Chapter 633 610: If the Lips Are Gone, the Teeth Will Be Cold, Qingli Nourishing Marrow Pill

He had accumulated so much to prepare for the unexpected.

Sometimes, leaving was his choice. Other times, he was forced to leave, with no other option.

The current threat from the Alien Race was a perfect example of this.

During this time, he had received news that the Alien Races were growing restless. They had begun to encroach upon the Celestial Wind and Great Zhou Imperial Dynasties, and the disturbances were significant.

As for the major powers, like the various Imperial Dynasties and Holy Lands, they had yet to make a single move.

Even in the Great Zhou and Celestial Wind Imperial Dynasties, which were on the front lines against the Alien Race, the two dynasties' National Guardian Martial Saints remained inactive. This was surprising, yet it also made a certain kind of sense.

Even if the two Imperial Dynasties joined forces, they might not be a match for the Alien Race, let alone a single power acting alone.

'They're probably all waiting for the final outcome—the result of the struggle between the major powers.'

Although the Cyan Yuan Sect hadn't received any news, there were bound to be communications between the major powers. They were likely already arguing over the matter of the Alien Race.

He could guess as much. It was just that his own channels hadn't yielded any information. He wasn't strong or qualified enough to be part of the discussion, so all he could do was wait.

After all, according to Black Dragon, the emperors of the major Imperial Dynasties—like the Emperor of Great Zhou, Emperor Celestial Wind, and Rising Sun Emperor—were the most anxious. They were also the most constrained, making their involvement unavoidable.

Besides, the members of the Imperial Families had all enjoyed the benefits of their dynasties, including the tribute of Cultivation Resources from all regions. How could they simply stand by and let their Imperial Dynasties be destroyed?

However, the same could not necessarily be said for the major Holy Lands.

Yang Chan knew that if he had a channel to the Merak Sacred Land, he would be able to learn the general situation. After all, the Merak Sacred Land was representative of the Holy Land Lineage.

Previously, they wouldn't have participated in struggles between Imperial Dynasties due to the Emperor Dao's Fate. But this was a conflict between the Human Race and the Alien Race, which was an entirely different matter. They would not be affected by the Emperor Dao's Fate in this case.

Unfortunately, he had no intelligence channels into the Holy Lands, so he could only wait.

While waiting, Yang Chan was not idle. His next major project would be the Qingli Nourishing Marrow Pill. Once successful, his Daily Potential Point Collection would see a new breakthrough, possibly jumping from 16.2 to a baseline of 20. Such an increase would be substantial.

The Cyan Yuan Sect also lacked the necessary channels. Otherwise, he could have traded for more elixirs suitable for a Bone Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster's cultivation.

This was something Yang Chan planned to do once he eventually went to the Merak Sacred Land. After all, the Merak Sacred Land had no shortage of Advanced Pharmacists, and there were bound to be Top Level Pharmacists as well.

He didn't know if there were any ranks higher than that, but the presence of Advanced and Top Level Pharmacists was enough. Their existence meant that the Merak Sacred Land surely had a wide variety of elixirs.

Of course, trading for them would be the fastest method. If he could, however, he would prefer to refine them all himself. That would be more discreet and offer him greater benefits.

Even though he could use Potential Points to upgrade his Pharmacist profession and gain some experience, alchemy still required hands-on practice. He still needed to spend time before he could successfully refine anything.

It was like someone who had a wealth of theoretical knowledge about a video game but whose actual in-game performance wasn't necessarily good—perhaps even worse than players with less theoretical knowledge.

When Yang Chan upgraded his Pharmacist profession to Advanced Pharmacist, his mind was flooded with a wealth of related knowledge, including the principles of alchemy. However, when he first tried refining elixirs that only Advanced Pharmacists could create, such as the Seven Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill and the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, he didn't succeed on his first attempt. He failed several times. Only after repeatedly contemplating the entire process and enhancing his Pill Sense was he able to achieve success.

This was different from upgrading his Martial Arts. When he did that, his cultivation base rose simultaneously, allowing him to use the influx of rich cultivation-related knowledge to quickly master his new abilities.

Of course, that wasn't to say the experience gained from upgrading his Pharmacist profession was useless. At the very least, it gave him a clear path forward. He knew the entire refining process, so when he failed, he could analyze and contemplate what went wrong, quickly identify his mistakes, and then successfully refine the elixir he wanted.

An ordinary Pharmacist would have to expend considerable effort to successfully refine a new type of elixir, especially one with a high degree of difficulty.

Some might fail ten or even dozens of times before finding any sort of lead. The fact that Yang Chan could complete this process in such a short time was an incredible feat in the eyes of many.

As a witness to his progress, Princess Lan Yue could attest to this firsthand. The longer she spent with Yang Chan, the more she realized how unfathomable he was.

Just when she thought she was beginning to understand him, she would realize she had only glimpsed a tiny fraction of who he was.

Take his Martial Arts Cultivation, for example. Although she didn't know his specific level, the presence he exuded felt even more terrifying than that of her own royal father.

When her father was alive, he had been an Inner Master—and a powerful one at that. Yet the pressure she felt from her father was nothing compared to the powerful aura Yang Chan unintentionally released while refining elixirs.

Thus, in her eyes, Yang Chan was an unattainable existence.

"I've heard my master mention the refining of the Qingli Nourishing Marrow Pill before. He said it's a very difficult elixir to create. It's best to prepare some Spirit Quenching Cold Liquid beforehand, as it provides a greater margin for error!"

"The process requires extremely high heat, making it very easy for the Spiritual Materials inside the Alchemy Furnace to be incinerated into ash. The Spirit Quenching Cold Liquid helps control this and gives you more time to make corrections!"

Princess Lan Yue offered this advice after hearing about Yang Chan's plans.

Yang Chan had wanted to refine a more advanced elixir, so he had come to ask her about the pill formulas in her possession.

Princess Lan Yue was, of course, very cooperative and listed several pill formulas. When she mentioned the Qingli Nourishing Marrow Pill, Yang Chan's eyes lit up, and he ultimately chose that one.

Although Princess Lan Yue had not yet become an Advanced Pharmacist, she was well aware of the difficulty of refining these Bone Marrow Cleansing Elixirs. The Qingli Nourishing Marrow Pill had superior effects, and its refining difficulty was greater than that of the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill. However, it wasn't impossibly difficult, it just required an extremely long time to create.

If an ordinary person tried to refine the Qingli Nourishing Marrow Pill right after succeeding with the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, she would have called them reckless and arrogant. But Yang Chan was different. She had watched him grow from someone who struggled even to refine the Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pill to someone who could now successfully create the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, all in a very short amount of time.

If her master were still alive, he would have undoubtedly taken the initiative to beg Yang Chan to become his disciple. He would have passed on everything he had ever learned, just to see if Yang Chan could become the legendary King-level Pharmacist.

That was a sight her master had longed to see before his death, but sadly, the opportunity was lost.

She knew how desperately the people of the Pharmacist Alliance wanted to reach that level. This included the current Alliance Leader, for whom it was a lifelong pursuit, yet none had ever succeeded.

It was as if some invisible shackle prevented anyone from crossing that threshold, making it impossible to surmount.

If not for the concrete records of King-level Pharmacists—and even beings above them—in the Ancient Texts, everyone would have assumed it was a mythical rank.

"Is there anything else?"

Yang Chan listened intently. The words of a Top Level Pharmacist were a form of extremely rare experience, something that could save him considerable effort and increase his margin for error.

When it came to alchemy, Yang Chan naturally disliked failing too often. This was especially true for these high-level elixirs, whose required materials were all extremely precious and difficult to collect.

Wasting even a single attempt was agonizing.

After all, he had acquired most of his Top Level Spiritual Materials by venturing into the Purple Void Secret Realm. If he had to rely on the Cyan Yuan Sect's channels to gather this many Spirit Medicines, there was no telling how long it would take.

The Cyan Yuan Sect could gather Superior Spirit Medicine, but Top Level Spirit Medicine was an extremely rare commodity within the sect.

Most of the sect's previous accumulation had been taken by the Former Sect Leader Liu Xuan and his followers, leaving very little for Yang Chan, Gu An, and the others. Therefore, they had to rely on themselves for the most part.