944: Chapter 945 Nine Patterns and Ten Pills

Gu Changge did not rush to act, instead stopping before the pitch-black Pill Furnace and standing quietly.

Dan Wuhya and Pavilion Master Danchenzi did not even dare to breathe heavily, their eyes wide open, afraid of missing even the tiniest movement.

Gu Changge casually guided the air toward the furnace chamber with a gentle wave of his hand.

"Boom——!"

The dormant orange-red earthly fire at the bottom of the furnace seemed to receive some kind of summons, instantly surging by three feet!

Yet the moment the flame rose, it became incomparably docile. There was no rushing heat wave, no roaring noise, only a cluster of pure purple-gold flames quietly leaping at the core of the furnace.

Dan Wuhya's pupils contracted slightly. This was the Heaven-grade Alchemy room, and the earthly fire pulse eye was the most vigorous one in the entire Pill Emperor City. The ferocity of its firepower was so violent that even every time he opened the furnace, he had to suppress it by thirty percent with a Formation first before he dared to guide the fire into the furnace.

Yet he had never seen anyone able to subdue the earthly fire so easily. The subterranean vein energy that should have been tyrannical and rampaging was as obedient as a lamb in this person's hands, as if it was meant to be this gentle.

But he did not make a sound, only holding his breath and concentrating as he continued to watch.

Standing before the Pill Furnace, Gu Changge did not rush to add medicinal ingredients, instead quietly watching the furnace fire, letting it roll, leap, and blend within the chamber.

The first step of Alchemy was not adding ingredients, but nurturing the furnace.

If medicinal ingredients were thrown in directly, the fire nature would be uneven, the medicinal power would lose balance, and the refined Medicinal Pill was destined to be scrap.

Standing before the Pill Furnace, Gu Changge felt the furnace temperature and said, "The heat is almost there."

Before his words faded, he raised his hand and waved.

From the storage ring, hundreds of rare medicinal ingredients poured out like a torrent, floating overwhelmingly around the Pill Furnace.

Ten-thousand-year Blood Phoenix Ganoderma, Nine Nether Dark Ice Lotus, Primordial Destiny Soul Fruit...

Every single stalk was a rare treasure hard to find in the outside world, yet at this moment, they floated densely in mid-air like worthless weeds.

Then Gu Changge made a motion that Dan Wuhya and Pavilion Master Danchenzi would never forget for the rest of their lives: he threw all the medicinal ingredients into the Pill Furnace at once.

"Young Master, you cannot——!"

Dan Wuhya and Pavilion Master Danchenzi cried out almost at the same time, their faces turning instantly pale.

Hundreds of medicinal ingredients entered the furnace simultaneously, their medicinal properties completely different; some promoted each other, some restrained each other, some melted upon meeting fire, and some needed to be simmered slowly. To throw them all in like this—forget about Alchemy, not blowing up the furnace would already be considered smoke rising from the ancestors' graves!

However——

The expected explosion did not happen.

After those medicinal ingredients fell into the furnace chamber, they did not entangle, conflict, or disintegrate with each other. Instead, as if precisely separated by an invisible giant hand, they each occupied a region within the furnace chamber.

The Scarlet Flame Coral Ganoderma was in the east, the Nine Nether Dark Ice Lotus was in the west, the Primordial Destiny Soul Fruit was in the center, and the remaining supplementary medicines surrounded them layer by layer like stars around the moon, each in its own position.

Some sank to the bottom of the furnace chamber, tightly clinging to the earthly fire pulse eye; the temperature there was the highest, perfectly suited for those hard-textured fire-attribute medicinal ingredients.

Some floated in the middle of the furnace chamber; the temperature there was moderate, suitable for those mild-tempered medicinal ingredients.

More than four hundred kinds of medicinal ingredients, within the same Pill Furnace, seemed to be in their own independent spaces, neither interfering nor contaminating each other.

Every single medicinal ingredient was wrapped in golden flames at the temperature best suited for it, slowly extracting the purest medicinal power.

Pavilion Master Danchenzi's eyeballs were almost popping out as he blurted out, "Th-This is… Different Realms in the Same Furnace?! The legendary Alchemy technique?!"

As the Pavilion Master of Tiandan Pavilion, he had read extensively and had once seen sporadic records about this technique in ancient books.

Dividing different temperature zones within the same furnace chamber to allow multiple medicinal ingredients to be extracted simultaneously without interfering with each other.

But that was only a legend; he had never seen anyone actually perform it. Yet the scene before him was even more exaggerated than what was recorded in ancient books.

The "Different Realms in the Same Furnace" mentioned in ancient books was at most processing a dozen or so medicinal ingredients simultaneously, while Gu Changge's move went down with hundreds at once!

Dan Wuhya did not speak, but his hands had already begun to tremble slightly.

Having lived for hundreds of millions of years, he naturally knew the reputation of "Different Realms in the Same Furnace".

To be honest, he could barely manage this technique himself, but it was limited to handling three or five low-level medicinal ingredients at the same time, and any slight carelessness would waste all previous efforts.

Yet the scene before him involved hundreds of rare medicinal ingredients, every single one priceless, every single one with vastly different medicinal properties, yet they were thrown into the furnace by Gu Changge at the exact same moment, each settling into its own position without interfering with each other.

To achieve this step required a thorough understanding of the habits of every single medicinal ingredient, and the control over the heat had to reach the pinnacle of perfection.

Even more so, it required a terrifyingly vast Divine Sense to simultaneously control hundreds of medicinal ingredients so that each could settle into its proper place within the furnace.

These three were indispensable, yet the young man before him had actually accomplished all of them.

Gu Changge ignored their shock; his fingers plucked lightly in the Void Realm, as if playing a zither tune that no one could understand.

With the rhythm of his fingertips, the flames within the furnace chamber sometimes surged and sometimes subsided, and the temperature of each region was precisely regulated within different intervals.

Some medicinal ingredients needed fierce fire for rapid extraction, so he wrapped them in raging flames; some medicinal ingredients needed slow simmering over low heat, so he saturated them with gentle fire; some medicinal ingredients were delicate and feared intensity, so he surrounded them with soft fire.

Hundreds of medicinal ingredients each had their own temperament and requirements, but under his control, they were all utterly docile, without a single shred of error.

In less than the time it took to burn half an incense stick, the extraction of all medicinal ingredients was completed simultaneously.

Hundreds of clusters of medicinal liquid essence of varying colors floated within the furnace chamber, every single cluster pure and translucent, without a trace of Impurities.

Then he gently brought his hands together.

In the furnace chamber, those hundreds of drops of medicinal liquid, medicinal powder, and medicinal essence gathered toward the center of the furnace simultaneously as if summoned.

They did not collide with each other or entangle chaotically, but instead overlapped, intertwined, and underwent Fusion layer by layer in an extremely profound order and trajectory.

Red merged into gold, gold merged into cyan, cyan merged into purple...

The nine primary colors blended in turn, ultimately condensing into clusters of light balls at the core of the furnace.

"Next, Nine-Turn Pill Condensation."

Gu Changge said indifferently, gently hooking his finger.

The golden flames within the furnace chamber suddenly split apart, transforming into nine flames of different colors, revolving around the medicine fetus.

Scarlet fire, orange fire, purple-polar fire, silver-frost fire... The nine kinds of flames rotated and alternated, resembling a meticulously choreographed dance.

With every turn, the medicine fetus grew a fraction brighter; with every turn, the pill mark became one line clearer.

Once the nine turns were completed, taking no more than a dozen breaths in total, Dan Wuhya's hands had already begun to shake.

Previously, when refining Heavenly Sovereign-grade Medicinal Pills, just the step of pill condensation required a massive amount of time, and he had to be extremely cautious for fear of making a mistake.

Yet Gu Changge had completed it in just a dozen breaths.

The light balls spun, and just at the moment when those nine-colored light balls were about to erupt, Gu Changge's sleeve lightly brushed.

An invisible barrier instantly enveloped the entire Pill Furnace, firmly locking down the nine-colored pillar of light that was about to soar into the heavens.

Even so, the terrifying aftermath of the pill Qi forced Dan Wuhya and Pavilion Master Danchenzi to retreat repeatedly, heavily crashing into the wall.

Their clothes fluttered loudly under the blast of Qi, and the expressions on their faces could no longer be described with shock.

That was a trance-like feeling after one's lifelong beliefs were completely pulverized, only to watch a new myth being born right before their eyes.

This was a Medicinal Pill comparable to the Supreme grade!

As the strongest alchemist of Tiandan Pavilion, if Dan Wuhya wanted to refine it, he would also have to spend months or even years of time, exhausting his lifelong painstaking efforts, and there was even a high possibility of failure.

Yet in Gu Changge's hands, in a mere half-hour, it was done?

Moreover, looking at his relaxed and casual appearance, it was as if he had just casually brewed a pot of tea.

The pillar of light was forcibly suppressed inside the Alchemy room by Gu Changge, and did not break through the grand protective Formation of Tiandan Pavilion.

But that vast fluctuation of pill Qi still attracted the attention of quite a few Elders within Tiandan Pavilion.

Several Elders waiting in nearby Alchemy rooms simultaneously stopped the actions in their hands, looking toward the direction of the Heaven-grade Alchemy room with doubt and uncertainty.

"What was that commotion just now?"

"Such a terrifying pill Qi... It's been less than half an hour, could it be that the pills have already formed?"

"How is this possible?!"

They looked at each other, their eyes filled with disbelief.

At this moment, inside the Alchemy room.

The furnace fire extinguished.

Gu Changge casually removed the furnace lid, without even lowering his head to look, and casually reached inside to scoop.

Ten Medicinal Pills whose entire bodies circulated with nine-colored halos lay quietly in his palm.

Every single one was smooth as jade, the nine pill marks as clear as if carved, and the nine-colored halos circulated endlessly between the pill marks, breathtakingly beautiful.

Dan Wuhya's breathing stopped completely at this moment.

Nine-striped, every single one was nine-striped—the extreme pinnacle of the Dao of Alchemy in legends, could someone really achieve it?

Furthermore, there were ten of them?!