The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron

Chapter 561: Chapter 561: Gathering the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth

In a sealed room, Fang Lin sat cross-legged, in front of him was a jade bottle, in which were seven Profound Heart Pills that Fang Lin had just refined.

These seven Profound Heart Pills had all reached the top quality, unexpected by Fang Lin’s original expectations.

In his anticipation, among the seven Profound Heart Pills, it would be excellent if three or four could reach top quality.

However, the combination of the Nine Treasure Luminous Cauldron, ancient Array Plate, and Fang Lin’s use of the Spirit Invocation Skill ensured that all seven Profound Heart Pills achieved top quality.

After the refinement of the pills, the next thing to do was to ingest the Profound Heart Pills, and seize this opportunity to unlock the Martial Arts Spirit Eyes.

With only three months left until the opening of Hundred Beast Ferocious Mountain, Fang Lin had to unlock the Martial Arts Spirit Eyes before that in order to increase his strength and ensure better survival in the Ferocious Mountain.

Generally speaking, the Martial Arts Spirit Eyes are unlocked at the Heavenly Origin realm, although some people only manage to unlock them once they’ve broken through to the Spirit Vein realm.

The earlier the Spirit Eyes are unlocked, the greater the potential is, as the Spirit Eyes need to be nourished by the martial artist’s own inner strength and flesh. The longer the nourishment lasts, the stronger the power of the Spirit Eyes becomes.

Opening the Spirit Eyes at the Earth Element realm is already considered an extraordinary talent. When breaking through to the Heavenly Origin realm, the power of the Spirit Eyes will also increase with the advancement of the realm.

In Qian Country, to Fang Lin’s knowledge, only Li Guanxin had unlocked his Spirit Eyes at the Earth Element realm. However, before Fang Lin left Qian Country, Yang Xuanfeng also seemed to show signs of unlocking his Spirit Eyes, suggesting that he would likely suppress his realm until his Spirit Eyes were fully open before making a breakthrough into the Heavenly Origin realm.

As for Han Xiaoxing, having already developed her Pupil Skill, she didn’t need to unlock the Spirit Eyes for the time being. However, Fang Lin predicted that given Han Xiaoxing’s steadfast personality, even with her strong Pupil Skills, she would not be content with the status quo. Unlocking the Spirit Eyes was merely a matter of time.

Fang Lin’s guess was correct. Han Xiaoxing, at this moment, was undergoing secluded cultivation within the Purple Mist Sect, persistently attempting to unlock the Spirit Eyes.

The unlocking of the Spirit Eyes was closely related to a martial artist’s natural talent. The higher the talent, the greater the chance of unlocking them.

Fang Lin’s father in his past life, Fang Qingye, was said to be born with Innate Spirit Eyes—a rare genius.

Fang Lin’s mother in his previous life, Bai Qingxue, though not born with Innate Spirit Eyes, managed to develop her own Spirit Eyes at the age of three, which was also quite astonishing.

It was Fang Lin who was least promising. Given that he was the son of Fang Qingye and Bai Qingxue, he, at the very least, should have developed his Spirit Eyes during childhood.

Yet in reality, in his previous life, it was not until Fang Lin had stepped onto the path of cultivation and reached the Heavenly Origin realm that he finally unlocked his Spirit Eyes.

In that era, unlocking Spirit Eyes at the Heavenly Origin realm was considered dull.

At that time, Fang Lin himself was helpless. Why was it that both his parents were so exceptionally strong, yet he was so weak?

However, Fang Lin later advanced substantially in the Martial Arts realm. With the assistance of pills, he progressed rapidly. Even though he had not reached his father’s level, he was considered one of the strongest martial artists of that era.

That said, in the era of his previous life, there were numerous methods for unlocking the Spirit Eyes. Profound Heart Pill was one such method. Hence, opening the Spirit Eyes earlier or later did not define everything.

Many martial artists who unlocked their Spirit Eyes later in life went on to achieve great success.

“Unlocking the Spirit Eyes is just the first step. My ambition lies in reaching the invincible zenith of the Earth Element Tenfold!” Fang Lin mumbled to himself as he took a deep breath and swallowed the first Profound Heart Pill.

As the Profound Heart Pill entered his body, it transformed into the purest medicinal power and surged into the depths of Fang Lin’s body.

Fang Lin immediately closed his eyes and allowed his body to freely absorb the medicinal power of the Profound Heart Pill.

Five days later, Fang Lin ingested the second Profound Heart Pill, ensuring that his body was constantly absorbing the medicinal power without any interruption.

However, unlocking the Martial Art Spirit Eyes was more difficult than he expected. Even after ingesting two Profound Heart Pills back-to-back, there was no progress, nor any signs of the Martial Arts Spirit Eyes awakening.

This was somewhat awkward.

Fang Lin started to doubt if the Profound Heart Pill he had prepared would be enough. It would be awkward if he finished all seven pills without unlocking his Martial Arts Spirit Eyes.

Despite his worries, he had already started and could only brace himself and continue taking the Profound Heart Pills.

Another five days had passed, during which Fang Lin had ingested the third Profound Heart Pill.

“It must work!” Fang Lin roared inwardly.

As if his prayers were answered, after swallowing the third Profound Heart Pill, Fang Lin could clearly feel a subtle coolness come over his forehead, as if some power was slowly converging there.

Feeling this, Fang Lin breathed a sigh of relief—this seemed to signify that the Profound Heart Pill was beginning to take effect.

“I knew it! With my talent, there’s no way I would take three Profound Heart Pills without any reaction,” Fang Lin reassured himself.

All of a sudden, a month had passed.

Fang Lin had taken the fourth Profound Heart Pill, pushing the medicinal power inside his body to its peak.

On his forehead, there was a faint mark, which looked as if it had been lightly sliced by a small knife and was slightly red.

Fang Lin felt an itch on his forehead, which he resisted the urge to scratch.

Not just this, the spiritual energy of nature in the surrounding area was also continuously gathering and pouring into this faint mark on Fang Lin’s forehead.

The reason why the Spirit Eyes were called so was because when they opened, they would absorb a large quantity of spiritual energy from nature.

Martial artists practice their physical bodies and inner strength, whereas nature’s spiritual energy is a very pure power, and difficult for martial artists to absorb.

However, that doesn’t mean martial artists have no opportunity to absorb nature’s spiritual energy. Along the path of cultivation, few special phases occur when one can absorb spiritual energy.

Unlocking Spirit Eyes is the first such instance.

At this stage, the more spiritual energy they absorb, the more initial power their Spirit Eyes will possess. This will also influence the level of advancement their Spirit Eyes can achieve in future.

Fang Lin was well aware of the importance of this phase, which is why he had prepared another type of pill in advance—the Gathering Spirit Pill.

Consumption of this pill could increase the speed of the spiritual energy gathering tenfold, making it one of the best supplementary pills during Spirit Eye unlocking.

Furthermore, in order to maximally absorb as much nature’s spiritual energy as possible, Fang Lin had not only prepared the Gathering Spirit Pills, but also borrowed a Gathering Spirit Stone from Chen Yongnian.

Right now, Fang Lin had taken out the Gathering Spirit Stone and placed it behind him while simultaneously consuming a jade green Gathering Spirit Pill.

Even in his madness, Fang Lin treated his own body as a Pill Furnace and cast the Spirit Invocation Skill on himself.

Kaboom!!!

Above the Pill Alliance, the nature’s spiritual energy was converging continuously, gradually forming a formidable cloud of spiritual energy.

“What on earth is going on?”

“Why is so much spiritual energy gathering above the Pill Alliance?”

“Could it be that some unimaginable spiritual pill is about to be refined?”

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