Battle Through the Heavens: The Alchemist Starting from the Ye Family

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In other words, the monsters are tough and powerful, able to absorb this violent energy to improve themselves. Ordinary people wouldn't dare to stay here for too long...

Xiong Zhan knew the reason, but he didn't want to give up the opportunity.

Finally, he nodded and said, "Okay, but if you fail to refine it, you can only choose three medicinal herbs from my collection as payment..."

Ye Chen's lips curled into a smile: "It's a deal!"

While others might easily be affected by those berserk factors here, it's not a problem for Ye Chen at all.

His astrological technique possesses extremely strong purification capabilities, and this Pill Realm does not isolate the arrival of stellar power from the outer universe of the Dou Qi Continent. With the addition of the Star Cauldron, even when refining eighth-grade pills, it will not be greatly affected!

Chapter 260 Xiong Zhan: I Feel Like I've Been Deceived

Led by Xiong Zhan, Ye Chen and his group arrived at a huge stone palace on the mountaintop within minutes.

Chapter 261 Initial Test of Eight Ranks

Battle Through the Heavens: The Alchemist Starting from the Ye Family

Dragon Blood Supreme Pill, this is the secret elixir of the Dragon Bear Clan.

This pill can stimulate the ancient dragon bloodline within the dragon bear, with a 20% chance of allowing the dragon bear to awaken its bloodline before reaching the ninth rank and achieve the Supreme Dragon Bear Body!

However, the medicinal materials required for the Dragon Blood Supreme Pill are extremely difficult to collect. Therefore, even after so many years, the Dragon Bear Clan has only managed to refine two pills, and both failed to advance their cultivation...

When Xiong Zhan was captured by the Pill Tower, one of the main reasons he was willing to enter this dilapidated Pill Realm was that he wanted to collect enough medicinal materials to refine this pill.

"This is the eighth-grade dragon blood crystal needed to refine the Dragon Blood Supreme Pill. I'm entrusting it to you. The rest of the medicinal herbs can be collected in this square..." Xiong Zhan said, carefully handing Ye Chen a fist-sized blood-red crystal.

"You'd better be very careful. This is the only dragon blood crystal I have. If it's destroyed, it's all gone..."

This made it impossible for him not to worry.

After all, this is a dragon blood crystal that requires the essence of an eighth-tier ancient dragon to condense over a thousand years. It cannot be found anywhere else except among the ancient dragon clan.

This is why the Dragon Bear Clan occupies a very high position among the subordinate races of the Ancient Dragon of the Void; otherwise, how could they have obtained such a precious item?

Ye Chen took the Dragon Blood Crystal and looked inside. To his surprise, he discovered that a miniature version of the Ancient Void Dragon seemed to be imprisoned within the crystal. This must be the most precious part of the entire Dragon Blood Crystal…

"Just leave it to me!"

Although it was his first time refining an eighth-grade pill, Ye Chen was full of confidence.

There was no other way; seeing how cowardly Xiong Zhan was, if I hadn't said that, who knows how nervous he would have become...

After spending some time collecting all the medicinal materials needed for the Dragon Blood Supreme Pill, Ye Chen asked Xiong Zhan to find him a quiet, open space.

The formation of an eighth-grade pill is quite a spectacle. When the pill lightning strikes, any other buildings nearby will be directly damaged.

"Go outside and keep watch, don't let those magical beasts disturb us..."

Ye Chen glanced at Xiong Zhan standing there and frowned.

"Ah? Don't worry, don't worry, no magical beast would dare to come here. Besides, I've already had four seventh-tier magical beasts guard the four directions of the mountaintop, so there's absolutely no chance of anything going wrong!"

As for me… I heard that all eighth-grade pills have pill lightning, right? I, Old Bear, have thick skin and tough flesh; I can shield you from it then.”

Ultimately, it's because they feel Ye Chen is too weak right now, and they're afraid he won't be able to withstand the pill lightning and it will ruin their pills...

Ye Chen didn't care about that.

Since there's a human shield willing to take the fall for him, why would he refuse?

The enormous Star Cauldron was released, and instantly, stars fell from the sky!

This strange phenomenon surprised Xiong Zhan, who knew that the large silver cauldron before him was definitely not ordinary. But wasn't this even better? His success rate with his pills would be much higher!

With a flick of the finger, a spark enters the cauldron.

This scene surprised Xiong Zhan once again. He hadn't expected that a little guy he had casually caught would have so many good things. However, this gave him more confidence in this alchemy attempt. "Such a young eighth-grade alchemist, and possessing such a powerful cauldron and flame, could this be the successor being groomed by the Pill Tower?" Xiong Zhan wondered to himself.

At this moment, he was also somewhat relieved, relieved that he hadn't forced himself on the little guy, otherwise he might really have attracted the revenge of those old monsters in the Dan Tower...

Although the name of the Ancient Void Dragon protects him, making it unlikely that the Pill Tower will kill him, Xiong Zhan dares not gamble his life on the Pill Tower's tolerance.

After sensing the temperature inside the cauldron, Ye Chen nodded, raised his hand, and released a small, emerald-green grass with tiny, ethereal blue flowers on it...

Seven-star lily of the valley, a strange flower that can harmonize the power of dragon blood, is also a very rare medicinal material. According to Xiong Zhan, he searched the entire alchemy world and only found two of them.

The moment the seven-star lily of the valley appeared, the air, which had become hot and humid due to the sparks, suddenly eased...

Ye Chen's eyes lit up, and he immediately threw it into the medicine cauldron.

Upon seeing the medicinal herbs enter, the starlight that had been quietly burning inside the cauldron suddenly burst forth, transforming into a curtain of fire that directly enveloped the Seven Star Lily of the Valley.

In an instant, the Seven Star Lily of the Valley shone brightly. The seven tiny flowers, which had been just scattered specks, suddenly released seven different powers, effectively shutting out the sparks...

Ye Chen watched this scene without any surprise.

After all, rare and precious herbs like the Seven-Star Lily of the Valley possess extremely strong self-protection capabilities. This is also the main reason why high-level pills require several months to refine each time.

Although Ye Chen's starfire had reached a level comparable to that of a different kind of fire, it was only on par with the flames ranked in the bottom five of the different kind of fire list. Therefore, the process of refining these top-tier natural treasures had become somewhat slow...

Because the essence of the Starfire is compatible with the Star Cauldron, Ye Chen's speed in refining medicinal herbs is still acceptable for the time being, thanks to the star power attracted by the Star Cauldron.

As the flames intensified, the Seven Star Lily of the Valley ultimately failed to withstand the scorching heat. After its defenses were breached, it quickly withered and turned to ash in the flames, eventually becoming a charred pile of ashes before exploding and dissipating with a loud bang.

Gazing at the seven-colored medicinal liquid in the cauldron, Ye Chen's expression remained unchanged. Instead, he tossed in another medicinal herb...

After ten days of continuous work, Ye Chen finally extracted all five main ingredients of the Dragon Blood Supreme Pill. He then put all the auxiliary ingredients into the medicine cauldron.

This scene terrified Xiong Zhan, who was standing nearby. What if something went wrong if so many medicinal herbs were brought in at once?

Unfortunately, even though he was anxious, he didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing Ye Chen.

The extraction of these auxiliary medicines was much easier for Ye Chen. After his massive soul power was integrated into the medicine cauldron, it instantly split into countless forms, leaving a portion of soul power on each medicinal herb for control...

Time passed by minute by minute.

For Xiong Zhan, every minute felt like an eternity.

Unfortunately, Ye Chen was so engrossed in refining the medicine that he didn't notice the passage of time. By the time all the medicinal liquids and powders were refined, half a month had already passed.

"Next is the pill-combining..." Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself.

This is a crucial step!

In the process of refining high-grade pills, the time required to combine the pills is often longer than that required to refine the medicinal materials, and there can be no mistakes in the process.

Because each medicinal power contains terrifying energy, as an alchemist, one must integrate these energies step by step without any error. The difficulty of this is unimaginable!

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Chapter 262 The Elixir is Completed

Battle Through the Heavens: The Alchemist Starting from the Ye Family

A vast amount of soul power permeated every corner of the Star Cauldron, and any extremely subtle change within it would be instantly fed back to Ye Chen's mind.

With him so solemnly observing, the fusion of the pills did not encounter any major flaws...

Although the fusion process is extremely slow at this point, who would dare to speed it up even slightly?

Stability should be the top priority!

The process of fusing medicinal power is the longest among all the steps in alchemy, and Ye Chen's fusion process lasted for nearly twenty days before it came to an end.

winter!

The lid of the Starry Cauldron was flung open, and a tremendous energy surge swept out from inside the cauldron, then slammed hard against the inner wall of the cauldron, producing a deafening metallic sound.

boom!

Just as the earth-shattering energy fluctuations spread, the Star Cauldron suddenly trembled violently. Then, a massive silver pillar of fire, mixed with a trace of crimson light, shot into the sky with a whoosh, right before Xiong Zhan's shocked eyes!

A pillar of fire shot into the sky, its blazing flames clearly visible for miles around. Within that pillar of fire, faint energy fluctuations emanated, causing the demonic beasts within hundreds of miles to feel terrified.

"Was this fluctuation... successful?!"

As soon as Xiong Zhan finished speaking, clouds suddenly appeared where the beam of light had passed, and in just a few blinks, they condensed into a thundercloud that was nearly a hundred meters in size!

"It really worked!" This sight made Xiong Zhan's eyes light up, and he quickly looked up.

In Xiong Zhan's eyes, the thundercloud in the sky grew larger and larger, and what surprised him the most was that this thundercloud had two colors: blue and silver!

"Two-colored thunderclouds? An eighth-grade elixir!"

Xiong Zhan couldn't help but swing his fist at the sky.

However, Ye Chen frowned deeply as he watched this scene.

"Just two colors? That won't do..."

According to Ye Chen's judgment, this Dragon Blood Supreme Pill should be at least three colors. Could it be that he made a mistake somewhere?

"This is my first time refining an eighth-grade pill. It would be a real shame if I couldn't make it perfect..."

Thinking to himself, Ye Chen raised his right index finger, squeezed out a drop of blood, flicked it gently, and then shot it all into the medicine cauldron, finally merging with a pill rolling in the flames.

"boom!"

As the blood stained the pill, a dazzling, powerful light, like a sun, burst forth instantly!

"What the hell are you doing?!" Xiong Zhan's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but shout out in his loud voice.

Unfortunately, Ye Chen wasn't paying any attention to him at the moment; his eyes were fixed on the changing thunderclouds overhead...

"No! The thunderclouds are still churning... This is... another color has appeared?" Xiong Zhan's bear eyes widened completely, his mouth agape, speechless.

Sure enough, in just a short while, beneath the blue and silver clouds in the sky, a touch of red began to gradually emerge...

After a while, the red became more and more vivid, and eventually, its color intensity was no less than that of the other two colors!

After the red color appeared, the rolling thunderclouds finally stopped and then completely solidified into three brilliant colors.

"It really is a tri-colored thundercloud!" Xiong Zhan felt his heart skip a beat; he was speechless with emotion.

However, Xiong Zhan quickly realized a problem. "This kid is only a three-star Dou Zong. Can he withstand the three-colored Dan Lei?"

This wasn't because Xiong Zhan intentionally underestimated Ye Chen...

The eighth-grade elixir was so powerful that it attracted the power of heaven and earth, threatening to destroy it. If the alchemist couldn't protect the elixir, it would be destroyed. Therefore, catching the elixir lightning and preserving it was the final test for the alchemist.

The power of pill lightning increases with the quality of the pill. A three-colored pill lightning bolt like this one is roughly equivalent to the full-force attack of a high-level Dou Zong. And if the pill lightning reaches the level of a five-colored thundercloud, even ordinary Dou Zun experts wouldn't dare underestimate it…

This was a problem not only for Xiong Zhan, but also for Ye Chen.

Sensing the terrifying energy gathering in the sky, Ye Chen silently turned his gaze to the big, goofy guy beside him...

Finding someone to help deflect lightning is a necessary preparation for most alchemists of rank seven and above when refining medicine.

"Old Xiong, this thing is all up to you..."

Xiong Zhan clasped his fists together in front of his chest, strode forward, looked up at the thunderclouds above him, laughed heartily, and roared, "Alright, come on!"

As if hearing Xiong Zhan's loud laughter, the five-colored thunderclouds in the sky churned more and more violently, with deep rumbling thunder echoing continuously, and thick, dazzling bolts of lightning weaving through the clouds.

"laugh!"

As the thunderclouds churned, they suddenly contracted sharply, and then a three-colored bolt of lightning, like a giant python, burst forth from the clouds, tearing through space with a terrifying hissing sound, and hurtling fiercely toward Ye Chen's location.

Roar!

Even without Ye Chen's reminder, Xiong Zhan roared upon seeing this scene, stomped his feet, and leaped off the ground, throwing a punch at the Thunder Python...

"Boom! Boom!"

The dazzling lightning, like a giant dragon roaring across the sky, raged and danced, then brought with it brilliant lightning bolts, sweeping down in a devastating barrage, finally crashing heavily onto Xiong Zhan's body in mid-air.

This scene made Ye Chen below grin from ear to ear, because he actually saw that this big, clumsy bear had chosen to directly withstand the attack with its bare body, and he could even vaguely smell the odor of its fur being burned...

"This really is going to turn us into roasted bears..."

Xiong Zhan in the sky was unaware of Ye Chen's thoughts.

At this moment, the latter was touching the charred area on his chest, the spot where the giant thunder python he had just smashed had struck.

Clearly, Xiong Zhan hadn't expected the three-colored lightning to be so terrifying; he'd even suffered some minor injuries from not being careful...

However, being a seventh-tier peak ancient dragon bear, its defensive power was no joke. Xiong Zhan simply touched the injured area with his hand and then ignored it, focusing all his attention on dealing with the lightning that was falling from above again.

boom! boom! boom!