"This... I’m afraid it’s very difficult."

Mr. Yan said, "The last elixir had already reached its limit, and even if those big fire pits in the sick village spent decades refining an elixir, its quality would likely not surpass that medicine powder."

"Who would disagree? Taking fifty steps to ninety is easy, but going from ninety-eight to a hundred is as difficult as climbing to the heavens, which is why I said, Zhou Xuan, it’s over."

Qing Yangyu sighed as he spoke.

"Can’t the figures above loosen the conditions a bit more?"

"That’s not something we can discuss," Qing Yangyu waved a hand and said,

"Go on, go on, Xiao Yan, go and distribute the orders from above,

such a promising Dan Official, what a pity, what a pity."

Mr. Yan was helpless and could only withdraw.

...

In the Xie Family’s Cave, Mingjiang Prefecture,

the Eternal Life Sect Leader and Tiancan Monk were still playing the audience, when suddenly, they saw an eye.

This eye had a hint of sadness in its gaze, it was precisely Mr. Yan’s eye.

"Mr. Yan."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader and Tiancan Monk bowed simultaneously.

"Today Zhou Xuan set up such a grand colorful play, shocking Bai Yujing, above has announced, if Zhou Xuan refines a better elixir than last time, they will turn a blind eye to the fact that he is a Colorful Play Master, as if they hadn’t seen it,

but if the elixir Zhou Xuan refines tonight is not much different from the previous one, you two, will bring back Zhou Xuan’s head and the Green and Red Fish to the Heavenly Dome."

"Understood," said the Eternal Life Sect Leader.

"Understood," said Tiancan Monk.

The Eternal Life Sect Leader and Tiancan Monk nodded simultaneously.

After Mr. Yan’s eye disappeared, the two, Changsheng and Tiancan, exchanged bitter smiles.

If Zhou Xuan became a Dan Official, they would have contributed by recommending him, and their days in the Heavenly Dome would be better.

But if Zhou Xuan died tonight, they might also suffer consequences, making the future even harder to endure.

"Refining a better elixir? Isn’t this pushing Zhou Xuan to his death?"

The Eternal Life Sect Leader sighed and said.

"If he dies, it won’t be good for us either."

Tiancan Monk and the Eternal Life Sect Leader, having lived in the Heavenly Dome for so long, surely knew the ways of those above?

"Maybe Zhou Xuan can succeed, his first pill was a medicine powder, this is the second, the second pill should make some progress."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader’s words carried a bit of a hopeful tone, but thinking it over carefully, it wasn’t just wishful thinking, "First time is unfamiliar, second time is familiar", the more you do something, the more skillful you become.

"You don’t understand the Alchemy Dao, we should find someone who does and ask them."

"Who should we look for?"

"That old Bai Lu, he understands alchemy."

Tiancan Monk remembered Hermit Bai Lu.

...

Speaking of Zhou Xuan’s Alchemy Incense, it hadn’t officially been lit, and his understanding of the Alchemy Dao was not much,

the true expert in Alchemy Dao was Hermit Bai Lu, who was once a Heavenly Dome Pill Official.

"What? Refine an elixir better than the last one? That’s impossible."

Hermit Bai Lu, faced with the questions from the Eternal Life Sect Leader and Tiancan Monk, shook his head immediately.

"Why can’t it be done?"

"It just can’t be done. Alchemy Dao is a profound field, a Dan Official can toil for decades without making an inch of progress in their Alchemy Dao cultivation,

expecting to gain progress with one or two furnaces of pills? Not even a genius can do that."

Alchemist Bai Lu spoke with great confidence, but in reality, he knew Zhou Xuan’s secret, yet he did not reveal it to the Eternal Life Sect Leader and Tiancan Monk.

He had seen with his own eyes that Zhou Xuan’s current alchemy relied on the "Starry Sky Scroll", where this scroll came from, nobody knew,

but this scroll could refine elixirs by itself—like an automated machine.

This automated alchemy scroll had a benefit—even if Zhou Xuan did not understand the Alchemy Dao, he could still refine very powerful elixirs by collecting enough materials and building the corresponding level of the pill furnace.

But the scroll also had a drawback, because it was an automated alchemy machine, it lacked autonomous awareness.

It could only refine that one type of elixir, and other elixirs were out of reach, and if you added random alchemical ingredients into the furnace hoping to improve the quality of the elixir, well, prepare for an explosion.

Therefore,

the grade of Zhou Xuan’s elixir tonight, at best, would match the quality of the last medicine powder, hoping to refine something better... that’s dreaming.

"It’s over, we’re going to suffer consequences."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader gave a bitter smile,

Tiancan Monk also sighed and said, "It seems the new Pill Official of the Heavenly Dome can only sacrifice his head."

After hearing Alchemist Bai Lu’s words, they no longer had hopes for Zhou Xuan and were already pondering how to take down Zhou Xuan while also extracting the Green and Red Fish from his body,

"Tonight, there are too many skilled individuals, and Zhou Xuan is the kind of person who dares to draw a blade against anyone, just the two of us might be hard pressed."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader then said to Tiancan Monk, "Don’t just spectate, go, find Old Incense."

"I can’t go out, you should go."

Tiancan Monk said helplessly.

The Battlefield Stage was just like this, as long as you were an audience or actor who entered the stage, unless the play ended, you couldn’t leave,

unless the layer of incense of the audience or actor was too high, so high that Zhou Xuan’s stage couldn’t constrain them.

Although Tiancan Monk and the Eternal Life Sect Leader were both above the nine Incense levels,

there could still be distinctions in levels above the nine Incense.

The level of the Eternal Life Sect Leader surpassed Tiancan Monk slightly, Tiancan Monk couldn’t leave the stage, but the Eternal Life Sect Leader could.

"I’ll go then."

The Eternal Life Sect Leader left the stage, going to find the incense fire Taoist for the grand finale...

...

The audience in the Battlefield Stage, looking at those Tunnel Armor Sect disciples, were filled with hatred,

their intense hatred turned into strong wish power, making Zhou Xuan’s incense burn faster.

"Sizzle."

A crackling sound was heard from Zhou Xuan’s incense.

"It’s already burning to the next inch, Teacher Gong."

Zhou Xuan said to the Engineer.

The Engineer began to instruct immediately, saying, "Boss Xuan, the eighth move in the colorful play is called ’The Myriad Plays of All Beings’, the audience of all beings, tens of millions of wish powers gathered to form this play,

the wish power of all beings will also change the direction of the play, you first channel these wish powers, and then look at the paper from a while ago."

"Okay."

After complying, Zhou Xuan first held his breath and concentrated, then opened his Secret Realm, guiding the overwhelming wish powers into his body.

With the blessing of the wish power, when Zhou Xuan looked at the paper, three numbers appeared, "One, two, three." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"Teacher Gong, there are three numbers here, I don’t quite understand what the paper means."

"Boss Xuan, the stage is allowing you to set three rules for this battle play."

"I set the rules for this play?" Zhou Xuan questioned.

"Naturally, you’re the play owner, if the owner doesn’t set the rules, why even stage the grand play?"

The Engineer explained.

Zhou Xuan immediately said, "Then I set a rule—let all Tunnel Armor Sect disciples die, wouldn’t that do?"

"It’s for you to set rules, not to make wishes."

The Engineer immediately replied.

"Then what kind of rules can be set?"

"To make the play more fair, just, and open rules," the Engineer said. "The play owner set up the stage to prevent the actors from playing tricks, hence the establishment of the rules."

"Then let their incense level be equal to mine... this falls within the rules, right?"

Zhou Xuan remembered a ring the Butcher had set up before, suppressing everyone’s incense to the same level.

If the stage could be like this, Zhou Xuan could kill in all directions—at the same level, Zhou Xuan never feared anyone.

To his surprise, the Engineer said, "If you set this stage rule, it would actually be disadvantageous to you..."