"Lei Ling'er,"
Long Chen looked at the little girl before him, almost unable to believe his eyes. Lei Ling'er had always been dressed in purple clothes and with purple hair.
But now, she was wearing a black long dress, her pupils as black as ink, seemingly filled with endless destructive power.
"Big brother, hugs,"
Lei Ling'er stretched out her hands, and two little dimples appeared on her adorable cheeks, making her look as adorable as a porcelain doll.
Long Chen laughed heartily and reached out to pick up Lei Ling'er. Nowadays, Lei Ling'er was becoming more and more like a human, all her emotions showing on her face.
Originally, on the Tianwu Continent, when Lei Ling'er took human form, she was close to Long Chen, but she gave him a cold and aloof vibe, unlike Huo Ling'er's fiery enthusiasm.
But unexpectedly, after retaking human form in the Immortal Realm, she became even more intelligent. Lei Ling'er and Huo Ling'er were both raised by Long Chen himself, and he had deep feelings for them.
"Brother Long Chen, I've completely absorbed the power of that dark thunder. From now on, I can help you fight bad guys." Lei Ling'er clapped her little hands and giggled.
Long Chen looked into Lei Ling'er's eyes and saw a sword gleam flickering deep within them, making his scalp tighten.
That was the power of the Black Thunder Sword. Even now, Long Chen still felt lingering fear at that terrifying force—he had nearly died back then.
Now that Lei Ling'er had mastered the power of the Dark Sword, she was truly a terrifying existence. Long Chen couldn't help but feel inspired. Indeed, fortune favors risk, and effort brings reward.
After Lei Ling'er took shape, the techniques she had mastered on her own on the Tianwu Continent could now be used in the Immortal Realm. Moreover, she would evolve her own techniques according to her own strength, becoming another powerful trump card for Long Chen.
The most terrifying thing was that she no longer needed to rely on Long Chen and was fully capable of fighting on her own.
"Whoosh."
At that moment, Long Chen's arm trembled, and a fire dragon leapt out, coiling around Lei Ling'er.
"Hehe, don't worry, you'll transform soon too. Let's help brother fight bad guys together." Lei Ling'er smiled and comforted Huo Ling'er.
"Lei Ling'er, help me protect the Dharma. We'll refine pills."
With Lei Ling'er around, Long Chen felt much more at ease. He took out the pill furnace and rare herbs, warmed the stove, refined the powder, and then began refining pills.
After all the powders were placed into the furnace one by one, the fire dragon coiled around it, runes lit up on it, and as time passed, the furnace began to tremble, and the entire mountain started to tremble.
Long Chen pressed his large hand against the furnace, his soul power entwined, sealing it tightly. The immense power could not be released, and the furnace kept pulsing, as if a terrifying beast inside was trying to break free.
With a loud explosion, the ground trembled violently. Long Chen let out a long sigh, opened the furnace lid, and found some pill fragments inside. The aroma was overwhelming, but no pill had formed.
"A third-tier Violent Blood Pill must be a Giant Core to be effective against a Divine Lord realm expert, and it must be at the Treasure Pill level.
It's been a long time since he last refined pills, and his techniques were rusty. And refining a Giant Pill-level Bloodburst Blood Treasure Pill was truly too difficult. Long Chen couldn't help but shake his head.
If he were to refine ordinary Violent Blood Pills, even if they were at the level of treasure pills, Long Chen wouldn't have any problems. With his level, it's easy for one or two top-grade pills to be found in a single batch of pills.
But refining nine pills into one giant pill while ensuring its quality is extremely difficult.
Since Long Chen entered the Immortal Realm, he hadn't refined pills much; it was Huo Ling'er and the Rongyue Refining Star Furnace who helped him refine pills.
After sitting cross-legged for a while, Long Chen continued refining pills. After failing seven times in a row, he suddenly felt restless and agitated—this was just too hard.
Long Chen stood up and took a few steps, suddenly seeing the stone house. His heart stirred, and he walked toward it.
The stone house was very simple, with nothing but a stone couch. Long Chen approached the stone house and saw a painting carved into the stone wall.
The mural depicted nine nebulae, each embracing a massive star. Around the nebula were four massive dark shadows, whose shapes were unclear. They looked like four terrifying beasts, ready to devour the entire world.
The scene is a misguided case, like a child's doodle, yet within the chaotic lines, countless mysteries seem to be hidden.
Many lines Long Chen couldn't understand; he could only see nine nebulae surrounding the massive star, and the surrounding shadow whose nature was unclear.
Long Chen looked closely for a while and noticed a black dot at the Nine Great Nebula Immortal Realms, seemingly marked with a special symbol, which Long Chen couldn't understand.
But Long Chen could tell that the symbol wasn't originally part of the painting, but was added later, because the symbol felt different from all the lines.
"Could this place be where the Purple Blood Clan is trapped?" Long Chen's heart raced wildly; he felt as if he had witnessed something extraordinary.
No one came up where Luo Zichuan was, and the key was that no one could get up even if they wanted to. So this secret was probably known only to Luo Zichuan and Long Chen; only the Luo brothers, the Luo Changwu brothers, were unaware.
The Immortal Realm is vast; the knowledge he absorbs feels like a drop in the ocean. Unfortunately, the scripture pavilion of Lingxiao Academy contains many ancient books, and unless you reach that level, you are not allowed to flip through them.
Seeing this picture, Long Chen felt that the Immortal Realm was hiding far too many secrets, and the road he had to walk was far too long.
Calming himself, Long Chen left the stone house and resumed alchemy. After failing twice in a row, he finally succeeded on the third attempt.
A pill the size of a baby's fist appeared before Long Chen, its entire body radiating a halo and surging medicinal power, making it seem almost alive.
"Finally done." Long Chen let out a long sigh of relief.
This was a third-tier supreme giant pill, and a treasured pill among pills. If sold, its value would be immeasurable.
"Lei Ling'er, help me use the power of thunder to nurture it, remove the last impurities inside, and be careful." Long Chen handed the giant pill to Lei Ling'er.
Back in the mortal realm, Lei Ling'er had been helping Long Chen nurture his pills. After being tempered by thunderous power, the pills became tribulation pills.
However, in the Immortal Realm, only pills above the sixth rank qualify to undergo tribulations. Sixth rank is a pill consumed by Realm King-level powerhouses.
It is said that when a pill reaches the sixth tier, it gains its own spirituality and soul. It needs to be recognized by heaven and earth to appear in the world, so a sixth-tier pill must undergo tribulation to use.
But Long Chen was different. With Lei Ling'er present, Lei Ling'er had already taken human form and could fully control the power of thunder. Using the power of thunder, he could remove the last impurities from the pill and imprint the thunder mark. This pill was equivalent to receiving the recognition of the Heavenly Dao, and its efficacy would be maximized.
To put it bluntly, this is a form of fabrication and a kind of deceiving Heaven, but as long as the Heavenly Dao does not detect it, it is not a problem.
In the past, Long Chen really wouldn't have dared let Lei Ling'er nurture them, but now things were different—nurturing pills was absolutely no problem.
Long Chen repeatedly refined pills, failed twice, then succeeded once more and then found himIt feels like I succeeded seven times in a row, then failed and succeeded over and over.
Long Chen refined a total of eleven top-grade giant pills, all prepared for the eleven first-generation Divine Lord Realm experts of the Luo Clan.
Afterwards, Long Chen refined more than five hundred ordinary Blood Violent Pills. Although these pills weren't giant pills, they were all treasure pills with terrifying effects.
After finishing the pill refining, Long Chen went down the mountain to find Luo Changwu: "Uncle Wu, help me gather some people. I want to forge a batch of wooden arrows." "