Monarch Of Time

614 Chapter 614 Barrier-piercing pill

Staring at the corpse of the peak rank 5 ʼred-furred bearʼ in front of him, Shun Longʼs lips curved up as he waved his hand a second time, taking out a dozen medicinal herbs and an alchemy cauldron from his herb garden.

ʼʼEven though I spent 2 years with Meiʼer in the ʼTen thousand beasts mountain rangeʼ, I still didnʼt manage to gather all the medicinal herbs that I needed to refine the ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ back then. Thankfully, the pill shops in the Holy city had more than enough rank 5 medicinal herbs for sale.ʼʼ Shun Long mumbled to himself as he stared at the dozen rank 5 medicinal herbs in front of him.

Indeed, the pill that he was planning to refine this time was precisely the rank 5 ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ that Bai Longtian, Xie Xingyi, and Jiang Chen, had all received from their masters after they were accepted by them as personal disciples.

Shun Long had actually been planning on refining this pill for a while, but even though he had spent 2 years in the ʼTen thousand beastsʼ mountain rangeʼ with Liu Mei, he still hadnʼt managed to find all the medicinal herbs that he needed.

It was only after he had taken a walk around the alchemy shops in the Holy city that he had found the rest of the medicinal herbs that he needed.

However, Shun Longʼs version of the rank 5 ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ was vastly different from the Holy sectʼs.

Normally, the Holy sectʼs version of the pill would only allow a middle-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to advance a minor tier upon consuming the pill, up to the peak of rank 6 in the Nascent Soul, but Shun Longʼs ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ could allow even late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators to advance an entire minor tier instead.

The difference between the middle and the late stages of the Nascent Soul was simply enormous, making Shun Longʼs ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ many times more valuable than the Holy sectʼs.

If a single high-grade ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ was being sold for 5000 sect points in the Golden Treasures hall, then Shun Long believed that his own pills could easily be sold for 20.000 sect points for every pill.

Additionally, it was common knowledge that a Nascent Soul stage cultivator could only consume a single ʼBarrier-piercing pillʼ, while a second one wouldnʼt have any effects, but Shun Long knew that his ʼBarrier-piercing pillsʼ would allow Jiang Chen, Bai Longtian, and Xingyi, to breakthrough once again after consuming it!

Of course, the effect of the pill wouldnʼt allow them to advance an entire minor tier after consuming it for the second time, but Shun Long knew that it was going to be more than enough for them to breakthrough past the barrier of the late stages of the Nascent Soul and enter the early or even the middle of rank 7 in the Nascent Soul, if they consumed the pill once they reached the peak of rank 6 in the Nascent Soul.

Closing his eyes, Shun Long first conjured some of his qi into qi flames and started to warm his cauldron, before he placed the medicinal herbs inside it one by one. Spreading his soul sense to fully envelop the cauldron, Shun Long then started to extract the essence from the medicinal herbs inside it.

In just 15 minutes, more than a dozen rank 4 and a handful of rank 5 medicinal herbs had their essence extracted, turning into a colorful liquid that swirled inside the cauldron.

Turning his attention towards the corpse of the ʼred-furred bearʼ next to him, Shun Longʼs eyes instantly turned serious as he raised his right hand and plunged it inside the bearʼs chest.

An illusionary, purple-colored blade appeared on his hand, before it collided with the bearʼs hide the next moment.

Surprisingly, even Shun Longʼs spatial blade was having difficulty cutting through the hide of the ʼred-furred bearʼ even though the bear had already died long ago, but Shun Long gritted his teeth as he kept cutting the hide with his right hand, while his left hand maintained the qi flames that kept heating the cauldron.

After all, although the ʼred-furred bearʼ was a peak rank 5 magic beast with extremely weak mental defenses, which was why it had died so easily to the poison from the ʼSoul poisoning hell grassʼ, in terms of its physical strength and the strength of its body, it was actually among the strongest peak rank 5 magic beasts! Even after its death, even late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators would find it hard to cut through its body and obtain its beast core and its heart essence.

A few moments later, Shun Long cut through the bearʼs hide and finally reached its heart, as he then grabbed the bearʼs heart with his right hand and poured its blood essence into the cauldron.

The moment that the blood essence from a peak rank 5 magic beast met with the medicinal essence inside the cauldron, a sizzling sound resounded in the air.

10 minutes later, the sizzling sound finally died down, while at the same time, an deep, fragrant scent started to waft from the cauldron, as it slowly filled the air inside the foggy space in the ʼStone of Timeʼ.

Opening the lid of the cauldron, Shun Long saw the 5 green-colored pills inside it and heaved out a sigh of relief, as he mumbled to himself

ʼʼAll 5 of them have reached the top-grade. If it wasnʼt for the blood essence of the ʼred-furred bearʼ being so potent, at most, only 3 of them would have reached the top-grade!ʼʼ

Compared to the time when Shun Long had refined the ʼDragonblood tempering pillsʼ, refining the ʼBarrier-piercing pillsʼ was truly much easier, but it was still a complicated process nevertheless.

With a smile on his face, Shun Long placed the 5 ʼBarrier-piercing pillsʼ inside a pill bottle and stored it in his herb garden, before he turned his gaze towards the ʼHeaven Swallowing vineʼ.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Shun Long then waved his hand, causing a mountain of spirit stones to appear around him, as he fed them all to the enormous vine by his side.

The Heaven Swallowing vine instantly consumed the middle-grade spirit stones, as it started to fill the air around Shun Long with its extremely pure qi.

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Like this, 10 days quickly passed in the outside world, as the day of the faction war finally arrived.