Battle Through the Heavens: Starting with Cao Ying as an apprentice

Their goal is not to harm people, but to obtain the energy of the elixir embryo within the cauldron, which embodies their painstaking efforts!

"Hun Xuzi, how dare you!"

Elder Wanhuo's hair and beard bristled with rage, and he immediately manipulated the Nine Nether Wind Flame to fight back.

Almost simultaneously, Shennong and Yaochen also used their strange fire to resist.

However, a scene that sent chills down everyone's spines unfolded.

Faced with the obstruction of these three strange flames, the three sub-flames of the Void Devouring Flame pounced on them like hungry tigers, neither dodging nor avoiding, and crashed straight into them!

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The black Netherworld Wind Flame, the emerald green Life Flame, and the pale white Bone Spirit Cold Flame, upon contact with the black flame, melted and disintegrated rapidly, like ice and snow meeting boiling water, and were finally swallowed up by the black flame!

"How is this possible?!" Elder Wanhuo's pupils constricted sharply. He could clearly sense that his connection with that Nine Nether Wind Flame had been completely severed and devoured in an instant!

Shennong and Yaochen's expressions changed drastically; their divided flames of strange fire couldn't even stop them for a moment!

"Ok?"

Just as Hun Xuzi's lips curled into a sinister smile, preparing to manipulate the fourth Dao Fire to plunder the energy within Cao Ying's cauldron, his expression suddenly changed, and he abruptly turned his head to look in Cao Ying's direction.

The connection to that fire was severed.

The Myriad Fire Lotus slowly rotated, and on the lotus seedpod in the center of the lotus platform, the arrogant and domineering Void Devouring Flame was now trapped in the air three inches above the lotus platform, unable to move.

What silenced the entire arena even more was that, beside the lotus platform, the fire spirit Xiaobai was floating in mid-air, waving its short arms and attacking the suppressed black flames from both sides.

With each slap Xiaobai delivered, the ball of black flame would fluctuate violently, its color dimming slightly.

"Eeeeeee—!" (Do you think I'm someone you can scam?!)

Xiao Bai's cries were childish and sweet, but the anger and arrogance within them were undisguised.

"Eeeeeee—!" (How dare they try to steal from me!)

"Eeeeeee—!" (Are you kidding me?!)

(Number Four, on the verge of tears: Hey, you three, if any of you are having trouble, you can switch with me. I can't beat them!)

"My darling!"

The greed in Hun Xuzi's eyes was almost tangible as he stared intently at the cyan lotus platform.

"It can actually suppress my Void Devouring Flame!"

He has lived for over a thousand years and seen countless rare treasures, but this is the first one that can directly suppress the Void Devouring Flame!

If I can get my hands on this item and combine it with the Void Devouring Flame, the title of the world's number one alchemist will be secure.

However, just as Hunxuzi's greed intensified, Xiaobai seemed to sense something.

It turned its little head, and its black bean-like eyes met Hun Xuzi's burning gaze.

Then, to everyone's astonishment, Xiaobai flashed and charged directly at the fire cauldron in front of Hunxuzi!

Xiao Bai's movements were incredibly fast. She grabbed Hun Xuzi's nascent core with her little hands, then turned and ran!

The whole process takes only a breath.

"This...this is possible?!"

Yao Chen's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. In all his years of life, he had seen people snatch medicinal herbs, pill formulas, and even strange flames, but a fire spirit directly snatching an opponent's nascent pill during a pill refining competition was unheard of!

"Hahaha, interesting, interesting!" Shennong was taken aback at first, then stroked his beard and laughed, his eyes full of mockery.

"Hahaha, serves him right!" Elder Wanhuo was even more unceremonious, pointing at Hunxuzi and bursting into laughter:

"Hun Xuzi, oh Hun Xuzi, retribution is served! How satisfying! How satisfying!"

"You bastard!"

Hun Xuzi squeezed out two words through gritted teeth, his entire face turning a deep liver color.

His black robes fluttered without wind, and a terrifying aura swept out like a storm, causing the stone slabs beneath his feet to crack inch by inch.

Those bloodshot eyes were fixed on Xiaobai hiding in the lotus platform and Cao Ying in front of the lotus platform, the killing intent almost solidified.

For so many years, Hun Xuzi has never suffered such humiliation!

Cao Ying looked at Xiao Bai, who was huddled inside the Ten Thousand Fire Lotus and was still shaking her head at her as if she were asking for praise, and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"How could you do this? Who taught you to do that?" She sighed, rubbing her forehead.

Upon hearing this, Xiaobai pointed at Cao Ying without hesitation with its little paw:

"Eeeeeee—!" (That old geezer wants my home, so what if I take his embryonic core!)

"Eeeeeee—!" (Who else could have learned that from but you!)

Cao Ying was taken aback for a moment, then laughed angrily: "Hey, you're turning against the Heavenly Gang!"

"Girl, stop playing around, that old bastard Hun Xuzi is getting angry!" Yao Chen's voice was tinged with urgency.

Cao Ying turned her head and her heart skipped a beat.

At this moment, Hun Xuzi had lost all trace of the demeanor of a master alchemist.

His eyes were bloodshot, veins bulged on his forehead, and a ball of black flame was frantically gathering in his hand.

"You little beast...die!"

With a roar, Hun Xuzi thrust out his hands, and the ball of black flames transformed into a ferocious black dragon, tearing through space and carrying a terrifying aura of destruction as it rushed straight at Cao Ying!

If he can't master it, no one else can either!

"you dare!"

"stop!"

"Hun Xuzi, you've gone mad!"

Yao Chen, Elder Wan Huo, and Elder Shen Nong roared in anger, each using their own methods to resist Hun Xu Zi.

Their elixirs lacked sufficient energy, and they could no longer refine them.

"Girl, you just need to focus on refining pills," said the old man Shennong.

“That’s right, we’ll leave this old bastard to us!” Elder Wanhuo said.

"Thank you, senior!"

Cao Ying took a deep breath, suppressing the distracting thoughts in her mind. She exchanged a glance with Xiao Bai, and the two, one human and one fire, were of one mind.

Cao Ying slowly refined and purified the nascent pill that Hun Xuzi had refined, finally transforming it into an incomparably pure torrent of energy, which she poured into the fire cauldron in front of her.

Inside the cauldron, the nascent elixir that belonged to her grew fuller and rounder at a speed visible to the naked eye, emitting a heart-stirring fluctuation.

however--

"It's still a little short!"

Cao Ying frowned slightly. She could clearly sense that although the pill in the cauldron was nearing perfection, it was still missing the final spark before it could trigger the pill lightning.

Without hesitation, she flipped her hand, and two pills the size of longan appeared in her palm.

The pill was perfectly round, with faint cloud-like patterns flowing across its surface, and the fragrance it emitted invigorated everyone within a hundred feet.

"A Mystic Pill? No! It's a half-finished Mystic Pill!"

On the high platform, the Yaodan clan chief suddenly stood up, his eyes flashing with a terrifying light.

With his keen eye, he could naturally see that these two pills already possessed the rudiments of a profound pill, but lacked the final step—the baptism of thunder.

Cao Ying put two semi-finished Xuan Dan into the fire cauldron.

hum-

The cauldron trembled violently, and the pill inside, like a thirsty infant, frantically devoured the energy of the two half-finished Xuan Dan pills.

In just three breaths, the devouring was complete.

Then, the world fell silent for a moment.

Boom! ...

A deafening thunderclap tore the sky apart.

The once clear sky was instantly covered by endless clouds of calamity.

Within the tribulation clouds, countless thick, dragon-like black lightning bolts surged wildly, unleashing earth-shattering roars.

Black Thunder!

At the same time, the lid of the fire cauldron in front of Cao Ying suddenly exploded, and a golden light shot into the sky, reaching straight into the clouds.

The fragrance of the pills swept through the entire medicinal world like a volcanic eruption, eventually condensing into a pill and causing rain to fall!

Dan Yu!

The legendary phenomenon of red rain has reappeared in the world today!

"It's done!"

Cao Ying looked up at the sky, gazing at the golden pill that shone like a star under the tribulation clouds, and finally let out a long sigh of relief.

She has done all she could.

What happens next, whether it lives or dies, whether it transforms into a dragon or a worm, depends on whether this pill itself can withstand the baptism of the black demonic lightning—

Temper yourself, and you will be reborn as an elixir!

Chapter 387 A Familiar Figure—Su Baichen!

"Boom—!"

"Boom—!"

Several bolts of black lightning tore through the sky, carrying the power to destroy the world as they slammed down on the embryonic pill.

With each bolt of lightning, the entire medicine world trembled. The alchemists with weaker cultivation levels on the plaza had already collapsed to the ground, their faces ashen.

Finally, after the last bolt of black lightning dissipated into the world, the suffocating destructive pressure gradually faded away.

As the smoke cleared, the inner core of the elixir, its brilliance subtly revealed.