On the morning of the third day after the disciples left, a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering boom echoed out in all directions. Even the River-Defying Sect disciples who were hundreds of kilometers away could hear it clearly, and their faces flickered with shock.
"What was that sound?!"
"Scared the hell out of me! What's going on?!"
"Dammit, who did that? I was in the middle of cultivation, and was interrupted! I almost went crazy!!" Enraged shouts could be heard from within the River-Defying Sect, and dozens of furious cultivators burst out into the open.
However, as soon as they realized where the explosion had come from, they were completely flabbergasted. Bowing their heads, they hurried off, expressions of satisfaction on their faces.
"The junior patriarch only made a bit of noise while concocting pills. That's not bad at all!"
"Yeah, it was just a bit loud. That's not a big deal. As long as he didn't hurt anyone, he could be forgiven!"
"It's a good thing that Senior Haotian chased the junior patriarch out of the valley. If he hadn't, who knows what would have happened in that valley?"
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By now, the cultivators of the River-Defying Sect were used to Bai Xiaochun's antics, and their tolerance for him had decreased over and over again. As far as they were concerned, the explosion had only been a bit loud, which wasn't a big deal at all.
Bai Xiaochun was shocked to find himself in the bottomless valley. Without even thinking about it, he sent his divine sense out, wondering how he would explain himself if someone came looking for him.
However, after a long moment passed … the cultivators within the 5,000-kilometer radius of the River-Defying Sect all quieted down. Not a single person came looking for him. Even if someone flew out, they would look at the valley he was in, then turn and leave.
Bai Xiaochun finally realized what was going on.
"Hahaha! I was just being too sensitive. I was just scaring myself, and forgot that nobody in the Middle Reaches of the Heavenspan River would dare to do anything to me. After all, I'm the type of person who would dare to blow up that old freak Haotian's palace! " Sighing inwardly, Bai Xiaochun's courage was boosted, and he excitedly continued to concoct pills.
"Hehe, now that I'm over a thousand miles away from that old freak Haotian, even if over a thousand furnaces in my storage pouch were to explode at the same time, the shockwaves of the explosion would not affect his cultivation. As long as I don't provoke that old freak, I can refine whatever I want, and no one can do anything to me!"
Now that he no longer had any misgivings, Bai Xiaochun began to concoct pills with even greater confidence. At first, he had only concocted a few batches of pills at the same time, but now he was concocting more than a dozen batches at the same time. He was very confident in his skill in pill concocting.
Boom!
A few days later, another heaven-shaking, earth-shattering boom rang out in the River-Defying Sect's territory. By this point, the cultivators of the River-Defying Sect were used to it. To them, it would be strange if Bai Xiaochun's pill concocting didn't explode.
However, it didn't take long before the booms began to ring out on a daily basis. Most shocking of all was that seven or eight explosions would ring out in a single day, causing the cultivators in the Middle Reaches of the Heavenspan River to feel like they were about to go crazy.
In addition to the River-Defying Sect, there were also countless rogue cultivators and aristocratic clans in the Middle Reaches of the Heavenspan River. Whenever Bai Xiaochun's pill furnaces exploded, the resulting shockwaves made it impossible for anyone to practice cultivation or calm their minds.
If any other person were doing something like this, they would have attacked them. But this person was the junior patriarch of the River-Defying Sect, a terrifying devil who had single-handedly wiped out three great Middle Reaches sects. Who would dare to provoke someone like that?
As the number of cauldrons exploding increased, inexplicable impurities began to float in the surrounding sky with the abyss canyon as the center. They drifted with the wind and gradually spread to various places.
The impurities were blocked by the River-Defying Sect's grand spell formation, and couldn't enter the sect's headquarters. Instead, they began to drift up and down the Middle Reaches of the Heavenspan River.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! What kind of medicinal pill is that goddamned Old Devil Bai concocting?!?!"
"I can't take it. I can't take it anymore!!"
The first to suffer were the rogue cultivators and cultivator families of the Middle Reaches. Countless cultivators were affected by the residual impurities after the explosion of the pill furnaces. Some of the cultivators who accidentally came into contact with the gray fog immediately showed all kinds of adverse symptoms.
Some people felt itchy all over and couldn't help but scratch the itch. Some people couldn't help but shed tears. No matter what kind of magic they used, they couldn't stop the tears from flowing. There were also people who, after absorbing the gray mist, started to hallucinate. Some of them were running around naked, some were sleepwalking, and some were asking for sex in public. They were really making a fool of themselves in all kinds of strange ways.
When Bai Xiaochun saw the symptoms of the cultivators, he felt a bit embarrassed. Therefore, he decided to concoct a medicinal pill specifically designed to deal with those symptoms.
"I'm going to concoct a medicinal pill that can deal with all sorts of negative side effects. I'm going to call it … the Myriad Transformations Pill!"
Bai Xiaochun was very pleased with the name. If he could concoct an all-purpose pill like this, then his reputation as a grandmaster alchemist would spread throughout the lands of Heavenspan.
When concocting a new type of medicinal pill, not only did he have to come up with his own medicine formula, he also had to do a lot of trial and error. He had to figure out the flaws in the formula, and then fix the flaws.
In order to increase the efficiency of his concocting process, Bai Xiaochun used a hundred pill furnaces in one go. Considering his current level of strength, that wasn't a problem at all.
He worked so hard that he even forgot to eat or sleep. Three days later, the hundred pill furnaces were just about to take shape. However, just when they were about to take shape, one of the pill furnaces suddenly began to show signs of cracking.
Bai Xiaochun hurried over to place a sealing seal on it. However, that was when a second, third, and fourth pill furnaces began to show signs of instability. Eventually, Bai Xiaochun let out a cry of alarm as more than half of the more than one hundred pill furnaces exploded!
Most of the pill furnaces exploded, causing the other pill furnaces to explode as well. The resulting shockwaves were comparable to the full-powered attack of a demigod patriarch. If that level of power spread out, it would flatten everything in a radius of hundreds of kilometers. Furthermore, the resulting mist would be enough to cover the entire Heavenspan River basin, and most of the cultivators there would be caught in the crossfire.
"Not good. I can't let the shockwaves reach the sky!"
The mere thought of what would happen if the mist spread out into the air caused Bai Xiaochun's face to fill with anxiety. Unleashing one sealing technique after another, he did everything he could to redirect the shockwaves of the explosion down into the valley below.
Whoosh!
After sending the terrifying shockwaves of the explosion into the depths of the valley, he breathed a sigh of relief. The ground had only trembled for a few breaths of time, and then gradually returned to normal. There hadn't been any adverse effects, and he could finally relax a bit.
"I, Bai Xiaochun, really am a genius. Once again, I've averted a major disaster!"
Waving his sleeve proudly, he nodded in satisfaction. However, even as he muttered to himself, he still felt a bit uneasy. Sending some divine sense out, he sent it to the restricted area in the back mountains of the River-Defying Sect, where Cheng Hao was currently in secluded meditation.
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