Now, the two of them were going to kill each other and fight to the death. Only one of them could survive.
"This is truly a tragedy. However, it is precisely because of this tragic ending that it shows how rare and precious human nature is. I'm very curious about how they will fight."
"I wasn't satisfied with the previous battle against the bone demons. This battle is even more interesting. Just how far can humans go?"
The aristocrats, who had received the advance notice of the Arena through their communication devices, were in high spirits. To them, morality or the fate of the gladiators was just a game. Meanwhile, their anticipation for this game was to endlessly chase after the most exciting show.
In the prison …
The candle demon smiled as he told Aiolos and Tsarilorhuan this terrifying news. He had brought an entire team of suppressors behind him. If they did not obey, they would take special measures to ensure that this battle to the death would be carried out smoothly.
However, Aiolos and Tsarilorhuan's emotions did not fluctuate much. Aiolos expressionlessly looked at the soldiers who were preparing to suppress them. They were all trash, but their equipment was interlinked with the restriction that was buried in his body. As long as he touched them, he would be able to strip away his ability to absorb spiritual power.
However, this was not absolute suppression. The loophole of this restriction was that it prevented him from absorbing spiritual power from the outside world, but it could not prevent him from using the power in his body, regardless of whether it was spiritual power or Soul Power.
Meanwhile, Tsarilorhuan's lips curled into a mocking and cold smile. He could imagine how many dirty deals there were behind this arrangement. He even suspected whether his fellow Titans had also participated in this. This was because he had rejected some so-called "help", which would make them feel humiliated. Thus, they hoped that he could personally kill Aiolos and not help Aiolos leave this place. The Titans did not think that a so-called human Master could defeat the noble silver electric Titans, even if he had proven himself in countless tough battles and even defeated the Indestructible Bones of the bone demon race.
After the candle demon confirmed their conditions, he maintained his usual smile and left with the suppressor team.
Aiolos turned around and looked at Tsarilorhuan. They were calm because they had expected this. If there were no suitable opponents who could defeat or kill them, then they could only use this tactic of "brothers turning against each other".
They had long discussed how they should deal with this kind of thing when it happened.
"Just like what I said before, once we're in the arena, we can't be passive, nor can we be merciful. There will definitely be more nobles paying attention to this match than there are clouds in the sky. If we disappoint them, it won't just be our problem. It might even affect our family, friends, and even our civilization."
Aiolos nodded. He knew what Tsari meant. The rage of any aristocrat could bring a terrifying disaster to the Earth.
"If I die …"
"I will do my best to help the people of Earth. Similarly, if I am the one who dies, help me take care of my sister …"
"Aren't you afraid that I'll have thoughts about your sister?" Aioros laughed. He tried his best to find a joke to lighten the mood.
"You can try!" Tsarilorhuan smiled faintly. Then, he became serious. "If the one who survives is you, you must be careful of the Fey race. I feel that Undine is very different. Her position in the Fey race is very strange …"
…
Because he had watched a good show, the Titan supervisor took another long break. This time, it lasted for half a month.
When this supervisor was in a bad mood, he would take a break to rest. When he was in a good mood, he would also take a break to celebrate. In any case, there were all sorts of reasons for taking a break. He was just this willful, causing the pupils in the Combat Cultivation Hall to be speechless. Luckily, he finally threw a secret manual on controlling spiritual power to everyone and told them how important the details were to pass the Life and Death Arena. He allowed the Combat Cultivation pupils to study it themselves.
It seemed that the final deciding factor was their natural endowments in ice, right? The pupils had no energy to complain.
When there were no classes, everyone went back to their own homes. Most of the pupils in the Combat Cultivation Hall had nothing to do at this time. They were the most idle group of people in the Heavenly Gates. Even though the Combat Cultivation Hall was said to have the most classes, this was how the Combat Cultivation Hall had always been. When there were no classes, they would stroll around the streets, participate in organization activities, or invite groups of friends to the Heavenly Gates Street to be extravagant and establish the so-called social circle of the Combat Cultivation Hall. This was the daily routine of the Combat Cultivation pupils in the Heavenly Gates. Without the permission of the Heavenly Gates, pupils could not casually head to the Dimensional World.
However, Lao Wang was obviously an exception. Recently, he had almost no time to cultivate the Devouring Heaven Technique, let alone stroll around the streets or organize meetings. Ever since the battle in the Life and Death Arena, Lao Wang, who had finally calmed down, had thrown the various effects of this battle to the back of his mind. Over the past 10 days, he had devoted himself to the pill house almost every day.
In the first two days, he mainly wanted to turn the remaining batch of ingredients for the Vitality Supplement Pill into pills.
With his pill refinery experience and self-adjustment during this period of time, Lao Wang's success rate in refining the Vitality Supplement Pill was rather high. Of course, his pill formation rate was stable at 100%. He had not experienced the feeling of his furnace exploding many times. Of course, just forming pills was not enough to display Lao Wang's terrifying standards. What was more terrifying was the quality of the pills he refined. 60% pills were almost non-existent, and the worst pills were at least 70% pills. Among them, 70% pills made up roughly two-fifths of the pills, 80% pills made up two-fifths, and 90% pills made up one-fifth! Although he still did not have the luck to refine 100% perfect pills, there was no doubt that he had thought through the refinery of the Vitality Supplement Pill to the extreme and was very familiar with it. Now, even with his eyes closed, he could rely on his senses to operate perfectly.
In Nini's words, the pursuit of pill refinery was never 100% perfect. Occasionally, refining 100% pills could only be considered luck. Many alchemists were crazy. Occasionally, they would perform extremely well and purely follow their senses to refine 100% perfect pills. However, they would often make some small mistakes and cause their furnace to explode. This kind of person seemed impressive, but in reality, they would never be able to become a pill refinery grandmaster. Only Lao Wang's stability was a terrifying natural talent that was truly worthy of praise in pill refinery.
This kind of natural talent was not a coincidence. It was obvious that Wang Zhong's meticulous control of spiritual power was unprecedented. Regardless of whether it was his divine cells or his Spirit Sea, these were the domains that Wang Zhong was proficient in. It was the same for pill refinery. Furthermore, the comprehension of pills that he had been pursuing gradually became clear.
Deep down, Lao Wang longed to achieve his Void Core. The drawbacks of his divine cells had already appeared in the previous battle. Their power was alright, but their replenishment was too slow, and the pool was too shallow. Thus, he could not sustain a prolonged battle, nor could he support stronger combat techniques.
Although he had never obtained a stronger technique, when he occasionally chatted with Nini and Jhonas, he increasingly felt that no technique was as simple and violent as the Devouring Heaven Technique. Furthermore, in the process of pill refinery, he became even more familiar with the Devouring Heaven Technique. With the assistance of the level-9 Vitality Supplement Pill, his spiritual power was steadily increasing.
The essence of techniques was to increase spiritual power. Before accumulating his Void Core and before there was a qualitative change in his cultivation, the Devouring Heaven Technique was definitely considered a peak Foundational Stage technique. Some people said that accumulating one's Void Core was related to techniques. This was the main reason why Lao Wang coveted other techniques and wanted to use them as a reference. However, even more people said that techniques and accumulating one's Core were completely unrelated.
Accumulating one's Core was equivalent to an evolution of one's life. The process of the transformation of one's soul could not be achieved simply by increasing one's spiritual power. Whether it was through the assistance of techniques or through one's own comprehension, there were different opinions. As for the specifics, neither Nini nor Jhonas were clear about them. They could only say that they should let nature take its course.
Of course, Lao Wang also knew that accumulating one's Core could not be forced. Thus, he was not impatient. Over the past few days, he had mainly refined this last batch of Vitality Supplement Pills to familiarize himself with the feeling. His various improvements were all in preparation for his next move, which was the Yin and Yang Pill!
On Uncle Sea's side, the prescription and medicinal ingredients for the Yin and Yang Pill had been sent over. Over the past few days, while he was refining the Vitality Supplement Pills, he had also used the fragment world to further improve the medicinal ingredients. However, most of these medicinal ingredients had been bought from the Netherworld Faction, and their quality was not bad. There was a limit to how much the fragment world could improve them. Thus, the time he spent on this was naturally less. If not, nurturing a batch of medicinal ingredients for the level-8 pill would not be something that could be completed in a few days.
According to the requirements of the contract that Uncle Sea had signed, he had to sell at least 100 Yin and Yang Pills to the Faction every month for half a year. Of course, the price was based on the market price. This was the basic condition of the entire contract. If he could not fulfill this condition, the consequences of breaking the contract would be rather serious. He would have to pay a terrifying amount of compensation for breach of contract. Even if he sold the entire Heavenly Treasures Street, it would not be enough.
After signing this contract, before he saw the refined Yin and Yang Pill, Uncle Sea could not sleep. Only Wang Zhong was as big-hearted as ever. After slowly making sufficient preparations, he brought Nini with him and went on another closed-door training trip to the pill house.
This time, he rented a beginner-level pill house. It was not that he could not bear to use a better one, nor was it because he could not afford to use it. Most importantly, he had just started and had been using the Abstruse Ice Copper Furnace recently. Thus, he was clearly more familiar with it. To a newbie, the best might not be the most suitable. Only the one that was most convenient to him would allow him to perform to his best.
It seemed like a level-8 pill had only increased by one level, but the difficulty of refining it had instantly increased by many times.
Lao Wang had studied the prescription for the Yin and Yang Pill. There were more than 100 types of main and supplementary medicinal ingredients, which was more than double that of the Vitality Supplement Pill. The more complicated the proportion of medicinal ingredients, the higher the requirements for the distribution of medicinal ingredients, control of fire, control of medicinal properties, and pharmacology. During the complicated process, every additional distribution of medicinal ingredients meant that the risk of failure would increase. Furthermore, the addition of every medicinal ingredient meant that the combination of medicinal properties would change by many times.
There would be more things to analyze and control. Even the number of operations would increase greatly. Furthermore, the Yin and Yang Pill had a difficulty that ordinary level-8 pills did not require. During the process of forming the pill, one had to grasp the balance of Yin and Yang medicinal properties at that instant. This was precisely the aspect that Wang Zhong lacked the most in pill refinery …
In pill refinery, the first half was a test of one's foundation, while the second half was a test of one's experience. Meanwhile, forming the pill at the end was the accumulation of one's entire understanding of pill studies. The few minutes that seemed simple was the most difficult part of pill refinery. The difficulty of the Yin and Yang Pill was the process of forming the pill. To a Foundational Stage newbie who had not even formed his Void Core, one could imagine the terrifying difficulty.
Generally speaking, without the experience of refining 10 to 20 different level-9 pills, most alchemists would not even dare to think about refining a level-8 pill, let alone the Yin and Yang Pill, which was considered very difficult among level-8 pills. Wang Zhong was the only one who dared to jump straight to the level-8 Yin and Yang Pill after refining a level-9 pill. Even Nini, who was extremely confident in him, broke out in a cold sweat for him.
At that moment, the pill house was tightly shut. Lao Wang meticulously completed the detailed preparation steps before pill refinery, such as checking the pill furnace, calculating the medicinal ingredients, and processing the pills.
Even though it was complicated, Lao Wang had no intention of asking Nini to help him. Not only was this preparation before pill refinery, it was also a very important ritual. Only by doing it personally could he understand everything clearly and allow his heart to be at peace. Good habits were actually cultivated from the very beginning. Many beginners were eager to try out the profound Dao of alchemy at the beginner stage, but they neglected that these seemingly trivial chores were, in fact, destined to be the beginning of a failure.
Once everything was prepared, he controlled the fire and opened the furnace!
The requirements were different from the requirements for refining the Vitality Supplement Pill. The basic ingredients for the Vitality Supplement Pill did not have a high melting point, and their medicinal properties were rather mild and balanced. Thus, the requirement for opening the furnace was a suitable temperature that was neither too hot nor too hot. This was a rather mediocre start.
However, the Yin and Yang Pill required eight conflicting ingredients right from the start.
Extreme Fire Vine, Roasted Star Grass, Karazanye Gold Essence, and Blazing Phoenix Flame Feather. These four ingredients were extremely fierce and overbearing extreme yang ingredients.
Netherworld River Spring, Heavenly River Crystal Ice, Glazed Crystal Moon Grass, and Demon Stalk Fruit were extremely cold extreme yin ingredients.
It was extremely difficult to neutralize the conflicting medicinal properties of materials with extreme Yang and extreme Yin properties. Just the requirement for the furnace temperature to be placed into the furnace was already much higher than that of the Vitality Supplement Pill. He had already discussed with Nini about the technique and had also rehearsed it. Now, it was time to display it.
Under the activation of Wang Zhong's spiritual power, the Fire Quartz heated the furnace in an orderly manner. However, he did not heat the furnace as a whole like before. Instead, he only heated the left side of the furnace. Furthermore, he used the high temperature of the left side of the furnace to completely freeze the right side of the furnace, which defied common sense.
Under normal circumstances, this required some auxiliary fire control techniques. The Yin and Yang Fire, or the Split Control Technique, controlled two different temperatures at the same time. This was considered the most basic advanced fire control technique. A higher-level Split Control Technique could control several or even dozens of different temperatures in the furnace at the same time. Furthermore, it could completely maintain an orderly state.
However, even though this basic version was not very difficult, it increased the workload and the rate of mistakes. To novices, the level-8 Yin and Yang Pill's new fire control technique was already a massive challenge. However, fortunately, the material characteristics of the Abstruse Ice Copper Furnace allowed the heat to be extremely concentrated. He just needed to use a runic array on the furnace to concentrate all the heat energy in the entire furnace to the left side, causing the right side to become increasingly cold.
Of course, this was not enough. The Yin and Yang Pill was half yin and half yang. If it did not move, it would just be a dead object. It could not be considered yin and yang. He still had to rotate the furnace temperature so that yin and yang alternated. He used heat energy to propel cold air, and cold air in turn drove heat energy to form an internal alternating cycle that balanced the temperature. This involved a new control technique … The level-8 pill was only an increase of one level, but it was a leap in all aspects of techniques right from the start.
Even though he had rehearsed it and understood everything clearly, this sounded simple. Only when he actually did it would he know exactly how difficult it was.
Just heating up the furnace temperature and allowing the high temperature and cold temperature to naturally alternate with each other caused Lao Wang to fail four or five times. Fortunately, this was only a furnace incubation. If not, four or five batches of ingredients would only result in one failure, and he would not be able to refine the Yin and Yang Pill.
On the contrary, the consecutive failures made Wang Zhong feel that it was increasingly interesting. During this period of time, he had refined the Vitality Supplement Pill until he wanted to vomit. It was normal for him to feel uncomfortable when he suddenly jumped levels and took over this "high-end" item. However, this did not shake his confidence at all. This time, the key was not just in controlling the fire. There was also the push and fusion of yin and yang. It was somewhat similar to accumulating the Pill. This was simply using the most direct method to display and arrange a mature environment for accumulating the Pill. The key was still in one's comprehension and control of pill studies.
Beside him, Nini continued to guide him on the yin and yang alternation and the feeling of fusion when they pushed each other. She also explained some new details of controlling the fire, the trick to controlling the fire separately, and his comprehension of the yin and yang fusion. Wang Zhong was also rapidly improving. Very quickly, he welcomed his first perfect control of the Yin and Yang Fire.
Lao Wang was not anxious. He felt that his understanding and control of the Yin and Yang Fire were still not enough. With this control technique, he might not be able to completely control this furnace of pills.
In any case, he was just incubating the furnace and using the Lightning Fire Quartz. He did not directly use the ingredients. Thus, Wang Zhong simply gave up and started again.
This went on for another 17 or 18 times. When the second Fire Quartz was gradually used up in this non-stop process, Wang Zhong finally felt that his control of the Yin and Yang techniques was slowly becoming more adept and stable. Furthermore, after a few successes, he gave up on the repeated probing calcinations. On the contrary, this allowed the entire pill furnace to have the ability to convert yin and yang.
"It's about time." Wang Zhong grasped this feeling and nodded his head silently. This time, he finally did not start again. Instead, he simply pressed his hand on the lid of the furnace. Open the furnace. Arrange the ingredients!
… …
The most difficult part of refining the Yin and Yang Pill was the beginning and the end. Even though the process of arranging the ingredients and refining in the middle became complicated and long due to the variety of medicinal ingredients, it was considered relatively easy. The foundation that he had built from refining the Vitality Supplement Pill provided the best feeling and experience for this complicated refinery process. This allowed the entire process to be orderly and without any surprises or dangers.
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