Time flew by, and seven days passed.
In these seven days, Wang Chen, to refine the Qiankun Good Fortune Pill as well as various pills to enhance physique and mental power, used up more than half of the herbs collected from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Now, only the Qiankun Good Fortune Pill remained unrefined.
In the Douluo Continent, refining pills is not difficult; one only needs to follow the pill formula step by step.
The main tests are mastery of fire control and fusion of medicinal power. For Wang Chen, whose mental power had reached the tangible and qualitative realm, this was truly as easy as could be.
Thus, Wang Chen's pill refinement went extremely smoothly. Even refining the most difficult Qiankun Good Fortune Pill did not stump him.
In the secret room, a rich medicinal fragrance filled the air. The fragrance of these Qiankun Good Fortune Pills alone was even denser than the power of spiritual pills.
The entire pill furnace turned a brilliant gold. Wang Chen's expression was solemn as his mental power controlled the heat.
"Open!"
With a light shout, the lid of the pill furnace automatically opened. Golden light shot into the sky, and the temperature in the entire secret room rose sharply.
Strange light emerged from within the pill furnace, and above each pill appeared the wondrous phenomenon of the sun and moon alternating.
With the emergence of the phenomenon, the Qiankun Good Fortune Pills were complete.
Wang Chen waved his palm, and the Qiankun Good Fortune Pills immediately flew out from the furnace.
Ten pills floated before him.
This time, Wang Chen refined ten Qiankun Good Fortune Pills. Because he had collected more herbs and the pill furnace was better, he produced three more than Huo Yuhao did in the original story.
The Qiankun Good Fortune Pills were crystal-clear, milky white, delicately beautiful, and alluring. Each one was shrouded in a faint mist and about the size of a fingernail.
"Success!" Wang Chen looked at the pills emitting a hazy medicinal mist and was overjoyed.
Even without using mental power to sense it, the vast energy faintly impacted his body, instinctively stirring a trace of desire within him.
Wang Chen immediately took out jade bottle after jade bottle from his storage soul tool, sealing and storing the Qiankun Good Fortune Pills inside.
He had no use for the Qiankun Good Fortune Pills yet. His current soul power had already reached the level 80 bottleneck.
After hunting the Sea Princess and absorbing her soul ring, plus Snow Empress's soul ring and soul bone, his soul power would inevitably surge to the peak of Soul Douluo.
Then, using the ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow stored in his dantian to condense the yin-yang complementary second soul core, his soul power would directly break through level 90.
Only then would the Qiankun Good Fortune Pills have their place.
Now, Wang Chen had refined all the pills he needed to.
It was time to take the pills and enhance his physique and mental power. Without sufficient physical strength, he would not be able to absorb high-year soul rings.
Wang Chen took out jade bottles after jade bottles from his storage soul tool. These bottles contained pills to enhance physique and mental power.
The physique-enhancing pills were refined using the essence of immortal herbs like Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Fierce Flame Apricot Delicate Sparse, and a large number of spiritual herbs.
These immortal herbs, cultivated for ten thousand years in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, were all equivalent to a hundred-thousand-year soul beasts. The medicinal power of their accumulated essence over the years was terrifying. Absorbing them would surely cause a leap in Wang Chen's physique.
Wang Chen opened the bottles and swallowed the physique-enhancing pills.
The pills melted in his mouth. In an instant, Wang Chen's entire body became like a great furnace of qi and blood, radiating astonishing heat.
The surrounding air was distorted by the steaming of Wang Chen's vigorous, scorching qi and blood, showing just how terrifying the medicinal power was.
Wang Chen immediately sat cross-legged, closed his eyes tightly, and fully refined the medicinal power.
Beneath Wang Chen's skin, a faint golden glow flowed. The moment the pills entered his stomach, it was as if he had swallowed a small sun. Vast medicinal power surged and roared through his meridians.
Under the effect of the medicinal power, Wang Chen's qi and blood circulated at an unprecedented speed. As it flowed, a muffled thunder-like sound faintly resounded.
Under the medicinal power, Wang Chen's bones took on a jade-like luster. His already tough meridians continuously widened under the scouring of the medicinal power. His muscle fibers trembled violently, each strand becoming denser as if rewoven.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
The teeth-gritting sound of bones rang out. Wang Chen's figure faintly grew three points taller than before. His five viscera and six bowels were tempered by the medicinal power, and his heartbeat thundered like war drums.
Wang Chen only felt a surging, ocean-like medicinal power flooding his limbs and bones.
His meridians, bones, muscles, five viscera, and six bowels... were all strengthening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This strengthening lasted a full three days. Three days later.
"Boom!"
A blast of air exploded with Wang Chen at the center, distorting the air. At this moment, his muscle lines were perfect, as if sculpted by a divine craftsman.
Beneath his seemingly lean frame hid explosive power.
Wang Chen slowly opened his eyes, feeling the astonishing power within his body. He clenched his fist and threw a punch into the void.
With a loud bang, the first wind caused space itself to tremble. Ten meters away, the secret room wall—made of the exceptionally tough rare metal Xuanming Meteorite Iron—was blasted with a large hole.
Even more terrifying, this punch used no soul skills whatsoever, not even soul power or mental power—purely physical strength.
A smile tugged at the corner of Wang Chen's mouth. At this moment, his physical strength could already rival that of Limit Douluo like Mu En or Long Xiaoyao.
With such a powerful physique, absorbing the Sea Princess's soul ring would be no problem.
"Next, it's time to enhance mental power."
Wang Chen took out two jade bottles containing mental power-enhancing pills from his storage soul tool.
Compared to physique-enhancing herbs, mental power-enhancing herbs were extremely rare in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, so Wang Chen only refined two pills.
Wang Chen opened the bottles and swallowed the two dragon-eye-sized pills in one gulp.
The medicinal power of the pills did not merge into his limbs and bones but flowed upward, acting on his brain—more precisely, his sea of spirit.
Wang Chen felt his brain cool and felt refreshingly comfortable. His already vast and boundless sea of spirit became even more expansive.
However, because Wang Chen's mental power was already formidable, no less than that of a Limit Douluo, and with only two mental power-enhancing pills, his mental power only advanced to the mid-stage of the tangible and qualitative realm.
The two pills were fully absorbed by Wang Chen in less than a quarter of an hour.
Wang Chen stretched his body, which hadn't moved much in three days, walked out of the secret room, and ended his seclusion.
He then spent half a day "feeding" Xu Tianzhen, Ye Guyi, and Ju Zi.
Then, he quietly left Mingdu once more, flying toward the Extreme North.
A gleam of excitement flashed in Wang Chen's eyes. On this trip, he would condense the yin-yang complementary dual soul cores and become a supreme powerhouse!
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