone's gaze once again focused involuntarily on that figure in green who was using Immortal Fire as a furnace and performing the most incredible operation.

Will this batch of pills... succeed or not?