Chapter 363: Heavenly Grade Elixir Pill

“The various rare herbs that are nearly extinct on Qi Yuan Star are abundant on Wu Huang Star. It shouldn’t be difficult for us to refine the Heavenly Infant Pill.”
Su Che thought to himself, “On Wu Huang Star, top-tier herbs with tens of thousands of years of growth are everywhere—each one almost possessing a spirit. Yet no one goes to pick them…”
Last time, after staying on Wu Huang Star for half a year, Su Che had also released the herb spirit Xiao Ling’er to her spiritual tree realm, as well as many other herbs that were tens of thousands of years old inside the Immortal Prison. He couldn’t remember exactly what varieties they were.
At this moment, he could only summon Xiao Ling’er to help identify whether all the top-tier herbs needed to refine the Heavenly Infant Pill could be gathered inside the Immortal Prison.
“I have them all,” Xiao Ling’er said with pouted lips, addressing Lao He, “But I’m reluctant to use them to make pills.”
“What are you talking about, my dear?” Lao He hugged Xiao Ling’er tightly, doting on her as if she were his own daughter. “You’ve been in the Mountain of Spiritual Herbs for so many years. You could endure watching others make pills day and night—how come you can’t tolerate it here?”
“I thought you were a good person. Turns out you’re just another scoundrel,” Xiao Ling’er said coquettishly.
In fact, using herbs to refine pills was, to some extent, a natural thing—this was the purpose of those herbs. It was their mission in this world, just like how cattle and sheep eat grass; it’s part of the food chain.
Xiao Ling’er understood all this but was deliberately making things difficult for Lao He.
Although Lao He looked ugly and terrifying, Xiao Ling’er could sense that he truly loved her dearly, with the kind of indulgence only a father could offer.
So, Xiao Ling’er was willing to act like a little daughter, acting spoiled or being stubborn from time to time.
In other words, the third layer of the Immortal Prison already had all the conditions needed to refine the highest-grade pill in the cultivation world—the Heavenly Grade Elixir Pill. So what were they waiting for? Time to refine one right away.
“Make a batch of Heavenly Infant Pills!” Su Che immediately gave the order.
“Refine Heavenly Infant Pills?” Chen Xu, who was lying powerless on the ground, also heard Su Che’s command. He still protested inwardly, “You just stole the pill-making method from me—how dare you try to refine the most difficult Heavenly Infant Pill right away? Who is so arrogant? Don’t you know how many conditions must be met to refine it?”
Truly worthy of being a master obsessed with pill-making—once something related to pill-making came up, he instantly forgot even his own life and death.

Normally, even if the so-called Tianying Dan is successfully crafted, only one pill can be produced. Yet for this single pill, over sixty extremely rare top-tier spiritual herbs from the cultivation world are required, all of which must be at least five thousand years old. Xiao Ling collected the necessary herbs from her own spiritual wood space and the medicinal garden inside the Immortal Prison, gently piling them at Lao Hei’s feet. Then, in her own way, she bestowed deep blessings upon these herbs, hoping they could truly fulfill their purpose and exist in the world in another form…

A few dozen feet away, Chen Xu also sat up out of sheer curiosity, looking around but failing to see the alchemy furnace. “This is too hasty!” he couldn’t help muttering. “They’ve already gathered the herbs without preparing the furnace first, and they still want to start alchemy without getting the order right…”

Swish! Before he could finish speaking, the sixty-plus top-tier herbs disappeared, taken somewhere unknown. Then, a quiet wait began.

Bang! Chen Xu lay back on the ground. He thought that even if those ignorant and arrogant fools had started alchemy, and even if failure was inevitable, it would still take a few days before any results appeared. But to his utter shock, just half an hour later, he heard the devil with dark golden fur shout, “The pills are ready! Three pills!”

“What?”

Chen Xu, drawing strength from somewhere unknown, sprang up like a spring and looked around frantically. “Where? Where are they?”

Three golden-colored pills, glowing with a strange light and filled with special spiritual energy, appeared out of thin air in front of Lao Hei.

“Tianying Dan!” Chen Xu exclaimed in shock. “It’s indeed Tianying Dan! But how is this possible? How could they succeed so easily? Those herbs were only supposed to produce one pill—how can there be three?”

Chen Xu was extremely astonished. If not for being suppressed and unable to leave his spot, he would have rushed over to grab Lao Hei’s horns and demand an explanation, to find out the truth…

Seeing Chen Xu’s utterly desperate and reckless expression, Su Che thought to himself, “Even in an enemy, one can find admirable and endearing qualities. This is why he can become a master alchemist.”

The three Tianying Dan pills were carefully placed by Lao Hei into three separate medicine bottles. Only by devouring the soul of a master alchemist and harnessing the miraculous effects of the three tiers of the alchemy realm could their true power be unleashed.

Not only is the success rate extremely high, but there is also no waste whatsoever during the alchemy process. A master alchemist like Chen Xu can only produce one pill per batch even if successful, whereas the Three-Layer Pill Realm can increase the pill production rate by several times. The specific reason is that the myriad kinds of spiritual flames in the Three-Layer Pill Realm allow for the refinement of sixty different spiritual herbs, always enabling the selection of the most suitable spiritual flame for each herb’s properties. Outside, even masters like Chen Xu can only have one spiritual flame in their alchemy furnace at a time, requiring them to replace it regularly. However, no matter how often it’s replaced, each spiritual flame causes severe damage to other herbs with incompatible properties, resulting in a much higher rate of herb potency loss than the pill formation rate. This is the biggest difference between the Three-Layer Pill Realm and conventional alchemy furnaces. “But it’s not a 100% success rate; there’s definitely a chance of failure,” Lao He reported based on information from the third layer of the Immortal Prison. “With just one batch, it’s impossible to determine an exact success rate. It can be said that the first batch was lucky—success came right away.” “That’s already quite good,” Su Che thought to himself. “I estimate the pill formation rate shouldn’t be low. The Tianying Pill, though known as a top-tier spiritual pill, is still just a medicinal pill in the cultivation world—it shouldn’t pose a challenge to our Immortal Prison. With enough Tianying Pills, Tianxuan Sect should be able to gain one or two more Nascent Soul cultivators next.” Currently, Tianxuan Sect has over a dozen cultivators at the late Golden Core stage. With the success rate of forming Nascent Souls using Tianying Pills, it should be possible to add one or two more Nascent Souls to the sect. Next, Su Che’s personal fortune will be linked to that of Tianxuan Sect—the stronger the sect becomes, the greater Su Che’s personal fortune will grow. But such a valuable thing as the Tianying Pill can’t be given away casually; at the very least, it’s necessary to figure out who are the loyal ones and who are the traitors. “How is this possible?” “How did you do it?” “Tell me! Hurry, tell me how you did it!” “How can Tianying Pills be formed so easily? This isn’t a capability that should exist in the cultivation world!” “Three pills per batch? Even the Spirit Realm doesn’t have such a technique!” Chen Xu continued to scream loudly, seemingly resigned to his fate. Unfortunately, no one paid him any attention from start to finish. Having contributed his alchemy skills, he was now just waiting to be absorbed by Lao He. He was no longer a person but merely a piece of meat ready to be used. No one would be foolish enough to talk to meat… at least not in the Immortal Prison.

“Master, what are your plans next?” Old Black asked.
“Anything will do.”
Su Che thought to himself, “If Tian Yin emerges first, we’ll go to the Mi Xian Realm with her; if Yan Gu emerges first, we’ll head to Mu Lan Star and also visit Wu Huang Star to gather more resources and spiritual herbs.”
He then gave further instructions, “Of course, the most important thing right now is to send all our Grade 10 spiritual pills to the third-level pill realm for refinement.”
“Understood!”
Old Black immediately got to work.
Back then, Su Che had stolen over 7,000 Grade 10 spiritual pills from the Lingdan Treasury on Lingyao Mountain, but due to the limitations of the third-level pill realm, he couldn’t refine them to higher grades. Now that he had merged with a Grandmaster’s soul, these 7,000 Grade 10 pills should allow him to refine over 4,000 Grade Dark pills.
Over 4,000 Grade Dark pills—what an astonishing amount!
According to Chen Xu’s memory, even the entire sect on Lingyao Mountain didn’t have that many Grade Dark pills, and he himself had only found a little over 30.
Generally, even Yuan Ying cultivators were reluctant to use Grade Dark pills, reserving them for critical moments.
For Su Che, to maintain his lightning-fast cultivation pace, he would use up all 4,000 Grade Dark pills by the middle stage of Yuan Ying, and in the later stage, he would need to turn his attention to Grade Heavenly pills.
In the early stage of Yuan Ying, he would use Grade 10 pills for assistance; in the middle stage, Grade Dark pills; and in the later stage, he would rely on a large number of Grade Heavenly pills…
That was roughly the plan.
After more than two hours, the results of refining the pills came in.
Originally, the success rate for refining Grade 10 pills was expected to be around 60%, but by absorbing the soul of a pill-refining grandmaster, all aspects of the third-level pill realm’s capabilities had improved significantly, including its ability to refine pills.
The success rate exceeded 70%!
He obtained 4,950 Grade Dark pills, 700 more than expected.
“Very good!”
Both Su Che and Old Black were pleased, but they also knew that to obtain pills above Grade 10 in the future, they would have to refine them themselves—there would be no more opportunities like the Lingdan Treasury on Lingyao Mountain to steal so many Grade 10 pills.
Fortunately, they had a collection base like Wu Huang Star; otherwise, the large amount of pills needed in the future would have caused Su Che immense trouble.
After resting for a night, early the next morning, Su Che flew out of the mountain gate and headed southwest, toward Tianxin Pavilion, which was tens of thousands of miles away.

Tianyin is in seclusion, so the Mi Xian Realm cannot be visited for now; Yan Gu is also in seclusion, so Mu Lan Star cannot be visited either. With nothing to do, Su Che decided to go to Tian Xin Pavilion to take a look. It would be great if he could meet Yu Qing, but it wouldn’t matter if he didn’t. After all, tens of thousands of miles is just half an hour for someone at the Yuan Ying cultivation level—consider it a few days of travel to experience the local customs of different regions…