Seeking Immortality in a Bizarre World-Chapter 513 - 508 Exchange of Treasures, Five-patterned Returning Void Pill_1
Jia Ren possessed a Returning Void Pill given by Ancestor Ji Kong. All he needed was to restore the Alchemy Recipe, and that would be enough.
With his Alchemy Skills, such a task was already second nature to him.
The only headache was the Spiritual Medicine required to refine the Returning Void Pill.
Jia Ren was certain that the Spiritual Medicine for refining the Returning Void Pill was valuable. Although he had established a sufficiently large Medicinal Garden within the Heaven and Earth Mountain and Sea Pearl, he could not guarantee it would meet the needs for the Returning Void Pill.
If it were only Spiritual Medicine that was required, it would have been fine, but if Heavenly Earth Elixirs were needed... the situation would become much more troublesome.
"Exchange the essence of the Spirit Beast of Void’s flesh and blood and the Primordial Spirit Spring Water."
The Bead of Virtual Deity was a Sky-reaching Spirit Treasure, possessing its own consciousness. Borrowing this treasure would expose his true Cultivation Level.
Relying on high-quality Returning Void Pills, the essence of the Spirit Beast of Void’s flesh and blood, and the Primordial Spirit Spring Water should solve the problem, so there was naturally no need to exchange for the Bead of Virtual Deity’s usage.
The breakthrough success rate was still not sufficient. It wasn’t too late to exchange for the usage rights of the Bead of Virtual Deity later if needed.
"A total of 30,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution."
The exchange prices listed above were the discounted prices.
The 30,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution was gone. Truly spending money like water.
Treasures that aided in breaking through Realms were always scarce. It was impossible to have one for every person, so high exchange prices were also to be expected.
Ancestor Ji Kong had provided the Returning Void Pill. For ordinary Lingbao Sect true inheritors to exchange for a Returning Void Pill, they would have to spend a lot of time completing Sect missions.
Apart from Ancestor Ji Kong, the mentors of most Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators were merely at the Lianxu Stage. With many disciples under them, not many were willing to prepare a Returning Void Pill for their disciples.
Cultivators looking to break through Realms had to rely more on themselves. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Jia Ren scanned through the other exchange lists and found many treasures so rare that few within the Lingbao Sect had probably ever encountered them.
Everlasting Springwater: Increases lifespan by 300 years and maintains eternal youth. Exchange price: 20,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution. Quantity: Three. Limit: One portion per cultivator.
Soul-Cleansing Water: Cleanses the Divine Soul of impurities, making it less susceptible to Heart Demon influence. The stronger the Divine Soul, the more Soul-Cleansing Water is consumed. Exchange price: 1,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution per bottle.
Flesh Rebirth Pill: When the body is completely destroyed, leaving only the Divine Soul, it can be remodeled using remaining source blood or recreated directly. The latter method would reset the Body Refinement level, requiring one to start over. Exchange price: 50,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution.
Black Gold Divine Fruit: A Sixth Rank Spiritual Medicine (fruit) that, upon consumption, enhances the body and flesh. Most suitable for Refinement Void Body Cultivators to ingest. Exchange price: 2,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution.
Nine Revolutions Life Creation Pill: No matter how severe the bodily injury, consuming this Elixir will restore the body to its peak in the shortest time (This Elixir is only effective on the body and does not include the Divine Soul). Exchange price: 5,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution.
Soul Source Resurrection Pill: This Elixir can heal injuries suffered by the Divine Soul. As long as the Divine Soul still exists, it can be restored to its peak, including the damaged three souls and seven spirits. Exchange price: 20,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution.
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After scanning through the list, Jia Ren’s eyes couldn’t help but redden.
The Everlasting Springwater could increase lifespan and maintain eternal youth, and most importantly, it was half-price!
The Soul-Cleansing Water could cleanse the Divine Soul, which would be useful to Cultivators at the Divinity Transformation Stage and above. The more of such a treasure, the better.
The Flesh Rebirth Pill... Was this the method Ancestor Ji Kong used to restore Zhuo Chengdao’s body?
If used correctly, such a treasure was equivalent to a second life—definitely not something to miss...
Jia Ren had received the sequence rewards: one hundred million Lingbao Sect Contribution that he could spend lavishly.
The Lingbao Sect had released many treasures. What he had thought was a sizable wallet was proving completely insufficient.
Just the items to increase his chances of breaking through to the Refinement Void Realm by a mere one and a half percent had already cost 30,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution, leaving him with 70,000,000.
He decided to snap up the Everlasting Springwater first. Such a treasure could turn a huge profit if resold.
If he were even a step late, he would miss the chance to exchange for it.
The remaining 50,000,000 was just enough for the Flesh Rebirth Pill. However, considering he didn’t plan to take unnecessary risks, he doubted he’d be bullied to the point of having only a remnant Divine Soul. Thus, there was no rush to exchange for it yet.
It would be better to wait a hundred years, get the next one hundred million Lingbao Sect Contribution reward, and then consider exchanging for it.
The effects of the Soul-Cleansing Water were still unclear, but such a treasure shouldn’t be wasted. He’d start with ten bottles.
Jia Ren scanned the exchange list again. To his disappointment, it did not contain any Heavenly Earth Elixirs.
And no Elixirs refined from Heavenly Earth Elixirs either.
With the remaining 40,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution, he exchanged for two Nine Revolutions Life Creation Pills and one Soul Source Resurrection Pill.
He kept 10,000,000 Lingbao Sect Contribution in reserve. This was in case his own refinement of the Returning Void Pill was insufficient, allowing him to exchange for the usage rights of the Bead of Virtual Deity to enhance his odds of breaking through to the Refinement Void Realm.
Jia Ren had spent ninety percent of his Lingbao Sect Contribution. Laden with his gains, he returned to his Cave.
He went back to his Cave and entered the Heaven and Earth Mountain and Sea Pearl.
He first used the Soul-Cleansing Water to cleanse his Divine Soul.
A bottle of transparent, colorless Soul-Cleansing Water was absorbed into his body. It entered his sea of consciousness, and as the Star God Art operated, it continuously flowed through the Starsand that constituted his Star God.
Once it had circulated completely, the Soul-Cleansing Water was expelled from his body.
The colorless Soul-Cleansing Water was now tainted with three colors—cyan, gray, and black—which mixed together, giving it a filthy appearance.
His Divine Soul cultivation method, the Star God Art, focused on increasing the Divine Soul’s strength but lacked a means to cleanse it. Jia Ren had always relied on consuming Qingjin God Shrimp to rapidly strengthen his Divine Soul.
Over time, his Divine Soul’s strength had grown significantly, but inevitably, many impurities had accumulated.
Without a method to cleanse his Divine Soul, these impurities would surely impact his breakthrough to the Lianxu Stage and could even worsen his Heart Demon.
The Soul-Cleansing Water had arrived just in time.
If not for this, he wouldn’t have realized just how severe the impurities within his Divine Soul were.
After the first bottle was used up, he took out a second one.
The "wastewater" from the second bottle contained far fewer impurities. By the time the third bottle was used, the impurities had been reduced to an extremely low level.
After the third bottle, Jia Ren stopped.
Next, he would continue using Qingjin God Shrimp to hasten the improvement of his Divine Soul. When that happened, he would inevitably need to use Soul-Cleansing Water again.
As long as he cleansed it once more before his breakthrough, it wouldn’t be too late.
After cleansing his Divine Soul, his consciousness became clear, and his Divine Soul moved with ease, perfectly responsive to his will.
Compared to before, his Divine Soul felt as relaxed and free as if it had shed heavy shackles.
Once the Divine Soul cleansing was complete, Jia Ren took out the Returning Void Pill, ready to restore its Alchemy Recipe.
Upon removing the restrictions on the Returning Void Pill, the Elixir, as if possessing a Spiritual Nature of its own, quickly tried to flee.
Jia Ren raised his hand, and using his Spiritual Power as an invisible force, forcibly suppressed the Returning Void Pill in his palm.
He took out a small knife, scraped off a bit of powder from the Returning Void Pill, then reapplied the restrictions and stored it away.
This type of test wouldn’t affect the medicinal properties of the Returning Void Pill, and it could still be used later.
This wasn’t the first time Jia Ren had restored an Alchemy Recipe. He was confident that the bit of powder was enough to identify the Spiritual Medicines required for its refinement.
Combining this with his own Alchemy experience, he could deduce the ’monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy’ ingredient system, understand the original refiner’s thought process, and then use his own experience to optimize it.
The quality of the Elixir he would produce would surely be even higher than this original Returning Void Pill.
Jia Ren consumed the powder from the Returning Void Pill, closed his eyes, and entered a focused state of utter concentration, losing himself in the analysis.
An Hour later, he slowly opened his eyes, a look of surprise in them.
"Xuling Flower?"
"The Returning Void Pill actually contains the Heavenly Earth Elixir, Xuling Flower?"
Jia Ren was not unfamiliar with the Xuling Flower. He knew it was used to concoct the Virtual Spirit Pill, a top-tier life-saving Elixir that allowed one to enter a void state, becoming temporarily invulnerable to all damage.
He hadn’t expected it to be one of the main ingredients in the Returning Void Pill.
Perhaps the Sect kept it a secret and didn’t record it in detail in publicly available texts.
Jia Ren had entered the Jiao Dragon Secret Realm before and discovered an immature Xuling Flower. After cultivating it to maturity, he now had one in stock.
If not for that, just searching for the Heavenly Earth Elixir, Xuling Flower, would have been a huge headache.
The Returning Void Pill didn’t require much of the Xuling Flower. Besides that, it needed other aged Spiritual Medicines.
A 30,000-year-old Golden Ginseng, a 10,000-year-old Golden Spirit Fruit...
The auxiliary Spiritual Medicines for concocting the Returning Void Pill were numerous in both quantity and variety, with none being less than 10,000 years old.
Jia Ren scraped off another bit of powder for a second confirmation.
Apart from the Xuling Flower, there were no other Heavenly Earth Elixirs.
The requirements for the Spiritual Medicines to concoct the Returning Void Pill weren’t excessively high. The only issue was the 30,000-year-old Golden Ginseng, as its current medicinal properties were insufficient. Otherwise, all other conditions could be met.
The Xuling Flower isn’t needed in large amounts. One plant, a Heavenly Earth Elixir, can supply enough for five batches. If I’m careful, I can finish refining in one or two batches, and the remaining portion of the Xuling Flower can still be used to concoct a Virtual Spirit Pill.
"The Xuan Beast Avatar must make every effort to mature the Golden Ginseng to 30,000 years!"
Jia Ren issued a command to his Xuan Beast Avatar to study the combination of Spiritual Medicines in the Returning Void Pill.
This wasn’t just about the Elixir’s ingredients; it also involved the creative principles of an Artifact Refiner.
He needed to clarify which ingredients were primary and which were secondary, determine the auxiliary proportions based on their medicinal properties, and fully comprehend the pharmacological rationale.
This didn’t take much time. In five or six Hours, he had thoroughly sorted everything out, understanding the thoughts and intentions of the Elixir’s original creator.
At this point, the restoration of the Alchemy Recipe was complete.
However, for Jia Ren, this was merely the beginning.
His goal wasn’t just to restore the Alchemy Recipe, but to improve and optimize it further, to refine a Returning Void Pill of even better quality.
He needed to optimize it quickly, with few attempts, to avoid wasting his limited chances for Alchemy.
Optimizing the Alchemy Recipe would take far more time than just restoring it.
The accelerated maturation of the Spiritual Medicines and the optimization of the Alchemy Recipe proceeded simultaneously. Three years swiftly passed.
The Xuan Beast Avatar was the first to complete the accelerated maturation of the Spiritual Medicines.
This was thanks to the many ordinary Spiritual Medicines planted in the Spirit Medicine Garden. While they held little intrinsic value and wouldn’t be used for Alchemy themselves, their sole function was to serve as nourishment for other, more valuable Spiritual Medicines.
The Xuan Beast Avatar employed the Kuruo Huasheng Jue, absorbing the medicinal power of these lesser Spiritual Medicines to accelerate the growth of the required ones as quickly as possible.
The optimization of the Returning Void Pill’s Alchemy Recipe was also finished. In fact, the required Spiritual Medicines could have been fully matured even earlier than anticipated.
Everything was ready. It was time to refine the Returning Void Pill.
The new refinement method flowed through his mind. Jia Ren first carefully took out the Xuling Flower, coaxing it from its ethereal state into a tangible form before cutting off one-fifth of it.
Then, he prepared the other Spiritual Medicines. Only after everything was completely ready did he enter the Alchemy Room, expertly setting up the fire and furnace.
Each Spiritual Medicine was first pre-refined in his hands according to the optimal proportions. This was to prevent any impurities from affecting the fusion of the medicinal liquids and their properties.
Under Jia Ren’s meticulous control, the Alchemy process went incredibly smoothly.
Seven years passed in a flash. Within the furnace, the medicinal liquid began to solidify. Above the forming Elixir, five radiant golden Elixir Patterns appeared.
The Returning Void Pill was complete! It was a Five-Patterned Spirit Pill!
