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Xiao Yan’s palms were in front of him and a golden Eight Trigrams Diagram surfaced between his palms in void space, above the crucible.

The originally fierce roaring noises started to become lower and lower, revealing a sense of desperation.

Everyone was shocked, “Has he removed the inner demons just like that?”

“Time…what time is it?” Someone reacted. Beside him, someone figured it out and was shocked, “From the start till now, it’s only one incense till the end of 7 days.”

Everyone turned to Xiao Yan, “Can he make it?”

“Even if he can, his speed will be slower than the two elders. I don’t believe that this cauldron of pills of his can win Grandmaster’s Nine Suns Spiritual Divine Pill!” Chang Lin gritted his teeth and shouted, “Moreover, he might not be able to cultivate these pills out and remove the inner demons. Trying to calm the pill tribulations down is not so easy.”

“Especially trying to calm it down in a short period of time won’t be easy. It’s even more difficult than before. Because he’s trying to rush, he might even commit more mistakes. I think even if he causes an explosion, it will not be beyond our imagination!”

Chen Xingyu stared at the crucible of Xiao Yan and said in a deep voice, “Calm down a little. Look at his actions carefully.”

Chang Ling was stunned. He looked at Xiao Yan carefully and discovered that Xiao Yan remained very calm and steady. He did not seem impatient at all.

His action of suppressing the inner demons with the golden Eight Trigrams Diagram seemed to be very relaxed. As streaks of mana entered the crucible, his actions were comfortable and steady. It even carried a rather miraculous rhythm to it.

This allowed Chang Ling to develop a weird feeling. It was that Xiao Yan always did this and what he was doing now was very natural to him, like breathing.

“He seems to be very familiar with suppressing the pill tribulations? What’s going on? How is this even possible?” Chang Ling was slightly stunned, “It can’t be that he can always trigger the pill tribulations every time he cultivates?”

“This is ridiculous!”

Chang Ling nodded his head subconsciously, but an ominous feeling rose in his heart. As he recalled, he became more and more unsettled.

That’s because he suddenly recalled that when the pill tribulations just occurred and when the inner demons appeared, Xiao Yan did not seem to panic and wasn’t surprised. It was as if everything was within his control.

Or rather, this was like a habit to him and he was not in any way stressed out.

From one side, in the camp of the Celestial Sect of Wonders, Ye Xinhui’s doubtful voice rang out, “Granduncle doesn’t seem to be disturbed by the pill tribulations, this is…”

He was shocked as he looked at Yang Tie beside him. Yang Tie was also incredulous and his gaze was filled with doubt. But he seemed to be enlightened too, as a few wild guesses appeared in his mind.

Yang Tie looked at Tang Jun, Yan Wuwei, Duan Muhong and the other Inferno Precipice Disciples. Yan Wuwei smiled and said, “Master has always been like this as he cultivates higher-level pills. I have seen this very rarely in recent years, but Duan Mu has always been the medicine boy for Master, thus he won’t find this weird.”

Duan Muhong said, “That’s right, every time Grandmaster cultivates a high-level pill, he will trigger the pill tribulations. After the pill tribulations settle, he says that this will allow the pills to become of higher quality.”

As he said this, everyone around was stunned.

Duan Muhong looked at them and he was perplexed, “Isn’t this how it’s supposed to be? Grandmaster showed it to us before. A pill that has undergone the pill tribulation will be of higher quality. This is the fact. Why are all of you so surprised?”

Following that, his voice became deeper and seemed as if he was muttering to himself, “I am curious why the two elders did not use such a method.”

Duan Muhong’s words were soft, but many could hear him clearly. In this instant, the expressions of everyone turned excited.

“Brag…Bragging! Instead of avoiding the pill tribulations, he actually initiated them on his own and use them to increase the quality of his pills? How can he be so confident, such that he can overcome the pill tribulations every single time? Who can guarantee that the pill tribulations can be overcome every time?” Someone from the Gu Family stuttered.

Gu Liancheng was also shocked, “That’ll be too difficult. Calming the pill tribulations is not unachievable, but the probability of success is lower than the probability of failure. How can he use that as a normal, daily training method?”

Chang Ling shook his head repeatedly, “Ridiculous, too ridiculous. The members of the Celestial Sect of Wonders are all so ridiculous and full of themselves! If they are not impatient, then what is?”

As Duan Muhong heard him, he creased his brows, “Elder, your words seem to be a little too much. Since I became a medicine boy for Grandmaster, I witnessed that he used this method every single time.”

“At the very start, the number of failures was the same as the number of successes. After that, there were very little instances of failures. In the recent year, all his attempts were successful. There was not once that he failed and the pills he cultivated were all of the best quality.”

Everyone was shocked as they looked at Duan Muhong and they shifted their gazes between Duan Muhong and Xiao Yan.

During the time when Tang Jun and Gu Liancheng were cultivating the pills, one could already tell that Duan Muhong was an honest person. He wouldn’t be lying.

Whatever that he just said contained three important messages. Firstly, when Xiao Yan used the pill tribulations to aid him in his pill cultivation, there was more than a 50% chance of success. To others, this was almost an unimaginable success rate.

Secondly, Duan Muhong’s real age and the amount of time that he had cultivated for was not a secret to cultivators of higher cultivations. Thus, they could deduce that for Xiao Yan to increase his percentage of overcoming the pill tribulations from 50% to 100% also needed some time. For him to manage it at such a speed, it was even more frightening.

If it was so easy, the Qing Ning Holy Man and Gu Yuankai would have used such a method.

From the point where the pill tribulations were overcame to the point where the medicinal effects of the pills were increased, as long as the success rate was greater than 80%, it would be a very valuable pill cultivation manual.

Thirdly, right now for Xiao Yan, as he initiated the pill tribulations before settling it down, it seemed like a habit to him. He was almost certain to succeed.

In the future, there would be many opportunities for him to cultivate pills. As he accumulated more and more, he could the quality of the pills to rise. In the first few years of his pill cultivation, he wasted a lot of medicine and herbs. But they were nothing compared to the future gains that Xiao Yan made.

“Is this real?” A bunch of junior disciples were stunned as they asked.

In an instant, even Yan Nanlai, Wu Mengqi, Gu Cheng and the rest were moved. They stared at Xiao Yan.

The spells in Xiao Yan’s left hand kept on changing. His right hand pointed to the crucible. The crucible settled down, while the golden Eight Trigrams Diagram infused into the auspicious clouds above the crucible.

The auspicious clouds had already become peaceful once again at this point. As it gathered and shrank, it turned into a transparent crystal. Following that, it continued to condense into a radiance that seemed to be transparent and yet flashing with a seven-colored radiance, as it was shot into the crucible.

The Pure Yang Primordial Fire in the crucible spread silently and nothing appeared. There was no sound, but there was a majestic and miraculous way concept that spread.

As everyone looked over closely, they could see that at the bottom of the crucible, there were 12 white pills. These pills produced a weird scent.

In each of these pills, there seemed to be clouds surging. The pills were filled with spirituality, but didn’t seem to be as active as the Nine Suns Spiritual Divine Pill or Awakening Sages Pill. These pills didn’t seem to have pill spirits, as if they were spiritual pills of a lower level.

For those who were not experts, they might mistake them as normal pills like the Gas Revolution Pills. But those who were around had some background in the art of pill cultivation. They knew that it was not that this cauldron of pill of Xiao Yan had no spirituality. It’s just that the pills were naturally quiet and peaceful, thus they seemed very stable.

The spirituality contained within the pills seemed to give each of these pills life.

Xiao Yan remained calm throughout. As he guided with his powers, the 12 pills landed in his palm.

“Please rate this Yunluo Pill.” Xiao Yan smiled. Gu Yuankai stared at the 12 pills and tried to sense them with his supernatural awareness. Xiao Yan did not stop him and allowed him to explore.

After a short moment, Gu Yuankai sighed, “I am embarrassed.”

Xiao Yan’s Yunluo Pill possessed not only the effect of calming and healing a broken soul. It could also restore damaged flesh with great effectiveness. This was a pill that Xiao Yan created after combining the Thunderous Echo Elixir with different pills along with his own understanding about pill cultivation. This was the result of his hard work all these years.

In terms of the level of this pill, this pill was greater than the Nine Suns Spiritual Divine Pill and Awakening Sages Pill. Just from this point, Xiao Yan had already won this competition.

Moreover, in terms of quality, the Yunluo Pill had gone through the pill tribulations and thus was of higher quality than the Nine Suns Spiritual Divine Pill and Awakening Sages Pill.

Suddenly, someone asked, “How long has it been? Has the time passed?”

After someone calculated the time, his expression turned complex, “It’s not yet past the time. There’s still a little time left. I’m afraid that his control of time has been very precise, much beyond what we have expected.”

“He has actually used the pill tribulations to help his pill cultivation, how is this possible?” Everyone around shook their heads subconsciously and could not believe what they saw, “It’s supposed to be a barrier to his cultivation, but it has actually aided him. How is he able to control such a dangerous method so easily?”

Suddenly, the conversation between Tang Jun and Chang Ling rose in everyone’s mind.

“To you, it may seem impatient. But to the disciples of the Celestial Sect of Wonders, it’s nothing. Greed for instantaneous glory? It’s not that we are doing that. It’s just that we can handle this glory, thus it naturally comes to us.”

It’s a risk to all of you, but manageable to us.

At this moment, everyone had the same thought – they couldn’t understand the world of the Celestial Sect of Wonders.