Time flowed smoothly within the Utmost Purity Galaxy. The variety of top-tier leaders were focused on preparing for the upcoming Knightly Dao Pavilion's trifecta of celebration and competition while the junior alchemists and obsessive older generation willing or capable of paying the cost made their way blazingly toward the Swirling Growth Stellar Region.
Those within the trifecta of celebration were naturally intrigued and kept a close eye, but most were unaffected by the temporary holy land for alchemy, or simply could not benefit such as those young junior talents of cultivation, the pursues of the martial way or the proud super-elite alchemists.
If those older generations embarrassed themselves by scrambling for benefits with juniors, they would truly be lowering their status in the eyes of others. Instead, they sent their juniors after paying that small fee, using the limited storage tools to collect Utmost Purity Mist for later. This was an indirect gain, and they maintained their reputation to an extent.
Since then, Hao Chengxue, this lucky son of an alchemist, was 'forced' to play the generous host to numerous Earthly Saint Alchemists and the occasional Worldly Saint Alchemist. This was a great networking opportunity that caused his inner voice to laugh for weeks straight in elation. He was forming all sorts of connections. Moreover, some even offered gifts to display their sincerity, trying to get their juniors a location closer to the epicenter of the cascading waterfall-like seven-colored mist.
Some intelligent fellows bypassed the limit altogether by bribing this Hall Manager, becoming his 'companions' and getting free access without offering anything. This has been a glorious month!
ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS!!! The three Sages of the Resolute Dusk Galaxy floated beside each other as they used their incarnations to inspect guests, receive the fee, and then send the various alchemists to their designated spots. A few crafty old foxes had even bribed them for closer assigned locations.
Initially, Imentet was rather dismissive of this, but after seeing the various products offered by these haughty and wealthy alchemists, especially a few Mystic-Earth grade products, she informed Luo Ning, and after realizing that that lovely and diligent girl was unconcerned about that, the three began to take them with either gracious smiles or stoic faces.
Nepit was overtly obvious with her abuse of this opportunity. She siphoned the most from those rich alchemists. Those unlucky to receive her Incantation were likely forced to pay a higher additional fee for a better spot.
"Haaaa..." Nepri sighed as he looked at the alchemy holy land formed by Wei Wuyin's actions. He couldn't help but feel a wave of amazement pounding against his heart. With a single move, Wei Wuyin had formally established himself as a person who goes above and beyond to repay debts of gratitude. No one here, especially those wily and crafty foxes, was blind to the gains that they or Hao Chengxue were obtaining.
Not to mention, this act of blessing this continent was bound to have long-term benefits.
While Imentet lacked Wei Wuyin's ability to sense mental fluctuations or read thoughts, she was linked to Nepri by cultivation and their souls, so she could understand his thoughts instantly.
"While that Hall Manager has gained some benefits, there's no way the Tower of Growing Immortality will allow him to keep this continent," she surmised.
"Even if that's true," Nepri replied with a gaze at the Original Dawn Palace, "with his connection to His Majesty, there's a chance they won't directly take it, but promote him while declaring that this continent is his own 'personal property' and have it brought with him."
Imentet had nothing to say about that. Offending someone that Wei Wuyin owed gratitude to...no one knew how extensive his generosity was or how far he would go. After all, to the outside, Wei Wuyin was effectively exhausting decades upon decades of his life for Hao Chengxue.
"His Majesty?" Nepit pouted bitterly. "When did you start calling him that?" She was a prestigious Sage and didn't like the fact they were placed as a galactic vassal state all of a sudden.
Imentet was rendered speechless. Was there something wrong with this woman's brain?! There was a clear indication that she had an overinflated ego but this was borderline problematic thinking!
"..." Nepri didn't reply. This caused Nepit to grunt with dissatisfaction.
Imentet shook her head, looking at the Original Dawn Palace. "What do you think he's doing? As the rumors suggest?" She asked curiously, unable to settle the itch of desiring to know within her heart. She had asked Luo Ning with no clear answer. As for paying back gratitude? She only half-believed the possibility, the other half was simply establishing his reputation with such a domineering display in a single stroke.
Nepri blinked, "Like the rumors? Those rumors of him seeking Shang Wanqing's hand by offering a Mystic-Heaven product? I don't know. I don't think so."
"Hmph!" Nepit voiced her disapproval before saying, "I do think so! Look at the women by his side. Qing Qiumu and Yue Songli have low cultivation bases but astounding natural endowments or unique bodies suitable for Dual Cultivation. Not to mention, they're all beautiful. I've seen the way you've looked at them!"
Nepri groaned internally. While he appreciated extraordinary objects of beauty and even had thoughts towards Yue Songli initially, he only loved and would love a single one in his lifetime. Those thoughts would be normal for any cultivator upon finding Yue Songli, especially if they were male, and she was so weak. Comparatively speaking.
"..." Imentet would normally believe that, but she wasn't very inclined to think that was the case. After all, she knew that Qing Qiumu, Yue Songli, Cao Cuifen, and Liu Suyin had planted themselves firmly in Wei Wuyin's life through various events. According to Luo Ning, he had an utterly flawless wife, their Empress, concubines, and lovers of all sorts of shapes and sizes. He was a fine lover, but his extraordinarily heaven-defying and outright convention-shattering strength as a cultivator at the lower-stages of the Mystic Ascendant Realm yet possessed the strength to fight and defeat eight Sages? That was an absolute pinnacle sign of his pursuit of cultivation of the apex level.
How could someone he never met move him so easily? If anything, why not the first ranked on the list? Moreover, if he was wildly lustful, she had no doubt she would have been in his bed long ago. Even if she preferred Luo Ning. As for using a Mystic-Heaven product as an offering for Shang Wanqing's hand? She spat at that idea with an easy heart. Why exactly?
The value of a Mystic-Heaven graded product could, no, WOULD move Resonant Soul Realm experts and every Enlightened Sage for several galaxies. How could she be worth that much?!
Imentet wasn't even sure if she was worth that much!
"Oh. More newcomers," Nepit's eyes glowed with a rich green light. She immediately sent her incarnation over toward an approaching luxurious voidship, bent on extorting some benefits from these generously late folks.
Nepri didn't say a word as Imentet revealed a wiry smile. She couldn't help but think that Nepit must be incredible in bed to have Nepri devote much effort and attention to her, especially considering how tiring she was. Perhaps she was discounting something else, but despite knowing Nepit for so many years, she genuinely didn't like her or see why Nepri was in love with her. If she kept this up sooner or later, she would either cause her death or the death of her husband. Likely the latter.
As if reading her thoughts, Nepri turned to her and leveled a gaze. Imentet shrugged.
At the twenty-day mark, Wei Wuyin was shrouded by Utmost Purity Mist as his Celestial Eyes bled through the seven-colored mist, observing the two cauldrons before him that were slowly concocting thirty-three pills each. They were in the final step of fusion.
This last month had been an extensive and laborious effort without a single minute of rest. To others, it was only a month, to him, it was an entire year of endless concoctions. He might not have blinked for months. Within his Saint Ring was a monstrous number of bottles, vials, and containers.
Just the vials themselves, each containing a single portion, numbered over 3,000! While the pills were even greater in quantity! FURTHERMORE! All of them were Mystic-World graded!!!
After concocting for so long, so extensively, and so aggressively, Wei Wuyin's Dao of Alchemy had skyrocketed to incredible levels far beyond his expectations. The more he concocted, the faster and more consistent he became. Not a single product dropped below high-quality, with the vast, vast majority being peak-quality! Those high-quality products were typically on first tries to the new recipes that Luo Ning sent in, but shortly after completing them, it was as if he conquered them as he would a level of Hell!
He couldn't concoct anything below peak!
He had spent seventeen years concocting on the Minor Elysium. This was before he reached the Mystic Ascendant Realm or had the incredible effects of the Seed Gate Tribulation that split his already unprecedented cultivation base and merged it! During that time, he had achieved great success by concocting thirty-three Neo-Dawn World-Eclipsing Pills at the low-quality, officially recognizing his status as on par with a Junior Worldly Saint Alchemist.
This time was far, far too different!
Everything he had experienced a split of four, merged, and then experienced a greater elevation into the Mystic Ascendant Realm, including Little Defiant. This included his physique which harbored alchemic talent that had already exceeded the Heavenly Chosen level! Now, he could feel, see, and even experience the changes these transformations had on him.
He was a tireless alchemist, inexhaustible and focused. With his existing cultivation of four Astral Souls, his energy levels of physical, mental, and essence were extraordinarily high but seemingly limited. Even back then he had to take breaks, often allowing his Spirits to digest products while he enjoyed time with Cao Cuifen and Liu Suyin back on the Minor Elysium.
But now? With Little Defiant's energies, it was the best replenishment in existence! Its solar essence could be converted into any type of energy and they were intimately connected with the energies of his Astral Souls, allowing even quicker refinement and replenishment. With their capability of exchanging energies and replicating the others' energies, Eden had access to a steady stream of what felt genuinely like inexhaustible alchemical energies!
After a year, if Little Defiant was an ocean, then perhaps less than two drops were consumed from its ginormous existence and reserves of solar essence!
Wei Wuyin had a briefly distracting thought that if he ever summoned Little Defiant, an entire galaxy might be scorched asunder!
No wonder World-Bound Star Domains separated elites from common cultivators, including the importance of establishing the best version of a solar star. Would Blessed be given opportunities to pursue absolute-sized Solar Stars frequently? Now that the limits of the Mortal Dao have been renewed, will the Heavenly Daos construct ways for them to acquire Defiant-sized Solar Stars?!
He didn't know! But it didn't matter! BOOM! BOOM!
The final step of fusion was completed as sixty-six crystal-like pills took form in strange unison. A strange, resounding echo formed that made visible distortions in the mist, air, light, and mana of the chamber. Wei Wuyin's eyes brightened as he felt as if his body was echoing within itself, slowly refining him into a better version of himself! Slowly allowing his body to resonate with the great daos and heavenly realms.
They were both of the same type. They were...none other than... RESOUNDING ECHOES OF CELESTIAL REFINEMENT PILLS!
Wei Wuyin hurriedly gathered the complete pills and stored them carefully, hiding their unique phenomena. They each exuded a glossy mixture of heavenly and worldly light that seemed to intuitively attract Laws from the heavens and gather qi from the world!
But they weren't Mystic-Heaven grade pills, but exceedingly close. While Wei Wuyin had self-created the term 'exceed-tier' at his expo back then, Wei Wuyin genuinely felt that this pill fit that category. It was likely due to its unique structure of going from Mystic-Earth to Mystic-Soul. This was its Mystic-World grade, after all!
A full year. Wei Wuyin could only emotionally sigh as he finally blinked once. These pills were extraordinary, and after tapping upon all of his gained knowledge and experiences concocting so many variants of products, he had created sixty high-quality products and six peak-quality on his first try.
Just as he felt the urge to take a break, perhaps visit Cao Cuifen and Liu Suyin for certain stress-relieving activities, the Utmost Purity Mist began to rumble intensely! It was as if thunder was born with each passing second!
Wei Wuyin's eyes widened as the misty form began to rapidly condense. When he stretched out his fingers into a particularly dense clump of mist, he felt a wetness on his fingertips.
"GRADE FIVE!" Bai Xiu exclaimed with a voice that sounded as if she was stuffed full and could barely speak. The other cauldron trembled slightly as if excited as well.
Wei Wuyin felt extremely deep and heavy emotion as he glanced at the seven-colored liquid on his fingertips. They had given it his all, and...they had succeeded! All of them!
If grade one mist was flawless seventh, eighth, and ninth-grade products, then grade two corresponded with the Mystic-Earth grade, grade three was tethered to Mystic-World grade, grade four required Mystic-Heaven grade, and grade five was none other than the final Mystic-Soul grade!
If there was any essence or energy that could theoretically contain an aura of eternity, it would be the product that was the peak of the Mystic Dao!!!
"I knew we could do it," King voiced softly, gently, warmly, and uncharacteristically emotionally. This emotion was, to many, a sin, but to it...it was the best emotion it had ever known—pride. Not only pride in itself but pride in every one of them!
"Me too! I always knew!" Ori sniffed emotionally, almost as if it was stifling tears.
"..." Eden remained silent, but its roots were trembling. It wasn't hard to figure out the myriad of emotions rushing through its bark, leaves, and branches.
"Of course? As if I'd fail! So let's do this!" Kratos urged, roaring vigorously. Even Little Defiant was sending incessant solar flares to reveal its readiness!
Wei Wuyin basked in this moment. While it was only the start of their attempt, he was once again reminded that this journey was a journey of theirs.
"Yeah, let's." Wei Wuyin decided not to take a break here and ride the momentum forward! He needed a lot more Utmost Purity Liquid!

Comments

Loading...