Lord Shenxiu
Chapter 365: Core Formation (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 365: Chapter 365: Core Formation (Please Subscribe)

"Little sister, don’t be afraid, we aren’t bad people,"

Chen Wenji saw the little girl’s delicate and exquisite face and couldn’t help but feel some fondness, and smilingly pinched her little face, asking, "What’s your name, and what is your relationship with Su Daoshi?"

"I... My name is Su Wei."

Su Wei was on the verge of tears, "Are you looking for Brother Su?"

"Where is he?"

"I... I don’t know."

Chen Wenji looked helplessly at Yi Zhisong, "Senior Brother, why capture a little child to question?"

"Hmph, didn’t you see that among all the people in this estate, only this female practitioner has cultivated some Daoist Skills? And her clothes and living quarters are the best, obviously, she is the closest to Su Daoshi."

Yi Zhisong, although arrogant, was not a fool.

Hearing him say this, a flash of panic danced across Su Wei’s eyes.

Clearly, part of her earlier act had been just that, an act.

"But that’s about it..." Chen Wenji sighed, sensing that the Daoist Skills Su Wei had cultivated were very rudimentary, even haphazard, and shook his head, knowing that Su, their junior fellow disciple, didn’t really care about this relative.

They probably couldn’t get any information out of her.

As for this little girl named Su Wei, her aptitude seemed passable, awakening in her a sense of pity and affection.

Boom!

Suddenly, the sky filled with dark clouds.

The sound of thunder reverberated, startling for a hundred miles.

What surprised the two Divine Power Practitioners even more were the fluctuations in the elemental energy of the heavens and the earth.

"Elemental energy converging, thunder resounding for hundreds of miles... Could this possibly be the Core Formation Heavenly Phenomenon?"

Yi Zhisong exclaimed.

"Inside the Fufeng Protectorate, who could be condensing a Primordial Pill?" Chen Wenji’s face was full of envy, "If I hadn’t already known of Zhang Taiyi’s death, I would’ve certainly thought that it was Senior Brother Zhang undergoing Core Formation here."

As disciples of a prestigious sect, they easily looked down upon the Daoist Officials and Loose Cultivators of the Fufeng Protectorate.

After the disaster that befell Zhang Taiyi and Master Ming Xue’s clean sweep, the practitioners within the Protector Mansion were diminished and sightings of those with Divine Skills were rare.

They couldn’t imagine who else could be undergoing Core Formation?

’Could it be a reclusive expert?’’

Yi Zhisong and Chen Wenji exchanged a glance, both considering this possibility, and their expressions became hesitant, "Should we go take a look?"

"Reporting a newly emerged Primordial Pill is much more significant than issuing a sect decree... As long as it’s not a Grandmaster from the Demon Sect’s six paths, they should give our Supreme Dragon and Tiger Sect some face, and there shouldn’t be too much danger..."

Yi Zhisong said, "We’ll go have a look, just show the proper respect... A Demon Sect Grandmaster wouldn’t choose to undergo Core Formation here; such an important event would surely happen in a sect’s stronghold, with the Mountain Protection Array activated. Perhaps, it’s a Loose Cultivator."

"A Loose Cultivator achieving a Primordial Pill..." Chen Wenji said, "Such an event hasn’t happened in many years..."

Envy flashed in her eyes.

Even for inner sect disciples of the Supreme Dragon and Tiger Sect, the hurdle of Core Formation was incredibly daunting.

Once successful, they became influential figures within the sect, soaring to the heavens in one step, and the world would become entirely different for them!

They talked as if no one else was around, seemingly having forgotten about Su Wei who was standing nearby.

...

"Using the heavens as a cover, the earth as a Pill Furnace!"

Mountains rising a thousand zhang high, with fierce winds howling.

Since raising his Alchemy to the level of a Grandmaster, Zhong Shenxiu followed the ways of nature, emerging from his long-secluded cavern, searching for the most suitable place for Alchemy in this expanse of heaven and earth.

Finally, he had found it!

"Utilizing yin and yang as charcoal, all things as copper!"

Zhong Shenxiu chanted in a melodious voice, the ’spirit lattice’ in his hands suddenly bursting into bright light, ascending into the sky, sweeping up the winds and clouds, engulfing the energy of the heavenly gang and earth evil.

In reality, this ’spirit lattice’ of his could direct be used as an Outer Elixir.

The process of refining it again was just for better alignment with the Immortal Dao.

"Heavenly gang, earth evil, yin and yang in Unity, the five elements destroyed and the six energies extinguished, the Primordial Pill emerges!"

He watched as the elemental energy of the heavens and the earth violently converged, forging an invisible Pill Furnace.

The Spirit Matrix was in the midst, mingled in obscurity and transforming all, like the king of myriad breaths, melting creation within a furnace.

Boom!

Above the firmament, the originally clear blue skies and white clouds were suddenly replaced by dark fish-scale clouds, with flashes of lightning, rumbling thunder, and howling winds.

"Is this the tribulation of Pill Formation?"

Zhong Shenxiu sneered.

His alchemy was simply too strong, and the essence of the Outer Pill too pure, overcoming numerous bottlenecks that caused Zhang Taiyi to cough up blood, astonishingly reaching the verge of Pill Formation!

If Zhang Taiyi were to see this scene, he would surely feel both hatred and jealousy. To forge the embryonic Outer Pill, he had to scheme against several Divine Power Practitioners, using their divine fire to forcibly fuse differently-attributed spiritual materials into one. Zhong Shenxiu did not have to take this step; he simply skipped over it.

However, there was one step that could not be omitted at the time of Pill Formation.

Outside the orthodox path, a tribulation must arise!

This tribulation could be a Heavenly Tribulation, or a tribulation wrought by men, or even both erupting simultaneously!

Zhong Shenxiu had not practiced Zhang Taiyi’s "Supreme Dragon Tiger Tribulation Suppressing Scripture" and could not cleverly resolve the disaster. He had to face it head-on!

He trod the air, standing tall in the void, slowly extending his right palm and pressing it upon the invisible Pill Furnace.

Within the sea of consciousness, strands of Divine Skills, as if drawn by an invisible force, were about to plunge into the Pill Furnace.

For Zhang Taiyi, this step was extremely perilous. After all, the Outer Pill was just an external object. If it was not accepted by one’s personal divine skills, there would be loss, maybe even rejection. The slightest mistake could cause all efforts to go to waste.

But Zhong Shenxiu was different!

The Spirit Matrix was originally his. Their essences compatible, transferring the divine skills from his sea of consciousness faced no obstruction whatsoever.

Thread by thread, indescribable glimmers poured into the Pill Furnace and sank into the semi-finished Outer Pill.

The first was a flame, coalescing within the Outer Pill—this was the Third-class "Undying Heavenly Fire Divine Ability"!

Following it, it seemed as if a dragon and a tiger shadows twined around, which was the Third-class "Dragon-subduing and Tiger-suppressing Divine Seal"!

Then, five colors circulated, entering the Pill Furnace—this was the Second-class "Five Elements Heavenly Escape Divine Power"!

As divine skills left his body one by one, Zhong Shenxiu’s expression grew somewhat pale.

Yet at the same time, there was a feeling of rebirth. His mind felt ethereal, spirits lively, the whole person entering a state of sudden enlightenment.

The injection of divine skills continued.

Nine beams of immortal light flew from within his sea of consciousness into the Pill Furnace, circling around the Outer Pill, being gradually absorbed.

First-class—"Nine Pure Immortal Light Protection Divine Power"!

The wind rushed, and the rain fell hard, as if even heaven and earth sensed the extraordinary nature of this divine skill.

The invisible Pill Furnace, made from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, thundered on but still held firm.

Next was a hazy, indescribably mysterious talisman.

"Thousand Transformations Divine Power"!

This Divine Skill, in terms of grade, even vaguely surpassed the Nine Pure Immortal Light by a margin, transforming into a talisman of endless changes, enveloping the Outer Pill and then merging into it.

It was also thanks to the exceptionally high quality of Zhong Shenxiu’s Outer Pill that it could accommodate two First-class Divine Powers in succession without harm.

"Next... Uh..."

Zhong Shenxiu was just about to refine the three divine bodily powers within him, when his expression suddenly changed.

For he found that he could not transfer his bodily divine powers!

After all, the foundation of the Outer Elixir Method was still the Daoist Skills of this world, which were a different matter from bodily divine powers!

"Although... I’m confident that I could forcibly transfer them, but is that really wise?"

"Before, I was trapped by such attempts—do I want to be fooled again?"

"An Outer Pill refined with five major divine skills, even surpassing a Primordial Pill that’s been formed strictly in accordance with the ’Dragon Tiger Pill Book’... When the cup is full, it overflows; the moon wanes when full. Even the Great Dao has its deficiencies, should I step back?"

Zhong Shenxiu was in the midst of his decision.

Just then, in the sky, countless purple thunders entangled together, ready to transform into a streak of lightning!

Far off, two divine skill auras were speeding closer!

Heavenly Tribulation and man-made tribulation came at once!

Yet even with five Divine Skills infused within the Outer Pill, it still lacked the final step and had not yet congealed!