Hou Zhongyu’s eyes nearly bled.
This furnace of Eternal Moon had been passed down from his teacher, who had betrayed his own master. Because of this treasure medicine, he had killed his own teacher. The inheritance among alchemists was difficult, mostly for this reason.
At this moment, his heart was like being cut with knives, and his scream sounded as eerie as an owl:
"This medicine has been tempered for a full eighty years!"
"Eighty years, just a few months shy of the solar number of ninety-nine and eighty-one years."
"Just lacking the Mountain Marrow of South Mountain, just a few months, I killed you, I killed you!!!"
Li Guanyi staggered backwards, dropping the bronze tripod to the ground.
Seeing a little residue still left inside, Hou Zhongyu wished he could dive in and consume every last bit. Noticing Li Guanyi’s skin rapidly reddening, Hou Zhongyu felt boundless killing intent mixed with envy and jealousy, along with an indescribable emotion.
It had been so many years, hidden in the Imperial Palace with the obsession precipitated from killing his teacher, he definitely needed to know whether he had succeeded or not, an emotion that transcended everything, making him shout:
"Tell me, what does it feel like to eat this medicine!"
"Does it feel like your blood and Qi are surging, does it? I didn’t refine it wrong, did I!"
"I was right to kill that old thing, wasn’t I?!"
"Wasn’t it? Wasn’t it! Answer me!"
Li Guanyi had no time to respond to this crazed magician, feeling as though he had swallowed a ball of flame, or perhaps a cloud, that burst out as soon as it touched his mouth, filling his whole body.
An extra layer seemed to form between his channels and bones.
Ten times worse than the numbness of sitting for too long.
And this swelling and numbness enveloped his whole body.
Li Guanyi instantly realized that if he continued this way, he might lose all sensation, becoming immobile like a tree, living long but hard to move, he immediately became clear-headed.
This couldn’t continue.
He needed to temper this medicinal force.
Li Guanyi’s cultivation technique included the Breaking Formation Song, Jade Arm Divine Bow Skills, and the Taiping Book—all first-class techniques, but there was only one meant specifically for tempering his foundation.
Li Guanyi clenched his fist and began to perform a series of movements.
"Tiger Roar Bone Forging Skills"!
The White Tiger Dharma Form followed his movements, and in the void, it was as if a fierce tiger was roaring. The force filling his body was circulated by him, and once again tempered through this cultivation technique that had made him the first in history, flesh, bone, skin, and marrow slowly enhanced.
He could still climb even higher!
It was unknown if this medicine contained Qilin Blood.
At that moment, apart from the roar of the tiger, Li Guanyi seemed to also hear the majestic low roar of a Qilin, while alongside this technique, the Immortality Elixir mixed in.
Skin, bones, and blood Qi, all driven by his limbs.
Until everything in his body, began being tempered.
His physique, already comparable to that of an Overlord from eight hundred years ago, was slowly enhanced.
Such a phenomenon, alchemist Hou Zhongyu grew increasingly envious and frenzied. He shouted, "You, you’re not allowed to temper it, spit it out, spit it out!!!" His hand clenched, the Formation shifted and circulated, already not caring if it might draw attention outside.
He had spent his whole life striving.
Even killing the teacher who had saved him from deep snow in winter.
This was his only obsession now.
If this substance was consumed, living held no meaning.
The stone house contained mechanisms that were triggered.
One side of the wall collapsed, those seven nodes mixed back into the Great Formation, the Four Symbols Sealing Spirit Formation became complete again, and then started to operate intensely. The stone house collapsed, and from nowhere, a giant stone column flew towards Li Guanyi.
Li Guanyi turned and threw a punch.
This giant stone was blasted to pieces by him.
This, similar to a blunt weapon attack, did not break the skin, but the internal organs would be shaken. Li Guanyi spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, which splashed on his armor, yet he felt no pain, only comfort, exhilarating.
The amount of blood inside his body decreased, but under this incredible medicinal effect.
Li Guanyi’s body quickly generated more blood.
The speed was extremely fast.
Qilin Blood was also mixed in, not replacing but enhancing his own blood.
He felt his heart suddenly become powerful.
This behavior intensified the consumption of his lifespan, yet the Eternal Moon Undying Medicine compensated for it.
Eventually, it would result in an overall enhancement of his physical quality.
In such a world, the extraordinary ruled, moving mountains and filling seas. The changes occurring in Li Guanyi were precisely the obsession of the alchemists pursuing eternal life and what they did not know would cost the lives of countless men—one of their gains—
The human body is weak, flesh and blood transform.
Ten thousand spirits of heaven and earth, temper this body!
The changes in Li Guanyi did not escape Hou Zhongyu’s eyes. His heart filled with mad jealousy as he continuously activated the formation’s defenses, attacking Li Guanyi while fearing to hit too hard, worried he might turn the boy to charcoal, losing the Eternal Moon Immortality Elixir.
This was his life’s obsession.
Each attack was heavy, repeatedly inflicting severe injuries on the youth.
Blood streaming from his mouth, his complexion deathly pale.
But the power of the Immortality Elixir quickly came into effect, changing Li Guanyi’s blood and rapidly healing his injuries, while Li Guanyi realized that his Inner Qi showed no signs of exhaustion. In his current state, the Qi he used would be replenished with the next breath.