Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy-Chapter 696 - 578: True Dragon Elixir

"Everything is ready, let's begin."

Inside the Lotus Leaf Cave Heaven, Xu Zhitian stood beside Qi Xiu, facing the perfectly round and flawless medicinal beads, each enveloped in various spiritual lights, containing pure medicinal properties.

As the Innate Medicine Dao Divine Artifact, Xu Zhitian had a unique refining method that was unparalleled.

Through his refinement, the medicinal qualities could be fully unleashed, allowing them to blend better during the process, avoiding rejection, and completely eliminating impurities.

With his skills, Qi Xiu's success rate in concocting Treasure Medicine could be increased by at least ten percent.

"Alright."

With a single response, Qi Xiu slowly opened his eyes, a brilliant light shining within them. In the next moment, behind him, the Hunyuan Daoist appeared, shattering the void and waving a large hand, sprinkling Immortal's Aura.

Body Fusion with Dao!

His emotions vanished in an instant; Qi Xiu's gaze became as unyielding as the heavens, cold, indifferent, and filled with absolute rationality.

Perceiving the change in Qi Xiu's aura, Xu Zhitian's eyes flickered.

Supreme Forgetting Emotions?

In the state of Body Fusion with Dao, Qi Xiu consecutively cast Dharma Seals, sweeping up the refined medicinal beads prepared by Xu Zhitian, and, according to their properties, continuously placed them into the Yuanquan Elixir Furnace.

With each bead entering the furnace, a ball of light gradually formed at its center.

This was the Elixir Embryo.

Qi Xiu's current task was to maintain this Elixir Embryo, allowing it to grow continuously until it ultimately ripened into the Treasure Medicine he wished to concoct.

Beads continued to fall into the Elixir Embryo.

The medicinal properties continuously merged, intertwined, restructured, and transformed. The Elixir Embryo would alternately grow and shrink, its breath sometimes fiery, sometimes faint like a candle flickering in the wind.

Each change happened in a fleeting moment; any slight delay in reaction would cause the Elixir Embryo to instantly rupture and collapse, marking this concoction as a failure.

Thus, every moment of the alchemy process required a high level of spiritual concentration and precise handling, without the slightest error.

Such a cumbersome and complex process could deplete even a Dao Expert, leaving them exhausted, unable to endure over time.

To successfully concoct this Treasure Medicine, Xu Zhitian estimated it would take at least three hundred years.

Three hundred years!

Maintaining such a tightrope-walking mental state for three hundred years is nothing short of a fantasy for a normal Dao Expert.

After Qi Xiu officially entered the alchemy state, his previously manifested hundred External Incarnations also took action.

Fifty of them clapped their hands, reciting the content of the Hunyuan Myriad Laws Immortal Scripture.

In the next moment! 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

A massive force suddenly squeezed into the Lotus Leaf Cave Heaven, descending with a roar.

Hunyuan Palace!

A vast and intense sea of abnormal fire burst forth, covering every direction.

"Small World Technique? Red Lotus Karmic Fire?"

Immediately sensing the anomaly around them, Xu Zhitian quickly realized Qi Xiu had cast some kind of Small World Technique.

Seeing the Red Lotus Karmic Fire sweeping in, Xu Zhitian frowned, preparing to intervene.

He was very familiar with this Heaven and Earth Divine Fire, having been roasted alive by it for over a thousand years in the Blood Lotus Great World.

He certainly did not wish to experience that again.

But just as Xu Zhitian was about to act, a dazzling, flawless light like the blazing sun fell upon him and Qi Xiu, firmly protecting them from the ravaging Karmic Fire.

The three hundred years required for this alchemy were too long. By the time it succeeded, Shen Wansan's so-called old friend's child would have likely turned into a pile of bones, and the Wealth God True Lord would certainly never rest, viewing Qi Xiu as a mortal enemy.

Therefore, Qi Xiu could only resort to using the Hunyuan Palace, protected by the Haotian Mirror, to leverage the differing flow of time between two realms, eliminating the three hundred years required for alchemy.

Day by day passed.

Countless medicinal beads were meticulously placed into the Elixir Furnace by Qi Xiu, incorporated into the Elixir Embryo, gradually enhancing the Treasure Medicine's properties.

As the properties continually strengthened, the details needing attention grew increasingly numerous, causing sweat beads to gradually appear on Qi Xiu's forehead.

Another hundred years swiftly passed.

Inside the Yuanquan Elixir Furnace, the Elixir Embryo had transformed into a luminescent orb, akin to the purest glass reflecting splendiferous radiance.

"The first stage is roughly complete."

Having accompanied Qi Xiu all along, Xu Zhitian offered a reminder.

Upon hearing Xu Zhitian's cue, Qi Xiu nodded slowly, changing the Daoist Incantations and Seals in his hands. His Ancestral Aperture began to emit light from his forehead, and a crystal-clear, snowy Divine Soul Thought flew out, straight into the Elixir Embryo within the furnace.

With the Divine Soul Thought embedded, the previously pure Elixir Embryo began to change, its glass-like interior unexpectedly birthed something, exuding an ancient and distant aura.

"This is... you..."

Noticing the emanating aura from the Elixir Embryo, Xu Zhitian's expression turned, looking incredulously at Qi Xiu.

"I see now, no wonder you were adamant about personally concocting this elixir.

You kid... actually harbor another secret!"

With the Divine Soul Thought merged into the Elixir Embryo, Qi Xiu could no longer pay attention to the outside world, not even hearing Xu Zhitian's words.

After enduring the first stage, the speed of changes within the Elixir Embryo escalated a hundredfold.

He had to thoroughly control every change, allowing the aura developing within the Elixir Embryo to grow stronger.

Time flowed by, another hundred years past.

Qi Xiu sat beside the Yuanquan Elixir Furnace, his temples now speckled with gray. The immense mental strain even affected his physical body.

As long as he succeeded in concocting the Treasure Medicine, he had countless ways to recover and restore these damages.

Having endured a century, the previously glass-like Elixir Embryo had transformed into a crystalline droplet, translucent as jade, emitting faint radiant beams.

"Only half done, just need one last push."

Turning weary eyes toward the droplet within the furnace, Qi Xiu released the hands clasping the alchemy Daoist Incantation, resting them on his knees, his lips parting slowly.

In the next moment!

From Qi Xiu's mouth, an arcane and ancient, majestic rhythm emanating from above all heavens, commanding all beings, was slowly spoken.

"Dragon Language?!"

Standing to the side, Xu Zhitian's eyebrows jumped when he heard the ancient, profound language, infused with a transcendent disdain that looked down upon all existence.

"He really can!"

By now, Xu Zhitian was fully convinced, Qi Xiu was somehow deeply connected with the mysteriously disappeared True Dragon Clan from Ancient Times.

He might even be a reincarnation of a True Dragon.

Otherwise, how could he master the Dragon Language?

"With this, the Treasure Medicine within the furnace differs significantly from what I envisioned.

What he intended to concoct was actually something beyond my ability...

A True Dragon Elixir!"

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