Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, I am your second master

Chapter 269 Refining a Grade Nine Precious Pill

Xiao Li exhaled a breath of stale air, feeling his own power.

"Mid-stage Two-Star Dou Sheng, not bad, very good! This will greatly increase the success rate of refining Grade Nine Treasure Pills."

The old doctor standing to the side looked at his cultivation level in disbelief. He had just been resurrected and, with the help of the remains of a two-star Dou Sheng, he had grasped the secrets of the Saint Realm and broken through to the Dou Sheng realm in one fell swoop!

Now that he has absorbed the essence of that demon saint, his strength has directly increased by one star, advancing from the early stage of a one-star Dou Sheng to the early stage of a two-star Dou Sheng! Who else can progress so rapidly!

Xiao Li slowly descended. He looked at Zi Yan, who was still digesting the ninth-grade treasure pill, the Myriad Manifestations Saint Yuan Pill.

Xiao Li refined this Myriad Manifestations Saint Essence Pill to an exceptional degree. It is the best of all the Grade Nine Treasure Pills that Xiao Li has refined so far. Originally, Xiao Li kept it for himself, but now it has entered the belly of the Great Mother Dragon.

"Alright, let's get down to business!" Xiao Li stretched his body and came to Yao Ming.

"Clan Chief Yaoming, are the medicinal herbs ready?" Xiao Li asked with a faint smile.

"Ready, ready. Bring them up to you now!" Yao Ming handed out more than a dozen storage rings, each containing medicinal herbs collected by the Nine Netherworld Python clan over hundreds or thousands of years.

Monsters don't know how to refine medicine. When they encounter rare and precious materials, they usually wait for them to mature before eating them. However, once a monster reaches the seventh rank, it can transform into human form. Transformed monsters are highly intelligent and know how to use rare and precious materials to exchange for pills with human alchemists.

Alchemists are highly sought after in the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Li's soul power swept over one storage ring after another, and he was pleasantly surprised by the medicinal herb reserves of the Nine Netherworld Python.

"So many good things! Not bad, not bad. We can refine quite a few good things." Xiao Li was surprised. As expected of a magical beast family, they have a lot of rare and precious materials!

If the Nine Netherworld Python is like this, what about the Ancient Void Dragon? With the unique treasure-hunting ability of the Ancient Void Dragon clan, it must be piled high with rare and precious materials.

"Let me see... My goodness! So much!" The old apothecary was also astonished by the amount of medicinal herbs stored.

Xiao Li looked at Yao Ming and said, "You've done very well. I will refine all these medicinal herbs into pills. At that time, I will give you two Rank 9 Treasure Pills, five Rank 8 Pills that have undergone Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and fifteen Rank 8 Pills that have undergone Eight-Colored Pill Lightning, how about that?"

"Thank you, Mr. Xiao!" Yao Ming immediately bowed. This was an unprecedented fortune: two Grade 9 precious pills, five Grade 8 nine-colored pills, and fifteen Grade 8 eight-colored pills. It was far too much.

Xiao Li nodded: "Do you have a quiet place here? Elder Yao and I need a quiet place to refine pills."

"Yes! Yes, please come with me!"

Yao Ming led Xiao Li and Yao Lao to a spacious valley where the energy of heaven and earth was extremely rich, and most importantly, it was very quiet!

After Xiao Li and Yao Lao entered the valley, Yao Ming ordered the entire Nine Netherworld Python clan to be on alert! He also set up a coiled snake formation around the valley as a precaution, and ordered that anyone who came to disturb them be killed immediately!

As soon as Yao Ming finished doing all this, all sorts of colorful thunderclouds began to form in the sky above that valley.

Yao Ming knew that Yao Lao and Xiao Li had started refining pills, and that the colorful pill lightning could only be summoned by eighth-grade pills.

This training lasted for a year. During this time, colorful lightning constantly appeared in the valley, interspersed with a lot of dark lightning. The power of that lightning even made Yao Ming somewhat afraid.

Those semi-saint elders, looking at the black lightning, were certain that touching it would mean certain death!

After the lightning above the valley completely dissipated and there was no further movement, two figures slowly emerged from the valley.

The two men looked extremely disheveled, like beggars, with tattered clothes, messy hair and beards, sunken eyes, and an indescribable sense of fatigue.

Zi Yan, who was stationed outside the valley, saw Xiao Li come out and immediately went to help him.

"Old Xiao, please don't make me refine pills at such a high intensity again. I really can't take it anymore! I need to get some sleep; I can't hold on any longer," the old medicine master said weakly.

Xiao Li was also weak, both physically and mentally: "I don't need to refine pills at such a high intensity for a while. I can't go on, I need to rest."

Upon seeing Xiao Li and Yao Chen emerge, Yao Ming immediately ordered, "Quickly, quickly, arrange the finest guest rooms for the two lords! They must be of human quality, and have them ready within an incense stick's time! Otherwise, you'll pay with your head!"

"yes!"

The Nine Netherworld Python clan consists entirely of snakes, most of whom live in burrows, with only the clan leader and elders possessing magnificent palaces.

"Empty my palace! Make it available for the two of you to live in! While you're at it, remove everything I don't need from my house, and light all the calming incense. Make sure the two of you are comfortable!"

The newly appointed Grand Elder of the Nine Netherworld Python immediately gave the order. He was originally a member of the Yaoming lineage and was considered one of the more ancient members of the Nine Netherworld Python clan. His words carried great weight!

Xiao Li, Yao Lao, and Zi Yan moved directly into the Grand Elder's palace. Xiao Li and Zi Yan shared a room, while Yao Lao had a separate room.

The two of them slept for a full two weeks before they recovered.

"Such intense alchemy is really too much for me, but my soul has improved quite a bit. I'm sure you have too, Elder Yao," Xiao Li said, taking a sip of tea.

The old apothecary held the teacup in his hand and slowly said, "Such high-intensity alchemy is rare in the world. Even the people of the Medicine Clan would not refine pills for such a long time. I have been tricked by you. However, my gains are not small. My soul power has improved a lot. Although I am still far from the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm, I can at least see the way."

The two refined pills for a year and naturally reaped considerable rewards, and their alchemy skills also made great progress!

It can be said that apart from those old monsters who can refine Xuan Dan, Xiao Li and Yao Chen are unmatched at the level of Bao Dan.

After finishing his tea, Yao Lao looked at Xiao Li and said, "I really don't know what you were thinking. You didn't even spare the Pill Lightning. So many Pill Lightning and Black Demon Lightning were all refined into Thunder Tribulation Pills."

There are nine Thunder Tribulation Pills at the ninth-grade treasure level! You've practically drained the Heavenly Tribulation bald!

The old doctor had no idea what Xiao Li was thinking. He actually asked Ancestor Xiao Kong to seal the energy of the lightning tribulation and then refine it into a lightning tribulation pill. He was really greedy!

"Make good use of everything available. The Thunder Tribulation Pill is such a good thing. One pill can raise your cultivation level by at least two minor levels. It's a treasure."

"Our current reserves of pills are probably more extravagant than those of the Pill Tower, no! More extravagant than those of some imperial clans," Xiao Li said with a faint smile.

"Regarding the nine-grade precious pills, there are nine Thunder Tribulation Pills, three Qiankun Saint Pills, four Four Symbols Saint Yuan Pills, two Myriad Symbols Saint Yuan Pills, four Heavenly Star Saint Qi Pills, and two Heaven-Mending Supreme Yuan Pills."

"As for the eighth-grade pills, I'm too lazy to count them, there are just too many," the old medicine master said slowly.

A total of twenty-four Grade 9 precious pills—who else can match that number!

Xiao Li said, "Alas~ the medicinal materials for refining the ninth-grade precious pill are really too scarce. If it weren't for the Nine Nether Earth Python Clan's wealth and resources, they wouldn't be able to withstand our consumption. Now that we have successfully completed the task, we should go back and make some preparations."

"It's time to go back."

Xiao Li and Yao Lao then prepared to return to Zhongzhou. After handing over the pills for the Nine Netherworld Python, Xiao Li gave Yao Ming an extra Four Symbols Saint Yuan Pill, which moved Yao Ming so much that he almost knelt down and cried.

The three streaks of light headed towards the Central Continent. What Xiao Li and Yao Lao didn't know was that the strange phenomena they had caused in the Nine Netherworld Python Clan's territory had already caused a stir in the Beast Domain, and even the strong people of the Central Continent had turned their attention to the Beast Domain!