Chapter 390 (1/2)

Chapter 390: 390

As soon as he opened the lid, a dense pill fragrance floated out along with bursts of light . The entire cave was lit up by nine longan-sized medicinal pills . Long Chen excitedly cried out:

“Three-ring high grade pills!”

Those nine pills s.h.i.+ned like jade, and three rings of light slowly revolved around the pills as if alive .

This manifestation was something that would appear at the peak of high grade medicinal pills . When the medicinal energy and spiritual qi joined together, it would form a defensive layer on the outside of the pill .

Not only would this lock the medicinal energy inside the pill, but as those rings of light revolved around the pill, they would absorb energy from the outside, continuing to nourish the pill almost as if it were alive .

However, this nouris.h.i.+ng was incredibly slow, so Long Chen didn’t really care about it . What he did care about was that he had refined three-ring high grade pills .

Normally, only those who had reached the Pill King tier could do that . But refining pills wasn’t the same as cultivation base; cultivation realms were not exact standards for what tier an alchemist could reach .

There were two standards required for Pill Kings . One was that they could refine fourth tier medicinal pills, while the other was that they could refine at least one-ring medicinal pills . Only once you met both standards could you be considered a Pill King .

If you wanted to reach such a level, other than needing great talent, plentiful spiritual qi, and vast soul energy, you also needed a Pill Flame that had reached a high enough level .

With those things as a foundation, you also needed skillful control and techniques, otherwise no matter how high your cultivation base was, even a Xiantian alchemist would be unable to satisfy those two requirements .

There were two kinds of Pill Kings . One had official credentials, while the other was essentially a wanderer .

In the pill refining world, there was only Pill Valley . Pill Valley was the holy land for pill cultivators, and ordinary pill cultivators did not even have the qualifications to learn anything about it .

Thus, the Pill Tower had become the temple for pill cultivators . If you wanted the credentials of a Pill King, you would have to go there to be examined .

They had special alchemists specialized in performing those trials . Once you pa.s.sed, you had two options: one was to join the Pill Tower, becoming one of its members, and enjoying the luxurious treatment of a disciple of the Pill Tower .

You could also choose to leave . The Pill Tower would grant you a Pill King’s status tablet, and each year the Pill Tower would distribute a certain amount of resources to you . However, that little amount of resources could not be compared to what true members of the Pill Tower obtained .

In fact, those pitiful resources were essentially bait the Pill Tower threw at alchemists to lure them into being one of their members . Those resources were mostly for pill cultivators to confirm just how vast and powerful the Pill Tower was .

Pill arts, spirit medicines, beast flames, peak grade pill furnaces, all kinds of treasures were present . Those possessed a fatal attraction to pill cultivators, and there were few people who could resist their temptation .

The Alioth Pill he had refined just now could be considered a third tier medicinal pill from its pill formula . But the difficulty in refining it, especially the control required for the heat changes during the process, had definitely already reached the level of a fourth tier medicinal pill .

In other words, after obtaining the Phoenix Sparrow violet flame, Long Chen could be considered a Pill King . That meant he had reached the requirements of the tablet grandmaster Yun Qi had given him .

The current Long Chen now had the qualifications to use that tablet to join Pill Valley and study refining .

However, he had his Pill G.o.d memories, and those pill refining techniques were complete . He didn’t care about other people’s pill refining arts . He cared more about the resources given by Pill Valley .

However, in order to enter Pill Valley, he would need to first go through the Pill Tower . But for this beast flame, Long Chen had completely offended Huo Wufang . It would not be so easy for him to enter Pill Valley .

However, Long Chen didn’t think too much about that . He just carefully took out a jade bottle and placed those Alioth Pills inside .

Looking at those sparkling Alioth Pills that almost seemed alive, Long Chen was incredibly excited . He even felt as if consuming them would be such a shame .

But in the end, he swallowed one of the Alioth Pills . It dissolved the instant it reached his stomach .

That was one of the effects of ‘ringed’ pills . As long as you consumed it, it would instantly release its medicinal energy . They weren’t like other medicinal pills that needed time before showing their effects .

When the medicinal pill dissolved, an enormous energy surged out, seeming like a surging ocean within Long Chen’s body .

That kind of energy was incredibly vast, but it wasn’t berserk . Instead, it was extremely gentle, and Long Chen slowly circulated the energy in accordance to the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, sending it to the center of his right hand .

When the medicinal energy reached Long Chen’s right hand, it didn’t need Long Chen to do anything . The hollow of his palm trembled in the same way his foot had when he had condensed the FengFu Star .

The medicinal condensed quickly, forming a vortex, while at the center of that vortex, a little kernel was gradually growing .

Long Chen didn’t need to do anything . This entire process happened automatically in accordance to the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art . Long Chen suddenly noticed his FengFu Star, that had been remaining silent up to this moment, had now suddenly begun to rapidly circulate . An extremely pure energy slowly flowed into the vortex .

That energy wasn’t exactly spiritual qi . Even Long Chen didn’t know what that energy was . But as soon as that energy flowed in, the tiny kernel grew much larger .

At the same time, a terrifying force soared out of his hand, causing the entire cave to shake .

BOOM!