175: Chapter 175: The cultivation world is in an uproar: Pills can be refined like this?!

On the demonstration stage, Junior Brother Sun stood next to the white machine, his palms sweating.

Below the stage, it was packed with people.

Every pair of eyes was fixed on him, making him feel like he could barely breathe. In his entire life, he had never been watched by so many people in such a big setting.

"Don't be nervous." Jiang Ning's voice came through a miniature earpiece into his ear. "You are not alone; you have the entire industrial system of Earth standing behind you. Trust it, just like you trust me."

This calm voice immediately made Junior Brother Sun less nervous. He straightened his body and began to recall the operating procedures Jiang Ning had taught him.

"Respected seniors, fellow daoists." Junior Brother Sun spoke loudly into the amplifier. His voice still trembled a little, but it was much clearer. "Today, what we at the Qingyun Sect want to show everyone is this 'alchemy god generation iii' fully automatic pill refining production line."

"The pill it will refine for everyone is the 'soul-stabilizing pill'."

soul-stabilizing pill!

As soon as these three words came out, the crowd below immediately exploded.

"What? Did I hear that right? They want to refine soul-stabilizing pills?"

"That's a pill for Golden Core Stage cultivators to stabilize their souls! It's extremely difficult to refine, and the requirements for heat control and divine sense are exceptionally high! Even for an alchemy master, the success rate doesn't even reach thirty percent!"

"Are they crazy? Sending a Foundation Establishment Stage kid to refine soul-stabilizing pills with a weird-looking iron box? Isn't this just nonsense?"

Master Huorong, standing below the stage, laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha! soul-stabilizing pill? What a huge joke!" He said to the disciples beside him, not hiding his mockery at all. "I'd like to see how they refine a soul-stabilizing pill with this broken iron box! If they can even refine a single pill residue, I'll count it as my loss!"

The crowd below was noisy, but Junior Brother Sun ignored it. He had completely entered his zone.

He took out rows of medicine ingredients packed in jade boxes from his Storage Pouch. The age, weight, and spiritual energy content of each portion of ingredients had been carefully calculated and processed.

He walked to the machine and, following the prompts on the screen, placed the different ingredients into the feed inlet one by one.

The whole process didn't involve any complicated incantations or mysterious rituals. It was just like a mortal cook step-by-step putting ingredients into a pot.

Simple, direct, and even a little... boring.

The audience below started yawning.

"Is that it? I thought there would be some powerful moves? So it's just throwing the ingredients in?"

"Too boring, this is completely different from what I imagined, let's go, let's go."

Many people already felt it was uninteresting and prepared to leave.

Just at this moment, Junior Brother Sun finished placing all the ingredients. He tapped the smooth screen a few times and selected an option called "soul-stabilizing pill - high-efficiency mode".

Then, he pressed the red "Start" button.

The machine started up, making a slight noise. The indicator lights on both sides of the machine lit up with blue light.

Through the transparent observation window, various pipes and reaction chambers began to move smoothly. Driven by airflow, the ingredients were accurately sent to different processing areas for grinding, purification, fusion...

The whole process was excessively quiet.

There were no soaring flames, no spreading pill fragrance, and certainly no shocking spiritual energy fluctuations.

Everything was conducted within a closed, airtight system.

This made the cultivators, accustomed to the traditional "sound, light, and electricity" special effects of alchemy, feel particularly uncomfortable.

"It… started already?"

"Can't see anything, can't feel anything. Is this really refining pills, or is it cooking porridge?"

The sneer on Master Huorong's face deepened.

"Pretending to be mysterious! The path of alchemy lies in using the spirit to control fire and the heart to align with the Dao! Isolating the inside from the outside like this without any sensing is simply putting the cart before the horse, a side-door path! I dare say, this batch is definitely ruined!"

Just when everyone thought this was nothing more than a farce.

Jiang Ning's voice spread across the entire venue through the amplifier again.

"Everyone, you might feel that this process is a bit... dull."

"To keep you from getting bored while waiting, I must add one more thing."

She swept her gaze across the crowd, a mysterious smile curling at the corner of her mouth.

"Just now, what Junior Brother Sun put in was one hundred portions of materials for refining soul-stabilizing pills."

"So, right now, what is being refined in this machine is not one batch of pills."

"But one hundred batches."

This sentence exploded in everyone's minds like a bolt of lightning!

The entire venue suddenly became terrifyingly quiet.

Everyone who was preparing to leave stopped. Everyone who was whispering to each other shut their mouths.

Everyone was staring fixedly at the machine quietly running on the stage.

On their faces, one word was written.

Impossible!

"She... what did she just say?" A cultivator asked the person next to him, stammering, doubting if he had heard wrong.

"She said... one hundred batches... refining together..." The person next to him also answered in a daze.

"Crazy! This woman is absolutely crazy!" Master Huorong could no longer pretend to be a master, and shouted in exasperation, "Refining one hundred batches of soul-stabilizing pills at the same time? Who does she think she is? An alchemy immortal descended to earth?!"

"Even an alchemy immortal couldn't do it! Using one mind to do a hundred things, controlling one hundred pill furnaces at the same time, and ensuring the heat for each batch is the same? This is simply something no human can accomplish! She is lying! She is deceiving everyone!"

His roar shouted out the inner thoughts of everyone present.

This matter indeed exceeded the common sense of the cultivation world.

However, Jiang Ning ignored his shouting. She just raised her hand and pointed to the rapidly jumping red countdown on the machine's screen.

"Whether it's a lie, everyone will know in fifteen minutes."

Fifteen minutes!

Another number, fiercely stimulating everyone's nerves.

Refining one batch of soul-stabilizing pills, even for the most powerful alchemy master, would take at least three hours!

Yet this machine, to refine one hundred batches, actually only needed... fifteen minutes?

Everyone held their breath. They stared fixedly at that countdown.

Time, at this moment, seemed to become exceptionally long.

Fourteen minutes and fifty-nine seconds... ten minutes... five minutes... one minute... ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!

A prompt sound came from the machine.

The countdown was gone.

Tens of thousands of people in the audience watched as the pill outlet below the machine slowly opened.

The next second.

Pills poured down like a waterfall, clattering into the plate like pearls and agates.

One by one, bright, shining, and carrying a thick soul-stabilizing aura, the soul-stabilizing pills surged out from the pill outlet!

In an instant, they piled up into a small, glittering mountain in the jade plate below!

The thick, rich pill fragrance, mixed with pure spiritual energy, formed a visible whirlwind of pill essence that shot straight into the sky!

The entire venue was completely covered by this powerful pill essence!

Everyone who smelled this pill essence felt their soul instantly clear up, and their cultivation even had signs of breaking through!

The whole venue was silent, without a sound.