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"Inside the Pill Realm, because of the decay, it isn't suitable to stay for long, so you only have ten days to search for the medicinal ingredients required on your mission."
"Identifying medicinal ingredients is a basic skill of an alchemist, I don't think anyone here needs to be taught that, right?"
The old man curled his lips and lazily said: "Also, while the Pill Realm isn't suitable for humans to live in, for some magic beasts, it's like a paradise."
"So after years of breeding, the magic beasts inside the Pill Realm have grown extremely powerful. If you encounter them, be careful, don't throw your lives away, because no one will come to save you."
"You should have been mentally prepared for this already. The Pill Gathering isn't a game, nor some ordinary competition. This is a real arena of blood and struggle.
And only the one who stands last in that bloody struggle will be the champion of this Pill Gathering. One general's success is built upon ten thousand bones, the Pill Gathering is the same."
By the end, the voice of the old man riding the turtle had turned much colder.
"Alright, no more nonsense, those who are ready can come up to collect your items. If you want to quit, now is still the time, otherwise…"
As he spoke, the old man riding the turtle slowly swept his gaze around.
But no one chose to withdraw. Everyone present was someone with real skill, how could they be scared off by just a few words?
Not long after his voice fell, a middle-aged man dressed in an alchemist's robe walked forward expressionlessly.
He took the item from the turtle-riding elder's hands, then stepped straight into the slowly rotating spatial tunnel, his figure vanishing in an instant.
After the middle-aged man, more and more people stepped forward in succession, taking the item and quickly entering the spatial tunnel.
Wei Yang and his group stood there watching calmly, not in any rush to compete to enter. When around a hundred people had already gone into the spatial tunnel, the remaining number had clearly dwindled.
"Let's go."
Wei Yang was the first to step forward, taking the item from the turtle-riding elder's hands, then stepped into the spatial tunnel and disappeared. Behind him, Xian'er and the others followed closely after.
Somewhere within the Pill Realm.
This was an expansive plain that looked desolate and barren.
Across the land, all that could be seen was a dull yellow soil, with the occasional hint of green breaking through, releasing a faint trace of life and vitality.
Across the plain, every now and then small magic beasts would suddenly burst out, kicking up a trail of yellow dust before vanishing into the distance in the blink of an eye.
The silence of the barren plain continued for a while.
Suddenly, the calm sky above twisted and churned. Right after, a figure stepped out from the void, standing suspended in mid-air. The one who emerged from the spatial passage was, of course, Wei Yang.
At this time, he had already been separated from Xian'er and the others.
Entering the Pill Realm through the spatial passage, the locations were randomly distributed, not fixed.
Floating in mid-air, gazing down at the barren yellow plain beneath his feet, Wei Yang raised his eyebrows.
"Pill Realm?"
Looking around, he could faintly make out the outline of a mountain range at the edge of the plain.
"The energy here is quite rich, but unfortunately it's filled with violent elements, not suitable for humans to absorb."
Wei Yang casually grasped a handful of the violent energy in front of him, his eyes thoughtful.
Here, once a fight breaks out, it would be very hard to recover energy, since this violent force can't be absorbed into the body. You'd have to rely on medicinal pills or other means to replenish, so training here was out of the question.
Of course, this restriction wasn't a big problem for Wei Yang, since he had a Heavenly Flame that could refine and purify energy, it would just be a bit more troublesome. So, this is why the Pill Realm is in decline?
Opening up a minor world was a heaven-defying ability only a Dou Sheng possessed. But even so, a minor world created by a Dou Sheng was never a true world, and would inevitably be unstable.
So even if one succeeded in opening such a minor world, it required constant maintenance and inspection, or else it would eventually decay and collapse.
Wei Yang shook his head, then flipped his hand and a piece of parchment appeared in his palm. This was the medicinal list for his trial. He had to gather all the ingredients listed upon it in order to successfully pass this second test.
"Pill Tower is basically using us contestants as laborers to collect medicinal ingredients." Wei Yang chuckled.
His gaze swept across the parchment.
"Hundred Year Earth Essence, Thousand Year Earth Fire Flower, Cold Spirit Marrow."
A total of three medicinal ingredients, but each one was rare and hard to find. Putting away the medicinal list, he took out the map of the Pill Realm and unfolded it.
The map was drawn fairly clearly, and the places where the three required ingredients from the list were born had been circled in red to make them stand out.
"I already agreed with Xian'er and the others that we'll meet up at the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range later. For now, I should first gather the three medicinal ingredients, then talk about the rest."
Comparing the map with the distant vast mountain range, Wei Yang quickly identified the direction of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, as well as a rough idea of where he was currently located.
"Oh? This barren plain is exactly the production ground for the Hundred Year Earth Essence."
Looking at the map, he realized that his current position was right inside one of the red-circled regions. And judging from the environment around him, the conditions really were very suitable for the growth of Earth Essence.
"What a coincidence."
Wei Yang smiled, then moved forward. With ripples spreading under his feet, his figure flickered and appeared a hundred meters away.
At the same time, a vast surge of soul force erupted from between his brows, sweeping out in all directions to search for traces of the Hundred Year Earth Essence. Before long, the corner of his lips curved up, "Found it."
Swoosh!
His figure flickered a few more times, and in an instant, he appeared a thousand meters away. Looking at the yellow soil beneath him, he stretched out his palm and grabbed downwards from afar.
Rumble~
A large section of earth was forcefully lifted into the air, then tossed aside. Below, a massive pit appeared, and at the bottom of the pit, a fist-sized deep yellow rhizome-like object came into Wei Yang's view.
"Earth Essence!"
Wei Yang's body flashed, appearing at the bottom of the pit. Reaching out, he grabbed it and pulled it free.
Earth Essence was a rare medicinal ingredient formed by the condensation of earth power. If one's energy went berserk during cultivation, this Earth Essence, or pills refined from it, could have a very good suppressing and stabilizing effect.
So quickly obtaining one of the required ingredients made Wei Yang quite pleased.
Hmm?
Suddenly, his brows furrowed slightly and his figure flickered.
Bang!
The ground beneath exploded upward, scattering dirt and gravel everywhere.
A massive python's head, nearly a zhang in size, shot out like lightning from underground, its ferocious bloody maw snapping down fiercely at where Wei Yang had just been standing.
"Hiss~"
Its ambush had missed. The snake's tongue flicked as its pupils locked onto Wei Yang floating in mid-air. It let out a dissatisfied hiss, then quickly retracted its head, trying to dive back underground.
"Heh."
Seeing this, Wei Yang's expression turned cold. Holding the Earth Essence in one hand, he stretched out his other hand, pressing lightly toward the ground below.
Boom!
At once, the entire section of ground shook violently, and a giant palm imprint, nearly ten zhang wide, was stamped deep into the earth.
As for the python hidden below, it had long since been crushed into pulp. Retracting his hand, Wei Yang took out a jade box, placed the Earth Essence inside, and stored it away.
"One ingredient down. Now, to the next red-circled location."
After confirming the direction, Wei Yang's figure blurred, swiftly flying toward the outline of the mountain range at the edge of his vision.
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