Chapter 400: Preparation!

  Ihe room, Yao Lao held the crystalline, ruby-like herb in one hand, while a ball of white fme suddenly fred up iher.

  As the white fme emerged, an icy chill filled the room, yet Xiao Ya a heat rising within him. He was ner to this famous Cold Bone Spirit Fme, which he had previously used for refining pills. However, under Yao Lao’s trol, the fme’s power was several times strohan when Xiao Yan wielded it himself.

  At this moment, Yao Lao summohe Cold Bone Spirit Fme and tossed the herb into it.

  Uhe scorg heat of the white fme, the slightly plump, ruby-like herb rapidly shrank in size while its crew increasingly vibrant. A rich, aged aroma—remi of an a, well-aged wine—gradually permeated from Yao Lao’s hand.

  Inhaling the intense fragrance, Xiao Ya a jolt throughout his body, surprised to realize that the fatigue he had been feeling from a day of alchemy work pletely vanished.

  “Just a whiff of this herb has su incredible effect; it must work wonders i Teacher’s soul power,” Xiao Yan thought to himself, marveling.

  As he watched, the herb struggled against the fme’s refi, but it posed little resistance. Within mere seds, it had transformed into a bright red droplet, roughly the size of a ping-pong ball.

  “dense!”

  With a low shout, Yao Lao increased the fme’s iy. In an instant, the red droplet shrank further until it was no bigger than a soybean.

  “Now’s the time!”

  With the droplet deo this size, Yao Lao swiftly withdrew the fme and raised his hand, pressing the droplet into his forehead.

  As soon as the densed droplet touched his forehead, it merged with Yao Lao, and a vast, overwhelming wave of soul energy erupted from his brow. Xiao Yan was thrown back three or four meters by the impact, crashing against the wooden wall. Had Yao Lao not set up a barrier in the room, the wall would likely have been shattered.

  “Xiao Yan, are you all right?”

  Seeing Xiao Yan thrown back by the release of soul energy, Yao Lao quickly approached him with an apologetic look.

  Using one hand to push himself up, Xiao Yan grinned and replied nontly, “Teacher, I’ve got tough bones; a hit like this is nothing!”

  As he looked at Yao Lao’s soul form, Xiao Yan’s face lit up with joy. In just a few seds, Yao Lao’s soul had bee signifitly more solid, no longer as faint ahereal as before.

  “Teacher, how’s your soul recoing?” Xiao Yan asked eagerly.

  Hearing Xiao Yan’s question, Yao Lao stroked his white beard with a smile. “I’ve almost recovered to the state I was in before that battle with the shapeshifting magical beast!”

  “Really? That’s wonderful, gratutions, Teacher!” Xiao Yan wholeheartedly gratuted Yao Lao.

  “Xiao Yan, now that my soul power has been partially restored, it’s time to refine a pill to help you advance your cultivation,” Yao Lao said, recalling an unfiask. He promptly took a rge, bck cauldron from Xiao Yan’s ring a on the floor, infusing it with the Cold Bone Spirit Fme to rapidly heat it.

  One by one, a variety of dazzling medial herbs emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring, h in midair.

  At a precise moment, Yao Lao began refining the ingredients in succession, following a specific order to eheir fusion…

  Half an hour ter, the room was filled with a rich aroma as a perfectly round, bck pill emerged from the cauldron.

  "Xiao Yan, this is a peak-grade third-tier pill. It will help a Dou Practitioner like you stably increase your strength by oar. Quickly, take it to advance your power!"

  Handing the freshly refihird-tier pill to Xiao Yan, Yao Lao immediately began preparing to refihe pill.

  Xiao Yan wasted no time. He swallowed the pill aered a meditative state, sitting cross-legged on the floor as he repeatedly circuted his internal energy.

  Initially, Yao Lao’s pill refining filled the room with a dense medial aroma, but as daroached, waves of energy started emanating from the cauldron. It was evident that he had transitioned from refining third-tier pills to more potent fifth-tier pills.

  After refining a fifth-tier pill, Yao Lao didn’t stop; he tinued, moving directly to the preparation of another pill.

  Meanwhile, Xiao Yan, still seated on the floor, had advao the peak of the ar Dou Practitioage through his all-night cultivation and the effects of the pills.

  Excited by his rapid progress, Xiao Yan picked up a peak-grade fourth-tier pill and swallowed it without hesitation.

  Uhe third-tier pill, the fourth-tier pill’s energy was nearly equivalent to that of a fifth-tier pill. The moment it entered his mouth, it transformed into a pure medial force that surged down his throat, flooding into his meridians.

  “Boom!”

  As Xiao Yan eled his energy teique, the enormous medial force split into tless streams, rushing through his meridians in a structured manner. Some of the narrower meridians that Xiao Yan had never accessed before were forcibly opened by this powerful energy.

  A bead of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead, and Xiao Yan’s face torted in pain, with hissing breaths esg through ched teeth.

  Inside his body, the tless tiny streams of energy coursed violently through his previously untouched meridians. The narrow pathways expanded rapidly, while thin cracks appeared on the walls of his meridians.

  From these cracks, faint beams of light burst out, a sign that the meridians were under extreme strain and on the verge of rupturing.

  Fortunately, the medial energy looping through his meridians passed a sed time, repairing the cracked ses. These restored meridians were now wider and could aodate more energy than before.

  This process was happening simultaneously in tless meridians throughout Xiao Yan’s body.

  (End of Chapter)

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