Chapter 995: Three Paths Cauldron; Uninvited Guest

Chapter 995: Chapter 464: Three Paths Cauldron; Uninvited Guest

Inside the Quiet Chamber, the gentle fragrance of Spiritual Medicine lingered year-round.

Chen Ye sat cross-legged on a cushion, maintaining a calm and tranquil state. He tapped the Storage Bag at his waist, and an ancient Alchemy Furnace landed steadily before him.

The Pill Furnace was engraved with a myriad of demon engravings.

These demons were vividly detailed, blue-faced and tusked, limbs twisted, roaring fiercely in a sinister sea of blood, starkly different from the usual righteous Pill Furnaces.

“Tuoba Zhenshi must be furious; this is a Tier Three Furnace…”

Chen Ye toyed with it, unable to put it down.

This Pill Furnace was named the Three Paths Cauldron, and its tier had reached Tier Three Lower Grade!

Even if it’s only lower grade, its value is undeniably astronomical, worth at least a million Spirit Stones!

The value of the Pill Furnace far surpasses ordinary Spiritual Artifacts!

For a Foundation Establishment Stage Alchemist in the Yan Kingdom’s Cultivation Realm, owning a Second Tier Furnace is already a great blessing, enough to be considered a family heirloom.

A Tier Three Furnace typically belongs to those Major Sects with profound heritage and is only worthy of a Golden Core Stage Alchemy Grandmaster.

If it fell into the wrong hands, putting it up for auction in Hunyuan City might immediately ignite a bloody power struggle among Golden Core True Men.

Using such a Golden Core-level treasure to refine Tier Two Elixirs is akin to slaughtering a chicken with a cattle knife.

But using such a knife is truly exquisite!

Common righteous Pill Furnaces emphasize impartiality and harmony, carving arrays for Spiritual Qi gathering and fire stabilization to gently merge medicinal power.

However, this Three Paths Cauldron goes against such norms with its aggressive and mysterious approach.

For instance, the myriad of demon engravings on the furnace wall forms a profound Devouring Spirit and Corrupt Array, with endless wonders…

“Since it’s a fine knife, let me test its edge.”

Chen Ye flicked his fingers to connect with the earth fire.

Though the earth fire in Lisong Valley is generally mediocre, with his abundant Spiritual Power aiding, refining pills poses no issue.

“Hiss!”

The crimson earth fire followed the Earth Vein Array upward, scorching the Three Paths Cauldron, and under the fire’s light, the demonic engravings on the furnace wall had their eyes lit with a sinister red glow, roaming the furnace wall like living beings.

“What a ferocious array… No wonder it’s called the Three Paths Cauldron; an ordinary Pill Furnace cannot bear such a name.”

“If memory serves, the Three Paths are: the fire path is the realm of hell; the blood path is the realm of animality; the blade path is the realm of hungry ghosts…”

Chen Ye praised, methodically placing several processed Tier Two Spiritual Medicines into the furnace chamber.

When using the Hundred Herbs Furnace ordinarily, different Spiritual Medicines would often repel each other.

An Alchemist must expend immense mental effort to suppress and harmonize them; a slight misstep can result in a pool of waste liquid or even an exploding furnace.

But now, as the medicinal powers began to clash, the Three Paths Cauldron’s mysteries truly unveiled themselves.

You could see the Devouring Spirit and Corrupt Array on the furnace wall activating, and those formidable demons all turned their mouths towards the furnace chamber.

“Whoosh!”

Whether impurities, fire poison, or antagonistic mixed Spiritual Qi, all were devoured cleanly by these demons as if they were long whales absorbing water!

Chen Ye felt his Divine Sense pressure dramatically reduced, the previously demanding process of integrating and condensing pills now seemed like a walk in the park.

It only took one short two-hour.

“Boom!”

The furnace lid made a crisp sound, bouncing upwards.

Fragrant pill aroma wafted, with twelve Purple Sun Pills quietly lying at the furnace’s bottom.

“Truly deserving of a Tier Three treasure, relieving my pill-refining pressure significantly! This means that even if I need to refine a large quantity of pills for the Mao Family later, having this furnace effectively reduces the consumption of Divine Sense!”

Chen Ye marveled, feeling a joy in his heart.

Compared to the Hundred Herbs Furnace, the Three Paths Cauldron gave him nearly a fifty percent increase!

“Tuoba Zhenshi, oh Tuoba Zhenshi, I really must thank you for your generous gift.”

…

No years in the mountains, Alchemy knows no passage of time.

With the aid of the Three Paths Cauldron, Chen Ye easily met the Mao Family’s required pill quota in the following days, refining nearly fifteen hundred Purple Sun Pills!

These were mostly One-Stripe Purple Sun Pills, and even if calculated as Low Grade Purple Sun Pills, they would be worth seventy-five thousand Spirit Stones!

If it weren’t for the Mao Family’s insufficient funds to purchase raw materials, Chen Ye could have refined even more.

In the initial days, Chen Ye even maintained a daily output of ten furnaces!

Despite a month of continuous pill refining, leaving him mentally exhausted, he could still maintain at least two furnaces per day!

While a typical Alchemist, under normal circumstances, can only refine one furnace of Purple Sun Pills per day.

“Hiss… This is the first time I’ve let loose in pill refining. Being an Alchemist is undoubtedly a lucrative industry, not to mention someone like me.”

After roughly estimating the value of the pills,

Even Chen Ye himself was taken aback.

Though the Mao Family provided the herbs and handled the sales, Chen Ye was only responsible for refining, but per the prior agreement, Chen Ye would take the majority of the profits from this batch of Purple Sun Pills!

“Deducting the Mao Family’s share, these fifteen hundred One-Stripe Purple Sun Pills would at least earn tens of thousands of Spirit Stones.”

Chen Ye quickly calculated in his mind,

“Sadly, maintaining such high-intensity pill refining leaves me no time for cultivation, and might even harm my foundation… Otherwise, I’d soon become the richest cultivator in the Lingxu Realm!”

With this thought,

Whenever Chen Ye gazed at the Three Paths Cauldron, there was a slight discomfort in his heart.

Initially, he thought this Tier Three Lower Grade Pill Furnace, worth a million Spirit Stones, was an incredible treasure, treating it with utmost care, afraid it might be scratched or bumped, viewing it as a cherished gem.