Among the four plant-type soul beasts in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, the Blazing Fire Apricot was the most straightforward in temperament, the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb was clever and quick-witted, the Qiluo Tulip was clear-minded, while the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was the most skilled at thinking.
A long time ago, it had already developed the idea of wanting to become Xu Zihuang's soul spirit. However, its own attributes did not match either of Xu Zihuang's two martial souls. Now that the Qiluo Tulip had become Ning Tian's soul spirit, it could no longer hold back.
"It's over. Not only Xiangxiang, but even Bajiao has gone mad. Staying well in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye would at least allow us to survive the second heavenly tribulation. I really don't understand why you all insist on rushing to attach yourselves to humans?"
The Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb, seeing its companions one after another wanting to proactively become soul spirits for human soul masters, also felt uneasy. But after thinking about it, its heart suddenly rejoiced.
"Forget it, do as you wish. As long as he doesn't come for me, hehe."
"Your attribute is ice, which is not suitable for us." Xu Zihuang glanced sideways toward the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the center of the cold spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and said indifferently.
Hearing this, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass felt dejected, but there was nothing it could do.
Just as the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had already given up all hope, Xu Zihuang suddenly changed his tone.
"However, I can let you become the soul spirit of someone by my side, just like the Qiluo Tulip."
Ning Tian subconsciously looked toward Xu Zihuang.
Xu Zihuang smiled and explained, "When Ning Qing awakens her martial soul at the age of six, we will attach Tianmeng's ice-attribute martial soul to her."
Ning Tian smiled sweetly. She was not surprised at all by Yu Tianhuang's decision. She had seen with her own eyes how much Yu Tianhuang doted on Ning Qing.
And for Yu Tianhuang to say this, he must have used the Golden Pupil martial soul's ability to glimpse the part of the future related to Ning Qing.
Seeing that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass appeared somewhat hesitant, Ning Tian took over from Xu Zihuang and added with a smile on her face.
"Ning Qing is our daughter."
Although the words from Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian contained a lot of information, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass did not need to pay attention to anything else. It only needed to confirm the relationship between the 'Ning Qing' mentioned by the two and Xu Zihuang.
"Good. At that time, please bring her here." The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass no longer hesitated and immediately agreed with joy. Its gentle, youth-like voice contained an indescribable excitement.
Xu Zihuang smiled faintly. His gaze shifted away from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. Holding Ning Tian's hand, he carefully surveyed the entire valley within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
His trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye this time was not only to help Ning Tian obtain her seventh soul ring, but also to collect the various essences condensed by these plant-type soul beasts to refine them into pills.
From a young age, Xu Zihuang's foundation had been extremely solid. Although his soul power cultivation had improved rapidly in recent years, it was mostly due to opportunities, followed by thick accumulation leading to thin release. Moreover, consuming pills refined from heavenly materials and earthly treasures would not have any side effects. There was no need for him to stubbornly refuse to rely on external aids.
By fusing the natal essences of these plant-type soul beasts in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and successfully refining them into pills, after taking them, he would definitely reach the bottleneck of level ninety in an extremely short time.
Sensing Xu Zihuang's gaze, the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb panicked and shrank its body, fearing it would be targeted.
Xu Zihuang chuckled lightly. He noticed the small movement of the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb, but his gaze did not linger on it for long. Although the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb could detoxify hundreds of poisons, its medicinal effect was equally singular. Using it to refine pills would actually be less effective than other heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Ning Tian silently followed beside Xu Zihuang, a charming smile blooming on her pretty face. The two of them temporarily leaving little Ning Qing behind and spending time alone like this reminded her of the scenes from their youth with Yu Tianhuang back at Shrek Academy.
When Xu Zihuang was gathering the materials, Ning Tian cooperatively took out jade boxes from her storage soul tool and handed them over. Although the harvesting methods for many heavenly materials and earthly treasures differed, they were basically all stored in warm jade boxes to preserve their medicinal effects.
In this way, Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian almost swept through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye once, collecting the essences of those heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
The plant-type soul beasts, led by the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Herb, were furious but did not dare to speak out. They could only allow Xu Zihuang to take whatever he wanted.
Just as Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian were about to leave, the voice of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass rang out again.
"Wait. Since I have decided to follow you in the future, there is no use keeping this. This is the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal that I cultivated over ten thousand years. Take it with you. If an ice-attribute soul master carries it with them, it will greatly accelerate their cultivation speed. If embedded on a weapon, it can grant any metal the power of ultimate ice. The most essential part of my hundred thousand -year cultivation is all in here."
As it spoke, a strange rhombus-shaped octagonal crystal completely emerged from the main body of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. It slowly floated to Xu Zihuang, emitting a pure and sharp chill.
"Hmm?"
Stimulated by this chill, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was instantly awakened.
"Good heavens! The purity and concentration of the ice elements contained within far surpass the Ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Marrow. This should be the essence of the extreme ice spring that it has refined over ten thousand years."
"We will accept this Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal of yours. Rest assured, I will keep my promise." Xu Zihuang naturally knew that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was doing this to show its determination. As he spoke, he used his soul power to guide the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, causing it to slowly pulse, and handed it to Ning Tian.
"Put it away for Ning Qing in advance. In the future, it can just be used as the core to create a life-bound soul tool for Ning Qing."
"Mm." Ning Tian nodded slightly and then stored the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal into her Starlight Sapphire storage ring.
Xu Zihuang solemnly nodded to the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then took Ning Tian and left the place.
Feeling the strange gazes from its companions around it, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass ignored them all and fell into a deep sleep, directly blocking the chatterbox Youyou.
Upon returning to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, Xu Zihuang began preparing for the pill refinement.
In the previous month, he had carefully studied some of the pill formulas within the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School. Although the pill refinement formulas on the Douluo Continent each had their own characteristics, they all led to the same goal. The first step was to melt the various medicinal ingredients into a medicinal liquid and extract the impurities. Then, according to their properties, allow these medicinal liquids to fuse without repelling each other. The final step was to form the pill.
It sounded simple, but implementing it specifically was not that easy.
The reason the Profound Water Pill of the Profound was so hard to obtain, aside from the extremely rare materials required, was largely due to the not-so-low failure rate in its refinement.
Any mistake in a single step, or even a slight difference in the proportion of medicinal ingredients, could cause the pill refinement to fail.
Of course, Xu Zihuang's spiritual power, which had already reached the half-god level, along with the Golden Pupil martial soul's innate ability to peer into the essence of things, destined him to have an enormous advantage in pill refinement.
Behind the mountain of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School.
In the sky, countless purple-gold thunderbolts rampaged. Under the tempering of the thunderbolts, fist-sized golden medicinal liquid essence began to condense into pills, splitting into dragon-eye-sized purple-gold pills that contained vast and pure medicinal power.
There were ten of these purple-gold pills in total. Their bodies were crystal clear and brilliant gold, while on the smooth surface of the pills flowed nine mysterious purple halo cloud patterns.
Unlike conventional pill refinement methods, Xu Zihuang did not use high-temperature flames to refine the pills, but instead used the power of thunderbolts that he controlled.
As the saying goes, extreme negativity leads to positivity; the end of destruction is also new life. Thunderbolts bring not only destruction but also life. Many dead trees struck by lightning regain vigorous vitality afterward for this very reason.
Xu Zihuang used thunderbolts to temper and shape the pills, relying on his astonishing control to perfectly stimulate the life aura within the medicinal liquid essence. Just like crafting high-level soul tools, he endowed these pills with life and soul.
Precious light flickered, forming a layer of lustrous glow that spread outward. Within this lustrous glow, there were faint halos of the sun and moon alternating.
The rich medicinal fragrance burst outward like a geyser for an instant, then completely withdrew into the interior of the pills, no longer leaking even the slightest aura.
Xu Zihuang used his soul power to guide these ten pills, causing them to fall separately into ten independent jade bottles. Compared to the so-called Qiankun Creation Pill of the Tang Sect, the Nine Transformations Thunder Spirit Pill he refined would only have stronger medicinal effects.
Nine Transformations Thunder Spirit Pill was the name he casually gave to these pills. It combined the effects of increasing soul power cultivation and body refinement. The only drawback was that the medicinal effect of the Nine Transformations Thunder Spirit Pill was too violent; at the very least, only soul masters at the Title Douluo level or above could refine and absorb it.
After storing away these ten Nine Transformations Thunder Spirit Pills, Xu Zihuang crossed through the void, and his figure disappeared from the spot.
From then on, Xu Zihuang entered a period of rapid cultivation growth by consuming and refining these Nine Transformations Thunder Spirit Pills. However, he did not seclude himself in closed-door cultivation without regard for worldly affairs. In his spare time, he would always accompany Ning Tian and little Ning Qing. Occasionally, he would travel back and forth between Shrek Academy and Ming City.
One year passed in the blink of an eye. When Xu Zihuang refined the medicinal effect of the seventh Nine Transformations Thunder Spirit Pill, his soul power rank reached the peak of level eighty-nine. The Flawless Golden Body was also only one step away from the great perfection realm.
During this period, Ye Guyi was also attacking the Title Douluo realm, attempting to condense her second soul core. Her approach was still the same-position resonance dual soul core of human Limit Douluo, but even so, the condensation of the second soul core was not going smoothly.
"Huu—" In the quiet room at the top of the central castle of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School, Xu Zihuang let out a long breath. The divine glow in his eyes withdrew, and his abyss-like aura quietly dissipated into nothingness.
The speed of approaching the level ninety bottleneck was even faster than he had imagined. Next, once he successfully condensed the yin-yang complementary second soul core and broke through to the Title Douluo realm, he would be able to completely shed all his disguises and take revenge on Xu Tianran.
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