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Chapter 602 - 536: Dan Tribulation - Part 1

Chapter 602: Chapter 536: Dan Tribulation - Part 1

In the Medicine Furnace, the black Pure Yang Fire emitted a terrifying heat, baking the Sky Cold Mushroom.

"Sssss~"

Like the hissing of a venomous snake, the noise continued to rise as the Extreme Yin Qi on the surface of the Sky Cold Mushroom was being refined away, thread by thread, cocoon by cocoon, until it dissolved into nothingness.

Time was lost in the process, and when the noise finally ceased, the black flames turned into a yellow-red color. The roots of the Sky Cold Mushroom began to melt, transforming into a grey liquid.

"Hoo~"

Sensing all of this, Chu Xuanji, Ye Wenhao, and Chu Ji simultaneously relaxed—they knew the Pure Yang Qi and the Extreme Yin Qi in the Medicine Furnace had both vanished at the same moment!

Yet Ye Fan was still meticulously sensing every change within the Medicine Furnace!

"Clang!"

"Swish, swish, swish..."

Suddenly, the sound of the Medicine Furnace being uncovered rang out, and almost instantly, three drops of the essence of the Sky Cold Mushroom shot out from the furnace, accurately and precisely landing in the Jade Bottle beside Ye Fan.

"Hoo~"

Only then did Ye Fan finally take a long breath, his tightly furrowed brows also relaxing.

"You little brat, it seems you’re destined to create a miracle today!" Seeing Ye Fan successfully refine the essence of the Sky Cold Mushroom, Chu Ji said with a laugh full of smiles.

"Sister Chu, that’s not quite right—what’s a miracle to others is just a walk in the park for Brother Ye Fan!" Su Jindi grinned as he spoke.

He was just as blindly trusting in Ye Fan as ever, even equating Ye Fan to an omnipotent being in his heart!

"You kid, sure know how to butter someone up," Chu Ji teased with a laugh.

Ye Wenhao and Situ Ruoshui also revealed smiles.

However, Chu Xuanji and Su Yuxin did not smile.

Those who knew the inside story were well aware that compared to the Dan Tribulation, refining the essence at this moment was barely worth mentioning.

After all, failing to refine the essence meant only a failed Alchemy, but if Ye Fan could not withstand the Dan Tribulation, he would suffer severe injuries to both body and soul, likely making a trip to report to King Yan’s Palace!

Even they thought so, let alone Ye Fan himself?

After a brief pause, Ye Fan once again calmed his mind and began refining the essence of the Snow Lotus King, following the same process.

With the experience of refining the essence of the Sky Cold Mushroom, Ye Fan had a much easier time refining the essence of the Snow Lotus King. In just ten minutes, he had successfully extracted it.

Having refined the essences of the four main materials—Yin Spirit Flower, Immortal Grass, Sky Cold Mushroom, and Snow Lotus King—Ye Fan did not delay and began refining the essences of the other five auxiliary ingredients. There were no difficulties encountered, the process could even be described as effortless.

"Yuxin, you take Master and the others to eat," Ye Fan said as he looked up at the sky and noticed the sun beginning to set in the west. Knowing it was past noon, he turned to Su Yuxin and suggested.

"What about you?" Su Yuxin asked.

"Although the Jade Bottle is the best container for holding the essence of medicine, it cannot prevent the loss of the essence. It only slows the rate of loss to the minimum."

Ye Fan indirectly replied, "I won’t go with you. I’ll try to complete the Lifespan Extension Pill in one go."

"Brother Ye Fan, didn’t you say that forming the pill requires forty-nine hours? How can you go forty-nine hours without eating?" Su Jindi said.

"With his current strength, going three days and nights without food or water won’t pose much of a problem."

Chu Ji said with a smile, explaining that once a cultivator’s strength reaches a certain level, their robust body can withstand short periods without food or drink.

"Yuxin, why don’t you take the three of them to eat, and then come back?"

Ye Wenhao suggested, knowing that he, along with Chu Xuanji and Chu Ji, could handle it, but Su Yuxin and the others would definitely not be able to go without food or drink for forty-nine hours.

"Brother Pan, why don’t you take Jin Emperor and Situ Ruo to eat, and I will eat in the afternoon," Su Yuxin suggested.

"No, I want to witness Brother Ye Fan refining the Immortal Pill with my own eyes!" Su Jindi shook his head vehemently like a rattle-drum.

Situ Ruoshui also shook her head in refusal. Her curiosity was completely piqued, and she had no appetite for food.

"How about this, I’ll call someone to deliver some boxed meals here," Pan Jueming thought for a moment and then suggested.

"Great."

Su Yuxin’s eyes brightened at the idea—it was perfect. Everyone could eat while watching Ye Fan perform Alchemy, without missing out on either.

Seeing that no one wanted to leave, Ye Fan gave a wry smile and then redirected his focus, once again gathering his consciousness, preparing for the third step of Alchemy: Core Formation!

The so-called Core Formation involves merging the essences of nine ingredients, then baking them with the flames generated by Wood Element Qi for forty-nine hours to solidify the pill.

"Swish, swish, swish, swish..."

Mind activated, a Golden Light flashed between Ye Fan’s eyebrows, and his telekinesis surged forth. The essences of the nine ingredients flew one after another into the Medicine Furnace, swift as streaks of light, with incredible speed.

"Combine!"

As the last ingredient’s essence entered the furnace, Ye Fan used his Mind to seal the lid of the Medicine Furnace, then let out a low shout as his hands swiftly formed a ’Combine’ handprint.

Within the Medicine Furnace, the Formation was once again activated; an invisible force gathered the essences of the nine ingredients, fusing them with each other, and eventually formed an egg-sized essence mixture that was multi-colored and somewhat eerie in appearance.

"Wood engenders fire, fast!"

The essence was successfully fused, and Ye Fan struck another handprint with both hands, activating the ’Fire Phoenix Array’ within the Medicine Furnace. A yellowish-red flame burst forth from the mouth of the phoenix, and the mixed essence of the nine medicinal ingredients slowly rose from the bottom of the furnace, eventually hovering above the flame.

Ye Fan sat cross-legged, his Mind Power highly concentrated, carefully controlling the temperature of the flame while using Telekinesis to rotate the mixture of the nine medicinal essences at a consistent speed, refining away the impurities.

"Next, for forty-nine hours, you must keep the flame at a constant temperature, while also maintaining the steady rotation of the mixed essence. Only in this way can all the impurities be completely removed. Otherwise, even if the Core Formation is successful, the Elixir Pills will be impure, and might even turn into wasted pills," Chu Xuanji, monitoring everything within the Medicine Furnace through mental perception, reminded him.

"Understood, Master."

Ye Fan replied softly, not daring to be careless at all.

Although with his current precision in controlling Mind Power, maintaining both the temperature of the flame and the steady rotation of the medicinal essence was not difficult, sustaining this for forty-nine hours was still no easy task.

After all, it was a very mentally exhausting and patience-testing task—he had to stay highly focused for forty-nine hours!

An hour later, a core member of the Dong hai Gang personally delivered ten servings of abalone porridge.

In order not to disturb Ye Fan’s alchemy, Pan Jueming waited outside the villa and personally brought in the boxed meals, first to Chu Xuanji and Ye Wenhao, but both shook their heads to decline.

"They’re not eating, so let’s eat. After all, nothing’s going to change in the upcoming scene; there’s nothing to watch," Chu Ji said with a wry smile, upon seeing this.

Clearly, she knew that if she didn’t eat, Su Yuxin and the others probably wouldn’t either.

Hearing Chu Ji speak like this, Su Jindi, Situ Ruoshui, and Pan Jueming each took a boxed meal, eating while keeping their eyes fixed on Ye Fan.

"Yuxin, why aren’t you eating?" Chu Ji also picked up a portion and seeing Su Yuxin unmoved, she asked.

"Sister Chu, I just don’t have an appetite for the moment."

Su Yuxin shook her head. For her, without seeing Ye Fan successfully refine the Lifespan Extension Pill and safe and sound, she probably couldn’t even swallow the flesh of a dragon from the heavens.

Hearing this, Chu Ji subconsciously thought Su Yuxin was worried about Ye Fan’s failure in alchemy and didn’t urge her further.

Without realizing it, the sun was setting in the west, dusk arrived, and Ye Fan had been sitting motionless in front of the Medicine Furnace for four hours.

"What’s that smell?"

Originally, Su Jindi had thought Ye Fan would keep casting Magic as before, but seeing him just sitting still, she felt quite bored. She was considering leaving for a while, when suddenly she sniffed a fragrance.

"It’s the scent of the medicinal essence."

Chu Ji remarked, then turned to Su Yuxin and the others, "The Lifespan Extension Pill is considered the most miraculous pill in this world, acclaimed as an Immortal Pill. Even the scent it exudes is extremely precious. All four of you should go next to the Medicine Furnace and meditate to absorb it—even though the scent can’t extend your lifespans, it can greatly enhance your physical constitutions."

"Is it that amazing?"

Shocked by Chu Ji’s words, Su Jindi’s eyes widened. She suddenly abandoned the idea of leaving.

"Sister Chu, aren’t you going over?" Su Yuxin asked.

"The three of us already have very powerful bodily functions, and absorbing the scent of the Lifespan Extension Pill won’t improve our constitutions further," Chu Ji replied.

"I see..." Su Yuxin suddenly realized, and then she said to Su Jindi, Situ Ruoshui, and Pan Jueming, "Let’s go over."

The three nodded and followed Su Yuxin to sit beside the Jade stone, crossing their legs and entering a meditation state as instructed by Chu Ji.

Next to the Jade stone, Little Wolf was no longer lazily lying on the ground. Instead, it was sniffing vigorously with its wolfish nose, absorbing the medicinal scent.

Meanwhile.

A flight from Yanjing to Dong hai City landed on schedule at Dong hai Pudong International Airport. Jie Dao and Emperor Bai, his apprentice, were the first to disembark from the plane but didn’t head to the waiting airport shuttle bus. Instead, they made a beeline for a Hongqi H8 sedan parked not far away, which bore the license plate number of Dong hai Municipal Committee 1.

Inside the H8 sedan, Bai Guotao saw the two approaching, opened the car door, stepped out, and went to meet them proactively.

Seeing this, the other passengers who disembarked afterwards were so stunned that their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets!

Although most of them did not recognize Bai Guotao, they all recognized the car with the Municipal Committee 1 license plate!

This made them curious about Jie Dao and Emperor Bai’s identities amidst their shock.

Without paying attention to the astonished gazes from the crowd, Bai Guotao briskly walked up to Jie Dao and Emperor Bai, greeting them with a smile, "Master Jie Dao, welcome and thank you for the trouble."

"Flying in an airplane doesn’t entail hardship," Jie Dao responded blandly, with a resentment clearly reflected in his expression. If not for being severely injured by Chu Xuanji, he would have flown to Dong hai using Qi Manipulation with Emperor Bai, rather than taking a plane.

"Master Jie Dao, are you sure that Ye Family’s bastard can’t successfully refine the Lifespan Extension Pill?" Upon sensing the hatred emanating from Jie Dao, Bai Guotao knew Jie Dao deeply despised Chu Xuanji and Ye Fan, so he skipped the pleasantries and went straight to the point.

"Of course, the might of the Dan Tribulation is not something that little beast can withstand, and even Chu Xuanji can’t cope with it!" Jie Dao scoffed. He and Emperor Bai had traveled from Yanjing all this way to personally witness Ye Fan being obliterated by the Dan Tribulation!

"It’s a pity I can’t personally behead him," Emperor Bai said with a tone of regret.

"Compared to the future of the clan and the world’s power, such regret is negligible," Bai Guotao reassured him, the worry fading from his eyes, replaced by a radiant smile.

"Little Emperor, your uncle is right," Jie Dao’s smile also brightened, "although you cannot personally behead that little beast, you can later behead Old Dog Chu and unite the Hua Xia Cultivation World!!"

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