Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1389: Chapter 884: Refining the Demon Essence Pill

After opening the two shops, business quickly took off. After attending the White Cloud Commerce auction, Yang Zhenshan handed the shops over to Cui Yang and Zhang Hexuan, and then returned to Spirit Source Land.

Upon returning to Spirit Source Land, Yang Zhenshan devoted his energy and time to cultivating and refining Demon Essence Pills.

In the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

On Flame Mountain, inside the Pill Hall.

Yang Zhenshan sat cross-legged in front of the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, meditating and regulating his breath, while the Golden Crow carefully controlled the flames in the pill furnace beside him.

Fierce True Sun Fire blazed, filling the entire hall with scorching heat.

Colorful spiritual light flowed over the Eight Trigrams Furnace, with a massive influx of spiritual energy flooding into the furnace like tides.

The Demon Essence Pill is one of the most difficult and troublesome elixirs Yang Zhenshan has ever refined, its challenges lying not only in the properties and formula but also in the refinement time.

Previously, the longest Yang Zhenshan took to refine a furnace of elixirs was a few hours, but refining the Demon Essence Pill requires over ten days, and only one pill can be refined at a time.

The reason is that there is no fixed formula for the Demon Essence Pill.

Other elixirs have fixed recipes, which have been simplified to the extreme through countless iterations by predecessors.

The Demon Essence Pill lacks a fixed recipe; each pill refinement requires Yang Zhenshan to create a formula on the spot, a formula that cannot possibly compare to those refined and evolved over thousands of years.

In the Pill Hall, time slowly flowed by as Yang Zhenshan remained seated in meditation, until the light of dawn at the entrance merged with the flames of the True Sun Fire. Suddenly, Yang Zhenshan opened his eyes wide.

”It’s ready!”

He stood up, forming spell gestures with his hands, casting waves of spiritual light into the pill furnace, from which waves of spiritual energy began emanating.

The ripples grew stronger, causing even the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace to tremble slightly.

Yang Zhenshan knew this was because of the overwhelming medicinal energy contained within the furnace, and what he needed to do now was to seal this enormous medicinal energy within the elixir pill.

The Demon Core, being the essence of a demon beast, contained almost all of the creature’s mana.

After refinement, the mana inside the demon core is converted to pure medicinal energy, which, when fused with various Spiritual Objects, becomes even more potent than the original demon core.

An early-stage Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivator’s mana is equivalent to this refined second-order low-grade demon core, meaning Yang Zhenshan must seal all that mana into a tiny elixir pill, a task of imaginable difficulty.

Without the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, it would be impossible for Yang Zhenshan to accomplish this.

Even with the assistance of the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, Yang Zhenshan must exert himself fully.

”Golden Crow, increase the fire!”

Upon hearing this, the Golden Crow immediately fluttered its wings and spewed out a mouthful of intense True Sun Fire.

Meanwhile, a large pile of spirit stones behind it instantly lost half their luster.

Actually, Yang Zhenshan is barely able to refine the Demon Essence Pill now, even with the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace, still requiring a substantial amount of spirit stones.

Bear in mind, the Golden Crow Eight Trigrams Furnace is a spiritual artifact, far superior in grade compared to magical treasure-tier pill furnaces, not to mention it holds the True Sun Fire.

This single element of True Sun Fire saves Yang Zhenshan quite a lot of effort.

The burning of True Sun Fire raised the temperature in the Pill Hall even higher, activating its array, enveloping the hall in golden firelight, like applying a gold finish.

Yang Zhenshan paid no heed to these changes, persistently casting solidifying pill spells into the furnace while also controlling its built-in restriction array to compress the medicinal energy within.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, yet his eyes grew increasingly bright.

At this moment, he abruptly slapped the furnace body, causing the lid to blast off, soaring over a meter high, almost touching the hall’s dome.

”Come out for me!”

Yang Zhenshan employed the Heart Hand technique, encapsulating the small elixir pill within the furnace with his Divine Soul and mana, pulling it out.

The petite elixir pill emanated a blue-green light as it flew out of the furnace, its strong spiritual power spreading, with a refreshing fragrance wafting through the air.

Yang Zhenshan inhaled the pill’s fragrance, feeling refreshed and then showing a pleased expression.

Though he hasn’t checked the elixir pill’s grade yet, the mere fragrance convinces him of his successful concoction.

The elixir pill settled into a jade plate, its brilliance converging into a blue pill, densely covered in cloud patterns, looking quite mystical.

Yang Zhenshan scrutinized the elixir pill closely.

”Master, it’s a success! Haha, this is a genuine Demon Essence Pill!” exclaimed the Golden Crow in excitement.

”Indeed, a second-order mid-grade Demon Essence Pill!” Yang Zhenshan nodded satisfactorily.

Transforming a second-order low-grade demon core into a second-order mid-grade Demon Essence Pill proves his significant improvement in alchemical skills.

Of course, there’s a bit of luck involved, but it also shows his deeper understanding of the medicinal properties.

He glanced at the pile of spirit stones that had lost their luster, pausing thoughtfully.

Although the Golden Crow’s assistance is substantial, its consumption of spirit stones is equally substantial.

This refinement has cost the Golden Crow eighty thousand pieces of low-grade spirit stones, while the value of this Demon Essence Pill is likely only around twenty to thirty thousand.

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