Eternal Life through Drawing Lots

Chapter 288: Chapter 286: Can’t Help It

Night.

The sky was dotted with stars.

Inside a certain volcano, Primordial Qi gathered, and the Earth Flame lay dormant.

Fang Yang and Sen Hui were taking a temporary rest here.

Ahead of him, Sen Hui lowered her gaze in thought, contemplating which Pills would be best for her to refine.

Her main concern was completing the assessment’s objective in the shortest time possible.

’Refine three types of Tier Three Pills and one type of Tier Four Pill in less than half a month!’

The difficulty of this objective was, without a doubt, immense.

Therefore, she had to make a choice based on the various materials she had on hand, matching them with suitable pill formulas.

Efficiency!

That was her guiding principle for Alchemy right now.

For now, she only wanted to complete the assessment objective first, then worry about raising her score.

As for whether the Pills were useful or how potent they were, those were not her current concerns.

Meanwhile, Fang Yang was quietly taking stock of his own gains.

The most important, of course, was the Profound Turtle Thunder Shell Water he had obtained.

This Spiritual Object was also related to the Yin Wood Sacred Spear and could be used to repair it.

Furthermore, it could also temper the Carp Eagle phantom.

Fang Yang greatly looked forward to this effect of tempering the Carp Eagle phantom.

Because every one-percent increase would drastically reduce his cultivation time.

Now, as his Cultivation Realm grew higher and higher, the effectiveness of connecting to the desolate stars to temper his Carp Eagle phantom was gradually diminishing.

Most importantly, the Whale Swallowing Skill, a Skill that had helped him immensely before, also seemed to have hit a bottleneck.

Everything seemed to be telling him:

He had to upgrade his Spirit Body to a perfect-grade Kunpeng Spirit Body. Otherwise, no matter what he did, his cultivation speed would remain at its current level!

This was something he would never tolerate.

He still dreamed of witnessing the scenery of eternal life, of achieving the grand goal of becoming an undying Immortal Ancestor.

’Fire Rope Talisman, Thunder Cage Talisman...’

Under the dim night sky, Fang Yang lightly flicked his robes.

In that instant, streams of profound yellow talismans flew out from his sleeves.

Like flitting butterflies, the talismans flew to the eight cardinal directions, forming a simple Talisman Array.

With a hum, the Talismans activated.

Immediately, faint lines of light appeared, linked together, and then vanished from sight.

Having done all this, Fang Yang stood to the side, silently organizing the Primordial Qi of the area.

He was creating an excellent Alchemy environment for Sen Hui!

He had essentially used his unique Anomalous Flame, the Cyan Lotus Earth Core Flame, to confine all the Earth Core Flame in the vicinity.

It was safe to say that among all the contestants in this second round of the assessment, no one had a more comfortable Alchemy environment than Sen Hui.

And Sen Hui did not disappoint him.

Beside the molten Earth Core Flame, Sen Hui set up a Four-legged Crimson Red Pill Cauldron.

The Crimson Red Pill Cauldron shimmered, causing the lava beneath it to roil as if it might erupt at any moment.

At this moment, the Talisman Array in the air hummed, smoothing out the extremely volatile Fire Attribute Primordial Qi.

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ...

Sen Hui remained silent, her fair little face perfectly calm.

Her ten fingers danced, activating a technique.

In the blink of an eye, the large lid of the Pill Cauldron was lifted and set aside.

In another blink, Primordial Spirit Lines shot from her fingertips, guiding beast bones, Spirit Grass, and Spirit Medicine into the Pill Cauldron.

WHOOSH! Clumps of black smoke surged from above the Pill Cauldron, coiling menacingly like great pythons.

The stench they emitted was particularly foul.

Fang Yang’s expression was unchanged, but she couldn’t help but hold her breath.

Surprisingly, however, she clenched her jaw, overcame her mental block, and continued with the refinement.

But her approach was wrong. The harder she tried, the more she lost.

At this moment, Fang Yang narrowed his eyes.

The mottled black and white dao rhymes of success and failure from before had completely vanished!

In fact, a few days prior, after leaving the assessment grounds and returning to the dojo, Fang Yang had run some experiments with Sen Hui.

At that time, he had discovered that when Sen Hui performed Alchemy, neither the dao rhymes of success nor failure appeared.

But he had searched the collection in the Scripture Pavilion and come to understand many important things.

If a contestant came into contact with the dao rhymes of success and failure within the assessment grounds, they would also trigger them in subsequent assessment grounds.

But now, there was no sign of this happening with Sen Hui!

’No, there actually is a sign of it,’

Fang Yang sighed softly. ’But it’s not the dao rhyme of success. It’s the dao rhyme of failure.’

Because amid the billowing, foul black smoke, he glimpsed a dao rhyme of utter blackness—the dao rhyme of failure!

Sure enough.

A quarter of an hour later, the Crimson Red Pill Cauldron rumbled violently, as if a great python were thrashing about inside, creating a tremendous commotion.

Unwilling to give up, Sen Hui wanted to force herself to continue the refinement.

But Fang Yang had already pulled her back and slapped a palm against the Pill Cauldron, calming it down.

"Ah Yang, I..."

Sen Hui lowered her eyes, her heart filled with frustration.

’I’m already a Tier Four Pill Master, yet I still can’t control my emotions properly.’

’This is just refining Tier Three Pills, but because I was so anxious, I caused the medicinal properties to conflict and the Primordial Qi to fall into chaos.’

Of course, a deeper worry was that she didn’t want to drag Fang Yang down.

But now it seemed she had caused trouble for him anyway.

SIGH... The more she thought about it, the lower her head drooped.

Seeing this, Fang Yang immediately pulled her into his arms and comforted her.

"Xiaohui, just take your time."

"Just do your best. You’ll definitely make it into the top three, I promise you..."

Fang Yang didn’t dwell on the matter of Alchemy with Sen Hui.

Instead, he started chatting with her about other things.

He did this to ensure Sen Hui would let go of her stress and proceed without any burdens.

In truth, he wasn’t deceiving Sen Hui.

Because he had a crazy plan in mind!

If it became clear that Sen Hui wouldn’t be able to advance to the next round, he would unleash the full extent of his talisman combat power in this round.

In other words, he would go all out to expel every other contestant.

In the end, only he and Sen Hui would remain!

However, such methods were too extreme, nearly indistinguishable from the Demon Dao.

He absolutely could not use this plan unless it was a last resort.

After all, the means don’t define anything; only the goal can distinguish between good and evil.

"Mm, don’t worry, Ah Yang. I’ll do my best."

Sen Hui nodded, her star-like eyes filled with determination.

After that, she gradually began to relax.

She started performing Alchemy in a state of peace, free from her previous anxiety.

It had to be said that, in a way, Fang Yang truly was the best medicine for Sen Hui.

Something amazing happened!

As Sen Hui truly immersed herself in the Alchemy process, she began to enjoy it.

A radiant smile appeared on her fair little face.

But at the same time, the state of forgetting oneself and the world reappeared—the dao rhymes of success and failure coexisted!

’Xiaohui is the true prodigy of the Refining Dao.’

Fang Yang’s eyes lit up as he thought, ’Compared to her, I seem rather mediocre.’

In the end, for her first attempt at refining a Tier Three Pill, Sen Hui took two days to finish.

Seeing this, Fang Yang did a quick mental calculation and realized that the time required would only increase from here. He was alarmed that time was still quite tight.

So, he quietly refined several more batches of Talismans.

He used Muri Guangyao to map out auras, trying to continuously expand his range and lock onto the auras of as many contestants as possible, aiming not to miss a single Trialist.

However...

Plans can’t keep up with changes.

Since Sen Hui’s Alchemy process went from easy to difficult, Fang Yang subconsciously assumed that her future refinements would only consume more and more time.

But that wasn’t the case at all!

Refining the first type of Tier Three Pill took Sen Hui two days and two nights.

Refining the second type of Tier Three Pill took Sen Hui one day and one night.

Refining the third type of Tier Three Pill took Sen Hui a single day.

And when it came to refining the Tier Four Pill, Sen Hui only spent three days and three nights.

Sen Hui had completely finished the assessment objective in just under seven days and seven nights.

Such a thing was simply incredible!

A hot gust of wind, mixed with sparks, blew over.

At this moment, Fang Yang watched Sen Hui, a bright light flickering in his eyes.

His heart burned with excitement, especially when he gazed at the mountain-like piles of success and failure dao rhymes surrounding her.

’Refining the Sacred Artifact, the Flame Robe, might finally be possible!’

He decided he would encourage Sen Hui in a moment and then have her try to refine more Tier Four, and even Tier Five, Pills.

Meanwhile, he himself would quietly procure the dao rhymes of success.

"Ah Yang, I did it," Sen Hui said with a smile.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Sen Hui "couldn’t help" but leap forward, straight into Fang Yang’s arms.

Then, she hugged him tightly, greedily drinking in his scent.

No one knew just how much pressure she had been under.

Especially as Fang Yang became more and more dazzling, she felt immense pressure alongside her pride.

Because deep down, she was terrified that Fang Yang would become someone like her brother, Sen Yue, or her sister, Sen Wei.

Even though she had initially been interested in Fang Yang because he possessed a certain quality similar to Sen Yue and Sen Wei.

But no matter what, she just didn’t want to be separated from Fang Yang.

"You’re amazing, absolutely brilliant... It’s all right, it’s all right now."

Fang Yang didn’t know the journey her heart had taken.

But seeing Sen Hui cry tears of joy didn’t stop him from pulling out his standard playbook of comforting phrases.

As long as it worked.

...

「Outside the assessment grounds.」

The Cloud Sea ebbed and flowed, dotted with numerous palaces.

Fu Sheng Fairy looked away from the water-mirror screen and couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration, "I originally thought Fang Yang was a talent that appears once in a millennium, but I didn’t expect Sen Hui’s aptitude to be so remarkable as well."

Fu Sheng Fairy couldn’t help but be impressed.

This was because besides Fang Yang and Sen Hui, no one else had completed the assessment yet.

Yu Qingyun was certainly close to finishing, but not finished was not finished.

And from what Fu Sheng Fairy could see, Caiwei also had a chance of completing the assessment, but as for Cairou, she had no hope of finishing at all.

Bai Zhi the Medicine Saint shook his head and chuckled. "Xiaohui merely had Fang Yang’s protection. When it comes to aptitude, that child Qingyun is not bad either."

You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

As long as there were no serious conflicts of interest, Bai Zhi the Medicine Saint was quite amicable.

Especially now, with Sen Hui rising step by step and on the verge of making a great name for herself, Bai Zhi the Medicine Saint was in an exceptionally wonderful mood. It felt great!

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