The Sword God of the Universe
Chapter 708 Yan Chao’s Dilemma

Chapter 708: Chapter 708 Yan Chao’s Dilemma

The ingredients required to refine the Longevity Pill partly overlap with those needed for the Plum Blossom Pill, but there are also many that are different.

Both core materials are the Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew.

Apart from the Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew, the ingredients required—if viewed from a value perspective—make the Longevity Pill far exceed the Plum Blossom Pill in material worth.

However, even so, Jing Yan did not hesitate to refine the Longevity Pill. This was not only because the effects of the Longevity Pill were much higher than those of the Plum Blossom Pill but mainly because one furnace of Longevity Pills did not require a single drop of Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew while a furnace of Plum Blossom Pills required exactly one drop.

According to Jing Yan’s analysis, one drop of Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew should be able to refine three furnaces of Longevity Pills. In this way, refining the Longevity Pill was much more efficient compared to the Plum Blossom Pill. Although the value of the other ingredients was significantly higher, these materials could all be purchased with Spirit Stones, and thus, a lot could be saved by not using the rarest and most precious Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew.

Prepare for alchemy.

Jing Yan first separated the Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew, considering each drop as one portion, and placed them each in a separate Jade Bottle.

There were sixteen drops of Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew in total.

Looking at these Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dews, Jing Yan often sighed, marveling at how the Ancestor of the Yan Family, Yan Chao, could have obtained so much of it.

Then Jing Yan took out some Thousand-year-old Jade Marrow!

Thousand-year-old Jade Marrow is also a ninth-level material, highly valued. However, it pales in comparison to the Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew, to the point where they are hardly comparable. Jing Yan had quite a bit of Thousand-year-old Jade Marrow, which he had scavenged from slain Martial Arts experts and had hardly used before.

The Thousand-year-old Jade Marrow was used to dilute the Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew. One drop of Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew, fused with a small amount of Thousand-year-old Jade Marrow, would ultimately be diluted into three portions. In this manner, three furnaces of Longevity Pills could be refined.

Repeat the operation!

In total, Jing Yan diluted six drops of Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew, thus obtaining eighteen portions of material after fusion with the Thousand-year-old Jade Marrow.

The remaining ten drops of Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew, Jing Yan naturally stored away. This substance had an even more important use.

Next was the start of refining the Longevity Pills.

The Longevity Pill and the Plum Blossom Pill are both relatively special elixirs, each furnace producing only one formed pill, similar to the Divine Dao Pill that Jing Yan had refined previously.

The Divine Dao Pill has no grade, while both the Longevity Pill and the Plum Blossom Pill are ninth-level elixirs.

Entering the Qiankun Small World, using the Qiankun Pill Furnace to start refining the Longevity Pill, to improve the quality of the elixir, Jing Yan naturally employed the Source Power imbued with the Heaven and Earth Laws.

Jing Yan found refining the Longevity Pill to be much easier than refining the Ten Thousand Spirit Returning to Origin Pill previously within the Holy Palace. A furnace of Ten Thousand Spirit Returning to Origin Pill at its peak yields nine elixirs, while the Longevity Pill produces only one, highlighting the significant difference in difficulty.

In less than one day, the first Longevity Pill was produced, with first-class quality.

Jing Yan only briefly checked it before storing the pill away, continuing to refine the second furnace of Longevity Pills.

Although Jing Yan now had an extraordinarily strong alchemy ability, surpassing anyone else on the Heavenly Origin Continent, he could not always produce Perfect Quality elixirs.

However, his probability of producing Perfect Quality elixirs was indeed very high.

The second furnace of Longevity Pills achieved Perfect Quality. The third furnace of Longevity Pills was also of Perfect Quality.

Time flew quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a week had passed, and Jing Yan had refined a total of nine furnaces of Longevity Pills.

At this point, Jing Yan temporarily ended his alchemy. Although there were still nine portions of diluted Ten-thousand-year-old plum blossom dew left, the accompanying materials Jing Yan had were nearly exhausted. To continue refining, he would need to purchase more materials.

The remaining nine portions of diluting materials were not urgent to refine, so Jing Yan set them aside, planning to purchase the necessary materials later for continuation.

There were a total of nine Longevity Pills, of which five reached Perfect Quality, and four were of First-class Quality.

Jing Yan estimated that if a Martial Artist were to take a Perfect Quality Longevity Pill for the first time, they had a high chance of increasing their Life Span by three hundred years.

Before the advent of the Longevity Pill, across the Heavenly Origin Continent, the strongest Life Extending Elixir one could find was the Plum Blossom Pill. But the effects of the Plum Blossom Pill couldn’t compare to those of the Longevity Pill.

If the effects of the Longevity Pill were to be revealed, they would surely shock the entire world.

Treasures that increase Life Span are, in any era, a priority pursuit for Martial Artists of the world. The stronger and older a Martial Artist, the more they value such treasures.

For instance, Martial Artists in the Daoist Emperor Realm might not care much about ordinary resources or ordinary treasures, but they would do everything possible, even at all costs, to acquire treasures that increase Life Span.

This was a point almost all the powerful figures around the world couldn’t overlook.

Looking at the nine elixirs before him, a brilliant idea flashed through Jing Yan’s mind.

Jing Yan was opening an Alchemy Dao arena and was hosting his first Alchemy Conference. His biggest concern was about who would participate. But if he used the Longevity Pill as the finale item, how many in the world could resist the allure of the Longevity Pill?

He decided just like that.

He placed the nine Longevity Pills into individual Jade Bottles and then left the Qiankun Small World.

In the following days, Jing Yan spent his time leisurely. He drank tea each day, chatted with the young and beautiful female servants in the residence, enjoying a very comfortable and relaxed life.

All the servants in the residence were female, not by Jing Yan’s request, but as arranged by the Holy Palace.

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Grand Steward Chang Huan’s residence.

"Grand Steward," Yan Chao came to see Chang Huan.

"My old friend, what brings you here?" Chang Huan said with a smile.

Although the two were well-acquainted and often visited each other, under normal circumstances they would meet perhaps only once or twice a year.

"Grand Steward, more than ten days ago, Hall Master Jing Yan asked me to collect the pills after ten days," Yan Chao started.

Considering the time, it indeed was the day Hall Master Jing Yan had instructed him to collect the pills. Jing Yan had asked him to collect the pills after ten days, and now over half a month had passed.

This wasn’t because Yan Chao could stay calm, but because he was constantly in turmoil, involuntarily worrying in his heart.

What if Jing Yan failed to refine the Plum Blossom Pill?

What if Jing Yan failed in his refinement?

Yan Chao had thought several times about going directly to Jing Yan’s residence, but in the end, he didn’t. Tortured by these thoughts, he finally decided to meet with Chang Huan first.

"My old friend, haven’t you fetched the pills yet? Hall Master Jing Yan asked you to collect them after ten days, you could have just gone straight there!" Chang Huan slightly opened his eyes, somewhat surprised.

"Oh, are you afraid that Hall Master Jing Yan didn’t manage to refine the Plum Blossom Pill? You can be completely assured about that. Hall Master Jing Yan can even refine the Ten Thousand Spirit Returning to Origin Pill, and the Plum Blossom Pill is much simpler than that," Chang Huan suddenly realized, and he laughed as he spoke.