bookrebus Chapter 20 Heavenly Tribulation Descends
Chapter 20 Heavenly Tribulation Descends
A phantom of a blue fox leaped out of Qing Li's body, instantly growing to more than ten times its original size, and pressed its claws down on the trembling, about-to-collapse alchemy furnace.
A flash of white light, and the shrill sound turned into a muffled thud.
Feng Junchen was blasted four or five zhang away by the fragments of the magic array from the exploding alchemy furnace, and lay on the ground disheveled and dirty.
The spiritual energy surrounding the alchemy furnace was completely drained by the phantom of the green fox, causing the light and shadow to stop and quickly dim.
The fox clan women stirred, and the bigwigs present were so startled that they all jumped up from their seats. The woman in the red dress from the Chi family was the first to fly over and support the weak and struggling Feng Junchen. Their eyes met, and a flash of joy appeared on their faces.
"Master Feng! The alchemy furnace formation has gone out of control! Are you alright?"
The fox-woman in the red dress helped the pale-faced Feng Junchen to his feet, her face full of surprise and concern.
Bai Wuxia stared blankly at the crumbling outer wall and the dim, silent alchemy furnace. A pungent, burnt smell wafted into her nostrils, causing her expectant heart to sink even further.
Under the turmoil of her soul, her already riddled and barely maintained soul body nearly collapsed. Feeling nauseous, a mouthful of hot blood surged up, Bai Wuxia's vision went black, and she collapsed limply.
"Sister!" The two women in white behind her cried out and helped Bai Wuxia up. They were terrified by her deathly pale face and the blood seeping from the corner of her mouth.
Qingli swiftly grasped Bai Wuxia's soft, drooping hand and transferred her spiritual energy to it.
"She's alright for now. You two keep an eye on her!"
Slowly lowering Bai Wuxia's soft hand, Qingli's face was calm, but her heart was filled with anxiety and frustration. The feeling of helplessness and uncertainty made her especially angry.
The furnace exploded, the medicine was ruined, and people were injured. Who else could she turn to? It was true that Feng Junchen's injuries were serious, and he would have to recuperate and recuperate at Limeng Mountain. As an outsider, she had many doubts about the cause of the accidental explosion of the alchemy furnace, but she didn't know where to start.
Where could she find Bai Wuxia's life-saving elixir in such a short time?
Annoying! Annoying! Annoying! Qingli gritted her teeth inwardly.
Behind Bai Wuxia, Luo Sifan appeared calm and thoughtful, which, in Qing Li's eyes, made him seem several times more detestable.
Before Qingli could react, Luo Sifan gracefully strode into the arena.
The enormous phantom of the blue fox withdrew its paw from the alchemy furnace and stared with interest at the composed Luo Sifan, allowing him to approach the furnace and examine it.
"The inner wall is undamaged, but the residue and liquid are mixed..."
Luo Sifan withdrew her hand, muttered something under her breath, and suddenly looked up at the phantom of the blue fox with a charming smile:
"Senior Qingli, the pills in the furnace can still be saved! Please protect me!"
After saying that, Luo Sifan sat down, her skirt lifted, her eyes slightly closed, her sleeves slipping down slightly, and her jade-like hands raised, gently embracing the alchemy furnace in front of her.
A soft, crackling sound gradually arose from the bronze incense burner once more.
Qing Li's eyes flickered, her expression strange. She originally wanted to send the reckless Luo Sifan flying out of the peak with a single palm strike, but the phantom of the Azure Fox suppressed her thoughts. Although the two were one, the phantom body of the Void Realm Nascent Soul was unpredictable and could not be interfered with by Qing Li.
Since Qingli remained silent, the fox clan women naturally dared not make any rash moves, whispering among themselves and speculating wildly about Luo Sifan's strange behavior.
Before the elixir was successfully formed, hundreds of mixed dregs and liquids sank to the bottom of the furnace. Due to varying degrees of heat, starting the process again to refine the elixir would likely increase the complexity a hundredfold.
Feng Junchen slumped in the chair of the fox-woman in the red dress, his eyes blank, still unable to understand Luo Sifan's actions.
"Xiangluan, what is she doing?"
Feng Junchen muttered softly, while the fox-woman in the red dress beside him glanced at him indifferently:
"Even Master Feng can't understand it, how could I possibly know!"
Medicines are divided into five elements. The spiritual materials used in the Spirit-Preserving Pill are numerous, and almost all five elements are involved. The five elements formation of the alchemy furnace is rendered useless, and the alchemist needs to spend ten times more time and skill to refine the medicine.
Feng Junchen had never heard of an alchemist who could manipulate the five elements of spiritual energy even without the aid of a magic array. If a cultivator could be in harmony with the five elements of spiritual energy, what need would they have for refining pills?
The thought crossed Feng Junchen's mind, and he stopped paying attention to Luo Sifan's actions.
Before Luo Sifan sat down, he had already pondered several methods. He closed his eyes and channeled the Taiyi Qingxuan Qi into the alchemy furnace. After a little practice, he quickly chose a method that was both time-consuming and labor-saving.
Luo Sifan called this method: Triple Heaven of Ice and Fire.
The Taiyi Qingxuan spiritual energy transforms into water and fire spiritual energy, which is divided into three sections in the furnace. The coldest water-based spiritual energy in the lower layer freezes the slag and liquid. The fire-based spiritual energy in the middle layer slowly roasts the surface of the mixture of slag and liquid, causing the medicinal liquid to vaporize and rise upwards. The water-based spiritual energy in the uppermost layer is controlled by Luo Sifan to be divided into dozens of different low-temperature layers, condensing medicinal liquids with different properties and wrapping them in the corresponding five-element energy clusters, and then slowly condensing them.
Boiling over a fire and reducing with water, then slowly polishing it, saves on spiritual energy and avoids making too much noise.
So, led by Qingli, everyone patiently watched as the alchemy furnace gurgled softly, steam and frost rising from both ends, while a red glow and heat emanated from the center, simmering like porridge over a slow fire until the sun set and the moon rose…
The phantom of the blue fox perched atop everyone's heads, its eyes widening occasionally as it watched with great interest, seemingly oblivious to the passage of time.
Qingli and the fox clan women had nothing but an ordinary bronze stove with bubbling porridge in their eyes and the seemingly leisurely porridge cook Luo Sifan. Five or six hours passed, each day feeling like an eternity; it was unbearable.
Although Luo Sifan appeared relaxed, he was actually completely exhausted. Among the fifth-grade pills, the Spirit-Preserving Pill was already one of the most complicated to refine, let alone the Rejuvenating Pill after the interruption.
Hundreds of clusters of the five elements spiritual energy, after enveloping the medicinal liquid, need to be carefully tempered and refined. In the meantime, the method of extracting and separating the liquid using the three elements of ice and fire must be maintained. Even though Luo Sifan's spiritual sense is superior to others in the same realm, the speed at which the Taiyi Qingxuan spiritual energy at the peak of Qi Refining is consumed far exceeds Luo Sifan's expectations.
With the Divine Pill nearly 90% complete, Luo Sifan felt uneasy about giving up now.
Luo Sifan simply pulled out a handful of dark, round pills from his pocket, chewed them a few times, and swallowed them in one gulp.
The nine layers of viscous liquid pools in Luo Sifan's Qi Sea suddenly surged and spun, and Luo Sifan's Qi Meridians were once again filled with abundant pure and mysterious spiritual energy.
"it is good!"
Luo Sifan suddenly opened his eyes, and abundant pure spiritual energy poured in. The tempering power of the five elements in the alchemy furnace was powerfully and precisely pushed to its limit.
More than a hundred droplets reached the perfect temperature in an instant, and the five elements of energy rapidly spun and dissipated. At the center of the vortex, the droplets gradually merged into a suspended liquid sphere, hanging high in the alchemy furnace.
This method of alchemy was inspired by Luo Sifan's observation of the endless rotation of the Yin-Yang millstone.
Luo Sifan's Qi Sea liquid pool swirled even more rapidly, the Yin and Yang forces grinding against each other, drawing him slowly into the center of the liquid vortex...
A thousand miles away from Dream Mountain, the sun and moon suddenly lost their light. The phantom of the green fox looked up and saw rolling dark clouds stretching for a thousand miles, appearing from nowhere like a long dragon probing the water, gushing down towards the place where the alchemy furnace was located.
The sea of clouds beneath our feet is like a tide, a circle of white waves thousands of feet high, surging in from the center of Danlu Peak!
The suffocating sense of danger terrified Qinghu Huanying and Qingli, who instantly merged into one, their long sleeves sweeping across the scene, drawing everyone on Danlu Peak into the secret realm of Duanyun Peak.
"Heavenly Tribulation!"
Qingli silently glanced at the lonely figure on Danlu Peak one last time, shook her head, and also flashed into the secret realm of the fox clan's ancestors.
Whether it's a person or a pill targeted by the Heavenly Tribulation, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, she wouldn't dare to touch it even if she had a hundred lives.