âColored Glass Grass, my treasure! Iâve finally met you.â
âNice, nice, Brilliance Leafwood, Iâm sorry I made you wait this long!â
âNine Leaf Cricket Pearl Flower? It really is wonderful to see you!â
Every time he saw these new medicinal ingredients, babble would come out of Long Chenâs mouth. These were ingredients used for the Enlightenment Palace Pill, and it was almost impossible to buy them in the outside world.
âThey keep track of the numbers of these ingredients. I have to think of a way⌠got it!â
Long Chen directly threw the Colored Glass Grass into the primal chaos space. The withered ingredient instantly recovered, and was filled with vitality.
Long Chen directly tore off a piece of its roots and threw it into the soil. He then continued transplanting new ingredients. As for the original Colored Glass Grass, he sucked out all its life energy and replaced it.
All he needed was a single root for each ingredient. That one root was equivalent to countless ingredients.
Continuing with this method, he crazily transplanted the precious ingredients. He prioritized the Enlightenment Palace Pillâs ingredients first.
âEh? Thereâs one missing. The Heavenly Star Dragon Saliva Grass.â
He had originally been lacking over twenty ingredients. Now he was only missing this one ingredient.
The Heavenly Star Dragon Saliva Grass was one of the three most important ingredients for the pill. It was impossible to replace it with any other ingredient.
âAh, whatever. I can only slowly think of a way. First, let me transplant all these new plants.â
Long Chen began a large scale plunder. There were some plants that he only needed to take a small portion of them to transplant. That small amount wouldnât affect the medicinal effect. But some were like the Colored Glass Grass. If he took a portion of it, its medicinal effect would be crippled. So he had to bring them into the primal chaos space and then replace them.
He had also learned from the Pill Tower. He marked off a region in the primal chaos space just for the sixth tier ingredients.
He also made another section for the fifth tier ingredients. Now it wouldnât be so troublesome to find them in the future.
In the blink of an eye, ten days passed. Long Chen had worked hard during this time, and now every ingredient here was also within his primal chaos space.
âMister Long San, what are youâŚ?â The maiden hastily stood up when she saw him walk out.
âIâve finished studying,â said Long Chen. Of course he was done. He had taken what he should take, and he had taken what he shouldnât have taken. Now that there was nothing left to take, it was time to leave.
âBut the family head said you should stay in seclusion until the elimination round,â said the maiden. She wasnât able to oppose the family headâs orders.
âIâve already memorized all the fifth and sixth tier medicinal ingredientsâ effects, uses, and characters. Staying here would be a waste of time. I need to go practice refining,â said Long Chen.
âHow is that possible?! There were over a million of just the common ingredients. Itâs impossible!â
Long Chenâs expression sank. âMy matters arenât something you need to question, nor do I need to explain myself to you. If youâre afraid of the responsibility, Iâll go take a trip with you to see the family head.â
Long Chen was too lazy to be entangled with her. As he had expected, he had only just returned to his room when Fang Mingyuan and Fang Chang came.
Long Chen smiled and directly answered their quizzing. As a result, the two of them were dumbfounded. He knew all the effects and properties of the medicinal ingredients they asked him about as well as the back of his hand. He could even explain the properties of very rare ingredients in great detail.
âHaha, I just have a good memory. I can remember anything I see,â said Long Chen.
Fang Chang and Fang Mingyuan came to a sudden comprehension. A personâs memory was related to their Spiritual Strength. Considering Long Chenâs vast Spiritual Strength, they could understand how he had such an eidetic memory.
âLong San, now that youâre familiar with the medicinal ingredients, and youâre also familiar with the pill formulas, the only thing youâre lacking is experience. You should go to the pill refinement pavilion tomorrow. There will be people to help you refine there. As long as you say a pillâs name, theyâll immediately arrange all the medicinal ingredients for you. Itâll save you precious time,â said Fang Chang.
âAlright. Iâll go right now. I also want to practice my alchemy, as thatâs the fastest way to improve.â Long Chen appeared incomparably excited, but inside, he had a desire to cry.
With his Pill God memories, what alchemy experience did he need? But it wouldnât make sense for Long San to not go. Not only did he have to go, but he had to act happy about it. Long Chen was helpless.
As a result, Long Chen was sent to the Seven Treasure Jewel Towerâs pill refinement pavilion. Thinking of Fang Chang and Fang Mingyuanâs grave faces, Long Chen wanted to cry.
Not only did he have to refine pills, but he had to refine all kinds of them, showing them he was completely obsessed with alchemy.
He spent all day refining. Furthermore, he couldnât even refine them too well and had to throw in a few mistakes. He almost puked from the effort.
But in the end, Fang Chang and Fang Mingyuan heard reports of Long Chenâs tireless practice. They greatly admired his perseverance.
Let alone them, even Long Chen was admiring himself. Not everyone could be such a professional at acting.
Luckily, after ten days, Fang Chang finally brought Long Chen out of the Seven Treasure Jewel Tower.
After all, he couldnât let Long Chen simply continue to go all-out like this. In one go, he had refined over a hundred furnaces of pills. That was extremely taxing on the soul. He needed to rest before the elimination round.
Long Chen finally escaped from his torment. After returning, he slept for a whole day and night before entering seclusion.
Seeing how hardworking Long Chen was, Fang Chang thought to himself that he was definitely a pill fanatic. However, what Long Chen was doing in seclusion wasnât refining pills, but urging on the primal chaos bead to get the medicinal ingredients to grow faster.
Under Long Chenâs careful care, medicinal fields dozens of miles wide became filled with fifth and sixth tier medicinal ingredients. Just these medicinal fields alone were priceless treasures.
Now that Long Chen had advanced to the Xiantian realm, the primal chaos space had grown to a terrifying width of three thousand miles. Other than the black soil and some medicinal fields, Long Chen had filled this entire space with immense trees. The primal chaos space was essentially a verdant forest.
These trees were his life-saving measures. When he was injured, he could draw out their life energy to heal himself. However, with the increase in his cultivation base, his physical body also became much more powerful. When he was injured, it would take an incredible amount of life energy to heal. These trees were unable to keep up with his needs.
The quality of these trees was too low. But for now, he wasnât able to find any better trees, so he could only keep using them. Long Chen estimated that although the primal chaos space had grown larger, he would only be able to recover from heavy injuries a total of three times before running out of energy.
Before he had advanced, he could recover around ten times from the brink of death. But now it was only three. It wasnât that the treesâ life energy was weak, but simply that Long Chenâs body was too monstrous.
âIf I refined the green dragon essence blood, would I even be able to use these trees?â Long Chen complained bitterly.
He needed his body to be able to endure a thousand catties of force to refine the green dragon essence blood. With one catty being three hundred thousand pounds, he estimated his endurance was around five hundred catties. There was still a long way to go until one thousand catties. If it was according to ordinary means, perhaps he would have to reach the Sea Expansion realm before refining it.
But he cultivated the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art. If he could condense the fourth star, his body would grow even stronger. At that time, he should be able to refine it.
Furthermore, the dragon expert had said that after refining it, he could cultivate the Dragon Blood Body Tempering Art, allowing his physical body to grow to an unimaginable point.
âA point that I canât imagine? Could it be something on the same level as Enchanted items? Or even Treasure items? Eh? Where is Blooddrinker?â
Long Chen suddenly thought of Blooddrinker. After the battle, he hadnât used it again. He had thought that it was still on a large platform in the primal chaos space where he kept it, but now he found that that space was empty.
Sweeping out his divine sense, he suddenly saw that Blooddrinker was stabbed into the Phoenix Blood Black Gold. Long Chen was shocked. How had Blooddrinker moved on its own?
Hastily investigating, he was surprised to sense that a strange energy was currently being absorbed by Blooddrinker.
âBlooddrinker can absorb the energy within the Phoenix Blood Black Gold? Then was it originally made of this material? It wants to absorb its energy to heal?â
Long Chen was greatly shaken. He remembered what Mo Yi had said before he had left. He had said that Blooddrinker was also a Treasure item, and an exceedingly terrifying one. However, it was gravely injured and its spirit was still in slumber.
Seeing Blooddrinker slowly absorb energy from the Phoenix Blood Black Gold, Long Chen was filled with delight. He urged Blooddrinker on, wanting it to absorb faster so it could recover.
This was an incredibly great thing for Long Chen. If Blooddrinker recovered, then with such a terrifying Treasure item, couldnât he slaughter Sea Expansion experts?
Just as he was filled with delight, he heard knocking from the outside world. He hastily withdrew his mind from the primal chaos space.
The knocker was Fang Chang. Time had passed quickly. Today was the day of the elimination round.
âLong San, how do you feel? Are you confident?â
âHehe, donât worry. This time Iâll properly suppress Huo Wufang.â Long Chen moved out with Fang Chang in high spirits. His mood today was truly excellent. That signified that other peopleâs moods would probably not be so good.