Chapter 316: Boosting Strength (1/2)
”Long time no see,” Bai Tianyi was the first to speak when they finally saw Xue Wei in the living room of the courtyard.
Just as he spoke, a flash rushed towards Xue Wei and buried herself in his embrace. ”Big Brother!” Luoluo exclaimed happily as she climbed onto his lap, nestling happily in his embrace.
Although she had a good relationship with all of Xue Wei's friends and companions, it could not compare to the familiar feeling she had towards Xue Wei. He was her family.
”I have something for you,” Xue Wei grinned as he waved his hand and five vials of jade appeared on the table by his side.
”One for each of you, go to your rooms and consume them, we are in a bit of a rush. We need to have fully consumed the medicinal properties of the pill before the auction begins.”
Hearing this, the eyes of the others glistened with excitement. Had he actually succeeded in creating two-colored Rainbow Pills?
Lin Xiao was the first to awaken from his stupor, and he quickly grasped one of the vials, opened it and looked at the pill that was within.
It was red and orange, the first two colors of the rainbow, and it looked incredibly unassuming as it laid there.
Seeing Lin Xiao open a vial, Bai Tianyi and Hei Gou quickly grasped a bottle each and looked ecstatic. Especially Bai Tianyi was elated, he had been the strongest of the group for a long time, but right now he was amongst the weakest. He wanted to improve his strength as soon as possible, upgrade himself, and be able to assist in battles again.
Xue Wei also took a bottle and handed it over to Luoluo. ”Go to your room and consume the pill. It should be able to assist you a bit in nurturing your spirit,” he said gently.
Rainbow pills were weird because one could rarely determine what energy it would enhance. However, for Bai Tianyi and Luoluo, it could only become spiritual energy as their bodies had no shred of Qi, nor any physical bodies.
Their bodies and energy was spiritual energy, and thus, it was the only energy the pill could produce in their bodies.
Rainbow Pills up until the fourth color all focused on the three energies, physical strength, Qi, or spiritual energy.
When they were of the fifth color and above, they suddenly had one extra energy that could be produced, and that was the comprehension of a dao.
Because of this, one needed to be at least an Earth or Sky Saint to be able to refine a Rainbow Pill of the fifth color. But the biggest problem was not the rank needed; it was the refinement rank that truly mattered.
Currently, Xue Wei was a two-colored Rainbow alchemist. To raise it to the third color, he needed not only a particular rank of cultivation, but he also required experience as a refinement alchemist and understanding of the formulas.
The hardest, however, for raising one's rank was not all these problems, but to gain a formula. Everyone who had the recipe would guard it with their lives, and those who did not would hunt them down in an attempt to get the method for themselves.
Xue Wei knew about the Rainbow Pills because Bai Tianyi had told him about it. Even when Bai Tianyi was the still a human, the rainbow pills were also amongst the rarest pills on the continent.
For Xue Wei to have come across a two-colored Rainbow Pill recipe, and that he had acquired it for the price he had, it was as a meat pie that fell from the sky.
Xue Wei felt lucky too. He was quite eager to see what the pill would enhance for him, and he quickly grasped the final vial before he returned to the bedroom he had claimed as his own.
As he entered the room, he took a deep breath as he rolled the red and orange pill out into his palm. Looking at it, he calmed his beating heart before he placed the pill in his mouth.
As soon as it came into contact with his tongue, it melted and turned into streams of energy.
These streams of energy continued to rush through his body, everywhere they reached he felt how the azure qi dragons were slowly retreating. Even the azure dragon spirit in his dantian was withdrawn. It was as if they were afraid of impeding the advance of the energy.
Suddenly a nerve-wracking pain erupted in his body. It was as if he was being filled with energy from within. As if he was a balloon that was being inflated.
He felt all his meridians suddenly fill with essence of the heavens and the earth.
Usually, when this essence entered his body, the azure dragon would refine it into Qi dragons. But this time, there were no actions from the azure dragon spirit, and more and more energy was gathering in the meridians, causing them to widen.
Xue Wei's eyes widened. He instantly understood that the pill was increasing not his Qi, neither his Spiritual Energy, but was enhancing his body.
It was as if he was shedding his mortal body and becoming a true immortal. He felt as if his bones were being disintegrated and rebuilt. At the same time, his meridians were being widened. His dantian was also getting bigger and bigger, able to allow for the Azure Dragon to grow even larger than it was before.