Free Web NovelChapter 1231: Chapter 369: The Taiqing Sect Must Have Its Own Spirit Severing Realm!
[Myriad Spirit Blood Cauldron: This is a cauldron crafted with special power. After being improved by the Old Emperor with the royal family’s Secret Technique, it contains a space within for blood refinement.]
[Currently operating the grand array "Usurp Heaven’s Creation," forcibly refining the original essence of two thousand four hundred Divinity Transformation Realm Perfection cultivators’ corpses.]
[These corpses, while alive, all took Spirit Slash secret medicine, though they failed to break through, a precious medicinal essence still remains within them.]
[Upon completion of refinement, three ’Blood Spirit Tao Cutting Pills’ can be condensed. These pills contain the essence of life from two thousand geniuses. After consumption, the success rate of breaking through to the Spirit Severing Realm can reach forty percent, without the risk of body explosion.]
Seeing this information, Zhou Qing stood there in a daze.
"Forty percent..." He silently repeated this number, his heart stirring with turbulent waves.
What does this mean?
It means the Xuanyuan Royal Family has found a way to mass-produce breakthroughs to the Spirit Severing Realm! Although the cost is the lives of countless geniuses...
Zhou Qing’s gaze slowly swept over the densely packed corpses in the Earth Palace, each once a dazzling talent.
They swallowed the secret medicine with hope, yet after failing to break through, even their bodies are to be extracted for their last bit of value.
"What a cunning Old Emperor..." Zhou Qing’s lips curled into a bitter smile, "Truly a plan where nothing was left to chance."
He gazed at the Myriad Spirit Blood Cauldron, emanating a ghostly glow, feeling an indescribable complex emotion arise in his heart.
He murmured softly, "This... should be the third version of that secret medicine, right?"
Zhou Qing remembered Sikong Yan once told him that the Old Emperor acquired the first-generation secret medicine from a close friend skilled in alchemy, and with a mere ten percent success rate, barely managed to break through Spirit Slash.
In order to monopolize this opportunity, he did not hesitate to murder.
Later, using the Dynasty’s accumulated resources, he raised the success rate to thirty percent, creating the current major Spirit Severing Realm powerhouses.
"And now..." Zhou Qing’s gaze fell upon the blood-colored patterns flowing on the cauldron’s surface, "The success rate can actually be increased to forty percent."
Forty percent!
If the outside world knew about this elixir, it could incite a bloody storm.
Even more terrifying is this mechanism of cyclical use.
As long as there are enough Nine Nether Demon Lotuses as the main ingredient, supplemented with other heavenly treasures, four to fifty secret medicines can be refined.
After the first batch of cultivators takes them, even if seventy percent fail, their corpses can be refined into even purer third-version secret medicines.
And these improved elixirs can be reserved for the most central trusted aides...
"It’s an endless cycle..."
Zhou Qing unknowingly clenched his fists.
Countless geniuses rushed one after another into the Xuanyuan’s grand vision, paving a bloody path to the Spirit Severing Realm with their lives for those to come.
The successful ascend to the peak, while the failures become nourishment, feeding the next batch of seekers.
"This is not a breakthrough..." Zhou Qing couldn’t help but swallow, "This is paving a path to the heavens with human lives!"
Suddenly, he thought of something, and his pupils constricted sharply: "Wait a minute, if they continue improving..."
This thought sent a chill down his spine.
Fifty percent?
Sixty percent?
Even...
No, this can’t be right. With so many bodies of geniuses taking the second version of the secret medicine, only three ’Blood Spirit Tao Cutting Pills’ have barely been condensed.
To continue improving, the required base number would be astronomical.
"Hoo—"
Zhou Qing exhaled a long breath, his heart in intense struggle.
Now that he knows all of the Old Emperor’s secret recipes, although he is no saint, neither is he a cruel enough person to emulate such methods.
To have him stack countless lives into a thirty percent breakthrough probability elixir for his master and elders to take is truly difficult to achieve.
Yet the three ’Blood Spirit Tao Cutting Pills’ within the cauldron before him made his heart race.
Even though the refining method is still unbearable, after a second refinement, the breakthrough probability has increased to forty percent!
"Taiqing Sect may have three Spirit Severing Realm beings...," Zhou Qing pondered, "But who knows what price the grandmaster paid for that ghastly appearance."
The Lu Family sisters are only repaying his favor, and after Nangong Xiongba’s invasion, it’s feared that things will soon be settled...
At this thought, Zhou Qing couldn’t help but feel somewhat melancholic.
Moreover, the lifespan in the Spirit Severing Realm is long; how could the little Taiqing Sect become their home?
One day, the sisters will leave this small place to pursue a broader world.
"Taiqing Sect... needs a truly its own Spirit Severing Realm." Zhou Qing murmured, a glimmer of determination in his eyes.
Only a Spirit Severing expert birthed internally within the sect can truly share the sect’s fortunes and become its cornerstone of defense.
At this thought, his pupils split again into blood-colored Heavy Pupils, with three strange rings swiftly rotating within.
As the Spiritual Power within him surged madly into his eyes, the restriction on the copper cauldron on the distant altar gradually became transparent.
The scene within the cauldron became clear—a blood-red pill quietly suspended, its surface flowed with perfect pill patterns, emitting an unsettling wave of spiritual power. freёweɓnovel.com
Beside them, the third pill seemed almost complete, just missing the last trace of medicinal power for Perfection.
Zhou Qing’s gaze was fixed firmly on the pill about to form, his breathing unconsciously becoming rapid.
"Do it!" Soon, a flash of resolve appeared in his eyes, as he made a decision.
Withdrawing his Heavy Pupils, he scanned his surroundings, uncertain where Sikong Yan had gone.
The timing was fleeting; only amidst chaos could he seize the opportunity.
Zhou Qing flipped his hand to take out a tricolor Array Disc, quickly setting up a restriction at the entrance.
This Array Disc came from Nangong Xiongba’s Storage Bag—after the old monster failed to seize the body, this item became his spoils of war.
