Chapter 826: Treasure Pill

vine consciousness, they could make their spirit artifacts fly. However, this method can only be used for low-altitude flight, once they go high up and there's any other situation, they would fall. Al...Shen Xiang originally planned to refine a batch of pills before trying again, but since he was now close to success, it meant that he had gained some experience and could refine the Innate Nine Elements Pill more easily in the future.

His mind immediately swarmed with spiritual patterns. Before, he had ingested the memories of four Array Masters, laying a very solid foundation for array methods. He now possessed certain spiritual patterns.

Although the layout of arrays wasn't entirely through spiritual patterns, they were still indispensable.

The Innate Nine Elements Pill was a pill that gathered spirit energy, and Shen Xiang needed to use the pill as an array base and inscribe spiritual patterns on it. He started with the simplest method, carving a basic Spirit Gathering Array, something that many martial artists could use crystal stones to set up.

His consciousness controlled the array patterns, shaping them into golden slender spiritual patterns that resembled hair threads. He placed these patterns inside the whirlpools forming around as the pills condensed.

The medicinal spirit energy was already a huge amount of energy, and the array patterns would only become effective with enough energy support.

A simple Spirit Gathering Array had only thirty-two spiritual patterns, as long as one memorized the pattern's design and could scale it up or down accordingly. The spiritual patterns would activate, but the hardest part was connecting those thirty-two patterns together to form unique spiritual resonance power, which could produce magical effects.

Golden spiritual patterns were formed by Shen Xiang using his powerful consciousness, and now he could condense it into energy form. Without that powerful consciousness support, he wouldn't have been able to do this step.

He had refined three pills, which doubled his workload. Originally, he could have completed the task much earlier, but now, after adding spiritual patterns, he spent another half the day working on it. It consumed his consciousness and true qi very much.

When setting up an array or forging tools, spiritual patterns were usually formed using special energy that could be condensed into them. However, inside spirit pills, those energies couldn't be used because they had to rely on pure consciousness and true qi. The spirit energy built the spiritual patterns' framework, while true qi was the flesh of those patterns. Additionally, Shen Xiang compressed a large amount of true qi into hair-like threads around the spirit energy-formed framework of the spiritual patterns.

After a day and night, since he had the Heaven and Earth Fire Soul and knew how to combine technique power with pill refinement, this was only the second time he had spent so much time refining a batch of pills.

The True Qi around the Yanlong Treasure Pot was red, possibly affected by the Innate Nine Elements Pill inside or because the refining pot had a fire attribute. Even before being consumed, these three Innate Nine Elements Pills could condense spirit energy into mist form. This meant that the Yanlong Treasure Pot had a very large potential.

Su Meiyao didn't disturb Shen Xiang when she saw him working so hard, wanting to see how spiritual patterns and pills combined. Of course, she hoped Shen Xiang would succeed because then maybe he could find a unique path in pill refinement.

In the morning, Shen Xiang finally opened his eyes. He didn't expect to consume half of his consciousness and true qi refining a single batch of pills, which was more than he would lose in a fight.

Opening the pot lid, three faint purple pills swirled around with white mist. After the mist dissipated, Shen Xiang smiled slightly and said, "I guess I succeeded."

He took out the three Innate Nine Elements Pills. This type of pill usually produced one successful pill, and excellent pill refiners could produce two pills. Most grade-D pills usually didn't have many successful ones.

However, he stuck to his usual style and aimed for perfection.

The three Innate Nine Elements Pills were of top quality, but they had different patterns on the pill surface. They looked very spiritual and were flickering faintly, like a weak glow.

Shen Xiang successfully combined spiritual patterns and spirit pills, but he didn't know how it would affect him yet.

The Innate Nine Elements Pill was more beautiful because spiritual patterns were carved on it. Those patterns filled with spirit qi seemed to have life, like a natural spiritual treasure that didn't seem made by humans.

Spiritual patterns and spirit pills were now one, making them very beautiful to look at. Su Meiyao couldn't help but admire the resulting product, and the other two, Long Xueyi and Bai Youyou, were dazzled by them too.

“Little troublemaker, you're amazing.” Long Xueyi praised sincerely.

“Of course, I put all my effort into it.” Shen Xiang couldn't stop loving the pill in his hands.

Long Xueyi said with a smile, “Then let me try out its effects.”

“Don't do that, don't exhaust all the energy in Yuqiao Ring.” Su Meiyao quickly stopped her.

Yuqiao Ring was separate from the outside world, even without sensing it, Ji Meixian couldn't feel Yuqiao Ring's world. If Long Xueyi ate in the Yuqiao Ring, she would only absorb energy.

Long Xueyi stuck out her tongue and said, “This pill is like a treasure. Let's call it Treasure Pill instead! I think this type of pill doesn't have specific grades. If there are more spiritual patterns, maybe it'll be even stronger!”

Shen Xiang nodded. "Mm, I'll test out its effects first. If it works well, I'll study spiritual patterns and refine a Treasure Pill for you!"

He swallowed an Innate Nine Elements Pill, but just as it entered his body, it completely turned into mist. This wasn't normal because the Innate Nine Elements Pill wouldn't disintegrate after absorption if the medicinal power wasn't used up.

Just as Shen Xiang sighed, something wonderful happened. The spiritual pattern pill disintegrated but formed a small round energy cloud in his dantian.

The purple energy cloud was about the size of a chestnut, and the spiritual patterns in it were flickering. The whole energy cloud was rotating without dispersing.

This was the first time Shen Xiang experienced such an occurrence.

The energy inside the Innate Nine Elements Pill had already completely integrated with the spiritual patterns, making it hard to dissipate.

The special energy from Innate Nine Elements Pill was stimulating the spiritual patterns' power. After he used his technique, spirit qi like a tidal wave rushed towards him from heaven and earth.

The medicinal spirit energy could speed up absorption by people, especially those with good qualities and powerful techniques. If the person's qualities were excellent, they could even get effects as great as grade-B pills.

Now, with a Spirit Gathering Array added, the effects were even better than Shen Xiang imagined.

Shen Xiang was very delighted. He had to enter the extreme training state for testing its effects now.

It was best to absorb spirit qi as mist when absorbing it usually, but now that the dense spirit energy filled his body, all of it turned into water and bare qi. Luckily, he had the Taiji Dragon Lowering Technique and Divine Fire Art to assist his training, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to refine so much spirit energy at once.

If it weren't absorbed quickly, he would feel like the spirit energy might crystallize into crystal stones inside his body.

Meanwhile, many people in Qingfeng City who were practicing were cursing because they couldn't absorb spirit energy at all, and it was stolen.

The heavens around Shen Xiang's small cottage seemed like a tornado of spirit energy, constantly seeping into his secret room and allowing him to absorb it. This scared many people, as they had never seen someone absorbing spirit energy in such a way before, like drinking water from a cow's mouth.

“eday!”Shenxiang nodded at her, “Take care!”Yue’er disappeared in a flash, and Shenxiang sighed quietly before disappearing instantly.Rongxueyi was still sleeping. She had been asleep for too long, and...