147: Chapter 147 Mass Production of Great Luo Golden Pills?
Heavenly Court.
Pill Palace.
Ever since Consort Dan arrived, this place had become the most important and mysterious spot in the Heavenly Court.
Heaven And Earth Treasures from the Heavenly Court's treasury were being sent here continuously.
The Medicinal Pill fragrance drifting out from the Pill Palace could improve an Immortal's cultivation and cleanse their Dao body of all Impurities.
This fragrance grew stronger day by day.
At this moment, deep within the Pill Palace, inside a hall paved with warm jade.
Li Xuan lounged lazily on a white jade chair, holding his eleventh son, Li Danchen, who had been born not long ago.
The little guy was sleeping soundly.
On his delicate, pink face, the innate Alchemy mark between his brows flickered in and out of existence.
Even his breathing carried a rhythm that made all medicinal herbs submit.
Opposite him, Consort Dan and Dan Lingzi sat straight, their expressions tense, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Li Xuan had brought up a matter. A topic that made their souls tremble.
"Refine a Medicinal Pill that can be mass-produced to help Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak Cultivators break through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm?"
Consort Dan, this Saintess of the Alchemy Holy Land, felt her voice drifting away.
She actually suspected that something was wrong with her ears.
"Your Majesty, are you... are you joking?"
She stared at Li Xuan's impossibly handsome face, trying to find a hint of a joke on it.
But she failed. Li Xuan's eyes were calm and waveless, without a hint of a joke.
His demeanor was that of someone talking about the most ordinary thing.
"A Grand Unity Golden Immortal is an existence that has jumped out of the River of Time, eternal and free in the past and future. Every daluo dao fruit formed is a unique transformation. Wanting to use a Medicinal Pill to assist, no, to 'mass-produce' itβthis isn't just Heaven-Defying, this is slapping the Dao in the face!"
Consort Dan explained with a dry mouth; the Alchemy common sense in her brain was screaming that this was impossible, absolutely impossible!
Beside her, Dan Lingzi, the Alchemy Grandmaster who had transformed from an Eight-Trigrams Pill Furnace, also nodded, his face twisted into a ball.
"Your Majesty, the Saintess is right. In this old servant's Legacy memories, even during the Ancient Heavenly Court's Peak, there had never been such a Medicinal Pill. There is the legendary 'nine-turn golden pill', but it is rare and hard to find, a supreme coincidence in Alchemy. To mass-produce it... the main ingredient would at least need to be an Undying Divine Herb stained with the Immortal Emperor's blood. The refining method has long been lost, and the possibility of success..."
He didn't continue. Because that possibility was so small it could be considered non-existent.
Li Xuan listened quietly, his expression unchanged. He had a trump card that others didn't.
He looked down at his son, who was smacking his little lips in his arms, and smiled.
"The old way definitely won't work." Li Xuan spoke slowly.
"But must Alchemy strictly adhere to those rigid rules?"
"What about sovereign, minister, assistant, and envoy, what about the mutual generation and restriction of medicinal properties, what about heat control..."
"In my view, those are just rules that the weak must follow."
Once these words were spoken, Consort Dan and Dan Lingzi were completely stunned.
Rules that the weak must follow? This was the Foundation of Alchemy! These were iron Laws bought with the blood and tears of countless Seniors! Was this Heavenly Emperor about to overturn the entire Alchemy path?
"The Great Dao is simple." Li Xuan extended a finger and gently tapped Li Danchen's brow.
Feeling the aura connected to the Alchemy Origin, his voice was calm, yet terrifyingly confident.
"Isn't the essence of Alchemy just taking the power of a pile of herbs and, using a 'method', molding them into the shape you want?"
"As long as this 'method' is tyrannical and unreasonable enough, then the so-called conflicts in medicinal properties, the so-called heat control, and even... the so-called grade of the medicinal materials, are all useless."
"This..." Consort Dan was speechless. Li Xuan's words sounded like sophistry. Yet, it seemed to hide some truth she didn't understand.
Perhaps he understood his father's words. Or perhaps he was stirred by his father's language. Li Danchen, who had been sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes.
Those eyes were clear, yet they hid an Alchemy Universe.
He wiggled his little body, sat up in Li Xuan's arms, and curiously examined the stunned Consort Dan and Dan Lingzi.
Then, he extended his chubby little finger and pointed to the ancient, heavy three-legged giant cauldron in the center of the hall. The cauldron was entwined with Grandmist Purple Qi. The Grandmist Creation Cauldron!
"Ah... ya..." The little guy made a few vague syllables, his small hands waving continuously at the divine cauldron. It was as if it were some novel toy.
Li Xuan laughed out loud. The main event was about to begin.
He stood up holding his son and placed him steadily on the meditation cushion in front of the Grandmist Creation Cauldron.
"Consort Dan, Dan Lingzi, watch closely." Li Xuan's voice carried a smile. "Today, let my son give you a real 'Alchemy Introductory Lesson'."
Consort Dan and Dan Lingzi looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion. And absurdity. Letting a newborn baby give them an Alchemy lesson? This was too outrageous!
But the next moment, they realized how wrong they were.
Li Danchen, sitting cross-legged on the cushion, mimicked his father's posture, crossing his little legs seriously.
He looked at the mountain of Immortal herbs in front of him. These were all prepared by Li Xuan for this "experiment," many of them divine herbs aged one hundred thousand or several hundred thousand years.
The little guy sniffed the air, as if picking things out. Soon, it seemed he had chosen.
Towards the pile of herbs, he extended his little hand and grabbed at the air.
Hum! A dozen Immortal herbs, including one "Dragon Blood Sacred Fruit" aged three hundred thousand years, one "Star Grass" aged five hundred thousand years, and several auxiliary Immortal herbs aged tens of thousands of years, were caught by an invisible force, flew up in unison, and threw themselves into the Grandmist Creation Cauldron.
Consort Dan's heart jumped to her throat. It's over! The Dragon Blood Sacred Fruit's medicinal properties are extremely Yang and rigid, while the Star Grass is Yin and soft. If these two main ingredients are refined together, the medicinal properties will definitely conflict. If things go wrong, it will be a destroyed pill and a blown-up furnace! Not to mention those auxiliary herbs thrown in randomly! This isn't Alchemy. This is a chaotic stew! This is blowing up the kitchen!
Her heart skipped a beat, and just as she prepared to warn His Majesty, Li Danchen performed another maneuver they understood even less.
The little guy puffed up his cheeks. He blew a breath towards the Grandmist Creation Cauldron.
Whoosh... A puff of white breath, carrying a milky scent and containing the aura of the initial Grandmist, drifted leisurely into the cauldron.
Boom! The silent Grandmist Creation Cauldron, the moment it touched this breath, shook violently. It let out a joyful hum!
The ancient patterns engraved on the cauldron, depicting the birth and death of the Universe and the forms of ten thousand herbs, all came to life at this moment. They burst forth with brilliant divine light!
Inside the cauldron, an even more incredible scene was unfolding. Those dozen Immortal herbs with different medicinal properties, which should have conflicted violently, were wrapped by that puff of Grandmist Qi. They didn't even struggle. They melted directly.
No fire burning. No Formation purification. They were broken down into the purest medicinal liquid, all Impurities vaporized in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing behind.
Even more terrifying was that the medicinal liquid formed from the auxiliary herbs, aged tens of thousands of years, was growing in potency at a crazy speed under the nourishment of the Grandmist Qi! One hundred thousand years! Two hundred thousand years! Five hundred thousand years! In just a few breaths, the quality of their medicinal power was no worse than that "Star Grass"!
"This... this is enlightenment! It is the source enlightenment of the Alchemy Law!" Dan Lingzi's eyes were about to pop out, he pointed at the divine cauldron, his voice sharp enough to pierce one's eardrums.
Consort Dan was also dumbfounded, muttering to herself: "No fire, no techniques, just one breath... and it purified and sublimated them... what use is my tens of thousands of years of hard-earned fire control technique?"
Her understanding of Alchemy was being rubbed into the ground repeatedly.
But Li Danchen's "performance" wasn't over. After purification and sublimation, the little guy seemed to find it fun. He extended his two delicate little hands, and through the air, towards the divine cauldron, made a "kneading dough" motion.
Inside the cauldron, those dozen balls of medicinal liquid that should have been incompatible, with the movement of his little hands, really began to gather and fuse. No energy riot. No Law conflict. It felt as if these naturally conflicting medicinal liquids were originally one family. Now, it was just a long-awaited reunion, happily embracing each other.
The entire Fusion process was smooth and flowing, without a hint of stagnation. It was filled with the beauty of Dao rhythm.
Consort Dan and Dan Lingzi watched, their minds swaying. This wasn't Alchemy; this was watching an ultimate artistic performance.
When little Li Danchen got tired of the "kneading dough" game, he seemed to think it was about enough. He happily clapped his little hands.
"Clang!" A clear, resonant toll of the cauldron echoed from within the Grandmist Creation Cauldron. The cauldron lid was blown high into the air with a "boom"!
Dazzling golden light erupted from the cauldron's mouth like a bursting dam, instantly dyeing the entire Pill Palace into a golden ocean!
A Medicinal Pill fragrance, thicker, more profound, and more intoxicating than any before, spread from the Pill Palace as the center, crazily dispersing throughout the entire Heavenly Court!
But these were not the most shocking parts. The most shocking part was that what sprayed out of the cauldron's mouth was not one Medicinal Pill, nor two... but a whole sheet!
A sheet of golden Medicinal Pills, flashing with divine Dao light, wrapped in wisps of Grand Unity Golden Immortal Dao rhythm!
"Cling-clang!" Dozens of golden Medicinal Pills, the size of dragon eyes, round and plump, fell down with a clatter, landing on a huge jade plate that Li Xuan had already prepared, making a series of crisp sounds.
Golden Cores like rain! This supreme phenomenon that only existed in legends was playing out vividly before Consort Dan and Dan Lingzi.
The two could no longer think, just staring blankly at the mountain of Golden Cores piled on the jade plate, their minds blank.
"Is... is this real?" Consort Dan trembling extended her hand, carefully picking up a Golden Core.
The Medicinal Pill felt warm and smooth in her hand, and from it came a pure aura of Law and a trace of... Grand Unity Golden Immortal divine rhythm that made even her heart palpitate!
She hurriedly used her Saintess secret techniques to investigate. A moment later, she froze, and the Golden Core in her hand dropped back onto the jade plate with a "pat".
"Thirty... thirty percent!" Her voice was dry and hoarse.
"This Medicinal Pill... can actually allow a Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak Cultivator to increase their chance of breaking through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm by thirty percent out of thin air! And... no pill toxins! The medicinal properties are perfect! It can be... eaten an infinite number of times!"
Boom! Dan Lingzi felt something explode in his brain, his eyes rolled back, and his vision went black, falling straight backward.
A thirty percent chance! And it can be eaten infinitely! What does this mean?
It means that as long as there are enough resources, a Taiyi Golden Immortal with decent Aptitude, eating three or four of these pills, can almost 100% step into that Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm that countless people dream of!
Li Xuan picked up his son, who was a bit sleepy and yawning, and kissed his little face. "Good son, well done!"
He looked at the dozens of "quasi-Grand Unity Golden Immortal pills" in the jade plate, enough to drive the entire Immortal realm crazy, and let out a hearty laugh.
Mass-producing Grand Unity Golden Immortal Cultivators? From today on, this is no longer a fantasy!
Outside the Pill Palace, the entire Heavenly Court was boiling because of this terrifying medicinal fragrance!
The newly promoted Grand Unity Golden Immortal Zhao Wuji, who was consolidating his cultivation in his own palace, suddenly opened his eyes. The trace of familiar yet strange "Grand Unity Golden Immortal divine rhythm" in the air made his scalp tingle.
"Is this the aura of Grand Unity Golden Immortal pills? And... it's not one! It's... many, many of them!"
Those old remnants of the Yuhua Immortal Dynasty who had been stuck at the Taiyi Peak for who knows how many tens of thousands of years were trembling with excitement at this moment, even kneeling towards the Pill Palace with tears streaming down their faces.
They smelled it! They smelled the hope of breaking through the Bottleneck!
Li Xuan held his son and stood at the entrance of the Pill Palace, overlooking the boiling Heavenly Court below, his eyes filled with the heroic spirit of looking down upon the world.
"Consort Dan, convey my decree." His voice spread throughout the entire Heavenly Court, like an imperial edict from Heaven.
"From today on, all meritorious officials of my Heavenly Court whose cultivation has reached the Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak can exchange their merits for the 'Nine-Turn Profound One Great Pill'!"
"To help you... everyone can become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!"
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