Chapter 1055
byHalf a month later, the Dragon Turtle Spirit Fruit that Halika promised was delivered as scheduled and handed over to Zong Ao. Taking a distant look at Yang Kai who was in the midst of cultivation, he left quickly without stopping.
They had already done everything they promised. Whether Lord Xue could wake up safely was no longer something they could control.
They could only wait and, by the way, pray that Zong Ao really had the ability to refine Pill Clouds！
——They didn’t know that it was Yang Kai who needed to refine pills, and Zong Ao was too lazy to explain too much to them.
Time passed in a hurry. Another month later, Yang Kai slowly got up, put away the Gathering Spirit Seven-Colored Flag, and walked back to Zong Ao’s palace with some reluctance.
The cultivation environment he obtained in these few months was not inferior to that on the Hanging Continent at all. The realm of the Third-Order Saint had been completely stabilized. He could now accumulate time and strength to strike the Saint King Realm.
He didn’t know if he could have such a good opportunity again in the future. Of course, he was a little reluctant to interrupt his cultivation, but for the sake of his own life, he still had to reluctantly give up.
Zong Ao seemed to have been waiting for this moment when he would show his skills. As soon as Yang Kai walked into the palace, he threw over several spatial rings and said with a smile, “All the medicinal materials for refining the Lihuo Pill are here. Halika and the others did their best and prepared a full two thousand copies of materials for you, all of the Saint King level. Let’s see how you can refine a Lihuo Pill with Pill Cloud.”
“As long as senior doesn’t forget his bet！” Yang Kai glanced at him lightly and said calmly.
“Hmph, I always keep my word.” Zong Ao snorted. “It’s you, kid. Are you ready to be enslaved by me for a lifetime？”
He still didn’t want to believe that Yang Kai could do what he said, and he didn’t dare to believe it either.
“Let’s wait and see！” Yang Kai chuckled strangely, put away the several spatial rings, and walked straight in.
Xue Yue was still the same, with steady breathing and surging vitality. There was no problem for the time being. But since Zong Ao said that in her current state, she could only live for a year and a half, then that’s how long she could only live.
Calculating the time, her deadline was only one year left.
Yang Kai was not in a hurry either. He had bet his life on the Lihuo Pill, which meant that no matter what, he had to succeed.
“Old Zong, borrow your alchemy room for a use.” Yang Kai said and walked into the room where Zong Ao usually refined pills.
“As long as you can make me convinced, you can tear this place down if you want.” Zong Ao followed Yang Kai closely, not feeling the slightest bit embarrassed. Obviously, he had made up his mind to observe until the end.
If Yang Kai really had the means to refine a Pill Cloud, he could also learn it secretly. In that case, even if he lost half of the Mysterious Yin Sunflower Water, he would be willing.
Conversely, if Yang Kai couldn’t refine it, he would be happy to watch the joke and, by the way, take Yang Kai as a servant and drive him for a lifetime, doing odd jobs for him and such.
Zong Ao had already prepared for a long-term battle. As soon as he entered the alchemy room, he dragged over the only chair. He sat there with a domineering posture, not making a sound, just watching. Even the sound of his breathing was hidden, as if he didn’t want to disturb Yang Kai because of his existence and thus give him an excuse.
Yang Kai also regarded him as nothing. He walked back and forth in front of the dozens of alchemy furnaces arranged beside him, reaching out and patting them from time to time, checking them out, constantly nodding. His face showed a look of covetousness.
Zong Ao was at least a Void Rank High Grade Alchemist, and it was very likely that he was a Void King Rank Alchemist. How could the grade of the alchemy furnaces he used be poor？
Those dozens of alchemy furnaces, large and small, each of them was of a very high grade. The lowest was at least a Saint King Rank High Grade alchemy furnace, and there were countless Void Rank ones. Just these alchemy furnaces alone were a huge fortune.
Yang Kai’s own cauldron was still the small one left by the Great Demon God. On the Tongxuan Continent, this small cauldron was considered to be of a good grade. But compared with these that Zong Ao possessed, it was like the difference between heaven and earth, several levels lower, and simply couldn’t be looked at.
A good cauldron can greatly improve the stability and fit of the spiritual array drawn by the alchemist, thereby improving the success rate and quality of the elixir.
So in addition to elixirs, the pursuit of an alchemist in his life also includes the cauldron. They are often willing to go bankrupt to forge a good cauldron without hesitation.
Zong Ao had so many good cauldrons here, how could Yang Kai not be jealous？ He secretly regretted not adding one to the bet at that time, and didn’t know if Zong Ao would reject him if he asked for it.
After looking around, he immediately targeted the cauldron with the highest quality. Yang Kai patted it and nodded slightly. He would use it for the time being.
“The brat has good eyesight.” Zong Ao watched silently from the side. Seeing Yang Kai stop in front of his favorite cauldron, he couldn’t help but snort coldly in his heart.
Alchemists have a special affection for cauldrons. Many alchemists even regard their cauldrons as their wives and daughters, their own forbidden delicacies, and absolutely do not allow others to touch them. Whoever dares to touch them will fight with them.
Perhaps because Zong Ao had too many cauldrons, he didn’t have this distorted mind, but he still felt more or less uncomfortable in his heart.
Yang Kai simply ignored him and sorted the medicinal ingredients in those few Space Rings according to their types, so as not to waste time looking for them later when he needed them.
He sat cross-legged in front of that Pill Furnace, and the expression on his face instantly became solemn and pious.
Zong Ao’s eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help but cry out in his heart.
Just from this rapid change in temperament and expression, Zong Ao could tell that Yang Kai was not a novice. He was also a young man who had quite a lot of research on the Dao of Pill Refining. Otherwise, he simply wouldn’t be able to assume such a posture His entire spirit was concentrated on that Pill Furnace and in his eyes, there was only the medicinal ingredients and the Pill Furnace in the whole world, nothing else.
Zong Ao himself would also enter this kind of state when refining pills, so he naturally knew the mystery and rarity of it.
However… two thousand portions of materials! This meant that he had to repeat the same actions two thousand times, refine two thousand identical Pill Furnaces. For any person, if they continuously did one thing for a long time, their calm and focused state of mind would be broken, and then they would become agitated and furious. Once such a situation occurred there was no need to think about refining pills anymore, and it simply wouldn’t be possible to succeed.
Zong Ao’s thoughts raced, and a smile emerged on the corner of his mouth as he secretly prepared to watch the show.
A scorching hot force suddenly spread out from Yang Kai’s side. This force was not Saint Yuan, nor was it the force burst from within the body. Instead, it burst out from that kid’s sea of consciousness.
“The fire of spiritual awareness？” Zong Ao’s complexion suddenly changed, his eyes widened, and he couldn’t help but shout in a low voice.
The body that was originally leaning against the chair also suddenly leaned forward, stretching its neck as if it could see more clearly.
The expression on his face changed, as if excited, as if horrified, as if coveting and as if unbelievable especially wonderful. The armrest of the chair was inadvertently crushed by him without knowing it.
It was actually the fire of spiritual awareness！
Zong Ao’s heart set off a stormy sea.
As an excellent alchemist, how could he not know the preciousness of the fire of spiritual awareness? Even he did not possess this special spiritual awareness power. The fire of spiritual awareness is extremely rare. Some are born, and some are formed. But as long as one has the fire of spiritual awareness, one has the strongest capital of an alchemist.
Using the fire of spiritual awareness to refine pills can greatly improve both the efficiency and the quality of pill refining. In his life, Zong Ao has not seen alchemists with the fire of spiritual awareness. The number is only one or two. The efficiency of those one or two colleagues with this special spiritual awareness power in refining pills is simply like a monster, making Zong Ao have to bow down.
More than two hundred years ago, after seeing the strange means of a colleague with the fire of spiritual awareness, he wholeheartedly wanted to mutate his own spiritual awareness power. He found a piece of fire essence and attempted to refine it into his own.
That time, he narrowly escaped death, his sea of consciousness was injured, and his spiritual sense was damaged. He almost lost his life.
It took him decades of recuperation and the consumption of a large number of spiritual pills, elixirs, and natural treasures to gradually recover.
Although he failed to mutate his spiritual sense power, during those decades of cultivation, he came up with a pill-refining method that emphasizes quantity to increase the generation rate of pill patterns.
And now, a young man under the age of thirty actually also has the spiritual sense fire. How could he not envy and be jealous？
Although he was envious, when he recalled the hardships he had endured back then, Zong Ao still had some lingering fears and did not dare to give birth to the slightest bit of greed.
Looking over with burning eyes, Yang Kai had already started to condense the medicinal liquid. As expected of the spiritual sense fire, this kid’s cultivation level was not high, having just advanced to the Third-Order Saint King Realm. But under the effect of the spiritual sense fire, those Saint King-level medicinal materials were all condensed into drops of medicinal liquid in a very short period of time.
One exquisite spiritual array after another took shape in mid-air and was injected into the pill furnace by him. The condensed medicinal liquids were also put in sequence one by one. Although there were still some flaws in the control of the heat and timing, for someone who was refining the fire pill for the first time it could already be considered quite good.
No alchemist can be proficient in the refining of a certain kind of pill from the very beginning. That requires the accumulation of time and experience！ Zong Ao can be sure that Yang Kai is refining the Li Huo Pill for the first time. To be able to do this greatly exceeded Zong Ao’s expectations.
Another set of spiritual arrays were depicted and imprinted into the pill furnace, replacing the previous spiritual arrays. All kinds of spiritual arrays fit perfectly and blended with each other inside the pill furnace, causing subtle and gratifying changes to the medicinal liquid.
“How is it possible？” Zong Ao exclaimed again. No matter what, he couldn’t figure out that changing the configuration of the spiritual array during alchemy wouldn’t affect the formation of the pill？
Although he sometimes changes the spiritual array when refining pills, every time he is extremely careful and only changes it when the error tolerance rate is relatively high.
But Yang Kai’s changes seem to be unbridled and casual. In just a short while, he has already replaced more than a dozen sets of spiritual arrays.
Zong Ao really wants to immediately grab Yang Kai and ask for clarification, but he is too embarrassed to speak up. He can only suppress the doubts in his heart and is extremely anxious.
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