Materials Ready, Ready to Break Through

【To gather the materials needed to refine the “Voidreturn Origin Pill,” you traveled all over Blazelight Star.】

【Whatever you could collect, you collected. Whatever you couldn’t collect, you took anyway.】

【“You tell me—my alchemy materials were perfectly safe and sound. How did they end up in your hands?”】

【It was all thanks to the human race’s decline. On Blazelight Star, anything good was unlikely to remain in human hands.】

【With the support of “Eternal Half-Emperor,” your cultivation had already reached the third turn of the Alchemy Transformation Realm.】

【If you ran into another race, you could at least make them suffer under the three golden traits “Otherworldly Races’ Strictest Father,” “Heartsteel,” and “Calamity of Myriad Races.”】

【So when facing other races, you were invincible below the Desperate Realm. Against someone in the Desperate Realm, it depended on the circumstances. If they had no way to counter you, you could stand your ground against them—or even wear them down to death with “Wolverine.”】

【As for the Heaven-Through Realm, you were currently helpless.】

【Unless your opponent happened to be a dragon. In that case, they would simply be out of luck.】

【So overall, your material-gathering trip went quite smoothly.】

【Before long, only two materials remained.】

【“Origin Sand and Ghostshock Grass… Taige said that both of these materials are incredibly rare. Blazelight Star doesn’t produce them; they’re imported from other planets.

The major sects have channels through which they can obtain them.

Small factions can only bid for them at auction.”】

【You inquired about where you could find an auction house.】

【After some twists and turns, you confirmed that both materials would be among the items auctioned by the Azureflame Chamber of Commerce in the near future.】

【There was another piece of good news.】

【The Azureflame Chamber of Commerce’s auction hall wasn’t located within any city. It had been built on their own territory, so you didn’t need to worry about residency permits.】

【The Azureflame Chamber of Commerce was the largest merchant organization on Blazelight Star, with businesses spanning several nearby star systems.】

【Its owner was a member of the Flame Race, so the chamber gave preferential treatment to Flame Race members when filling jobs.】

【The Flame Race was just as its name suggested. Their entire bodies were wreathed in fire, making them look like humanoid flames.】

【They could control the temperature and power of the flames around their bodies, so you didn’t have to worry about them accidentally burning a guest to death while receiving them.】

【With “Calamity of Myriad Races,” the talents of others became your talents as well.】

【You touched a Flame Race guard at the entrance and acquired the Flame Race’s innate talent.】

【Flamefire Aria: You can transform your body into flames and control the intensity of the fire.】

【It was a talent that perfectly matched your Five Elements attributes.】

【You disguised yourself as a member of the Flame Race and successfully entered the auction.】

【Were you planning to bid an exorbitant price and shock the entire crowd?】

【No.】

【Where would you get that many origin stones? Granted, you had made quite a few windfalls recently.】

【But if you could get something for free, why spend money on it?】

【You entered the auction hall merely to see who bought the items, so you could take them back afterward.】

【You left a clone outside to follow the target as soon as they came out and report their location to you.】

【This auction was only a routine event, not a top-tier auction capable of drawing all kinds of major figures.】

【So there wasn’t anything particularly earth-shattering on offer.】

【Still, one item caught your attention.】

【“The Three-Soul Fusion?”】

【A jade slip was displayed on the auction stage. It contained a technique called “The Three-Soul Fusion.”】

【The auctioneer displayed the first two pages of the technique so that the bidders could get a general look at it.】

【In the end, no one understood a word of it.】

【The starting price was not cheap, and everyone was worried that even if they bought it, they wouldn’t be able to practice it. As a result, no one placed a bid.】

【Only you knew that this technique was the key to the Female Heavenly Emperor living a second life.】

【“Should I buy it?”】

【Unsold items would be sealed away again.】

【You weren’t strong enough to rob the Azureflame Chamber of Commerce outright—not yet—and you didn’t want to cause yourself such enormous trouble.】

【Although you didn’t yet know where the Female Heavenly Emperor’s three souls were, you had a feeling that since “Three-Soul Severance” was already in your hands, you might as well obtain “The Three-Soul Fusion” too.】

【It might come in handy someday.】

【Sold!】

【After an entire auction, that was the only thing you bought.】

【At the same time, you identified the two targets who had purchased the Origin Sand and Ghostshock Grass.】

【“Chen Five, there’s a member of the Winged Race at the west exit. He’s in the Alchemy Transformation Realm and wearing a dark-red robe. Follow him!”】

【People often say that one person cannot be in two places at once.】

【That saying did not apply to you.】

【You could track the person who bought the Origin Sand from the east exit while simultaneously having your clone track the Winged Race member who bought the Ghostshock Grass from the west exit.】

【The buyer of the Origin Sand wasn’t very strong, and he had two or three companions with him.】

【One punch from you was enough to make him beg for mercy.】

【The Origin Sand was yours.】

【When you were about to leave, the other party insisted on giving you some origin stones, claiming it was merely a token of goodwill and a gesture of friendship.】

【If you’re making friends, why give me origin stones?】

【But since they were so sincere, you couldn’t very well refuse.】

【The Origin Sand was yours, along with the origin stones.】

【Things were more troublesome on the Ghostshock Grass’s side.】

【The Winged Race member was alone, but he could fly.】

【After following him for a while, Chen Five simply couldn’t keep up. So he jumped out and shouted:】

【“You up ahead, Winged Race! Get down here and face your grandpa!”】

【How could the noble Winged Race tolerate such provocation from a lowly human?】

【“You ignorant old fool! You’re courting death!”】

【The Winged Race member chased after him, while Chen Five ran in your direction.】

【Seeing that the old man’s movement technique was so nimble that he couldn’t catch him for the time being, the Winged Race member decided to give up.】

【But just as he was about to leave, Chen Five started taunting him again.】

【“Hahaha! Scared, are you? Back in my day, I slaughtered you Winged Race members like chicks! You’d line up to kneel and beg for mercy!”】

【Enraged by his words, the Winged Race member flattened the surrounding forest in a fit of fury, leaving Chen Five nowhere to hide. In the end, he beat him to pieces.】

【“Where did this mad old man come from…?”】

【Chen Five used his sacrifice to buy you enough time to catch up.】

【By the time the Winged Race member took to the air again, you had arrived.】

【You leaped into the air. Your jumping power was astonishing—you soared even higher than the Winged Race member could fly. Then you stomped down hard on his back and sent him crashing from the sky.】

【The Winged Race member had keen eyesight. He felt that you looked very much like the old man from before.】

【“Interesting. Usually, after the younger one gets beaten, the older one comes looking for revenge. This time, the old one gets beaten and the younger one comes after me.”】

【You couldn’t be bothered to waste words on him and simply threw a punch.】

【You still had quite a few stacks of “Heartsteel” on you. The moment you exchanged blows, the Winged Race member felt an overwhelming pressure.】

【“I remember now! You’re the human who destroyed Demon Calamity True Lord’s physical body!

Senior, please spare me! I didn’t know that human was connected to you!

Besides, that old man provoked me for no reason!”】

【Under normal circumstances, the death of a clone was no big deal. You could simply summon another one the next day.】

【But after what had happened on Fortune Star, you were extremely displeased with the Winged Race.】

【So all you could say was that he had the misfortune to cross you.】

【The Winged Race member died shortly afterward from acute cardiac arrest, and his storage bag became yours.】

【“What a haul…”】

【There were plenty of cultivation resources and origin stones inside the man’s storage bag—including the Ghostshock Grass you needed most at the moment.】

【From an identity token inside the storage bag, you learned that he was an outer-sect elder of the Flying Feather Sect.】

【Now, all the alchemy materials were complete.】

You waste no time searching for a place with Earthfire, then begin refining the pills.

“Once the pills are complete, you’ll officially enter the Pill Transformation Realm!”

This is a breakthrough into an entirely new major realm—its significance is extraordinary!