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“Yes, I definitely can do it! Boss, I can do it. How many Divine Flame Crystals do you have?!” Guo Ran’s eyes blazed with anticipation.
“Don’t worry, there’ll be enough Divine Flame Crystals for you to use. I want to equip every warrior of the Dragonblood Legion with a set of armor and a matching weapon,” said Long Chen.
“You want to equip them all?” gasped Guo Ran. The Dragonblood Legion had over thirteen thousand members. That would mean thirteen thousand sets of armor and thirteen thousand weapons, all on the Ancestral item level. That was essentially impossible.
Originally, Guo Ran had thought he would just be equipping the captain-class fighters. Giving each one of them an Ancestral item would definitely be badass. But Long Chen wanted to equip every single person. That was too crazy.
“Close your jaw, I can see your stomach. Can you do it or not?” demanded Long Chen.
“Boss, to tell the truth, although I’m a genius and incredibly smart, hardworking and dedicated, one might say a generation’s leader…”
“Get to the point,” interrupted Long Chen.
“Cough, well, I haven’t forged Ancestral items before, and these Divine Flame Crystals have fire attributes. It’s my first time coming into contact with such material. Although I’ll definitely be able to forge them, there will be a few failed creations at the start…”
Guo Ran relied on himself to comprehend the Ethereal Crafting Secret Record. It was a tome that came from the immortal era, and it was incredibly difficult to understand. Although he had managed to learn quite a bit, and he thought he was around the level to start forging Ancestral items, the Forging Dao was also a Grand Dao, and there were countless techniques. As he tested things, he would definitely waste a few materials.
The materials for Ancestral items were incredibly precious. Even wasting just a bit would make his heart bleed.
“You really say a lot of nonsense. It’s fine as long as you can forge them in the end. Here, I’ll give you one portion for now, and you practice with it. Once you succeed in mastering this, we can research other possibilities.” Long Chen tossed a spatial ring to Guo Ran.
When Guo Ran looked inside the spatial ring, he almost dropped it. There were hundreds of thousands of Divine Flame Crystals.
“Boss, I’m going into seclusion! Just wait for the good news!” Guo Ran vanished like a wisp of smoke.
Long Chen knew that with Guo Ran’s passion for forging, he would be working without caring about sleep or food. That was one of Guo Ran’s good points.
However, Long Chen didn’t have particularly high hopes this time. Ancestral items weren’t so easy to forge, but at least trying was necessary.
After Guo Ran left, Long Chen also went into seclusion. Taking out a portion of the Alldevil monster’s essence blood, he began to refine pills.
Chapter 1393 Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pill
BOOM!
An illusory figure charged out of the Blazing Dragon Cauldron and attacked Long Chen. It was a three-meter-long devil beast.
Bang! Long Chen’s fist blew it back, but it didn’t explode. Instead, it roared and black qi condensed in front of it, transforming into a black blade that slashed at Long Chen.
Bang, bang, bang…
Long Chen blocked it three times and was forced back. He was shocked to find that its power was extremely bizarre, capable of instantly killing ordinary Jade Core disciples.
“Pipe down! The medicinal energy’s going to be completely wasted.” Long Chen’s fist began to glow, and his punch blew the illusory figure apart this time. It dissipated, revealing a giant pill the size of a baby’s fist floating in the air.
This was a Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pill, an extremely bizarre pill as it didn’t have any set tier. It could be considered a fifth tier medicinal pill at its lowest level, but it had no upper limit.
The higher the quality of the ingredients, the greater the medicinal energy. Normally, its main ingredients were the Earth Dragon and the Leopard Striped White Tiger’s essence blood.
However, now Long Chen was refining it with the Alldevil monster’s essence blood. Although Long Chen split one drop of its essence blood into ten before refining the pills, each pill still contained a frightening amount of berserk energy.
“This particular pill is probably only suitable for Gu Yang,” muttered Long Chen.
“If someone else consumed this top grade giant pill, they would instantly explode. Only Gu Yang would be able to survive the ordeal.
“Looks like I still underestimated the power of its essence blood. I’ll have to split each drop into a hundred for it to work.”
Long Chen split the essence blood once more, only merging a hundredth of a single drop of its essence blood into his pills.
This time, he refined nine top grade normal pills. The energy in giant pills was too great and was unsuitable for the Dragonblood warriors.
With the Blazing Dragon Cauldron and Huo Long’s assistance, he didn’t have to refine any more. They could do it on their own.
Huo Long had it easy. It just used a single split body to refine pills with the Blazing Dragon Cauldron. The rest of its bodies were absorbing the energy in the Divine Flame Crystals.
Now Long Chen focused on consuming the Divine Gate Pills. The Blazing Dragon Cauldron’s efforts had resulted in a small mountain of Divine Gate Pills, so Long Chen had to get to work.
On this day, Long Chen started to constantly consume medicinal pills by the handful. He calculated that he had to be eating over ten thousand Divine Gate Pills each day, and each one of them was a top grade ninth tier pill.
Without the primal chaos space that allowed him to have an infinite amount of ingredients, he’d have bankrupted a sect like the Xuantian Dao Sect in less than a month.
Normally, only Soul Transformation alchemists could refine ninth tier medicinal pills. And amongst those people, only a tenth had the possibility of refining top grade ninth tier pills.
To refine top grade medicinal pills didn’t just require great skill. It required a certain amount of luck. Being able to refine a single top grade pill out of a hundred furnaces was not bad.
Any top grade pills that they did refine would normally be stored by the alchemist as part of their personal collection. To them, they were treasures bestowed by the heavens, and they were symbols of their glory.
That was why top grade ninth tier pills were basically priceless treasures on the marketplace. You wouldn’t necessarily be able to buy one no matter how much money you had.
Yet, Long Chen was consuming such precious treasures like candy. If the world learned of this, it would definitely make countless alchemists faint. Some people would die from fright, some would die from the pain of having so many top grade ninth tier pills disappearing from the world, and some would die from rage.
As Long Chen crazily consumed pills, the small dot of light in the middle of the vortex in front of his Divine Gate gradually changed.
It seemed to be going from gaseous to liquid, and then it went from liquid to solid. At that time, the core of the star was completed.
As the Divine Gate Star strengthened, Long Chen clearly felt the connection between it and the FengFu, Alioth, Life Fate, and Enlightenment Palace Stars.
He felt that the Divine Gate Star was sharing its power with the other four stars. Those four stars were also transforming.
The five stars were growing as one. It was no wonder it was taking so long for the Divine Gate Star to advance. It was advancing while bringing the other four stars along with it.
That made Long Chen feel even more anticipation for the day it was fully condensed. He could clearly feel his body going through some kind of transformation.
The most obvious change was that the qi seas below his four stars were continuously growing stronger. His spiritual yuan was growing more abundant.
That was also what excited him the most. Both Star Fall and the fifth form of Split the Heavens were huge moves that sucked
up the majority of his spiritual yuan.
During the battle, he would have to choose between using one or the other. But as his four qi seas grew stronger, then adding on the spiritual yuan in his 108,000 stars, he would be able to consecutively unleash his ultimate moves.
Thinking of that, he felt an indescribable excitement. Before this, he had always had to be careful when fighting, making sure to get the most out of every bit of his spiritual yuan. However, it seemed that with the growth of the Divine Gate Star, he would be able to luxuriously spend his energy when fighting.
Each fight with a rank nine Celestial was extremely taxing for him. Their manifestations constantly absorbed energy from heaven and earth to replenish their own usage.
On the other hand, the world rejected him. He had to use the divine ring to force the world to give him its spiritual yuan.
Now he didn’t need to rely on heaven or earth. He could rely on himself. The only thing he could count on was the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art.
Three days later, he had refined plenty of Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pills and came out of seclusion. Minus the ones for the Dragonblood Legion, there were still over a thousand left for the Xuantian Dao Sect. These pills could definitely be passed down as treasures.
When Li Tianxuan received over a thousand top grade ninth tier pills from Long Chen, he involuntarily jumped in shock.
Long Chen had given him plenty of medicinal pills before this as well, but he knew that those pills had been plundered from Pill Valley. They couldn’t see the light of day, and when given to disciples, they had to be consumed stealthily.
Now, there were over a thousand Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pills, and they had clearly just been refined. In other words, Long Chen had personally refined all of them.
Li Tianxuan had decided not to bother or ask about Long Chen’s power. Although he had known that Long Chen was very skilled in alchemy, he hadn’t expected his skills to be so monstrous.
When handing the pills over, Long Chen asked Li Tianxuan to bring him to where Wilde was sleeping. That was within the Xuantian Tower, and it was definitely safe.
A pool of blood appeared beside Wilde. Long Chen had brought over all the remaining essence blood of the Alldevil monster. It filled a three-thousand-meter pool, and he tossed Wilde in.
The large cocoon around Wilde began to slowly absorb the essence blood.
“This essence blood is comparable to the essence blood of a rank twelve Magical Beast. For Wilde to be able to absorb it directly, he truly is terrifying,” said Li Tianxuan with shock as he saw the cocoon absorb this powerful essence blood.
“Xuan Master, how many ranks do Magical Beasts have?” asked Long Chen.
“Thirteen. It’s the same as human cultivators. After thirteen levels, the next step is ascending and becoming a god or immortal. However, becoming a god or immortal lies only in legend. In fact, whether or not people can reach the thirteenth level is a mystery,” said Li Tianxuan.
“Thirteen?”
Long Chen suddenly had a thought. He had thirteen Heavenstages in each realm. Could it be…?
Just at this moment, the blood pool began to bubble. A whirlpool appeared, and the blood began to rapidly fall.
In just a few breaths, the blood was all absorbed into Wilde’s cocoon.
“He absorbed it all at once?” Long Chen was stunned.
All the pills he had refined had used just two to three percent of all the essence blood. His original plan was for Wilde to absorb as much as he could and then Long Chen would save the rest of the essence blood. After all, it might be useful in the future. But he had really overthought it.
After absorbing all this essence blood, silver runes appeared on the cocoon. Those runes quickly hardened, forming a seemingly metallic outer case. It was like a giant ball had enveloped Wilde.
“The Barbarian race really is terrifying. He required all this essence blood to store up enough energy for his metamorphosis. If you hadn’t brought this essence blood, his metamorphosis would have probably taken thousands or even tens of thousands of years,” gasped Li Tianxuan.
The Barbarian race only existed in legend, and no one truly understood them. Now that Wilde was in an egg-like ball, it meant that he was finally undergoing his metamorphosis. Once he awoke, he would be like a butterfly. It was unknown what kind of form he would take.
Long Chen was startled and delighted. This was a good thing. The stronger Wilde was, the better. He left the Xuantian Tower and gathered all the Dragonblood Legion. Good brothers should share their fortune; medicine should be eaten together!
Chapter 1394 Painful Advancement
There was a large open space in the back of the Xuantian Tower. This had originally been the core plaza of the Xuantian Dao Sect, but after it had declined, this region had simply wasted away.
However, it had been reopened recently. This region was given to the Dragonblood Legion to use.
Now, all the Dragonblood warriors were gathered. There were also the people close to the Dragonblood Legion: Hua Shiyu, Wang Zhen, Zhao Ziyan, Mu Qingxuan, Su Mo, and the others.
Tang Wan-er had brought up whether Long Chen wanted to bring them into the Dragonblood Legion, but he hadn’t done so. The Dragonblood Legion was going to fight through countless bloody battles with him. As his path was filled with towering mountains and plummeting pitfalls, he didn’t even know how far he could go.
The Xuantian Dao Sect had its own destiny, and he needed to leave behind a few powerful protectors for it. As for Hua Shiyu and the others, they would be the future pillars of the Xuantian Dao Sect.
“Boss, can we really eat this?” Gu Yang was at the front of the Dragonblood Legion. He was holding a giant pill in his hands, and he felt a chill when he sensed the fluctuations coming from it.
This pill seemed to possess its own life. It was like a volcano that might erupt at any moment. This was something that could be used as a killer weapon, but he wanted them to consume it.
“If you can absorb it through your nose, you don’t have to eat it,” said Long Chen.
Gu Yang was speechless. His nose wasn’t small, but it wasn’t so big that he could use it as a mouth.
“Gu Yang, are you even a man? A big man like you is afraid of a tiny thing like that? Hurry up and show everyone what to do. You’re a captain of the Dragonblood Legion,” said Guo Ran disdainfully.
Right now, everyone was holding a Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pill in their hands. However, they were just holding ordinary top grade pills, while Gu Yang was holding a giant pill.
“Guo Ran, you shameless bastard, how about we switch pills? I guarantee I won’t even bat an eye when I eat it!” raged Gu Yang.
“Tch, your pill is bigger than five of ours. Boss is giving you special treatment, so you should be grateful. Shouldn’t you be crying tears of gratitude? Are you suspecting boss would harm you?” Guo Ran had an evil smile.
“Alright, little brat, I’ll remember this.” Gu Yang nodded. He knew this fellow’s ability at stirring up trouble far surpassed his. He hardened his heart and swallowed his giant pill.
BOOM!
In less than a breath’s time, Gu Yang’s entire body looked like a frog being boiled. His body turned red, and explosive sounds came from it. The bricks inlaid in the ground cracked.
Blood began to flow from his pores. Blood also came from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.
Everyone was shocked. The blood pouring out of Gu Yang contained a huge amount of spiritual yuan. That was his core spiritual yuan.
“Don’t fight it. The Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pill contains a powerful essence blood that can replace your Spirit Blood. This is a chance for you to substitute your blood, and at the same time, your body will be tempered by it, making it even stronger,” said Long Chen.
Gu Yang wasn’t listening. He couldn’t even hear what Long Chen was saying. He was in too much pain.
He let out a heaven-shaking roar that made everyone else jump in shock. Gu Yang’s
position in the Dragonblood Legion was extremely high. Other than Long Chen and Wilde, he was known as the manliest man.
With his willpower and toughness, he still had to scream in order to release the sensation of pain.
Gu Yang quickly became dyed in blood. Just looking at him gave others chills.
“Alright, you should all be prepared now. You can consume your pills.” Long Chen saw that Gu Yang didn’t need any help from him and was able to forcibly withstand the power of the medicinal pill. He nodded with praise and had everyone else follow Gu Yang’s lead.
Guo Ran, who had previously said such big words, immediately turned green. He hadn’t expected the Dragon Tiger Body Tempering Pill to be so terrifying. If even Gu Yang was acting like this, wouldn’t he die from the pain?
However, everyone else had already popped their pills into their mouths. Even Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er were no exception. They trusted that Long Chen wouldn’t harm them.
“Brother Guo Ran, are you afraid?” probed one of the wood cultivators.
“Are you joking? When have I, Guo Ran, ever been afraid? I just feel a bit unwilling to eat something that boss personally refined. Thinking of how boss has worked so hard to raise the Dragonblood Legion, spending so much blood, sweat, and tears, I just feel-”
“Just eat it!” Li Qi stuffed the pill into Guo Ran’s mouth just as he was trying to drum up sympathy. He then clapped Guo Ran on the back of his neck, causing the pill to go down his throat.
“AH!” As soon as he swallowed it, Guo Ran let out a miserable shriek. He sounded like a pig being slaughtered.
“Shut up! The medicinal effect hasn’t even activated, so what are you shouting for?!” Long Chen wanted to slap this bastard. Other than showing off, could he not properly cultivate?
“I-” Guo Ran had just opened his mouth when he turned as pale as paper. Then he turned scarlet as the medicinal effect activated.
Once the medicinal effect activated, Guo Ran couldn’t scream. He was focusing all his energy on resisting the pain, so much so that he didn’t even have the energy to shout.
