Mortal: Starting with the Falling Cloud Sect, I proved my Dao through gacha pulls.

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Xuan Gu sensed the pure and powerful Yin energy contained in the beast crystal and was immediately shocked. After carefully absorbing a wisp, he felt that his ghost cultivation had improved. He was overjoyed and his voice trembled with excitement.

"Thank you for your generous gift, Your Majesty! With such a vast amount of Yin energy assisting me, the time it will take for this old servant to return to the Nascent Soul realm will be greatly shortened!"

He was deeply shocked and filled with awe at Su Mu's methods.

Although he recognized that these crystals were extremely similar to those in the puppets in the Void Heaven Palace, the Yin and Nether Power they contained was not on the same level at all, let alone in such an astonishing quantity.

"Remember, as long as you are of use to me, I will not hesitate to support you. Do your job well and don't try anything funny. Do you understand?"

Su Mu's expression was indifferent, his tone was cold, and his voice carried an unquestionable authority.

Upon hearing this, Xuan Gu immediately knelt down, lowered his head even further, and respectfully replied, "This old servant understands! Please rest assured, Your Majesty, this old servant will do everything in my power to serve Your Majesty, and would never dare to have the slightest disloyalty!"

Su Mu nodded slightly and chuckled, "Very good. We will not see each other again until you re-form your Nascent Soul. You should cultivate diligently and return to the Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible, so as not to disappoint me."

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of spiritual light appeared around him. He summoned the Qiankun Disc and instantly teleported away, his aura completely dissipating.

After a few breaths, Xuan Gu slowly raised his head, looking at the place where Su Mu had disappeared with a complicated expression, his heart filled with turbulent waves.

Although it wasn't the first time he had witnessed Su Mu's abilities, each time they met, the other party's strength and foundation far exceeded his imagination. He became increasingly convinced that this person must have been a powerful figure with immense cultivation before he started his cultivation journey again.

"Could it be... that Your Excellency was a powerful being at the Nascent Soul stage back then?"

Thinking of this, Xuan Gu quickly suppressed the fear in his heart and dared not think any further. He turned to look at the Yinming Beast Crystal in his hand, his face filled with undisguised joy.

"Originally, relying on this Yin Sha Treasure Cave for cultivation, it would have taken a long time to return to the Nascent Soul stage. Now that we have these crystals, the progress can be accelerated by more than half, so we can start planning ahead."

He muttered to himself, chuckled heartily, then his face suddenly darkened, a fierce resentment flashing in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth, saying:

"Ji Yin, you rebellious disciple, just you wait! We'll settle our old scores sooner or later!"

......

After leaving Xuan Gu, Su Mu was teleported directly back to his cave in Tianxing City.

He first took all the stack of communication talismans that had been floating outside the cave entrance for a long time, reviewed them one by one, and then picked out a few important ones to reply to.

After receiving the message from the Star Palace and sorting out the details, he pondered for a moment, then turned around and changed into a neat set of Star Palace robes.

He now holds a position of honor, and doesn't have many strict duties on a daily basis. However, when the Star Palace issues requests for alchemy, he can't simply refuse.

Moreover, with the Star Palace and the Reverse Star Alliance currently locked in fierce battle, the consumption of elixirs has increased dramatically, and he cannot remain in seclusion indefinitely, focusing solely on his own cultivation.

Fortunately, all the spiritual materials needed for alchemy are supplied by the Star Palace, and each batch of pills refined can be exchanged for corresponding Star Palace contributions, so it is not all in vain.

Su Mu had previously exchanged a batch of cultivation manuals in exchange for joining the Star Palace. However, the Star Palace has a long history, and the cultivation manuals in its library are vast. He had only exchanged a small portion of them at the time.

In the days that followed, he planned to focus on refining pills at the Star Medicine Pavilion and use his accumulated contribution points to continuously exchange for new cultivation techniques.

This move might attract attention and gossip from others, but he was focused on using the Dao-Evolving Stone to transform his own innate cultivation technique, so he naturally didn't care about such criticisms. At most, he would just be seen as an eccentricity.

Now that he possesses the skill of boiling stones, his alchemy skills have greatly improved compared to the past, and his pill-making speed far surpasses that of ordinary alchemists. Before long, he will be able to accumulate a considerable amount of merit.

With this thought in mind, Su Mu did not delay any longer, stepped out of the cave, and fled towards the Star Medicine Pavilion.

...

Time flies, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the seclusion sign was re-hung outside Su Mu's cave. He opened the last layer of restrictions in the secret chamber and let out a long sigh.

During these five years, relying on his skill in boiling stones, he devoted himself entirely to alchemy, practically becoming an alchemy fanatic. Regardless of the quality of the pills, he accepted every commission from the Star Medicine Pavilion without hesitation.

Aside from occasionally taking time to teleport out and study the Dragon and Phoenix Cultivation Technique with Yuan Yao, he spent the rest of his time in the alchemy room.

Such wholehearted dedication naturally yields abundant rewards.

Over the past five years, he has refined more than twenty high-grade pills suitable for Nascent Soul stage cultivators, not to mention countless other mid- and low-grade pills. This is the result of him deliberately restraining his methods and not going all out.

Such astonishing efficiency and success rate shocked the other alchemists in the Star Medicine Pavilion, making them question their own existence. Even Jin Kui was alarmed and personally summoned him.

With his alchemy skills, Su Mu is now the deputy head of the Star Medicine Pavilion and has also joined the ranks of Star Palace elders. His status and position are now on par with Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

[Become a Star Palace Elder, Fate +600]

Current Life Number: 766

However, Su Mu did not want to become a puppet for alchemy. A few days ago, he reported to the Star Palace that he would be going into seclusion for several years to cultivate diligently, citing the excessive mental strain caused by his extensive alchemy.

The Star Palace now relies heavily on him to refine high-grade pills, so they naturally regard him as a treasure. Not only did they not hinder him in the slightest, but they also quickly sent him a lot of natural and precious herbs to nourish his mind and spirit, for fear that he might make the slightest mistake.

"Five years of hard work have finally paid off."

Su Mu chuckled and casually waved his hand, sending out countless jade slips that floated in mid-air above the secret chamber.

After becoming an elder of the Star Palace, his authority was greatly enhanced, and exchanging for cultivation techniques became much easier.

Most of the cultivation techniques jade slips in front of him were obtained by him from the Scripture Pavilion using his elder privileges. Although most of them were low-level techniques, they were comprehensive and all-encompassing.

In addition, with the numerous ancient inheritances he obtained from the Void Heaven Palace in his mind, he was among the top in the entire human realm in terms of the sheer number of cultivation techniques he possessed.

Su Mu's eyes narrowed, and he took out a purple card with his other hand.

【Derivation Stone (Purple)】

[Note: Originating from the Immortal Qin Empire, this technique can be used to advance a cultivation method to a higher level. The more materials used in the technique, the greater the probability of its transformation.]

With a thought, the purple card in his hand immediately rose into the air, spun around, and instantly transformed into a gray stone tablet about half a zhang tall, which hung quietly in the center of the secret room.

The stone tablet has an unremarkable appearance, looking no different from ordinary rocks. However, in the center of the tablet, a yin-yang symbol is engraved, with profound patterns that contain Taoist charm. At the top of the tablet, there is also a piece of bright white crystal, which looks quite mysterious.

Su Mu slowly walked to the stone tablet and recorded all the mental techniques and incantations of his own natal cultivation technique, "True Flame Nirvana Technique," into the white crystal at the top. A silver rune immediately condensed within the crystal.

He then made a hand seal, and the jade slips floating in mid-air shattered one after another, with countless dense characters gushing out, like rivers flowing into the sea, rapidly merging into the Taiji diagram in the center of the stele.

Immediately afterwards, Su Mu lightly touched his brow and slowly channeled the Void Heaven Palace inheritance sealed in his mind into the stone tablet.

As a massive amount of inheritance continued to pour in, the originally gray stone tablet gradually began to glow with a faint, shimmering white light, and the white crystal at the top shone with an even brighter silver light. As the light flowed, subtle Daoist sounds could be faintly heard.

After inputting all the cultivation materials in his hands and mind, Su Mu let out a soft breath, his gaze falling on the increasingly blazing Dao Stone. He secretly looked forward to the moment when his natal cultivation technique would transform.

"What could it be?"

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