The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Long Xuan studied the alchemy recipe for a long time. After who knows how long, he finally took out a huge alchemy furnace, officially preparing to refine the King Breaking Pill.

Others, when refining the King Breaking Pill, could at most produce three pills in one attempt. However, Long Xuan was different. Using his self-created "Big Cauldron Pill Refining Technique," he could stack multiple sets of ingredients and produce an entire batch of King Breaking Pills in one go.

He reached into the storage bag left by the Island Lord, grabbed large handfuls of spiritual herbs, and tossed them all into the furnace in one go.

Finally, feeling the process was too slow, he simply lifted the storage bag and dumped its contents into the furnace until it was full.

If anyone saw his actions, they would be scared to death. From ancient times until now, no one had ever dared to refine pills like this. He was truly setting a historical precedent. The fact that he could refine a batch of pills using this method was nothing short of a miracle.

And so, half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

During this half-month, unsurprisingly, the island became lively. The crew of the Shenlong ship bought out all the spiritual herbs from the Death Sea Region in one go, then began throwing large piles of pill recipes onto the streets, plastering them all over the walls. Since the Island Lord had their backs, they acted without any reservations.

These were free pill recipes, some of which were highly valuable, including third and even fourth-grade recipes.

Of course, everyone went mad. When high-grade pill recipes were thrown onto the streets as if money was being scattered, the entire island descended into chaos, with people scrambling madly to grab them.

When people finally realized most of the recipes were duplicates, they stopped their crazed actions. Otherwise, a huge riot would have broken out.

As expected, the price of spiritual herbs from the Death Sea Region began to skyrocket on this day.

The crew of the Shenlong ship resold the herbs they had bought at low prices for exorbitant prices, making tens of times the profit. Everyone was nearly delirious with laughter.

Meanwhile, Long Xuan and his numerous clones were busy refining King Breaking Pills. His share was handled by the crew, and as the captain, he naturally took the lion's share of the profits. With the Integrity Gu in play, Long Xuan trusted the crew wouldn’t dare to embezzle his portion.

Such massive wealth, of course, attracted envy.

Especially from the merchants who had just sold off their Death Sea spiritual herbs at low prices. They were now filled with regret.

However, with the appearance of a fourth-grade Formation Master and the Island Lord’s backing, those who were envious didn’t dare to act on their thoughts.

Later, the Island Lord happily invited Di Xin, the fourth-grade Formation Master, to help. He requested that she set up an formation on the island to defend against the Black Dragon Pirates.

The Island Lord couldn’t stop marveling at how timely Di Xin’s appearance was. It seemed like divine intervention. With a fourth-grade Formation Master setting up a defensive formation, their chances of fending off the Black Dragon Pirates would increase significantly.

He spared no expense, gathering all the island’s resources to hand over to Di Xin, intending to create the strongest formation possible.

In his desperation to defend against the Black Dragon Pirates, the Island Lord was willing to go all out. Whether the Leng Clan could survive or not was uncertain, so how could he afford to save money? He would rather empty his coffers to ensure the highest chances of success.

At this point, the crew members were dumbfounded. Di Xin was jumping into the fray as well—wasn’t this just ridiculous? She was merely a second-grade Formation Master. Wasn’t she afraid of being exposed?

Unbelievable! One person pretending to be a third-grade Alchemist, and another pretending to be a fourth-grade Formation Master. Where did these audacious masterminds come from? They’d somehow managed to completely fool the Island Lord.

Long Xuan was equally baffled. After seeing what he had pulled off, Di Xin still dared to pretend to be a fourth-grade Formation Master? The business dealings were already handled with the Island Lord’s backing, so there was no need for her to overdo it.

It was now clear to Long Xuan that Di Xin intended to embezzle the island’s massive stock of materials.

She knew that by revealing herself as a fourth-grade Formation Master at this moment, the Island Lord would certainly view her as a lifeline and entrust her with all the island’s resources to set up the formation.

In this way, she could easily seize a vast amount of formation materials without any effort.

Now, with the two of them, the resources of the Big Lonely Island were about to be completely sucked dry.

Di Xin could pocket all the formation materials, while Long Xuan’s mountain of King Breaking Pills would exhaust the island’s remaining resources.

The forces on Big Lonely Island had truly run into a string of bad luck encountering these two.

In the room, Long Xuan looked at the esteemed fourth-grade Formation Master in front of him and said in disbelief, “Are you crazy? You’ll even try to steal this money?”

“You’re just a second-grade Formation Master, what are you doing jumping into the fray? I managed to fool the Island Lord by pretending to be a third-grade Alchemist, but do you think you can?”

“Sure, you can disguise your aura, but when it comes to the real deal, aren’t you afraid of being exposed?”

Di Xin sat in the chair, showing no signs of tension, and disdainfully said, "You're underestimating me too much, aren't you? Since I dare to pose as a fourth-grade Formation Master, I am absolutely confident in fooling that island master."

"Don't take me for a fraud. I always take money to get things done. The formation I set up is more than enough to give the Black Dragon Pirate Crew a tough time."

"They are definitely not losing out by hiring me at a high price. By using the formation I arranged, they might heavily damage the Black Dragon Pirate Crew, possibly even turning the tide."

"And I’m just taking the payment I deserve."

"Enough about me—how's your King-Breaking Pill refining going? If you've only made a few, it won’t be enough to heavily damage the Black Dragon Pirate Crew."

"If we don’t deal a serious blow to the Black Dragon Pirates in this battle, we'll be in big trouble. The Heart of the Ocean is such a heaven-defying treasure that the Sea Dragon Pirates will hunt us to the ends of the earth for it."

When it came to the King-Breaking Pills, Long Xuan showed a disappointed expression and sighed, "I overestimated my own abilities. I've only refined twenty King-Breaking Pills."

Thinking about the wasted materials, Long Xuan felt a wave of heartache.

His process of refining the King-Breaking Pills had been very unsuccessful; he had exploded the furnace on his first batch.

It was at this point that he realized the limitations of the Big Cauldron Pill Refining Technique, which was only suitable for refining relatively low-difficulty pills.

For high-difficulty pills like the Heaven-Mending Pill, one must be fully focused and cannot rely on the Big Cauldron technique.

Although the King-Breaking Pill isn’t as heaven-defying as the Heaven-Mending Pill, it's still one of the hardest pills to refine. Moreover, Long Xuan was refining beyond his current level, so using the Big Cauldron technique for King-Breaking Pills naturally led to failure.

It wasn’t that success was impossible, but the more material portions he added, the higher the failure rate. The fewer portions he used, the higher the success rate.

For his first batch, he had added thirty portions of materials, which ended in failure. He had to continually reduce the portions, finally succeeding with just three portions in one batch. But even then, he couldn’t guarantee 100% success.

Long Xuan had originally planned to refine several thousand King-Breaking Pills, but in the end, he only managed to make twenty, which left him deeply disappointed—far short of his expectations.

His disappointed expression wasn’t an act—he was genuinely let down.

However, his words nearly scared Di Xin to death. With eyes wide open in disbelief, she exclaimed, “What? Twenty King-Breaking Pills? You made twenty King-Breaking Pills on your own? And you’re still disappointed? What on earth are you disappointed about? You’re being ridiculously humble!"

"In just half a month, you managed to produce twenty King-Breaking Pills. Are you trying to scare me? You must be a monster!"

"Most alchemists would be lucky to make three King-Breaking Pills in half a month, but you made twenty! Do you even realize how heaven-defying that is? And you're still not satisfied!"

Di Xin took a deep breath, staring at him like he was some kind of anomaly. At this moment, she was genuinely unsettled.

Long Xuan was simply inhuman. Even ignoring the fact that he made so many King-Breaking Pills in half a month, what was truly outrageous was that he had done so beyond his current alchemy level. This was not something a normal person could achieve!

She knew the truth: he didn’t have any master or teacher helping him. Those King-Breaking Pills were all refined by him, beyond his current level! Alchemy beyond one's level! Could this person even be human?

This guy was a born genius—an anomaly of the heavens. Someone stop this monster! His existence was seriously disrupting the balance of the world!

And yet, after accomplishing such a heaven-defying feat, he still wasn’t satisfied. He even felt like he had made too few and was disappointed.

Did he really think refining several thousand King-Breaking Pills was normal? How infuriating!

Di Xin took another deep breath, her chest rising and falling with emotion.

"And then?" Di Xin asked through gritted teeth.

"What else? The island master was overjoyed, happily took the twenty King-Breaking Pills, and I got to pick a pile of treasures from the treasure vaults of the island’s five major clans as my reward."

“There are still half a month before the Heavenly Wind ends. I think I can refine at least another twenty King-Breaking Pills during that time.”

“In total, that’ll be forty King-Breaking Pills. I think that should be enough to give the Black Dragon Pirates a really hard time,” Long Xuan pondered.

“With my formation added on top of that, severely damaging the Sea Dragon Pirate should be more than achievable. We might even wipe them out. It seems we no longer need to worry about the Black Dragon Pirate Group during our upcoming trip to Sky Island.”

Di Xin nodded thoughtfully and added, “The reason I called you here this time is to let you know that I’ve already upgraded the ship. I even expanded it. Now, we just need your formation patterns, so don’t focus solely on refining pills.”

“As for whether this Big Lonely Island can defeat the Black Dragon Pirates, that’s still an unknown. We must repair the ship before their attack, so we can leave by ship in time. Can you spare the time?”

Hearing this, Long Xuan was surprised. “So fast? What kind of speed is that? Weren’t you supposed to be setting up formations for this island? Oh, I almost forgot—you have multiple hands.”

“Anyway, I have plenty of clones. Half a month should be enough. But I’ll have to reduce the output of the King-Breaking Pills,” Long Xuan frowned slightly.

“You manage your time well. I still have to finish setting up the island’s protective formation, so I won’t stay to chat.”

With that, Di Xin said no more and finally walked out the door.

After watching her leave, Long Xuan thought for a moment, then with a flash of awareness, appeared inside the World Tree Seed. He found six perfectly round golden pills on the ground next to the rabbit, their surfaces covered in dirt. Long Xuan’s scalp tingled.

They were King-Breaking Pills! This rabbit could refine King-Breaking Pills? And these were third-grade pills—the hardest to refine among third-grade pills. What’s more, it seemed to have a decent success rate. Just what level of Alchemist was this rabbit?

If it could refine third-grade pills, why didn’t it say so earlier? If it had, he could have used it to refine third-grade spiritual pills and made a fortune! Why had he been relying on it to refine second-grade spiritual pills and scraping by? Long Xuan’s expression twitched.

If it can refine third-grade spiritual pills, could it also refine fourth-grade spiritual pills? The thought sent a shiver down Long Xuan’s spine.

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