880: Chapter 881 Earning Dao Artifacts While Lying Down

When she saw the words "five portions" immediately following "nine-leaf soul returning grass," Yuyi's slender, dark eyebrows instantly shot up!

"Hey, quack!" She unceremoniously tossed the Jade Slip back to the maid, her gaze scraping over Yao Delong like a knife's edge. "This list of yours... you certainly have quite the appetite! You want five portions of nine-leaf soul returning grass in one go? Do you think those are just weeds by the roadside?!"

Yao Delong's expression remained calm, having long anticipated this. "Demon Emperor, please understand. This Medicinal Pill is called the 'great void spirit nurturing pill,' and it is ranked at the eighth-rank! The difficulty of refining it is as high as ascending to the heavens! For an eighth-rank Medicinal Pill, even the slightest mistake means all previous efforts are wasted. Preparing several sets of ingredients is not only to ensure the success rate but also to have enough medicinal potency to push for a higher grade when the pill is formed, aiming for the best therapeutic effect so as not to fail the Fox King Your Highness in his peril!"

"An eighth-rank Medicinal Pill?!" Yuyi's pale gold pupils suddenly constricted! The heavy stone hanging in her heart actually loosened a fraction because of those four words!

What she had originally worried about most was this "quack" bringing out some seventh-rank Medicinal Pills to fool them—seventh-rank pills might be a great supplement for an ordinary Demon King, but for her elder brother Demon Emperor Xue Wuya, who was in the Demon Emperor realm with a profound Foundation but was now at the end of his rope, it would be no different from trying to put out a burning cart of wood with a cup of water! If it really was an eighth-rank Medicinal Pill... then it would be completely different! Even if it couldn't radically cure the curse, if it could truly restore most of her brother's Divine Soul as he claimed, then combined with the Kunpeng Clan's bone slip for breaking the seal, there would be a glimmer of hope!

This quack... it seems... he isn't entirely bragging?

Yuyi gave Yao Delong a deep look. Although the doubt in her eyes hadn't completely dissipated, a touch of gravity had been added. She snorted coldly, ultimately choosing not to stop him anymore. "Hmph! It had better be so! If you dare to waste my clan's precious Immortal Plant..." Her threat was self-evident.

The maid hurried away with the Jade Slip and returned a moment later with several jade boxes shimmering with Spiritual Qi and flowing light. Yao Delong took them and swept his Divine Sense over them, confirming that five strange Immortal Plants, entirely emerald green with nine leaves flowing with emerald clouds, were lying safely inside. A barely perceptible curve formed at the corner of his mouth. The nine-leaf soul returning grass was in his hands!

In the center of the quiet room, a ten-thousand-year warm jade platform, as smooth as grease, had already been prepared. Yao Delong did not hesitate. With a thought, that high-grade heavenly artifact that had rendered great service—the mountain river sun moon cauldron—crashed onto the jade platform! The cauldron's body was primitive and simple, with the reliefs of the sun, moon, mountains, and rivers flowing with a faint treasure light.

"Hmph!"

A cold snort filled with thick disdain and disbelief instantly rang out!

Yuyi the Demon Emperor stood with her arms crossed, squeezing her breathtaking curves into an even more proud display. Her pale gold eyes stared fixedly at that Heaven-Grade Weapon Pill Furnace, her face practically screaming the word "ridiculous"!

"Quack!!" Her voice rose, filled with the anger of being played. "You dare use a mere Heaven-Grade Weapon Pill Furnace to refine an eighth-rank treasure pill?! Do you take this Empress for a fool?!"

She was so angry that her silver hair moved without wind, and specks of starlight drifted from the bells on her ankles. "How violent are the conflicts between the power of Laws and the medicinal properties contained within an eighth-rank Medicinal Pill! A Heaven-Grade Weapon Pill Furnace simply cannot withstand it! One careless move and the furnace will explode, destroying the pill! Are you even an Alchemist?! Or are you intentionally trying to destroy my elder brother's last hope?!" The pressure of a Demon Emperor level faintly rose around her, and the air in the quiet room seemed to freeze!

Yao Delong was about to explain, "This is the Pill Furnace I usually use," but before he could speak—

BOOM!!!

A terrifying pressure that suppressed all ages and caused the Laws of heaven and earth to resonate suddenly descended! The space within the quiet room groaned under the unbearable weight!

A massive, peerless phantom of a giant cauldron, surrounded by Xuanhuang Qi and covered in Innate divine runes, appeared out of thin air, instantly overshadowing the light of the mountain river sun moon cauldron! Then, the phantom solidified,

And a xuanhuang-colored giant cauldron, several meters tall and radiating an endless aura of heaviness and creation, crashed onto the warm jade platform! Its power was so strong that even the jade platform beneath it hummed!

A xuanhuang dao artifact! And a Pill Furnace at that!

Yao Delong's pupils constricted! With his eyesight, he instantly recognized that this was definitely a genuine xuanhuang dao artifact-level Alchemy cauldron! Its value was likely several times more precious than a regular, ordinary Dao Artifact!

A hint of pride and unabashed superiority appeared on Yuyi the Demon Emperor's world-toppling face. Her chin tilted up slightly as she spoke in a tone like she was looking down at dust, "Hmph, bumpkin, you've never seen such a treasure, have you? To think you'd dare to show off a mere Heaven-Grade Weapon. This 'xuanhuang creation cauldron' was something I obtained during my early travels; you shall use it for the Alchemy!"

She squinted at Yao Delong and continued, "As long as you can use this cauldron to refine that 'great void spirit nurturing pill,' and its medicinal effect truly helps my elder brother restore most of his Divine Soul and successfully survive the tribulation of breaking the curse..."

"This xuanhuang creation cauldron will be yours! At the same time, all the rewards Li'er promised you, my Heavenly Fox Clan will provide every single one, in full!"

Boom!

Yao Delong's heart skipped a beat in excitement!

A Dao Artifact-level Pill Furnace!

This was simply like being handed a pillow just as he was getting sleepy! He was just worrying about not having top-tier Alchemy tools to push for a higher level of the Dao of Alchemy! Although this Demon Emperor Yuyi was domineering and overbearing, she was damn well generous! This wave was a direct, massive profit!

Yao Delong suppressed the wild joy in his heart and gave Yuyi a solemn bow, this time with a bit more sincerity. "Thank you for the gift of the cauldron, Demon Emperor! I will certainly go all out!"

Yuyi nodded in satisfaction, finally finding this quack a bit more tolerable. "Mm, at least you're sensible. This Empress will head out first to avoid disturbing your Alchemy. However..."

Her tone shifted, and her gaze became as sharp as a knife again, carrying a bone-chilling coldness:

"Let me say the ugly words first! If you can't refine it, or if the refined Medicinal Pill is useless... for the sake of you saving Li'er's life, this Empress can spare you from death! But don't even think about taking a single blade of grass from my Heavenly Fox Clan! Before you scram, I will personally inspect your Divine Soul. If I find you had ill intentions... hmph!" The final cold snort was like a chilling wind from the Nine Netherworlds, making one's marrow run cold.

Yao Delong's expression didn't change as he responded calmly, "Rest assured, Demon Emperor, the results will speak for themselves."

Only then did Yuyi, with a trace of doubt and expectation, take a deep look at the Xuanhuang giant cauldron and the calm Yao Delong before turning to leave the quiet room. The heavy stone door closed silently, isolating the inside from the outside.

Yao Delong took a deep breath and suppressed all distracting thoughts. He walked up to the giant cauldron radiating a heavy Xuanhuang aura, feeling the ancient and pure energy fluctuations coming from the cauldron's body. His heart was filled with unprecedented confidence and a hint of excitement!

"What a good treasure! Today, I shall use you to start the Alchemy!"

He no longer hesitated and flicked his finger—

Chii!

A wisp of glaze-colored flame, gorgeous to the extreme and containing the nine types of heaven and earth Origin auras, leaped out like an elf and landed precisely at the bottom of the xuanhuang creation cauldron! It was exactly the divine fire he had obtained from the Secret Realm—the Glazed Hearth Fire!

This fire flowed with nine colors. It could merge into one to become a source divine flame that incinerated all things, or it could be divided at will into nine sets of heaven and earth Essence Fires with vastly different attributes. When tempering different medicinal materials, it could exert unparalleled and extreme effects! Compared to the Great Sun Divine Fire, which leaned toward violent combat and burning the Divine Soul, the Glazed Hearth Fire was like a divine skill in the path of Alchemy!