Watching everyone leave, Xiao Yan's body relaxed, and he shrugged his shoulders.
This time, refining this super pill, if it weren't for the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame, a Heavenly Flame in his body, being able to provide energy, he wouldn't have had absolute certainty.
The successful refining of this super pill could not only break Hai Bodong's seal and enhance his strength but also, through the alchemy process, helped him completely fuse with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
His strength, as a result, received a significant boost, reaching the peak level of a Six-Star Dou Huang.
He was only a hair's breadth away from breaking through to Seven-Star Dou Huang.
It's worth noting that it had only been a few days since he broke through to Six-Star Dou Huang.
Although he had converted the Yan Seal into the Blood Forbidden Seal, giving up the use of the second Dou Qi vortex's Dou Qi, the overall benefits gained were undoubtedly immense.
"Is Xun'er staying here?" Xiao Yan tilted his head and asked, looking at Xun'er, who was as elegant as a lotus and showed no intention of leaving.
The young girl took two steps forward, put her hands behind her back, leaned slightly, and her gentle voice was soft and moving: "Does Brother Xiao Yan really want Xun'er to leave?"
"Heh..." Xiao Yan chuckled, raised his hand, and lifted her onto his shoulder, "It's good that you, little girl, are staying."
Xun'er had no idea this would happen so suddenly and let out a gasp.
"Brother Xiao Yan, what are you doing?" Xun'er struggled slightly.
"Xun'er doesn't have anything too important to do at home, and now your dress is dirty, so let's wash up together."
Xiao Yan gave a mischievous smile, and his figure instantly transformed into a streak of light, jumping into the pond with the young girl's startled cries.
Hai Bodong rushed to the rock wall on one side of the valley, slamming his palm onto the stone wall, and his Ice Dou Qi immediately burst forth.
A moment later, with a "bang," the hard rock wall cracked open a passage. Inside the passage, ice chips filled the air, emitting a bone-chilling coldness.
"Although my strength is no longer that of the Ice Emperor who could seal a city back then, my mastery of ice-attributed Dou Qi is still unparalleled by ordinary people."
Hai Bodong held the jade bottle in his hand and slowly walked into the opened stone chamber.
Sitting cross-legged in the center of the stone chamber, Hai Bodong carefully took out the golden pill from the jade bottle and meticulously examined it in his palm.
Even a fool would know that with such a grand display, the pill Xiao Yan refined was absolutely not the Breaking Barriers Pill described in the formula he provided.
After carefully examining it, Hai Bodong, without much hesitation, put the golden pill into his mouth. His throat moved slightly, and he swallowed it.
Having witnessed Xiao Yan's methods, Hai Bodong didn't believe that the pill Xiao Yan painstakingly refined would be meant to harm him.
After all, with his current meager Dou Ling strength, Xiao Yan could crush him more easily than a stink bug, making such an effort entirely unnecessary.
Therefore, for him, the benefits of this pill definitely outweighed any potential harm.
After the pill was swallowed by Hai Bodong, the medicinal power contained within it instantly began to release.
Within the cold stone chamber, as Hai Bodong gradually entered a state of cultivation, the temperature continued to drop.
Vast energy surged out from within the pill, and Hai Bodong's brows furrowed tightly.
During his cultivation, he had also consumed many pills, but the combined medicinal power of those pills was far less than the energy released by this golden pill in just a few minutes.
His cultivation method operated at high speed. After half an hour of continuous operation, a fierce ripple of energy broke the silence within the stone chamber.
Hai Bodong, who had been frantically circulating his cultivation method, suddenly trembled violently. Waves of fierce energy ripples rapidly spread out from within his body.
Wherever the energy ripples passed, the temperature suddenly dropped by more than ten degrees, and the ground instantly condensed bone-chilling ice.
As the originally smooth stone wall was covered in ice, with a "bang," several cracks appeared and spread at a terrifying speed.
Hai Bodong, cultivating cross-legged, was completely unaware of the damage he was causing. His body trembled even more violently.
Immediately after, his aged face suddenly tightened sharply.
On his forehead, a peculiar, eerie dark green energy rapidly condensed.
After about a moment, this dark green energy condensed into a snake pattern.
It was the presence of this snake pattern that prevented Hai Bodong's surging Dou Qi from being fully unleashed.
The moment the snake pattern appeared, a scorching golden energy shot straight up from Hai Bodong's Dou Qi vortex.
In almost the blink of an eye, it made contact with the dark green snake pattern.
The two special energies coming into contact was the cause of that terrifying energy ripple earlier.
Benefiting from personally experiencing the effects of the Purple Crystal Seal, Xiao Yan had a deep understanding of seals.
And after seeing the Breaking Barriers Pill's formula, Xiao Yan's understanding of breaking seals deepened even further.
Therefore, the Breaking Barriers Golden Pill's seal-breaking effect was much more powerful than the effect recorded in the Breaking Barriers Pill formula.
The golden energy and the dark green snake pattern, two special energies, remained in a stalemate for only a few minutes before the dark green snake pattern was forced out of Hai Bodong's glabella at a visible speed.
The moment this snake pattern left Hai Bodong's body, it transformed into a wisp of smoke amidst violent trembling and dissipated into the air.
The instant the snake pattern disappeared, the white-haired Hai Bodong suddenly erupted with a fierce aura, like a lion awakening.
He was going to unleash all the frustration that had been deeply suppressed for nearly several decades.
Under this powerful aura, the entire stone chamber shook violently.
The Dou Ling level Hai Bodong instantly recovered to his former strength as the Ice Emperor in that very moment.
However, Hai Bodong did not wake up immediately; instead, he circulated his cultivation method even more desperately.
Because Hai Bodong was astonished to find that when he recovered part of his Dou Huang strength, the pill he swallowed seemed to open floodgates, releasing even more terrifying medicinal power.
If he hadn't been a seasoned Dou Huang powerhouse, he truly wouldn't have been able to withstand this immense medicinal power.
This was one of the effects of the Breaking Barriers Golden Pill: it could quickly restore strength damaged by a seal.
Next was to break through his previous shackles and reach a new peak.
Although Hai Bodong's cultivation method was ordinary, his physical constitution, due to years of stagnation, far surpassed that of common Dou Huang powerhouses.
His meridians were filled with pure energy, but it did not exceed Hai Bodong's maximum endurance.
This energy, along with Hai Bodong's cultivation method's circulation, was rapidly refined into his own Dou Qi.
Hai Bodong was pleasantly surprised to find that he had only recovered a portion of his strength, and while absorbing this medicinal power, he was recovering towards his former peak.
(End of Chapter)
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