136: Grade 5, Five-Patterned Pill!

Xiao Yan snorted inwardly. Even if your fire was powerful and your techniques strange, the pill hadn't even taken shape yet, and time waits for no one!

He wanted to see just what kind of thing this guy could eventually cook up.

Yan Linger put away her Medicinal Pill, her cold gaze also turning toward Lu Yu, a flicker of complexity crossing her beautiful eyes.

She told herself she had already given her all just now to luckily refine a one-pattern pill.

Could Lu Yu's method of Alchemy, which completely defied common sense, really succeed?

Moreover... time was truly running out.

Only a shallow layer of sand remained in the hourglass.

Many who hadn't finished were already sweating profusely, their hearts growing anxious, their movements beginning to falter, and the aura of failure appeared one after another.

At this final moment, Lu Yu finally moved.

He slowly opened his eyes.

In those eyes, a phantom of cyan-gold fire seemed to flash by, carrying an indescribable exhaustion, yet appearing incredibly deep and bright.

"It's about time."

He whispered to himself, his voice so soft only he could hear.

His empty-cradling hands began to close toward the center at a slow but steady pace.

With this movement, the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire, which had been spinning quietly, suddenly burst with light!

Buzz—!

The cyan-blue fire lotus petals stretched out one by one, as if truly coming to life.

The two clumps of energy at the center, one dark-gold and one golden-yellow, were completely enveloped, compressed, and drawn in by the fire!

This time, it was no longer gentle nurturing.

It was a violent Fusion!

Boom!

A terrifying aura that was scorching but not tyrannical—instead carrying a sense of majestic vitality and sharp barrier-breaking intent—suddenly erupted from the fire lotus!

The aura was so strong that it even caused the light barriers of several surrounding Alchemy areas to ripple violently. The alchemists inside who were finishing up were so startled their hands shook, nearly losing control of their own heat.

"Pill Fusion! He's finally started!"

"This aura... it's so strong! And it feels... very strange!"

"What's strange! It's clearly full of power! I feel like the Bottleneck of my Nascent Soul Stage has even loosened a bit!"

A Soul Transformation Cultivator observing the ceremony cried out in shock.

Everyone's hearts instantly leaped into their throats.

At the center of the fire lotus, the dark-gold and golden-yellow energies, under the frantic squeezing and weaving of the cyan-blue fire, were like two angry Dragons, crashing into each other head-on!

There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected.

Because at the moment of impact, the countless cyan fire threads that had originally connected the two suddenly lit up with blinding light, forming an extremely complex and profound fire net that locked the two energies firmly at the core of the collision!

At the point of collision, light and shadow alternated, and energy violently collapsed and swirled!

Lu Yu's face turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his body even swayed slightly.

Simultaneously controlling an Immortal Fire for such delicate yet violent operations was a massive test for his Divine Soul and spiritual power.

But his eyes narrowed slightly, his closed hands did not tremble in the slightest, and his gaze was sharp as a knife.

"Condense... for me!"

A low, muffled roar escaped his throat.

Buzz—!

The fire lotus suddenly retracted inward!

A blinding light erupted, causing everyone to subconsciously squint their eyes.

The light lasted for about three breaths of time before slowly dissipating.

Everyone impatiently fixed their gazes.

Before Lu Yu, the Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire had already returned to its previous state of spinning quietly.

Above the fire lotus, in the Void Realm, four Medicinal Pills floated quietly.

The pills were dark-gold, their surfaces flowing with a layer of warm reddish-gold luster, slightly larger than a longan, perfectly round without any flaws.

But that wasn't the most shocking part.

What made everyone's skin crawl was that among these four dark-gold pills, two of them were actually surrounded by exactly five clear, varying circular pill patterns!

Those patterns were not dead things; they were slowly swimming like living runes, faintly resonating with the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi!

Five pill patterns!

A five-pattern pill of the fifth grade!

For a fifth-grade pill, the absolute limit was to refine a five-pattern pill!

The limit for a first-grade pill is a one-pattern pill, the second-grade is two-pattern, and by the ninth-grade, one can at most condense a shocking nine-pattern Divine Pill.

And the five-pattern fifth-grade pill before them had already reached the limit of a fifth-grade pill, with no room for improvement!

Moreover, there were four pills in one furnace, and two of them were five-pattern fifth-grade pills!

The remaining two were also three-pattern fifth-grade pills!

Unheard of!!!

"Five... five patterns?!"

In the observation seats, an executive Elder of the Pill Tower suddenly stood up, knocking over his chair, his voice changing pitch.

"Fifth-grade, five-pattern?! How is this possible?!"

"Refining pills in the Void Realm... five-pattern pills... and it's a Realm-Breaking Pill refined with dragon blood bodhi fruit..."

Another veteran of the Dao of Alchemy from the Fentian Sacred Valley had a flushed face, his lips trembling.

"Ancient records state that when a pill produces five patterns, it has nearly reached the spiritual realm of the Dao of Alchemy; the medicinal power is pure and flawless, and its efficacy far exceeds pills of the same grade by several times! It cannot be obtained without great Opportunity, great talent, and great control! This boy should be the Saint of my Fentian Sacred Valley!"

The entire field was dead silent.

Even the sound of breathing was clearly audible.

Everyone was rendered speechless by the dark-gold pills floating in the air, slowly rotating with swimming pill patterns.

The smugness on Xiao Yan's face had long since vanished without a trace, replaced by extreme bewilderment, daze, and a hint of... horror that he was unwilling to admit.

He looked down at the purple pill in his palm, which had only one shallow pattern, and suddenly felt it was a bit too hot to hold, a bit... pathetic.

Yan Linger bit her lip tightly, her ice-blue pupils reflecting those five swimming pill patterns, her fingers gripping the jade bottle turning slightly white from the force.

She had given her all, using the full foundation of the Fentian Sacred Valley, only to refine a one-pattern fourth-grade pill.

Five-pattern fifth-grade... the gap between them was so large it made a sense of powerlessness rise in her heart.

On the high platform, Yan Mo took several deep breaths before barely suppressing the stormy waves in his heart.

He took a deep look at Lu Yu, who was pale but still standing tall, with only one thought left in his mind:

This boy is definitely no ordinary person! What kind of luck did the Heavenly Evolution Immortal Sect have to receive such a monster!

The old man from the Pill Tower sat back dejectedly in his chair and murmured, "The power of Immortal Fire has actually reached such a point... This boy's talent in the Dao of Alchemy probably isn't limited to the Lower Realm anymore..."

Standing beside Yan Mo, Nangong Yun also slightly opened her cherry-red lips in surprise, her expression astonished, followed by a helpless sigh.

"This Pure Lotus Heavenly Clear Fire can exert its Divine Might more in your hands than in mine... The Tianyan Divine Son is indeed an extraordinary figure."

She had heard that he had recently made a name for himself at the Heavenly Sword Divine Sect, said to have supreme talent in the Dao of the sword, reaching Sword Heart Illuminating Clarity and even comprehending a supreme Sword Intent, making him no less than the number one person among the younger generation of Sword Cultivators.

She hadn't expected him to have such achievements in the Dao of Alchemy as well!

Could there really be such a genius in the world?

"I've actually become a bit curious about you..."

Nangong Yun propped up her right elbow with her left hand, her slender, white right hand lightly stroking her chin as she looked curiously at Lu Yu on the Alchemy stage.

If a girl becomes curious about a boy, it means she is not far from falling for him...