Chapter 6379 New Path of Medicinal Pills

“Someone as strong as Cang Lu was killed by the Pill Sovereign’s disciple, Cui Yue, while still at his peak condition. According to the records, Cang Lu stood at the very apex of the Divine Sovereign realm. He had even brushed the threshold of the Heavenly Sovereign realm and could be considered a half-step Heavenly Sovereign,” said the Earth Cauldron.

Even someone as powerful as Long Chen was stunned by this fact. To reach such a realm and yet be unable to protect one’s own life... was that not enough to drive anyone to despair?

“Senior, did you see that? Were they really medicinal pills?” asked Long Chen.

“Yes. They were,” the Earth Cauldron confirmed.

Long Chen couldn’t help but gasp. So he hadn’t been mistaken—Cang Lu really had been killed by just two medicinal pills.

“The first pill was inscribed with countless blood-colored runes. It was a formation pill that drew upon the essence blood of at least hundreds of different devil beasts. When it detonated, both Cang Lu and the Bloodfiend Halberd suffered grievous damage. That fool never realized the halberd’s greatest strength was also its greatest weakness—its Bloodfiend power. Were it not for the weapon’s durability, it would have been destroyed on the spot,” Long Chen muttered as he recalled the scene.

“The second pill pierced even Cang Lu’s strongest defense. It carried the powers of both light and flame. The light energy weakened Cang Lu’s dark qi, and while I don’t know what it was, the flame energy was definitely the Sun Flame.”

Incredibly strong—that was the only thing Long Chen could say.

Until now, he had always regarded medicinal pills merely as aids to cultivation. Only today did he realize the field of alchemy contained countless paths and variations, and what he had mastered was but a fraction of it.

To slay Cang Lu with just two pills, Cui Yue was indeed worthy of being called the Pill Sovereign’s disciple. She was a master of alchemy and formation alike. Her medicinal pills could assist in both cultivation and combat. Yet, even such a genius had ultimately perished.

Had Cui Yue survived, her soul-curse would have prevented Cang Lu from ever being reborn. And without that rebirth, he would never have fallen into Long Chen’s hands and become his puppet.

Furthermore, by coincidence—or perhaps by karma—Long Chen carried the legacies of both the nine tar line and the Pill Sovereign. All these coincidences made it seem like karma set in motion a long time ago.

He longed to peer deeper into Cang Lu’s memories, but the chains binding them were set by the Dark Emissary and could only be undone once Cang Lu ascended to the Divine Sovereign realm.

“The Dark Emissary left this one memory to stoke his hatred, to remind him of his enemy,” Long Chen muttered with a disdainful smile. “But in the end, he never had the chance.”

Long Chen then took out the Bloodfiend Halberd, whose item-spirit was quivering in fright.

Whatever it had witnessed or experienced in the primal chaos space had frightened it. It neither resisted nor attempted to flee as Long Chen branded it with a slave seal.

Through the seal, Long Chen grasped the weapon’s true nature. The halberd consumed blood soul energy, refining it into Bloodfiend Qi to strengthen itself. It had butchered countless experts of the nine heavens and now stood at the cusp of condensing Dao runes. Had it finished that step, it could have become a Heavenly Sovereign divine weapon.

But before it could reach that height, Cui Yue had struck it down. Worse, the primal chaos space had erased its original runes. Now, beneath Long Chen’s control, it was little more than a blank canvas awaiting a new imprint.

Long Chen extracted a drop of blood from Cang Lu and pressed it onto the Bloodfiend Halberd, drawing a new seal.

“In the future, you will still be called the Bloodfiend Halberd. But from now on, you will grow only by slaughtering lifeforms from outside the nine heavens.”

After making this declaration, Long Chen handed the halberd back to Cang Lu.

The Bloodfiend Halberd was a true treasure. For a moment, Long Chen considered giving it to Gu Yang, but its inherent dark energy made it ill-suited for him. Moreover, Cang Lu possessed many divine abilities bound to the halberd. Stripping it from him would cripple his strength. In the end, Long Chen decided to leave it in his hands.

By now, Cang Lu’s injuries had recovered seventy to eighty percent, his combat strength restored to roughly sixty to seventy percent of his peak. After being refined into a puppet, his recovery rate had dropped noticeably. There was no helping it.

Long Chen rose to his feet. Immediately, Cang Lu ceased recuperating and followed, standing behind him like a loyal bodyguard.

Long Chen looked at Cang Lu’s white robes. They were already badly ripped and dirty.

Just as he prepared to find him a proper set of armor, another thought struck him—Cang Lu should have his own inner space. Long Chen quickly checked, only to be disappointed.

“It seems that after he died, someone stripped his inner space with a divine ability,” Long Chen sighed.

In the end, he outfitted Cang Lu with a set of black armor and a full helmet that covered his face.

Unlike other puppets, Cang Lu was neither truly alive nor dead. He could not be pulled into the primal chaos space and had to remain at Long Chen’s side. Clad in black armor and wielding the Bloodfiend Halberd, Cang Lu looked like a devil god from the depths of hell—his presence alone enough to draw every eye.

“Senior, I need to borrow your power. Help me find the aura of the vile dragon race. I’m going push my Sovereign flames to the limit,” said Long Chen.

Cang Lu’s appearance gave Long Chen a sense of pressure. The heaven region’s battlefield brimmed with dangers. Heavenly geniuses filled every corner, and Long Chen didn’t dare to get careless.

This era’s heavenly geniuses and the monsters of the ancient era... who knew how many terrifying experts had condensed 999 Sovereign flames already?

Ying Wudao was the first he had seen. But due to his lack of hostility and aura concealment, Long Chen couldn’t gauge his true power.

Cang Lu’s appearance showed Long Chen just how terrifying 999 Sovereign flames were. However, Cang Lu had only just been reborn and was not used to the limitations of the Human Emperor realm. He couldn’t unleash many of his divine abilities.

His reputation was fearsome, but in this realm, his actual strength was far from unrivaled. Still, if Long Chen were forced to face two Cang Lus at once, the one to flee would probably be Long Chen.

The Earth Cauldron emerged above Long Chen’s head, radiating divine light. A dragon phantom coiled behind him, and his dragon blood Sovereign flames blazed as his perception spread outward.

Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, and a smile curved his lips.

“Found them!”

With a flash, Long Chen and Cang Lu vanished.

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