Start from Panlong and kill through the heavens

Rean burst forth with the essence of solar fire, and wherever the fire waves passed, the poisonous locusts were reduced to ashes. The Medicine Fairy hurriedly offered her natal medicinal spirit to resist, but the towering Jianmu tree was shaken by the aftershocks, developing spiderweb-like cracks.

Just as Chai Yusheng's white bone claw was about to pierce her heart, Li En's fist intent struck first, and the space collapsed where the fist passed, forcefully blasting half of Chai Yusheng's body into a bloody mist.

As the Medicine Fairy stumbled and landed, the Jianmu Medicine Spirit collapsed with a deafening roar.

She watched as Li En descended from the sky atop his golden crow-fire wheel, his final knee strike pinning Chai Yusheng's mangled body deep into the earth's veins.

As the lava erupted, the shattered white bone banner finally turned to ashes.

Chai Yusheng is dead; a peerless genius has fallen.

The Medicine Fairy gave Li En a deep look before choosing to leave. She still had some tricks up her sleeve, but she knew that Li En hadn't used his full strength either.

If the fight continues, she will most likely meet her end in death.

In the end, Rean seized the Heavenly Thunder Soul-Devouring Bamboo and became the person with the highest score in the Pill Realm.

However, this alchemy competition also became the one with the most casualties in its history. Of the tens of thousands of participants, half fell in the first round, and of the remaining half, almost 90% died in the alchemy world.

The remaining few dozen people left the alchemy world and entered the final stage—alchemy.

These dozens of people all started refining pills at the same time in the Pill Gathering Square, but people were obviously only paying attention to a few people, two of whom were naturally Li En and the Medicine Fairy.

Gong Li also gained a lot of attention because of her stunning looks and alluring figure.

Above the plaza, crimson clouds billowed. Gong Li pressed her palms lightly against the bronze medicine cauldron, and nine dragon patterns on the cauldron lit up in succession, each pattern causing a tremor of spiritual energy in the heavens and earth.

The moment the third dragon pattern awakened, the three legs of the tripod suddenly burst forth with dazzling golden light, illuminating the entire alchemy room as if it were the core of a furnace.

The seven-colored medicinal liquid floating above the cauldron suddenly surged violently, transforming into a colorful phantom dragon. Gong Li unleashed twelve streams of her natal fire from her fingertips, the fire lines intertwining into a net that tightly bound the dragon.

A muffled rumble like thunder came from inside the cauldron, and the entire alchemy platform began to crack, with brilliant starlight seeping out from the cracks.

When the fifth dragon pattern lit up, the medicine cauldron suddenly floated three feet into the air.

Gong Li bit her tongue and spat out her blood essence. The blood droplets transformed into a phoenix totem in the air and pressed down on the cauldron lid.

The sound of metal clashing rang out from inside the cauldron. The Nine Nether Profound Ice and the Earth Core Flame Essence collided inside the cauldron, and the resulting energy ripples instantly vaporized the surrounding medicine shelves.

The moment the last three dragon patterns awakened simultaneously, the entire dome of the alchemy chamber was ripped off by the violent medicinal power. Gong Li's robes fluttered like battle flags as her hands formed three thousand afterimages of alchemy incantations.

The medicine cauldron turned translucent, revealing a miniature crimson sun taking shape within it. Each fluctuation of the sun's corona drained the spiritual energy from a radius of a hundred miles.

As the blazing sun condensed into nine layers of light, Gong Li suddenly pointed her fingers together like a sword and thrust it towards her own brow.

A wisp of natal soul fire was injected into the cauldron, instantly triggering a strange phenomenon in the heavens and earth—the clouds for a thousand miles were dyed crimson, and eighty-one stars appeared in broad daylight.

The moment the medicine cauldron exploded, a crystal pill wrapped in chaotic energy soared into the air, blooming golden lotuses wherever it passed.

Divine Beauty Pill, an eighth-grade elixir!

Gong Li finally succeeded in refining an eighth-grade pill through her own efforts, becoming a genuine eighth-grade alchemist.

On the other side, the Medicine Fairy was also refining an eighth-grade pill, but what she was refining was the top-grade eighth-grade pill, the Great Rejuvenation Pill.

The Nine-Aperture Purple-Gold Alchemy Furnace spewed out bluish-white flames. The Medicine Fairy, dressed in red, stood before the furnace, her robes fluttering without wind, resembling a blood-soaked phoenix illuminated by the firelight.

Her fingertips formed a profound incantation, and seventy-two medicinal ingredients, guided by her true essence, were successively thrown into the furnace. Each ingredient, upon falling, stirred up a three-inch-high spiritual flame. A muffled thunderous roar echoed from within the furnace, and fine beads of sweat appeared on the Medicine Fairy's brow.

When the seventh ingredient, the thousand-year-old snow ginseng, was added to the furnace, the elixir suddenly surged seven feet, illuminating her pale face.

She bit her tongue and spat out her blood essence. The blood droplets condensed into intricate runes in mid-air and pressed down on the top of the furnace, causing dust to fall throughout the entire alchemy room.

The medicine cauldron began to tremble violently, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on its walls. As her red robes billowed, she suddenly drew her fingers into a sword and slashed open the veins of her left wrist.

Blood threads, like crimson ribbons, coiled around the shattering furnace, and amidst the hissing, rising blood mist, nine golden lines spiraled upwards from the bottom of the furnace.

As the last golden pattern disappeared into the cauldron lid, the entire alchemy chamber suddenly fell into a deathly silence, with only her rapid breathing echoing between the stone walls.

Suddenly, a clear and melodious phoenix cry rang out from inside the furnace, and eight rays of light burst through the lid of the cauldron.

The Medicine Fairy staggered towards the alchemy furnace, and as her blood-stained fingertips pinched the golden pill the size of a longan, a broken smile finally bloomed on her lips.

She gazed at the pill with eight layers of cloud patterns flowing in her palm, her eyes shining brighter than the furnace fire, while the hem of her red dress was scorched into a charred butterfly wing shape.

Because the entire plaza was protected by a powerful array, the lightning bolt could not land and was stopped by the Dou Zun powerhouse of the Pill Tower.

However, the pill lightning from the eighth-grade top-level pill refined by the Medicine Fairy had already alarmed even a peak Dou Zun expert. If it were a ninth-grade pill, the pill lightning would be so strong that even a half-saint would not be able to withstand it.

Theoretically speaking, if Rean cannot refine a ninth-grade pill, it is almost impossible for him to defeat the Medicine Fairy, because the Great Rejuvenation Pill is already the pinnacle of an eighth-grade pill.

However, ninth-grade pills are not so easy to refine; there are only a handful of people in the entire Dou Qi Continent who can refine ninth-grade pills.

The refining of a Grade Nine Precious Pill attracts Black Demon Lightning, whose power far surpasses that of the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. Even a Half-Saint level expert dares not approach it easily; only experts at the One-Star Dou Sheng level or above can withstand it unscathed.

In the square, the bronze alchemy furnace gleamed with a cold light, and the dark purple fire at its bottom flickered silently.

Rean's fingertips trembled slightly as he threw the last of the Nine Netherworld Grass into the furnace, his pale face flickering in and out of the light from the furnace fire.

Suddenly, a shrill, ghostly wail came from inside the furnace, and the black mist surged and crashed like a living thing, making the furnace lid creak and rattle.

He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the furnace. The blood droplets meandered down the ancient runes, making a corrosive sizzling sound.

Countless distorted human faces appeared on the outer wall of the alchemy furnace. Those translucent faces had their mouths wide open, but could only let out silent roars.

Cold sweat trickled down his brow bone and into his eyes, the stinging pain making his vision even more blurred.

The candlesticks three zhang away suddenly went out all at once, leaving only a pale green light emanating from the furnace in the darkness, which made the hem of his robe flutter even without wind.

As the seventh gust of cold wind swept past the back of his neck, he heard a faint gnawing sound mixed in with his rapid breathing—the heart-devouring demonic sound that must occur before the elixir is completed.

The furnace lid suddenly shattered, and a black rainbow shot into the sky.

He lunged at the medicine box, and the jade medicine spoon was covered in frost the moment it touched the pill.

His palm was eroded to the bone, yet he chuckled softly as he pressed his trembling right hand against the edge of the stove.

When the pill finally fell onto the jade plate, the soul-suppressing incantation carved on the bottom of the plate shattered inch by inch, and the startled crows outside the window, which had just skimmed over the eaves, plunged straight into the dry well in the courtyard.

The moment the pill took shape, it transformed into a black monster that charged straight towards the sky. (End of Chapter)