Chapter 153 - Dragon Transformation Array (1/2)

Translator: StarReader

Editor: Silavin

Boom!

The thunderous roars rang in people’s eardrums. It then followed with a resplendent light, so glaring that they couldn’t open their eyes.

Once the light died out and the nine dragons’ roars passed, all the ingredients were gone from the sky.

But under closer attention, one could see that the nine fire dragons had changed. Within their body made of azure flames, a line coursed through them like a blood vessel.

But instead of blood, it was flowing with the ingredients extracts.

Instant refining!

The people watched Zhuo Fan incredulously.

They recalled Zhuo Fan’s Ninth Heaven Roaring Dragon Claw with which he instantly refined 3rd-grade pill ingredients. But he had now achieved the same result with hundreds of 7th-grade pill ingredients.

Such speed raised his refining skill to another level of comprehension.

Even Vicious Pill King had to admit, he could not accomplish such a feat. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken this Bone Tempering brat as his strongest adversary.

This was just the start of everyone’s shock. The greatest awe was how the nine dragons had different colored mixtures flowing through them.

Zhuo Fan just up and separated the ingredients in the instant they were refined.

Speed refining seemed simple, but it touched upon one’s control over the ingredients and his flame. A stronger flame would ruin the ingredient while a weak one wouldn’t refine them.

Regarding the difficulty of control, each successive ingredient grade would be like vaulting heaven. This was the wall that had so many alchemists standing before it, unable to advance.

Zhuo Fan’s instant refining needed absolute control, which was even harder. Not even Vicious Pill King could do it.

Zhuo Fan not only did it but went a level further in his control, separating the hundreds of ingredients into nine types.

This was something Vicious Pill King didn’t think was possible.

Some pills, especially poisons, needed the extracts divided, followed by careful mixing. The Pill King Hall’s poisoned palm was no exception.

It turned refining into a very precise task, with every ingredient refined independently. One blunder would add impurities and ruin the batch.

Yet, Zhuo Fan refined nine types of ingredients in a flash. Such accuracy was something the audience could not even begin to fathom, and this was what got Vicious Pill King so overwhelmed.

How did the world give birth to such a mystical refining skill and such an outstanding genius alchemist?

Hu~

As Vicious Pill King had known, this step was the hardest when making pills. Even Zhuo Fan couldn’t help but let out a breath when this step was completed.

The perceptive Xiao Ya knew Zhuo Fan was at a crucial step and didn’t disturb him. Now that he relaxed, she couldn’t reign in her curiosity any longer, “Grandmaster Song, what was that secret skill, it is no lie to say that it shook the world?”

“Ha-ha-ha, a mere pill array, a simple little array to help in refining.”

Zhuo Fan chuckled and turned to Vicious Pill King. His provocation, however, was loud enough for everyone to hear him, “For a high-grade pill to become a grade surpassing pill, it has to have spirituality. Using blood essence to make the heaven and earth spirit flame’s spirituality instill a spirit into the pill is one way. But that’s too dangerous. If all alchemists did it, nine out of ten would die. Truly idiotic!”

Vicious Pill King’s eyelid twitched, feeling the naked irony within. This brat was teaching him a lesson. Like a senior teaching his juniors. This stung him hard.

But Zhuo Fan’s words were correct. Vicious Pill King would’ve never braved such danger if he was but a greenhorn alchemist.

“Then, did you also instill spirituality into the pill, Grandmaster Song?” Xiao Ya asked in awe while looking at the nine majestic dragons.

Nodding, Zhuo Fan had a cocksure grin, “Spirituality is instilled only by pouring heaven and earth spirituality into the pill. A heaven and earth spirit flame has such a property, albeit incomplete. The soul of a heaven and earth spirit flame is merely formed over millions of years within the earth by accumulating the spirits of the earth. Just take out the spirits and you can instill spirituality.”

“Does that mean those gray shadows were the spirits of the earth?”

“Correct. Spirits are all around us, just that they do not persist for long, nor do they have awareness. The locations of the seven houses were chosen with dense spiritual energy in mind. A place like that gives birth to many spirits, but not just anyone can find them.”

Chuckling, Zhuo Fan pointed at the array, “In the long-forgotten past, alchemy and array were one specialty. But as there were many different sects, alchemy and arrays diverged, to the point many ancient arrays are lost. The array that I set up today is the ancient Dragon Transformation Array. It draws the spirits around and transforms them into dragon spirits. Not a true dragon, mind you, but one containing just a hint of a true dragon spirit’s might. A striking difference from a heaven and earth spirit flame’s spirituality formed over millions of years.”

Despite the shock they were in, Zhuo Fan’s words brought them further amazement. They had endless admiration for him.

This pill array was in no ancient book, moreover, no one had heard of it either. But Grandmaster Song not only had vast and widespread knowledge about all aspects but even grasped the intricacies of a pill refining array.