Moria Lane stared blankly at Joe Di, who was cultivating, feeling somewhat lost. In her understanding, no matter how selfless a cultivator was, if they had a way, they would never allow external factors to hinder their own Dao. Even the disciples of the Puregate Sect wouldn’t do such a thing.
The Puregate Sect’s creed is compassion and protection—this is the sect’s purpose and the meaning of its inheritance. But this isn’t the same as what Joe Di did, giving up the Rainbow Immortal Peach for someone he barely knew under such circumstances. Even Puregate Sect disciples have a rule: only by becoming strong themselves can they truly protect others. Besides, that Rainbow Immortal Peach originally belonged to Joe Di.
Joe Di opened his eyes. As soon as he sat atop this immortal vein, he realized that healing in the True Spirit World was likely impossible.
The rules of heaven and earth in the True Spirit World are too weak. Now that he possesses an immortal spirit body, to recover quickly from his injuries, he needs not only immortal spirit energy but also higher laws of heaven and earth.
"Blackfire, I’m going out to heal. You help me control the ship." Joe Di directly took out a ring and tossed it to Blackfire. Inside the ring were a pile of immortal crystals and a mid-grade flying immortal artifact.
He had no choice; the best flying treasure he currently possessed was this mid-grade flying ship.
"I’ll go out too," Moria Lane quickly said.
Before Joe Di could respond, she added, "Although there’s a wood spirit vein here, I’d like to sense the aura of the void. Maybe that will help my injuries more."
Although Joe Di believed that, aside from the Trueglass Elixir, nothing else could heal Moria Lane, since she said so, he couldn’t stop her.
Trueglass Elixir can heal bodies severely injured by the Celestial Fire Spirit. Joe Di had heard this from Loraine Puregate. Later, he searched through the World Book himself and confirmed that Trueglass Elixir was indeed a top-tier immortal spirit item for treating those wounds.
"Big Brother, I’ve reached level ten now. Maybe I could..." Sprout grew anxious as he saw Blackfire, Joe Di, and Moria Lane all leaving.
"Come out with us," Joe Di said, not in the mood to waste words with Sprout.
...
Joe Di’s injuries were indeed severe. If not for his intact sea of consciousness and undamaged primordial spirit, with his current condition, it would take decades to see any improvement.
Even though his primordial spirit was unharmed, Joe Di’s healing was still agonizingly slow.
A year passed, and only a thin layer of flesh had barely grown back on Joe Di’s body.
Joe Di knew that things couldn’t go on like this. After more than a year of healing, he understood why he couldn’t recover quickly.
It wasn’t that his cultivation methods were lacking. On the contrary, his Great Kun Body Refining Art combined with the Galaxy Art was not only excellent for body cultivation, but also highly effective for healing.
The main problem was that he didn’t have good Restorative Elixirs. Most of the pills he had were low-grade and of mediocre quality. The slightly better ones were from the Yi Zhen ring, but even those were mostly for cultivation, and for immortals above the Da Luo level. They were of no help for healing his injuries.
If he wanted to recover quickly, he would need much better Restorative Elixirs.
He had plenty of immortal spirit herbs. Except for being short of some above level seven, he could pile up a small mountain with those below level seven.
There’s a saying on Earth: sharpening your axe won’t delay the chopping of wood. If he wanted to recover quickly, he needed good immortal pills. The only way he could get them now was to turn the spirit herbs in his True Spirit World into pills.
He had once spent a long time refining pills, wasting a huge amount of spirit herbs, but he couldn’t even produce the simplest first-grade immortal pill—Earthcore Pill.
Maybe it was because the Immortal Realm had entered its twilight; that’s why he couldn’t refine pills.
This place was the void—maybe he could finally refine pills here. Joe Di grabbed a pile of spirit herbs for making Earthcore Pills and Cloudcore Pills, both first-grade immortal pills. If he wanted to refine Restorative Elixirs, he had to first succeed with these two, the entry-level pills for advancing as an alchemist.
Earthcore Pills are for True Immortal cultivators, but they were useless to Joe Di now. He had a pile of Earthcore Herbs in his True Spirit World, so Earthcore Pills were the best for practice.
It was a pity that the golden Dao principle had escaped. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be in this predicament...
After taking out the herbs and the pill cauldron, Di Jiu couldn’t help but think of that lost golden Dao principle. When it was still with him, he hadn’t cared. Now that it was gone, he realized how inconvenient things had become.
Alas, he was an alchemist with a pill cauldron but unable to refine immortal pills—what an irony.
Di Jiu took out Earth Origin spirit herbs and several auxiliary herbs. Just as he was about to put them into the cauldron, he suddenly felt a stir in his heart.
Wasn’t he relying on the golden Dao principle because it contained the aura of top-tier heavenly laws?
All rules are composed of various laws. Now he controlled over a hundred different basic laws and had grasped the Galaxy Dao Rhythms of both True Immortals and Golden Immortals. So why did he have to depend on that escaped golden Dao principle?
Now, in his time of hardship, the golden Dao principle ignored him. If he became successful in the future and it returned, he’d ignore it right back...
A companion that only shares in wealth but not in hardship...
Forget it. If the golden Dao principle returned, he’d probably still want it—everyone did.
After a few words of self-comfort, Di Jiu summoned his Dao Fire. One by one, first-grade spirit herbs went into the cauldron, and under the fifth-grade immortal flame, they quickly melted.
Once he began refining pills, Di Jiu completely forgot everything around him.
Whether it was Earthcore Pills or Cloudcore Pills, Joe Di had refined hundreds if not thousands of batches before. This time, it was different—he infused his own basic laws and the laws of the Immortal Realm.
In just the time it takes to burn an incense stick, Di Jiu smelled the fragrance of pills. He was ecstatic. In thousands of failed attempts before, he hadn’t smelled any pill fragrance, and the pills hadn’t even formed yet.
Di Jiu devoted himself entirely to this batch of immortal pills, merging pill formulas with the liquid in the cauldron—dividing, shaping, condensing...
After another incense stick’s time, Joe Di instinctively used the pill completion technique, infusing it with his understanding of laws and cultivation principles. With the pill collection technique, he obtained twelve Earthcore Pills.
Joe Di knew Earthcore Pills well; he’d seized plenty before. But the ones in his hand now were completely different—they bore three pill patterns.
It was Di Jiu’s first time successfully refining immortal pills, but his understanding of pills was far from novice. Among all the pills he’d ever had, none had ever carried pill patterns.
Pills with patterns were all top-grade immortal pills.
Joe Di was elated—he hadn’t expected to produce three-pattern, first-grade, top-tier Earthcore Pills on his very first try.
Di Jiu didn’t rush to refine a second batch. Instead, he began to organize the gains from this batch. After thousands of failed attempts, he finally succeeded—not because his pill refinement skills had suddenly improved, nor because his cultivation had reached Golden Immortal stage two, but because he had infused his own basic laws and cultivation principles into the pills.
Besides that, he had also perfected various pill techniques.
Three-pattern immortal pills were naturally top-grade, but still not the very best. If he wanted to refine even better pills, he had to keep perfecting his process and pill techniques.
There was one thing he had to correct: his pills still contained a strong innate wood attribute aura, a side effect of using the pill cauldron. He needed to mask this aura, or it could bring endless trouble.
With the success of the first batch, Di Jiu’s confidence soared—second batch, third batch...
At first, Di Jiu deliberately infused his Dao principles and understanding of basic laws into the pill techniques. As he refined more, he would suddenly comprehend certain pill Dao principles and naturally integrate them into his techniques.
Although Di Jiu was immersed in pill refinement, he vaguely sensed the reason. It wasn’t that his insight into Dao principles surpassed other alchemists, but because he had used a fragment of the cosmic membrane to rebirth his body, fusing with it completely.
The cosmic membrane was the origin of all things, the source of countless laws and rules. More importantly, his fragment had once been the residence of that golden Dao principle. Over time, some of its heavenly law Dao rhymes had merged into the membrane fragment. As his understanding deepened, he was able to capture those principles once embedded within.
(That’s all for today’s update. Good night, friends!)