After Xiao Fei emerged from the Jiang clan's secret realm, he returned to Guiyi City, continuing his days as before, tending to an alchemy shop.
During this time, Jiang Xian visited him several more times. On the first occasion, he brought Xiao Fei a batch of spirit stones as payment for his service as a guest elder of the Jiang clan.
Subsequently, Jiang Xian sought Xiao Fei's assistance to refine several more batches of pills. Now that he was a guest elder of the Jiang clan, the pills he refined were no longer limited to the Tai Xu Di Hun Dan.
Xiao Fei reciprocated generously, achieving a four-tenths pill yield for every batch he refined.
Furthermore, he sold many of his treasured mid- and high-grade pills to the Jiang clan.
Both parties were delighted.
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Within the space, the transplanted "Zhu Yan Bai Gu" was thriving.
Having reached its third cycle, the "Zhu Yan Bai Gu" exhibited truly potent toxicity.
Even Xiao Fei, the owner of the space, would be affected if he was not careful when approaching it.
Around this "Zhu Yan Bai Gu," walls of spiritual energy sealed off the small area, completely isolating it from the surroundings to prevent the leakage of toxins.
Arranged on the ground surrounding the "Zhu Yan Bai Gu" were numerous jade stones inscribed with formation patterns, forming a grand array.
The function of this array was simple: to collect the toxins from the air and channel them into a jade vial.
This jade vial was a specially crafted storage magical artifact by Xiao Fei, with dozens prepared as spares.
Xiao Fei entered the sealed space and picked up the jade vial from the stone table to inspect it.
The vial was already filled with a viscous liquid, pink in color and emitting a sweet fragrance.
The poisonous substance of the "Zhu Yan Bai Gu" had been condensed into a liquid, resembling honey in its consistency.
Xiao Fei used his spiritual power to extract a drop about the size of a sesame seed. The moment it touched his tongue, he experienced an unparalleled sense of pleasure.
He trembled with delight, his very soul quivering.
At that instant, it felt as though the entire world belonged to him.
Simultaneously, the flesh and bone on his primordial spirit were rapidly corroded, becoming riddled with holes in a mere moment.
Yet, he felt no discomfort, his mind still lost in this extreme sensation.
He quickly took out a high-grade Tai Xu Di Hun Dan, which he had prepared beforehand, and popped it into his mouth.
After a long while, he slowly exhaled.
"Truly a world-ending poison that devours without spitting out bones."
Generally, harmful substances, upon causing poisoning, would trigger a self-protective response in the body, resulting in discomfort or intense pain.
However, this toxin induced an addiction, leading one to become utterly engrossed until they eventually became fertilizer for the "Zhu Yan Bai Gu."
Xiao Fei carefully capped the jade vial filled with the pink liquid, affixed three layers of sealing talismans, and then placed it into a wooden box.
He replaced the vial on the stone table with an empty one before passing through the spiritual energy wall and returning to the main space.
Xiao Fei found an empty plot of land not yet planted with spiritual herbs and inverted the mouths of over a dozen storage bags.
"Clatter..."
Countless crystalline spirit stones cascaded from the storage bags onto the ground, gradually forming a small mountain at his feet.
But this was not the end. Xiao Fei poured out all the spirit stones from every storage bag in one go.
These spirit stones totaled ten billion. Once the space absorbed them all, the rate of time flow should increase from sixty times to seventy times.
In the years he had operated his small alchemy shop, he had only earned a little over ten billion spirit stones, almost all of which had been invested back into the space.
There was no other way; he urgently needed the time flow within the space to accelerate.
Ever since acquiring the "Zhu Yan Bai Gu," a wicked thought had taken root in his mind.
However, this required a vast quantity of "Zhu Yan Bai Gu" poison, and the more potent the toxicity, the better.
The "Zhu Yan Bai Gu" took nine thousand years for each cycle, with only three thousand years dedicated to blooming.
This spiritual treasure, naturally formed by heaven and earth, had no seeds and could not be propagated.
He could only accelerate the time flow within the space to obtain more of its poison.
However, the current time flow within the space had reached seventy times. To further increase it to eighty times,
the required spirit stones would need to increase tenfold, likely amounting to one hundred billion spirit stones.
Even in the prosperous Tian Yuan Realm, this was a sum he dared not even dream of at present.
Given the manner in which the space absorbed spirit stones, he had no idea when this would end.
It was likely that even the abundant resources of the Tian Yuan Realm could not sustain such a space.
After pouring out all ten billion spirit stones, Xiao Fei went to inspect the Dao Comprehension Spring in the center.
Through years of accumulation, several more catties of Dao Comprehension Spring water had been produced.
Xiao Fei collected all this spring water and then sat beside it, taking a large gulp. Instantly, his mind became clear...
Half a month later, he finally emerged from a state of profound mystery.
At this moment, a wise light still flickered in his eyes, as he remained in that enlightened state.
He casually reached for a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herb beside him and held it in his palm.
"Disperse!"
As he circulated the Law of Gathering and Dispersing, the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herb in his hand gradually decomposed. Impurities were expelled, leaving behind dozens of pure medicinal components that floated in the air, classified and separated.
This was the Law of Gathering and Dispersing that he had comprehended. Previously, his comprehension was insufficient to precisely decompose such a complex and component-rich ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herb.
Following this epiphany, his understanding of this law had deepened significantly.
Xiao Fei allowed these dozens of herbal clusters to continue floating in the air. With a series of single-handed grasps, dozens more spiritual herbs floated towards him from various parts of the space.
"Disperse!"
These dozens of spiritual herbs hovered before him in the air. As a wave of law power swept over them, these herbs simultaneously collapsed and decomposed into their various components.
"Gather!"
With a mighty shout, another profound law power swiftly enveloped the medicinal components in the air.
Under the effect of the Law of Gathering, these medicinal components converged, and under Xiao Fei's mental guidance, they fused together to form a large mass of viscous medicinal liquid.
Xiao Fei reached out and extracted a thumb-sized portion, placing it in his palm, and then used the law to condense it.
After a moment, the liquid in his hand solidified, forming a white pill.
A careful examination with his divine sense revealed no difference compared to pills refined using an alchemy furnace.
This was something he had always wanted to achieve since comprehending the Law of Gathering and Dispersing, but had been unable to accomplish.
Subsequently, he used the Law of Gathering and Dispersing to transform the remaining large mass of medicinal liquid into pills.
The pill formation rate and the yield of mid- and high-grade pills were similar to when he refined them with a furnace.
This was due to his incomplete mastery of the laws.
However, this represented a new method of alchemy, one that only he could wield.
When he eventually mastered the Law of Gathering and Dispersing completely, refining various high-level pills would be effortless.
He could even ensure that an entire batch of pills were all of top grade.
Xiao Fei put away these pills, then plucked more spiritual herbs from the space and refined them into pills using the Law of Gathering and Dispersing.
Only after the space had absorbed all the spirit stones and the time flow reached seventy times did he stand up and survey the space.
He then continued his alchemy, as this method of refining pills also allowed him to enhance his comprehension of the Law of Gathering and Dispersing.