Successful alchemy

"The second one." Qin Ming focused his mind, bracing himself to welcome the second bolt of heavenly lightning.

He was now able to control his Alchemy entirely as he wished, which allowed him to refine the Medicinal Pill while simultaneously manipulating the Power of Heaven and Earth from the heavenly lightning to attack the barrier.

After the attack from the second bolt of heavenly lightning, the barrier shook visibly, and even the energy on its surface had diminished by a layer.

Originally, the barrier could absorb energy from the Secret Realm to replenish itself. However, absorbing the Power of Heaven and Earth from the Secret Realm took time, and the heavenly lightning attacks that Qin Ming was guiding were so fast and fierce that they gave the barrier no time to recover.

"Continue." Qin Ming roared, his whole body trembling.

Controlling the Alchemy while also controlling the heavenly lightning to attack the barrier was simply too draining on his Mental Energy; Qin Ming was faintly struggling to cope.

"Boom!" Another bolt of heavenly lightning struck.

Qin Ming's legs gave way, and he sat on the ground, his face pale, with all his Mental Energy concentrated on the barrier.

Refining a ninth-grade elixir was not difficult for Qin Ming, and refining a ninth-grade perfect elixir was also not difficult for him. What was difficult was having to refine the Medicinal Pill while simultaneously dividing his attention to guide the Power of Heaven and Earth to attack the barrier.

"Colorful, help me keep guard; I must now devote myself wholeheartedly to Alchemy."

Qin Ming shouted at Colorful; he truly had no mental capacity left to pay attention to safety now and could only entrust his safety to Colorful.

He had not expected that guiding the Power of Heaven and Earth would be so arduous. In his previous life, he was a Martial Emperor and could also use the Power of Heaven and Earth.

Moreover, he had refined countless ninth-grade perfect elixirs; he could not have been more familiar with the Power of Heaven and Earth.

However, he had overlooked his current Martial Realm. He was now only a Martial Grandmaster, and even after using the Pill God Physique, he was merely a Martial King.

The gap between a Martial King and a Martial Emperor was immeasurable. Relying on his past life's experience, he had assumed that refining a ninth-grade elixir would still be easy. He had never imagined that a Martial King would have never come into contact with the Power of Heaven and Earth. Suddenly guiding the Power of Heaven and Earth, even for him, a Pill God, was extremely taxing on his mind.

"Boom!" Another wave of the Power of Heaven and Earth swept over.

This bolt of heavenly lightning felt as if it were striking Qin Ming's mind; his face turned from pale to green, and blood seeped from his nose.

"Ah!" Qin Ming let out a painful cry, his Mental Energy concentrated on the Medicinal Pill, not daring to relax even the slightest bit.

"Squeak, squeak." Colorful looked at Qin Ming with worry, jumped to his side, and licked Qin Ming's palm.

Following these four heavenly lightning attacks, the barrier was already tottering, as if it were about to vanish at any moment.

The barrier was frantically absorbing the Power of Heaven and Earth within the Secret Realm; if it waited any longer, it would recover to its original state.

"Now is the time." Qin Ming gritted his teeth and propped himself up with his hands.

With a loud "Boom," Qin Ming's entire body shuddered, and blood flowed from his eyes, ears, and nose.

He had no time to worry about this and shouted, "Condense!" A series of lights flashed across the Medicinal Pill in the sky, and ten perfect stage ninth-grade pills appeared before Qin Ming.

Lacking the strength to catch the pills, Qin Ming collapsed directly onto the ground.

"Squeak, squeak…" The Ban Lan Rat called out anxiously, wanting to wake Qin Ming up.

An hour later, Qin Ming felt his head, which had felt like it was about to explode, regain some sensation. He forced himself to stand up despite his dizziness.

"I will never do such a dangerous thing again. This time I was lucky; if an accident had occurred, then…"

Qin Ming shook his head, lingering fear remaining in his heart.

This time was truly dangerous; if it happened again, Qin Ming was not sure he would be able to survive.

Fortunately, he had succeeded.

If he had died here, it would probably have become the most frustrating way to die in history.

There have been Alchemists who were poisoned to death by their own Medicinal Pills, and others who blew themselves up due to exploding furnaces, but never had there been an Alchemist who died from being struck by heavenly lightning while practicing Alchemy.

The heavenly lightning attack had only one target: the Medicinal Pill. It existed between the intangible and the tangible; even if something blocked it, it could pass through without damaging it in the slightest.

It was not like this time, where it struck the Medicinal Pill, and Qin Ming had used his Mental Energy to forcibly guide it, which resulted in his suffering severe injuries.

"However, although I took such a great risk, the harvest is also huge."

Qin Ming happily picked up the pills on the ground and looked at the spirit-dissolving liquid in the pool.