txolops Chapter 582 Nan Yunzi! The Black Emperor has broken through to the Nascent Soul stage!
Chapter 582 Nan Yunzi! The Black Emperor has broken through to the Nascent Soul stage!
Using his divine sense as a guide, Chen Fan drew spiritual energy into threads hundreds of times finer than a hair, wrapping them layer by layer around the surface of the core.
Every thread must be evenly distributed, and every layer of wrapping must be tight and seamless.
This process is extremely taxing on one's spiritual energy, and even with Chen Fan's late-stage Nascent Soul spiritual strength, he was somewhat overwhelmed.
Soon, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his temples throbbed, but his eyes remained as steady as ever, without the slightest wavering.
The moment the cinnabar robe was woven, the Qiankun Furnace emitted a clear and melodious hum.
The furnace lid flew off, and a bright green pill the size of a longan flew out of the furnace.
The pill has a smooth and round surface with four faint red patterns flowing around it. The pill coating is intact and the medicinal fragrance is subtle and does not dissipate.
A Grade 5 Concentrating Spirit Pill with four Dan patterns, though not of the highest quality, is still a genuine Grade 5 pill.
Chen Fan reached out and caught the pill, a barely perceptible smile appearing on his lips.
With the experience of the first success, the road ahead became much smoother.
He spent another month honing his skills in weaving the pill garment, increasing the success rate of the Concentration Pill to over 50% and improving its quality from four pill patterns to five.
Afterwards, Chen Fan began to try refining other grade five pills!
For example, there's the upgraded version of the Rejuvenation Pill, the Purifying Pill, and the Solidifying Pill, which is most needed by late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators to improve their cultivation.
Two more months have passed in the bowl.
Chen Fan's success rate in refining grade 5 pills has stabilized at around 50%. His highest record is a batch of Nascent Soul Pills with six pill patterns, just one step away from the top grade with seven pill patterns.
This level of alchemy skill would make him an undisputed master alchemist in a first-tier cultivation country, and even in the Zhao Kingdom, he would not be inferior to those old monsters who have been famous for many years.
On this day, Chen Fan had just finished refining a batch of Guiyuan Pills and was about to meditate to recover his consciousness when he suddenly heard a painful barking from outside the courtyard.
The sound was heart-wrenching, unlike the fake howls Black Emperor usually made when he was being unreasonable and throwing a tantrum; it was a genuine wail of extreme pain.
He frowned slightly, got up and walked towards the courtyard.
In the yard, Black King was rolling around on the ground, kicking its four legs wildly in the air, its mouth wide open, letting out a pitiful howl.
Its body was filled with surging demonic energy, and the dark lines under its fur moved around like living things. With each circle it circled, the demonic energy it emitted grew stronger.
A scorching heat filled the air, a unique sign of uncontrolled demonic power.
Wei Gonggong stood helplessly to the side, holding a bowl of medicinal soup that he didn't know where he got it from. He wanted to get closer but didn't dare to, and he was sweating profusely with anxiety.
"What's going on?" Chen Fan quickly stepped forward.
"We have no idea!" Eunuch Wei exclaimed shrilly. "It was just dozing off peacefully a moment ago, and then suddenly it went berserk, howling like its tail had been stepped on. We thought it was a relapse of the poison pill from last time, so we quickly brewed a bowl of herbal soup to clear heat and detoxify, but before we could even give it to it, it became like this!"
Chen Fan crouched down and used his divine sense to probe into the Black Emperor's body.
Upon this probing, his brow furrowed even deeper.
Within the Black Emperor's dantian, Nan Yunzi's nascent soul, which had been sleeping peacefully, was now trembling violently.
The surface of the nascent soul was covered with fine cracks, as if it were being torn apart from the inside by something. With each tremor, a wisp of pure soul power would be stripped out and merge into the Black Emperor's flesh and blood.
Stimulated by this foreign soul power, the demonic power within the Black Emperor's body was expanding and surging at an unprecedented speed. A dark golden demonic core in his dantian was spinning wildly, its surface covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
The elixir shattered to form an infant.
The Black Emperor is about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
However, Chen Fan's attention was not on the Black Emperor, but on Nan Yunzi's nascent soul.
Back in the sealed land, Nan Yunzi's nascent soul was accidentally swallowed by the Black Emperor, and he always thought it was a typical case of possession!
It's estimated that Nan Yunzi wants to be reborn using the Black Emperor's body, while the Black Emperor's soul will become a sacrifice for possession.
But now it seems that the situation is quite the opposite.
It wasn't Nan Yunzi who was possessing the Black Emperor, but rather the Black Emperor who was devouring Nan Yunzi.
Chen Fan could clearly sense that the soul within Nan Yunzi's nascent soul was being forcibly stripped, crushed, and absorbed by a force from the depths of the Black Emperor's bloodline.
That power was extremely ancient and domineering, faintly carrying a kind of ferocious aura that he had never seen before, as if some ancient instinct that had been dormant in the Black Emperor's bloodline had been awakened at this moment.
Nan Yunzi, a dignified Nascent Soul cultivator, was utterly powerless against that force, only able to let out silent wails as his soul was gradually disintegrated and devoured.
The process of the Black Emperor devouring Nan Yunzi's soul power showed no trace of active cultivation.
Normally, it just sleeps, dozes, and plays by chasing its own tail in the yard, and its cultivation level naturally increases to the Great Perfection of Core Formation. Now it is about to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
Chen Fan had never heard of such an ability to improve one's realm without any cultivation.
What is the origin of this dog?
Chen Fan stared at the Black Emperor rolling on the ground, a rare look of surprise flashing in his eyes.
When he first found this mongrel in the sealed land, he thought it was just an ordinary mongrel that had accidentally eaten some spiritual object and gained sentience. Later, seeing that it had thick skin and amazing recovery ability, he thought it was just a mutated monster.
But now it seems that a bloodline that allows a demon beast to break through to the Nascent Soul stage on its own without cultivation, and to instinctively devour the souls of Nascent Soul cultivators, is something that no ordinary demon beast can possess.
The Black Emperor's screams gradually subsided.
The cracks on the demon core in its dantian became increasingly dense, until finally it could not withstand the force of internal expansion and shattered with a crash.
At the point where the core shattered, a small, jet-black phantom slowly materialized. The phantom was only the size of a fist, with indistinct features, yet it exuded a chillingly fierce aura.
The moment the phantom appeared, the demonic aura around the Black Emperor suddenly receded, and then erupted with an even more intense force than before, causing the entire courtyard to tremble slightly.
Early stage of Nascent Soul.
The Black Emperor has officially entered the ranks of Nascent Soul level demons.
Meanwhile, the nascent soul of Nan Yunzi in its dantian had shrunk by a whole size, with more and more cracks appearing on it, and its spiritual aura becoming weaker and weaker.
At this rate, it won't be long before Nan Yunzi is completely devoured.
Chen Fan didn't know what to think about that a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Fu Sect had ended up like this.
Black King got up from the ground, shook off the dust, and tears from rolling around in his eyes still lingered.
When it looked up and saw Chen Fan, it immediately came running over, its tail wagging like a windmill, completely unaware of what had just happened.
In its perception, it had just taken a nap and had a nightmare, and when it woke up, it felt like it had inexhaustible energy.
"Old eunuch, it seems that I... have become stronger?" Black Emperor tilted his dog head, his dog face full of confusion.