In the next two days, Casey, Harleen, and the others stayed in the manor focusing on cultivation.
Meanwhile, Billy, Ivy, and Stout were busy working on the alchemy furnace. The Chi Condensing Pills he brought from Ether Mountain had used up, so he decided to refine a new batch during these idle days.
Now that they had a sacred-grade alchemy furnace, naturally, he wanted to try making divine grade pills.
“Boss, are you really going to try refining divine-grade pills?” Stout asked after preparing the materials for Chi Condensing Pills.
“Let’s give it a try!” Billy nodded.
“Billy, just do your best,” Ivy said.
“Okay!” Billy agreed. “Let’s begin!”
“Alright!” Stout replied and added a pile of auxiliary materials into the furnace.
Refining different pills involved various materials and techniques. For top-grade Chi Condensing Pills, there were dozens of materials categorized as primary, secondary, and auxiliary, each requiring precise timing during the process.
Two minutes later, Ivy lit the furnace fire, and soon the room was filled with a fragrant aroma.
“Stout, it’s time for the secondary materials!” Billy instructed approximately an hour and a half later when the timing was right.
“Got it!” Stout responded and added eight types of secondary materials.
Billy then used his Heart Method to infuse Chi power into the furnace. As time passed, the temperature in the room rose, and the fragrance grew stronger.
After about four to five hours, the flames in the furnace turned from red to blue, enveloping it in a faint blue flame. The temperature soared to fifty to sixty degrees Celsius, but this had negligible effects on a Divine Realm Warrior.
“Stout, add the primary materials!” he ordered after another half-hour.
“Okay!” Stout nodded and added two core ingredients.
With a deep breath, Billy increased his Chi power once more. Soon, a faint scent of pills wafted from the furnace. Despite his unstable aura and slightly pale complexion, Billy persevered.
“If it’s not working, let’s stop here, Billy,” Ivy suggested. “Let’s refine a batch of sovereign-grade pills first. We can try it again when your cultivation reaches the late Divine Realm.”
“No, let’s try again!” Billy interrupted firmly, then activated his bloodline power, boosting his Chi power significantly.
After another hour, the flames turned from blue to cyan.
“Boss, Ivy, look at that! What’s happening?” Stout exclaimed, pointing at the furnace in surprise.
Billy and Ivy noticed the changes on the furnace’s surface. The engraved dark patterns emitted a faint glow, revealing abstract patterns clearly.
All three wore puzzled expressions. Despite their experience in alchemy, this was a first for them.
“This furnace seems really special,” Ivy remarked after a pause, glancing at Billy’s condition once more. Billy at this moment has turned pale, his breath fluctuating unstably.
“Billy, should we just give up?” Ivy asked with a hint of concern.
Just then, a powerful aura burst out from the alchemy furnace, quickly shaking the surroundings.
Puff!
Billy was pushed back several meters by the wave of energy, then coughed up blood.
Ivy and Stout, standing not far away, were not spared either.
They slid back more than twenty meters before crashing heavily into the wall, their blood boiling.
“Billy, are you okay?” After suppressing the blood flow, Ivy hurried over to Billy.
“I’m fine!”
Billy wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up from the ground, looking at the alchemy furnace with a pensive expression.
“Sacred grade alchemy furnace is indeed extraordinary!”
At this point, because the Chi power was no longer infused into the furnace, the flames turned into normal red flames, and the abstract patterns on the furnace wall returned to their original state.
At the same time, the rich scent of pills filled the room, refreshing the senses.
“Boss, the pill should be formed now. I’ll go check its grade,” Stout said after a slight pause.
“No need to check, it’s still sovereign grade!” Billy replied.
Obviously, with his current cultivation level, it was hard to refine divine grade pills.
“Well then!” Stout clicked his tongue. “But having sovereign-grade Chi Condensing Pills is not bad either. Taking one can restore full health!”
“Ivy, take some time these days to set up an array in the courtyard and put away the alchemy furnace,” Billy instructed Ivy.
“We’ll try again after we come back from the Forbidden Phantom Valley!”
“Okay!” Ivy nodded in response.
Time passed quickly, half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
On this morning, after finishing breakfast, everyone, led by Billy, headed towards the imperial city of Rainbow Moon Empire.
Half a month ago, on the way back from the Mystic Pill Sect to Extreme City, Billy had already described to everyone the conversation between Prince Nelson Morris of the Rainbow Moon Empire and himself.
This time, Nelson Morris came to invite him specifically to enter the Forbidden Phantom Valley.
The four forbidden areas in the Forbidden Ruins Space did not belong to any empire. In other words, they were jointly owned by the four empires.
According to the rules established over hundreds of years, the Forbidden Phantom Valley opens once every fifty years, and each empire can send a hundred people to enter.
Moreover, it must be done on an imperial basis, and no loose cultivators are allowed to enter.
In addition, there are two restrictions on those who enter the array.
Firstly, the age of the entrant must be forty-five or younger.
Secondly, the martial cultivation level of the entrant must be in the Divine Realm or below.
As for how the array discerns these two points, no one knows.
It is said that in the past, every time it opened, there were always people who didn’t believe this, either their age exceeded the limit or their cultivation had already surpassed the Divine Realm, and then they forcibly entered the Forbidden Phantom Valley.
However, before they could see clearly what was inside, they were torn to shreds by the array.