Chapter 00095: Successful Alchemy (A Special Update for the Alliance Leader)
# Successful Alchemy (A Special Update for the Alliance Leader)
Chapter 95
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 95: Successful Alchemy (A Special Update for the Alliance Leader)
Lan Xiaobu had consumed over a hundred spirit stones, yet his progress was slow.
In contrast, Hou Yi was incredibly fast and had almost caught up with Lan Xiaobu, proving that Hou Yi's aptitude for cultivation was remarkable.
Knowing he could no longer waste spirit stones, Lan Xiaobu halted his alchemical endeavors.
He focused on the monitor of the war disc, ready to leap into action should they come across an abandoned planet.
He felt that even if he spent a great deal of time piling up his cultivation to reach the alchemical realm, something vital still eluded him.
After flying for another two days, the war disc finally approached a desolate planet.
The planet appeared gray overall, marking it as an abandoned celestial body in the cosmos.
"Hou Yi, quickly bring the war disc down to this planet! My cultivation progress isn’t great on the ship. Let’s land and practice here for a while!" Lan Xiaobu called out to Hou Yi, who was deep in meditation, still unable to directly control the war disc himself.
Hou Yi opened his eyes briefly to glance at the screen and then said, "Fuhe, allow Lan Xiaobu to take control."
With that, Hou Yi closed his eyes once more, plunging back into intense, closed-door cultivation.
He sensed that he would soon achieve successful alchemy himself.
Not wanting to disturb Hou Yi again, Lan Xiaobu directly commanded the Fuhe warship to land on the abandoned planet.
"Gu Dao, you stay on the warship. I’m going down to cultivate."
The desolate planet was clearly unsuitable for survival.
Lan Xiaobu was already on the brink of entering the alchemical realm and could circulate his Golden Crow Technique for breathing.
Gu Dao, however, did not possess the same abilities and had to remain aboard.
Inside the Fuhe warship, the environment simulated the best conditions for human survival, so as long as Gu Dao did not disturb Hou Yi, everything would be fine.
Upon stepping off the Fuhe warship, Lan Xiaobu was immediately hit by a wave of intense heat.
The temperature on this desolate planet surpassed one hundred degrees Celsius.
Even at his half-step alchemical stage, Lan Xiaobu could not remain here for long.
Initially planning to cultivate the Golden Crow Technique for alchemy, Lan Xiaobu had no choice but to switch to the Undying Technique.
He needed to enhance his physical body before he could survive on this abandoned planet.
He directed the Fuhe to remain in place and ventured further away, choosing a path toward increasingly scorching regions.
Since he had decided to temper his body, it would be best to endure harsher conditions.
An hour later, Lan Xiaobu found himself beside a windswept rock, where the temperature ranged from one hundred fifty to two hundred degrees.
Occasionally, fragments of stone would whistle past him; he felt this was a suitable place for body tempering.
Without having started yet, sweat drenched his entire body, and his skin turned red from the intense heat—ordinary people would hardly be able to come here.
As Lan Xiaobu began to circulate the Undying Technique to temper his body, he immediately felt a cool sensation emanate from within, spreading throughout his being.
The Undying Technique was indeed an extraordinary method.
Regardless if it was the one inherited from Chi You, its value was no less than that of his Golden Crow Technique and might even exceed it.
Cultivation techniques were not particularly rare on cultivation planets.
At most, the Golden Crow Technique could be considered a mid-tier cultivation method.
However, treasures like the Undying Technique, even without stepping foot on a cultivation planet, were usually quite challenging to acquire.
The Undying Technique had nine realms.
It was unclear if the version Hou Yi obtained was incomplete or if Chi You himself had only cultivated to the first six realms.
His version, like the Golden Crow Technique, was not fully complete, only encompassing the front six realms.
The first three realms were for the mortal body: tempering skin, tempering sinews and bones, and tempering flesh.
The middle three realms were for the celestial body: tempering internal organs, tempering the seven apertures, and tempering meridians.
The last three realms remained empty, devoid of content.
This presented no issue for Lan Xiaobu, as he simply needed to temper his skin for now.
Once he refined his skin, he would qualify to survive here; survival would allow him to cultivate the Golden Crow Technique.
This desolate planet was best for skin tempering; if the temperature was too high, he wouldn’t last long, while a lower temperature would prove ineffective.
Zero Luo Star was a true Level-7 Technological Civilization Planet.
Level-7 Technological Civilization star systems were different from Level-5 ones; a Level-7 star system would only contain one Level-7 planet.
Zero Luo Star was the sole Level-7 Technological Civilization Planet within the Shengxu star system, and its master was naturally the most powerful empire within—Qiongyue Empire.
The Emperor of Qiongyue, Hei Xuchen, was a tyrant; everything revolved around his absolute authority, and those who defied him met their end.
Countless planets between Level 1 and Level 6 had fallen to Hei Xuchen’s wrath.
Such a figure was not one to provoke lightly, yet someone dared cross paths with him from a Level-5 Technological Civilization Planet.
Recently, Hei Xuchen received interstellar news: his adopted son, Hei Xun, had been killed on Yuqi Star.
The audacity of the emperor of the Level-5 Anatoki Star, Zong Wang, to conceal such information enraged Hei Xuchen.
If he could tolerate this, perhaps he no longer belonged in this part of the universe.
To him, any Level-5 planet was insignificant.
Why was Hei Xun adopted? Because he represented Hei Xuchen on Yuqi Star in search of something.
Now that his son had been killed, had it not been for Hei Xun’s guards who secretly relayed information, Hei Xuchen would have remained in the dark.
The Anatoki Star had become expendable, and regardless of its connection to the Level-7 Technological Civilization, Hei Xuchen would ensure its obliteration.
Likewise, there was the Level-6 Technological Civilization Planet, Jinquan Star.
The guards reported that Hei Xun was likely killed by Hou Yi from Jinquan Star alongside Lan Xiaobu from a Level-1 Ant Planet, Blue Asia Star.
Did they think that just because they hailed from a Level-6 civilization, they could toy with Zero Luo Star's might?
A cold snort escaped Hei Xuchen; it was clear these planets were overreaching.
A fleet of nearly a hundred top-tier luxurious warships surged forth from the Shengxu star system toward the Anatoki Star of the Zhenyuan star system.
A rush of fury from high-tier planets was about to awaken the emperor of a Level-5 Technological Civilization to the true insignificance of his realm.
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As the initial coolness faded, Lan Xiaobu finally experienced the piercing pain of cultivating the Undying Technique.
It was a different kind of agony from soul tearing; it felt as if he was engulfed in flames.
Now, all his clothing had vanished, and his skin felt as if it had been scorched like red-hot iron, emitting sizzling sounds.
Lan Xiaobu did not flinch, pushing the Undying Technique to its limits.
What agony had he not endured? Compared to the pain of soul tearing, this mere skin scorching was manageable.
To prevent anyone from daring to be cruel to him, he first had to be stringent with himself.
As the Undying Technique flowed through him, Lan Xiaobu sensed his body's resistance growing stronger and felt himself instinctively moving away from his original position towards even hotter areas.
His skin felt as if it might tear apart, so he hastily retrieved several Longevity Fruits from his spatial ring and swallowed them.
The Longevity Fruit was a precious item; without it, Lan Xiaobu feared his body might shatter under the pressure.
As he consumed the fruits, Lan Xiaobu immediately noticed a change.
The Undying Technique operated more smoothly, and his body's negative reactions diminished rapidly.
As time passed and Lan Xiaobu's body trembled violently beneath the fleeting scorching sensation, he hurriedly opened his eyes.
Surrounded by a deep red glow, the temperature here was at least five or six hundred degrees.
Yet Lan Xiaobu felt as if he could avoid the heat, standing there without harm.
Sighing in relief, he murmured, "The Undying Technique is indeed powerful."
Having just completed the skin tempering in the first of three mortal body realms, he had attained this level of survivability.
If not for the urge to quickly leap into the alchemical realm, he would have continued tempering his sinews and bones here.
However, he realized that further tempering would require even more spirit fruits.
Longevity Fruits were not made specifically for body tempering, and their high value made them wasteful for such purposes.
Returning once more to an area with temperatures around one hundred degrees, Lan Xiaobu began learning the Water Condensation Technique.
He needed to clean himself up before resuming his cultivation of the Golden Crow Technique.
Drawing on his previous experiences, Lan Xiaobu mastered the Water Condensation Technique in just half a day.
With the spells, he manifested streams of clean water falling on himself, feeling the formidable power of cultivation fill him with comfort.
Using true essence and divine sense to condense water in space to wash himself was something he had never dreamed of before, yet now it was his reality.
After cleansing himself and changing into fresh clothes, Lan Xiaobu took out the white giant stone from his spatial ring.
This stone was his guarantee for stepping into the alchemical realm.
The speed of cultivation using spirit stones was incomparable to the speed of cultivating with this white giant stone.
Sitting atop the giant stone, Lan Xiaobu activated the Golden Crow Technique.
He instantly felt surges of spiritual energy flowing into him, a completely different sensation from that of spirit stone cultivation.
Under the operation of the Golden Crow Technique, the influx of spiritual energy transformed into pure true essence, and the internal qi within him became denser and more substantial through the technique's workings.
As the true essence increased and the transformation became more thorough, the vague shadow of a golden dan within Lan Xiaobu grew clearer.
After solidifying, the true essence within him flowed like a stream, and he could sense his strength rising steadily.
When this flowing true essence reached a peak, the golden dan shadow became completely distinct, morphing into a grayish dan the size of an infant's fist, surrounded by circulating true essence.
As Lan Xiaobu opened his eyes, his divine sense swept across nearly a thousand meters.
He unleashed a punch, striking a towering windswept rock before him, and instantly reduced it to dust.
Unable to hold back, Lan Xiaobu let out a long howl.
Since leaving Earth, he finally grasped what cultivation truly was.
But this was still not enough; he needed to cultivate into a real golden dan.
Only with a genuine golden dan would he stand a chance at evading dreadful technological weapons like the Magnetic Gun.
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(Chapter End)