Chapter 494 (1/2)

Chapter 494

After setting up the plans for the Dragonblood Legion, Long Chen had Gu Yang handle the rest . Originally, Guo Ran was more suited to management, but he was busy with his own mission .

Time was short and Long Chen urgently needed to enter seclusion . But there was still one more thing he needed to do first . That was to refine the Spirit Ascension Pill .

The Spirit Ascension Pill’s main ingredient was the Qilin Fruit . It was a heaven-defying medicinal pill that increase the quality of a person’s Spirit Root . If one of them appeared, countless Houtian geniuses would go crazy to obtain it .

The reason why Long Chen gave Zheng Wenlong a Qilin Fruit was because he wanted to display his trust and appreciation for him . He knew that as a businessman, he definitely would understand to keep the matter secret .

By cooperating with Zheng Wenlong, Long Chen was sure he would obtain many benefits, and that was why he had given him such a precious Qilin Fruit .

Going through his Pill G.o.d memories, Long Chen chose to refine the Jade Cliff Spirit Ascension Pill . That pill used an extremely bizarre pill formula that used the Qilin Fruit as the main ingredient, and the Jade Wind Gra.s.s and Spirit Cliff Mushroom as secondary ingredients .

Originally, the Jade Wind Gra.s.s and Spirit Cliff Mushroom’s medicinal natures clashed and were unable to merge together . But with the Qilin Fruit’s essence, these two Yin and Yang ingredients became harmonious, and fully activated the Qilin Fruit’s spirituality .

The Jade Cliff Spirit Ascension Pill was a fourth tier medicinal pill . Refining it wasn’t difficult for Long Chen . With the a.s.sistance of a peak fifth tier pill furnace, he refined over a thousand of them in just three days .

He gave the majority of them to Gu Yang, having him distribute them . For now, each person could only consume three .

However, the Spirit Ascension Pills he had refined were extremely powerful . The majority of these disciples’ Spirit Roots were only at the bronze grade, but after three Spirit Ascension Pills, their Spirit Roots would undergo a heaven-toppling transformation .

A bronze grade Spirit Root would definitely advance to the silver grade, while a silver grade Spirit Root had a fifty percent chance of advancing to the gold grade . That was the same grade as Tang Wan-er .

It had to be known the reason Tang Wan-er’s cultivation speed was the greatest of everyone was because of her Spirit Root . It allowed her to advance twice as fast with half the effort .

Promoting everyone’s Spirit Roots was incredibly important, but Long Chen didn’t have that much time . He refined enough for them to have three, and then he went into seclusion himself .

There was also a portion that he gave to Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er, and also some that he sent to Chu Yao in the Skywood Palace .

As for Guo Ran, well, he didn’t need them . His cultivation path was different from other people’s, and it had nothing to do with his Spirit Root .

As long as he maintained a flawless Dao-heart, Long Chen could use medicinal pills to continuously push his cultivation base higher .

After handling the matter of the Spirit Ascension Pills, Long Chen finally relaxed . At the same time as he needed to increase everyone’s power, he also needed to increase his own .

. . .

“Slow down… slower… SLOWER…! … f.u.c.k . ”

Long Chen sighed . Looking at the ashes in the pill furnace, he felt a bit powerless .

“This Earth Flame is too hard to control . For now, I can’t use it to refine pills,” he sighed .

Just now, he had tried using the Earth Flame to refine a fifth tier medicinal pill, but it had ended up in failure at the very start . The medicinal ingredients in the pill furnace had instantly been turned to ash .

“Using it to fight is alright, but with my current soul energy, it’s impossible for me to control it down to the finest detail . ”

Long Chen couldn’t help shaking his head . This was like having a five-year-old child swing a hundred-pound hammer to smash open a walnut .

Even if the child possessed divine strength and could lift the hammer, once it was smashed down, then let alone the walnut, even the ground would be smashed to bits .

The other thing was that the Earth Flame had yet to mature . It was like a child that was still learning to walk, and it staggered and stumbled . It couldn’t cooperate perfectly with Long Chen .

Unlike other pill cultivators, Long Chen had not transformed the Earth Flame into his core flame . That would damage the Earth Flame’s spirituality, and it would end up losing its soul, becoming a mindless tool .

Instead, he allowed it to grow and cultivate in his body . In fact, he would even allow it to grow stronger than himself . That would be dangerous since the Earth Flame could rebel, and pill cultivators generally wouldn’t risk such a thing . That was definitely playing with fire .

However, Long Chen wasn’t afraid . He handled matters according to his feelings, his gut . That was similar to how he hadn’t placed a slave imprint on Little Snow all that time ago . He hadn’t wanted to treat Little Snow as a tool .

It was the same with this Earth Flame . Long Chen was unable to treat it as just a tool, because he could sense it had its own emotions . It had its own life, and a sentient, albeit infantile, conscious . Long Chen had a premonition that it would become one of his greatest strengths in the future .

However, the current Earth Flame couldn’t be used to refine pills, and so all Long Chen could do was continuously feed it his Pill Flame for it to slowly grow .

This Earth Flame had originally lived underground, absorbing the energy from the lava to grow . But that kind of growth was extremely slow .

It was said that for an ordinary Earth Flame, from the day it was born to the time it gained its own spiritual wisdom would require several millennia, and for it to fully mature would require tens or even hundreds of millennia .

However, Long Chen’s pill flame was condensed from the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, and it was extremely beneficial to it .

That was also why the Earth Flame had attacked him back then . It had been an instinctual reaction upon seeing food .

With the support of his divine ring, the rate at which he condensed his Pill Flame was now greater than the Earth Flame could eat . Without fear of running out, he allowed the Earth Flame to eat until it was full . Then it fell into a deep slumber for a few days .