Even though he had not performed Alchemy in quite some time, the various processes had already become ingrained in his instincts.
Yang Kai completed each step in the refinement with impeccable precision, not making a single mistake along the way.
The mountain cave soon began to fill with a rich pill fragrance.
When the medicinal fragrance in the air reached a certain density, Yang Kai took back his Conflagrated Spiritual Energy and waited a moment before tapping his pill furnace with his fingers.
As he did so, a perfectly round medicinal pill flew out and was quickly pinched between his fingertips.
There were no Pill Veins on this pill which was a bit disappointing, but it was still a genuine Saint Grade Mid-Rank pill.
Gently nodding, Yang Kai was very satisfied, storing the pill into the Demon Mystic Tome before closing his eyes to restore himself.
Refining a Saint Pill required him to consume some Spiritual Energy, and although the quantity wasn’t great, Yang Kai couldn’t just squander his Spiritual Energy thoughtlessly here, so he intended to maintain his peak condition at all times.
After the time it would take to burn a stick of incense, Yang Kai continued.
Even back in Tong Xuan Realm, Yang Kai was already able to refine Saint Grade High-Rank pills. Nine Heavens Holy Land had gathered an incredible amount of herbs and wealth before he had left, allowing him to upgrade his Alchemy proficiency as he wished.
However, a Saint Grade High-Rank pill was unlikely to be sufficient to break the seal Lu Gui Chen had placed on him.
Lu Gui Chen was a Saint King Realm master, so only a Saint King Grade pill would be able to break his technique.
As such, Yang Kai’s priority now was to quickly use the vast amount of resources he had gathered here to improve his Alchemy skills.
When he left Tong Xuan Realm, he had brought many resources with him, and on this Floating Continent, he and Shen Tu had collected many Saint King Grade and Origin Grade herbs.
Therefore, he wasn’t worried about the materials at all.
Time flowed by and Yang Kai immersed himself in the world of Alchemy, living alone in the cave, filling the air with a thick pill fragrance while the Floating Continent was filled with activity as the cultivators from Purple Star and Sword Union continued their rich harvest.
However, Lu Gui Chen was a bit disgruntled.
Because he didn’t have a storage artifact on hand!
Without proper storage artifacts, even if they collected all these herbs, they had no place to put them. This was just a minor matter though. The more serious problem was that after these herbs were picked, without being properly stored, their efficacies would quickly fade.
This made Lu Gui Chen feel extremely distressed as he watched these Saint King Grade and Origin Grade herbs slowly but surely lose their potency.
He even wished he could go find the mysterious old man and snatch back his own Space Ring.
However, he only dared imagine this in his head. Facing that old man, Lu Gui Chen couldn’t even summon the will to resist.
……
Atop a great mountain peak, the mysterious old man stared fixedly at a large flat piece of land. On this flat land, there were many extremely high-grade Saint Crystals arranged into a large array.
At the centre of this array was something which resembled a door erected on the ground.
The door was refined from the debris of the two broken Starships and seemingly led nowhere.
The two broken Starships were giant Saint King Grade High-Rank artifacts, and the material used in their hulls was also extremely precious, the surviving pieces of which were used by the old man to refine the door.
There were no precious ores on this continent, so the old man had been unable to find the right materials to refine this most critical door for a very long time.
It was difficult to describe just how excited he was when he saw the Starship shards fall from the air and descend on this continent!
On the door’s frame as well as the base surrounding it were many extremely high-grade Saint Crystals, giving it a beautiful appearance.
A strange energy fluctuation radiated from this door, causing even a character like the mysterious old man to not dare approach it recklessly, as if it contained a great hidden danger.
The look on the old man’s face became wild with anticipation as he paced back and forth nearby, muttering to himself, “Soon, very soon!”
The mad light flashing across his eyes would cause anyone who met them to shudder.
After inspecting his arrangement for a while, he suddenly came to a halt and spread his Divine Sense across the entire continent.
Instantly, the movements of all the people who were scurrying about the continent clearly appeared in his mind.
Grinning fiendishly, he snickered, “Heh heh, everyone is quite active, good, good, good. This old master most hates this place’s suffocating silence. This old master has been alone here for two thousand years and can no longer bear such torture. If they didn’t have any energy at all, this old master would have had a headache… Oh, this little brat is a bit interesting.”