WHOOSH!
In an instant, the sky above Xingyue City surged with wind and clouds.
Terrifying cloud formations converged, casting a massive shadow that began to blanket the entire city.
It was only when the vast sea of Cultivators felt the shadow envelop them that they finally looked up.
“What’s going on?
The sun was shining brightly just a moment ago.
Why did the clouds suddenly gather?”
As millions of cloud layers massed overhead, the thousands of new-generation Pill Masters also noticed the anomaly and gazed up at the sky.
Sensing the highly unusual mutation, the Workshop Master of Miaodan Square stared in utter disbelief.
“This is…” he muttered.
“Could it be…
the phenomenon of a Solidification Pill?”
The moment the Workshop Master’s words fell, a sound echoed through the crowd.
SWISH!
The thousands of new-generation Pill Masters were severely shaken, staring blankly at the abruptly formed, billowing dark clouds.
Even that new-generation Tier Two Pill Master revealed boundless astonishment in his eyes.
“Impossible, how could this be?
Is it really the phenomenon of a Solidification Pill?”
Following the alarmed voices of the Pill Masters, the hundreds of thousands of Cultivators gradually realized something.
They couldn’t sense the source of the heaven and earth’s transformation, but those Pill Masters were quite familiar with it.
Just as the crowd finished speaking, a sudden sound erupted.
RUMBLE!!!
Muffled thunder echoed from the peak of the clouds in the sky, and a continuous drizzle abruptly began to fall from the boundless Celestial Universe.
Not only that, but the entire Xingyue City was swallowed by a phantom illusion.
First, the fine rain fell silently to the ground.
Then, tender shoots broke through the soil, countless flowers bloomed, and all things renewed themselves—it was the imagery of winter giving way to spring.
“An illusion?
All of this is actually an illusion?”
“It really is the phenomenon of a Solidification Pill!
Heavens, it’s a Solidification Pill!”
Many Cultivators looked at the scene of the fine rain nourishing the blooming flowers right in front of them.
When they reached out to touch it, they felt nothing but phantom emptiness, and the horror in their eyes only grew.
“Could someone have refined a terrifying Spirit Pill?”
Everyone’s expressions drastically changed, their eyes filled with indescribable surprise and shock.
Even Bai Wufeng and his group were full of disbelief.
Although they knew the pill refined by that young man was by no means ordinary, they never expected it to trigger an anomaly of heaven and earth.
After all, a pill-completion anomaly and a heaven and earth anomaly were entirely different concepts.
The former was a phenomenon of finishing a pill, while the latter was the anomaly of a Solidification Pill.
But before the crowd could react, the reviving world rapidly withered.
Spring turned to autumn, and yellow leaves decayed.
“Spring changing to autumn?
Could it be…?”
“A Four Symbols Pill?”
Someone seemed to have guessed something.
Sure enough, in just a brief moment, the illusion shifted again.
Autumn faded into time, replaced by abundant harvests and a world of gold, followed by unbearable summer heat.
The very next second, the sky was filled with snow, and a bone-piercing chill set in.
It was only when the heavy snow covered the sky and the accumulated snow submerged the world, making the entire Earth Realm of Xingyue City feel as if it had entered a harsh winter, that everyone confirmed their suspicions.
“Heavens, it really is a Four Symbols Pill!”
Many older Cultivators paled in shock.
In less than a quarter of an hour, everyone felt as if they had experienced the four seasons of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
This was the anomaly before the Solidification Pill phase of a Four Symbols Pill.
Though an illusion, it was the symbol of a Four Symbols Pill’s birth.
The Four Symbols Pill was not just a single pill, but an entire category of pills.
At the moment of the Solidification Pill phase, it could resonate with the heaven and earth’s Alchemy Dao, bringing down the illusion of the Four Symbols Realm.
But just as everyone was reeling in shock, Bai Wufeng spoke up abruptly.
“No, it’s not a Four Symbols Pill!” He had clearly noticed something, his eyes filled with extreme shock.
Even the Workshop Master of Miaodan Square couldn’t help but breathe heavily.
Obviously, both of them had caught onto some terrifying information.
However, they were not the only ones to discover the clue.
On the spectator stand of the Divine Pill Pavilion, Gu Qingyan’s beautiful eyes widened in alarm as she noticed it too.
“It’s a Myriad Phenomena Pill,” the future Young Master of the Divine Pill Pavilion murmured, her eyes brimming with horror.
She stared fixedly at the end of the hazy heavy snow, as if witnessing some world-shocking scene.
Gai He and the others turned at her voice, their expressions changing drastically.
“Young Master, what did you say?
A…
Myriad Phenomena Pill?”
They followed Gu Qingyan’s gaze, only to instantly freeze in a daze.
At the end of the hazy heavy snow, atop the endless peaks of the mountains, countless phantoms of all living spirits had appeared at some unknown time.
They coalesced out of thin air, gazing from afar, all looking toward the direction of the Divine Pill Pavilion.
“The Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts?
Heavens,” Gai He was the first to speak, his aged eyes rippling with emotion.
At this moment, the vast sea of Cultivators also witnessed that awe-inspiring scene.
“Legend has it that pills possess spirituality.
When a terrifying Spirit Pill is formed, it is accompanied by anomalies, and it even captures the essence of heaven and earth to mend its own flaws.
I can’t believe it’s actually true!”
“A Myriad Phenomena Pill!
It really is a Myriad Phenomena Pill!
To witness the birth of a Myriad Phenomena Pill with my own eyes in my lifetime…
I can die with no regrets!”
Countless Cultivators snapped out of their daze, overcome with excitement.
What shocked them even more was that, looking from afar, they actually spotted certain world-shaking existences amidst the Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Atop several majestic peaks, a Qilin stood against the snow, possessing unparalleled dominance.
A Vermilion Bird danced gracefully, breathtakingly beautiful.
A Black Tortoise crawled slowly, moving across the summit of a snowy mountain.
A White Dragon soared through the blizzard, its draconic might unmatched in the world…
The Four Symbols Realm was entirely an illusion, but the Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts was manifested from the essence of heaven and earth.
Suddenly, the ten thousand beasts moved in unison.
As if answering some kind of summons, the endless Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts tore through the sky, rushing toward Xingyue City in an overwhelming wave.
Before long, the sky above the Battle Platform was filled with a chaotic dance of spirits.
Various beasts’ cries echoed throughout the venue, creating a dazzling and deafening spectacle.
Looking at this scene, the hundreds of thousands of Cultivators were too shocked to speak.
“What’s going on?
Could this Myriad Phenomena Pill…
be refined by a Pill Master on the platform?”
SWISH!!!
Suddenly, countless gazes simultaneously turned toward the Battle Platform, each more sensational than the last.
“The Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts is gathering above the Battle Platform.
Doesn’t that mean the pill about to achieve a successful Solidification Pill phase is being born right here in the competition?”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was dumbfounded as if struck by lightning.
Even when the myriad phenomena had converged, the crowd’s first thought was that a mighty figure of the Alchemy Dao was refining a pill somewhere nearby.
But when the Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts gathered right above the Battle Platform, no one could remain calm.
“Heavens, someone among them is refining a Myriad Phenomena Pill, and they’ve already reached the Solidification Pill phase?”
“Who?
Who is refining the Myriad Phenomena Pill?”
For a moment, hundreds of thousands of eyes continuously scanned the Battle Platform, wanting to single out the refiner right away.
However, there were still hundreds of new-generation Pill Masters currently in a refining state, making it utterly impossible to know from which Pill Furnace the Myriad Phenomena Pill would be born.
Meanwhile, all the Pill Masters on the platform were filled with sheer terror.
Looking up at the sky-covering Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts, monstrous waves had long since surged in their hearts.
At this critical juncture…
“Open!!!”
Amidst the crowd, Jiang Hao, his face covered in sweat and burning with anxiety, let out a low shout.
If he didn’t open the furnace now, all his previous efforts would likely go to waste.
This low shout instantly drew everyone’s attention.
In front of Jiang Hao, the dilapidated large medicine pot trembled madly, shaking without end.
Streams of terrifying pill power were spilling out through its cracks.
As Jiang Hao struggled to maintain it, the medicine pot shook to its absolute peak, as if it had reached the limit of what he could endure.
At a certain moment…
BOOM!!!
The entire medicine pot, seemingly unable to withstand the release of the pill power any longer, suddenly exploded.
Jiang Hao had actually exploded his furnace!
Yet, just as the medicine pot shattered into pieces, countless figures froze as if struck by lightning, hit by a bolt out of the blue.
On the Tang Family’s spectator stand, countless Tang Family experts abruptly stood up, their eyes fixed intently on the space right in front of that figure.
The instant the medicine pot exploded, a Spirit Pill erupting with brilliant light abruptly emerged, slowly floating upwards.
As the pill floated, the Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts seemed to have finally found its rightful home.
They plunged madly into the Spirit Pill, fusing into one with it.
The hundreds of thousands of Xingyue City Cultivators watching this scene were completely stupefied.
Especially Wang Jiang, who was on the same platform.
Watching the Spirit of Ten Thousand Beasts merge into the pill Jiang Hao had refined, he felt absolutely devastated, as if struck by five bolts of lightning.
However, it was not over yet; the Spirit Pill was still slowly rising.