Chapter 299 - 265: Nirvana Rebirth, Purity Body, Innate Omen! (Double - )
However, he didn’t have enough time to refine the medicinal power of all the herbs on the spot.
The main reason was that the combined medicinal power of these herbs was truly too enormous, impossible to completely absorb or fully utilize!
Therefore, he could only temporarily seal this tremendous and mixed medicinal power within the blood and flesh meridians throughout his body!
Ordinary martial artists might not bear this exaggeratedly massive medicinal power, but Song Changming could.
Now his body was akin to a great medicine jar, perhaps the exact state that the Four-Eyed Taoist had anticipated most eagerly.
After absorbing all the medicinal power, Song Changming would refine it, achieving theoretically the highest quality elixir!
Yet Song Changming wasn’t planning to stop here; he turned his gaze to the dragon’s head and began using the Celestial Essence Body Refining Secret Technique to extract its blood and flesh essence qi.
However, this blood and flesh essence qi was not that easy to refine.
During the extraction process, he often heard the dragon’s roars, which buzzed in his ears and almost shattered his spirit, causing the stored medicinal power and blood and flesh essence qi within him to spiral out of control.
For this reason, Song Changming had to absorb small portions at a time, making the backlash of the dragon’s residual will relatively mild, instead of overwhelmingly fierce and beyond his endurance.
Since his spiritual power had gradually grown and condensed, he hadn’t faced such difficult situations in body refining with secret techniques for a long time.
It’s undeniable that judging by quality, this dragon’s blood and flesh was definitely the best he had ever extracted among all fierce beast flesh, with even a small piece yielding a large amount of essence qi and energy.
Especially that dragon blood, undoubtedly greatly aiding his body refinement.
On the fifth day.
The pill fire inside the medicine cauldron had already occupied most of the space, and Song Changming stood amidst the pill fire, bravely enduring the refining with his bare flesh.
Perhaps due to his practice of the True Yang Technique, his already incredibly strong physique had significant resistance to flames.
This was an important reason why he could hold on until now.
The few remaining materials had long been melted into medicinal dregs by the increasingly intense pill fire, leaving only the dragon head yet to be refined by the pill fire.
Song Changming straightforwardly remained within the dragon’s head, sitting on the skull, refining the dragon blood and storing the dragon’s blood and flesh essence qi.
Until the seventh day.
The pill fire spread throughout the entire furnace, and the dragon head was fully refined by the pill fire.
Song Changming lay quietly within the pill fire, powerlessly feeling the continuous refining of the pill fire on his entire body.
The seven-day alchemy period had accustomed him to the pain of refining, ready to face the final death and rebirth.
Now, the pill fire penetrated his body, burning his flesh, muscles, bones, and internal organs.
Gradually, the pill fire began to emerge from his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears, every pore exuding this pill fire.
He could feel the dragon essence within the pill fire gradually merging with him in the process.
The main medicinal components, including the medicinal power of all the herbs, finally merged into the still vibrantly alive body of Song Changming.
This transformation perfectly aligned with the intentions of the Four-Eyed Taoist outside the furnace, even far exceeding his expectations.
He never imagined Song Changming could endure under the pill fire for this long, assuming Song Changming would reach his limit after three days inside the furnace at most.
The fact that Song Changming held out until now without wasting a drop of medicinal power meant the final step would only require refining Song Changming’s flesh and blood to achieve the top grade Divine Pill!
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[Today’s Evaluation: Facing death, Life Span -36000, gaining temporary state ’Nirvana Rebirth’!]
Nirvana Rebirth: Washes away all negative states, rebirth anew.
[Note: You can choose to be reborn in place or at a base location.]
Though Song Changming died, his consciousness remained.
Looking at the options appearing on the panel, he chose to be reborn at a base location.
This wasn’t the first time he saw this information box option.
After transmigrating in his past life, the first evaluation he encountered was precisely facing death.
By consuming thirty-six thousand life span units, he could achieve Nirvana Rebirth after death!
There were two options for rebirth.
The first was resurrection in place, which was not hard to understand literally.
It meant reviving right where he died, that is, inside the Four-Eyed Taoist’s furnace.
Song Changming, of course, couldn’t choose that.
The second was base location rebirth; after selecting this option, several coordinate locations popped up for Song Changming.
One was in Donglai County City, Houli Street, Song Residence.
Another was in Wangyue County City, Liu Residence.
There was also the headquarters of the Changming Association.
Evidently, the panel defaulted these three locations as his ’bases’, for potential rebirth traversals.
Without much thought, Song Changming chose Liu Residence.
The ninth day.
The alchemy came to an end.
"Open the seal," the Four-Eyed Taoist calculated the time and spoke up.
These days, he had constantly kept watch outside the furnace. Though he appeared calm and composed, his mind was always occupied, not daring to leave even for a moment.
Now, the moment had finally arrived, and eagerness welled up within his heart.
As the cauldron cover was removed, the Four-Eyed Taoist swiftly appeared above the furnace, looking inside.
The next moment, his entire body stiffened as if struck by lightning, and his face registered complete shock.
"..."
The other Baitian Temple Taoists exchanged baffled glances, unable to comprehend the reason for their celestial master’s silence.
"Could it be that the elixir refinement wasn’t successful?"
At this thought, an unease instantly crept into their hearts.
They all knew that the celestial master had spent nearly a hundred years preparing for this medicinal elixir!
If anything went wrong with the result, who knew how the celestial master might furiously react...
"Celestial, Celestial Master, is the Divine Pill’s quality somewhat lacking..." a Bear Demon Commander below - a trusted lieutenant of the celestial master - bravely inquired.