Chapter 1121: Peak of the Cloud Sea, Swallowing Pills and the Lost Dao.

The entire Mo Luo Continent quieted down for a time. Wang Lin spent his days practicing Alchemy, and the Disciples of the Guiyuan Sect would occasionally hear the sound of exploding Medicinal Pills echoing from within the Southern Courtyard Forbidden Area. However, no one dared to enter, and whenever they passed the Southern Courtyard, their gazes were filled with respect.

Wang Lin also conducted a detailed study of the Beast Bone Pill Formula. In the end, his expression was uncertain. Regarding the effects described on the Pill Formula, after long contemplation, he decided that, regardless of whether they were real, the vast majority of the medicinal herbs listed were things he had never heard of.

By flipping through the Guiyuan Sect's ancient records, Wang Lin found some clues. Three of the medicinal ingredients—Star Transformation Wood, Dragon Stench Grass, and Shattered Destruction Flower—were all materials that existed tens of thousands of years ago. Even then, they were extremely rare, and by now, they were essentially extinct. However, the Guiyuan Sect's records contained some notes, suggesting that a small piece of Star Transformation Wood might still be preserved within the eighth-rank Main Sect.

Most importantly, refining this Nirvana Void Pill requires the souls of nine thirteenth-rank Peak Vicious Beasts. Only after their Fusion can the Alchemy process begin.

If that were all, it would be fine, but the chance of successfully refining this Nirvana Void Pill is extremely low. Furthermore, during the refinement, the Beast Bone upon which the Pill Formula is carved must be used as a catalyst, melted and incorporated into the pill. Each time the refinement fails, the color of the Beast Bone deepens slightly. Once the Beast Bone turns completely jet black, the pill can never be successfully refined again.

However, once successful, the Beast Bone will dissipate and become part of the Medicinal Pill.

Staring at the Beast Bone in his hand, although its color was not jet black, it was already subtly darkened. He feared it would be rendered useless after only a few more attempts.

"This Beast Bone has clearly been used for refinement several times before, but without success. Otherwise, this Pill Formula would have long since disappeared… Rather than saying the medicinal herbs and Beast Souls are precious, it's this Beast Bone that is truly extraordinary!

I just don't know what kind of Vicious Beast this bone belongs to… However, even if there's a sliver of possibility that the Medicinal Pill's effects are real, I must try!" Wang Lin pinched the Beast Bone, observed it carefully for a moment, pondered briefly, and then placed it into his Storage Space.

Another item appeared in his hand: the Jade Slip discovered alongside the Pill Formula. After sweeping his Divine Sense through the Jade Slip, Wang Lin's expression turned strange. After a long silence, he reached into the Storage Rift with his right hand, and the Poison Granny's Primordial Spirit immediately flew out.

With a calm gaze, Wang Lin repeatedly tapped the Poison Granny's Primordial Spirit with his finger. Every time his fingertip landed, the Poison Granny trembled, growing weaker.

A moment later, Wang Lin suddenly placed his right hand on the crown of the Poison Granny's Primordial Spirit. His Divine Sense swept out from his right hand, heading straight for the Poison Granny's Primordial Spirit as he executed the soul Searching Divine Ability.

Scenes of memory flooded into Wang Lin's mind, including the Five Poisons Sect's Poison Refinement Technique and the events this person had experienced throughout her life. Finally, Wang Lin found the memories related to the Pill Formula and the Jade Slip.

Time slowly passed. When night fell, Wang Lin raised his right hand, put the weak but still surviving Primordial Spirit back into the Storage Rift, and gazed at the Jade Slip, deep in thought.

From the Poison Granny's memories, Wang Lin learned about the events that transpired eighteen thousand years ago at the Potian Sect in the Cloud Sea Star Domain, and he also understood the function of the Jade Slip.

This Jade Slip did not record any Divine Abilities or Cultivation Techniques; it was merely a Potian Sect identification Token. Inside it was an imprint—the imprint of the Potian Sect's Sect Leader's Eldest Disciple from eighteen thousand years ago!

This person was named Sima Mo. If nothing unexpected had occurred, he would have been the next Sect Leader of the Potian Sect eighteen thousand years ago. It was precisely he who, taking the Beast Bone Pill Formula and a group of Sect members, split off from the Potian Sect and vanished within the Star Domain.

Eighteen thousand years ago, the Potian Sect, which had entered the ninth-rank Star Domain, held extremely complicated feelings towards the group of fellow Disciples who had left. When they learned that this group of Sect members had suffered heavy casualties and eventually disappeared without a trace, the then Sect Leader of the Potian Sect—Sima Mo's Master—left behind a Sealed Decree that was to be passed down for tens of thousands of years!

"In the future, anyone bearing a Sima Token who returns to the Potian Sect shall be taken as a Disciple by that generation's Sect Leader!"

This Sealed Decree spread throughout the Cloud Sea, attracting the attention of many Cultivators for a time. Seeking the opportunity to ascend to the heavens in a single step, they all searched for clues regarding the Potian Sect members who had gone missing back then. However, as time passed, no one made any discoveries, and the matter gradually subsided.

Until the spies of the Five Poisons Sect within the Huaqing Sect reported Shi Luoxing's actions and speculations! The Five Poisons Sect had not initially paid much attention to the matter, as too much time had passed and the clues were likely false. They only dispatched a small group of people to investigate, and the Poison Granny was the leader among them.

No one expected that this clue would turn out to be real!

Wang Lin silently gazed at the Jade Slip before putting it away after a long time.

"This item might be of great use to me in the future!" No longer dwelling on matters concerning the Jade Slip and the Pill Formula, Wang Lin calmed his mind and immersed himself in Alchemy.

During his previous trip to the Barren Continent, he had not only harvested sufficient medicinal herbs but also collected a large number of Beast Souls. These Beast Souls were typically fifth-rank, and when incorporated into Medicinal Pills, they were quite suitable for Wang Lin's current cultivation.

Within his Storage Space, there were also some Spirit Beast souls. These souls were all collected by the Silver-Robed Woman after killing the Huaqing Sect Disciples upon leaving the Barren Continent.

Similarly, inside his Storage Space, there was also a Spirit Snake. That Spirit Snake was the Poison Granny's natal Spirit Beast, and it had already reached sixth-rank Peak!

Aside from these, the highest-rank soul in Wang Lin's possession was the eighth-rank Vicious Beast soul he had instantly killed. This soul was quite precious. Wang Lin had not destroyed it previously; instead, he had taken the Medicinal Pill from the Guiyuan Sect's Daoist Abbey.

After failing three times, he finally achieved the Fusion of the soul and the Medicinal Pill, forming an eighth-rank Soul Separation Pill!

Furthermore, after searching the Poison Granny's memories, Wang Lin discovered a Mutant Beast Refining Method within her Poison Refinement Techniques that greatly intrigued him!

This Beast Refining Method was painstakingly created by a Prodigy of the Five Poisons Sect. It uses Formations and Restrictions to create a confinement cage, into which Beast Souls are placed. Poison is used to spur them on, causing these Beast Souls to devour each other, thereby giving birth to a high-rank, mutated soul.

However, this method had a major drawback: the Mutated Beast Souls refined this way could no longer devour ordinary souls. They could only devour other Mutated Beast Souls that were refined in the same manner. This phenomenon dealt a great blow to the Five Poisons Sect.

Moreover, the success rate of refining Beast Souls was not high. The higher the rank, the harder they were to refine. For instance, to refine a Mutated ninth-rank Beast Soul, one needed a large number of Mutated eighth-rank Beast Souls to constantly refine and devour, and each Mutated eighth-rank Beast Soul, in turn, often required a large number of seventh-rank ones, and so on.

Even if a high-rank soul was successfully refined by chance, that soul still required massive amounts of Heaven And Earth Treasure to nourish it before it could be used in medicine. Furthermore, there was a chance of failure when using it for Alchemy, and each failure greatly weakened the Beast Soul.

Wang Lin knew this point well. The first Medicinal Pill he successfully refined only succeeded after more than ten failures. Although it succeeded, the Beast Soul inside had mostly dissipated, and the pill's effect was greatly diminished.

Even the Five Poisons Sect eventually had to give up, as their School could not withstand such consumption. Let alone them, even seventh-rank or eighth-rank Sects rarely possessed the resources to endure this level of expenditure. Even if they did, given the power of the Sect itself, they wouldn't need to refine Beast Souls; simply capturing them might be much easier.

After seeing this method, Wang Lin secretly calculated the consumption required for this technique and couldn't help but be startled. However, after careful consideration, he decided to give it a simple try. Following the method for refining poison found in the Poison Granny's memories, Wang Lin spent several days and managed to refine a few batches.

For the location of his attempt, Wang Lin did not choose the Guiyuan Sect. Instead, he dug out an Immortal Cave deep inside a mountain range on the Mo Luo Continent. After setting up numerous Restrictions, he sealed some fifth-rank Beast Souls inside, sprinkled the poison, and observed them for several days. Finding that the Beast Souls indeed began devouring each other, he reinforced the Seal and then returned to the Guiyuan Sect.

After meditating peacefully for several days, Wang Lin took out the Medicinal Pills he had refined during this time, especially the eighth-rank pill, and began consuming them. The first ones he swallowed were the fifth-rank Medicinal Pills.

Under the consumption of Wang Lin's Primordial Spirit, the Beast Souls inside were powerless to resist. They immediately dissipated into Wang Lin's mind and underwent Fusion with his Primordial Spirit, causing Wang Lin to enter a peculiar state.

As Wang Lin successively swallowed the fifth-rank Medicinal Pills, faintly, in that peculiar state, he saw Vicious Beasts from the moment of their birth, worshipping heaven and earth, absorbing the essence of the world, and comprehending the changes in rules.

The Beast Souls within the fifth-rank Medicinal Pills could not offer Wang Lin much help. He consumed these pills merely to familiarize himself with this unprecedented method of borrowing Beast Souls to comprehend the Heavenly Dao.

After the fifth-rank Medicinal Pills, Wang Lin began swallowing the sixth-rank pills. The sixth-rank Vicious Beast souls inside faintly possessed the cultivation of a Cultivator in the Pure Nirvana Early Stage. Upon consumption, they immediately caused fluctuations in Wang Lin's Concept.

It was as if he himself had transformed into a Vicious Beast, gradually comprehending the rules of heaven and earth throughout the long ages. Immersed in these illusory scenes that felt real, Wang Lin searched for his own Dao amidst the endless and complex comprehensions, seeking existence and eternity between truth and falsehood.

After an unknown amount of time passed, when only the eighth-rank Medicinal Pill remained in Wang Lin's hand, he awoke from that peculiar state. Looking ahead with confusion, he murmured:

"Attaining the Dao through the power of one person is a point; Attaining the Dao through the power of the masses is a surface… The Medicinal Pills of the Cloud Sea are not mere good fortune; they offer Cultivators repeated opportunities to pursue the Dao… using Beast Souls, using another method, to explore the Dao… to explore the rules of heaven and earth… However, compared to the Thunder and Rain Two Realms, the Cloud Sea uses this method to shorten the process of Comprehending the Dao… But, a beast is a beast after all. Its comprehension of the Heavenly Dao is inherently incomplete and unable to clearly trace the Origin, unless… one refines pills using human souls, or uses an existence that has transcended the definition of 'beast' for Alchemy. Only then can the Comprehension of the Dao become clearer and more direct. Otherwise, one must swallow a large number of Medicinal Pills to find the Concept comprehensions needed to verify one another.

This Dao is like a kind of thought. Everyone's thoughts are different. To enrich and perfect one's own thoughts, besides personal comprehension, one needs the comprehensions of others for verification, taking their essence into one's own thoughts. Cloud Sea Cultivators chose Beast Souls… just as Heavenly Fate Child chose his numerous Disciples…"

While Wang Lin was lost in confusion, outside the Mo Luo Continent, a long rainbow streaked across the sky and approached. The Cultivators from the sixth-rank Star Domain inside the long rainbow, under strict search orders, spread out across the Mo Luo Continent and stepped through the Protective Light Layer!

I returned late from the hospital, so the update was not on time. Please forgive me.