Chapter 459 - Pill Refinement Mastery, Peak Grade Fifth Revolution (1/2)

Translator: GE_Team

Ning Fan touched the large green wooden cauldron. His palm felt a cool and heavy sensation from it.

The power of his medicine soul condensed into a vortex at the center of his palms. The thick medicine qi trapped inside the large cauldron was being absorbed by the vortex and it fused into his medicine soul.

The green color on his medicine soul became fainter while the color of black became more concentrated.

The blackness began to spread nearly all over his medicine soul. Ning Fan knew that if the color of black covers his medicine soul entirely with only a tinge of green left, would mean that his pill refinement mastery had advanced to the Peak Fifth Revolution.

Green was the color of a Fifth Revolution medicine soul, black was for that of a Sixth Revolution medicine soul and purple was for a Seventh Revolution medicine soul.

If the color of green continues to diminish until the last tinge of green completely vanishes, Ning Fan would then become a Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Master!

In the eight hundred countries of the Rain World, there were only seven pill refinement masters who managed to step into the Sixth Revolution.

If Ning Fan’s pill refinement mastery breaks through to the Sixth Revolution, his status would nearly be as respected as other Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters!

His heart was filled with gratefulness. He was extremely thankful for the Pill Sovereign’s teachings. He was even more grateful for Old Devil’s concern and good intentions.

The promise between Old Devil and the Pill Sovereign gave Ning Fan three chances to learn from the Pill Sovereign. He was not going to waste any of them!

“Absorb!”

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with determination as he increased the absorption of the medicine qi.

The Pill Sovereign had used this large green wooden cauldron to refine pills countless times. It was unknown how many pellets of Sixth Revolution pills he had concocted in it before. The intensity of the medicine qi contained inside it was shockingly immense.

After just absorbing five percent of the medicine qi, Ning Fan felt that his medicine soul had swollen, as if it could no longer endure such a massive amount of medicine qi.

He gnashed his teeth and continued to absorb the medicine qi by force. When he had taken in ten percent of the medicine qi, his medicine soul nearly cracked.

The pain he felt which was so excruciating that it seemed to pierce through his soul made his brows knit tightly together. Ning Fan had already absorbed one-ninth of the medicine qi in the large cauldron.

“This young man is indeed a person with great tolerance…” The Pill Sovereign nodded his head with satisfaction. He thought highly of Ning Fan’s talent but he valued his personality even more.

The Dao of Pills was extremely challenging. If one does not have great forbearance, they would not be able to climb to the pinnacle of the Dao of Pills.

The Pill Sovereign looked at Ning Fan as if he was seeing his younger self.

When the Pill Sovereign was only seven, he was still just a mortal kid. In his childhood, he lived amidst the flames of war. He survived by feeding off the corpses of the dead from the ruins when the battle was over.

One day, an old Daoist in green robes came to the wasteland and saw him. That old Daoist gave him a warm and gentle smile and asked.

“Why did you feed on the flesh of the dead?”

“I don’t want to die a petty death!” The young child answered.

“Do you want to follow me? I will teach you pill refinement techniques so that you won’t live a petty life anymore. You will be able to stand up tall above tens of thousands of people…”

The smile of that old Daoist was forever engraved into the Pill Sovereign’s heart. It was heart-warming like a father’s love.

At that time, the Pill Sovereign did not know that the old Daoist in green robes was Sovereign Li who was personally entitled by the former Rain Sovereign!

Sovereign Li eventually passed away as he failed to achieve a breakthrough in his cultivation. The Pill Sovereign endured the sorrow of losing his father-like teacher and continued to follow his teachings. After enduring countless hardships and bitterness, he climbed to the top and became the Pill Sovereign whose name was famous across the Nine Worlds in the end.

The reason why the Pill Sovereign had not kept a disciple before in his entire life was because he had yet to meet a disciple whom he could treat like his own son.

In this world, countless pill refinement masters wished to recognize the Pill Sovereign as their master but he did not care about them at all.

Today, he finally met a disciple whom he was fond of. This disciple, however, already recognized another master a long time ago. It was truly unfortunate.

“Heal!”

The Pill Sovereign pointed a finger at Ning Fan. A rush of warm and gentle soul power went into Ning Fan’s body, nourishing his medicine soul that was on the verge of bursting.

He could not eliminate the pain that Ning Fan was enduring but he could heal the cuts and wounds on his medicine soul.

He remembered that time when he was the one absorbing the medicine qi from Sovereign Li’s pill cauldron.

Under Sovereign Li’s protection, he had absorbed one-third of his medicine qi.

He had a feeling that the young man in front of him right now could also absorb up to one-third of the medicine qi of the cauldron.

Hence, he decided to give Ning Fan a hand just like how his master did to him on that day.

However, when the Pill Sovereign helped Ning Fan using his soul power, he only realized at that moment that Ning Fan’s body actually had countless traces of black star power that was healing him automatically.

Ning Fan who was using the black stars to heal himself suddenly felt a cooling sensation on his medicine soul. This gave him a boost in his vigor and spirit. Knowing that the Pill Sovereign was helping him, he was deeply grateful.

He clenched his teeth even harder and accelerated the absorption of the medicine qi once again while enduring an even more intense pain.

One-third of the medicine qi in the large cauldron was already absorbed by Ning Fan!

There were even more cracks and wounds on his medicine soul but the Pill Sovereign were healing them.

The pain, however, became too much for him to bear. It caused blue veins to surface on his forehead.

“Refine!”

Without any fear, Ning Fan assimilated the massive amount of medicine qi into his medicine soul. The black color of his medicine soul had immediately turned one-third more concentrated than before!

Ning Fan became even more certain that if he could swallow all of the medicine qi inside the pill cauldron, he could make his medicine soul advance to the Peak Fifth Revolution. The reason for that was because this pill cauldron contained all the medicine qi that the Pill Sovereign had amassed in his entire life!

Those who don’t get tired of it after suffering hardships and bitterness could turn into an Asura that rules the world from the top…

Determination suddenly filled Ning Fan’s eyes. Black mist gathered around his body and turned him into his black incarnation.

His eyes were cold and emotionless as if he could no longer feel any pain.

One must turn into an Asura and endure hardship to attain the peak of cultivation!

“Absorb!”

The massive amount of medicine qi was completely absorbed by Ning Fan’s body.

He had actually swallowed up all of the medicine qi in the gigantic green wooden cauldron in a single attempt!

The soul-piercing pain became intolerable. The Ning Fan in black robes made a groan and his body suddenly broke down into a mist of blood.

Those who witness his incarnation would only think that it was an impressive technique as it could disperse and condense again and again. However, no one had ever thought about how extremely painful it was having your body broken down into nothing.

The pain was intense as Ning Fan’s incarnation dispersed and condensed repeatedly. At the same time, he was digesting the medicine qi as much as he could.

He repeated the process one hundred times. By breaking down his incarnation repeatedly, it allowed him to continuously alleviate the impact of the medicine qi while he was gradually assimilating it.

The black color on his medicine soul continued to spread. From one-third of his medicine soul, it spread until two-thirds of it was covered and eventually, his entire medicine soul was dyed in extremely thick black color. There was just a thin tinge of light green on top of the black.

His medicine soul finally advanced to the Peak Fifth Revolution!

“Very well!”

The Pill Sovereign who had been staying quiet at a corner since the beginning finally complimented Ning Fan.

Ning Fan did not disappoint him. He had fully absorbed all of the medicine qi in the large cauldron after persevering.

The endurance he had was even slightly stronger than that of the Pill Sovereign.

“Try and see whether you can condense your natal pill cauldron in one go after the improvements you had on your medicine soul.” The Pill Sovereign reminded him.

“Alright.”

Ning Fan closed his eyes. Traces of his intent realm power were released from his body.

The Divine Intent of Rain. The Devil Intent of Mountain. The Demon Intent of Fu Li… Three types of completely different intent realms suddenly fused into one, forming a scene with falling black snow from his memories.

“This is!”

The Pill Sovereign realized with surprise that Ning Fan actually possessed the intent realm powers of the Divine Race, the Devil Race and the Demon Race.

What he found hard to believe the most was that Ning Fan had fused the three types of intent realm powers into one, creating the Memory Intent Realm. Moreover, his intent realm had attained Perfect Accomplishment. When he willed it, the entire sky became filled with black snow.

Each of the black snowflakes was the power of his Memory Intent Realm which was a Second Step Intent Realm.

Ning Fan did not have the intention to hide anything from the Pill Sovereign. In fact, he had already regarded him as one of the people who was close to him.

The Pill Sovereign had given Ning Fan an extremely precious gift. Even though he was just fulfilling his promise to Old Devil, Ning Fan was still very grateful to him.

In his mind, he was recalling the look of the Dan Fragmentation Cauldron. That pill cauldron was in all of his memories.

He patted his storage pouch and took out a three feet tall, black octagon-shaped cauldron with six corners.

It was the Dan Fragmentation Cauldron. It was something the Old Devil gave to him. Even though its grade was not high and it was of little use to Ning Fan now, it was loaded with all of the memories he had of Seven Apricot City.

He wanted to use the power of his Memory Intent Realm to condense his natal pill cauldron with the Dan Fragmentation Cauldron as the model and keep the memories of the snowy Seven Apricot City.

“Fuse!”

The power of his Memory Intent Realm filled the Dan Fragmentation Cauldron, slowly eating it away.

Ning Fan touched his glabella. He could feel that the solid Dan Fragmentation Cauldron had turned into an intangible form of divine intent which formed a black cauldron within his Sea of Consciousness. It was being built and tempered inside there.

“Cauldron, appear!”