Seven Alchemy Chambers

The Heaven-Mending Pill is a medicinal pill that repairs one's innate talent and constitution.

The concept of repairing one's innate qualities, though simple in words, is enough to drive cultivators throughout the entire Sea Region into a frenzy... One might even boldly claim it would drive the entire cultivation world mad.

Generally speaking, when a living being is born, their innate bone structure and natural talents are predetermined, extremely difficult to alter later in life. It requires thousands or even tens of thousands times more resources to compensate for innate deficiencies.

Take a simple example: Long Qiqi has been taking Bone Tempering Pills for four to five years, consuming countless precious spiritual medicines. Yet has there been any significant improvement in her innate constitution? She hasn't even recovered from her congenital injuries - she remains as she was.

This is the impact of innate deficiencies and imperfect heavenly dao.

The Heaven-Mending Pill repairs exactly these innate qualities - it mends the heavenly dao within living beings.

The cultivation system in the Lingnan Region is more advanced than the Sea Region's, with lower requirements for innate talent. However, even there, the impact of one's innate qualities on cultivation progress remains evident.

Take Li Shiyin and Long Qiqi as examples. They began foundation building in the same year, yet the gap in their cultivation levels is as vast as that between clouds and mud.

In a direct confrontation between Li Shiyin and Long Qiqi, how many Long Qiqis would it take to defeat Li Shiyin?

Though this is an extreme example, it demonstrates the terrifying impact that innate talent has on cultivators.

If things are already this way in the Lingnan Region, imagine the despair caused by talent differences in the Sea Region's cultivation system, where innate qualities and talent requirements are even higher?

Thus, one can understand just how tempting the Heaven-Mending Pill is to cultivators of the Sea Region.

One could say that for those powers in the Tianlan Sea Region coveting the Divine Essence Old Demon's legacy, obtaining just the pill formula for the Heaven-Mending Pill would make all their years of scheming worthwhile.

The Heaven-Mending Pill, mending heaven itself, repairing the flaws in the heavenly dao. Though it may not be classified as an immortal pill, calling it one would not be an exaggeration.

Qin Ran stood before the light screen, reading the pill formula word by word. Only after a long while, when he was certain he had understood and memorized it completely, did he turn around.

He was currently in an alchemy room.

The light screen displaying the Heaven-Mending Pill formula served as a door to the next alchemy room.

The light screen showed the formula for the Heaven-Mending Pill, and below it were three pill-sized indentations.

The meaning was clear: to open the light screen and access the next alchemy room, one must learn to refine the Heaven-Mending Pill and place three successfully refined pills in the indentations.

In the center of the alchemy room stood a pill furnace suitable for both fire and water methods of pill refinement.

To the left of the furnace was a cabinet filled with drawers containing spiritual medicines, all ingredients necessary for refining the Heaven-Mending Pill.

To the right was a table with bookshelves beside it, containing books related to pill refinement.

Clearly, the Divine Essence Old Demon had considered that cultivators reaching this place might not be alchemists and had prepared everything needed to learn alchemy from scratch. Quite thoughtful indeed.

This place was an alchemy room, but it was also part of the Divine Essence Old Demon's sealed space.

It remained under seal, a sealed space rather than a real location.

Though everything appeared real - the bookshelves and their books containing genuine alchemy techniques, the functional pill furnace that would automatically repair itself if destroyed, the medicine cabinet with endless supplies that replenished themselves when used - it was all confined to this sealed space.

Like respawning resources in a game, the only limitation was that these items could only be used within this sealed space and couldn't be taken out.

After surveying the room, Qin Ran didn't immediately gather ingredients to start refining pills. Instead, he went to the bookshelf, took some alchemy books, sat at the table, and began studying from the beginning.

It wasn't that he couldn't refine the Heaven-Mending Pill; he wanted to systematically study the Sea Region's alchemy techniques.

Having spent time here, he had gradually realized that while it was difficult to say whether the Sea Region's or Lingnan Region's alchemy was superior overall, the Sea Region's water method of pill refinement was definitely more advanced.

One of his few virtues was his patience. Steady as an old hand, he spent half a month reading through all the alchemy books without rest, sleep, food, or drink, gaining a systematic understanding of the Sea Region's alchemy techniques.

Strangely - or perhaps not so strangely - the Sea Region's water method of pill refinement wasn't vastly different from the Lingnan Region's. This made sense considering that the Lingnan Region's cultivation system was derived from the Sea Region's, so their water method of pill refinement likely originated from there as well.

Whether due to the Sea Region's more complete water method or because this was the Divine Essence Old Demon's alchemy legacy, Qin Ran's alchemy skills improved significantly as he filled gaps in his knowledge while studying.

For instance, the Sea Region's explanation and application of pill water was much more comprehensive. Somehow, the Lingnan Region had lost all knowledge of pill water usage. Qin Ran was able to complete his understanding of these minor pill water techniques.

After his initial reading, he spent another ten-plus days studying the materials in detail, gaining even more insights.

By now, he felt that by the Sea Region's standards, he would at least qualify as a fourth-rank alchemist.

Only after finishing his studies did he begin pill refinement.

Though the Heaven-Mending Pill wasn't classified as an immortal pill, its quality reached the Nascent Soul or Dao Integration realm, equivalent to fourth or fifth-grade pills in the Sea Region's system.

Despite his newly improved alchemy skills and confidence as a fourth-rank alchemist, Qin Ran still lacked pill water.

Moreover, he was still only at the Nascent Soul realm.

So even with his improved alchemy skills and a suitable water method pill furnace, refining the Heaven-Mending Pill remained extremely challenging.

Furthermore, as this was only his avatar, his Nascent Soul couldn't compare to those of true Nascent Soul cultivators, making the pill refinement process extremely draining. He had to rest after each attempt.

He would practice the Raging Waves Visualization Method to recover his Nascent Soul's energy.

Once recovered, he would begin another attempt.

This way, it took eleven attempts before he barely managed to produce one Heaven-Mending Pill.

That batch yielded seven pills, but six were ruined, leaving only one survivor. Even that one was merely an ungraded, impure pill.

Fortunately, this being a sealed space, spiritual medicines were unlimited and free for him to use.

He made seven more attempts. Though pills formed each time, none were of sufficient grade.

Whether due to the Heaven-Mending Pill's difficulty, his unfamiliarity with the Sea Region's spiritual medicines, or perhaps because the abundant resources were beyond his experience as a humble practitioner, this marked one of the lowest points in his alchemy career.

It wasn't until his nineteenth attempt that he produced a batch of low-grade Heaven-Mending Pills.

By the twenty-first attempt, he finally saw medium-grade pills.

At the thirtieth attempt, he produced supreme-grade pills.

By the thirty-sixth attempt, his pill quality stabilized, fluctuating around high grade.

Perhaps due to never having such abundant resources before, Qin Ran's continuous practice actually strengthened his Nascent Soul considerably. This experience reminded him once again that alchemy was an extremely resource-intensive profession.

He had previously graduated from his apprenticeship and begun earning money, reducing his resource consumption.

Yet in this sealed space, he indulged extravagantly.

Seeing that the space's resources were renewable, Qin Ran, following the principle of not wasting free resources, began taking out spiritual medicines to create his own combinations.

He familiarized himself with these medicines, researched new medicinal combinations, and explored ways to use local ingredients to recreate Lingnan Region pills.

Like a child with a new toy, he became completely absorbed, continuing to refine pills for three months after completing the Heaven-Mending Pills.

By this time, through constant consumption and recovery, his Nascent Soul had notably strengthened. He had also gained complete mastery over the local spiritual medicines.

His strength had increased, his pill refinement skills had improved, and his knowledge of medicinal ingredients had deepened...

"This is truly my blessed land!" Qin Ran sighed with emotion. "Fighting tooth and nail to get here was absolutely worth it!"

With that, he placed three supreme-grade Heaven-Mending Pills into the indentation on the light screen.

The Heaven-Mending Pills vanished into the indentation, and the light screen parted to both sides. After the screen opened, three Heaven-Mending Pills appeared where the indentation had been, floating in mid-air.

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Qin Ran mentally drew a question mark, frozen in shock as a terrifying possibility occurred to him.

He reached out and took the three Heaven-Mending Pills... He could clearly sense that these were real Heaven-Mending Pills, three genuine, supreme-grade Heaven-Mending Pills!

What did a supreme-grade Heaven-Mending Pill mean?

One pill was enough to transform Long Qiqi into someone with talent comparable to Li Shiyin... in terms of aptitude alone.

"This is..."

Qin Ran stood rooted to the spot.

Divine Essence Old Demon, Divine Essence Old Demon - this brother's style wasn't demonic at all.

He was too righteous!

Everything Qin Ran had heard about the Divine Essence Old Demon indicated that he was genuinely a good person.

He had left his legacy here, thoughtfully teaching others how to refine pills, offering rewards after passing tests... He was someone who educated others and passed on knowledge - a truly great person!

Qin Ran felt ashamed - such a great person everywhere, yet he himself was so base in comparison.

Thinking this, he took out his natal magical treasure, the Water Flower Pearl. The pearl sprayed water, forming a spherical bubble that enveloped the three supreme-grade Heaven-Mending Pills.

"These were Heaven-Mending Pills, so what's next?" Qin Ran walked through the doorway into the next refining room as the light screen closed behind him. He approached the light screen ahead, "Dust-Clearing Pills..."

The Dust-Clearing Pill helped qi practitioners increase their true qi.

The extraordinary thing was that it worked regardless of cultivation level. Meaning both first-rank and seventh-rank qi practitioners could use it.

Next was the Primordial Pill, which strengthened the physical body.

Then the Soul-Extreme Pill, which strengthened the soul.

The Divine Splendor Pill and Immortal Essence Pill were special pills refined using divine essence and immortal condensation.

Qin Ran learned the pill refinement techniques in each room while refining pills, strengthening his divine spirit, and passing tests.

After consuming three supreme-grade Soul-Extreme Pills, his divine spirit strength had reached the peak of third rank, surpassing his physical body. After refining the Immortal Essence Pill, his pill refinement skills had nearly reached sixth rank.

He took the Immortal Essence Pill and entered the seventh refinement room, walking forward to the light screen, where he saw the final pill...

An immortal pill!

The Yin-Yang Immortal Essence Pill.