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Hearing this, the other high-ranking members of the Pill Tower all turned their gazes curiously toward the stone platform where Ye Xin Lan stood.
They, too, wanted to see how this girl—whose cultivation was only at the Dou Huang level planned to withstand the Pill Lightning summoned by a peak seventh-tier pill.
On the platform, Ye Xin Lan saw the violent energy gradually brewing within the clouds above. Without hesitation, she brushed her fingers over her storage ring.
"Bang!"
A faint flash of light appeared, followed by the heavy thud of something landing on the ground.
"That's… a puppet?!"
Seeing the silver, human-shaped construct before her, the Pill Tower Elders couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
As for the Pill Tower Three Leaders, they didn't show much reaction—they already knew Lin Feng possessed puppets, so it wasn't shocking that Ye Xin Lan, being his woman, had one as well.
Meanwhile, many spectators around the arena revealed looks of astonishment. To most of them, a being at the level of Seven-Star Dou Zong was already unimaginably powerful. Now, to see a puppet of such a level—it was their first time witnessing such a thing.
"Go!"
Ye Xin Lan's pink lips parted softly as she gave the command.
"Bang!"
The moment her words fell, the silver figure beside her shot upward like lightning, soaring into the sky toward the churning black clouds above.
While her puppet went to face the Pill Lightning, Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes. With a thought, all the powders and liquid essences hovering in the corner of his cauldron flew into the emerald-green liquid refined from the Bodhisattva Seed.
Immediately after, his expression turned solemn as he controlled the Green Lotus Core Flame, raising its temperature to begin the fusion of the hundreds of refined medicinal essences within the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron.
The instant those powders and liquids came into contact, a ferocious burst of energy erupted from the fusion point. Waves of powerful energy rippled outward, slamming violently against the inner walls of the cauldron.
Under the fierce collisions, even the heavy Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron trembled violently!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Energy ripples continued to pound against the cauldron walls again and again. The shockwaves clashed repeatedly with the cauldron's inner layer, causing deafening sounds to echo through the hall.
Lin Feng's soul power, which had been suppressing the chaotic medicinal energies, was rapidly scattered by the immense force!
The next instant, Lin Feng—seated only a short distance in front of the cauldron—was forced backward by the violent surge of energy.
"Damn it—stabilize!"
He cursed and immediately channeled his surging Dou Qi, anchoring himself firmly onto the stone platform to avoid being thrown off by the shockwave.
"This Bodhisattva Pill really lives up to being an eight-colored eighth-tier pill! Just the fusion step alone creates such terrifying repulsion. If an alchemist with weaker Dou Qi tried this, they'd be blown right off the platform by the energy waves!"
Lin Feng gritted his teeth, muttering through clenched jaws as he pushed his soul power to its limit, trying to suppress the massive rejection force.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
But the repulsion caused by fusing ingredients for an eighth-tier, eight-colored pill wasn't something so easily subdued.
Moreover, Lin Feng's current soul strength was only at the late-stage Spirit Realm, yet he was forcefully refining a pill that usually required a peak Spirit Realm soul.
As a result, the violent energy ripples—each powerful enough to seriously injure an ordinary Dou Zun—kept breaking through his suppression and slamming against the cauldron walls. The crimson giant cauldron before him shook again and again, echoing with a deep metallic hum.
If it weren't for the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron being a treasure ranked on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, it would have been shattered to pieces by this relentless impact long ago.
Then again, considering the sheer number of high-quality heavenly and earthly treasures fused together, how could the repulsion possibly be weak?
"Boom!"
Just as Lin Feng managed to stabilize the fusion, the skies above suddenly darkened again without warning. Deep, rolling thunder echoed continuously through the heavens.
In an instant, another overwhelming surge of energy, no weaker than Ye Xin Lan's Pill Lightning earlier, erupted from one of the stone platforms. The spectators gasped as thick storm clouds rapidly gathered over a certain area of the plaza.
"Judging by that energy fluctuation, another peak seventh-tier pill has just been born!"
Those with keen senses immediately stood up in excitement. Others quickly followed their gaze, looking toward the source of the energy wave.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
But before they could even finish marveling at the birth of that pill, several more violent energy waves suddenly erupted across the arena.
In the blink of an eye, dark clouds spread across the entire sky.
Countless silver lightning serpents slithered wildly within the clouds, lighting up the heavens. One moment the sky was bright and clear, and in the next, it turned as dark as night. Silver lightning bolts streaked through the gloom, tearing dazzling paths across the sky.
In less than ten minutes, nine peak seventh-tier pills had been successfully formed—almost simultaneously—throughout the competition grounds!
Such a sight… was truly one in a lifetime.
Because of that, the vast sea of people surrounding the square was instantly thrown into an uproar by the scene of the thunder roaring violently across the heavens.
Deafening cheers erupted at this moment, merging with the booming thunder in the sky, forming a terrifying wave of sound that rolled through the air. Throughout the entire Pill Region, one could faintly hear the echoing shockwaves of that colossal roar!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
In the next instant, a deluge of silver lightning streaked violently across the sky, slamming down toward the stone platforms where the pills were being born. For a time, the entire sky trembled with that deep, bone-chilling rumble of thunder.
Amid this spectacular scene of ten thousand bolts of lightning surging across the heavens, Dan Chen stood motionless, her beautiful eyes locked onto the massive cauldron before her, as though deaf to the world around her.
Her stunningly beautiful face had already turned deathly pale. Her body was naturally frail—if not for her powerful soul force supporting her, she would have collapsed long ago. Fortunately, she had endured until now.
"It's almost done… just a little longer!"
Dan Chen's eyes were fixed entirely on the cauldron before her. Her delicate hands rapidly formed one complex hand seal after another.
Vast and majestic soul power surged continuously into the cauldron. Faint wisps of spiritual energy began to rise within it.
"Pfft!"
Suddenly, as her hand seals changed, Dan Chen's cheeks flushed red. A mouthful of blood spurted out and splashed directly into the cauldron.
"Pill Embracing Art—Fuse!"
The moment her blood merged with the blazing flame and the pill rolling within it, a sharp cry escaped from her rosy lips.
"Boom!"
In the next second, the pill stained with fresh blood exploded with a brilliant radiance, like a blazing sun erupting inside the cauldron!
A terrifying wave of energy burst forth with a thunderous detonation, sending shockwaves rippling across the plaza.
The cauldron, which had withstood the searing flames for nearly a month, shattered under that explosive power, breaking apart into countless fragments!
"Hiss!"
As the cauldron exploded, a massive pillar of green light, nearly ten zhang tall, shot up from in front of Dan Chen, piercing straight into the heavens!
Under that awe-inspiring beam of light, the silver lightning summoned by the seventh-tier peak pills in the sky suddenly recoiled as if encountering something terrifying.
The vast thunderclouds that had dominated the skies moments ago now rapidly withdrew, not daring to come into contact with that light. Then, as the pillar of light faded, new clouds appeared abruptly in the sky.
In the blink of an eye, above where Dan Chen hovered, a colossal thundercloud nearly a hundred meters wide began to form!
What shocked everyone most was that this thundercloud possessed two colors—green and silver!
"Two-colored thunderclouds?! That's an eighth-tier pill?!"
As they gazed up at the sky where the two-colored thundercloud swirled, the entire plaza erupted into chaos!
For many present, this was the first time in their lives witnessing a Pill Lightning of two colors!
On the high platform, even the Pill Tower's Three Leaders and the upper Elders' expressions turned solemn as they looked upon the phenomenon.
After exchanging glances, they all nodded slightly.
"This girl from the Dan Clan truly isn't ordinary. She actually managed to refine an eighth-tier pill, and even used her clan's inherited Pill Embracing Art to summon two-colored lightning."
They all knew about the Dan Clan's secret technique, passed down through generations—an art that could enhance the quality of a pill at the cost of one's blood essence.
"Sigh, what a day of misfortune for the rest of us…"
Several alchemists who had successfully refined seventh-tier peak pills could only smile bitterly and shake their heads as they gazed at the two-colored thundercloud coiling in the distance.
Originally, they thought that refining a peak seventh-tier pill would make them stand out in this competition. Who would have thought they'd encounter someone who refined an eighth-tier pill?
As peak seventh-tier alchemists, they knew very well the immense gap between seventh-tier and eighth-tier. So, silently, they put away their own pills and cauldrons, walking down the stage with a trace of melancholy in their eyes.
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