The next morning, Gu Changqing received news that all the medicinal ingredients he had asked the Eighth Elder to find had been successfully gathered.
The Eighth Elder, named Gu Quan, was in charge of pill-related affairs within the clan.
However, after purchasing all those ingredients, Gu Changqing’s savings—his little treasure trove that he had been building up for quite a while—was completely emptied.
There was nothing he could do. Although he was the eldest young master of the Gu family, he wasn’t yet the clan head and thus didn’t have access to the clan’s treasury.
So the expenses had to come out of his own pocket.
Once he got the ingredients, Gu Changqing immediately returned to his courtyard without delay and began refining pills.
Since it was his first time alchemizing, even with the experience recorded in the Alchemy Emperor’s Heart Sutra, he remained cautious. Instead of jumping straight into making the Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pill, he chose to start by refining some second and third-grade healing and recovery pills for practice.
“One seven-pattern pill, three five-pattern pills, three three-pattern pills…
Not a single failed pill!”
The pill he refined was called the Rejuvenation Pill, a second-grade recovery-type pill—one of the most common and popular types sold on the market.
“The pill-refining technique of the Aoki Alchemy Emperor is truly unique…”
Gu Changqing had seen others refine pills before, but the Aoki Alchemy Emperor’s techniques were entirely differentfrom ordinary alchemists.
“All pills with pill patterns! Even a fourth-grade Alchemy King would find it hard to match this success rate…”
The ranks of alchemists, like that of pills, go from Grade 1 to Grade 9.
In general, a Grade 4 Alchemist could be called a Pill King, whose status was equal to, or even greater than, that of a cultivator at the King Realm.
Then came the Pill Emperor at Grade 5, Pill Lord at Grade 6, and Pill Sovereign at Grade 7—ranking similarly to cultivation realms, but often holding even more prestige than those with comparable cultivation levels.
After refining the second-grade pills, Gu Changqing continued by refining some third-grade ones—still without much difficulty.
Finally, his gaze landed on the materials needed to refine the Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pill.
Time to begin!
When refining the second and even third-grade pills earlier, Gu Changqing hadn’t felt any particular strain.
But now, as he started refining the fourth-grade pill, he finally felt the toll—his mental energy was beginning to fray under the pressure.
“This is about my limit. The only reason I can even attempt to refine a fourth-grade pill right now is because I’m a transmigrator—
My spiritual power is naturally far stronger than a normal person’s.”
“Of course, the immense spiritual energy granted by the Tai Xuan Scripture also plays a huge part.”
After all, fourth-grade pills are only refined by Pill Kings.
Which meant… at this very moment, Gu Changqing had already reached the level of a half-step Pill King!
“Essence Grass, Honeysuckle, Mystic Root…”
Following the formula carefully, Gu Changqing calmly placed the ingredients into the furnace one by one, using his spiritual sense to control the temperature with precise care—not daring to be even a little careless.
He only had one set of ingredients—he couldn’t afford to fail!
One hour later—
“Success!”
With a low shout, the flames died down—the pill was complete!
There were a total of four pills: two were high-grade fourth-tier, one was mid-grade, and one was low-grade.
None of them reached the pill-pattern level.
This showed that refining fourth-tier pills was still somewhat straining for Gu Changqing in his current state.
Still, what mattered was—the pill was successfully made.
Although the absence of pill patterns was a bit disappointing, this was already the limit of what Gu Changqing could achieve right now.
After finishing this batch of Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pills, Gu Changqing nearly passed out from exhaustion. The toll on his spiritual power had been immense.
Collapsed on the floor, he gasped for breath for a while before finally managing to get up—and immediately rushed to his room.
At that moment, Jiang Lianxin had already woken up.
With the help of her maid, she stood up, and when she saw Gu Changqing burst in looking thoroughly drained, she immediately asked:
“Husband, where did you go? Why do you look so tired?”
Gu Changqing motioned for the maid to leave and then gently helped Jiang Lianxin into the main hall.
“Xin’er, do you want to take revenge?”
Instead of giving her the pill right away, Gu Changqing asked her this first.
“Revenge?”
Jiang Lianxin’s delicate brows furrowed slightly. Of course, she knew what Gu Changqing meant by revenge.
Canglan Holy Land. Mu Yanran.
And her protector.
To say she didn’t hate them would be a lie. Jiang Lianxin wasn’t cold in nature, but she was not some saint.
This hatred was something she would carry for a lifetime.
But she also knew how difficult it would be to get revenge.
The other side was the saintess of Canglan Holy Land.
And she? She was now nothing more than a cripple. How could she possibly exact revenge?
Gu Changqing then took out the pill and handed it to her.
“This is called the Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pill. After taking it, your spiritual bone can be rebuilt!”
“Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pill?”
Even though Jiang Lianxin came from the powerful Jiang clan of the Han-Qin Empire, she had never even heard of such a pill.
At that moment, she was completely stunned.
No one knew her physical condition better than she did. It wasn’t just a simple injury—even pill kings had no solution. And now, Gu Changqing had suddenly taken out a pill claiming it could heal her shattered spiritual bone? This was…
Well, it’s no wonder Jiang Lianxin couldn’t believe it. It all just sounded too ridiculous.
However, she still accepted the pill from Gu Changqing without hesitation and swallowed it.
Her husband had gone out early in the morning and returned panting and utterly exhausted—no doubt it was all for the sake of this pill. Whether it worked or not, his effort and care alone were enough.
But what Jiang Lianxin didn’t expect at all was that, after swallowing the Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pill, a warm wave of medicinal power immediately surged through her entire body, making her feel indescribably comfortable.
And as time passed, she could clearly feel—the spiritual bone inside her, which had been shattered into countless fragments, was actually starting to reform!
“H-Husband, this pill…”
Jiang Lianxin looked at Gu Changqing in shock.
She could never have imagined that something even the renowned pill kings were helpless against… Gu Changqing had managed to solve it with just one pill?!
It was unbelievable.
“Don’t speak yet. Focus on circulating your energy and guiding the medicine,”
Gu Changqing said as he helped her onto the bed.
Jiang Lianxin, though filled with endless questions, could only suppress them for now. She closed her eyes and began circulating the Jiang Clan’s core cultivation technique.
Half a day later, Gu Changqing fed her the remaining Sevenfold Mystic Spirit Pills one by one.
And sure enough, her condition steadily improved.
Just like that, a full day passed.
Gu Changqing remained by Jiang Lianxin’s side the entire time.
“Mmm~”
With a soft moan, Jiang Lianxin slowly opened her eyes.
As soon as she did, she saw Gu Changqing, still sitting by her bed.
“Husband…”
Sensing the changes in her body, she realized—her spiritual bone had fully reformed.
Her cultivation level had also recovered, reaching the first tribulation of the Calamity Realm!
Overcome with emotion, she threw her arms around Gu Changqing and kissed him.
Words were no longer needed—everything she felt was in that kiss.
That night, it was clear… neither of them would get any sleep.
Well, Gu Changqing had already been exhausted—now, rest was entirely off the table.
The next day, Gu Changqing felt like his whole body had fallen apart.
Looking at Jiang Lianxin, lying in his arms with a blissful expression, he shook his head.
“Looks like I need to grow some kind of Supreme Bone or Sacred Bone next time… Otherwise, I’m really not going to survive this.”
In his arms, sensing some movement, Jiang Lianxin stirred awake, rubbing her eyes.
“y Sacred Bone… it’s too powerful…”
Her cheeks instantly turned crimson.
But soon, she realized something.
“Sacred Bone? Husband, you must’ve remembered wrong. The bone in my body is just a spiritual bone, not a sacred one.”
“Spiritual bone? That thing nearly destroyed me last night! There’s no way that was just a spiritual bone, my dear—it’s a genuine Sacred Bone, the Mystic Ice Sacred Bone!”
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