177: Chapter 176 Refining Immortal Pills

Ye Qingxuan observed the secluded Bai Yuekui with his Divine Sense and said,

"It will probably take several more years for Yuekui to achieve her Breakthrough, but it doesn't matter. Once the two Realms merge and the world upgrades to a Middle Thousand Worlds, all living beings will benefit. By then, Yuekui should successfully break through and emerge from seclusion."

Having finished discussing the main matters, Ye Qingxuan stood up, preparing to leave.

Seeing him about to leave, Bai Yuetian fiercely cursed his own big mouth in his heart. His brother-in-law had gone to great trouble to cross over to this Realm, yet he had ended the conversation in just a few sentences.

If his sister found out about this after emerging from seclusion, wouldn't she skin him alive?

He hurriedly stepped forward to urge him to stay, "Brother-in-law, you just got here and you're already leaving? Why don't you stay a bit longer?"

Ye Qingxuan shook his head. "The flow of time between the two Realms is chaotic, and I can't figure out the pattern. I have important matters to attend to on my side; I must go back and refine the Soul-Returning Pill."

Bai Yuetian slapped his forehead, remembering the events from the National Destiny Live Broadcast. His brother-in-law still had to help Master Wangchen reincarnate.

Realizing this, Bai Yuetian stopped insisting. "Alright, then I won't keep you. Have a safe trip, brother-in-law."

Ye Qingxuan nodded slightly, and his figure vanished in a teleportation.

Leaving behind a highly frustrated Bai Yuetian.

"Slap!"

"Stupid mouth, why did you have to talk nonsense!"

"Huh? Bai Yuetian, what are you doing? Where's brother-in-law?" Maiduo and Xiadou walked over, each carrying a tray of dishes. They looked at Bai Yuetian, who was slapping his own mouth, with completely bewildered expressions.

Bai Yuetian: "..."

He didn't dare say a word. Otherwise, even if he was Bai Yuekui's brother, he would still get ganged up on.

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Arriving at the foot of Mount Tai, Ye Qingxuan activated the Yin-Yang Token with practiced ease. He stepped into the Yin-Yang Passage and instantly returned to the front of the Ghost Gate in the Underworld.

The two Underworld guards at the gate saw him return and hurriedly bowed in greeting.

Ye Qingxuan asked casually, "How much time has passed since I entered the Underworld?"

The Underworld guard replied respectfully, "Daoist Ye, it has only been about two and a half days."

Ye Qingxuan silently compared the flow of time between the two worlds. Finding absolutely no pattern, he decided to stop dwelling on it.

"Thank you, both of you."

He raised his hand in acknowledgement, bid farewell to the Underworld guards, stepped out of the Ghost Gate, and with a single teleportation, returned directly to Mount Mao.

As soon as Ye Qingxuan returned to Mount Mao, he was stunned by the sight.

On Mount Mao's plaza—

Master Wangchen's Divine Soul was floating in mid-air, debating the Dao and exchanging ideas with a crowd of Cultivators.

Ye Qingxuan took a step forward and walked directly into the center of the plaza.

When everyone present saw him appear, joy instantly flooded their faces.

Master Yuanxin immediately stood up and asked loudly, "Qingxuan, you're back! Have all the Materials for Alchemy been fully gathered?"

As soon as Master Yuanxin spoke, all the Cultivators in the plaza turned to look. Even Master Wangchen in the void stared intently at Ye Qingxuan.

She was also an Alchemist. To be able to refine an Immortal Pill before even achieving Immortal Ascension was a skill she had never witnessed in all her long life. Her heart was likewise filled with anticipation.

Ye Qingxuan swept his gaze across the crowd and sighed inwardly. Good heavens, they were all Alchemists. Not just Shangqing, but almost all the Alchemists from the Daoist, Buddhist, and Demonic factions had gathered here. It seemed everyone wanted to see how he refined an Immortal Pill.

Especially the people from Yaowang Valley. Their gazes were like those of hungry wolves, sending a shiver down Ye Qingxuan's spine. Is it really necessary to act like this just for refining an Immortal Pill?

Wait, Lin Yao's eyes were full of stars, looking completely infatuated. Fortunately, Qingling was in seclusion for her Breakthrough, and Yun Huan didn't know Alchemy so she didn't come. Otherwise, it would have been another chaotic mess.

Ye Qingxuan nodded and said, "All the Materials have been gathered. We can open the furnace and begin refining at any time."

Junior Martial Uncle Yuandan took a step forward, his eyes burning with intensity as he asked, "Qingxuan, can we stay and watch?"

Hearing this, Ye Qingxuan said directly, "Junior Martial Uncle, a single revolution of a Golden Core takes nine years. For the Three-Revolution Soul-Returning Pill, plus the refining and processing of various Spirit Medicines, it will take at least thirty years."

Upon hearing this, everyone present suddenly snapped out of it. They had been so full of anticipation for the Immortal Pill that they had completely overlooked how long Alchemy took. Thirty years of time—they couldn't possibly just wait by the Pill Furnace doing nothing, and Ye Qingxuan still had to enter the National Destiny Space.

Lin Yao's eyes lit up, and she looked at Ye Qingxuan. "Brother Qingxuan, do you plan to use the 'Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun' Divine Ability?"

Ye Qingxuan nodded slightly. He had previously used the "Knowing the Future" Divine Ability to see when the National Destiny Space would open, but the result was completely blurry.

Previously, even the Heavenly Secrets Technique could calculate it, but a Tiangang Divine Power couldn't? One didn't even need to think to know that the old geezers in the Upper Realm were watching. Whenever he finished his work, that was when the National Destiny Space would open.

Even so, he couldn't just sit idly for thirty years. Refining an Immortal Pill during the Tribulation Transcendence Stage was not easy. If the world began to merge midway through the refinement, the furnace would definitely explode. Although there was enough time, the medicinal ingredients couldn't withstand such reckless wasting.

If he were in the Mahayana stage, it would be much simpler. But with the current world Rank, he would likely ascend immediately after passing the Heavenly Tribulation.

"I do have that intention. Do you all want to watch?"

Everyone present nodded in unison, like chickens pecking at grain. Those who could stand here were Alchemists themselves, and they deeply desired to witness the Alchemy techniques for refining an Immortal Pill with their own eyes!

"You want to watch too? This is meant for you anyway. Once you enter Reincarnation, you will forget all of it," Ye Qingxuan asked, looking at Wangchen.

Wangchen replied, "If a man hears the Dao in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret! This is what the Fellow Daoists have taught me."

"Alright, follow me!"

As soon as Ye Qingxuan's voice fell, he transformed into a stream of light and flew toward the back mountain. Seeing this, everyone hurriedly followed.

Arriving at a flat clearing, a divine light flashed on Ye Qingxuan's body, and the heavens pagoda flew out from his Niwan Palace.

He then waved his hand and threw out a formation map. The Great Heavenly Cycle Flying Star Sword Array materialized, its vast divine light completely enveloping the entire back mountain.

Next, Ye Qingxuan's hands quickly formed hand seals, using his own Xiaoyao Great Dao to manipulate time.

The heavens pagoda also spewed out streaks of divine light, assisting Ye Qingxuan in executing his Divine Ability. Within the area covered by the grand formation, time was slowly stretched, and the time ratio was continuously increased.

Just then, a rumble echoed from high above, and the Eye of the Heavenly Dao manifested.

It sensed that someone was manipulating time, which was a Heaven-Defying act, and was about to bring down Heavenly Punishment. However, upon seeing that the caster was Ye Qingxuan, the Heavenly Dao paused on the spot.

The already formed Heavenly Punishment quietly dissipated, and the Heavenly Dao even secretly lent a hand, helping him bear the immense consumption of the Divine Ability.

Ye Qingxuan clearly felt the pressure of activating the Divine Ability suddenly lighten. He looked up at the sky in confusion, wondering to himself: This is a Heaven-Defying time Divine Ability. It's one thing for the Heavenly Dao not to suppress me, but it's actually secretly helping?

He had no time to overthink as his hands did not pause in forming the hand seals.

With a loud rumble, the time Divine Ability took shape.

Ye Qingxuan slightly compared the flow of time and was startled.

The time ratio between the inside of the grand formation and the outside world was stretched to the limit of a Minor Thousand Worlds. One day in the outside world was a full thirty years inside the formation.

"One day to thirty years?!"

Lin Yao's mouth fell wide open, looking completely dumbfounded. "What? Doesn't that mean the time needed to refine the Three-Revolution Soul-Returning Pill is only one day in the outside world?!"

"Wait, the Heavenly Dao actually allows this?"

Yang Qi, an Alchemist from the Heavenly Demon Palace, couldn't understand it for the life of him. A thousand years ago, his great-great-great-Grandmaster had only managed a ratio of one day to thirty days, and was almost struck dead by the Heavenly Dao. Yet this Great Daoist Ye in front of him had a ratio of one day to thirty years?

Yang Qi had an urge to burst into song: "Accidentally barging into the heavenly household!"

Everyone fell silent. Was this Ye Qingxuan the biological son of the Heavenly Dao? To be favored by the heavens to such an insane degree?!

Ye Qingxuan didn't bother to delve into the reason for the Heavenly Dao's help, and directly took out his Pill Furnace, suspending it in mid-air.

He raised his hand and took out the required medicinal herbs: Nine-Revolution Soul-Returning Lotus, Equinox Flower, Yang-Returning Grass, Ancient God Poria, Black Dragon Snow Ginseng, and hundreds of other herbs, throwing them all into the Pill Furnace.

He was going to refine them all at once. Normally, Alchemists would refine them in batches according to their medicinal properties, but Ye Qingxuan found that too troublesome. Besides, with his current Primordial Spirit at the Heavenly Immortal Realm, he could easily handle it.

Ye Qingxuan activated the Refining Technique, casting hand seals one after another into the furnace body. Inside the Pill Furnace, Samadhi True Fire flared up, refining the herbs within and gradually extracting and concentrating their medicinal power.

The Medicine King murmured in a low voice, "Good heavens! They are all herbs with attributes of life and death! Only Qingxuan could gather such a combination!"

Yuandan clenched his hands. "Look at his Refining Technique! It is perfectly ordered and structured. The medicinal properties of every single spiritual ingredient are perfectly preserved!"

Lin Yao added, "More than that, there are dozens of Spirit Medicines with conflicting attributes. Brother Qingxuan is refining them all together? Isn't he afraid of the furnace exploding?"

Master Yuanxin and Qingmo exchanged a glance, their meaning very clear: 'Qingxuan is at it again?'

Well, might as well Cultivate. They couldn't understand it anyway, let alone replicate it.

Master Yuanxin and Qingmo very straightforwardly sat cross-legged and began to Cultivate.

The others looked at the master and disciple, feeling a sense of exasperation. This was an opportunity to observe the process of refining an Immortal Pill, and yet the two of them were just cultivating here?

Oh, Ye Qingxuan was their disciple/Junior Brother? Never mind then!

Master Yuanxin and Qingmo thought: 'Go ahead and watch. It's useless even if you watch, so we might as well take advantage of this Time Formation.'

Although Yuandan had long experienced Ye Qingxuan's monstrous talent, he still refused to give up. He stared wide-eyed, his Divine Sense acting like a camera, refusing to miss a single frame.

...

Before his voice had fully faded, Ye Qingxuan's fingers flew, sending thousands of refining hand seals continuously into the Pill Furnace.

The true fire inside the furnace split into dozens of flames. Gentle fires removed impurities while fierce fires condensed the essence. The intensity of the flames was terrifyingly stable, without the slightest fluctuation from beginning to end.

"This is too stable! Refining herbs with different attributes at the same time?"

"Is this how Immortal Pills are refined?! Even if this old Daoist achieves Immortal Ascension, I still wouldn't be able to do it?!"

The crowd of Alchemists flushed red, feeling both excited and despondent. They simply couldn't learn it at all!

Within the grand formation, time passed rapidly, and two and a half years flew by in an instant.

All the spiritual ingredients inside the Pill Furnace completely fused together, sending an extraordinary fragrance soaring into the sky and permeating the entire grand formation.

Wangchen's Divine Soul floated in mid-air, her voice filled with amazement: "I have never seen anyone refine medicinal ingredients in this manner!"

Ye Qingxuan's expression remained unchanged. He raised his hand and threw the Heavenly Dao Origin into the Pill Furnace, then formed the Condensing Pill Technique.

"The medicinal properties of the various herbs differ, but the Heavenly Dao Origin encompasses all things. Using it as a foundation, I can bind the numerous Spirit Medicines together!"

"For the Three-Revolution Soul-Returning Pill, each revolution takes nine years. The slightest slip-up, and the entire batch of medicine will be ruined."

The hearts of the surrounding Alchemists rose into their throats.

"Watch! Watch closely!!"

Everyone in the area stared intently at the Pill Furnace.

Ye Qingxuan focused his mind entirely, continuously switching between fire-control, pill-solidifying, and Pill-Nourishing Hand Seals.

Another twenty-seven years passed, and the onlookers just stared blankly like that for the entire twenty-seven years.

The surging medicinal power inside the furnace compressed layer by layer and aggregated into shape, as a golden-red, perfectly round pill body slowly emerged.

"The final step, cleansing with Yellow Springs Water!"

Ye Qingxuan raised his hand and took out a jade bottle. Guiding it with his magic power, the Yellow Springs Water flew out of the bottle like a water snake, pouring directly onto the Medicinal Pill.

"Sizzle!"

A sound like cold water splashing onto a hot branding iron rang out, and wisps of pale yellow mist drifted out from the Pill Furnace.

Immediately after, a rich pill fragrance wafted out. With three pill veins swirling around it, the Golden Core, surging with majestic Immortal Qi, flew out from the Pill Furnace.

"It's a success! It's really a success!"

"Immortal Qi wafts with fragrance, and the pill's charm is at Perfection! A Three-Revolution Immortal Pill!"

"To be able to refine an Immortal Pill before even achieving Immortal Ascension, he is truly the only one throughout the ages!"

The Alchemists felt both respect and shame. They hadn't understood any of it at all! However, they were also completely won over by Ye Qingxuan's prowess in the Dao of Alchemy.