A Thousand Years of Immortal Dreams

Today's work hasn't even started yet.

Cao Wang immediately started working.

Before leaving, the disciple only gave a few perfunctory instructions.

Every day, waste slag is dumped down from the mountain. The waste is shoveled into the earthen furnace to burn, and then the residue is poured into the cold pool.

A subterranean river runs beneath the cold pool; any waste dumped into it will be washed away.

No wonder this pool of water never seems to overflow, yet it always maintains the same water level.

Cao Wang stood in front of the stove, holding a shovel. The moment he lifted the stove lid, a wave of heat hit him, making his face feel tight.

The subterranean fire burned slowly deep within the furnace.

Cao Wang swung his shovel and shoveled the dumped waste slag into the furnace.

The flames flickered.

Suddenly, Cao Wang spotted something round and unshaped among a pile of rubble.

……

"Huh? What's this?"

Cao Wang bent down and picked it up, rubbing it in his palm until it revealed a dark luster.

I brought it close to my nose and smelled it; it had a faint medicinal fragrance.

Although faint, it definitely smelled like elixirs.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a Grade 1 Qi Gathering Pill.

Cao Wang pinched it with his fingertips and crushed it slightly, causing a fine crack to appear on the surface of the pill.

The medicinal power has been mostly lost, leaving only about 30% to 40%, but the erysipelas it contains accounts for 70% to 80%.

If you eat this stuff, forget about increasing your cultivation level, you might not even be able to save your life.

"It really was a useless pill!"

Cao Wang was about to casually toss it back into the furnace when he suddenly stopped.

If the Immortal Artifact Hundred Solutions can devour magical artifacts and the spiritual power of the physical body, can it absorb the residual medicinal power in a discarded pill?

Thinking of this, Cao Wang clenched the pill in his palm, and with a thought, activated the immortal artifact, Hundred Solutions.

The next moment, the Immortal Artifact Hundred Solutions began to slowly "breathe".

The pill gradually softened in his palm, and its medicinal power seeped into his meridians through his pores, passing through his limbs and bones before converging on the Immortal Artifact, Hundred Solutions.

A warm current spread from his palm to his whole body. Although it wasn't much, he could definitely feel it. Part of the medicinal power was absorbed by the Immortal Artifact Hundred Solutions, while the other part remained in his body.

A few breaths later, the discarded pill was reduced to a handful of grayish-white fragments.

Cao Wang loosened his grip, watching the crumbs slip through his fingers.

"It actually works..."

Cao Ang looked down at his palm.

It was clean and dry, with no trace of erysipelas.

Cao Wang's breathing began to quicken.

The fire poison contained within the earth's vein fire.

That's an endless supply.

Fire poison contains the energy of the earth's veins. What if the Immortal Artifact Hundred Solutions could filter out fire poison like pill poison and only absorb its energy?

Thinking of this, Cao Wang immediately rushed towards the incinerator.

The moment the furnace lid was lifted, a blast of scorching heat, carrying a strong smell of sulfur, shot out.

The earth's vein fire burned fiercely deep within the furnace, the crimson flames interspersed with wisps of dark red and black smoke—that was the fire poison.

Cao Wang stood in front of the furnace, closed his eyes, and opened every pore of his body.

A surging heat wave rushed towards him, and the fiery toxins mixed with the heat surged into his meridians.

A burning pain spread from the surface of the skin all the way to the depths of the lower abdomen.

But the next moment, the Hundred Immortal Artifacts activated.

The fire poison seeped into the body through the limbs and bones.

A few breaths later, Cao Wang opened his eyes.

There was no stagnation in the body, and the meridians were completely clear.

"As expected, it can even absorb fire poison..."

Cao Wang's voice trembled.

The fire from the earth's veins is inexhaustible.

As long as he stands in front of this furnace, it is as if he is standing on an inexhaustible spiritual mine.

I wouldn't trade this place for an inner disciple.

"roar!"

Just then, a wolf howl suddenly came from outside the Ruined Pill Tower.

Cao Wang suddenly turned around and looked through the open door. He saw a black wolf demon on all fours, its mouth and nose exhaling dark breath, staring intently at Cao Wang in the abandoned pill tower with its scarlet eyes.

A powerful aura swept over him, and Cao Wang's heart tightened immediately.

A second-grade demonic beast?

How could there be a second-grade demon beast here?

A second-grade demonic beast is comparable to a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, and with Cao Wang's current strength, he might be under some pressure.

However, having the experience of killing Wang Long and the other two, Cao Wang quickly calmed himself down and strode to the outside of the Ruined Pill Tower.

A demonic beast approaching the Foundation Establishment stage possesses enough destructive power to cause earth-shattering destruction in this narrow canyon, and this small, abandoned alchemy tower simply cannot withstand the test.

Facing a second-grade demonic beast, Cao Wang dared not be careless. With a wave of his hand, he affixed a speed talisman to his body and then lured it to the edge of the cold pool at an extremely fast speed.

The staff-shaped form of the Immortal Artifact Hundred Solutions appeared in Cao Wang's hand in a flash.

"You've come at the perfect time. I can use you to test the effects of the fire poison."

The next moment, Cao Wang leaped up and smashed his club down on the black wolf demon's head.

The second-grade demon beast was indeed extraordinary; it easily dodged the attack with a simple backward jump.

We must not be careless.

Cao Wang reminded himself again, then took out an ice talisman and threw it at the wolf demon.

The wolf demon didn't take the small talisman seriously at all.

The Frost Talisman struck the wolf demon precisely. The next moment, waves of cold air filled the surroundings, and the wolf demon's entire body was frozen solid from the inside out, standing in place like an ice sculpture.

"Let's see how you hide now!"

Cao Wang picked up the stick again and smashed it down.

at the same time.

The immortal artifact, Bai Jie, which was in perfect harmony with Cao Wang's mind, instantly came to life, and the scale-like patterns on the two-meter-long staff came alive again.

Then it released scorching fire poison, which gathered into a long dragon and roared fiercely towards the ice-carved black wolf.

Cao Wang was completely stunned when he saw this.

Unexpectedly, the fire poison absorbed just now has condensed into such a powerful fire poison killing move within the Hundred Solutions of the Immortal Artifact.

This was pure, 100% fire poison; the remaining energy was absorbed by Cao Wang and the Immortal Artifact Hundred Solutions.

After the powerful fire poison struck the black wolf, it completely melted away the effect of the ice talisman, and then scorched the black wolf's fur and flesh, burning it to ashes from the inside out in the blink of an eye.

Seeing the fallen second-grade demon core, Cao Wang walked over in a daze, bent down and picked it up.

The power of this fire poison is deadly even to Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Cao Wang pondered silently in his heart.

The appearance of the black wolf made Cao Wang feel unsafe in this once-safe canyon.

Where did this black wolf come from?

Cao Wang had some doubts, so he immediately began to search the canyon again from the inside out.

I don't know if I don't see it, I'm startled when I see it.

The next moment, a giant ape with a pure white body burst out of the waterfall and crashed into the cold pool, splashing water dozens of meters high.

Only then did Cao Wang realize that these demonic beasts had actually come from the Water Curtain Cave.

What kind of world does it connect to?

And why haven't I heard any other disciples mention that there are demonic beasts lurking here?

Looking at the giant ape before him, Cao Wang once again entered battle mode.

The giant ape also noticed Cao Wang's presence. It slowly swam to the rocks on the shore of the cold pool, looked around, and with some disdain, leaped back into the Water Curtain Cave.