The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Bai Lu's hand trembled. "Peak of the Tribulation Transcending Realm?"

Leng Shanyue frowned. She had heard of the Golden Crow Sect Master, who was said to have been in seclusion for hundreds of years. She never expected that he had already reached the peak of the Tribulation Transcending Realm.

Shen Yifei remained calm, patting the Myriad Things Cauldron. "Who are you trying to fool? A peak Tribulation Transcending cultivator becoming the sect leader of the Golden Crow Sect? He would have ascended long ago."

Chen Yunhe snorted from inside the cauldron, "What do you know? Ascending to immortality through tribulation isn't that easy. There are nine tribulations of lightning, each more ruthless than the last. In the last thousand years of the cultivation world, not a single person has successfully transcended tribulation, so everyone is waiting."

"What are you all waiting for?" Shen Yifei pressed.

"Kid, don't pry into things you shouldn't know. Knowing too much might get you into trouble!"

"You're asking for trouble," Shen Yifei sneered. "I forgot to tell you, this alchemy furnace can refine human pills. I'll get myself into trouble first!"

Seeing that Chen Yunhe remained silent for a long time, Shen Yifei placed his hand on the cauldron and let his spiritual energy seep into it.

The temperature inside the cauldron rose slowly, not all at once, but gradually increasing little by little.

Chen Yunhe's voice came from inside the cauldron, "Boy, what are you doing?"

"Let's warm you up. It's cold in the mountains, don't let him get cold."

"I...I'm not afraid of the cold!"

"It's alright, Elder Chen. We're just idling around anyway. Let's warm up the furnace first so it won't explode when we're refining pills later."

After saying that, the spiritual energy increased even more.

Chen Yunhe cursed inside the cauldron, his voice already trembling.

"Kid, you...you better not do anything reckless."

"I didn't do anything reckless, I was just warming up the stove." Shen Yifei added a few more spiritual powers, and the temperature inside the cauldron rose even higher. "Elder Chen, if you feel hot, just say so, and I'll cool it down for you."

Bai Lu watched the commotion from the sidelines, saying, "Why waste your breath talking to him? Just start refining him."

"No rush. Elder Chen is a respectable man; we need to take it slow. Let's warm up his body first, then his mind. Once he's thought it through, he'll naturally tell me the truth."

The temperature inside the cauldron rose higher and higher, and Chen Yunhe's breathing became more and more labored.

"What...what exactly do you want to know?"

"Tell me, what do you know about the destruction of the Tianyan Sect back then?"

"I don't know! That has nothing to do with me!"

"Then why are you in such a hurry?" Shen Yifei added a few more spiritual energies. "I didn't say you did it, I was just asking about the situation. If you know, then tell me; if you don't, then forget it. I'll refine my pills, and you can suffer your torment. We won't interfere with each other."

The temperature inside the cauldron had risen to a level high enough to refine a Golden Core cultivator into a pill. Chen Yunhe was only half a step into the Mahayana stage, so he wouldn't die anytime soon, but he was in real pain.

"I'll talk! I'll talk, okay?!"

Shen Yifei withdrew some of his spiritual energy, and the temperature inside the cauldron dropped a bit.

"Go ahead, I'm listening."

Chen Yunhe took a few breaths. "The matter of the Tianyan Sect was done by the three major sects working together."

Which three major sects?

"Golden Crow Sect, Ten Thousand Swords Manor, Mysterious Ice Palace."

The information Chen Yunhe gave matched what Bai Lu and the other person said. It seems that the old man couldn't stand it anymore and didn't dare to lie.

"For what?" Shen Yifei asked.

Chen Yunhe, inside the cauldron, took a few breaths. "For a treasure."

"What treasure?"

"The Heavenly Evolution Sect has a treasured artifact called the Heaven-Shielding Umbrella. When you open it during your tribulation, it can shield you from heavenly lightning. None of the nine bolts of heavenly lightning will strike you."

Bai Lu frowned. "There's such a thing?"

"Yes," Chen Yunhe said inside the cauldron. "It was left behind by the founding patriarch of the Tianyan Sect. It has been passed down for more than ten generations, but no one has ever used it. This is because the people of the Tianyan Sect cultivate the orthodox path and rely on their own abilities to overcome tribulations, without using external objects."

"Then what are you three families going to do with it?"

"Just waiting to use it," Chen Yunhe scoffed. "In the last thousand years of the cultivation world, not a single person has successfully transcended the tribulation. Each lightning tribulation is more brutal than the last; by the ninth, even those at the peak of the tribulation stage will be reduced to ashes. Who wouldn't want that thing?"

Shen Yifei then asked, "Who has the Sky-Shielding Umbrella now?"

"I don't know," Chen Yunhe said. "Back then, the three families joined forces to destroy the Tianyan Sect and searched the entire Cangwu Mountain, but they couldn't find that thing. Before Shen Changtian died, we don't know where he hid it, or maybe he destroyed it."

Where is Shen Changtian's body?

"Didn't find them." Chen Yunhe paused for a moment. "It's normal for a cultivator in the Tribulation Transcending stage to fight to the death, leaving not even ashes behind. They might have escaped, but they shouldn't be able to. The three families have surrounded Cangwu Mountain like an iron barrel."

"The Sky-Shield Umbrella, I'll ask you one more time, who got their hands on this?"

"I said I didn't know. Back then, the three families searched the entire Cangwu Mountain, not even letting go of a single stone, but they couldn't find it. Later, the Tianji Pavilion occupied Cangwu Mountain and sealed it off for more than ten years, probably also for this treasure. Now, nobody knows what's going on inside."

"What's the background of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion?"

"I don't know. They just appeared out of nowhere, took over Cangwu Mountain, and wouldn't leave. Several major sects sent people to test them, but they were all thrown out. After that, no one dared to go there."

Shen Yifei went through the information in his mind.

The Golden Crow Sect, the Ten Thousand Swords Manor, and the Profound Ice Palace joined forces to wipe out his entire family, all for an umbrella that could shield him from heavenly lightning. They failed to find the umbrella, and Cangwu Mountain was taken over by a force called the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

The clues have gone cold, but we have a direction now.

"Go on," Shen Yifei said, placing his hand on the cauldron again.

"Still talking? I've already told you." Chen Yunhe's voice rose eight octaves.

"Who spearheaded this three-way collaboration?"

"Golden Crow Sect".

Shen Yifei released his grip, stood up, and exuded killing intent.

Bai Lu looked at him. "You want to kill the Golden Crow Sect Master?"

"I can't kill him. He's at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending Realm. I can't even beat one of his fingers right now."

"So what do you plan to do?"

"Let's take over the Qingyun Sect first."

Leng Shanyue chuckled and said, "Why would you take over the Qingyun Sect? What use can a second-rate sect be?"

"Although the Qingyun Sect is not large, it has been rooted in the cultivation world for hundreds of years. If I take over the Qingyun Sect, I will have a foundation."

"And then?" Leng Shanyue continued to ask.

Shen Yifei glanced at her, "Then there's the Hehuan Sect, me and the two of you, and the Blood Soul Sect. I need to expand my strength, and then we'll settle accounts with the Golden Crow Sect."

Bai Lu chuckled. "Quite ambitious, trying to expand your power. Do you think you're cooking?"

"Take it slow, there's no rush." ​​Shen Yifei patted the Myriad Things Cauldron. "Let's refine this old thing first."

Upon hearing this from inside the cauldron, Chen Yunhe's voice changed. "Kid, how dare you go back on your word? You said you'd let me go!"

"When did I say I'd let you go?" Shen Yifei tilted his head and thought for a moment. "I said, 'If you know, then tell me; if you don't, then forget it. I'll refine my pills, and you suffer your own torment.' You said I'd refine pills, no problem with that."

"You little bastard, you'll get what's coming to you sooner or later..." Chen Yunhe started cursing again!

Shen Yifei ignored him, placed the Myriad Things Cauldron on the ground, and sat down cross-legged.

The temperature inside the cauldron slowly rose. Chen Yunhe's curses turned into screams, then into groans, and then fell silent.

Bai Lu leaned closer to listen. "Dead?"

"He's not dead." Shen Yifei said with his eyes closed, his spiritual power under steady control. "He just fainted. A half-step Mahayana cultivator has a strong spiritual sense, so the spiritual sense must be dispersed first before the physical body can be slowly refined."

Soon, Chen Yunhe's physical body began to be forged. His body, at the half-step Mahayana stage, had been tempered for hundreds of years, making it even stronger than refined steel. The fire in the cauldron burned for half an hour before his body began to soften.

Shen Yifei's forehead was sweating.

Controlling the heat so precisely consumes a lot of spiritual energy. He's only at the late Nascent Soul stage, and his spiritual energy is somewhat insufficient!

Bai Lu reached out and placed her hand on his back, her demonic power seeping in to help stabilize his dantian.

Leng Shanyue also reached out her hand to help him share some of the pressure on his spiritual sense.

The spiritual and demonic powers of the three people mingled together, swirling around inside Shen Yifei's body.

Shen Yifei suddenly opened his eyes.

"How about the three of us cultivate together? We can refine pills while cultivating, it'll be more efficient."