Chapter 19


    Sitting in a room in a cross-legged position, Li Lingtian’s face was drenched with trails of sweat.


    It had been a month since his return from Ten Thousand Demons Valley. In that month, he had continuously cultivated with Vitality Pills, leading his advance from Tier Seven to Tier Eight Warrior state.


    He swallowed the Blue Fleecing Fruit which enabled the powerful Spiritual Qi to wreak havoc in his body. This Blue Fleecing Fruit was more potent than Vitality Pills in many ways.


    Li Lingtian continuously circted the Heaven and Earth Reincarnation to convert the Spiritual Qi into True Qi before it circled back to his Dantian.


    “Tier Nine Warrior, breakthrough.”


    He yelled as his body’s True Qi reached the peak of Tier Eight. Under the influence of the Heaven and Earth Reincarnation, his True Qi swiftly charged onto Tier Nine.


    “Thump.”


    The thud came from within his body and it was so soft, only he could hear it. The moment this sound was heard, his True Qi had never been so smooth as it circted in a hastened flow.


    “I made it.”


    Li Lingtian’s smile deepened. Advancing to Tier Nine from Tier Eight was the hardest stage in Warrior state. Hence, he had saved the Blue Fleecing Fruit until now.


    After many Vitality Pills and a Blue Fleecing Fruit, he finally made it to the highest level, Tier Nine Warrior state. In fact, he had used up all the Vitality Pills he had.


    “The Grand Tournament, here Ie.”


    With his lips curled into a deeper smile, he ventured back into cultivation and began to stabilize his state.


    It was eight dayster when he finally secured his Tier Nine Warrior state. After he had stabilized his state, he then made preparations to refine pills. Pill refinery still remained his main priority.


    Even the best of geniuses required the aid of pills. Although he was the most curious and fascinated about the Blue Dust Pill, he did not have the form. Moreover, its main ingredient was a thousand-year Stctite. The Stctite alone was inessible to a Warrior like him.


    “One White Jade flower.


    “One Vitality Control Grass.


    “One Purple String Fruit.


    “One Narcissus Needle.


    “One Aerial Wind Grass.


    “Three drops of First Tier Level Nine demonic beast’s Blood Essence.


    “One First Tier Level Nine Inner Vital.”


    Li Lingtian began by selecting the ingredients. A good Apothecary made careful selections to avoid any imperfections on the ingredients as it had a direct effect on the pill’s quality and refinery sess rate.


    “Rise.”


    He took out his Pill Tripod as well as around ten mediocre spiritual stones. A me appeared and sparked the spiritual stones to burn a white me under the Pill Tripod.


    “White Jade Flower.


    “Vitality Control Grass.


    “Purple String Fruit…”


    Ingredients after the ingredients were hurled into the Pill Tripod. The first ingredient dissolved into liquid before a second ingredient was tossed into the mix.


    For Li Lingtian’s first attempt, his technique may be ingenious but his jarring approach was a telltale sign that he was a newbie. Nevertheless, Great Apothecaries would have their jaws dropped if they ever feasted their eyes on this rather ingenious technique.


    “Bang.”


    “I failed.”


    The refinery was a bust; he had failed in his first attempt in pill refinery.


    “Bang.”


    “Fail.”


    “Bang.”


    “Fail.”


    Li Lingtian was baffled after he was led to three consecutive failures when he added in the Inner Vital. However, Li Lingtian was not worked up by the failed attempts. He knew well that regardless of anything, countless failures would eventually lead to sess when it came to pill refinery.


    “Let me try refining the Inner Vital first.”


    The reason behind each failure was due to the extended time in refining the Inner Vital while the concoction sat for a long period. By then, the brew had burnt.


    The Inner Vital was the hardest to refine and this was also the crucial key to why he missed the boat.


    With the help of his twenty-first century wisdom, this was not an issue to him. Forms were fixed but people were not. The form came from the experience of others so there was no reason as to why he could not change the rules around it.


    At that thought, Li Lingtian initiated his Divine Mindfulness to fork out some spiritual stones. He was going to try his hand at refining again.


    However, this time was different from thest. He reversed the order by beginning with refining the Inner vital first.


    “Swish swish, swish swish.”


    After dissolving into concoction in the Pill Tripod, the Inner Vital started to spread a heavy demonic energy. He then hurled a White Jade Flower into the mix.


    Soon, four ingredients had been added and it stirred a tremendous change in the Pill Tripod.


    “Swish.”


    With the ingredients and Inner Vital melted into liquid, thest step was the demonic beast’s Blood Essence. Pouring three drops of the Blood Essence in, the concoction immediately went into overdrive.


    “Indeed.


    “I knew this issue wasn’t going to bring me down.”


    Li Lingtian may have a smile on his face but he kept his emotions in check. One’s mentality was most important to an Apothecary.


    “Sess!”


    The Pill Tripod tipped open with a soft st, giving out a fresh medicinal aroma. After taking a look inside the tripod, Li Lingtian was filled with thrill.


    “Peerless Vitality Pill. D*mn, that’s awesome.”


    Li Lingtian’s mind went nk for long while at the sight of thirteen pure white pills inside the tripod.


    Although it was his first in pill refinery, the Pill Art was the most mystical pill refinery treasury in ancient history. The techniques inside were not only extraordinary, but they also had their own uniqueprehension and insights on the course of refinery.


    Yet, he had managed to achieve peerless for this grade one Vitality Pill, considering a peerless Vitality Pill was out of this world.


    He soon came to realize that the pills refined with the mystical technique were exceptional because he had used a grade three refinery method on a grade one pill.


    In this world, pills were ssed asmon, superior, or peerless.


    Pills were normally of themon quality while superior and peerless qualities were unheard of.


    A superior grade one pill was as effective as a substandard grade two pill. The effects of a peerless pill, on the other hand, went beyond two higher grades due to the absence of impurity in it. The significance of this evolved pill was far above and beyond the imagination of Warriors.


    It had never urred to him that his first sess in pill refinery was of peerless quality. It was an outstanding achievement.


    “Let me try this.”


    Tossing a pill into his mouth, he felt the powerful drug exploding in his body. Although he had never taken a Spirit Binding Pill, this grade one Vitality Pill was definitely in the same ss as the Spirit Binding Pill.


    However, regardless of the quality of a grade one pill, Warriors were capable of digesting it but the efficacy was definitely more evident than a Warrior using a Spirit Binding Pill.


    As the strong drug effect began to revolve in his body, Li Lingtian circted the Heaven and Earth Reincarnation to convert the effect into True Qi.


    Half an hourter, the conversion of the Vitality Pill’s drug effect to True Qi wasplete. The drug effect had pushed his Tier Nine cultivation to its peak, leaving him a step away from perfection.


    “Tier Nine peak Warrior? The imperial family’s royal princess?”


    Li Lingtian let out a faint smile. These were the words of Nangong Mingyue when they came face to face a few months ago. In a period of several months, he too became a Tier Nine peak Warrior.


    Even an outer sect elite disciple could not measure up to Li Lingtian’s abilities. With two Spiritual Equipment in hand, he could take up a gauntlet against Warrior Spirits.


    “Let me continue.”


    The True Qi in his body flowed at a slow pace after achieving Tier Nine peak in cultivation. If his meridians of True Qi were like a river before, they were now an ocean of surging True Qi.


    There was still time left before the Grand Tournament for him to enforce the Pill Art. Now that he was a Tier Nine peak Warrior, other grade one pills were no longer of use to him and only his peerless pills yielded a result.


    If he wanted to advance to Warrior Spirit state, he needed the Spirit Binding Pill. Breaking through to Spirit Warrior state would be a piece of cake if he could refine the Spirit Binding Pill to peerlessness. Even if peerless Spirit Binding Pills were out of reach, he must at least refine it to amon or superior quality.


    In a repeated cycle of heating the tripod, refinery, and sess, the ingredients for Vitality Pills were quickly exhausted. Nevertheless, Li Lingtian’s stock on pills began to pile up.


    “Grade two Spirit Binding Pill, sess!”


    Li Lingtian became adept in his techniques after two weeks of refining grade one Vitality Pills. The exquisite technique and unique refining process had led to better quality pills and shorter amounts of time spent on refinery.


    Finally, when Li Lingtian managed to refine his first tripod of Spirit Binding Pills, he was all smiles.


    “These are superior Spirit Binding Pills.”


    There were eight superior Spirit Binding Pills. Different from grade one pills, refining grade two pills was on a whole different level. It required umted experience and despite mastering exquisite techniques, experience was imperative.


    After a thrill of excitement, Li Lingtian stored the pills as well as the remaining ingredients and Pill Tripod into his storage sack. He straightened out his clothes before he headed out.