Chapter 1229: All Prodigies Become Pills
Chapter 1229: All Prodigies Become Pills
Li Fan had personally witnessed the true power of the Hunger technique within the Immortal Ruins.
Thus, a sense of profound awe rose within him for the High Wall, a structure capable of completely suppressing the gravitational pull of the Star Sea.
This awe quickly gave way to an irrepressible curiosity.
"Unfortunately, the Mysterious Immortal Boat's exploration of the other side of the Star Sea ceased over two thousand years ago. With the passage of time and the shifting of space, the charts recorded back then can only serve as a reference; they hold little practical value now."
Li Fan then recalled the recent great turmoil in the Xuanhuang Realm.
"It seems the primary hunting ground for the Dharma Spreader and the Heavenly Doctor in the Star Sea is that graveyard of world fragments."
"Something must have gone wrong at the foot of the High Wall. It caused the usually stable tidal suction to erupt in reverse, blasting a wave toward the interior of the Darkest Star Sea."
A thousand thoughts raced through Li Fan’s mind.
At this thought, an idea struck Li Fan. "If I play the patient hunter and wait here, I might actually manage to intercept that seven-colored rainbow light."
"Based on the time it took me to cross the Star Sea before, and calculating the flight speed of the seven-colored rainbow light..."
"If I'm going to encounter it, it should be within the next few days."
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Having finished reading the sections that interested him most, Li Fan began to organize the other significant gains from his new knowledge.
This information would not only help the Great Qi rise more smoothly in this lifetime but would also prove to be a tremendous asset in Li Fan’s future reincarnations.
Among his findings, the most crucial for Li Fan was the method for refining the [Dao Pill].
In the difficult early years after the Immortal Boat split, the cultivators of the Mysterious Immortal Boat, facing extreme scarcity, had accumulated a wealth of grim experience in the art of cannibalism.
The prototype of the Dao Pill originated from that very period.
With limited resources, maximizing the efficiency of absorption became the highest priority for the cultivators of the Mysterious Immortal Boat.
The Dao Pill, a secret art of refining cultivators into medicinal pellets, was the culmination of all the experience gathered during the dark history of the Immortal Boat—a technique perfected to its absolute zenith.
It did more than just refine an enemy cultivator’s memories and soul to be claimed as one's own.
Even their talent, temperament, and innate divine abilities could be fully integrated into oneself!
Of course, the side effects were unavoidable.
The more powerful the raw material used for the Dao Pill, the more pronounced the side effects.
If one lacked the strength and forcibly consumed it, their body would reject the overwhelming power. They would most likely suffer a backlash, transforming into a monstrous creature, neither human nor ghost.
In a state of madness, they would turn on their own kin and embark on a merciless killing spree.
Therefore, once the Mysterious Immortal Boat gradually found stability, the secret art of the Dao Pill became one of its forbidden techniques.
Only those at the very core of the Immortal Boat’s leadership were qualified to know of its existence.
"Quite complex," Li Fan murmured to himself.
He studied the entire refining process in detail, his brow furrowed slightly.
At its root, this secret art was still a form of alchemy.
Alchemy was not Li Fan’s forte, but his mastery of formations was already sublime.
The Dissociation Disc synchronously analyzed, deconstructed, and converted each step of the process into a corresponding formation.
"As long as I set up this formation, I can achieve fully automated Dao Pill refining. Simple and efficient."
"Although I'm not particularly concerned with innate abilities anymore, it's still another special technique to have in my arsenal."
"It will also be extremely useful for intimidating those so-called prodigies."
"My only concern is whether this method will actually work in the Xuanhuang Realm."
The two ends of the Star Sea differed not only in the flow of time.
The Mysterious Immortal Boat was exposed to the chaotic and lawless Darkest Star Sea, lacking the protection of a native world’s power.
Li Fan couldn't guarantee that the rules here would apply equally in the Xuanhuang Realm.
"When the opportunity arises, a simple test will tell me all I need to know."
Besides the Dao Pill, the only other thing that caught Li Fan's attention was a communication method capable of minimizing interference from the remnant power of True Immortals in the Star Sea.
It had been created by the second head of the Immortal Pivot Academy.
It was named [Boundless].
Its principle was to create a force with "resistant" properties against the remnant power of True Immortals, based on the surviving attributes of the Heavenly Dao that still lingered in the Star Sea.
However, the drawbacks were also obvious.
It required knowing the target's precise spatio-temporal coordinates.
Furthermore, due to the omnipresent suction of the Darkest Star Sea, communication could often only be one-way.
That is, it had to follow the direction of the suction.
The Mysterious Immortal Boat had almost no records of other survivors in the Darkest Star Sea.
Thus, this Boundless communication method was not valued at all.
But for Li Fan, it could have a rather unique application.
Outside the Mysterious Immortal Boat, within the Relic Sea.
Li Fan's Sacred Embryo, which was in the process of comprehending the Heavenly Dao of the Darkest Star Sea, suddenly opened its eyes.
A playful glint flashed in its eyes as it immediately shot a silver gleam toward the location of the Xuanhuang Realm it sensed.
"If the cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm were to receive this message, their reactions should be quite interesting."
However, this was merely an act born of a momentary whim.
The Mysterious Immortal Boat was simply too far from the Xuanhuang Realm, and it was perilously close to the Immortal Ruins.
Li Fan actually had no confidence that this Boundless message would successfully reach its destination.
It was purely for his own amusement.
The Sacred Embryo had reaped a bountiful harvest from the Mysterious Immortal Boat. It was, after all, the accumulated knowledge of an entire civilization.
Even if it wasn't the most advanced part of that knowledge, it was still immensely precious to Li Fan.
The perspective shifted back to the Xuanhuang Realm.
Ever since returning from the Great Qi Sacred Dynasty, Sun Luyuan had been exceptionally busy.
Although he hadn't personally visited every prodigy on the list, he had used his connections to investigate their general situations.
Ou Shangtian had not pressed him on the matter of inciting defections, but Sun Luyuan understood with perfect clarity that this was his first assignment after joining the Great Qi.
He had to not only succeed but do so flawlessly, in a manner so impressive it would leave no room for criticism, only praise.
After a period of careful selection, Sun Luyuan quickly decided on the target he would use to prove his worth.
It was none other than the renowned Fairy Kongyou of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance!
Fairy Kongyou was also a Dao Integration cultivator.
But in the eyes of ordinary cultivators in the Alliance, she was far more significant than Sun Luyuan.
Beyond her own stunning beauty, which was unmatched in the entire Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, her importance stemmed from her companion wonder, the [Yin-Yang Jade].
Through the method of yin-yang dual cultivation, Fairy Kongyou could fuse the yang half of the [Yin-Yang Jade] with her Dao companion. This would upgrade the companion's Foundation Establishment Wonder, Golden Core, Nascent Soul's grotto-heaven, and even their World Birthing Change, elevating them all to a higher level.
It was a power sufficient to transform a mediocre cultivator into a prodigy in a single leap.
It could allow an unparalleled prodigy to advance even further, becoming a legendary existence in the Xuanhuang Realm, one whose fame would echo through the ages!
Sun Luyuan had heard of this back when he was in the Great Qi Sacred Dynasty.
The few disciples serving under the Great Qi's Holy Emperor were all currently without Dao companions.
If he could lure Fairy Kongyou over and play matchmaker...
Not only would he be able to leverage her famous name to make future recruitment efforts easier...
He could also place the Holy Emperor's disciples in his debt.
Wouldn't that be killing two birds with one stone?
Sun Luyuan's eyes narrowed, a plan already taking shape in his mind.
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