Repeating this process a dozen times, Yang Kai finally began to glimpse a little bit of useful information.
It was a Spirit Array! Specifically it was an array used to assist Alchemists which could be engraved inside one’s Alchemy Furnace in order to enhance the quality and possibility of success in refining a pill, but the effect was neither very good, nor very stable.
Expending a huge amount of Spiritual Energy and consuming more than a dozen drops of Myriad Drug Liquid to get such a thing made Yang Kai wrinkle his brow involuntarily.
The reward not being proportional to the expense gave him a feeling of receiving more harm than good.
This True Alchemic Way was filled with profound and esoteric knowledge, but with his currently weak Spiritual Energy, it was obviously impossible for him to comprehend the whole picture.
Yang Kai couldn’t help feeling a little pity as he slowly put aside this True Alchemic Way, planning to further cultivate his Soul before trying again.
Feeling like his Spiritual Energy had grown slightly through these efforts brought him a bit of happiness though.
The only question now was… why did this True Alchemic Way appear here? And why would it suddenly decide to flood his mind?
If the Black Book’s creator wanted him to master the True Alchemic Way, he or she could have simply sealed it into one of the wordless Black Book’s pages and allowed it to be unlocked once his cultivation had reached a sufficient height.
According to his current cultivation, normally it would have been impossible to accept such a massive amount of information. If it weren’t for the Soul Warming Lotus’s help in repairing the damage, his Soul would certainly have been destroyed.
Although he was still uncertain about how all this had happened, Yang Kai did finally understand the mystery of the Pill Saint’s Statue.
Rumor was that the Pill Saint had left behind his Alchemy inheritance here. It was such a famous story that even Meng Wu Ya knew about the Pill Saint’s Statue, and apparently such rumors were not groundless.
The profound mysteries hidden within the Pill Saint’s Statue were actually this True Alchemic Way.
It was just that when Alchemists studied the Statue to gain enlightenment, they would only receive a very small portion of this knowledge, whereas Yang Kai had the complete archive directly implanted into his brain this time.
Uncertain about whether or not the Pill Saint’s Statue would continue allowing Alchemists to gain enlightenment after this, Yang Kai couldn’t help feeling uneasy.
However, everything had already happened, and all the mysteries here had been solved, leaving behind only a dry well.
All he could do now was leave.
After taking some time to adjust his condition to its peak, Yang Kai began looking for the way out.
At first, he thought that this isolated space would have some kind of exit gate, but after searching for a long time, Yang Kai found nothing of the sort.
This discovery suddenly put him into an awkward position. Without an established exit, how was he supposed to leave? Did he have to force his way out? But just outside of this space were at least two Immortal Ascension Boundary masters and a large number of True Element Boundary guards.
The moment he jumped out of Myriad Drug Pond, he would immediately be captured.
Yang Kai had to believe there was some hidden exit somewhere.
But after carefully and meticulously searching around the hidden chamber again he still came up empty.
Yang Kai’s brow wrinkled, and he felt like something about this whole situation seemed a bit off. The Black Book’s instructions had led him to this place in order to obtain the Myriad Drug Liquid, so there was no reason it would do so just to let him be trapped here.
But why couldn’t he find the way out? Was there something he had missed?
Yang Kai continued his blind search and had soon gone over every square millimeter of the room a dozen times.
Half a day flew by.
His patience was reaching its limit.
Yang Kai was now certain there was no gateway out of this place, so if he wanted to leave, the only way to do so was through the Myriad Drug Pond.
But, wasn’t this the same as throwing himself into a net? The Myriad Drug Pond was Medicine King’s Valley’s most forbidden area. Even if he was now considered half a Hidden Cloud Peak disciple, if he appeared from the bottom of the Myriad Drug Pond he would likely not have a good end.
Gritting his teeth, Yang Kai decided to break through the top. Although there were many guards outside, if he moved fast enough, it wasn’t a certainty he would be caught.
Making up his mind, Yang Kai faced the isolate space’s ceiling, exhaled a breath, and let out a strong punch.
This punch was just a test.
The Myriad Drug Pond had been the centre of Medicine King’s Valley for many years; there must have been many experts who had similarly performed such an attack, wanting to see if below the surface there was some hidden mystery.
However, none of them had broken through the bottom because of the Spirit Array engraved there.
Yang Kai didn’t know if his punch could break through!
But fortune seemed to be on his side, with this single punch, a muffled bang rang out, and the stone ceiling above his head suddenly cracked and eventually burst open with a loud crashing sound, and the water from the Myriad Drug Pond immediately poured in.
Yang Kai’s brow wrinkled further as doubt flashed across his eyes, but with no time to hesitate, he quickly began swimming upwards and rapidly circulated his True Qi, anticipating the worst.
He was resigned to being besieged and was preparing his best to quickly counterattack.
But unexpectedly, after bursting out of the pond and floating mid-air, he didn’t suffer any attacks. Quickly glancing around, Yang Kai’s pupils involuntarily shrank.
Corpses surrounded the Myriad Drug Pond and blood flowed like rivers.
The originally hundred meters tall Pill Saint’s Statue had now been shattered, broken into pieces that were strewn across the mountain top.
The surrounding air was filled with a thick bloody smell and the sounds of fighting and killing echoed all around.
Yang Kai’s expression suddenly became solemn as he surveyed his surroundings and quickly landed nearby.
The area around him was filled with traces of battle, and as he looked further afield, Yang Kai found that smoke was rising from all of Medicine King’s Valley’s twelve peaks and the city in the valley below was in complete chaos.
Floating in the sky, there were many Immortal Ascension Boundary cultivators locked in desperate struggles with all kinds of ferocious Martial Skills and strange artifacts flying back and forth.
Someone was attacking Medicine King’s Valley!
What force was so bold?
Not to mention that the Alchemist Summit was currently being held, so it was a particularly sensitive time.
For thousands of years, Medicine King’s Valley had never fought with any force, whether you were good or evil, whether you were strong or weak, Medicine King’s Valley had always upheld a strict principle of neutrality from beginning to end.