Chapter 1060

In the alchemy room, there was only the subtle movement of the liquid medicine tumbling in the pill furnace.

Zong Ao hid his figure in the darkness, for fear of disturbing Yang Kai. He even temporarily suppressed his breathing and his heart stopped beating, like a dead person.

He looked at the pill furnace extremely intently, looking at the figure constantly busy in front of the pill furnace.

The pill was only half refined, and the liquid medicine was interacting with each other under the action of the divine consciousness fire and various spiritual arrays, undergoing a fundamental change.

For no reason, Zong Ao had a feeling.

That was that the pill refined by Yang Kai this time could at least produce pill patterns.

This kind of feeling had never appeared before. Zong Ao had been observing Yang Kai’s alchemy for not just a day or two. He had been observing for a full half a year. Although the probability of the pills refined by Yang Kai having pill patterns was somewhat terrifyingly high, there were also times of failure, and in the end, he could only harvest an ordinary Li Huo Pill.

There had never been such a situation before. He was still in the midst of refining, and he was one hundred percent certain that he would definitely be able to refine a pill pattern!

What kind of reasoning was this? Zong Ao was secretly horrified and became even more cautious in looking over there, not willing to miss a single detail.

But no matter how he looked, Yang Kai’s movements were still the same as before, neither increasing nor decreasing. Even the spiritual arrays he engraved were ones he had seen thousands of times. He could know what Yang Kai would do next and what spiritual array he would engrave even with his eyes closed.

The only difference was that imposing manner, that imposing manner of extreme confidence.

It was this imposing manner that had affected his judgment, making him certain that the pill could produce a pill pattern even before it was out of the furnace.

Could the pill cloud really be generated？ Success or failure was only a single chance. Zong Ao couldn’t wait to know the final answer.

He couldn’t help but admire Yang Kai a little. Because if it were him in that realm, he would definitely be upset and definitely have a mountain of pressure. Once such a sign appeared he wouldn’t be able to refine the pill wholeheartedly, and failure would be inevitable.

Yang Kai didn’t. He was as calm as ever. His expression showed neither joy nor sorrow, as if he was refining an insignificant pill, his movements steady and meticulous. Everything he could do had been pushed to the limit by him.

As time passed, Zong Ao was burning with anxiety.

A faint fragrance of pills gradually drifted out in the alchemy room. This was a sign that the pills were about to come out of the furnace.

Yang Kai’s expression seemed to become a little more solemn. Every time the pills were about to come out of the furnace, he would treat them with a thousand times more caution.

The fire of spiritual consciousness was sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Streams of spiritual thoughts were depicting spirit arrays inside the pill furnace, and all the subtleties had been achieved to the extreme by him.

In his eyes and in his heart, it had always been as clear as a mirror, without distractions. And by this time, he had even forgotten the pill furnace in the front of him and the pills that were about to take shape.

Suddenly, the pill with pill clouds that he had seen before came to his mind！

That was the first and only pill with pill clouds that he had obtained. It was found together with An Ling’er, the saintess of the Holy Land, from the underwater ruins. Although it was finally swallowed by him in the end. The huge medicinal effect made the five-colored water lily turn into six colors, but before taking it, he had also been observing that pill cloud, attempting to gain some inspiration from it.

At this moment, all kinds of memories surged up, and he vaguely grasped a key point.

The formerly obscure and unclear aspects became suddenly clear and bright at this moment, and his eyes couldn’t help but widen, blooming with a different kind of charm.

The last set of compound spirit array was engraved and branded into the furnace. Yang Kai’s divine consciousness fire burst out fully, refining this set of compound spirit array into the not-yet-completely-formed pill.

His own body suddenly seemed to have a big opening, and the Saint Yuan and the power of divine consciousness were simultaneously flowing away, like a mountain landslide and a tsunami, like a river bursting its banks. The abundant sea of consciousness dried up in an instant, and the water level of the sea directly dropped to the lowest level. The huge amount of Saint Yuan also flowed away countless in this moment.

Yang Kai’s eyes went dark, and he almost fainted.

He had a feeling that his life had been drained, as if he was going to die the next moment.

The thick fragrance of the pill diffused out from the furnace, much stronger than the one thousand eight hundred Li Huo Pills that Yang Kai had refined before.

A clear sound came out from the furnace, so pleasant to the ear.

Yang Kai grinned and smiled, freezing in place.

Zong Ao’s heart almost jumped out of his chest. How could he not see Yang Kai’s abnormality at the moment when the pill was about to take shape? Such an abnormality made him almost go crazy with excitement.

He thought that Yang Kai had succeeded.

Who knew that after waiting for a long time, Yang Kai still didn’t move.

Calling out softly a few times and getting no response at all, Zong Ao then carefully walked forward and quietly released his spiritual thoughts to investigate. After taking a look, he couldn’t help but be stunned.

Yang Kai’s face was frighteningly pale, as if he had fought a great battle with a powerful enemy. His entire aura was fluctuating unsteadily, and his Qi and blood strength was also extremely weak…

He had already closed his eyes and fainted, but he wouldn’t die. As long as he recovered for a few days, he would be able to recover.

Ignoring Yang Kai, Zong Ao trembled and slapped the pill furnace in front of him with his hand. A pill flew out in response and was caught by the jade bottle in Zong Ao’s hand.

Taking a deep breath, Zong Ao concentrated and looked into the jade bottle.

After taking a look, Zong Ao couldn’t help but show a disappointed expression.

The Li Huo Dan in the jade bottle had a smooth and round surface. Where was there any trace of a pill cloud？ Not even a pill pattern had been born.

Failed？ Zong Ao’s expression was complicated. The momentum that Yang Kai had when refining the pill just now made him almost think that the kid would surely succeed, but he didn’t expect the final outcome to be so bleak.

When he wakes up and finds that the last Li Huo Dan he painstakingly refined is actually just an ordinary pill, I don’t know if he will faint again.

Zong Ao let out a heavy sigh.

He has lived for countless years and knows that sometimes the gap between dreams and reality is huge. He has also Youdaoplaceholder0 and wander between dreams and reality many times, but was pricked all over by the ubiquitous thorns in the chasm.

Yang Kai is still just a young man. It is not surprising to have such an experience. However, since the Pill Cloud was not refined and he refuses to ask for help from Shuiyue Star, it seems that he is really at the end of his life.

Zong Ao couldn’t help but sigh with emotion. After getting along with Yang Kai for this period of time, Zong Ao clearly recognized Yang Kai’s talent in alchemy. He really couldn’t bear to see Yang Kai die young like this. In his mind, he was already considering how to comfort him a few words in the tone of an elder after Yang Kai woke up.

At this time, what he needs most is comfort and encouragement.

While considering, Zong Ao’s face suddenly changed again.

He noticed that the heaven and earth spiritual energy around him had become a bit strange.

Releasing his spiritual sense, Zong Ao let out a cry of horror.

For some reason, the huge spiritual energy between heaven and earth was frantically gathering towards this side. The movement was even more terrifying than that when Yang Kai was cultivating before. In the sky the rich spiritual energy almost converged into a substantial existence, like a giant dragon soaring and dancing in the sky.

A huge suction force suddenly came from the jade bottle in his hand. The just-out-of-the-oven Li Huo Dan seemed to have come to life and was jumping in the jade bottle, making a tinkling sound.

The giant dragon soaring in the sky dived straight down, like a god unleashing his might, bombarding into the palace where Zong Ao had lived for a hundred years.

A huge sound rang out, and half of the palace collapsed in an instant. Dozens of wing rooms turned into broken walls and ruins. All kinds of wooden materials came crashing down on Zong Ao, but were bounced off by his body-protecting Saint Yuan.

Visible spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured into the jade bottle. The jade bottle simply couldn’t withstand such pressure and directly shattered.

Zong Ao’s eyes widened. He clearly saw that the spiritual energy like a giant dragon was being devoured by a small Li Huo Dan. That newly refined Li Huo Dan seemed to have become a bottomless abyss. No matter how much spiritual energy came, it would devour it all without any bottom line.

The wind was howling in his ears, his vision was blurred, with flying sand and rocks. The thousand-mu medicinal field was severely damaged. Zong Ao saw many of his precious Youdaoplaceholder0 materials fly in the strong wind and being shredded to pieces.

His face twitched and his heart was bleeding.

These medicinal materials were cultivated by him himself. Every single plant had his blood and sweat poured into it. Now, a spiritual energy storm had swept over, and the entire thousand-mu medicinal field had been affected. Many medicinal materials had been uprooted, and those that remained were also in a mess in the strong wind.

“Dammit！” Zong Ao’s old face distorted, and he couldn’t help but howl, flailing his arms and legs in the strong wind, but powerless to stop this disaster.

Half an hour later, everything returned to calm.

In the ruins, Yang Kai still sat cross-legged. The dozens of alchemy furnaces in front of him didn’t move at all and remained in their original positions. However, Zong Ao’s palace had almost completely collapsed, and even Xue Yue, who was in a coma, was buried deep underground.

Zong Ao didn’t bother to care about that little girl. He held a new jade bottle in his hand, and there was a pill in the jade bottle. He stared blankly at his thousand-mu medicinal field, and the flesh on his face twitched uncontrollably.

The thousand-mu medicinal field was all affected, and almost none of it was intact.

Ninety percent of the previously thriving medicinal materials were lost, and the remaining ten percent also had a dim vitality and would die at any time.

The leaves and fruits on more than a dozen Heavenly Yang Fruits were nowhere to be found, leaving only the bare trunks. These Heavenly Yang Fruits would be of great use in another ten years.

The half-mu of Sparrow Lotus Flowers had long since disappeared, and even the half-mu of land had been plowed several times by the might of the heavens. The land was half a foot lower than usual.

Where is my Thousand-Dish Flower？ Zong Ao weakly rolled his eyes, but there was no trace of the Thousand-Dish Flower that he regarded as precious as his life. On the ground where the Thousand-Dish Flower originally grew, only half a broken root was stuck there.

Zong Ao’s eyes rolled up and he almost fainted.

Not to mention the loss of the thousand-mu medicinal field, Zong Ao found that the great array he had painstakingly set up in this valley for many years had been completely destroyed and could no longer play its proper role.

Within a radius of a thousand miles, the sky and the earth were dim and not even a trace of spiritual energy existed anymore!

The sound of fluttering clothes came from far and near, and quickly. Halika, Lin Mufeng, and the middle-aged woman brought many powerful people from the Hengluo Chamber of Commerce and rushed over after hearing the news.

When the sky came here, they had already noticed it. They didn’t know what had happened and quickly came to check.

When they arrived at the place and looked around, everyone was dumbfounded and couldn’t believe their eyes for a while.

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