The Second Elder was clearly taken aback by Ye Fan's answer.
Refining a seventh-tier pill with fifth-tier medicinal ingredients?
How was that even possible?
It was like a complete beginner at the Qi Refining stage suddenly appearing and claiming he could slap a Nascent Soul stage cultivator to death with one hand.
If it were anyone else, the Second Elder would have sent them flying with a single palm strike!
Was this person talking nonsense in broad daylight?!
However, through his previous interactions with Ye Fan, he had come to deeply understand just how terrifying Ye Fan was in alchemy.
Now that this formidable figure claimed it was possible, he dared not say anything more...
He himself thought it was impossible, but the elder said it was possible.
Then it must be that his own skills were insufficient!
At this moment.
The Second Elder suddenly felt a sense of collapse, as if he had been refining fake pills for all these years...
After a few more polite words, the two elders left.
After all, alchemy required an absolutely quiet environment, and they dared not stay and disturb him.
Even though the Second Elder was incredibly eager to stay and watch...
Inside the alchemy room.
Ye Fan retrieved the necessary medicinal ingredients and began.
A seventh-tier Qi Severing Pill presented no difficulty whatsoever for Ye Fan.
Even if he were drunk or sleep-deprived, he could still accomplish it purely by instinct ingrained in his genes.
Thus.
What was an intricate and complex process for other alchemists simply became a matter of heating, adding ingredients, closing the lid, and then "taking it out of the pot"...
The only thing that might have piqued Ye Fan's interest was this cauldron.
It wasn't that the cauldron was particularly exceptional.
But rather, it was the best cauldron he had encountered so far.
Ye Fan himself could forge a better one, but unfortunately, he lacked the suitable materials.
At this very moment.
This cauldron now belonged to Ye in his eyes.
At the very least, he could use it to get by until he obtained a better cauldron.
Moreover, Ye Fan felt that keeping this cauldron was a good thing for the Yun Hua Sect.
It would save them from overthinking and worrying pointlessly later.
The extremely high furnace temperature caused the various medicinal ingredients to fuse perfectly.
After about fifteen minutes, the pill was refined.
However, Ye Fan did not rush to open the cauldron but chose to let it "stew" for a while longer.
This process could further enhance the medicinal effects.
Although the effect was negligible, even a mosquito's leg was still meat, wasn't it?
After ceasing the transfer of true qi to the cauldron, Ye Fan began to stroll around the alchemy room.
Refining the Qi Severing Pill was just a casual endeavor.
Next, he had to go "dungeon crawling," and Ye Fan definitely needed to prepare himself.
Otherwise, as a weakling without any cultivation, he could easily perish halfway.
He could refine some incredibly potent pills.
For example, pills that, once consumed, would allow him to crush cultivators of the Soul Transformation or Body Integration stages.
But the problem was that such pills required him to have a certain level of cultivation to support them...
Therefore, Ye Fan decided to take a different approach and create some other types of pills.
For instance, pills that would grant him invisibility or enhanced speed after consumption.
Although the effects would undoubtedly not be as potent as those powerful pills, they might prove to be surprisingly effective at crucial moments.
On the other side.
The First Elder and the Second Elder stood outside the alchemy room, waiting anxiously.
Although theoretically Ye Fan could produce a Qi Severing Pill, without witnessing it firsthand, they still felt uneasy.
After all...
That was a seventh-tier pill!
While seventh-tier alchemists might not be the absolute top existences on this continent, they were among the highest echelon.
Or rather, neither of them had ever seen a true seventh-tier alchemist in their entire lives!
The Second Elder, who claimed to be a half-sixth-tier alchemist, was actually quite inflated.
By chance, he had obtained a sixth-tier pill formula.
After toiling for over a hundred years, he had barely succeeded once.
Although he had failed in the end, it had allowed him to gain some understanding of sixth-tier pills.
But this meager understanding, compared to the vast theoretical knowledge of sixth-tier alchemy, was but a drop in the ocean.
As for the Dark Sky Curtain mentioned earlier, that was purely coincidental.
He had once been fortunate enough to learn the refining method from someone else.
But that was limited to the method itself.
In essence, he could refine a batch of Dark Sky Curtain, but regarding the theories involved, he was completely in the dark.
It was akin to a player who had mastered a game to an extreme degree, but if you asked them to explain the game's development process, it would be an insurmountable challenge...
Therefore, fundamentally, the Second Elder was still only a fifth-tier alchemist.
Facing something like the seventh-tier, which almost existed only in legends, it was inevitable that they felt uneasy...
"Beep beep beep."
Just as the two were lost in their thoughts, the First Elder's communication jade suddenly rang.
Upon seeing the message, the First Elder's expression changed drastically!
The Sect Master's injuries had relapsed!
It could no longer be suppressed!
"Second Elder, I'll leave this to you. I'm going to the Sect Master's location!"
After a hurried instruction, the First Elder flew away.
Half an hour later.
Inside the alchemy room.
Ye Fan stretched his arms and let out a deep sigh.
The gains this time were decent.
Although the pills he had produced couldn't be considered invincible, they at least made him feel a bit more at ease.
The only dissatisfaction was the expenditure of spiritual power.
After the system had malfunctioned, he had regained some control over his spiritual power.
However, this was only enough to maintain normal daily consumption.
Let alone using his terrifying spiritual power to attack others like before, even refining pills for this short period now made him feel the strain.
Although compared to others, he was still considered mentally energetic, he was ultimately far from his previous state.
He had also observed during this time.
His spiritual sea was still being absorbed by that seal.
That's right, absorbed!
The seal was like a black hole, devouring his spiritual sea.
The speed wasn't fast.
At the current rate, it would take at least hundreds of thousands of years for the seal to "consume" his entire spiritual sea.
But who could guarantee that the speed of this thing wouldn't accelerate?
Although Ye Fan couldn't fathom why the seal formed by his own spiritual power would so maddeningly devour his spiritual power.
He knew that the time left for him was likely not much!
Who knew what even more irritating things would happen after the seal completely devoured his spiritual power...
It certainly wouldn't be anything good!
After collecting the refined pills into small porcelain bottles, Ye Fan looked at his empty left hand.
Now that he had recovered some ability to use spiritual power, it was time to get a new ring.
Storage bags were ultimately too inconvenient.
On the other side.
When the First Elder arrived, he found the situation even more severe than he had imagined!
Yun Hua Zhenren was suspended in mid-air, his skin as red as a boiled shrimp!
His expression was extremely contorted, clearly enduring immense pain!
The rampaging true qi transformed into visible light, surging around him incessantly!
A group of elders were surrounding him, desperately trying to suppress the true qi with their own.
However, the effect was not ideal.
As soon as their true qi suppressed the true qi on Yun Hua Zhenren's body, it immediately rebounded!