Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

Xuanyue Imperial City, the Countries Hidden Dragon Conference had ended six to seven days ago, yet some cultivators from various empires still linger in Baiyue City, their intentions unknown.

Especially in recent days, in front of the Meridian Refining Master Hall in Baiyue City, countless figures gathered because they knew that inside this grand hall, a unique Meridian Refining Technique demonstration was taking place.

Even though these non-Meridian Masters knew they couldn’t enter to watch Vice Chairman Qian’s Meridian Refining Technique, they were unwilling to leave and had been gathering here for many days.

Huff... huff...

At a certain moment, whether it were cultivators from various parts of the Xuanyue Empire or those at the doorway of the Meridian Refining Master Hall, all heard an uncommon sound at the same time and raised their heads in that instant.

They saw from all directions of the Xuanyue Imperial City skies, large swathes of dark clouds rushing in at high speed, finally gathering directly above the Meridian Refining Master Hall.

”What’s happening?”

Watching the sky suddenly turn dark, countless cultivators in the Xuanyue Imperial City showed panic-stricken faces, completely clueless about what was happening.

The cultivators around the Meridian Refining Master Hall silently retreated dozens of feet, fearing they would be affected by those strange thunderclouds.

”Looking at this situation, it seems a bit like a Pill Tribulation for a Heavenly Rank Elixir’s emergence?!”

One elderly man with entirely white hair and beard spoke hesitantly while staring at the still surging clouds, causing the expressions of the people around him to turn extremely vivid.

”Heavenly Rank Elixir? Could it be that someone inside the Meridian Refining Master Guild has successfully refined a Heavenly Rank Elixir?”

”Impossible, isn’t Vice Chairman Qian of the Tenglong Continent Meridian Refining Master Association only at the Peak of Earth-rank Advanced Pulse Refiner?”

”Yes, even for Heavenly Rank Elixirs, isn’t the failure rate extremely high even for Low-level Heavenly Stage Pulse Refiners?”

”If it’s not the emergence of a Heavenly Rank Elixir, how could those thunderclouds be explained? Surely it’s not someone advancing to the Heavenly Rank Third Realm, causing Heavenly Tribulation, right?”

”...”

With this elder’s guess, although the bystanders were not Meridian Masters, they were knowledgeable enough to know that when an Elixir reaches Heavenly Rank during its formation, it would trigger a Pill Tribulation.

Only after enduring the Pill Tribulation can a Heavenly Rank Elixir truly form, and the higher the grade of the Elixir, the greater the power of the Pill Tribulation.

Of course, for these cultivators from the Hidden Dragon Continent, this remained only a legend; in their lifetimes, they had never witnessed a Pill Tribulation, because how could a Meridian Master from the Hidden Dragon Continent possibly refine a Heavenly Rank Elixir?

Some believed it, some didn’t, but as for the external change in the environment, not many inside the Meridian Master subsidiary branch had yet noticed it. They just felt Vice Chairman Qian seemed to have lost his composure at that moment.

Boom crack!

However, just then, those thick clouds in the sky, that had gathered to the extreme, suddenly flashed with silver light, and a silver Thunder, as thick as an adult’s arm, plummeted from the sky, fiercely striking the rooftop of the Meridian Refining Master Hall.

This subsidiary branch of the Xuanyue Meridian Masters in the Imperial City spans a huge structure of three stores and standing tens of meters high, constructed entirely of extremely hard blackstone, rightly claiming to be impenetrable by sword and spear.

Whirl!

But under the strike of this silver Thunder, the roof of the Hall was instantly blasted open with a large hole, and vertically downwards, in a blink, two floors of the hall had large holes.

”Ah, what is that?”

Inside the ground floor great hall of the Hall, the Meridian Masters who hadn’t seen the dark clouds outside, were all shocked by this sudden act of natural force, many crying out in alarm.

”Thunder? A Heavenly Tribulation?”

”No, that’s the Pill Tribulation for the emergence of a Heavenly Rank Elixir!”

”Heavens, what have I seen?”

In merely an instant, these Meridian Masters, whether of high or low rank, naturally knew far more than the ordinary cultivators outside, so after a brief shock, they all understood exactly what it was.

Even Yao Zhiyuan, the Chairman of this Xuanyue Meridian Master subsidiary, was stupefied; at this time, he was too consumed by the spectacle to care about the hole blasted by the Pill Tribulation, his face feverishly fixed on the five-colored Elixir that had been fiercely struck by the Thunder.

As the branch president of the Meridian Refining Master Guild, Yao Zhiyuan, a Spirit-grade Advanced Pulse Refining Master, reacted faster than the onlooking Meridian Masters. He clearly knew that this might indeed be a Heavenly-grade supernatural elixir.

It’s ridiculous how Yao Zhiyuan was previously mocking Yun Xiao for being overconfident, doubting Qian Sanyuan’s Alchemy Technique, only to see him refine a Heavenly-grade Elixir and even attract Pill Tribulation, making him lose face more resoundingly than any prior act of healing or saving lives.

Yao Zhiyuan had seen firsthand that the Fire Pu Pill was about to fail, and just as Qian Sanyuan was about to give up and collect the Waste Pill, Yun Xiao suddenly took over, and then... the Advanced Earth-rank Fire Pu Pill turned into a Heavenly-grade Elixir!

No one knows how Yun Xiao managed it, but they all clearly saw that this incident indeed occurred after Yun Xiao took over, and Qian Sanyuan’s Power of Soul was automatically ignored.

”A Heavenly-grade Elixir! To think that I, Qian Sanyuan, could be associated with a genuine Heavenly-grade Elixir in my lifetime, this trip was truly worthwhile!”

Qian Sanyuan’s face was full of zeal, expressing the turbulence in his spirit; although the major credit for the appearance of the low-level Heavenly Five Elements Pu Pill goes to Yun Xiao, his contribution, Qian Sanyuan’s, could not be completely erased.

This could be said to be a collaboration between Qian Sanyuan and Yun Xiao which led to the refinement of this Five Elements Pu Pill, unprecedented in the Hidden Dragon Continent; this will be a major milestone on Qian Sanyuan’s path of Meridian Refining Technique.

”Indeed, it’s a low-level Heavenly-grade Elixir: Five Elements Pu Pill!”

As for Yun Xiao beside him, he isn’t losing his composure like Qian Sanyuan. Being the former Long Xiao Battle God in his previous life, he had refined many high-level Saint-grade Elixirs; this minor low-level Heavenly-grade Pill was nothing remarkable.

However, Yun Xiao also hadn’t anticipated this outcome. Originally a Fire Pu Pill due to some uncontrollable factors had directly promoted and transformed into a Five Elements Pu Pill, even breaking the limit of Earth-rank Elixirs to achieve the low-level of Heavenly Rank.

At this moment, Yun Xiao also began to understand somewhat; it seems that the power activated from the Four Attributes Ancestor Vein, upon sensing the aura of the Five Elements Pu Pill, acted autonomously.

Of course, had Yun Xiao not finally deployed the Gold Attribute power from his Golden Blade, missing one element of the Five, the Five Elements Pu Pill would not have succeeded, naturally not triggering this Heavenly Dao Pill Tribulation.

”Eh? This is a good opportunity!”

Seeing the thunder bolt, as thick as an arm, smashing onto the Five Elements Pu Pill, Yun Xiao suddenly had a thought and seemed to see the Five Elements Pu Pill struggling to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation, actually directly reaching out to grasp the Five Elements Pu Pill in his hand.

”Yun Xiao, no!”

Seeing Yun Xiao’s action, the zealously faced Qian Sanyuan was terrified to his soul because being an Earth-rank Advanced Meridian Refining Master, he clearly knew what kind of Destructive Power is contained within a Heavenly-grade Pill’s Tribulation?

The power of heaven and earth is unpredictable; whether it’s humans, Vein Demons, or Strange Spirits, when breaking through to the Heavenly Rank Third Realm, they will all attract Heavenly Tribulation, and only the subject of the tribulation could possibly withstand it.

For instance, if another Vein Demon accidentally enters the range of Heavenly Tribulation while one is undergoing it, would it not be instantly obliterated by the overflowing energy of the tribulation?

Although the Pill Tribulation of an Elixir is somewhat weaker than the Heavenly Tribulation of cultivators or Vein Demons, Yun Xiao touching that thunder directly might end with only the outcome of his death and obliteration of his path.

But Qian Sanyuan’s warning was a bit too late; as the words left his mouth, Yun Xiao’s right hand had already touched the thunder-entwined Five Elements Pu Pill.

Zzz... Zzz...

Indeed, as Qian Sanyuan expected, the moment Yun Xiao touched the thunder, electric light immediately wound around his right hand and fingers, and then his entire arm, in just moments, Yun Xiao had transformed into a figure of lightning and electricity.

”Really too reckless!”

Seeing this, Qian Sanyuan couldn’t help but sigh. In such a situation, even he wouldn’t dare easily touch the Pill Tribulation Thunder, so in his view, Yun Xiao was likely doomed this time.

Not only did Qian Sanyuan think so, but the onlooking Meridian refining Masters, even those who had never witnessed a Pill Tribulation, knew its power, certainly not something a human cultivator in the Late Stage of Meridian Union Realm could withstand.

Could it be that this young man, who just won the champion at the Worldwide Hidden Dragon Conference, possesses a sister who is a super powerhouse at the Heavenly Rank Third Realm, and who a moment ago refined the Heavenly-grade Elixir Five Elements Pu Pill, is about to be obliterated by his own refined Elixir’s Pill Tribulation?

”No, I must try to intervene!”

Watching Yun Xiao, now enveloped in silver electrical energy, Qian Sanyuan bit his teeth and his figure suddenly moved, but the next moment, his body that had just started to act abruptly halted.

”What’s going on?”

The Vice Chairman of the Meridian Refining Master Association was filled with disbelief and intense incredulity because he suddenly discovered that the situation seemed quite different from what he imagined.

The young man, who Qian Sanyuan thought would be instantly torn apart under the Pill Tribulation Thunder, although his face wrapped in lightning showed some barely suppressed pain, his flesh and skin showed no signs of rupture, completely subverting Qian Sanyuan’s understanding of Pill Tribulations.

If it had been a powerhouse at the Heavenly Rank Third Realm or a cultivator at the Peak of Earth Concealing Realm, Qian Sanyuan wouldn’t have been too shocked.

But how powerful is the young one in front of him, at the Late Stage of Meridian Union Realm, even if his physical strength is somewhat stronger, at most comparable to some Sixth Rank Vein Demons, could such a body really withstand the Pill Tribulation of a Heavenly-grade Elixir?