The mountain was a thousand feet high, at the top of the mountain, a ten feet high furnace stood on the edge of the cliff, under the furnace burning a blazing fire, the furnace was emitting seven-coloured haze, making this place seem particularly sacred.
The crowd had already arrived at the bottom of the mountain, staring intently at the crimson furnace.
Only to see that above the cauldron, a wisp of purple lightning coalesced, emitting crackling sounds that exploded in the air.
It did not condense a Dan Tribulation.
There were only some visions similar to a Dan Tribulation, and it was still one step short of condensing a Dan Tribulation.
One must know that a holy dan that was able to induce a dan calamity was definitely a non-trivial dan, and among holy dans, it also belonged to a category of very high grade.
This furnace of elixir, being able to attract a vision similar to a Dan Robbery, also meant that its grade was already quite astonishing, far surpassing the Sacred Yuan Dan.
“Once the Sacred Dan is released, it will definitely be able to raise our overall strength by a large margin once again, so don’t fail to refine it.”
Sun Dadi looked excited.
He had been waiting for this furnace of Sacred Dan for a long time and had been looking forward to it, not wanting it to turn out to be a failure at the last minute.
Xiao Hei’s gaze was startled and uncertain, not holding out too much hope, after all, this was the first time he had ever refined it, and the failure rate was extremely high.
“Everyone mustn’t hold too much hope, most likely, no formed Holy Dan was refined. Being able to refine some dan liquid is already very good.”Zhang Ruochen said in advance.
Gradually, in the Dan Furnace, it no longer spewed out seven-coloured haze and gradually became cooler.
Da Sikong’s nose sniffed and was a little nervous as he said, “What’s the situation, how come even the Dan fragrance has disappeared? Could it really be that the refining has failed?”
The brows of the crowd all furrowed, feeling quite disappointed.
If the Sacred Dan had become a dan, the haze would only have been stronger, the dan fragrance would have been even stronger, and even clouds of dan qi would have appeared.
Now, the entire Dan Furnace had become dead silent and gradually cooled down, so there was no need to guess that the refining must have failed!
Sun Di Di stared at Xiao Hei, wanting to rush up and beat it up, saying, “Sacred Flowers and Divine Dew are both rare heavenly treasures, I’ve long said that I can’t hand it over to this cat to refine blindly, but now it’s a good thing, a furnace of sacred medicine was wasted for nothing.”
“Monkey, what do you mean, do you blame this Emperor? This Emperor still didn’t want to maximise the medicinal effects of the Sacred Flower and Divine Dew, it’s not like he intentionally wanted the refining to fail.”
Little Black was quite exasperated, his sharp cat claws, revealing a cold light.
Sun Di Di said, “No blame? The value of the Sacred Flower is quite precious, representing eight places to compete for the World Spirit, now that it was refined and destroyed by you, where are we going to find the Sacred Flower again? Can we only stand by and watch as the Green Dragon Market Realm’s World Spirit is taken away by someone else?”
Little Black and Sun Dadi got closer and closer, about to fight.
Zhang Ruochen immediately separated them and said, “Since we have already failed in refining, we have to accept this fact. Besides, it’s not like we’ve gained nothing, at least a few of you have crossed the Quasi-Saint Tribulation in one fell swoop because of the absorption of the Dan Qi, reaching the realm of a Quasi-Saint of the First Tribulation.”
Zhang Ruochen’s words were still very effective, calming down Sun Dadi and Little Black, and calming down the emotions of everyone present.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen added, “Right now, it is not the time for us to pursue who is responsible, but rather, we should leave the Picture Scroll World and seize the time to search for the Sacred Source Spirit Spring and seize the other Sacred Flowers.”
Sun Dadi was a bit unwilling, his eyes all bloodshot as he rushed to the top of the mountain and reached the side of the Dan Furnace.
“Even if it is refined into dregs, I will still eat it.”
Sun Dadi’s hands pressed on the top of the dan furnace and fought with all his might, trying to open the lid.
Something strange happened ……
Sun Dadi lifted the entire Dan Furnace, but failed to open the lid.
“Fat cat, what the hell is going on, is it that your Dan furnace is of too low a quality and that’s why the alchemy failed?”
Sun Di Di was quite furious and ruthlessly threw the Dan furnace, back to the ground.
Just as the Dan Furnace landed on the ground, in the furnace, a strange sound came out.
Hearing this sound, Little Black’s two furry ears, stood up, and with a swish, he rushed towards the top of the mountain, roaring, “Be more careful.”
Sun Di Di was startled, his entire body tensed up and stood motionless as he asked, “What do you mean?”
Little Black landed on the bottom of the Dan Furnace, and with a pair of rounded cat eyes, it surged out two channels of black light, staring straight at the walls of the Dan Furnace.
Immediately after, it pressed its ears over and listened carefully.
The crowd at the bottom of the mountain saw how nervous Little Black was, so all of them came to the top of the mountain.
“What’s the situation, did the refining not fail?”
Da Sikong licked his lips, looking extraordinarily nervous.
The other few, too, revealed a look of anticipation, curious to know if there was a turnaround?
Only after a long time did Little Black retract his ears, staring over towards the crowd, and let out a loud laugh, “This Emperor understands! Haha! So that’s how it is.”
Sun Di Di’s eyes glowed with delight, “The Sacred Pill has been successfully refined?”
Little Black shook his head and said, “No.”
“It wasn’t refined successfully, why are you excited? Damn …… Amitabha Buddha.”
Da Sikong roared, directly bursting into foul language, and then, realising that it was too out of character, he folded his hands, closed his eyes, and began to recite the sutra, pretending that nothing had happened just now.
At this time, several people were so infuriated that they wanted to join forces to beat Little Black up.
Little Black stood up his chest and said, “This Emperor has found the reason why the refining failed.”
So what if he found the reason?
The crowd was only interested in the result and didn’t care about the process or the reason.
“Che, let’s go! We’ve all been played by this fat cat, don’t trust it again in the future.”
Sun Di Di knew that he was no match for Xiao Hei in the Scroll World, so he was trying to restrain his emotions, planning to find another opportunity to clean up Xiao Hei when he got outside.
Little Black stared at the backs of the crowd and continued, “Do you guys really not want to know the reason? In fact, this furnace of Sacred Dan is not considered a failure in refining, and there is still a chance to remedy the situation.”
The crowd didn’t believe it at all and continued to travel down the mountain.
Only Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen stayed behind.
Zhang Ruochen patted Xiao Hei’s head and said meaningfully, “Xiao Hei, it’s not a big deal to have ruined a furnace of pills, after all, everyone misses at times. However, in the future, you must be more reliable.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yixian also prepared to leave to discuss their next plans.
Xiao Hei was so furious that his lungs were about to explode as he stopped Zhang Ruochen and said, “The failure of the Sacred Pill’s refinement has something to do with the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm.”
“What do you mean?”Zhang Ruochen stopped in his tracks.
“The Spirit of the World is capable of grasping everything in a world, representing the Heavenly Dao, destiny, and cause and effect, and even, if one wants to become a Saint in the Green Dragon Market Realm, one must be recognised by the Spirit of the World.”
Little Black continued, “Wanting to successfully refine a furnace of Saint Pills, which is no different from a cultivator cultivating to become a Saint, must also be recognised by the Spirit of the World in the Green Dragon Market Realm.”
“You mean to say that the reason why the Sacred Pill didn’t become a pill was because it didn’t receive the approval of the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Ruins Realm?”
“That’s right.”
Zhang Ruochen probably understood Xiao Hei’s meaning and said, “However, this is the inner world of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, not the Green Dragon Market Realm.”
Xiao Hei shook his head and said, “The Holy Flower used to refine the Sacred Pill has a strand of source qi from the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm within it, and without its approval, the Sacred Pill could not possibly take shape.”
“Of course, if the World Spirit of the Scroll World is far stronger than the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm, it would be possible to sever the other side’s heavenly will and not be affected by it.”
“But at this stage, the World Spirit of the Touhou World isn’t strong enough to that extent, and at most, it can only fight against the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm, and can’t crush the other party at all.”
The World Spirit of the Picture Scroll World was actually the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
Xiao Hei’s identity could only be considered a messenger of the World Spirit.
Zhang Ruochen revealed a thoughtful expression and said, “I see! What you mean is that if, we were to refine this Holy Dan in the Kunlun Realm, it is very likely that the Holy Dan would have already become a pill. Because, the World Spirit of the Kunlun Realm is far stronger than the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm, nothing in the Kunlun Realm will be affected by it.”
“That’s what it means.”Little Black said.
Sun Dadi, Dasikong, and the others who had already walked down the mountain all had their ears perked up, eavesdropping on Zhang Ruochen and Xiao Hei’s dialogue, still holding out hope for that furnace of Sacred Pills.
Zhang Ruochen added: “What did you mean when you said just now that the Sacred Pill didn’t fail to be refined and that there was still a way to remedy the situation?”
Little Black smiled and said, “The Holy Pill in the furnace was not destroyed, it just fell silent. As long as we enter the Green Dragon Ruin Realm and sacrifice to the Spirit of the World, most likely, the Holy Pill in the furnace will become a pill.”
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go capture the savage beasts now and kill the sacrifices. As long as we take the Holy Dan, it’s not certain that I’ll be able to directly cross the second Paramount Sacred Tribulation, or even the third Paramount Sacred Tribulation.”
Sun Di Di flew back to the top of the mountain and said with abnormal excitement.
Xiao Hei rolled his eyes and said, “Sacrificing is not a simple matter, firstly, we must go and find an altar with a long history. Secondly, we also have to find, the closest place to the World Spirit.”
“The Green Dragon Market Realm is so big, where are we going to find it?”Sun Dadi was anxious, his fingers kept scratching his scalp.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes narrowed as he said slowly, “Green Dragon Dynasty.”
Before entering the Green Dragon Market Realm, Zhang Ruochen had carefully flipped through a scroll that introduced the Green Dragon Market Realm.
One of the largest indigenous civilisations in the Green Dragon Market Realm was the Green Dragon Dynasty.
The Green Dragon Dynasty had a very vast territory, occupying half of the Green Dragon Continent, flourishing in splendour, with many Saints, and had been passed down for more than 40,000 years.
Over the past three hundred years, the Ministry of Military Affairs had dispatched a large number of powerful people into the Green Dragon Market Realm, but they had not been able to exterminate the Green Dragon Dynasty, thus showing how strong this indigenous civilisation was.
Of course, it wasn’t that the Ministry of Military Affairs couldn’t exterminate the Green Dragon Dynasty, it was mainly because the Ministry of Military Affairs knew that the Green Dragon Ruins Realm was about to be depleted and didn’t dare to push too hard, fearing that the Spirit of the World would die with them, so they didn’t go all out and didn’t want to cause too much damage to themselves.
There were also many juniors from the Ministry of Military Affairs who had long since entered the Green Dragon Market Realm to train, just waiting for the time when the Green Dragon Market Realm would be depleted, so that they could have a greater advantage and seize more heavenly treasures.
Obviously, the Green Dragon Dynasty was a civilised nation favoured by the Spirit of the World, and the royal capital of the Green Dragon Dynasty was the place closest to the Spirit of the World, which could be described as the feet of the Son of Heaven, and was the place where the spiritual veins and the Qi fortune of the entire Ruins Realm converged.
When the Green Dragon Ruins Realm was completely destroyed, the Spirit of the World would, most likely, come out in the royal capital.
Whether it was the various forces of the Human Race, the various races of Savage Beasts, or some other living beings, the vast majority of them had already converged towards the Green Dragon Dynasty. There was a place favoured by the Spirit of the World, giving birth to more heavenly treasures than the Winning Gemma Desert, and the competition was even fiercer.
