『Blood Condensation Pill, Negative Reversal: After swallowing it, it rapidly boosts cultivation, stabilizes the foundation, easily makes blood circulation smooth, strengthens the heart beyond measure, and grants defensive power.』
『Quality, Negative Reversal: ninety-nine percent medicinal efficacy, rich in healing effect. After swallowing it, there are no side effects, and the cultivation-boosting effect is doubled!』
Ye Bufan heard the voice and was stunned.
Then he was overjoyed.
“Double the cultivation-boosting effect! As expected of you, System!”
He had assumed that reversing the medicinal efficacy of a supreme-grade waste pill into a supreme-grade good pill was already about the limit. A pill with ninety-nine percent medicinal efficacy after reversal would be extremely difficult for even an alchemy grandmaster to refine.
Top-quality was already impressive.
He had not expected the effect to be doubled as well!
That meant one pill was equivalent to two.
What a pleasant surprise!
“What a pity. Only I get the reversal effect when I swallow it; otherwise, if I sold them in bulk, I could probably get rich overnight.”
For the same pill, supreme-grade was far more expensive than top-quality, with stronger medicinal efficacy, smaller side effects, and almost no impact on a cultivator’s future.
With a smack.
Ye Bufan put the pitch-black pill into his mouth and chewed it.
The originally deadly poisonous impurities instantly reversed into enormous medicinal power, swelling Ye Bufan’s body up by a full size.
He was stuffed to the brim, almost bursting.
He hurriedly circulated 『Heavenly Fiend True demonic art』, guiding the massive medicinal power through great circulation.
It had to be said that this technique lived up to its reputation as a forbidden technique and refined medicinal power very quickly.
The second dao platform inside his body rapidly expanded and grew stronger.
Ye Bufan’s aura also became stronger.
After a while, the medicinal power was fully refined, and his Foundation Establishment level two cultivation increased quite a bit.
“A doubled medicinal efficacy!”
Ye Bufan opened his eyes and smiled.
At the same time, he felt his heart beating even more powerfully and his qi and blood becoming fuller. It had clearly grown stronger!
Then he wasted no time and started alchemy again.
With dozens of failed attempts under his belt, the number of pill explosions became fewer and fewer, while the number of finished products increased.
They were all supreme-grade poison pills with ninety-nine percent impurities.
That really was not intentional on Ye Bufan’s part.
When refining Tier-2 pills, he could only produce the worst kind of failed product.
On the other hand, his alchemy mastery was also improving rapidly, and sooner or later he would refine a genuine good product.
Another seven days passed.
On this day, Ye Bufan stopped alchemy.
In front of him were three hundred “Blood Condensation Pill”s, all pitch-black and covered with cracks.
Besides that, there were one hundred “Fire Dragon Pill”s, and they were all failed products.
Each one was deadly poison to ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.
From then on, the sixty-thousand-worth of medicinal herbs was completely used up.
“If it had been a normal Tier-2 alchemist, he should have been able to refine dozens of good product pills.”
Ye Bufan was very satisfied.
The medicinal efficacy of these failed products after reversal was definitely worth no less than a million spirit stones!
After alchemy ended, he immediately set up a restriction in the secret chamber to isolate aura and fluctuations.
The First Courtyard already had a formation restriction, so outsiders could not spy on or sense anything.
But Lu Luo was still in the courtyard, and his rapidly increasing cultivation was truly frightening, so it was better to stay cautious.
Then he began pill-popping cultivation.
The dao platform rapidly expanded.
The third dao platform also gradually took shape.
By evening, with a soft sound, the third dao platform formed in his dantian.
Foundation Establishment level three!
At the same time, a little dark cloud appeared on his forehead again.
It seemed that last time it had not hurt Ye Bufan, and that had made the little dark cloud unhappy.
The moment it appeared, it impatiently struck down a barrage of lightning, crackling and rumbling.
“… Ah…”
Ye Bufan could not help crying out as he thoroughly enjoyed the electrotherapy massage of the little lightning tribulation.
In the end, once the lightning finished descending, the little dark cloud retreated in haste, seemingly unable to endure this tribulation-crosser whose cries were soul-stirring.
“So comfortable.”
Ye Bufan stretched, and when he looked inside himself, he found that after the tempering of the tribulation lightning, the third dao platform had become even more condensed, and his magic power was much purer.
At Foundation Establishment level three, his magic power was comparable to Foundation Establishment level seven, and his actual strength was on par with level eight.
Ye Bufan was very delighted.
“Continue.”
For the next period of time, Ye Bufan fell into pill-popping.
Such a luxurious way of cultivating, stuffing pills into his mouth by the handful, would probably leave the little girl in a white dress stunned if she saw it.
Even a Nascent Soul’s own son would be reluctant to pop pills like this.
Even if he were willing, he would not dare.
Pills all had medicinal poison; popping them like this could raise cultivation in the short term, but it would damage the foundation too much, and he could forget about Core Formation for the rest of his life.
Ye Bufan had none of those concerns.
Under the influence of the System’s Negative Reversal, his cultivation was increasing at an absurd speed.
Not to mention medicinal poison, his magic power was actually more condensed and pure than if he had not been pill-popping at all, to the point that there were not even any traces of pill-popping.
And during seclusion cultivation, he also did not forget to cultivate spells.
These included the subsidiary spells of 『Heavenly Fiend True demonic art』… 『Heavenly Fiend Demon Armor』 and 『True Demon Phantasm』.
As for 『Heavenly Fiend True Demon Form』, it was a great spell of the Core Formation realm, and he could not cultivate it.
At the same time, Ye Bufan also had to learn talisman making.
What disappointed him was that the failed talismans he made could not take effect on himself, so they were only failed products and useless.
In the end, he had Lu Luo buy books on improving talisman quality and try his luck.
Day after day.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
It seemed that with the opening of the Demon-Sealing Ruins approaching, the Heavenly Demon Sect became even livelier.
Some disciples who had been away for years all returned, and among them emerged a group of suddenly rising heaven’s favored sons, stunning the upper echelons.
Their strength was even no weaker than that of the saint candidate and saintess candidates, and they were extremely formidable.
Among them was Li Kui’s younger brother, Yu Cheng.
After a lucky breakthrough to great completion, he fought saint candidate Chen Guangli and was only slightly weaker.
Besides that, there was also a delicate young lady who returned from Gu Peak, and she controlled a juvenile sacred gu, which was terrifying beyond measure.
It could be said that the Heavenly Demon Sect was now full of prodigies.
By contrast, Ye Bufan, the once-famous Old Ancestor’s first disciple, had stayed tucked away in the First Courtyard ever since joining the sect and had not gone out at all.
This made people sneer for a long time, joking that he was a turtle cultivator.
In the end, there was not even any discussion left.
He looked just like a marginalized nobody at the very bottom of the power ladder.
Except for a few who still remembered him.
Almost no one paid him any attention anymore.
And on this day, inside the secret chamber, as the little dark cloud dispersed in exasperation, Ye Bufan’s cultivation rose again.
“Foundation Establishment, level six!”
Ye Bufan looked inside his dantian and felt unprecedentedly powerful as he saw the sixth massive dao platform.
It had only taken two months.
After refining five hundred pills and even spending all those several thousand spirit stones, he finally broke through to Foundation Establishment level six!
From Foundation Establishment level two to level six in two months.
Not to mention the Heavenly Demon Sect, even in the long river of history, it was utterly unprecedented!
Even someone with a supreme-grade spiritual root would need ten years to break through four realms.
Even with an opportunity and the help of elders, it would still take five or six years.
“The farther I go, the more pills I need and the harder it gets to improve. Good thing I have the doubled medicinal efficacy boost.”
Ye Bufan let out a breath.
Five hundred pills, plus the doubled amplification from reversing the side effect, actually counted as one thousand!
That number was outrageous.
Of course, Ye Bufan’s breakthrough to Foundation Establishment level six was different from that of ordinary cultivators.
He had Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, and his main cultivation art was 『Heavenly Fiend True demonic art』.
As for his current strength, it was already monstrous.
It was extremely terrifying!