Chapter 423: Chapter 422: Jiang Li, Grandmaster of Alchemy

Generally, the more people there are within the range of the Heavenly Tribulation, the more powerful it is, and the same goes for the Pill Lightning.

However, the Pill Lightning strikes at pills, so the more pills there are within the range, the greater its power.

The darkness that blanketed the sky struck fear into the hearts of the alchemists, leaving them terrified and breathless.

With these two factors combined, the power of the Pill Lightning had reached an unmeasurable level.

Well, ‘unmeasurable’ might not be the right word.

“Not strong enough, the tribulation of immortality is much more powerful.” Jiang Li quickly gauged the power of the Pill Lightning. This level of power was even not enough to tickle him.

The Pill Lightning came crashing down, wreaking havoc, and Su Wei was knocked aside by the Red Crow Furnace in his attempt to obstruct it.

“Are you suicidal? Even Zhang Konghu would not be able to withstand this Pill Lightning!”

Su Wei reluctantly gave up resisting the Pill Lightning.

The intensity of the Pill Lightning had fully exceeded the realm of Body Integration’s endurance.

The only consolation for everyone was that the Pill Lightning struck pills, not people.

The glare of the lightning illuminated the varied expressions on everyone’s faces as it ruthlessly struck at the Longbai Protection Pill made by Su Wei and the Heaven Transforming Spirit Pill made by the Red Crow Furnace.

The mother-and-daughter safety type pill came in third place.

No pill could withstand this powerful Pill Lightning.

“It’s over, it’s all over. This competition has no winners.” A senior member of the alchemy world despaired. The pop-up alchemy meeting was in vain. With the pills turned to ashes, how could winners be determined?

“Let it strike mine first.” Jiang Li patted Su Wei on the shoulder, and boldly brought out the Life and Death are Fated, Wealth is in Heaven Pill.

Su Wei was surprised.

“Look, what is that Jin Li guy doing? His pill is resisting the Pill Lightning!”

“How can his pill be so unyielding?!”

People couldn’t believe their eyes. Pill Lightning needed an alchemist to resist as pills were weak and couldn’t resist on their own.

This Jin Li didn’t make a move from start to finish, he let his pill resist the Pill Lightning on its own.

“Because of its high density.”

People were speechless. Indeed, a small mountain compressed into a pill would undoubtedly have a high density.

Probably only those at the Transcendence Tribulation Stage could break it.

“Could it be that he foresaw the coming of the Pill Lightning and prepared this pill in advance for this very moment?” someone suggested, finding their guess quite reasonable.

“Certainly, this Jin Li is an extraordinary alchemist. He realized that Su Wei and the Red Crow Furnace’s skillful techniques would concoct a pill that would attract Pill Lightning, and he prepared in advance!”

“If you think about it, his actions have always been unexpected but reasonable, which even led to his victory in the previous round. All of this might be within his calculations!”

“How terrifying. He’s truly a remarkable hidden alchemist.”

“Wait a minute, it’s not just him. That Chen Jian’s sword pill is fine too!”

Everyone was astounded to discover that the Sword Lord’s sword pill blocked the Pill Lightning for the Red Crow Furnace’s Heaven Transforming Spirit Pill. When the Pill Lightning struck the sword pill, the sword pill released Sword Qi, striking back at the Pill Lightning.

The Pill Lightning and the pill were fighting against each other, and it seemed like the pill had the upper hand, pushing back the Pill Lightning bit by bit.

“I’ve been refining pills for over a thousand years, and I’ve never seen a scene like this.”

“No wonder these two hidden alchemists are so formidable.”

“We alchemists have been too conservative. We should be bold in innovating.” Someone was inspired and vowed to create a pill that breaks away from traditional thinking.

Being constrained by prior ideas would inevitably limit surpassing predecessors.

“Well said, I admire the creativity of the sect master of the Ling Medicine Sect. We should learn and carry it forward.”

“Once the meeting is over, I want to learn from the Ling Medicine Sect.”

“Let’s go together.”

Two secluded alchemists stepped in to block the heavenly tribulation from the elixir, demonstrating to everyone the diverse variety of pills.

The outcome of the third competition was evident. The pair won without contest.

The goal of this competition was to showcase elixirs symbolizing their alchemy accomplishments, the premise of which is to keep the elixir intact. If not for these two, every single elixir present would have been reduced to ashes.

This was seen as the grace of saving elixirs.

Jiang Li won two of the three competitions, becoming the first place winner and earning the title of Grandmaster of Alchemy.

Su Wei and Jian Jun won one competition, tying for second place.

This marked the end of the convention, proving that an alchemist’s skills surpassed those of a pill furnace.

Jian Jun never thought that, by posing as an alchemist to learn alchemy here, he would unexpectedly earn the title of Pill Master.

He could only make Qi Cluster Pills.

“I’m glad I used an alias.” Jian Jun rejoiced, understanding why the Human Emperor liked to change his name so much.

The embarrassment fell not to “Sword Monarch Chen Jiannan”, but “Chen Jian”.

“It seems that my alchemy skills are in order.” Jiang Li gently nodded.

Su Wei glanced at Jiang Li, guessing his identity.

When Jiang Li was just a low-level cultivator, and Su Wei was the Chief of Dan Refining Peak, they had known each other for hundreds of years. Even if Jiang Li thought he was very discreet, his distinctive way of thinking, identical to Bai Hongtu’s, betrayed him to Su Wei.

Whenever Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu were candidates for the Human Emperor, Su Wei had heard stories about how they exhibited extraordinary prowess, akin to reading a heavenly scroll.

He didn’t understand how a regular competition, according to the rules, always became extraordinary in their hands.

If it were one person, it would be manageable. But when these two were together, whoever crossed paths with them would certainly be out of luck.

Fortunately, this competition only involved Jiang Li.

That person named Chen Jian was obviously not a disguise of Bai Hongtu.

Unaware of Su Wei’s thoughts, Jiang Li left nonchalantly, leaving only the story of a secluded alchemist.

…

[Congratulations to the host for completing the task, making a great name at the Jiuzhou Alchemy Conference. Do you want to settle the task reward?]

“Settle.”

An Immortal Elixir Recipe appeared in Jiang Li’s hands.

“What kind of elixir recipe is this… Celestial Sun Poison Pill, a hugely toxic pill, a necessary elixir to defeat strong enemies with weakness. If you take this pill, you can go to the Underworld, but it’s hard to return?!”

Jiang Li didn’t expect the system’s reward to be this reliable.

“From the description, it’s used to poison enemies. It doesn’t directly kill people but makes the soul depart from the body and go to the Underworld. If separated for a long time, the soul and body will dissociate, resulting in actual death. This should be for those reaching the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, as they can sense disaster and fortune—only these indirect poisons can annihilate them.”

“Perhaps, I can use this pill to travel to the Underworld.”

“As for the ingredients, I have most of them. I only lack something called Soul Severing Water.”

Jiang Li had no expectations of easily creating the elixir, since it’s called an Immortal Pill, the necessary materials must be of the Immortal Realm. It was already fortunate to have most of them in Jiuzhou.

A small spark of black flames appeared in Jiangli’s palm.

“Devouring Sky Flames- a flame derived from the absorption intent within a black hole. Its power is astonishing. This flame is equivalent to a mini black hole. If I were in the Nascent Soul Stage, this would be a great trump card. However, it’s not very useful to me now.”

Jiang Li sealed the Devouring Sky Flames and threw it into the storage ring to gather dust.

“As for this Primordial Yellow Qi, it isn’t much use to me either.”

For those at the Divinity Transformation or even Body Integration Realm, this Primordial Yellow Qi is very rare, but Jiang Li was not lacking.

The bronze cauldron in the Imperial Palace, which holds the power of faith, has a large amount of Primordial Yellow Qi as part of its raw material.