Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Divine Nine Cauldrons Passage began circulating within his body. Fang Lin’s body was akin to a bottomless abyss. Wisps of gray air flowed out from Fang Lin’s body and formed a mist around him. The air around Fang Lin seemed to be warped. However, upon a closer look, one would discover that everything was normal.
Fang Lin looked straight at the Black Heaven Rock Cauldron in front of him. When the gray glow around his body had thickened to a certain extent, Fang Lin suddenly sucked in the air abruptly as he faced the black cauldron.
Whoosh!
At once, a stream of black lashed out from the Black Heaven Rock Cauldron and flew straight into Fang Lin’s mouth. The very moment it entered him, it vanished completely as if it had fallen into a bottomless abyss.
Then, a wisp of indiscernible black emerged in Fang Lin’s crystal clear eyes.
The act of swallowing a cauldron was simply an unimaginable task for an ordinary person. After all, the cauldron was an object. How could a human being swallow it?
However, the Divine Nine Cauldrons Passage was such a miraculous secret technique that allowed the cultivator to turn himself in a huge smelting furnace. Swallowing cauldrons would only make the smelting furnace even more powerful.
In his past life, Fang Lin had cultivated the Divine Nine Cauldrons Passage until level eight and was considered among the best in the Alchemy Saint Palace. One could say that he was capable of going anywhere he wanted under the great heavens.
As for the ninth level, Fang Lin had yet to even graze it. It was not that his natural talent was inadequate, but the requirement to break through to the ninth level was extremely strict. One would need to swallow the Mighty Cauldron on its own.
He had only managed to acquire such a cauldron back then. Since it was an essential alchemy tool to refine elixirs, he could bear swallowing it.
Fang Lin had thought about this before. If he were to cultivate the Divine Nine Cauldrons Passage to the ninth level back in those years, he would not have died even if he were to fail when he was refining the Birth-Death Cycle Pill.
What a waste that he did not have a second chance to redo everything again. Fang Lin could only sigh emotionally in his heart for a moment when he thought about this.
Right now, he would have to begin everything from the start. The Black Heaven Rock Cauldron was precisely the first step in elevating his capabilities by leaps and bounds.
The black energy surged into his mouth continuously like a trickling river. The gray air around Fang Lin’s body faded away gradually, and in its place was a flow of misty air that seemed pitch-black at times and snow-white at times.
On the other hand, the black color in Fang Lin’s eyes glowed more and more obvious with time. In one glance, Fang Lin’s eyes looked like two black holes, appearing terrifying. Meanwhile, a minute movement radiated from inside Fang Lin’s body. A surge of inner strength billowed out from Fang Lin’s 36 meridians and gushed into different parts of his body.
He was now on the level-7 primordial man realm!
Fang Lin had finally made a breakthrough in his realm after swallowing a portion of the Black Heaven Rock Cauldron. His realm achieved the level-7 primordial man realm!
Level-7 primordial man was considered a medium-high level in the alchemy sect and was the most important requirement for becoming a high-grade disciple. Without achieving a level-7 primordial man realm, one could never become a high-grade disciple.
In Fang Lin’s current realm, he was capable of beating up more than ten Kang Lus. Even if he were to go up against Yuan Bo from the other day, he was still capable of beating the senior disciple with just a few kicks and punches, and not exhaust himself. The current Fang Lin possessed the ability to protect himself to a certain extent amongst the alchemy sect disciples.
The corners of his lips curled into a faint smile. Naturally, the elevation of his realm was worthy of his delight.
Fang Lin continued to absorb the cauldron energy for a few more hours. More than half of the Black Heaven Rock Cauldron before him was already absorbed. Merely less than half a portion was still ceaselessly transforming into black energy before he swallowed it all.
Another soft whoosh was heard. An even more powerful gush of inner strength surged out from his body once again. Abruptly, a loud crunch tore out from his entire body. That was the sound of his inner strength rearranging his bones.
Meanwhile, Fang Lin immediately popped a pill into his mouth. The pill transformed into a pop of refreshing liquid instantaneously when it entered his mouth. His body rapidly refined and absorbed the pill.
Crunch!
Crack!
The crunching sound from his body would have lingered in one’s ears incessantly, sounding like the shot of firecrackers.
The pill he swallowed earlier was the Bone-tempering Pill he had prepared for this occasion from the start. It was used to strengthen his bones even more.
Fang Lin wanted to seize the rare opportunity of the inner strength rearranging his bones to consume the Bone-tempering Pill so that he could take one step further and strengthen his bones even more.
A martial arts cultivator cultivated on two levels, the first level being the blood essence while the second level was the meridian bone.
There was naturally no need to elaborate on blood essence. The more powerful one’s blood essence was, the more vigorous the cultivator’s vitality was.
The meridian bone, of course, referred to the meridians and bones. The importance of the meridian bone was related to the cultivator’s inner strength while the bones affected the rigidity of the martial arts cultivator’s body.
For example, there were two martial arts cultivators in the same realm. The first cultivator’s bones were weak and ordinary while the second cultivator frequently tempered his bones. When these two cultivators engaged in a duel, the former cultivator would be able to break the other cultivator’s limbs with a single punch.
Besides being an Extreme Alchemist in his past life, he was also a martial arts cultivator with ultra-powerful capabilities. Naturally, he took his bones seriously. He had already prepared the Bone-tempering Pill many days ago. Moreover, he prepared it in a large quantity for this very day.
The Bone-tempering Pill was the best among all the Grade-1 elixirs. It was extremely difficult to refine with a refinement success rate of only about 30% even for an experienced Cauldron-1 alchemist.
Just comparing the difficulty of the refinement process, the Bone-tempering Pill could actually be listed as a Grade-2 elixir. However, the pill was listed as a Grade-1 Pill because the medicinal herbs needed to refine the pill could be easily sourced and there was only one purpose for its healing effect.
Fang Lin refined a total of over 50 pills. Other than using it when he was preparing for the breakthrough, he planned to sell the majority of the pills to the disciples from the martial arts sect in secret. Based on their temperament, he could predict that they would certainly take notice of the Bone-tempering Pill. As soon as it made an appearance, it would certainly draw the attention and pursuit of the numerous martial arts sect disciples.
As long as he could just sell some, he seemed to have already predicted that the martial arts sect disciples would swarm to purchase his Bone-tempering Pill in an endless stream. By then, he could rely on the opportunities when he made business deals with these martial arts sect disciples to increase his network. As a result, his influence and power in the Purple Glow Sect would not be that weak anymore.
Just as Fang Lin’s imagination was running wild, the black energy in his mouth was suddenly cut off. Consequently, the Divine Nine Cauldrons Passage could not circulate inside his body anymore. The misty radiance around his body vanished at once while his pitch-black eyes suddenly returned to normal.
Stunned, he found that the space before him was empty. The Black Heaven Rock Cauldron had disappeared!
After a long while, wild rage emerged on Fang Lin’s expression. “Godd*mnit!” He leaped up in exasperation instantaneously and almost shattered the roof. As he stood there with his eyes almost spurting fire from rage, he gnashed his teeth in anger. If someone had been there with him, perhaps he would have eaten the person alive.
“Motherf*cking alchemy pavilion! F*ck you, Gu Daofeng! How dare you pass off a substandard cauldron as a genuine cauldron!? That’s immoral! What a nuisance!” Fang Lin cursed. He was so furious that he felt like his chest was about to explode.
Fang Lin’s realm was stuck at level-8 primordial man. He did not make the breakthrough to the level-9 or even level-10 primordial man realm as he predicted all because the Black Heaven Rock Cauldron he received was not genuine! Only a small portion of the cauldron was carved out from the Black Heaven Rock Cauldron while another portion was mixed with other materials.
It was a substandard product. Even if Fang Lin were to swallow it, the effect could not compare to if he swallowed a real Black Heaven Rock Cauldron.
“I should’ve known! I already found it strange. Since when was Gu Daofeng such a generous person? Since when was the alchemy pavilion so generous? The old man even feigned being in pain when he gave me the cauldron. Bah! That d*mned old man!” he swore aloud.