Chapter 252 2 (1/2)
After being enhanced by 7455 Spirit Seals, this sword became slightly stronger than common Profound Heaven Defective Treasures.
Besides that, because Ning Fan had only engraved “Sharpness” on the sword,a true flying sword at the Spiritual Grade would probably not be able to rival his Separation Slayer Sword in terms of sharpness!
By just placing it on his palm, the sharpened edges of the sword glinted due to its extreme sharpness.
Ning Fan held the hilt and simply wielded the sword. With just a single slash, the hollow air in front of him split into two, exposing a trace of darkness…
“What an exceptionally sharp sword! With this sword, I am now even able to cut through the strong defense of Yue Ling Kong’s body which is at the Second Level of the Jade Life Body Refining Realm!”
For ordinary cultivators, most of them would never neglect the agility, the durability, special abilities and other elements of the flying sword just to increase its sharpness.
But for Ning Fan, he did not even consider any of those elements because to him, the Separation Slayer Sword was not a flying sword!
He also was not worried that his sword would break due to lack of durability because it was a sword that was wholly forged using Immemorial Stars. It might be defeated by other weapons but it would never break!
After five months of hard work, Ning Fan was pretty satisfied with the outcome.
With a single touch on the Separation Slayer Sword, it shrunk into starlight and went into Ning Fan’s glabella.
He spread his spirit sense and found out that Lu Wan’er was still in the middle of spirit augmentation on his Spirit Crushing Whip after five months.
A frown appeared between his brows. Internally, he was filled with a hint of worry.
“Is it so difficult to use a Mortal Void Grade spiritual iron to augment a Supreme Grade treasure…”
After sensing that Lu Wan’er’s qi still remained stable, only then did he heaved a sigh of relief.
Five months had passed and the Golden Flame Chariot had travelled for 240 million li* from the Northern Desert City during that period of time!
Even so, there were still 500 million li* of distance left to the Luo Yun’s Province.
Since there was still such a large distance before he arrives at his destination, the only thing he could do at the moment was to concoct pills while waiting for Wan’er to complete the spirit augmentation.
“Condense!”
In the pill refinement room, Ning Fan grabbed the air and conjured two illusory pill cauldrons.
The first one was full of mist and moisture while the other one billowed with devil qi.
Forming pill cauldrons with Divine Intent! It was an essential technique that a Fifth Revolution pill master must possess!
The first pill cauldron was the cauldron formed from his Divine Intent of Rain while the second one was conjured from his Devil Intent of Evil Luo Mountain!
The Devil Intent of Evil Luo Mountain was a few times stronger than the Divine Intent of Rain. In spite of that, Ning Fan shook his hand and flattened the second pill cauldron with his finger. With a wave of his hand, the first pill cauldron landed on the sea of golden flame in front of him.
The Devil Intent of Mountain might possess a monstrous devil qi but it was not suitable for concocting pills after all. In stark contrast, his Devil Intent of Rain might be weak but its moisture was perfect for this purpose.
There were four types of Fifth Revolution pills that Ning Fan had to concoct: the Facial Restoration Pill, the Separation and Reunion Pill, the General Breaking Pill and the Profound Blood Pill.
Fortunately, the four types of pills were all Low Grade Fifth Revolution Pills. With Ning Fan’s current pill refinement techniques, it was good enough to concoct them.
However, it was still his first time officially concocting Fifth Revolution Pills.
Considering his chances of failing and the need of accumulating experience, Ning Fan did not start to concoct the Facial Restoration Pill. Instead, he began with the Separation and Reunion Pill as the ingredients of which was the most he had.
From all the materials he had, he was able to concoct this pill eleven times. In other words, Ning Fan was allowed to fail ten times in preparing this pill.
In order to cut down the time he needed to refine each of the Fifth Revolution Pills, Ning Fan swung his palm and summoned the Green Phoenix Flame.
Now, he had already owned two types of Earth Flames1 and three types of Heavenly Cold Qi. There was no need for him need to search for another place which was as cold as the Heavenly Cold Qi to devour the Earth Flame.
Because of the additional Heavenly Cold Qi within his body, his body became incomparably frigid and he was in need of another type of Earth Flame to balance out the power of coldness within his body.
For half a month, his body sat still in a meditative posture without moving a single muscle after devouring the Green Phoenix Flame.
Half a month later, he opened his eyes and they shone brilliantly. His aura force intensified and his magic power began to increase drastically at the same time.
His current cultivation level enabled him to absorb one-third of the power of the Green Phoenix Flame as his magic power.
With an increment of 340 units of magic power, his magic power increased to 1015 units.
Improving his magic power was not Ning Fan’s ultimate objective. As such, he did not continue to consume the Profound Liquid of Mother Earth.
His objective was to fuse the three types of Earth Flames and Heavenly Cold Qi into a grey Yin Yang Flame to concoct the pills!
In that manner, his pill refinement speed would increase by 6 times as compared to that of a common Fifth Revolution pill master.
Now, he would only need one month to concoct a Separation and Reunion Pill, based on his calculations.
Out of the eleven attempts, Ning Fan failed miserably for the first eight tries. On the ninth attempt, he managed to concoct a semi-finished pill.
Although it was a defective one, he was not disappointed but satisfied with himself. The nine attempts enabled him to gain insight on concocting Fifth Revolution Pills.
As for the materials for the General Breaking Pill, he had seven sets of them. He only experienced two failures while preparing for the pill and on his third attempt, he managed to concoct a defective version of the pill.
For the Profound Blood Pill, he only failed once and managed to produce a marginally qualified pill immediately on his second trial.
The last one was the Facial Restoration Pill. It also took him one attempt before he came up with a defective pill.
Three months of continuous failures had given him enough experience about the few types of pills.
After pondering for a while and mustering enough confidence in himself, he opened the pill cauldron and began to properly concoct the pills that he wanted.
On the fourth month, the Separation and Reunion Pill was completed.
On the fifth month, the General Breaking Pill was completed.
On the sixth month, the Profound Blood Pill was completed.
On the eight month, two Facial Restoration Pills were completed.
After spending eight months immersing himself in concocting pills, he finally could become a qualified Low Grade Fifth Revolution pill master.
However, Ning Fan helplessly discovered that the improvement of his pill refining technique was extremely miniscule despite all his efforts throughout the eight months.
I guess it will be impossible to improve my pill refining techniques to Mid-Grade Fifth Revolution without decades of hard work…
The remaining time before they arrived at the Luo Yun’s Province was now less than a month.
Ning Fan kept all the five pills, stood up, and moved his body, emitting some cracking sounds resulting from the collision of his bones.
“So this is the life of a cultivator…Spending five months in refining treasures and 8 months in concocting pills… A cultivator’s life is rather dull…The five-month promise is already long past. I wonder if Xu Qiuling is still worrying about me…There are still 30 years before the sword qi within her body collapses. For now, her life should be safe…”
He did not immediately summon the Wind Demoness and the Flower Demoness and help them to restore their appearances because the Facial Restoration Pills were required to be consumed with the help of a medicine bath.
Since they were demons, some of the spiritual herbs to prepare the medicine bath were needed to be replaced by some demon grasses.
Since the demon grasses are not any precious items, they should be obtained easily in the province.
Pushing open the door, he cast his spirit sense and realized that Lu Wan’er had yet to finish the process of spirit augmentation.
In the meantime, the reaction of the magical treasure in the treasure refinement chamber became even more intense.
“Is it almost finished?”
Ning Fan did not intend to intrude into the chamber as he was afraid that he might disturb her.