Chapter 311 The Immortal Lord Summons Xiao Yan, the Immortal Court's Alchemists Are Shocked by the Pill Tower!
With a spatial fluctuation, Xiao Yan was also teleported here from the Dou Qi Continent.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud was heard.
Xiao Yan's body crashed heavily onto the edge of a plaza paved with white jade.
As soon as he landed, he felt as if an invisible, immense mountain was pressing down on his back.
His legs went weak and he almost collapsed to his knees. He could only use the Xuanzhong Ruler in his hand to support himself on the ground, panting heavily.
"The spatial laws here... are so heavy."
Xiao Yan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes.
In the Dou Qi Continent, with his cultivation as a Great Dou Master, he could easily leap dozens of feet.
Here, however, he felt that even moving his feet had become extremely difficult, and the fighting spirit in his body was as if it had sunk into a quagmire, making its circulation extremely sluggish.
"Xiao Yanzi, conceal your aura and do not make any rash moves."
The illusory figure of the old apothecary appeared and disappeared beside the ring, his voice filled with unprecedented solemnity.
Following Yao Lao's reminder, Xiao Yan raised his head and looked around.
He was completely stunned after just one glance.
As far as the eye can see, towering, seemingly endless immortal mountains float amidst the sea of clouds.
Above the sky, hundreds and thousands of cultivators, some riding flying swords and others riding strange beasts that exuded terrifying pressure, were transforming into streaks of light and shuttling through the clouds.
The energy permeating the air was not fighting spirit at all, but a kind of immortal substance that made one feel comfortable all over and as if even the soul would be sublimated with just one breath.
But what terrified Xiao Yan and Yao Lao was not these things.
Rather, it's the direction at the horizon.
There, although the sky had cleared, a lingering trace of darkness still remained in the void.
And a vast and boundless residual power of the Great Dao, seemingly capable of suppressing all the heavens and myriad worlds.
Even if they are separated by countless miles.
Even that lingering trace of energy still made Yao Lao, a Dou Zun-level soul, feel a chill run down his spine.
"It seems that some unimaginable collision occurred in that area of the sky just now," Yao Lao said, his voice trembling.
"If even a trace of that residual power were to fall upon the Dou Qi Continent, the entire Central Continent would instantly turn to ashes."
Upon hearing his teacher's words, Xiao Yan's palms, which were gripping the Xuanzhong Ruler, were covered in sweat.
Just then, footsteps came from the white jade steps not far away.
Several young disciples dressed in the outer sect robes of the Primordial Immortal Court were hurrying down the steps, excitedly discussing something.
"Have you heard? Something big just happened over at the Boundary Sea!"
One of the outer disciples was filled with fervor, his voice rising several decibels with excitement.
"The Ancient Dust Immortal King of Zhenhai Palace was assimilated by a drop of black blood in the Boundary Sea and instantly turned into a dark monster."
Even the combined might of several giants, including Pan Wang and Chaos Immortal King, couldn't withstand the oppressive force emanating from that drop of blood!
"hiss!"
"Even a Celestial King couldn't stop it?" Another disciple gasped.
"Of course it's true! But guess what happened in the end?"
The disciple who spoke first straightened his chest, his face full of pride.
"In the end, it still required the personal intervention of our Primordial Celestial Court's Celestial Lord!"
"The Immortal Lord simply stepped forward, without even using any supernatural powers, and with just one hand, he crushed that drop of black blood, which even an Immortal King could obliterate, into nothingness!"
The disciples walked away, but Xiao Yan heard every word of their conversation.
Xiao Yan stood there, his mind buzzing.
A Celestial King Giant?
Can one hand crush black blood capable of destroying the world?
Although he couldn't understand the specific divisions of these realms, through Yao Lao's reaction and the terrifying celestial phenomenon he had just witnessed, he vaguely understood what this concept meant.
Before that so-called Immortal Lord, even the Dou Di of the Dou Qi Continent would be somewhat insignificant.
"Who are you? Why are you lingering at the entrance of the Outer Sect's Spirit Medicine Peak?"
Suddenly, a slightly stern voice interrupted Xiao Yan's thoughts.
An old man in a gray robe appeared in front of Xiao Yan without anyone noticing.
The old man frowned slightly as he looked the strangely dressed, pitifully weak-level boy up and down.
Xiao Yan's heart tightened, and he quickly put away the Xuan Heavy Ruler, respectfully clasping his hands in a salute.
Upon arriving, he knew the importance of keeping a low profile.
"I am a junior who has just arrived here and lost my way. I have mistakenly entered your precious land. Please forgive me, senior."
The old man glanced at Xiao Yan, then at his legs, which were trembling slightly from the weight of gravity.
"A mortal cultivator who has never even absorbed immortal energy?"
The old man shook his head.
The Celestial Court's territory is vast, and it's not uncommon for low-level cultivators from the lower realms to ascend or accidentally wander into it.
"Never mind, meeting is fate."
The old man looked at Xiao Yan, his tone indifferent.
"My Spirit Medicine Peak is in dire need of a few menial workers to watch over the earth fire and move spirit firewood."
"I see that your soul power is a bit stronger than that of ordinary mortals. Would you be willing to stay and work as a kitchen helper?"
"If he performs well, he may be able to learn some basic alchemy in the future."
Fireworker's handyman?
Upon hearing this word, the old apothecary sighed inside his ring.
A disciple of the esteemed Medicine Master is reduced to tending fires and carrying firewood here.
But Xiao Yan did not hesitate at all.
He knew that to survive in this cannibalistic world, he first had to find a place to stay.
Since the Primordial Immortal Court is a place where even supreme beings reside, even a menial servant can access opportunities far exceeding those of the Dou Qi Continent.
"This junior is willing! Thank you for taking me in, senior!" Xiao Yan agreed without hesitation.
The old man nodded and casually tossed a gray wooden plaque to Xiao Yan.
"Take your servant's badge and report to the fire station in the back mountain."
Watching Xiao Yan carrying the wooden plaque, walking step by step towards the back mountain.
This scene was also transmitted back to Douluo Continent and Douqi Continent through the light screen.
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Douluo Continent, God Realm Committee.
Seeing Xiao Yan bowing and sweating profusely as he went to work as a kitchen helper on the screen, the hall erupted in laughter.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The evil god pointed at the light screen, laughing so hard he could barely breathe.
"I thought the people of the Dou Qi Continent were so powerful! That Han Feng was instantly killed by a wild beast as soon as he arrived."
"This Xiao Yan is even more ridiculous. He was captured as soon as he landed and made into a laborer to carry firewood!"
Poseidon also raised a cup of divine brew, a mocking smile on his lips.
"Look at his naive and unsophisticated appearance, he was sent to tend the fire with just a few words."
"At least Zhu Zhuqing is sweeping the main peak now, but this kid can't even get into the main peak and can only do hard labor on some outer sect spirit medicine peak."
"Even if a country bumpkin from a lower plane goes to the Perfect World, he is destined to be trampled underfoot and will never be able to turn his life around."
The gods echoed their sentiments, their words filled with condescending disdain.
Suddenly, I felt that Dou Qi Continent wasn't so great after all.
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at the same time.
The Immortal Realm, the Primordial Immortal Court, floats atop the magnificent main peak at its very center.
Clouds and mist swirl around, and cranes sing in harmony.
Jiang Chen had just returned from the edge of the Boundary Sea with Liu Shen and the others.
He stepped into the magnificent Immortal Lord's Hall and slowly sat down on the white jade throne at the highest point.
The Lord of the Forbidden Zone, Master Jingbi, and others stood on both sides, their expressions respectful.
Shi Yi and the woman with double pupils were visiting this sacred immortal land for the first time. Standing outside the hall, they felt the dense, almost liquefied, laws of the Great Dao around them, and even their breathing became cautious.
Jiang Chen leaned back on his throne, not in a hurry to arrange the next steps.
His profound gaze pierced through the dome of the main hall, and his vast divine sense, like a gentle breeze, swept across the entire territory of the Primordial Immortal Court.
Suddenly, Jiang Chen's gaze paused for a moment.
His gaze fell on the outer edge of the Celestial Court, on the Spirit Medicine Peak, which was specifically responsible for refining ordinary pills.
More accurately, it landed on a black-clad boy who was carrying a giant black ruler on his back and was sweating profusely as he moved firewood.
The power system within the boy seemed completely out of place in this vast world filled with celestial energy.
"Um?"
Jiang Chen's lips curled up slightly, revealing a smile of interest.
"Battle Qi?"
As a transmigrator who knew the course of many worlds, he recognized the Xuanzhong Ruler on the boy's back and the black ancient ring on his hand at a glance.
"interesting."
Jiang Chen tapped his fingers lightly twice on the white jade armrest.
We're tired of the Douluo Continent storyline, and now they've even sent over the chosen one from the Dou Qi Continent!
Seeing that the Immortal Master seemed to be paying attention to the direction of the outer sect, Li Changsheng, who was standing below, quickly stepped forward, cupped his hands, and asked:
"Master, has something gone wrong in the outer sect?"
Jiang Chen withdrew his gaze, looked at Li Changsheng below the main hall, and spoke in a calm tone.
"There are no problems."
"Immortality".
"Go to the Earth Fire Room on the Outer Sect's Spirit Medicine Peak."
Jiang Chen's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly carried throughout the entire hall.
"Bring that newly joined sect member, the fire-worker carrying a huge black ruler, to the main hall to see me."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the hall, from the Lord of the Forbidden Zone to Master Jingbi, was taken aback.
Shi Yi, standing outside the hall, was stunned for a moment.
A newly joined outer sect worker/servant?
It's astonishing that the First Order of the Celestial Court had to personally invite them, and that the Celestial Lord himself had to summon them.
Outside the light curtain lies the Douluo God Realm.
The Sea God and the God of Evil, who had been mocking Xiao Yan, were momentarily stunned upon hearing this.
The gods stared wide-eyed, their faces filled with disbelief.
How is that possible?
That country bumpkin from the Dou Qi Continent, who even struggled to walk, had only been a menial servant for less than half an hour.
The aloof and supreme Primordial Immortal Lord actually ordered him to be summoned?!
Meanwhile, in the Immortal Realm.
The Primordial Immortal Court, the outer sect's Spirit Medicine Peak.
Xiao Yan fastened a dusty wooden plaque to his waist and walked step by step down the winding bluestone steps toward the Earth Fire Room on the back mountain.
On his shoulders were two dark red firewood sticks, each as thick as a wrist.
This is a common type of spirit firewood called "Star Pattern Ironwood," specifically used to fuel the fire in the Earth Fire Chamber.
But on Xiao Yan's shoulders, the two pieces of firewood were as heavy as two hills forged from refined iron.
Each step produced a dull thud on the white jade floor.
"Huff, huff..."
Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, his black clothes already soaked with sweat.
His Great Dou Master Qi was circulating wildly within him, but he still felt somewhat strained.
Just as he finally moved the firewood to the spacious courtyard of the woodshed and was about to unload his burden and catch his breath.
Suddenly, a terrifyingly high temperature burst forth from an open-air stone platform not far away.
Xiao Yan subconsciously looked up.
The gray-robed old man who had taken him in earlier was sitting cross-legged in the center of the stone platform.
There was no medicine cauldron in front of the old man.
Yes, there are no furnaces or cauldrons.
The old man simply made a sweeping motion in the air in front of him, and a visible spatial rift was forcibly frozen in place.
Immediately afterwards, a ball of pure white flame, with faint illusions of stars rising and falling within it, shot out from his fingertips and hovered in the torn void.
Use the void of heaven and earth as a furnace!
"Little Yanzi, look at his medicine-refining technique!"
Inside the ring, the old man's originally weak soul body floated out uncontrollably, his old eyes wide open.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan endured the soreness in his legs and fixed his gaze on the ball of white flame.
The old man in the gray robe waved his sleeve.
He casually tossed a small grass with nine leaves, which emitted a rich purple light, into the void furnace.
On those blades of grass, there were naturally interwoven strands of profound Dao patterns.
Then, the old man pulled out a piece of crystal-clear animal bone from somewhere.
Judging from the oppressive aura emanating from those beast bones, it must have been a terrifying ferocious beast far surpassing even the Dou Sheng realm in its lifetime.
But the old man didn't care at all. Just like throwing cabbage into a pot, he threw one after another all sorts of divine objects that would cause bloodshed even if you only glanced at them in the Dou Qi Continent into that ball of white flames.
Carefully refining? That's not an option.
The old man rapidly formed hand seals, sending extremely complex magic seals into the flames.
The pure white flame instantly transformed into a ferocious fire dragon, which opened its maw and swallowed all the divine objects whole.
"boom!"
The violent energy exploded in the void, but was firmly contained within a three-foot radius by the old man's seemingly withered hands, without leaking out in the slightest.
However, it only took half an incense stick's time.
"凝".
The old man uttered a single word softly.
The ball of white flame instantly rolled back and disappeared into his fingertips.
Where the void furnace once stood, three pills, each the size of a longan and purplish-gold in color, floated in the air.
As soon as the elixir took shape, a colorful auspicious cloud appeared out of nowhere in the sky.
Immediately afterwards, the three pills seemed to have gained independent life, emitting a clear dragon roar and transforming into three streams of purple-gold light that were about to break through the air and fly away!
"Trying to run?"
The old man snorted coldly and pressed his withered palm forward in a half-hearted manner.
The surrounding space instantly froze. The three pills, which had already flown ten feet away, were like frozen insects, obediently flying back into the old man's palm, where he casually put them into a rough jade bottle.
"This, how is this possible..."
At this moment, Yao Lao, who had witnessed this scene, hovered in mid-air, his illusory hands trembling, and even his soul essence was violently surging.
What did he see?
Using the void of heaven and earth as a cauldron, one can manipulate the laws of space at will.
The violent energy contained in those medicinal herbs is something that even Dou Sheng-level experts on the Dou Qi Continent dare not easily touch.
But the old man used a domineering method that he couldn't understand at all to forcibly crush and reassemble it!
What truly devastated Yao Lao was the final scene of the pill's formation.
"A pill taking form, and it's a pill taking form that has triggered extraordinary phenomena in heaven and earth!"
In the Dou Qi Continent, only the legendary and ethereal Emperor-grade pills have the potential to possess independent intelligence and even take human form.
That is the myth that all alchemists on the continent pursue throughout their lives.
But now, in this so-called Primordial Immortal Court, there is a gray-robed old man who is only fit to collect menial tasks and is responsible for guarding the Spirit Medicine Peak in the outer sect.
He actually concocted three sentient divine pills as easily as frying beans?!
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At the same time.
Dou Qi Continent, Central State, Pill Tower.
As the highest holy place in the hearts of all alchemists across the continent, the headquarters of the Pill Tower has now fallen into an eerie silence.
The three giants of the Pill Tower: Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi.
These three renowned eighth-grade peak alchemy masters, who were famous throughout the Central Plains, were now slumped in their chairs in the main hall, looking up at the light screen in the sky without any regard for their image.
(End of chapter)