Inside the earthfire chamber.Xia Li began repeatedly attempting to refine an ultimate-grade spirit pill, while Fifth Elder stood quietly nearby and watched.At tis, the elder would even hand him ingredients or help control the fire, looking almost more like a subordinate than an elder. By now, Wei Hongyin was already growing used to the sight.Only when her ssaging jade slip stirred did she step over to Fifth Elder."Elder, many disciples outside are requesting permission to observe Ninth Holy Son's pill refining. May they?"For alchemists, watching soone better than themselves refine pills was itself a form of growth. At that mont, many disciples knowledgeable in alchemy had already gathered outside the earthfire chamber."They may, but they are not to make a sound or disturb him.""Yes."After withdrawing, Wei Hongyin imdiately opened the door to the earthfire chamber. A wave of intense heat poured out at once. Dozens of disciples were standing outside with eager eyes fixed on the door. Wei Hongyin raised a finger to her lips in a silent warning, then turned back to continue observing Xia Li's alchemy.The disciples outside were quick enough to produce recording stones and begin preserving what they saw.If Xia Li had not co personally to refine pills today, they might all have nearly forgotten that he was, in fact, a genuine alchemical genius. Back in the Qi Refining stage, he had already been able to refine supre-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills.And the appearance of those supre-grade Foundation Establishnt Pills had been the beginning of everything.They had overturned the normal course of Xia Li's life.Overturned everything.Even the Liu family, the small clan that had first helped bring the formula forward, had been annihilated because of it. If the Liu family had not been greedy, if they had not reached for sothing beyond the level of their class and station, perhaps they and Xia Li might have remained at peace with each other.And when Xia Li refined pills, it was as though the thing ca as naturally to him as breathing.He once again entered that super-concentrated state of no thought and no desire, as though whatever happened around him simply could not reach him.Fifth Elder watched with admiration in his eyes.And expectation.No thought, no desire.That was precisely the Taiyi path pursued by Taiyi Holy Land.Supre forgetfulness of emotion led to unity with heaven.Xia Li's thod of alchemy differed from other alchemists.Other alchemists relied on series after series of complex hand techniques, urging spiritual energy to transform dicinal force. So alchemists even turned pill refining into a brilliant performance, with all kinds of wondrous fla-control arts unfolding in dazzling variety.Ninefold Layered Fla.Thousand Flas, Myriad Threads.Frostfire Tempering...The pills produced by such thods were indeed often marvelous and unique, carrying distinctive properties of their own.But that also led to the sa kind of pill having different effects depending on who refined it.Take a healing pill, for example.A cultivator of the fire path might swallow it and praise it repeatedly. A cultivator of the profound-ice path, on the other hand, might have to take four parts injury before being healed six parts, making it inferior to an ordinary roadside healing pill.Xia Li's alchemy was the opposite.He simplified every step as far as possible, pursuing precision and efficiency, pursuing complete uniformity in the dicinal properties of every single pill.It was precisely that pursuit that allowed the pill formulas he released to beco truly universal formulas on a broad scale. It did not matter where the alchemist ca from. If they had the formula, they could refine the pill.Simple.Fast.Efficient.And never burdened with deliberately inserted trap steps intended to prevent leakage.If dicine was dicine, then it ought to avoid the problem of being honey to one person and poison to another."Wonderful. And yet also a great pity."In Fifth Elder's clouded old eyes, it seed that he saw even further.An alchemist like Xia Li would be intolerable to the world of alchemy itself.Alchemists held exalted status.But could other alchemists tolerate soone like Xia Li, soone who could mass-produce pills with nothing more than a single formula?Was he not smashing their furnaces?Every ti Xia Li released another formula to the world, from that day forward people would no longer need to beg alchemists for that category of pill.They could simply try refining it themselves.And if that still failed, then in the worst case they could gather so firewood, set a pot over it, and crudely give it a try.However...if those kinds of formulas were never spread outside a single major power, then that was another matter entirely.
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So Xia Li needed to understand the tis.And he absolutely had to know how to do so.Before he knew it, an entire day passed.Xia Li opened another furnace. This batch of Imitation Golden Core Pills was refined in much the sa plain and unremarkable way as the previous ones, yet the mont the cauldron was opened, a fleeting flash of golden radiance appeared. The dense pill fragrance was so potent that the Golden Core disciples outside felt their own cores stir just from slling it.Fifth Elder imdiately took one pill and examined it closely. Its exterior was almost perfect, as though it were a real golden core dug straight out of a cultivator's dantian. Faint and complex patterns had even begun to erge on its surface.The first traces of pill markings."Wonderful. Half a step into the ultimate grade!"Fifth Elder did not return the half-step ultimate-grade Imitation Golden Core Pill to Xia Li. Thick-skinned as could be, he simply pocketed it on the spot. He intended to take it back and study it properly. In his view, a half-step ultimate-grade pill held even greater value than a true ultimate-grade pill.Because half-step ultimate-grade pills could be mass-produced.True ultimate-grade pills could not.This batch had yielded five pills in all. With one taken away by the elder, four remained. This ti, instead of casually leaving them on the floor, Xia Li bottled them and tossed the bottle to Wei Hongyin."Reward the disciples of the Holy Son Palace who have made outstanding contributions.""And everyone present gets a share."After saying that, Xia Li imdiately began refining again.The Imitation Golden Core Pills lying all over the floor before had all been supre-grade. Even within a Holy Land, they counted as pills one could struggle to obtain. Disciples of low status likely had no right to receive them under normal circumstances.But if one beca Xia Li's follower, then one could.And now, with "everyone present gets a share," they did not even need spirit stones or contribution points to exchange for them.The disciples watching Xia Li refine pills wanted badly to burst into cheers. But because they had been warned in advance not to disturb him, all they could do was look at him with worshipful eyes.Wei Hongyin, however, felt a faint disappointnt.She had originally wanted to gather the hearts of the Holy Son Palace disciples into her own hands, so that Xia Li would understand her weight and eventually yield to her on certain matters, accepting her as a side consort.But with this one act of gifting pills, Xia Li had made every disciple understand sothing at once:what he casually bestowed with a flick of the hand was equivalent to goodwill and trust that she might labor for years without ever gathering for herself.Supre-grade Imitation Golden Core Pills.One for every disciple in the Holy Son Palace.Would she dare part with such a thing?Even her kinsman, the Seventh Holy Son, probably would not.It seed the plan would have to change.She could not push too hard.And she needed to prepare herself for the possibility of sacrificing much and gaining nothing in return.But if she won the gamble...if she could beco the person beside Xia Li's pillow,then she would have won everything.As the news of Xia Li gifting pills spread from the disciples present, more and more disciples from elsewhere in the Holy Son Palace ca rushing over to the earthfire chamber to watch, even those who understood nothing about alchemy.Li Yue naturally ca as well. When she saw that Wei Hongyin could stand inside the earthfire chamber, the jealousy in her eyes was so thick it was nearly tangible.And all these shifting expressions were, of course, seen clearly by Fifth Elder.The Holy Land also wished to cultivate the ability to command subordinates, so he had no intention of interfering.In fact, Fifth Elder rather hoped so female disciple would prove a little more capable and manage to climb into Xia Li's bed. Even if the child born from it turned out entirely ordinary, the Holy Land would still keep that child around like a lucky mascot.Therefore...Fifth Elder quietly transmitted a ssage to Wei Hongyin.[The Second Holy Maiden does not contend. You must apply yourself.]The mont Wei Hongyin heard that, joy surged through her heart.She had known her guess was correct.The Second Holy Maiden was different from the rest of them.Their usual indifference was only an act.But Lingying's emotional detachnt was real.She truly had no desire for others.Even dual cultivation with her would only make Xia Li feel bored and unstimulated. If you'd like to support the translation and read 10 chapters ahead,[/PoppingDino]
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