Breaking through the illusion of the mortal world

Chapter 151 Refining Five Qi in the Alchemy Furnace

Inside the Dark Fragrance Pavilion, within the Purple Gold Alchemy Furnace, had long since become Lu Ming's unique realm of creation.

This Purple Gold Alchemy Furnace is a top-grade spiritual treasure. Its body is forged from purple gold divine iron and contains pure gold elemental spiritual energy.

This is also part of the thousand-year-old heritage of Anxianglou.

The alchemy furnace usually keeps its golden energy contained within itself, only releasing all of its hidden golden elemental energy when it is activated.

At this moment, the Nine Yang True Fire surged like raging waves, and the furnace wall emitted a dazzling purple-gold glow.

Dan Chenzi continuously performed incantations outside, activating the furnace's restrictions, causing the entire furnace to tremble slightly.

The metallic spiritual energy hidden deep within the divine iron permeated every inch of the furnace, intertwining with the true fire to refine Lu Ming.

Lu Ming sat cross-legged in the center of the sea of ​​fire, his body enveloped by the Nine Yang True Fire.

Although he was still suffering from the pain of being burned alive, he persisted in circulating the Xuanwu True Skill.

The physical body, transformed by the blood of the immortal gods, gleamed with a faint, dark yellow luster, while simultaneously absorbing the fire and metal elements to replenish the heart fire and liver metal.

However, this process was extremely difficult, no less so than the body tempering in the Immortal Remnant Land back then.

The first thing he absorbed was the immense fire elemental power within the Nine Yang True Fire. The inner fire energy within his five qi had already become abundant and radiant.

The vast amount of rare and precious herbs that had been swallowed earlier transformed into boundless vitality, permeating the body and continuously nourishing the flesh.

This allowed his cultivation to quietly rise amidst dire circumstances, surpassing his previous level.

After absorbing most of the heart fire energy, Lu Ming began to absorb the metal element spiritual energy from the Purple Gold Furnace to replenish the liver metal energy.

Golden streams flowed through the pores into the meridians, merging into the five vital energies in the chest. The originally dim golden aura brightened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

By cultivating both Qi simultaneously and advancing in tandem, Lu Ming's foundation in the Five Qi Realm was continuously perfected within this deadly alchemy furnace.

As the inner fire energy neared its completion, Lu Ming's burning pain greatly diminished.

Outside the alchemy furnace, Dan Chenzi continued to activate his incantations and spiritual power.

The massive consumption of the Nine Yang True Fire and the gradual dimming of the Purple Gold Alchemy Furnace's spiritual light had left Dan Chenzi in dire straits, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.

"Damn it! Lu Ming's flesh and blood essence is so difficult to refine. So much Nine Yang True Fire has been consumed, and most of the spiritual energy of the alchemy furnace has been absorbed, yet it still hasn't been refined." Dan Chenzi thought to himself in shock.

Dan Chenzi never imagined that Lu Ming's physical body would be so difficult to refine.

It almost exhausted his millennia of accumulated knowledge!

But now he was in a bind. If he didn't do everything in his power to refine Lu Ming, all his previous efforts would be in vain!

Lu Ming sneered inwardly, "Old bastard, I really don't know how I'm going to thank you later!"

Lu Ming suddenly accelerated the speed at which he absorbed the five elements of spiritual energy, and forcibly concealed the surging metal and fire energies within his body, leaving only a faint trace of their aura circulating outside.

The next moment, the Nine Yang True Fire churning inside the alchemy furnace suddenly weakened, the golden-red flames dimmed, and the fireballs around Lu Ming churned and weakened, as if they would go out at any moment.

At the same time, Lu Ming deliberately emitted a faint, unstable aura, like a candle flickering in the wind, his breath coming in fits and starts.

It was as if the essence of the flesh inside the furnace was on the verge of dissipation, and the elixir was about to be ruined.

Lu Ming even circulated his physical body's qi and blood to simulate the dissipation of spiritual energy when the elixir failed to catalyze the process.

Strands of blood energy seeped from his body, only to be instantly withdrawn, leaving the outside world with the illusion of impending demise.

Inside the Pill Pavilion, Dan Chenzi was making hand seals, his face already as pale as paper and covered in cold sweat from continuously activating the true fire and the pill furnace.

To create this humanoid elixir, he exhausted the Nine Yang True Fire, used up dozens of rare and precious herbs, and pushed the Purple Gold Pill Furnace to its limit. The cost was far beyond imagination.

His eyes were fixed on the alchemy furnace, his gaze greedy and crazed.

"Almost there... Just a little longer and we'll achieve perfection!"

But at that moment, the fluctuations coming from inside the furnace suddenly changed drastically!

The aura of the Nine Yang True Fire diminished sharply, the purple-gold glow on the furnace wall dimmed, and the blood and qi fluctuations belonging to the elixir body became extremely weak, as if they would completely dissipate in the next second.

"Not good!" Dan Chenzi suddenly stood up, his expression panicked. "The fire power is exhausted, the pill is unstable, if we don't strengthen it soon, this pill will be destroyed!"

He was extremely anxious. He had poured all his savings into the project, and if the pill were destroyed and he died at this moment, all his efforts would be in vain.

His gaze swept over the spiritual herbs in the Pill Pavilion, and he instantly thought of a way to break the deadlock.

Wood can ignite fire; with the supreme energy of wood, it can ignite the final true fire!

He suddenly waved his hand, taking out all the treasures that the Dark Fragrance Pavilion's Dan Pavilion had kept for many years, containing immense wood energy:

Millennium-old green wood marrow, ten-thousand-year-old spirit wood core, nine-turn green leaves, Bodhi wood heart, Azure Mist Wood Spirit Crystal...

These are all rare wood-based treasures, the millennia-old heritage of the Dark Fragrance Pavilion, but now, in order to make pills, he has thrown them all into the Purple Gold Pill Furnace!

"For this elixir, I'll risk everything!"

A massive amount of wood essence fell into the furnace, instantly igniting the remaining Nine Yang True Fire.

The cyan wood energy and red fire energy intertwined, causing the already weakened true fire to surge again, and the golden-red flames to rise once more.

The temperature inside the furnace soared, and the purple-gold divine iron on the furnace walls became even hotter, releasing the metal elemental energy even more violently!

Inside the alchemy furnace, Lu Ming felt the surging wood energy and secretly rejoiced: "This is exactly what I've been waiting for!"

This is exactly the result Lu Ming wanted!

Lu Ming fully activated the Xuanwu True Skill, absorbing all three energies simultaneously, accepting all that came his way.

The fire of the heart completely broke through its shackles, becoming perfectly complete.

Lu Ming controlled the Nine Yang True Fire to increase its range, blocking Dan Chenzi's investigation.

Then Lu Ming swallowed all the wood-type natural treasures that he could, and for those that he couldn't swallow, he had them tempered in true fire to stimulate their wood-elemental spiritual energy before absorbing them.

Of the five elements, metal, wood, and fire have been greatly replenished at this moment and are gradually approaching perfection!

Lu Ming began to continuously release his qi and blood power, which became increasingly solid within the Nine Yang True Fire.

This delighted Dan Chenzi, who was already imagining how extraordinary the pill would be once it was completed.

At this moment, Lu Ming could no longer feel any pain. He thought to himself, "Dan Chenzi, you think you are refining me into a pill, but little do you know, I am borrowing your pill furnace to cultivate my five elements."

When my three energies are fully developed, that will be the day I break out of the furnace!

Outside the alchemy furnace, Dan Chenzi looked at the Nine Yang True Fire that had regained its vigor and felt the increasingly abundant essence of blood and flesh inside the furnace, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He slumped to the ground, a greedy and maniacal smile returning to his face.

"Hahaha, it's done! Keep the firepower steady, this pill will surely be successful!"

He was completely unaware that his investment of his entire fortune was merely a stepping stone for someone else.

Unbeknownst to him, his Purple Gold Alchemy Furnace had already become nourishment for Lu Ming's cultivation, with the primordial spiritual energy of the metal element being continuously absorbed into Lu Ming's body.

Inside the Purple Gold Elixir Furnace, the three elements of metal, wood, and fire intertwined, true fire surged, and medicinal aroma permeated the air.