bookbashuk 143. Strange State
143. Strange State
Although Xiao Yan was somewhat dissatisfied with Hai Bodong's procrastination, he had full confidence in the Breaking Calamity Pill he had refined, so he was not in a hurry.
Seeing Xiao Yan's compromise, Hai Bodong smiled amicably and said, "Don't worry, young brother. As long as the pill works, even if my strength doesn't fully recover, I will still offer up the incomplete map with both hands!"
He then said to the two of them, "How about you two come with me to the basement later? Revealing our strength might cause some unnecessary trouble."
Xiao Yan said coldly, "Don't worry about absorbing the pills, no one will disturb you."
Seeing Xiao Yan's increasingly cold expression and clearly impatient tone, Hai Bodong could only nod, carefully examining the pill for a while to confirm there were no problems. Under Zi Yan's extremely dissatisfied gaze, he swallowed the pill whole, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb the medicinal power contained within it.
Xiao Yan tossed two pills to Zi Yan, then sat down cross-legged.
Refining pills non-stop all day was a tremendous burden on both his battle qi and soul power, and he desperately needed to recover. The guard duty was left to Zi Yan. Having spent so much time together, the two understood each other perfectly. Holding the pill Xiao Yan tossed her, Zi Yan solemnly circled the two of them, but her performance lacked a suitable audience. Feeling bored, Zi Yan returned to her recliner.
Although Xiao Yan had indeed expended a great deal of energy, he still felt a surge of joy. Yao Lao had once told him that alchemy could sometimes encounter moments of divine assistance, making the process incredibly successful, and afterwards, the alchemist's skill would experience a rapid increase in a short period of time.
However, no one can answer when or how such a moment will come; the old apothecary only experienced it once.
This thing is extremely mysterious. Even the eighth-grade alchemists that Yao Lao knew had never encountered it before. Xiao Yan originally treated it as a story and never thought that this thing would appear on his own body.
However, it was truly too crazy just now. Xiao Yan only recovered from that frenzied state of refining medicine after his internal fighting spirit was completely depleted.
So at this moment, Xiao Yan felt more satisfied than tired. He had a feeling that after today, he would be able to officially enter the ranks of sixth-grade alchemists.
The higher the level of an alchemist, the harder it is to advance. In addition to having sufficient battle qi and strong soul power, the most important thing for becoming a high-level alchemist is that the higher the grade of the pill, the rarer the rare and precious treasures required.
Therefore, when Yao Lao parted ways, he had planned for Xiao Yan to advance to the sixth-grade alchemist within three years and to the seventh-grade alchemist within ten years. Now, less than a year after they parted, Xiao Yan has officially entered the sixth grade in this state.
"Could this be the effect of Qi circulation that Emperor Xutian spoke of?"
When he met Emperor Xutian, he emphasized that because the souls of the young geniuses in the Myriad Beasts Space were forcibly imprisoned by Lu Huangtian using evil magic from outside the plane, and after releasing the souls of many geniuses with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Xiao Yan also possessed a huge power of fortune.
When Xiao Yan asked what the power was for, Emperor Xu Tian only vaguely replied, "It will take effect when the time is right."
Xiao Yan had already given up on this idea, after all, encountering members of the Soul Palace and being subdued by Yan Di didn't seem like something that could be attributed to luck. But the state he was in just now was as if divinely aided, and it happened far too easily.
In the end, Xiao Yan shook his head and gave up thinking. After all, the Void Emperor's Thought was unwilling to tell him, and he had no way to sense its existence. He couldn't figure it out by thinking about it on his own.
After recovering to about 70-80% of his original condition, Xiao Yan got up and discovered that Hai Bodong was still absorbing the medicinal power of the pill.
At this moment, Hai Bodong also had a dark blue snake pattern on his forehead. The strange dark blue snake firmly occupied the position on Hai Bodong's forehead, and Xiao Yan felt that the originally vast Dou Qi in Hai Bodong's body was suppressed by this pattern.
Xiao Yan couldn't help but admire Queen Medusa. The restriction had been in place for quite some time, yet it remained so sturdy, demonstrating Queen Medusa's formidable strength. No wonder Yu Haibodong had come to this region alone, disheartened.
He probably won't have the chance to break free of this constraint on his own in his lifetime.
Fortunately, purple energy was surging around Hai Bodong's body, and his entire body had turned purple as a result.
Purple energy had filled the area below Hai Bodong's neck. However, due to the clash between the two energies, Hai Bodong's expression was extremely ferocious, and large beads of sweat kept rolling down his dry face.
The two energies collided and continued to spill out, but as these energies spread outward, some tiny spatial cracks would always open, completely absorbing and annihilating them.
It was precisely because Zi Yan continuously created intricate spatial rifts that the Dou Huang-level Dou Qi could have blasted the entire shop into pieces.
Xiao Yan observed Zi Yan's technique and realized that she had become quite adept at controlling these small spatial rifts. Zi Yan had always been very sensitive to spatial abilities, and it should be noted that the ability to create and use space originally belonged to Dou Zun powerhouses!
As time went by, purple energy continuously surged out from Hai Bodong's lower abdomen. The sixth-grade pill was not so simple, and its medicinal power was endless.
Although the Azure Serpent Pattern continued to resist, Xiao Yan could see that it was running out of steam and that it wouldn't be long before it was broken.
Finally, after the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, only a tiny bit of blue remained on Hai Bodong's forehead before it completely turned into blue smoke and dissipated.
The last trace of the restriction vanished, and Hai Bodong's tightly closed eyes snapped open, a sharp light shooting forth from them as if it were tangible. A fierce aura, like that of a lion awakening, surged forth from within his body, which had been deeply suppressed for nearly decades.
"Hahahahahaha, after so many years, I have finally returned to this realm!" Hai Bodong's face was filled with ecstasy, and he laughed out loud without any restraint.
A frosty aura emanated from Hai Bodong's body, and the surrounding air even showed signs of solidifying, all of which demonstrated the power of a Dou Huang expert.
After surveying himself with satisfaction, Hai Bodong's gleaming eyes caught sight of the two people watching him quietly. Xiao Yan and Zi Yan watched him break the seal with complete indifference, their eyes showing no reverence for a powerful figure.