Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

"In that case, the Fuling Qingdan can help you recover to your peak condition," Xiao Yan nodded in satisfaction after receiving the prototype of the modified pill. "However, you need to be at least at the Death Profound Realm to take it, otherwise the medicinal power of the pill will burst you out of your body."

“I know,” the little ferret nodded, its eyes shining. “So, when do you plan to refine the pills?”

"Let's wait for her to recover..." Xiao Yan looked at Ying Huanhuan in mid-air. The icy blue in the sky had begun to weaken. In a few more minutes, she would return to her original appearance.

When the icy blue color completely disappeared and Ying Huanhuan's hair returned to its normal color, her body fell from mid-air. Upon seeing this, Xiao Yan took a step forward and caught Ying Huanhuan around the waist. Then he noticed that the girl in his arms was staring at him with her big, dark eyes without blinking.

The two stared at each other, Xiao Yan's expression unchanged, as if this ambiguous posture had nothing to do with him. The girl, however, eventually gave in after a while, and a blush of embarrassment and anger rose on her fair and pretty cheeks.

Under Ying Huanhuan's increasingly embarrassed and annoyed gaze, Xiao Yan casually put her down. Having long since passed away, he was not ashamed of such behavior.

"Huh? How did this place become like this?"

Ying Huanhuan, her cheeks slightly flushed, straightened her clothes, then looked around at the frozen area with her big eyes and asked blankly.

"We just unsealed that Reincarnation Realm demon crystal," Xiao Yan casually explained, "If it weren't for Little Marten being there, all of you would have been frozen in ice."

"That Ice Crystal Beast has been dead for so long, does its demon crystal still have this effect?" Ying Huanhuan had no doubt about Xiao Yan's explanation and exclaimed in amazement.

"After all, it's a demon beast at the Reincarnation Realm." Little Marten shrugged.

“Indeed,” Ying Huanhuan nodded seriously, then looked at Xiao Yan and asked, “Shall we go back now?”

“No, I still have some things to do,” Xiao Yan shook his head. “Haven’t you always wanted to know why I chose this demon crystal instead of those spiritual treasures after the palace examination?”

A single sentence piqued Ying Huanhuan's curiosity.

Chapter 303 Pill Completion

Bang!

After the loud bang, a pure black medicine cauldron appeared in front of Xiao Yan. It was the highest-level medicine cauldron in Xiao Yan's hands, the Black Demon, ranked eighth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

Despite having made ample preparations, this was still his first time refining an eighth-grade pill. In theory, a sufficiently strong soul force should have ensured that there would be no mistakes in this refining process. However, Xiao Yan felt that he should bring his best condition to refine this batch of pills.

Therefore, after taking out the medicine cauldron, Xiao Yan closed his eyes slightly and sorted out his thoughts.

The Fuling Qingdan is an eighth-grade, two-colored pill, but the medicinal materials Xiao Yan has are not those required in the original pill formula. Many of them are of a higher grade than those required in the original pill formula. Therefore, if the refining goes smoothly, the pill refined this time may attract three-colored pill lightning.

It wasn't until Lin Dong and the others, who were watching from a distance, got a little bored that Xiao Yan, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them. Then, he lightly clenched his fist, and a bright green flame suddenly flashed out, transforming into a fire dragon. After roaring in the direction where the little sable was, it entered the medicine cauldron under Xiao Yan's control.

Upon hearing the roar of the fire dragon, the little sable stiffened slightly, then sighed, "The strange fire in his hand... is becoming more and more powerful."

When he met Xiao Yan in the Great Yan Dynasty, the flames Xiao Yan used to refine pills were powerful, but not enough to cause him, who was just a demon spirit at the time, to have a significant reaction. However, today, even though he had regained his physical body, his body still stiffened unnaturally in the face of the roar of the fire dragon. Even the Yuan Power in his body stopped uncontrollably for a moment, as if he had seen a demon beast far superior to him.

“Indeed,” Lin Dong nodded. He still remembered the intensity of the flames he used when he first met Xiao Yan. “However, the aura of the Flame Ancestral Symbol in his Strange Flame seems to be getting stronger?” He turned his head, and the second half of his sentence fell into Xiao Diao’s ears.

"Perhaps it's the effect of the Fire Refining Talisman?" Little Marten replied somewhat uncertainly. "The Fire Refining Talisman is said to be a method of creating seals modeled after the Ancestral Flame Symbol. Under such circumstances, the aura of the flames he manipulates might gradually approach that of the Ancestral Flame Symbol?"

That's what they say, but Xiao Diao felt something was off. It's true that the Flame Ancestral Symbol is a spiritual treasure of the Tianxuan Continent, but the flames Xiao Yan uses are also spiritual treasures of his world. It's impossible that they would gradually become closer in aura just because of a mere seal-forming technique, right?

"Flames? Wasn't this the flame Xiao Yan used before?" Ying Huanhuan asked, somewhat puzzled. To be honest, she didn't even understand why Xiao Yan would make such a big fuss over refining a single pill, telling them to stay as far away as possible, and even using the demon crystal of a Reincarnation Realm beast as a material...

Is this really not some kind of natal spirit treasure or something?

"How should I put it..." Lin Dong hesitated for a moment, "If we're talking about the flame he's using now being the Great Desolation Scripture, then what he used before... was probably the Heavenly Emperor Scripture?"

Not to mention Ying Huanhuan, even Xiao Diao, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yuan were looking at Lin Dong with strange expressions.

“I know you’re trying to say that the flames he used before weren’t as good as the ones he uses now,” Ying Huanhuan looked at Lin Dong speechlessly, “but could you use a different analogy?”

As a disciple of the Dao Sect, Ying Huanhuan naturally knew that the Heavenly Emperor Scripture of the Heavenly Palace was inferior to the Great Desolation Scripture of the Desolate Palace. However, since she was a disciple of the Heavenly Palace, couldn't she replace the Heavenly Emperor Scripture with the Earthly Emperor Scripture?

"Haha..." Lin Dong chuckled dryly, "Let's watch him refine pills instead." He quickly changed the subject.

As the temperature inside the medicine cauldron gradually rose, Xiao Yan swept his hand across the void, and one by one, medicinal herbs flew out from the Awakening Flame Ring, finally hovering around the stone platform. At a rough glance, there were at least a hundred kinds.

Although the Fuling Qingdan requires fewer medicinal materials than other grade eight two-color pills, the quantity of these materials is enough to make some people with insufficient soul power dizzy, let alone the fact that the Fuling Qingdan must be refined in a terrifyingly precise way.

The method for refining Fuling Qingdan flowed silently through his mind like water. All the subtle details that needed attention and the key points of refining alternative medicinal materials were firmly memorized by Xiao Yan.

"call"

Xiao Yan took a deep breath, a sharp glint flashing in his dark eyes. With a sudden flick of his sleeve, several of the many medicinal herbs swirling around him were separated and thrown into the medicine cauldron.

Once the medicinal herbs entered the cauldron, they withered rapidly under the terrifying temperature of the emerald green flames. Then, under Xiao Yan's extremely powerful soul control, in just over ten minutes, the herbs were refined into pure medicinal liquids. Finally, with a thought from Xiao Yan, they gently floated in the corner of the cauldron.

After refining the first batch of pure medicinal liquid at the fastest speed, Xiao Yan's expression remained unchanged. He waved his hands repeatedly, and one medicinal herb after another swept into the medicine cauldron. However, no matter how many herbs there were, they never caused Xiao Yan the slightest sense of panic.

At this moment, the benefits brought by Xiao Yan's powerful soul force finally began to gradually manifest. Although the grade of the medicinal materials he was refining was vastly different from all the medicinal materials he had ever used before, there was still no hindrance when refining the medicinal materials. The temperature of the flame was always exactly at the temperature required for the medicinal materials to be refined, and the medicinal materials were refined to the purest level in the shortest amount of time.

'Perhaps...it really is as Xiao Yanzi said, given enough strength, he might be able to refine eighth-grade, nine-colored, or even ninth-grade pills?'

As he watched Xiao Yan smoothly refine the Poria Cocos Elixir, Yao Lao chuckled, extremely satisfied with Xiao Yan's performance.

Of course, being too talented also has its corresponding troubles, such as—

"It's a pity that the next Pill Gathering won't be held for several years. By then, Xiao Yanzi might already be able to refine eighth-grade nine-colored pills, so it won't be appropriate for him to participate." Just thinking about the surprised expressions of his old friends in the Pill Tower after learning about Xiao Yan's alchemist rank, Yao Lao couldn't help but smile.

'However… for the Burning Technique, the Three Thousand Burning Flames are indispensable, right? Is there any way to let Little Flame Child come into contact with the Three Thousand Burning Flames beforehand?'

This leads to the dilemma of how Xiao Yan can come into contact with the Three Thousand Burning Flames. The Three Thousand Burning Flames are essentially being kept under the control of the Pill Tower, and although they have caused the Tower considerable trouble, there are only two options to gain access: one is to win the Pill Gathering, and the other…

'To become an elder of the Pill Tower?' Although Yao Lao did not formally join the Pill Tower during his lifetime, at this moment, in order for Xiao Yan to come into contact with the Three Thousand Burning Flames, he had to start considering the feasibility of this matter.

Alchemy is an extremely time-consuming task, especially the refinement of high-grade pills, which often takes ten days to half a month. It is extremely rare for someone like Xiao Yan to refine a seventh-grade pill in less than a day, or even to refine a sixth-grade pill in a few hours.

Now, Xiao Yan's process of refining the Poria Cocos Elixir could be considered to have linked "elixir refining" with "time consumption." Although the extraction speed of the medicinal materials was extremely fast under his powerful soul force, even so, Xiao Yan only breathed a sigh of relief when the sun rose to the center of the sky on the third day.

The extraction of the medicinal herbs was completely completed. At this moment, the four clumps of medicinal liquid in the flames rising from the cauldron were the result of his three days of work. Although the four clumps of medicinal liquid looked inconspicuous, the pure medicinal power they exuded was enough to shock everyone present, even though there were only five people present besides Xiao Yan.

Next, Xiao Yan needs to perfectly fuse these four medicinal liquids together, calcine them into a rudimentary pill, and finally complete the pill.

Although he had gone through the process of forming pills countless times, Xiao Yan still took a deep breath before manipulating the emerald green flames swirling inside the cauldron to completely envelop the four balls of medicinal liquid he had extracted. Vast spiritual power filled every corner of the cauldron, and any extremely subtle changes within it would be instantly fed back to his mind.

Time slips away like sand through one's fingers. In the blink of an eye, another half month has passed. During this time, the world isolated by the array set up by Xiao Yan is filled with a rich and lingering fragrance of medicinal pills. Taking a breath of it will quietly dispel the fatigue caused by the long wait.

Besides that, what caught the attention of the people in the formation was the low rumble of thunder that had been echoing in this world for who knows how long.

Although Lin Dong, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yuan, and Xiao Diao had witnessed many instances of pill lightning in previous years, they had little knowledge of eighth-grade pills and could never have imagined that the deep thunder was coming from the medicine cauldron in front of Xiao Yan.

boom!

Suddenly, a deep voice rang out. Before everyone could shift their gaze, they felt a surge of immense energy, like lightning, emanating from the direction where Xiao Yan was. Along with this energy surge, three faint colors of thunderclouds instantly condensed in the azure sky, and countless silver snakes darted about.

"It worked?" Lin Dong looked at the thunderclouds in the sky with surprise.

"Don't rush..." Sensing the gathering Yuan energy fluctuations between heaven and earth, Little Marten took a deep breath. "How many Nirvana Pills do you have? I need to set up an array to completely conceal all the energy fluctuations in this mountain range!"

If Xiao Diao had known earlier that this eighth-grade pill would attract such terrifying energy fluctuations, she would have definitely set up the formation before Xiao Yan even started refining the pill. But it's not too late now, at least the silver snake in the sky hasn't fallen yet, and the fluctuations of the Yuan energy in the world haven't spread too far.

"How much do you need?" Upon hearing this, Lin Dong's expression also turned serious as he asked.

"At least thirty million!" Little Mink said in a low voice.

“Three thousand…” Lin Dong’s lips twitched slightly. All his possessions combined amounted to no more than twenty million Nirvana Pills!

"There are forty million Nirvana Pills here!" As Lin Dong and Little Marten looked at each other in bewilderment, a red Qiankun bag appeared between them, and at the same time, Ying Huanhuan's calm voice rang out.

"As expected of the daughter of the Dao Sect Master!" After receiving the Nirvana Pill and scanning it with her spiritual sense, Xiao Diao's eyebrows immediately rose. "Alright, you guys can just watch the rest of the process. I'm going to set up the formation first!" As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Diao's figure flashed and disappeared into this enclosed world in the next moment.

Sensing the disappearance of the little sable's aura, Xiao Yan, who was beside the medicine cauldron, breathed a sigh of relief. He had misjudged the fluctuations in the spiritual energy brought by the Three-Colored Pill Lightning and was about to ask Elder Yao to help suppress the formation of the pill so that he could set up a larger formation first. However, since the little sable had taken the initiative, he no longer needed Elder Yao's help in suppressing the formation of the pill.

'This is only three-colored pill lightning,' Yao Lao's laughter echoed in Xiao Yan's mind. 'With your carelessness, what will you do when facing four-colored, five-colored, or even nine-colored pill lightning in the future?'

"That's a matter for later," Xiao Yan said with a wry smile, rubbing his nose. "Besides, this isn't the Tianxuan Continent, where nobody knows a pharmacist's wealth. If this were the Dou Qi Continent, I wouldn't have to worry about the fluctuations in the energy of heaven and earth attracting enemies..."

"But there's a Soul Palace on the Dou Qi Continent, you know?"

As the saying goes, experience counts, and Yao Lao's casual remark left Xiao Yan speechless.

"Well, there's always a way."

After Xiao Diao finished setting up the formation, Xiao Yan didn't know how to answer. He mumbled a sentence and then released the suppression on the formation of the pill.

In an instant, a perfectly round, deep blue pill with considerable spiritual energy was fully formed in the medicine cauldron.

At the same time, a bolt of lightning ripped through the violently churning thunderclouds, which were faintly shimmering with brilliant colors. Like a giant python tearing through space, it rushed straight toward Xiao Yan's location with terrifying pressure.

"Since Little Mink helped conceal the fluctuations of heaven and earth energy, then this formation is no longer necessary." Looking at the Dan Lei that finally launched its attack, Xiao Yan smiled, pointed his finger at the void, and instantly, the space around the lightning bolt trembled.

The next moment, the terrifying lightning bolt was torn to shreds.

"This formation can also manipulate the space inside?" After setting up the formation, Little Marten, who had returned to Lin Dong's side, looked at the lightning that had been torn apart by the power of space in disbelief.

boom!

boom!

The dazzling lightning, like a giant dragon roaring across the sky, raged through the heavens, then brought with it brilliant lightning bolts, sweeping down in a devastating barrage, but it was completely torn apart by the power of space, causing no damage to Xiao Yan's location.

The raging tri-colored lightning continued for nearly twenty minutes. In the end, the only damage caused by those hundreds of lightning bolts was that they completely destroyed the formation that Xiao Yan had previously set up...

No, to be precise, the reason this formation shattered completely was because Xiao Yan's excessive manipulation caused it to deal with the three-colored lightning that it shouldn't have been able to handle.

After the thunder subsided, Xiao Yan waved his sleeve lightly, and the lid of the Black Demon Cauldron floated to the side. However, before Xiao Yan could take out the pills from the cauldron, it quickly flew up, seemingly preparing to escape.

"What an active pill!" With a casual grab, the spiritual mist swirling around the pill transformed into the shape of a fox, and the Fuling Qingdan fell into Xiao Yan's hand. "Is this a change brought about by some kind of medicinal herb?"

Xiao Yan looked at the pill in his hand with great interest. Generally speaking, a pill that would make someone want to escape would be at least a ninth-grade pill, but the one he had refined was only an eighth-grade Poria Green Pill.

Chapter 304 The Imminent Sect Competition

"Success?"

As Xiao Yan examined the pill in his hand, Lin Dong and the others came to his side. It was Xiao Diao, who knew that the pill's effect was to restore one's original strength, who spoke.

"An unexpected success!" Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan turned around and gave everyone a bright smile. "The Fuling Qingdan is only an eighth-grade, second-color pill. This time, because some of the medicinal materials are of a higher grade, it has broken through to the eighth-grade, third-color level!"

Although Xiao Diao didn't know the exact difference between "eighth-grade, second-color" and "eighth-grade, third-color" that Xiao Yan mentioned, he could still hear the excitement in Xiao Yan's words.

"So, this pill is even more effective than expected?" Looking at the deep blue pill in Xiao Yan's hand, Little Marten even thought that the fox formed from the spiritual mist looked more handsome. "Does that mean we don't have to wait until the Death Profound Realm to take it?"

Little Mink had been looking forward to regaining his strength for a long time, and what was in front of him seemed to be the thing that could restore his strength in the shortest amount of time!

"Eat? Of course you can if you want to eat," Xiao Yan said slowly as he took out a jade bottle and put the Poria Cocos Elixir inside, "as long as you don't mind the medicine's effects causing your body to burst!"

The little sable, who had just been beaming with joy because of the first half of the sentence, instantly fell silent upon hearing the second half.

"Then there's no difference?" Little Marten was still hoping for no difference, fearing that Xiao Yan would immediately say, "Now you need to reach the Lesser Completion of the Death Profound Realm to eat it."

"We should be grateful to have anything to eat!" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes and tossed the jade bottle in his hand to the little sable. "Speaking of which, where are you planning to take Xiao Yuan and the other two next?"

"I plan to take them to a few more places to see if we can help them break through to the Ninth Yuan Nirvana Realm." After carefully putting away the jade bottle, Little Marten thought for a moment and said.