Prior to this, Yang Hao had already successfully completed the refinement process once. In other words, the possibility of success for I has now increased to fifty percent.
However, Yang Hao did not seem the slightest bit worried. Especially when he was effortlessly guiding the spirit fragments of the Black Dragon, his composure and calmness indicated that he had already made up his mind long ago.
The cultivation of the Soul’s Spring Elixir also requires the simultaneous presence of energy, tools, and ingredients.
The medicine within was actually a fragment of the dragon race’s spirit. As the most conscious beings in the universe, even just a tiny piece of Black Dragon’s consciousness was vast and expansive, like darkness itself, in Yang Hao’s eyes.
The Dragon Clan’s spirit is truly unimaginably powerful. Even a mere ten-thousandth fragment of it had already spread like black mist throughout the entire dragon lair. Yang Hao had to use all his strength to control it, slowly guiding it upward into the air.
“Now! Power!” Yang Hao struggled to gather the fragments of his spiritual energy using his alchemical abilities, but to truly shape and solidify this spiritual cultivation, an immensely powerful force was still required.
For Yang Hao, this was probably as difficult as ascending to the heavens. Yet right before him was a real dragon, and the power of the Dragon Clan was thousands of times greater than that required for refining pills.
Hei Man raised his dragon palm, and instantly, an overwhelming surge of energy erupted, swiftly pouring into the fragment of the Black Dragon’s spirit.
“Form the pill!” Yang Hao roared as the time was ripe.
As expected, under his control of alchemy, the spiritual fragments of the dragon clan were crazily compressed and deformed by force. They gradually transformed from the original size, as large as a cave, into something as small as a fingernail.
This was the real critical moment. Yang Hao watched as the black spiritual entity condensed and solidified. Within such a small form, he couldn’t imagine how much evil energy it contained.
Suddenly, that mass erupted with the blinding brightness of thousands of suns. A brilliant beam of light shot straight up into the sky, illuminating the originally gloomy dragon’s lair until it was completely bright and clear.
This is the Soul Spring Pill, the most incredible elixir in the entire world. It has the power to unlock any seal and can be infused into the soul of any living being. Whether human or deity, all will be conquered by this radiant pill.
Even the Black Dragon, no matter how invincible it might be, finally came to realize that what Yang Hao had said was entirely true. Such a pill, transcending human capability and based primarily on dragon race’s spirit, could indeed lift the restriction preventing them from continuing their bloodline.
Therefore, when Yang Hao struggled to control the beam of light and moved it over the Black Dragon’s head, slowly pressing the love potion into its crown, the Black Dragon did not resist at all. In fact, it was desperately suppressing its own violent impulses to avoid killing Yang Hao as an attacker.
The pillar of light gradually entered the Black Dragon’s brain. Although its body remained black, faint, colorful rays of light began to flow throughout its entire body, as if this energy, the power of the pill, had already seeped into the dragon’s blood.
The Black Dragon roared in agony. The Soul Spring Pill was a pill that pierced the very soul. The pain it brought was beyond what others could imagine. Yet, the Black Dragon folded its wings and gritted its teeth, enduring the torment. It knew very well that once this pill fully penetrated its soul, the destiny of the dragon race would be completely changed. They would no longer need to rely on anything like the *Transformation Pill to become dragons. Dragons would be able to give birth to large numbers of offspring at any time, and the future rulers of the universe would still be the mighty dragon race.
The magnificent pillar of light had already been inserted halfway, and the most dangerous moment had already passed. Now, all that remained was to implant the rest. At that point, the history of this world would be completely rewritten. The dragon race would rise again, and the black dragon, now barely surviving in its cave, would become the beginning of another great chapter in cosmic history.
If so, then.
Perhaps only if.
If the Soul Spring Elixir were truly completely infused into the Black Dragon’s soul, if Yang Hao were truly willing to lift the restrictions for the Dragon Clan, and if there were truly nothing in this world worth holding onto, then perhaps all of it could come true.
But Yang Hao was not like that. Yang Hao had never done what others expected of him, not in the past, and not now either.
Yang Hao was, after all, just Yang Hao — a unique individual and the sole heir to the unparalleled Dual Cultivation Sect of Alchemy and Martial Arts.
Just as the Soul Spring Elixir was about to completely inject into the Black Dragon’s head, and everything seemed irreparable, Yang Hao suddenly burst into a triumphant smile. The refining power he had been carefully guiding all along instantly dissipated.
With a deafening roar, it seemed as if the heavens and earth had changed their hues, and the vast cosmic cycles came to a halt.
A white lightning bolt, even brighter than the Soul Spring Elixir, suddenly illuminated the air. This lightning bolt was formed by the condensation of all the energy released when the Soul Spring Elixir dissipated.
This is the most dangerous aspect of cultivating Soul-series pills. Although there is joy in success, failure will result in a backlash ten times stronger.
This kind of backlash does not only affect the creatures that consume the pills; even the alchemists themselves can be impacted. Since the creation of the Soul’s Elixir goes against the natural order of heaven and earth, once the backlash occurs, the resulting energy can be described as nothing less than heavenly wrath—an overwhelming force that ordinary people cannot endure.
It is precisely for this reason that so many people have lost their lives in the alchemical creation of the Soul Spring Elixir, leading to its classification as a forbidden practice.
But today, when this incredible and powerful backlash force emerged, Yang Hao was actually smiling. His relaxed expression contrasted sharply with Heiman’s anger and the despair that a dragon race member should never display.
However, there is a contrast.
Yang Hao did it on purpose; of course, he did. He intentionally refined the Soul Spring Medicine, deliberately sought to help the Dragon Clan lift their restrictions, and even speaking with this dead Black Dragon was all part of his plan. He had been waiting for precisely this kind of opportunity.
“Don’t think just because you’re a dragon, you’re something special!” Yang Hao laughed loudly, even roaring in the face of death. “To us the Dan Ding Chun Yao Sect, killing you is as easy as killing a lizard!”
This was truly an excellent strategy. Even if Hunyuanzi had still been alive, he probably wouldn’t have come up with such a brilliant plan. Yang Hao had already resolved himself to die, and when Hunyuanzi was swallowed by this black dragon, he immediately devised this plan. Even in death, he was determined to take this accursed dragon with him.
That’s why he approached the Black Dragon for conversation, and that’s why he proposed using the Soul Spring Medicine to help the Black Dragon break its restriction. The only reason was that he wanted to use the backlash power of the Soul Spring Medicine—specifically, the Black Dragon’s own energy—to kill the dragon itself.
This was a plan to take everyone down together, but Yang Hao succeeded.
He would proclaim within the Divine Realm that no power is invincible, and nothing is immortal. Even a fragile life like his could uphold the dignity of the Dan Ding Sect.
Yang Hao saw the Black Dragon roaring as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth cracking open, the backlash force of the Soul Spring medicine sending bursts of energy exploding from its body. Yet it was already too late; although such a wave of power might overturn the entire Divine Realm, it would not save the Black Dragon’s life.
Then, Yang Hao saw another bolt of white lightning appear before him, and the backlash aimed at him arrived as expected. Yang Hao didn’t even have time to make his usual grimace before being enveloped by the holy white light.
He lost consciousness in an instant…
Yang Hao
Sometimes, death follows like a maggot, but more often than not, dying is not so easy.
When Yang Hao opened his eyes again, he immediately realized that he had once again failed to die.
Since there certainly wouldn’t be such a simple house in heaven, even if that old man God were slacking off, he wouldn’t possibly stack up a few stones to build a stone hut and place one or two large stone slabs as a bed, without even a quilt. Yet, Yang Hao was unfortunately lying on just such a rudimentary bed right now.
Yang Hao had just begun to open his bleary eyes when he found himself staring at a plump old man with white hair and a beard. No matter how he looked at him, the old man resembled Coach Anxi far more than he did the commonly imagined image of God.
Yang Hao sighed, lamenting his fate for being so unbearably harsh. He reached out and pinched the fat old man’s face; the sensation was indeed quite real. Yet the immense power surging beneath that skin made Yang Hao realize he was still stuck in that accursed divine realm.
“This appearance isn’t good-looking enough?” The old man probably found it strange that Yang Hao started sighing heavily after touching himself, “Do you want me to change into a woman’s appearance instead? Something like a big-breasted one?”
“Forget it, forget it,” Yang Hao said without much emotion. “Who are you, anyway?”
“My name is Yun Shang, a god of the Shan Clan,” said the fat old man, twirling his beard. He appeared kind-hearted with gentle eyes. This fellow was completely different from Cardis Dragon; that black dragon’s power and aura were pitch-black, filled with an evil vibe. But this old guy was smooth all over, and even the energy within his body was pure white.
Yang Hao had indeed heard of the legends of the Sumerian gods. According to the myths, the Sumerians were a divine race without any physical form. Without a fixed shape, they could transform into any appearance they desired. Therefore, in the human world, many gods who constantly changed their forms were actually incarnations of the Sumerians. It was said that the Sumerians’ most powerful ability was controlling time—stopping it completely or even reversing its flow.
“What kind of place is this?” Yang Hao sat up. This bed was indeed unusually hard, making him suspect that the gods here probably didn’t sleep at all.
“You’re in big trouble now,” Yun Shang said, staring at Yang Hao.
“Oh,” Yang Hao nodded.
Yun Shang frowned. He was taken aback by the casual, even triumphant excitement he saw in Yang Hao’s eyes. As one of the senior elders in the Divine Realm, Yun Shang had never encountered an ordinary person causing such tremendous chaos.
Yang Hao used the backlash power of the Soul Spring Medicine and indeed delivered a fatal blow to the Black Dragon. However, as one of the most formidable life forms in the universe, the Black Dragon would not easily perish by its own force. After being wounded, it unleashed a dragon roar and dragon aura that collapsed the entire Dragon Cliff. The shockwaves spread rapidly, and if left unchecked, before the Black Dragon’s death, most of the Divine Realm might be destroyed, leading to countless deaths and injuries among the weaker divine races.
Even someone as ordinary as Yang Hao managed to turn the divine realm upside down, causing hundreds and thousands of deities to meet untimely deaths. Moreover, it seemed that such consequences had already become unavoidable.
Fortunately, Yun Shang had already headed to Longya earlier due to Xin Mei’s report, and just happened to arrive at this earth-shattering moment. As the saying goes, fate brings opportunities, and only Yun Shang was capable of controlling such a devastating situation. The old man exerted all his strength to halt the massive space-time disturbance, then rushed into the ruins and rescued Yang Hao and the half-dead Hei Man.
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