...…
"!!!" "!!!"
Both Yang Hua and Nao Long looked toward the three-foot-wide cake floating out of a pot, as they immediately jumped up and rushed to the counter that sat along the side of the marble kitchen edges.
They took their seats on a couple of swiveling chairs before awaiting the cake to be split up and given to them.
And they didn't have to wait long, as Azmodeus smiled a little before using his crimson-colored Qi to slice up the cake into two evenly-sized pieces, leaving a small sliver for himself.
After which, he teleported the cake pieces over to their plates before saying, "Dig in-"
However, he wasn't even allowed to finish his sentence, as the two voracious women were already munching away with euphoric looks on their faces.
"...You don't have to eat so fast… I can always transmogrify some more monster materials and make another cake for you…" He muttered with an awkward expression.
"Isshh~ shooo good~!" Both of them exclaimed while holding their cheeks, utterly ignoring his words.
Well, whatever… As long as they're happy, then everything is fine…
Following that thought, Azmodeus decided to whip up a little meat dish for himself.
Of which, he once again received the smallest portion of his favorite steak dish, which also just so happened to be the 'favorite' meal of both those food goblins as well…
He eventually gave up on trying to get something for himself, as he headed in the direction of the room where alchemy was conducted.
This was one of the many rooms that he had chiseled out from his Cave Abode, and although there was nothing particularly special about the rooms themselves, they each had Peak-Earth Rank Formation Rune Array's set down to increase all relevant attributes of each room.
For example, the 'Alchemy Room' was infused with an 'Alchemy Array Heaven Transformation Formation Array'.
This was put up to speed up the process of using 'Array Alchemy' when concocting pills.
The reason for the 'Array' part of the phrase was because Azmodeus had adapted the act of incorporating Arrays when making pills.
This was done not only to improve the overall quality of the pills through unique Array usages, but it was also done to increase the number of pills that could be concocted in each batch!
Normally, an Alchemist would be limited to a couple dozen pills in one batch due to the restrictions on their mind—restrictions that inhibited one from focusing on so many pills and all their unique statuses while inside the confines of a pill Cauldron.
However, with a few Sky-Rank 'Impede' Arrays applied to a stone, similar to how a rune would work, all of that changed, as after attaching this 'Semi-Array Rune' to the bottom of a pill cauldron, the time dilation within the insides of the cauldron could be altered to whatever Azmodeus wished it to be.
This was all to say that he could fix the flaws in one pill while impeding the continued refining of other pills!
And it was through this repeated action that hundreds of pills could be made from one batch using a tenth the normal amount of time needed!
All in all, yet another unprecedented achievement had been added to the wall of all the impossible things the Anomaly had ever done.
Time passed by like a dream, surreal and fleeting, as four years quickly vanished from the long river of time.
It was a day just like any other inside the Heaven Exploding Cave Abode that Azmodeus began his breakthrough into the Void Refining Realm!
His foundation was beyond impeccable, and after amassing a sufficient level of condensed Qi, he was ready to take another step on the infinitely stretching path of cultivation!
WAAAA!
Crimson-colored energies swirled around the cave, enveloping everything in sight until reaching a point where only Qi could be seen within a thousand miles of the mountain that stood above the cave abode.
It was a wondrous phenomenon that would normally only be possible when one was breaking through into the Unity Form Synthesis Realm, and yet it was occurring for someone merely breaking through into the Void Refining Realm!
And in the midst of this chaotic maelstrom of elements, two women with bodies beyond compare were watching the immortal-like figure get covered in a thick blanket of Qi.
Their expressions were pretty relaxed, as it wasn't the first time they had first-class tickets to bear witness to the freakish things that he did inside and outside the Cave Abode.
They remembered it just like it was yesterday—the day when he was cornered by eight Outer Elders of the River Serpent Sect.
All of them were in the Middle and Late Void Refining Realm, and they came after him with great numbers!
And yet…
He simply turned his gaze up from his cultivation state and took a cursory glance at the thousands of cultivators who decided to ambush him in his own home.
After which, a crisp, unsheathing sound unlike anything the two beautiful women had ever heard was unleashed from his nonchalant body.
Following this sword strike that indicated he was well into the Sky-Rank of Sword Aura, everything within a ten thousand-mile fan shape vanished from the face of the earth!
However, even with this commotion happening within their own territory, not a single Inner Deacon or Inner Elder felt the need to move…
After all, when you had tens of thousands of Outer Elders spread across the tens of billions of miles that made up the Outer Sect, it didn't really matter all that much if a few died due to their own greed.
And of course, they were merely Middle and Late Void Refining Realm Cultivators, which wasn't even enough to qualify them to participate in the higher-level battles of their war with the Razgod Empire to the east.
Nevertheless, all of that was besides the point, as there was still an ongoing breakthrough into the Void Refining Realm going on inside the Heaven Exploding Cave Abode...
...….