Starting as a stray dog, I embarked on a journey of cultivation.

"What? Beneficial for spiritual practice?"

"How is this possible?"

"You expect us to refine a pile of garbage into beneficial elixirs?"

"Is this some kind of alchemy competition?"

"It's still the monsters playing tricks!"

For a moment, almost all the alchemists present were wailing in despair.

But the white crane didn't care about any of that. Suddenly, a giant burning incense stick appeared in the air.

"This incense will burn for exactly three hours; it will stop burning when the incense burns out!"

The three hall masters then began distributing materials to the one hundred alchemists.

Alchemists can obtain whatever they need directly from the hall masters.

After obtaining the main ingredient, the Bewitching Flower, Gou An also had a headache.

Because this thing has never been used to refine pills. It is usually used to make some kind of illusion drug to harm others or for human cultivators to use for hunting.

Using this stuff to refine pills, especially those beneficial to cultivation, made Gou An fall into deep thought.

Like Gou An, all the alchemy rooms fell silent after receiving the main ingredients, and no one took the lead in refining them.

Gou An looked at the Bewitching Flower in his hand, then suddenly swallowed a few leaves, wanting to experience the medicinal effects himself, otherwise it would be difficult to exert them.

The leaves are slightly bitter, and after swallowing them, you feel a burning sensation in your abdomen.

Gou An sat cross-legged, waiting for the medicine to take effect.

Before long, Gou An felt that everything he saw was doubled, and the figure of the alchemist next to him even began to twist and deform.

In the end, even everyone around her who could see her turned into Yukine.

He kept replaying in Gou An's mind the moment he helped Xueyin suck out the deadly poison from her chest in the underground cave in the snowy region.

Furthermore, this hallucination is not just a visual hallucination; one can also hear sounds and feel cold.

It felt like being there in person!

Just as Gou An was falling into a hallucination and about to lose control, his Water Spirit Meridian constitution began to take effect, dispelling the hallucination and bringing him back to his senses.

Once he regained consciousness, Gou An let out a long sigh of relief.

I never expected that the bewitching flower would have such a magical effect; just a few leaves were enough to make me fall into a hallucination.

However, the illusion was quite effective and had its uses.

So Gou An immediately went to Wenxu Daoren and asked him for some spiritual herbs used to calm the mind and nourish the body as supplementary ingredients.

Then he sat back down in front of his alchemy furnace and began to conceive his ideas.

Since the characteristics of the main ingredient cannot be concealed, which means the hallucinations produced by the Bewitching Flower cannot be concealed, the characteristics of brain damage need to be neutralized.

Therefore, Gou An used several calming herbs, which could just offset the damage.

Gou An noticed that the other alchemists in the same group had also received calming herbs, and their approaches were similar.

The spiritual herbs that Gou An received to nourish his Qi were meant to enhance the illusionary effects of the Bewitching Flower, not to diminish them.

Gou An had a bold idea: if we're going to bring out the characteristics of the main ingredient, then we should maximize those characteristics.

Another crucial point is that Gou An discovered that his Green Wood Spirit Body not only had the effect of prolonging life, but also allowed him to control these spiritual herbs.

Gou An hadn't paid attention to this when he was refining pills before, but now, after studying the spiritual herb for a long time, he unexpectedly discovered its effect.

He was able to resonate with these spiritual herbs and precisely control their medicinal effects.

For cultivators, the path to immortality is long and arduous, filled with unforgettable moments, beautiful memories, or painful inner demons.

What Gou An wanted to refine was something that would allow the user's thoughts to return to that time.

Relive the good old days, or confront your inner demons.

In this way, it is also effective for spiritual practice.

After all, once inner demons arise, they will greatly affect one's cultivation.

This pill gives you the opportunity to confront your inner demons, and thus the chance to defeat them.

After figuring out his plan, Gou An started to light a fire in the furnace, and then added one spiritual herb after another into the furnace.

With the addition of the Azure Wood Spirit Body and the Fiery Sacred Body, Gou An had reached the pinnacle of control over the fire and the effects of the medicinal herbs, making him extremely adept at it.

Whatever you desire, you can easily accomplish within the confines of the furnace.

This made Gou An's alchemy process extremely smooth.

Meanwhile, everyone else also began their own alchemy.

Although everyone was somewhat confused, the timer had already started. If they were still hesitating, the pill might not be formed by the time it was time to go, and they would have to admit defeat.

As everyone busily began refining pills, the Desolate Demon King, sitting on the high platform chair, yawned, seemingly feeling a bit bored.

"Sigh, how boring!" The Desolate Demon King shook his head: "The pills are good, but the process is really meaningless."

Just then, the white crane suddenly descended from the sky and said to the demon king, "Your Majesty, I have something wonderful here!"

Upon hearing this, the Demon King turned his head and saw that the white crane was holding a spirit cigarette.

"What is this?" the Demon King asked curiously.

"I've heard this is called Tranquil Dust Spirit Smoke, please have one, it's absolutely wonderful!" Baihe offered it with both hands.

"Oh!" The Demon King nodded after hearing this. "I remember now. During the first round, there were quite a few alchemists below with this thing in their mouths. I thought it was some kind of alchemy technique."

"Why don't you give it a try, Your Majesty?" White Crane asked with a fawning smile.

"Want to try it?" The Demon King took the spirit smoke and put it in his mouth.

Upon seeing this, Baihe immediately took out a flint and lit the spirit smoke.

The demon king took a shallow sip, and as the spiritual smoke entered his lungs, the demon king, who had been feeling sleepy, immediately became alert.

"This stuff is pretty good! It's more interesting than pills."

"These are things made by those alchemists!" Bai He laughed. "They say they have the effects of refreshing the mind, nourishing qi, and promoting circulation. Regular use can even be beneficial to cultivation."

"Excellent, excellent!" The Demon King nodded repeatedly. "How much is one? Give me plenty!"

"Your Majesty, this item is extremely precious, costing fifty thousand demon gold coins per piece!" the white crane replied.

"So expensive?" The Demon King took another sip, then took out a storage bag and handed it to the White Crane: "There are ten million demon gold coins in here. Sell some back for me."

Bai He happily accepted the storage bag, his face beaming with a smile: "Your Majesty, rest assured, I will take care of it right away."

As he spoke, he took out a new pack and presented it with both hands: "There just happens to be a new pack here, Your Majesty, you may take it for now."

The Demon King nodded and accepted it, a wisp of spiritual smoke dangling from his mouth, looking quite pleased: "This conference was well worth it."

The white crane withdrew, and soon a sharp-nosed rat spirit found Gou An. Judging from its clothes, it was clearly a member of the Demon King's Palace.

At this point, Gou An had completed all the steps and was just waiting for the furnace fire to bake the elixir into shape.

Hearing that the rat spirit wanted to buy a large quantity of spirit smoke, and that it was the demon king who needed it, he was quite surprised.

Unexpectedly, this thing is so popular that it reached the Demon King so quickly.

Thinking of this, Gou An couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

If the Demon King uses this item, there will be no shortage of sales channels in the future.

He is his own best advocate!

Unfortunately, Gou An only had two packs left, so he had to sell them both to the other party. He sold them for 10,000 demon gold coins each, and the profit was terrifying.

Although we can't earn spirit stones yet, we'll earn them sooner or later once we establish sales channels.

Therefore, we must accelerate the time within the Palm Heaven Diagram.

By the time the giant incense stick used for timekeeping in the sky had burned out, three hours had passed.

The white crane soared back into the sky and addressed everyone: "The time has come. Everyone, open the furnace and retrieve the elixir!"

At the same time, several demon servants came forward carrying jade platters, placing the pills refined by the one hundred alchemists in their places, waiting for the three hall masters of the alchemy hall to evaluate them one by one.

In addition, unlike the first round, this round has one more judge.

Gou An looked at the man, who was a long-haired old Taoist priest in a white robe. He looked no different from a human, but he had a strong body odor.

Clearly, she's an old fox spirit.

Moreover, the three hall masters respected him greatly and addressed him as the Protector of the Nation.

Gou An recalled that the Demon King had a total of seven protectors, whose status was second only to the Demon King.

This old fox is one of them, and he seems to have some expertise in alchemy.

They started by judging the first group, and also brought along several drug-testing slaves.

If a pill is found to be of acceptable quality, the slave will be given it, and the winner will be determined based on the overall quality of the pill.

The main material for the first group is rootless morning dew, which is simply dew.

However, it is not ordinary dew, but dew collected at the very beginning of the morning when it adheres to the spiritual herbs.

That is precisely why such dew also contains spiritual energy.

It is one of the main ingredients of high-quality spirit wine, and can also be used in elixirs, but it is mostly used as an auxiliary ingredient.

After all, this substance evaporates when exposed to high temperatures, and no one has ever used it as a primary ingredient.

Therefore, most people in this group are unable to fully utilize the characteristics of "rootless morning dew," and are mostly just pretending to be something they're not, producing all sorts of strange and varied pills with all sorts of effects.

This greatly disappointed the old fox who protected the country.

After all, this is the alchemy competition of the City of Ten Thousand Demons, not a competition within the human cultivation realm. Although it has attracted many human cultivators from outside, their skill level is generally average.

However, one person refined it differently. He used the petals of the Condensed Dew Flower to create an extremely thin outer shell to bind the dew and preserve its medicinal properties.

Then add Runmai grass to amplify the effect of morning dew nourishing the meridians.

Throughout the entire process, the rootless morning dew was not put into the alchemy furnace for baking; instead, it was used as an auxiliary material to refine an empty shell of pills.

After the refining process is complete, make a small hole in the pill, pour in the purified rootless morning dew, and then seal the hole.

The person who refined this pill was a young cultivator, who was very confident: "I named this pill the Clear Dew Pill. Its medicinal effect is to cleanse toxins and clear the meridians, which is beneficial for cultivation."

The old fox, holding the pill, nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad! That's quite ingenious."

He handed the pill to a nearby slave who was being used for drug testing: "Eat it!"

The medicine slave nodded respectfully, took the pill with both hands, swallowed it, and carefully savored its taste.

"How is it?" the old fox asked.

"Returning to the country, after taking it, the pill shell will dissolve in your mouth, and the original medicinal power of the morning dew will flow throughout your body, just like the morning dew washing over your meridians, which is very comfortable," Yao Nu replied truthfully.

The old fox picked up another one from the plate, put it in his mouth, and his eyes lit up.

"Indeed, although its effects are weak, its strength lies in its simplicity and purity, with almost no toxicity!" The old fox smiled at the young cultivator, "May I ask your Daoist name, young friend, from which you originate?"

The young man cupped his hands and replied, "My Daoist name is Long Youzi. I come from the South China Sea Prefecture. I am just a rogue cultivator. I happened to pass through the Monster Beast Mountain Range and heard about the Alchemy Conference, so I came here specifically to seek it out."

The old fox was even more pleased after hearing this: "Young friend, you have achieved great success in alchemy. My Ten Thousand Demon City is in dire need of talent like you. Why not join my Ten Thousand Demon City? The Demon King cherishes talent and will certainly not treat you unfairly."