Extracting all things: My attributes grow infinitely.

Jiang Chuan sat cross-legged in the center of the alchemy room, with a bronze alchemy furnace about half a person's height in front of him.

The furnace body is carved with nine lifelike fire dragon reliefs.

The dragon's mouth was slightly open.

It spews out scorching subterranean fire drawn up from the earth.

He had laid out the nine main ingredients of the Nine Apertures Divine Elixir in order, each of which was enough to bankrupt an ordinary cultivator.

Jiang Chuan remained calm, gently raising his right hand. The Starry Sky Mirror floated behind his head, casting a warm starlight. He did not immediately open the furnace, but instead lifted up the nine main ingredients one by one, his talent for extracting all things quietly activating.

First was the Nine Aperture Spirit Marrow Crystal. The lifelike female head was held in his palm, with strands of pale golden light spilling out from between his fingers.

Almost instantly, the head shrank off at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Flesh and blood dissolve.

Skeletal ash.

Finally, it condensed in his palm into a crystal-clear nine-colored gemstone.

Jiang Chuan followed the same method, refining the remaining eight main ingredients one by one.

The whole process was incredibly smooth and fast.

If there were other people present, their eyes would probably pop out of their sockets. Ordinary alchemists would need to spend several days repeatedly refining just one ingredient of Nine Aperture Spirit Marrow Crystal.

In just twenty breaths, he refined all the main ingredients to a flawless state.

But there was no hint of smugness on Jiang Chuan's face.

Refining was never a problem for him.

The real challenge lies in integration.

He took a deep breath and used his divine sense to activate the earth fire. The nine fire dragon reliefs lit up at the same time, and pale golden flames spewed out from the dragons' mouths, turning the inside of the alchemy furnace red-hot.

The furnace lid flew off, and the essence of the nine refined spiritual materials, enveloped by divine sense, was thrown into the furnace one by one.

The furnace erupted in chaos.

Nine different spiritual essences collided violently under high temperature, and the violent medicinal power was like nine dragons breaking free of their restraints, raging wildly in the alchemy furnace.

Crimson, emerald green, deep blue, pale gold... all sorts of colors of light intertwined and tangled, emitting bursts of muffled thunderous roars, and the surface of the alchemy furnace even began to tremble slightly.

Jiang Chuan frowned.

This is the level of difficulty in fusing a precious pill.

Each of these spiritual materials contains extremely potent medicinal properties; mixing nine of them together is akin to putting nine ferocious beasts in the same cage.

A slight mishap.

That would mean the furnace would be destroyed and the elixir would be wasted.

He used his divine sense to forcefully suppress the rampant medicinal power inside the furnace, while simultaneously activating fire control techniques to try to integrate and fuse the nine medicinal properties one by one.

however.

His fire control techniques were ultimately learned from Yun Danzi.

With his alchemical skills, he was good enough to refine spiritual pills, but not quite good enough to refine precious pills.

The embers danced erratically at the bottom of the furnace, and his control over the heat began to show subtle deviations.

Jiang Chuan could clearly sense that as the nine medicinal energies in the furnace merged, their medicinal properties were constantly clashing and being depleted.

"It's still not quite there."

Jiang Chuan clicked his tongue expressionlessly, deciding to stop striving for perfection and instead forcibly blend the nine medicinal energies together in the safest way.

boom……!!

The alchemy furnace trembled violently, and the furnace lid was blown off by a violent gust of air. A seven-colored beam of light shot up from the furnace opening, pierced through the roof of the alchemy room, and soared into the sky!

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of several miles seemed to be summoned by some force, and frantically converged above the alchemy room, forming a spiritual energy vortex with a diameter of tens of feet.

At the center of the vortex, colorful rays of light burst forth and surged, and a faint, transparent phantom could be seen sitting cross-legged within it.

The nine orifices around its body emitted spiritual light, which triggered an extraordinary celestial phenomenon.

The alchemists who were busy in the alchemy room stopped what they were doing and looked up at the seven-colored beam of light shooting into the sky, their faces full of shock.

"A rare phenomenon! Someone is refining a precious elixir!"

"That direction... is that Master Yun's alchemy room?"

"Master Yun can actually refine precious pills?!"

The several spirit fire alchemists looked at each other, filled with envy.

They understood better than the apprentice alchemists that the ability to refine precious pills was an important standard for measuring a master alchemist's skill in alchemy.

Even if Yun Danzi only succeeded once by sheer luck.

Also means.

He has crossed the threshold that countless alchemists fail to cross in their entire lives.

After a long while, the seven-colored beam of light slowly dissipated.

Inside the alchemy room, Jiang Chuan reached out and a perfectly round pill flew out of the furnace and landed in his palm.

The pill was about the size of a longan, with a warm, seven-colored glow flowing across its surface. After the pill was completed, four pale golden natural patterns slowly appeared on its surface.

The Four-Pattern Nine-Aperture Divine Elixir.

"Only four lines."

Jiang Chuan looked down at the priceless pill in his palm, but his face showed no joy; instead, he was extremely dissatisfied.

The perfect materials extracted and refined from all things could only be used to refine four patterns in his hands.

This feeling is like using the finest ingredients to make a table full of pig feed.

It's such a waste.

"It seems I still need to find a decent fire control technique," Jiang Chuan thought to himself. "Otherwise, this weakness will become increasingly fatal when refining higher-grade pills in the future."

He casually tossed the Four-Pattern Nine-Aperture Divine Pill to Yun Danzi, who was already dumbfounded, and said indifferently, "Take it. It should be enough to handle the Pill Gathering."

Yun Danzi hurriedly caught the pill, her mind still blank.

Four stripes!

This is a four-patterned precious pill!

He had barely seen it a few times in his life, yet his master still complained that it wasn't refined well.

Yun Danzi suddenly felt that he had wasted more than a hundred years of cultivating alchemy.

……

at the same time.

Inside a pill-making room in Yuanling Mountain.

Shen Henian sat cross-legged, and just as Yun Danzi had predicted, the nine main ingredients of the Nine Aperture Divine Elixir were lined up in front of him.

He was born with a handsome appearance, looking no more than thirty years old, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, a face as fair as jade, and a moon-white alchemist's robe that was spotless.

Just look at its appearance.

It's far better than Yun Danzi's half-buried state.

A cauldron was placed in front of him, the flames burning at the bottom of the cauldron displaying an almost transparent blue color.

This is the Azure Flame Earth Fire that only the Grade B alchemy room of Yuanling Mountain is worthy of using, and it is a whole grade higher than the Earth Fire in Yun Danzi's alchemy room.

This flame alone can increase the success rate of alchemy by 20%.

The azure flames beneath the furnace, precisely manipulated by his divine sense, urged the spiritual materials within to slowly fuse together.

Just then, a communication jade talisman placed in front of him suddenly lit up.

Shen Henian glanced at it indifferently, his expression immediately becoming extremely strange.

"Is Yun Danzi also going to refine the Nine Aperture Divine Pill?"

"Him?"

Shen Henian's expression quickly returned to normal, but a barely perceptible hint of sarcasm appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Tian quickly replied, "It's absolutely true. He's been buying up materials for the Nine Aperture Divine Pill in the market these past few days, making quite a fuss. Just now, we even heard a strange phenomenon coming from his alchemy room—the pill was successfully refined!"

"hehe."

Shen Henian shook his head slightly, his tone tinged with pity: "It seems this old man is really anxious. But then again, with his talent, if he doesn't give it his all, he probably won't even be able to hold onto that worst alchemy room in the future."

Zhao Tian chimed in at the opportune moment, "Master Shen is wise; I also believe he's merely making a last-ditch effort!"

"Ignore it."

Shen Henian closed his eyes and said calmly, "Even if he manages to refine it by chance, it will most likely be a useless pill without a single mark. Just keep an eye on him."

He did indeed plant spies around Yun Danzi.

In reality, Shen Henian made the same arrangements for all opponents in the entire Yuanling Mountain who were qualified to participate in the Pill Gathering.

This was merely a safety measure to ensure he could win the Dan conference.

He never took this old waste, who had barely managed to advance to the Earth Fire realm after more than a hundred years of hard work, seriously.

What he truly cared about were the other alchemists who had also reached the second level of Earth Fire.

That was his real opponent at this Dan conference.

As for Yun Danzi?

They're nothing but ants.

The blue flames in the furnace suddenly surged, and faint seven-colored rays of light peeked out from the gaps in the furnace lid. A confident smile appeared on Shen Henian's lips. With his skill, this batch of Nine Aperture Divine Pills would at least have a two-pattern finish, and if he was even luckier, a three-pattern finish wouldn't be impossible.

At that time, even his equally matched rivals will have to bow and scrape before him.

Qualification to transmit the Dharma.

He's determined to have Shen Henian!