The entire continent of Mo Luo calmed down. Wang Lin spent all day refining pills. The disciples of the Origin Sect would occasionally hear the sounds of pills exploding in the forbidden area of the southern courtyard, but no one dared to enter. When they passed by the southern courtyard, their gazes were filled with respect.
Wang Lin had also studied the beast bone pill recipe in detail, but his expression was very gloomy. He pondered for a long time about the effects of the pill recipe. Ignoring whether or not it was true, just the majority of the herbs mentioned were things he had never heard of before.
After looking through the records of the Origin Sect, Wang Lin found some clues. There were three herbs: Star Transformation Wood, Dragon Grass, and Annihilation Flower. They all existed tens of thousands of years ago, and even then, they were extremely rare. Now, they were basically extinct.
However, there were some records in the records of the Origin Sect. It seemed that there was still a small piece of Star Transformation Wood in the main rank 8 sect.
Most importantly, refining this Black Void Pill required the souls of nine peak Shi San rank beasts. Only after they were fused could the pill be refined.
If that was all there was to it, it wouldn't be a big deal. However, the chances of successfully concocting the Nirvana Void Pill were extremely low. Furthermore, during the process of concocting the pill, one needed to use the beast bone on which the pill was engraved as a guide. Every time one failed, the color of the beast bone would turn a little darker. When the beast bone turned completely black, it would be impossible to successfully concoct the pill.
Once one succeeded, the beast bone would dissipate and become part of the pill.
Looking at the beast bone in his hand, although it wasn't completely black, it was already faintly dark. It would likely be discarded after a few uses.
"This beast bone has clearly been refined several times before, but no one succeeded. Otherwise, the pill recipe would have disappeared a long time ago … Instead of saying that the herbs and beast souls are precious, it's more accurate to say that this beast bone is strange!
I just don't know what kind of fierce beast this bone is … However, even if there's a sliver of a chance that the pill's effect is real, I still have to try it! "Wang Lin held the beast bone and carefully observed it for a moment. After pondering for a moment, he put it away in his storage space.
Another item appeared in his hand. It was the jade slip he had found along with the pill formula. As he scanned it with his Divine Sense, a strange expression appeared on Wang Lin's face. After a moment of silence, he reached into his bag of holding, and the Poisonous Old Woman's Nascent Soul flew out.
With a calm expression, Wang Lin's finger touched the old woman's soul several times. Every time his finger touched the old woman, she would tremble and become weaker.
A moment later, Wang Lin placed his right hand on top of the Poison Old Woman's nascent soul. His divine sense swept out along his right hand, heading straight for the Poison Old Woman's nascent soul.
Memories entered Wang Lin's mind, including the Five Poison Sect's poison refining method and everything she had experienced in her life. In the end, Wang Lin found memories related to the pill recipe and the jade slip.
Time slowly passed. When night arrived, Wang Lin raised his right hand and put the weak but not dead origin soul back into his storage space. He looked at the jade and began to ponder.
From the Poisonous Old Woman's memories, Wang Lin learned about what happened at the Cloud Sea Star System 18,000 years ago. He also understood the use of this jade.
This jade didn't contain any spells or cultivation methods, only an identity token of the Heaven Breaking Sect. There was a mark on it, a mark of the head disciple of the Heaven Breaking Sect from 18,000 years ago!
This person's name was Sima Mo. If there were no accidents, he would have been the next sect master of the Heaven Breaking Sect 18,000 years ago. It was him who took the beast bone recipe and a portion of the sect members to leave the Heaven Breaking Sect and disappear into the star system.
18,000 years ago, the Heaven Breaking Sect that entered the rank 9 region had very complicated feelings about the people that left. When they learned that this group of people had suffered heavy casualties and then disappeared without a trace, the sect master of the Heaven Breaking Sect, who was Sima Mo's teacher, left behind an order that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years!
"In the future, anyone who returns to the Heaven Breaking Sect with Sima Mo's token will be accepted as a disciple of the sect master!"
This order spread throughout the Cloud Sea and attracted the attention of many cultivators. For the chance to ascend to the heavens in a single step, they all searched for clues about the missing members of the Heaven Breaking Sect. However, as time passed, no one found anything, and the matter gradually died down.
It wasn't until the Five Poison Sect's spy in the Clear Flower Sect reported Shi Luoxing's actions and speculation!
Originally, the Five Poison Sect didn't pay too much attention to this matter. After all, it had been too long and the clue was likely fake. They only sent a few people to investigate, and the Poisonous Old Woman was the leader.
No one expected this clue to be real!
Wang Lin silently looked at the jade. After a long time, he put it away.
"Perhaps this will be of great use to me in the future!"
Wang Lin no longer thought about the jade or the pill recipe. He calmed down and immersed himself in alchemy.
During his trip to the wild continent, not only had he harvested a large amount of herbs, he had also collected a large amount of beast souls. These beast souls were often rank 5, and they were very suitable for Wang Lin's current cultivation level.
There were also some beast souls inside his storage space. These were the souls of the Clear Flower Sect disciples he had killed on the wild continent and were collected by the woman in silver.
Similarly, there was a spirit snake in his storage space. This spirit snake was the Poisonous Old Woman's spiritual beast, and it had already reached the peak of rank 6!
Aside from these, the highest ranked beast in Wang Lin's storage space was the soul of the rank 8 beast that he had killed in an instant. This soul was rather precious, so Wang Lin didn't destroy it. Instead, he took the pill from the Gui Yuan Sect's temple.
After failing three times, he finally fused the soul with the pill and formed a rank 8 Soul Separating Pill!
After searching through the Poisonous Old Woman's memories, Wang Lin found a mutated beast refining method that interested him very much!
This beast refinement method was created by a prodigy of the Five Venoms Sect. He used a formation to form a prison and put in some beast souls. Then, he used poison to make these beast souls devour each other and give birth to a mutated high-grade soul.
However, this method had a big drawback, which was that the refined mutant beast souls could no longer devour ordinary souls. Only mutant beast souls that were refined could devour each other.
This phenomenon was a huge blow to the Five Poison Sect.
Moreover, the success rate of refining beast souls was not high. The higher the rank, the harder it was to refine. For example, if one wanted to refine a rank 9 mutated beast soul, they would need to continuously refine and devour a large number of rank 8 mutated beast souls, and each mutated rank 8 mutated beast soul would need a large number of rank 7 mutated beast souls, and so on.
Even if one could accidentally refine a high-ranked beast soul, this soul would need to be nourished by a large number of heavenly treasures before it could be used as medicine. Moreover, there were failures when it was used as medicine to refine pills. Every time it failed, the beast soul would become much weaker.
This was something Wang Lin knew. When he refined the first pill, he had failed more than ten times before he succeeded. Even though he succeeded, the beast soul within the pill had mostly dissipated, and the effects of the pill were much weaker.
Even the Five Poison Sect had to give up in the end. Their sect couldn't withstand this kind of consumption.
Not to mention them, even rank 7 and rank 8 sects rarely had such consumption. Even if there were, with the strength of the sect itself, there was no need to refine the beast souls. Perhaps it would save a lot of trouble to just go and capture them.
After seeing this method, Wang Lin secretly calculated it and couldn't help but be shocked by the consumption. However, after carefully pondering it, he decided to give it a try.
According to the method from the Poisonous Old Woman's memories, Wang Lin used several days to barely refine a few portions.
Wang Lin didn't choose the Origin Sect as his test location. Instead, he dug out a cave in a mountain range on the continent of Mo Luo. After placing down a large amount of restrictions, he sealed some rank 5 beast souls inside and sprinkled poison. After observing for a few days, he found that the beast souls had indeed begun to devour each other, so he added more restrictions and returned to the Origin Sect.
After calmly cultivating for a few days, Wang Lin took out the pills he had refined, especially the rank 8 pills. The first one he swallowed was a rank 5 pill.
The beast souls couldn't resist being devoured by Wang Lin's origin soul, so they immediately dissipated and fused with Wang Lin's origin soul. This caused Wang Lin to enter a strange state.
As Wang Lin swallowed the rank 5 pills, he vaguely saw fierce beasts being born. They worshiped the heavens, absorbed the essence of the world, and comprehended the laws of the world.
The beast souls inside the rank 5 pills couldn't help Wang Lin much. He only swallowed them to familiarize himself with this method of borrowing beast souls to comprehend the heavens.
After the rank 5 pills, Wang Lin swallowed the rank 6 pills. The rank 6 beast souls inside had the cultivation of an early stage Nirvana Cleanser cultivator. After swallowing them, Wang Lin's domain began to fluctuate.
It was as if he had turned into a fierce beast and gradually comprehended the laws of the world. Wang Lin was immersed in this seemingly real and illusory world. He was searching for his own dao, searching for the existence and eternity between true and false.
After an unknown amount of time, when there was only the rank 8 pill left in Wang Lin's hand, he awakened from that strange state. He looked ahead with a confused expression and muttered, "What's this?
"Using the power of one person to prove one's Dao is the point. Using the power of many people to prove one's Dao is the surface … The pills of the Cloud Sea are not good fortune. Instead, they give cultivators the chance to search for the Dao again and again … Using beast souls is another method to search for the Dao … to search for the Laws of Heaven and Earth … However, compared to the Thunder and Rain Realms, the Cloud Sea uses this method to shorten the process of comprehending the Dao … However, beasts are beasts after all. The Heavenly Dao they comprehend is only one side, and there is no way to clearly trace back to the source. Unless … they use human souls to refine pills, or there is an existence that transcends the word 'beast'.
Otherwise, he would need to consume a large amount of pills in order to find the comprehension he needed.
"This dao is like a thought, and everyone's thoughts are different. If you want to enrich your own thoughts, aside from your own comprehension, you also need the comprehension of others to verify it. The cultivators of the Cloud Sea chose beast souls … Just like how Tian Yunzi chose his many disciples …"
While Wang Lin was in a state of confusion, rays of light closed in on the continent of Mo Luo. The cultivators of the rank 6 region were closely searching the continent of Mo Luo and entered the protective light barrier!
"I came back late from the hospital and didn't update on time. I hope everyone can understand.