Chapter 888 - 467: Refining Dao Pill (Part 1)

Chapter 888: Chapter 467: Refining Dao Pill (Part 1)

The first Star Pattern—Star Protection, grants the alchemy furnace strong defensive capabilities, shielding it from external interference and ensuring the purity and stability of the alchemical process.

The second Star Pattern—Star Gathering Spirit, this pattern can attract the surrounding power of the stars, gathering it within the alchemy furnace, providing continuous energy support for alchemy.

The third Star Pattern—Star Purification, allows the alchemy furnace to remove impurities during the alchemical process, refining the medicinal properties, ensuring the pills produced are of superior quality.

The fourth Star Pattern—Star Acceleration, can speed up the alchemy process, improving efficiency, enabling the alchemist to produce more pills in less time.

The fifth Star Pattern—Star Self-Cleaning, this pattern grants the alchemy furnace self-cleaning capabilities, so it can restore itself to cleanliness without manual intervention after alchemy.

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Inside the Celestial Fire Alchemy Furnace, the silver alchemy furnace shone with dazzling Star Spiritual Light, representing the formation of one Star Artifact Pattern after another. As each Star Artifact Pattern was completed, a clear and melodious bell sound echoed inside the furnace, clear and lingering, heralding the perfect birth of an alchemy furnace.

As the patterns within the furnace’s embryo gradually solidified, Li Mu didn’t stop. He continued to apply Artifact Refining Divine Techniques - Artifact Spirit Fusion, fully outputting True Essence, activating the artifact array domain patterns within the alchemy furnace, thus forming Star Artifact Momentum, causing the array patterns and artifact patterns inside to intertwine and resonate, forming a mysterious and stable structure inside, nurturing an Artifact Spirit, which is not only the core of the alchemy furnace but also the embodiment of the Star Law, endowing the alchemy furnace with powerful spirituality.

Finally, after several days of effort, within the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace, the momentum of the alchemy furnace reached its peak, emitting a strong wave of spirituality as if a life was silently awakening inside.

A hint of joy flashed in Li Mu’s eyes, knowing that the Artifact Spirit was about to be born and that the alchemy furnace would be fully completed.

With the awakening of the Artifact Spirit, the Star Patterns on the furnace’s surface started to flow, as if a life was pulsing.

The starlight on the lid of the furnace brightened, illuminating the entire alchemy room. The star river spirit pattern between the three legs of the furnace seemed to be activated, emitting a faint light that complemented the silver patterns on the body of the furnace, creating a breathtaking sight.

Li Mu waved his hand and activated the Celestial Fire Refining Furnace, and the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire transformed into a small Purple Gold Fire Phoenix, spreading its wings and landing on his shoulder.

"Chirp chirp!" The Purple Gold Fire Phoenix called out to Li Mu as if asking for credit, full of spirituality.

Li Mu smiled slightly, taking out a Tier Six Fire Spiritual Material from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl and feeding it.

Upon seeing the Tier Six Fire Spiritual Material in Li Mu’s hand, excitement flashed in the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix’s eyes. It opened its petite beak, gently pecking and swallowing the spiritual material into its stomach. As the material entered its body, the flames around the Purple Gold Fire Phoenix became more intense and bright as if it had been greatly nourished.

Subsequently, the Extreme Yang Celestial Fire dove into Li Mu’s body, disappearing without a trace.

Li Mu smiled slightly, his gaze falling on the alchemy furnace in front of him, revealing the attributes under the Innate Divine Power - Recognition of Ten Thousand Spirits.

[Unnamed]

[Grade: Tier Six Top Grade Alchemy Furnace]

[Attributes: Star Gathering Spirit, Starry Brilliance, Furnace Rhythm Stars, Starfire, Star Protection.]

[Status: Furnace Spirit Awakening, Star Energy Overflow]

[This alchemy furnace, with a Tier Seven Star Gold Core as the heart and a Tier Six Star Sand as the foundation, combined with Silver Moonstone Marrow, Red Iron Crystal Following, and other Tier Six Spiritual Materials, is refined by Celestial Fire into a Tier Six Star Alchemy Furnace. This furnace excels at gathering the power of the stars, refining pills that contain vast star essence, capable of teleporting pill positions, using star protection throughout the entire alchemical process, ensuring each pill is as brilliant as a star and of exceptional quality.]

Li Mu nodded satisfied, gently touching the furnace’s body. The fascinating feeling of intertwined heat and star power instantly surged through his heart.

Closing his eyes slightly, Li Mu then infused part of his Divine Thought into it. Moments later, he successfully refined it.

Li Mu opened his eyes, a joyful light flashing in them, feeling an unprecedented connection established between himself and the alchemy furnace. Gently patting the furnace body, he happily said, "From now on, you’ll be called the Starlight Treasure Furnace! Be my reliable assistant in alchemy!"

"Buzz!" The Starlight Treasure Furnace seemed to understand Li Mu’s words, vibrating once. Its body sparkled with even more dazzling starlight, celebrating the birth of its new name, casting a large amount of brilliant star power, making the entire alchemy room as bright as day.

Li Mu placed the Starlight Treasure Furnace in front of him, sitting cross-legged. From the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, he took out a bottle of Replenishing Essence Pill and a bottle of Taiqing Concentration Pill, pouring out two spirit pills and placing them in his mouth.

The pills melted upon entering his mouth, and a thick stream of spiritual power surged into his limbs and bones. Li Mu closed his eyes, fully operating the Yin Yang Five Elements Scripture and Star Nebula Visualization Method, restoring his True Essence and Divine Thought to their peak state.

Next, Li Mu prepared to attempt refining a Returning Void Pill.

The Returning Void Pill is a Tier Seven Dao Pill. Although Master Qingyang’s explanation of the pill formula and refining process was detailed, refining a Tier Seven Dao Pill for the first time, Li Mu felt uncertain. It requires extremely high Divine Thought and substantial True Essence support, so he dared not be careless.

Once his state was fully restored, with a shift of his mind, the Starlight Treasure Furnace lit up, and the special pill fire inside, under the blessing of massive star energy gathering, was spontaneously generated, slowly rising, with the temperature gradually increasing as the Starlight Pill Furnace began preheating.

Li Mu silently focused on the state of the furnace fire, fully immersing his mind in the alchemical process.

Following Master Qingyang’s guidance, he first placed the Nine Void Reishi into the furnace, to initially extract and liquefy it.

As seen, the Nine Void Reishi inside the furnace emitted a faint eerie glow under the star furnace pill fire, swaying gently as if alive. As the Nine Void Reishi was liquefied inside the furnace, the essence contained within it began to gradually release, permeating the furnace, forming a faint scent.

Li Mu concentrated and calmed, feeling the divine charm within the scent, unconsciously filling him with anticipation for the Returning Void Pill about to be refined.

Immediately afterward, Li Mu again took out the Purple Gold Spirit Flower from the Nine Treasures Spirit Pearl, carefully placing it into the furnace. The moment the Purple Gold Spirit Flower entered the furnace, it fused with the liquefied essence of the Nine Void Reishi, causing the scent inside the furnace to become even richer, as if a mysterious power was quietly brewing.

At this moment, the fire conditions reached a critical stage. Li Mu took a deep breath, fully concentrating on controlling the Starlight Treasure Furnace. Inside, the starfire rose again, with the temperature gradually rising. The essence of the spirit medicine inside the fire began to undergo a magical reaction under the flame’s scorching.

The higher the tier of the spiritual artifact being refined, the more intricate the steps. For example, Tier Seven Dao Artifact involves: refining spiritual materials, refining the artifact embryo, setting the artifact array, condensing the artifact pattern, forming the artifact array, awakening the artifact spirit, and nurturing the Dao Principle, among other processes.

The process of alchemy and artifact refining shares an exquisite similarity, although the specific steps and required materials differ, the core rhythm and principles are analogous. Taking the refining of a Tier Seven Dao Pill as an example, the alchemy process includes: Step One - Refining Spirit Medicine, where rare spirit medicines are refined in the alchemy furnace to remove impurities, extracting the purest medicinal essence. During this process, the alchemist must have profound knowledge of medicinal properties and pharmacology, as well as precise control over the pill fire.

Step Two - Alchemy Liquid, the refined medicinal essence is carefully blended under specific fire conditions, gradually fusing into a liquid form of original pill liquid. In this process, the alchemist’s understanding of the medicinal conflict and fusion between various medicines is essential to ensure the original liquid’s stability and purity.

Step Three - Pill Unification Form, the quantity of a batch of spirit pills may vary, completed in Step Three - Pill Unification Form. After forming the original pill liquid, based on the pill’s characteristics and medicinal properties, determining and deciding the final pill quantity is essential, dividing the original liquid into several portions, each containing the same medicinal power and properties. This step requires the alchemist to possess a high level of judgment and control to ensure each pill achieves the expected effect.

With Li Mu’s strength in Divine Thought, he could barely control this batch of Returning Void Pill, condensing it into three Returning Void Pills. However, the next few steps in alchemy will also triple in difficulty.