Chapter 219: Reaching the Heavens with a Single Bound (1/2)
“A Dao Fruit Pill...” Lu Yun frowned. That was a ninth-rank pill, but it was much more valuable than many supreme-rank pills. He knew very well that the Panorama Pavilion wanted the methods with which each master refined their pills, but didn’t care about the actual pills themselves.
Once the pill was refined, Gu Zun would be deemed the winner, even if it ended up being poison. All Lu Yun had done would be for nothing. Neither the Skydragon Tendon and the Lunar Wings held any value to him; he was here for one thing and one thing alone—the Ten Orientations Stone. He needed it to create a luopan!
All eyes focused on Gu Zun. No matter how impressive it’d been for Lu Yun to identify all of the herbs and extract their essence in one fell swoop, none of that meant anything in comparison to the Dao Fruit Pill.
Identifying and distilling herbs were a means to an end, just a part of the journey to the real task of refining pills. Even if one were immensely skilled at the first two tasks, it was still completely useless if pill refinement was out of their reach.
“Dao Fruit Pill? That’s something, but pills like these have a fatal flaw,” muttered Wayfarer. “After consuming one and successfully picking a dao fruit, the immortal in question will never be able to progress beyond that point.”
His words registered in all ears, but no one cared. The flaw was common knowledge. For many peerless immortals, the dao immortal realm was a tantalizing goal ever out of reach. Plucking just one dao fruit and ascending to the aether dao immortal realm would fulfill their heart’s desire for a lifetime.
Wayfarer got to work, materializing a giant cauldron before him. He selected a number of ingredients and cast them into the cauldron, quickly disintegrating them with intense fire. The other pill masters followed suit.
“Although Gu Zun deduced the recipe of Dao Fruit Pill, he won’t necessarily succeed in refining one,” muttered one of them. “We still have a chance!”
Though the pill masters were competing for the three treasures at the behest of others, they nevertheless felt an urge to prove themselves. Lu Yun had completely dominated the first two tasks, but they remained confident in their ability to refine pills. Only the top pill masters of the world possessed the courage to remain on stage now.
One after another, cauldrons and flames appeared, marking everyone’s progress in the refining process. Yue Longsha threw a glance at the unmoving Lu Yun, then summoned a ball of flame to bend her mind to the task at hand.
What pill can exceed the Dao Fruit Pill? was the question that Lu Yun frantically sought an answer to. He sent his question to hell as well, where his envoys and Infernum were waiting. He could tell from Gu Zun’s well-practiced motions that he’d already tried refining the Dao Fruit Pill many times.
The man was very likely to succeed this time.
Lu Yun had offended the pill master to the point of no return. Or, to be precise, Gu Zun had been hostile to the Dusk governor since the very beginning. If the man acquired the Ten Orientations Stone, Lu Yun would never be able to get hold of it.
“There is,” Ruyi’s voice sounded in his head. “There is a pill called the Heaven Descent Pill, also known as the Empyrean Pill. It cannot be assigned a rank, and has only one singular purpose.”
Lu Yun’s eyes lit up. “What is it?” Rankless pills were always the most impressive ones.
“To ascend to the heavens with one bound,” explained Ruyi. “When a pregnant being takes a Heaven Descent Pill, her newborn will possess a dao foundation and constitution tempered by the principles of the golden immortal realm. In other words, the child will be born a golden immortal.”
“What?!” Electricity passed through Lun Yun, dumbfounded by the explanation. The child would be born as a golden immortal?!
That sounded far-fetched, even for the ancient world of immortals! And that had been an age where the dao of immortals was still complete. While the children of immortals were also immortals, it was still unheard of for newborns to be golden immortals. That impacted not only their starting point in life, but also their potential!
A natural-born golden immortal could easily become a celestial emperor, and was very likely to ascend beyond the broken immortal dao and reach that fabled realm.
“Among the 1,080 herbs, 943 are main ingredients for the pill, but you need another supplementary ingredient,” Ruyi relayed seriously, “the heart’s blood of a golden immortal.”