With Zhang Lexuan, that beautiful jade, setting the standard first, those that followed seemed slightly dimmer in comparison.
"Jiang Nannan, 14 years old, Level 47. Also has one 100,000-year fourth ring skill and one spirit bone skill."
"Xu Sanshi, 14 years old, Level 46. Martial Soul has evolved to Earth Xuanwu."
"Ning Tian, 11 years old, Level 41. Martial Soul has evolved to Nine Treasure Glazed Pagoda."
"Xiao Xiao, 11 years old, Level 38."
"Wu Feng, 11 years old, Level 30."
"Long Xiangyue, 11 years old, Level 30."
"Lan Susu, 11 years old, Level 30."
"Lan Luoluo, 11 years old, Level 30."
(PS: Too many skill numbers, won't drag on here; will introduce them when used later.)
Not bad, not bad.
This wave caused the Fortune Points to soar to 260,000, and the Holy Flame Sect and Ice God Temple now have their foundational bases.
From now on, just letting things develop naturally will allow him to reap the Fortune Points of the world, and finally become a god and resurrect his mother!
Thinking of this, Huo Yuhao felt a burning excitement in his heart; even the hotpot didn't seem appealing anymore.
Instructing Zhang Lexuan and the others to adapt to their abilities,
Huo Yuhao took out another ten-thousand-year soul beast corpse.
He passed his hand over it, using the Ultimate Ice to thaw it, while his spiritual power spread out and plucked over a dozen ten-thousand-year medicinal herbs.
He threw them all into the Fire Spring.
Based on his experience from just now cooking hotpot, he retrieved them at the precise moment they were completely melted but not yet burnt.
He obtained several masses of "liquid substance".
—Did you really think he was just greedy for food?
That was all to collect data, and incidentally fill his stomach.
He merged the "liquid substances" into one mass according to different ratios, then cut it into over a hundred portions and sent them into the Fire Spring for smelting and refining.
His spiritual power monitored them constantly, taking out one mass every second.
Upon reaching the seventeenth portion, he discovered a significant decline in medicinal efficacy and魂力, finding the critical point.
Checking the previous ones,
he found the eleventh portion had the best effect, with medicinal power and soul power fused steadily. He sent it into the Ice Spring for "quenching and shaping," coating it in a layer of ice crystals.
Just like that, a Soul Pill, using a soul beast corpse as its main component, was successfully refined.
With his poison immunity, Huo Yuhao directly tested the pill on himself.
The ice crystals of the Soul Pill crunched crisply when bitten, releasing rich medicinal power and soul power.
His spiritual power carefully scanned.
The medicinal power nourished his body, the soul power increased his cultivation, and a portion of medicinal residue adhered to his meridians.
These were "pill impurities," not traditional poison, so his poison immunity couldn't neutralize them.
He tried normally circulating his body to wash away the residual.
The effect was minimal.
It took over half an hour to wash away a tiny bit.
A simple calculation showed...
The medicinal residue left by this one Soul Pill, refined from a ten-thousand-year soul beast and ten-thousand-year herbs, would take at least nine months to mostly clear out.
But within half a day, it could increase soul power roughly equivalent to breaking through from Level 45 to Level 46.
Wasn't this an enhanced version of the Soul Ascending Pill?
Moreover, a soul master could only take one Soul Ascending Pill in their lifetime, but this Soul Pill could be taken once every nine months!
And this was only the first version.
The "Fifth Grade Boundary Breaking Pill Formula" that Brother Lan gave came from the different world of Battle Through The Heavens. Many of the herbs were substitutes he found based on the Pharmacopoeia.
They might not be entirely suitable; there could be conflicts in medicinal properties that weaken the efficacy.
By refining it, it would definitely become more effective.
Even...
Huo Yuhao took out a thousand-year soul beast corpse and thousand-year herbs. Using the previous "trial-and-error pill refining method," he quickly refined a Soul Pill.
He took a few bites, chewing and swallowing it.
The increase in soul power was only equivalent to breaking through from Level 25 to Level 26, but the time to expel the medicinal residue was also reduced to three months.
And, as before, the formula could be adjusted.
Huo Yuhao operated the Muscle Transformation Manual, increasing the efficiency of expelling the medicinal residue by over a hundred times.
The twelve months for two Soul Pills was drastically reduced to just over a month.
It was still a bit long.
"Brother Lan, help clear it out."
"500 Fortune Points," Zhuge Lan quoted.
"Deal."
For just this bit of medicinal residue, it definitely wasn't worth 500 Fortune Points.
But the small treasury Brother Lan was saving would ultimately be used for him anyway, so there was no need to haggle over it.
A strange power emerged, controlling the expulsion of the medicinal residue from his palm. Huo Yuhao used his spiritual power to gather it up.
Hmm...
Although this stuff wasn't as stubborn as the innate impurities of the human body, which could permanently weaken an enemy,
if forced into an enemy's body, it would certainly keep them busy enough.
He collected it to save for annoying people later.
After slightly adjusting the formula, he still used the "trial-and-error pill refining method," simultaneously refining eight new formulas, obtaining eight finished Soul Pills.
He took them one by one, screening for the best one.
Paid to clear them out, repeated the cycle.
Watching Huo Yuhao busily working, Zhang Lexuan and the others, who didn't understand pill refining, were completely baffled.
It was Xu Sanshi, shaking his folding fan, who seemed to have some thoughts.
"Our Xuanming Sect has the Medicine Masters from the Breaking Clan. They can extract the essence of medicinal herbs to refine Spirit Water Pills and Xuanwu Divine Pills."
"Yuhao is probably doing something similar, right?"
"But being able to use soul beast corpses for pill refining... that's truly an ingenious idea!"
His words caused a slight stir.
But considering it was Huo Yuhao, it again felt natural.
"Snap!"
Xu Sanshi abruptly closed his folding fan, frowning deeply.
"What, is there a problem?" Beibei asked.
Xu Sanshi shook his head, thinking carefully.
After a moment, he said slowly—
"Usually, when soul masters hunt soul beasts , it's mainly for the soul rings and soul bones."
"If the soul beast meat is tasty, they take it, but only the choice parts. Most is left discarded in the wild."
"After all, storage soul guides have limited space, and they don't care for those scraps."
"But if soul beast meat can be used to make pills, and the effect is pretty good..."
Xu Sanshi didn't continue.
But everyone present knew that surely some soul masters would start large-scale slaughter of soul beasts for profit.
And they had all heard a little about the powerful beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest; those were not to be trifled with.
While they were pondering this,
Mu En and Tang Ya returned. Beibei immediately went up to them, looking Tang Ya over.
He noticed Tang Ya now had bluish-purple eyeshadow, and her lips were a bit black.
Beibei thought it might be dirt and instinctively reached to wipe it.
Tang Ya dodged with a step back.
"Xiao Ya, what's this?"
"Indigestion from absorbing too much poison. Touching me will poison you now," Tang Ya said with an awkward smile.
"Snow said this is enough to initially condense the Ultimate Poison. It'll be fine after I finish absorbing it."
"There won't be any aftereffects, right?" Beibei asked concerned.
"Well... after condensing the Ultimate Poison, it won't affect me," Tang Ya said carefully. "But there might be some residual toxins in my body... so it's not good for others to touch me..."
Beibei felt relieved at first, but then realized something was wrong.
Wait!
Wouldn't that mean he, still so young, would become a "widow"?
And if he were to condense the Ultimate Light in the future, wouldn't that and the Ultimate Poison be like setting fire to a powder keg?
Ah, this...
Beibei cast a pleading look towards Mu En, who shook his head helplessly.
"This old man isn't a god, capable of anything."
"But there are indeed two gods present right now."
Beibei understood instantly and rushed towards Huo Yuhao.
"Yuhao! Help me! Help Xiao Ya!"
Huo Yuhao didn't respond immediately. He activated his Kaleidoscope to observe Tang Ya. Purple-black energy permeated her entire body.
She was a complete poison person.
What could he do about that?
"Brother Lan, any advice?"
"Uh... I'll pay for a consultation."
[-1000 Fortune Points]
Huo Yuhao: "..."
Forget it.
It'll all be his eventually anyway. Consider it forced savings.
"Found a way," Zhuge Lan said, his tone sounding somewhat strange. "There are several plans, but I estimate Beibei can only accept one set."