sbdcsierra Chapter 266 Heavenly Profound Pill
Chapter 266 Heavenly Profound Pill
Heavenly Profound Pill
"There should be a soul bond between you and your master, right? If he were still alive, you should be able to sense it," Mo Yuming asked tentatively. If this medicine cauldron had an owner, as long as its original owner was not dead, he would not be able to subdue it under any circumstances, unless he forcibly erased the soul imprint. But that would require great strength, which Mo Yuming could not do at this stage. Moreover, forcibly erasing the soul imprint on the spirit would definitely cause serious damage to the spirit, and might even kill it, thus damaging the treasure and reducing its quality.
"I can't sense my master's soul imprint anymore, he's really dead!" The spirit seemed very sad.
"Why don't you come with me from now on? I'll take you out! Otherwise, there are too many traps here, and you won't be able to get out on your own. Besides, there are many bad people outside who will seal you up like that bad guy before!" Mo Yuming began to coax the innocent spirit child.
Under Mo Yuming's coercion and enticement, the spirit of the medicine cauldron finally yielded. After two hours of refining, it finally established a soul imprint with Mo Yuming. The medicine cauldron also gradually shrank under Mo Yuming's control, being absorbed into his soul sea. At the same time, a piece of information appeared in Mo Yuming's mind: 'Medicine King Cauldron,' forged by Shennong, who also inscribed within it the words 'Seizing the creation of heaven and earth to refine unparalleled spiritual medicines.'
"It's refined?" Ji Xianlin's joyful voice came from beside him.
"It's refined!" Mo Yuming opened his eyes and said excitedly:
"The cauldron is called the 'Medicine King Cauldron,' and it was forged by a weapon refiner named Shennong."
"Shennong is a very ancient surname, now impossible to verify. The person who could name the medicine cauldron 'Medicine King Cauldron' is no ordinary weapon refiner. Ming'er, you've struck gold! Remember! Before you are able to protect yourself, never reveal any information about this cauldron, just like in the Valley of Heartbreak, it must not be told to any third person except for the two of us."
Ji Xianlin said solemnly.
"Don't worry, Master Ji, I understand that. But my affinity for wood seems to be low, and the same goes for metal. It's been more than three years since I left the valley, and I've only improved by one small level. The same goes for water. If it weren't for the fact that I drank dozens of drops of that sacred treasure 'Water Soul,' I would have only improved to the fifth level of the Earth Rank, and even then, the improvement would be limited. I'm wondering if I'll have a hard time achieving anything in alchemy! After all, alchemists all have a high affinity for wood and water."
"Don't worry, with this divine-grade medicine cauldron, even if your aptitude is poor, you'll become a master alchemist! Even becoming a grandmaster won't be difficult," Ji Xianlin laughed loudly. A boy not even sixteen years old already possesses all five elements at or above the middle level of the Earth rank—what talk of low affinity? Even if his affinity for the Wood element is relatively weaker, it's still genius-level affinity. If someone with such aptitude can't refine pills well, then there are very few in this world who can. Before Mo Yuming left the valley, these old men already knew about his simultaneous cultivation of the five elemental profound arts, but since Mo Yuming himself didn't say anything, they pretended not to care.
"Let's see what other treasures are in this treasure room!" Ji Xianlin casually picked up a brocade box about a foot in size, opened it, and took a look:
"A thousand-year-old Fire Flesh Fungus! Truly a rare treasure. Fire Flesh Fungus is hard to find even once every hundred years, and this one is a thousand years old. It's a pity it's fire-attribute, useless to me! You keep this; it will definitely be useful when you can refine the Heavenly Profound Pill. Using it now would be too wasteful!"
After Ji Xianlin finished speaking, he covered the 'Fire Meat Mushroom' and tossed it to Mo Yuming.
"Top-grade Cold Pool Jade Marrow, and such a large bottle of it. I really don't know how they got it. You can keep this too. When you become a master craftsman, you can use it to refine water-attribute spiritual treasures."
"This top-grade passion fruit is also a precious medicinal material. It can be used to refine high-level elixirs. I'll store it with you for now. Remember to let me know when you've refined the elixirs."
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"Good heavens, so many precious medicinal herbs have been collected! Enough to refine quite a few Heavenly Profound Pills. It's just a pity that in the Heavenly Profound Continent, alchemists capable of refining Heavenly Profound Pills are almost extinct. Even the Feather Emperor Palace doesn't have this ability; at most, they can refine some pseudo-Heavenly Profound Pills." Ji Xianlin had examined all the hundreds of brocade boxes, and the vast majority contained top-grade spiritual herbs. Although these spiritual herbs were extremely precious and priceless on the continent, most of them didn't arouse Ji Xianlin's interest. After all, he had spent decades in the Valley of Heartbreak, and he was used to seeing all kinds of top-grade herbs and spiritual fruits.
"Keep them all. Once your alchemy skills improve, you won't need to go around collecting high-grade herbs anymore." Before, when they picked top-quality herbs in the Valley of Heartbreak, they used them directly, even if it was wasteful. They didn't feel it was a pity. Even Mo Wen never thought of keeping them to refine pills and improve their efficacy. Now that Mo Yuming has the Divine Cauldron, he naturally wouldn't want to waste those precious herbs.
"Master Ji, you keep talking about the Heavenly Profound Pill, but what exactly is the Heavenly Profound Pill?"
Mo Yuming had heard Ji Xianlin mention the Heavenly Profound Pill more than once, but Mo Yuming had never heard of it before. What kind of treasure was this Heavenly Profound Pill that made a Heavenly Realm expert so obsessed with it?
"Now that you have refined the divine cauldron, you naturally have the right to know the truth about some things. I will tell you everything I know so that you will have a better understanding in the future."
"Let's talk about pills first!" Ji Xianlin and Mo Yuming walked out of the small secret room and sat down in the rest area of the training room. Ji Xianlin picked up the tea that Mo Yuming had poured for him, took a sip, and said:
"On the Tianxuan Continent, there are two major associations: the Weapon Refiner Association and the Alchemist Association. Logically speaking, both alchemy and weapon refining are extremely important for cultivators of profound arts. In some ways, alchemists are even more important than weapon refiners. But in fact, as you must have noticed, the Weapon Refiner Association is much stronger than the Alchemist Association, and there are far more people learning weapon refining than alchemy. Do you know why?" Ji Xianlin asked.
“I’ve noticed that too. It seems that people rarely use pills when cultivating profound arts. They just keep some healing pills on hand. They even rarely use pills to restore spiritual energy,” Mo Yuming said.
"That's true. Using pills is indeed more effective than eating unrefined herbs. However, pills have a fatal flaw that can't be solved: all pills leave behind something harmful in the body after consumption—pill toxins! The more pills you take, the more pill toxins accumulate in your body, and they're very difficult to remove. That's why most cultivators are reluctant to take pills casually. Too much pill toxin in the body can, at best, affect the cultivation of profound arts, and at worst, even endanger one's life."
"Is there any way to remove the poison from erysipelas?" Mo Yuming asked.
“There are two ways to remove elixir poisoning: one is to take a special pill to clear it, and the other is to remove the elixir poisoning from the pill beforehand. But neither of these methods is feasible, or very difficult, for alchemists on the Tianxuan Continent,” Ji Xianlin said.
"Why? If they know the method, shouldn't someone be able to find a solution? There are so many alchemists on the Tianxuan Continent, surely no one has ever succeeded?"
Mo Yuming was puzzled.
“There have always been people working hard for this, and some have achieved some results, but they have only done a little better than others.”
"Is it really impossible to eliminate the poison from the pills? That doesn't seem to make sense!"
“There are pills that are completely free of poison, but they are not made by alchemists from the Tianxuan Continent. We usually call these pills Tianxuan Pills,” Ji Xianlin said.
"It wasn't made by an alchemist from the Tianxuan Continent? Could it be something left over from ancient times?"
"The pills that have survived from ancient times are indeed free of any toxicity, but they are extremely rare. They are even rarer than the Heavenly Profound Pill."
"Most of the Heavenly Profound Pills flow out from a special space called the 'Domain Tomb.' The 'Domain Tomb' is called a special space because although it exists in the Heavenly Profound Continent, it is not part of the continent. It will appear in a certain place in the Heavenly Profound Continent from time to time, or it may appear for a few days or even a few months. Then it will disappear just as suddenly as it appeared."
"Master Ji, I have something from a tomb here. Do you recognize it?" Mo Yuming took out the wooden box he called "Elm Stump" from his storage bag. He had kept it with him for almost a year, but Mo Yuming still hadn't unlocked the secrets inside the box.
"This is indeed something that came from the Domain Tomb. It's exactly what I found when I entered the Domain Tomb that year. I obtained a Heavenly Profound Pill and a Soul Sword from the Domain Tomb. I even met the guy who got this wooden box once."
"The soul sword I refined also came from the Domain Tomb?"
"After obtaining the Soul Sword, I tried to refine it, but I could never resonate with it. Finally, I learned that the Soul Sword could only be refined by practitioners of metal-attribute profound arts. So when I got home, I gave it to my wife as a family heirloom to be passed down to future generations. I never expected it to be passed on to you."
"I took that Heavenly Profound Pill while I was being chased, and it saved my life. At the time, I was being pursued by eight masked assassins of the same level, and I was seriously injured in several places. When I was in the middle of the Returning Dragon Path, I was already exhausted, so I took the Heavenly Profound Pill. I didn't expect it to be a Gathering Yuan Pill that helps the peak of the Earth Rank break through to the Heaven Rank. I actually advanced to the Heaven Rank in my predicament. With my suddenly increased strength, I killed three masked assassins and finally made it to the Cliff of Self-Sacrifice. Exhausted, I was blown into the Valley of Heartbreak by a hurricane." Ji Xianlin recalled this unforgettable memory.
"Later in the canyon, Mo Wen's treatment stabilized my injuries. I was spared death. It was only after I entered the Valley of Heartbreak that I learned that the Gathering Yuan Pill I had taken was completely free of impurities. There was no residue left in my body. Later, when I talked about this with the old brothers in the canyon, everyone thought that the alchemy technology of Tianxuan Continent was flawed, or that the formula was wrong."
"With so many treasures flowing out of the Domain Tomb, won't everyone who enters it plunder it all? Why is it that every time the Domain Tomb opens, someone finds treasures inside, and the quantity doesn't decrease?"
"The exact size of the Domain Tomb remains unknown. However, it's not simply a tomb as its name suggests; it's actually a world similar to the Tianxuan Continent, perhaps not as large, but still quite substantial. It contains mountains and rivers, vast deserts, and craggy stone forests, but devoid of trees, flowers, or any living creatures—a deathly stillness. Some have even spent half a month exploring its boundaries without finding them. Over the years, the entire terrain of the Domain Tomb has remained unexplored, with many unknown areas shrouded in mystery. Some even claim to have seen people from outside the Tianxuan Continent appear within it."
"Not from the Tianxuan Continent? Are they natives of the Domain Tomb? It's not impossible for someone to survive in such a vast space!"
"No, before the domain tomb disappears, the space inside will gradually turn dark and the air will become thinner and thinner until it becomes unbreathable. Those who cannot come out will suffocate inside. Therefore, when it reopens, those who go in again will see the tragic scene of many people who died inside before," Ji Xianlin said, shaking his head.
"Therefore, I suspect that the domain tomb may be connected to other unknown worlds, like a storage bag. It has a large space inside that can store many things. When it is opened, its internal world is connected to the outside world, and outside air enters. Humans can then go inside to explore. When it is closed, it is isolated from the outside world. Living things cannot survive in it. However, this domain tomb will move around, perhaps between several worlds similar to the Tianxuan Continent, and then open."
"That doesn't prove that the pills you found weren't left over from ancient times. Perhaps in that special environment, pills could be preserved for a long time!"
"The key is that the brocade box containing the pills is very new, without any signs of age. Moreover, according to information revealed by many explorers who have entered it, some people have found fresh spiritual fruits in wooden boxes inside. And such spiritual fruits are very rare to find in the Tianxuan Continent."
"In that case, it's very possible that another dimension exists. Moreover, the people in that dimension generally have higher cultivation levels than those on the Tianxuan Continent, and they can refine pills that are very cost-effective and free of poison. So why would the people of that world put some valuable materials in the domain tomb for everyone to search for treasure? It doesn't benefit them at all!"
"Perhaps the other person placed these things in the domain tomb to train and reward their disciples? Are we going in to steal their things?"
"That makes some sense. Perhaps this domain tomb was originally a treasure space created by a powerful being from another high-level world, specifically for training their disciples. They placed treasures within the space to stimulate the disciples who entered to cultivate. And coincidentally, this treasure space had a loophole that would connect to our world at a certain time and place. That's how the domain tomb we know came to be."