A god-level alchemist, starting by manually crafting forbidden pills.

Liu Linglong was stunned.

Her breath hitched, her beautiful eyes widened, and she stared at the jade bottle, her throat going dry.

"What did you say? This is a Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill?! When did you find the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus?"

She looked up at Luo Fan, her eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

In just over half a month, he has been in seclusion to heal his injuries.

Where did they get such a rare and precious treasure as the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus?

"It is not Snow Lotus."

"I replaced it with a fusion of three spiritual materials: Xuan Yin Soul, Fire Spirit Snow Lotus, and Blood Jade Marrow."

"Although its efficacy is slightly inferior to the genuine Nine-Turn Soul-Gathering Pill, it should be sufficient to heal the sect leader's old injuries."

Liu Linglong opened her mouth, somewhat bewildered. She knew that these spiritual materials were all extraordinary.

But to combine them to replace another main ingredient involves pharmacological changes, which is extremely complex.

What level of understanding of the medicinal properties would be required to do this?

Moreover, he actually achieved this in just half a month.

While healing his injuries and stabilizing his cultivation level, he also completed such a complex elixir deduction and refining process.

"What... kind of freak are you?"

Looking at Luo Fan's calm face, she felt a storm raging in her heart.

Every time she thought she thought highly of this guy, he would do something even more shocking.

Luo Fan smiled but offered no explanation.

Liu Linglong took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in her heart, and regained her usual languidness.

"Now that you have the pills, you should send them to the sect leader."

"Shall I deliver it?"

Luo Fan was taken aback. "Isn't this inappropriate?"

"What's inappropriate about it?"

Liu Linglong rolled her eyes at him, "The sect leader is still waiting for your elixir to save his life."

"Besides, with your Five Elements power, you are the most suitable person to refine the medicinal power for her."

She stretched, revealing her graceful figure, her curves exceptionally alluring.

That's fine.

She yawned. "I'm tired, I should take a rest."

Liu Linglong left decisively, leaving only her fragrant scent behind.

Luo Fan stood in the courtyard, holding the pills, feeling both amused and exasperated.

However, what she said makes sense.

The Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill has special medicinal power, and it is personally protected by the person who refined it.

Using the spiritual power of the five elements to guide the medicine can indeed maximize its efficacy and avoid accidents.

He went to the sect leader's palace late at night.

If Uncle-Master Leng Yue finds out about this, he'll definitely get a beating with the Spirit-Severing Whip.

The palace atop the main peak was shrouded in a pale purple barrier.

Luo Fan landed in front of the palace gate.

Sensing his presence, the barrier automatically opened a passage just wide enough for one person to pass through.

Luo Fan stepped through the barrier, raised his hand and knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside.

Luo Fan frowned slightly, pushed open the door, and went inside.

"Sect Leader?"

The candles in the palace had burned out, and only moonlight shone through the window, casting a silvery frost on the ground.

On the bed in the inner room, a slender figure lay quietly.

Her face was even paler than before, and her breath was so weak that it was almost imperceptible.

Luo Fan walked quickly to the bedside and placed his hand on Yunxi's wrist.

The situation is more serious than he anticipated!

Yunxi's old injury to her heart meridian has worsened to the point of near rupture.

Strands of chilling, deathly energy clung to it, constantly eroding its vitality.

His internal meridians were damaged in many places, his spiritual energy flowed sluggishly, and the golden core's light dimmed.

Luo Fan didn't delay any longer. He helped Yunxi, who was still unconscious, up and let her lean against him.

With his other hand, he took out the Nine-Turn Soul-Gathering Pill and put it into her mouth.

Luo Fan then helped Yunxi sit upright on the bed, making her sit cross-legged.

He then got into bed, sat cross-legged behind her, and placed his palms against her back.

The five elements of spiritual energy guided the medicinal power from his palm, avoiding the damaged meridians and converging towards her heart meridian.

Yunxi, who was unconscious, seemed to sense something, and her tightly furrowed brows relaxed a little.

Soon, the Nine-Turn Soul-Condensing Pill took effect.

The chilling, deathly aura that had been clinging to her heart meridian gradually dissipated, and her damaged heart meridian regained its vitality.

The originally stagnant spiritual energy within her body began to circulate more and more smoothly along her repaired meridians.

At the same time, nourished by both medicinal power and the spiritual power of the five elements, it became more resilient and expansive than ever before.

At this moment, the golden core within the dantian suddenly trembled!

A dazzling light emanated from the cracks on the surface, forming a vortex.

It absorbed the residual medicinal power, Luo Fan's five elements spiritual power, and the vast spiritual energy.

Luo Fan's expression was solemn, as he needed to ensure that Yunxi had the energy required for her breakthrough.

However, it is important to avoid overdoing it and damaging her newly repaired meridians.

boom--!

Her golden core shattered with a crash.

It is not destruction, but rebirth!

The shattered golden elixir was re-formed and condensed in the dantian.

A tiny figure, identical in appearance to Yunxi, sitting cross-legged with its eyes closed, slowly took shape.

Her pale complexion regained its rosy hue at a visible speed, and her breathing improved steadily.

next second!

A powerful aura surged into the sky, breaking through the purple barrier outside the palace.

That ray of light illuminated half the sky.

The entire Peach Blossom Temple was alarmed by this sudden and strange phenomenon.

On Danfeng Peak.

Qian Butong was forging iron when suddenly his hand trembled, and the hammer almost smashed into his own foot.

He rushed out of the weapon-refining workshop and looked towards the summit of the main peak.

"The sect leader has broken through?!"

"Okay! Okay!"

He took the gourd from his waist and gulped down several mouthfuls of strong liquor.

Dantang.

Master Qingxiao walked out of the meditation room and stared at the pillar of light shooting into the sky for a long time without saying a word.

"The sect leader has finally reached the Nascent Soul stage..."

Inside the ancestral hall.

Gao Yi stood in front of Ji Kun's memorial tablet, with three incense sticks lit in front of him.

The curling incense smoke reflected on his weathered face.

Through the window, he turned his head to look at the beam of light shooting into the sky.

"My child, did you see it?"

"The sect leader has broken through."

"Peach Blossom Temple will only get better and better."

"Your trip was worthwhile."

Ji Kun was not only his apprentice, but also his son.

This was his deepest secret, unknown not only to his fellow disciples within the sect.

Even Ji Kun himself didn't know.

The pain in Gao Yi's heart stems from his encounter with an ordinary woman decades ago when he went out to gain experience and seek opportunities for breakthrough.

In his attempt to refine a spiritual material called the Eclipse Spirit Grass and balance the five elements, he nearly suffered a qi deviation.

The woman happened to be passing by and saved him, but he, having lost his mind, committed a beastly act against her.

He found it hard to accept, and after regaining his senses, he ignored the woman and returned to his sect alone.

When they went to visit the woman again, they discovered that demonic cultivators were lurking in that small village.

All for the purpose of using their living souls to refine a small banner filled with evil energy.

The demonic cultivator who controlled the small banner was none other than the Black Wind Envoy that Bai Jie had mentioned.

If the demon hadn't already been severely injured, he wouldn't have been able to reduce the demon's cultivation level to the Foundation Establishment stage.

He immediately recognized the injury as being inflicted by Yunxi, and also noticed that the demon had been knocked down from his cultivation level once.

To heal his wounds, those demons went to great lengths, and even though he was no longer at his peak, he still paid a considerable price.

After driving away the monster.

He saw that apart from a baby of about ten months old, there was no one else alive in the entire village.

The woman who was protecting the baby even before she died was named Ji Furong.

He then named the baby Ji Kun, taking the mother's surname.

Gao Yi's face grew increasingly gloomy, and he silently guarded the ancestral hall.

Yaofeng, on the edge of a cliff.

The night breeze lifted the hem of her skirt.

The figure in the purple dress gazed at the pillar of light in the direction of the palace, a slight smile playing on her lips.

"Senior sister, you finally succeeded."

She murmured softly, "I knew it, that little rascal would be able to save you."

Discipline Hall.

Leng Yue stood before the hall, her cold gaze fixed on the main peak.

These elders had more or less guessed that Yunxi had suffered a hidden injury in her early years, which had affected her cultivation progress.

Since Yunxi herself didn't bring it up, they couldn't point it out and could only pretend not to know.

Now that the great threat has finally been eliminated and the sect's strength has reached a new level, how could we not be happy?

But! When Luo Fan rushed to the palace, she saw it clearly.

Late at night, a disciple trespassed into the sect leader's bedroom without permission and shall be severely punished.

There must be at least several hundred spirit-breaking whips.

Ke Luofan had just rendered a great service to the sect and healed the sect leader's hidden injury, helping him break through to the next level.

A hint of struggle flashed across her cool face, which ultimately turned into a barely audible sigh.

"Alright, in this emergency, we must act expediently, and let merits and demerits cancel each other out."

She slightly raised her red lips and murmured to herself, thus defining the nature of the matter.

Although she is in charge of the Discipline Hall, how could she disregard human feelings for the sake of the rules and regulations?

Inside the palace.

Yunxi opened her eyes and saw Luo Fan's tired face.

"Sect Leader, you're awake? How are you feeling? Is there anything wrong?"

He stood not far from the bed, the lit candlelight illuminating Yunxi's face.

Yunxi looked at Luo Fan, somewhat dazed.

She realized that the pill she had taken did not contain the aura of the Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.

It's more like a fusion of several spiritual ingredients, replacing the main ingredient.

She remembered the blood jade marrow that Su Qingyuan had given to Luo Fan before she left.

Yunxi's gaze towards Luo Fan suddenly changed, and she felt that Liu Linglong's bad idea made a lot of sense.

Such geniuses, such prodigies, must be kept in our own hands.

Even if…

At the cost of her beautiful face.

He gazed at Yunxi, her eyes sometimes furrowed, sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes burning with passion.

Luo Fan suddenly panicked.