Library of Heaven’s Path - Chapter 2201

From the earlier pill forging, Fu Jiangchen couldn’t help but feel deeply impressed by the young man before him. To be able to achieve such a deep understanding of medicinal herbs and pill forging, how could the other party possibly harm him?

Thus, even though he knew that he would be in danger if he did not resist, he still gritted his teeth and gave in.

Pu pu pu!

As soon as the silver needles entered his acupoints, a surge of zhenqi gushed into his body. His meridians, which had been clogged by the pill poison previously, immediately burst open.

The zhenqi that had been sealed within his body suddenly surged upward, as if a flood had broken through a dam.

Kacha! Kacha!

In the blink of an eye, his vitality and the purity of his zhenqi underwent a drastic change. At the same time, his disposition also rose to a whole new level, allowing him to take the final step forward.

“I … achieved a breakthrough just like that?”

Fu Jiangchen was stunned.

The bottleneck that had plagued him for so many years had been overcome just like that?

Even Fairy Linglong was unable to solve it, and yet, the young man before him was able to do it so easily?

Seeing that Fu Jiangchen was still in a daze, Zhang Xuan anxiously instructed, “It has already been twenty breaths. Don’t hesitate anymore. Hurry up and heat up the cauldron!”

Fu Jiangchen had only been able to maintain his zhenqi for thirty breaths at most, but it had taken him a total of twenty breaths to achieve a breakthrough. If he did not hurry up, his zhenqi would be completely depleted, and the pill forging would fail as well.

Since he had not added the Grass of God King into the cauldron, he would only be wasting a cauldron of ordinary medicinal herbs. However, Zhang Xuan did not have that much time!

It had already taken him four hours to forge the 107 medicinal herbs. If he could find the medicinal herbs and wait for Fu Jiangchen to recover his stamina, he would have to start all over again.

By then, it would be too late for him to compete for the slots to the Spirit God Palace.

Thus, he had to succeed at all costs!

“Alright!” Fu Jiangchen gritted his teeth.

Even though he had reached God King realm pinnacle, he had not had the time to cultivate yet, so his zhenqi reserves had not increased at all. Thus, he could only last for ten breaths at most.

He had no idea why the other party wanted him to heat up the cauldron, but for the time being, he had no choice but to obey the other party’s orders.

Xiong xiong!

As his zhenqi surged into the cauldron, the flames beneath the cauldron grew even brighter and stronger. The temperature of the cauldron began rising once more.

Another five breaths later, he began sweating profusely. “I have reached my limit. I can’t raise the temperature of the flames anymore …”

Even though he had achieved a breakthrough in his cultivation, he had yet to reinforce his cultivation properly, so there was a limit to the increase in his temperature. If he was unable to do so, there was really nothing he could do about it.

“The temperature is high enough … Keep it up!”

Zhang Xuan’s eyes were also a little red.

As expected of someone who had broken through by taking medicine. Otherwise, his foundation wouldn’t have been so good.

He had thought that as long as he reached God King realm pinnacle, he would be able to easily reach or even surpass the temperature of his flames. Who could have thought that he would actually be able to reach such a level?

This critical point was equivalent to the lowest temperature required to melt the Grass of God King. He had thought that the pill would work with a hundred percent success rate, but at this moment, he was no longer confident that he would succeed!

“I don’t care …”

Knowing that there was no time to hesitate, Zhang Xuan took out the Grass of God King and infused his Pathos of Heaven zhenqi into the four stalks before tossing them into the cauldron.

Boom!

As soon as his zhenqi came into contact with the medicinal liquid in the cauldron, it immediately began to burn within the cauldron. The temperature that had just reached a critical point rose once more.

Huala!

The sturdy Grass of God Emperor immediately melted and merged perfectly with the liquid.

Three breaths!

Two breaths …

“Hurry up …” Zhang Xuan clenched his fists tightly.

Even though the Grass of God King had melted, it would still take some time for it to fuse perfectly with the medicinal liquid. However, it was clear that Fu Jiangchen was on the verge of collapsing.

One breath!

“I’m sorry, I really can’t hold on any longer …”

Fu Jiangchen’s face paled as he collapsed weakly to the ground.

He had already expended all of the zhenqi in his body.

Without the support of a God King realm pinnacle, the flames in the cauldron were immediately extinguished. At the same time, the temperature within the cauldron began to plummet.

Boom!

The fusion of the Grass of God King and the medicinal liquid had also reached the final step. As soon as the energy dissipated, the fusion was complete. With a deafening rumble, four pills leaped out of the cauldron and shot into the sky.

The God King Breakthrough Pill had been completed!

“I don’t have the strength to control the cauldron anymore …” Fu Jiangchen gritted his teeth in despair.

When Fu Jiangchen saw the elixir rushing out of the furnace, he felt both happy and sad.

He was happy that Zhang Xuan hadn’t dropped the ball at the very last moment, and he had still managed to successfully forge the pill … On the other hand, Zhang Xuan found it hard to accept the fact that a pill of this tier would possess its own sentience. If he didn’t grab hold of it quickly and erase its sentience, there was a good chance that he would have failed to reap any benefits from the forging!

On the other hand, Zhang Xuan was only a high-tier Celestial God. While the pills before him had not reached the level of a God King yet, they were not too far away from it.

Even before Zhang Xuan’s breakthrough, it would have been difficult for him to catch four of them at once, let alone now that he was completely drained of energy!

In other words …

Although he had successfully refined the pill, he could only watch as the pill flew away. In the end, he wouldn’t be able to obtain anything!

Wu wu wu!

Just as he had expected, after breaking through the cauldron, the pills immediately broke through the seal of the room and flew into the sky.

“Why are there so few?” Zhang Xuan frowned.

Based on his calculations, with the four Grass of God King and his precise forging technique, he should have been able to forge at least ten pills. Yet, there were only four of them.

However, this wasn’t the time to be thinking about that. Zhang Xuan’s eyebrows shot up as he leaped into the air. A sword appeared in his hand as he tapped the air.

Hula!

Countless strands of sword qi burst forth, forming a massive net in the air.

His heart was like a net with thousands of knots in it!

Knowing how formidable the pills were, Zhang Xuan immediately executed his strongest swordsmanship right from the start.

The swordsmanship that he had comprehended back in the Azure had been modified once more upon reaching the Firmament. Complemented by the God King-tier sword, the dense net shrouded the entire area.

While the gaps in the net were huge, they would shrink as soon as they came into contact with any force.

Heaven’s net has a wide mesh, but nothing escapes it!

Ji ji ji ji!

As soon as the sword qi came into contact with the net, the pills were unable to struggle free. The sentience within them was swiftly erased, and Zhang Xuan placed them into a jade box.

“It’s done!”

After catching the escaping pills, Zhang Xuan heaved a sigh of relief. He was just about to say something when the sight before him suddenly blurred. Yet another pill abruptly flew out of the cauldron, and in the blink of an eye, it soared into the clouds before vanishing from sight.

“This is bad! There’s another Pill King!”

Zhang Xuan narrowed his eyes in astonishment.

Under normal circumstances, when forging pills in the same cauldron, the potency of the pills would be roughly the same. However, there were exceptions.

Take this situation for example. The time taken for the flames to reach a certain temperature was too short, and too much Grass of God King had been added into the cauldron. On top of that, Fu Jiangchen’s energy had been completely depleted, resulting in the formation of a single Pill King!

In terms of potency, the Pill King was several times stronger than the other pills. In terms of potency, it was already comparable to a God King!