One minute passed.
Five minutes passed.
A quarter of an hour passed.
...
Ye Fan blinked, completely bewildered...
What?
Where was the promised pain?
He didn't feel anything at all!
No impurities were expelled from his skin, meaning the pills hadn't worked.
Had he refined a fake Body Tempering Pill?
Given Ye Fan's skill, there was no way the pills could have been faulty.
Therefore, the problem could only lie with his own body...
Recalling the inexplicable changes that had occurred on his body before, Ye Fan thought this was not impossible...
Damn it!
Was he being messed with?
He just wanted his body to be a bit healthier and stronger, and even this small wish wouldn't be granted?
Today, he refused to believe it!
With that thought, Ye Fan took out the remaining six Body Tempering Pills and swallowed them all at once!
If one wasn't enough, he'd increase the dosage!
After swallowing the six Body Tempering Pills, Ye Fan finally felt something!
The scorching medicinal power surged within his body, like a raging fire!
Then...
It was gone...
His stomach had only been warm for less than a minute before all sensation vanished.
The feeling of the medicinal power disappeared, and his body showed no changes.
Ye Fan frowned.
Something was wrong?
With the way he had been consuming them, even an elephant would have been incinerated.
Why was he completely unaffected?
Could it be...
His body was immune to pills?
With this thought, Ye Fan got up and left the bathtub.
After getting dressed, Ye Fan returned to the pill furnace.
He was determined.
Regardless of the tier of medicinal ingredients, as long as he could find a recipe, he would refine pills from them all!
He was busy until almost noon.
He had refined a total of 125 pills of various grades, including several poisons!
After finishing, Ye Fan didn't bother with bathwater anymore and sat on the edge of the bed to pop pills.
He first chose two Tier 2 pills with conflicting effects and swallowed them.
Though it was a bit of a gamble, he wasn't planning to court death.
Even if these two Tier 2 pills conflicted, they wouldn't be fatal.
Two minutes passed...
The medicinal power dispersed smoothly, and he could feel the warmth within his abdomen.
Other than that, nothing else!
Let alone a conflict.
Even the expected effects of the pills were not displayed in the slightest...
Afterward, Ye Fan experimented with Tier 3 and Tier 4 pills in sequence.
However, the results were no different...
The medicinal power dispersed smoothly, and he could feel the warmth.
But there was no reaction whatsoever...
Glancing at the remaining pills, Ye Fan gritted his teeth!
This time, he didn't care about the tier or the quantity; he just grabbed a handful!
His actions were even more reckless than when the Monkey King stole immortal pills!
A few minutes later, Ye Fan began to question his life...
No matter the effect or the tier of the pills, after consuming them, there was still no reaction!
He looked at the few poison pills in his hand and Ye Fan gritted his teeth: "It's you!"
Two minutes later...
Ye Fan rubbed his stomach.
Not a trace of medicinal effect had manifested, but he felt rather full...
Kurota, standing beside him, was dumbfounded!
Although he couldn't refine pills, he understood some principles.
For example, pills, like potions in their world, couldn't be consumed in excessive amounts at once.
Otherwise, not to mention humans, even magical beasts would probably die on the spot!
But just now, he had watched Ye Fan swallow over a hundred pills in one go!
A thought flashed through Kurota's mind.
Earlier, in the ruins, it had asked Ye Fan if he was a Saint Domain Mage, and Ye Fan's answer had been vague.
Now, it seemed certain!
Only monsters as close to gods as Saint Domain Mages would dare to consume so many pills...
Forget it...
This kind of monstrous world is beyond my comprehension. I'll just keep reading...
Ye Fan then lay down on the bed, dejectedly rubbing his stomach.
Damn it!
What was this all about?
Over a hundred pills just went down the drain.
If he had known this, it would have been more practical to trade them for something else...
His heartache over the wasted items was secondary; the main issue was the change in his body that left Ye Fan in a state of agony.
Although he had a physique that couldn't cultivate, this didn't mean he had no chance of cultivating in the future.
As long as he could find those few items, he could still change this situation.
With his knowledge of those monstrous cultivation techniques, even the most ordinary physique could be cultivated into a powerhouse.
But now, he was completely immune to all pills...
His last hope had been extinguished...
Would he only be able to be a merchant in this life, selling products from auxiliary professions?
Although he could still live quite comfortably, it was ultimately not as satisfying as having personal strength...
Alas...
It seems this is how it must be...
Fortunately, he still had a sniper rifle for comfort.
Even though the sniper rifle's highest potential was only Earth Immortal, the Immortal Realm was still too far away for him now.
After all, if he couldn't cultivate, whether he could ascend to the Immortal Realm was a question in itself...
Accepting the reality, Ye Fan began to plan his next steps.
Since the ruins had been fully explored, there was no point in him staying at the Yunhua Sect.
He would pack his things and go find Liang Rujing.
Then, he would see if he could scavenge something from her sect or obtain some high-level demon cores.
"Kurota," Ye Fan said, "get ready. We're leaving here tomorrow."
"Okay, I understand," Kurota replied quickly.
Since he had no one else he knew in this world besides Ye Fan, it didn't matter where he went.
Ye Fan extended his spiritual sense into his ring and looked at the flying ship.
This flying ship was a gift from Liang Dichao when he left the Great Liang Kingdom.
From Ye Fan's professional perspective, the quality of this flying ship was indeed not great.
He had no true qi or materials before, so he could only stare at it.
Now that he had the conditions, it seemed he could modify it.
After all, he might encounter danger on the way, so some protective measures were necessary.
The Tier 8 Purple Cloud Crystal Ore harvested from the ruins was perfect for inscribing defensive runes.
Then, using Green Rhinoceros Iron, he could install a mirror reflection rune, which would be sufficient for basic protection.
As long as he didn't encounter an enemy at the peak of the Void Returning stage, his safety would be guaranteed.
Seeing that there was nothing else to do, Ye Fan prepared to start working on it immediately.
Just as Ye Fan was about to get up, he suddenly noticed something was wrong!
He had intended to prop himself up on the bed, but he found his arm was stiff!
It felt as if something was fixing his arm in place, preventing him from bending it!
Ye Fan tried again and found it still wouldn't work!
What the hell?
Soon, he realized it wasn't just his arm!
His entire body was in this state!
It was as if he had been petrified!
Ye Fan's lower leg, which had been dangling by the side of the bed, instantly became rigid!
His whole body was stiff, and he couldn't even blink!
Ye Fan's first thought was the stone in his spiritual sea.
He strongly suspected that stone was causing trouble!
Diving his consciousness into his spiritual sea, Ye Fan looked at the stone.
The stone was still quietly suspended above his spiritual sea, showing no anomalies.
Ye Fan withdrew a wisp of spiritual power from the controllable part of his spiritual sea and sent it towards the stone.
It was still the same as before.
The spiritual power that entered the stone immediately lost contact with him.
Other than that, there were no other changes.
It seemed it wasn't the stone...
Could it be his body?
Or perhaps...
The pills he had consumed earlier had finally taken effect?
Ye Fan's mind raced as he calculated.
But no matter how he calculated, no matter how he combined the pills, none of them could produce this stiffening effect...
Even with Ye Fan's extensive knowledge, he was now bewildered...
Kurota, engrossed in its studies, didn't notice Ye Fan's abnormality for the moment.
Ye Fan was as stiff as a rod.
He couldn't move, couldn't speak...