Five-Colored Thunder

That's too reckless! That's an Eighth Grade Pill, and there's only one set of ingredients. He didn't even take time to think before starting the cauldron?!

Exclamations immediately rang out across the plaza.

However, the next moment, the shouts turned into sounds of people sharply inhaling cold air.

Shen Wen's fingertips moved slightly, and the cluster of Fallen Heart Flame instantly split into hundreds of thread-like fire lines, precisely wrapping around every medicinal ingredient that flew into the cauldron.

Refining hundreds of medicinal ingredients simultaneously... This Soul control!

What was even more alarming was a vast and magnificent Soul pressure silently spreading out from between Shen Wen's brows.

On the high platform, Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi almost simultaneously straightened their bodies, their eyes bursting with unconcealed shock.

This Soul Realm...

Xuan Kongzi slowly nodded, his gaze fixed on the young figure below the platform.

Xuan Yi's fingers in her sleeve tightened slightly, and a complex ripple spread deep within her eyes.

The yi shi pill is known for its complex medicinal properties and extremely difficult Fusion process.

Its refining process can be called a test of a Grade 8 Alchemist's Soul Power, flame control, and understanding of medicinal properties.

The slightest mistake would lead to total failure.

But Shen Wen's movements in the arena were as smooth as flowing water.

Hundreds of medicinal ingredients were tempered simultaneously, enveloped by hundreds of fire lines of varying temperatures.

Some required slow roasting over a gentle flame, while others needed rapid calcination under an intense fire, yet Shen Wen controlled them all perfectly.

The temperature in Myriad Medicine Plaza gradually rose as the tempering continued.

Many low-ranking Alchemists were already sweating profusely, yet they kept their eyes wide open, unwilling to miss any detail.

The extraction of essence from every medicinal ingredient requires slightly different temperatures and durations. He can precisely control hundreds of them simultaneously... He's a monster!

A white-haired Seventh-Rank Alchemist at the Peak muttered, his face filled with disbelief.

This tempering process lasted nearly an entire day.

When the plaza's temperature slowly began to drop, everyone knew that the step of refining the essence was complete.

Next was the even more perilous Fusion of the essences.

Hundreds of medicinal essences with different, even conflicting, properties needed to be perfectly blended inside the cauldron according to specific sequences, proportions, and techniques.

Any slight disruption could cause the medicinal properties to clash, leading to complete failure.

Everyone watched as Shen Wen's Hand Seals changed, his ten fingers dancing like butterflies flitting through flowers, as streams of powerful Dou Qi and condensed Soul Power intertwined and struck the heaven burning cauldron.

Wait!" Tian Leizi suddenly frowned, his voice filled with shock. "He's not just merging the medicinal properties... He's performing 'Spirit Ascension' simultaneously! Who taught him this? Forcibly elevating the spirit before the Fusion is stable—if he fails, the entire batch of Medicinal Pills will be instantly destroyed!"

As soon as he spoke, the expressions of the examiners on the high platform all froze.

Below the platform, some knowledgeable individuals also noticed the anomaly, and murmurs quickly spread.

Nonsense! This is utter nonsense!

Performing Spirit Ascension during the Fusion phase? Unheard of!

He is being far too presumptuous...

But judging by his technique, it seems... quite stable?

Great Master Shen Wen previously demonstrated the method of Spirit Ascension when refining the soul cleansing and spirit purifying pill; perhaps he truly has confidence?

But that was right before the pill formed! Now it's the Middle Stage of Fusion—the difficulty is more than doubled!

Voices of doubt, surprise, and confusion rang out everywhere. Even some people who had initially favored Shen Wen were now sweating nervously.

In the camps of the Bai Family and the Qiu Family, some people were already sneering, waiting to see him fail.

Cao Ying stood at the front of the crowd, her hands unconsciously clasped together, her fingertips slightly white, but her gaze remained fixed on Shen Wen's back.

Cai Lin stood quietly to the side, her purple eyes calm, though the tightly clenched hands betrayed a hint of imperceptible tension.

Dan Xuan stood among the Dan Family crowd, his brow slightly furrowed, and he murmured, "Too risky..."

Xuan Yi's gaze swept over the varied expressions below the platform, then returned to Shen Wen's consistently steady back and dancing fingers.

She took a deep breath and suddenly spoke loudly, her voice overriding the clamor in the arena:

Silence. Do not interfere with the assessment.

The arena instantly fell silent.

Shen Wen seemed deaf to everything around him, his entire concentration connected to the Medicine Cauldron.

Inside the cauldron, hundreds of clusters of medicinal liquid essence, guided by his exquisitely refined Soul Power and the oscillation of the Spirit Ascension force, were slowly and steadily approaching, penetrating, and undergoing Fusion... Chaos-colored flames enveloped the cauldron body, and the faint energy fluctuations emanating from it were profound and stable.

Shen Wen's expression was calm, and his Hand Seals changed steadily. The medicinal liquid circulated and merged within the heaven burning cauldron without the slightest disorder.

Shen Wen's ten fingers fluttered, his movements so steady that not a single tremor could be seen.

Inside the heaven burning cauldron, the Fusion of the hundreds of medicinal liquid essences was nearing its end, and the entire process was astonishingly smooth.

Naturally, he was not being presumptuous.

The refining of this yi shi pill, from the sequence of ingredient placement to the control of heat, and from the medicinal property Fusion points to the timing of Spirit Ascension, had already been rehearsed no less than a hundred times in the deductions of the Future Non-Existence Sutra.

Every step was etched into his Soul, making the chance of error negligible.

Another day passed.

In the plaza, the faces of those who had been waiting to see Shen Wen flustered due to insufficient Dou Qi gradually turned ugly.

A Four-Star Dou Zong... his Dou Qi can sustain this for so long?

A Qiu Family Alchemist whispered to his companion, his voice full of disbelief, "How terrifying is the consumption of Dou Qi when refining an Eighth Grade Pill?"

His reserve of Dou Qi is practically comparable to a Dou Zun!

Unbelievably dense." His companion gritted his teeth, the disappointment in his eyes deepening.

On the high platform, Tian Leizi nodded slightly and said to Xuan Kongzi beside him, "It seems this disciple of Elder Lin has an unusually solid Foundation."

Xuan Yi did not speak, her gaze resting on Shen Wen's calm profile, and her tightly clenched palm relaxed slightly.

Just as everyone harbored different thoughts—

Rumble...

A low, muffled thunder sound came without warning from above Myriad Medicine Plaza.

Immediately afterward, everyone whose cultivation surpassed the Dou Huang Realm clearly felt the surrounding Heaven and Earth Energy begin to violently stir, as if agitated by an invisible hand, rushing madly toward the sky above the plaza!

The pill is forming!" Tian Leizi suddenly stood up, his voice carrying rare excitement. "This lad... he actually did it! An Eighth-Rank Alchemist at twenty years old!"

His words were like drops of water thrown into hot oil, instantly igniting the entire venue.

Pill-forming Phenomenon! It really is a Pill-forming Phenomenon!

I've seen similar energy disturbances when refining a seventh-grade pill, but the scale was nowhere near this...

Eighth Grade... he really succeeded in refining it!

Exclamations and praises surged like a tide.

Countless Alchemists looked up at the sky, their eyes burning with fervor.

For those Alchemists who pursued alchemy their entire lives, being able to personally witness the birth of an Eighth Grade Pill was a tremendous honor and Opportunity.

Above the sky, lead-gray thunderclouds frantically gathered and stacked at a visible speed, covering half the sky in the blink of an eye.

The clouds were as heavy as mountains, and inside them was not ordinary silver-white lightning, but five terrifying colors interwoven: cyan, silver, red, gold, and purple!

Five-Colored Pill Lightning!