Chapter Nineteen: The Gathering Treasure Basin

  Just at this moment, the tripod furnace also made a slight sound, accompanied by the fragrance of medicine, and a fine green light as thin as hair emerged from the gap between the edges of the tripod cover. After Xia Chen's impact on the threefold heaven, the yuanqi pill was successfully refined!

  Xia Chen's hand shook, his true energy scattered, and the flames in the cauldron were immediately extinguished. The fragrance of medicine instantly filled the entire room.

  Feeling the surging of the majestic true energy within his body, Xia Chen was immersed in an overwhelming joy, this time's alchemy had finally allowed him to successfully break through the three layers of the acquired realm ahead of schedule.

  The day after tomorrow, one heavy is more difficult to break through than the other. According to reason, the time it takes to break through the third heaven should be at least twice that of the second heaven. However, Xia Chen spent two months cultivating to the second heaven, but only took a little over a month to advance to the third heaven!

  Such a cultivation speed is simply terrifying.

  Half a sound, Xia Chen calmed down, he didn't go to open the cauldron to see his first successful alchemy of Yuanqi Dan, but instead showed a strange expression on his face, closed his eyes, and introspected the foreign object that had been bothering him for months.

  The day after tomorrow is triple, inner vision of Dan Tian, Xia Chen can finally feel the true face of the white tripod in his body.

  That vase presents a milky white color, only as big as a pigeon egg. The body of the vase is naturally formed, like unadorned white jade. The mouth of the vase is perfectly round, but is divided into two parts by a curved line, resembling a yin-yang diagram.

  After Xia Chen's mind and spirit entered, he could clearly feel the two parts of the deep space inside the cauldron, which seemed endless and boundless, like a mustard seed space.

  This milky white vessel remained still in Xia Chen's dantian, completely merged with his body.

  "Is this... a聚宝盆?" Xia Chen's eyes widened in shock, and suddenly, subconsciously, a word popped out of his mind.

  He had never seen a聚宝盆 before, nor did he know what it looked like, but as soon as he saw the snow-white basin with his inner eye, he felt that this should be the聚宝盆, no need to ask for reasons, it should be so.

  Recalling the first time he obtained the strange encounter a few months ago, Xia Chen's face showed a hint of realization. Apparently, the聚宝盆 was produced from that thunderclap in the clear sky and then somehow entered his body again.

  The magic of this Aladdin's lamp far exceeds one's imagination.

  I wonder how Jing Bao Pan makes itself produce a true energy response and enter the practice sect. Xia Chen thought.

  He looked inward at his Dan Tian while silently circulating his true Qi.

  A shocking scene unfolded as Xia Chen ran the true qi, with endless heavenly yuanqi pouring into his body's dantian and then transforming into true qi that gushed out of the cauldron mouth, filling his entire flesh.

  Xia Chen's mind was shocked, thinking that it was no wonder his cultivation speed was so fast. It turned out that the聚宝盆 (Treasure Basin) had been helping him to stimulate the growth of true energy all along. This object had merged with him as one entity, and its ability to stimulate the growth of true energy was equivalent to his own cultivation of true energy. He wondered where this supreme treasure came from.

  Xia Chen was lost in thought, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't imagine the origin of the聚宝盆. After a while, his head even started to hurt, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, the聚宝盆 had already become one with him, and there would be plenty of time to study it later.

  He lifted the lid of the cauldron and saw that four pale green elixirs had been successfully refined inside, which were indeed Yuan Qi Dans.

  However, the real yuanqi dan is dark green in color. These four yuanqi dan are smaller than the ones Xia Chen took, and they have fine stripes and spots on them, making them look somewhat impure.

  Obviously, these four yuanqi pills are just rough products and have not been refined to their best state.

  However, Xia Chen still looked at the Yu Pin Yuan Qi Dan with a joyful expression, after all, this was his first time successfully refining a formed pill, and even if it was just an initial product, it was still filled with a sense of accomplishment!

  Of course, Xia Chen didn't know that being able to refine the Yuanqi Dan's embryo stage in just two days would mean what it meant. If this were to spread within the cultivation world, it would immediately cause a huge stir!

  Xia Chen picked up four Yuanqi Dans with a satisfied expression and was about to put them away.

  Suddenly, a strange feeling rose from his heart, as if he could put things into the treasure basin at any time, and also take them out at any time.

  It's like an instinct, something you're born with, no need to ask why.

  Xia Chen thought for a moment, grasped the four Yu Pin Yuan Qi Dans in his hand, and when he opened his palm again, the Yu Pin Yuan Qi Dans disappeared silently. At the same time, the four Yu Pin Yuan Qi Dans appeared in the space on the left side of the聚宝盆 (Treasure Basin).

  Xia Chen's face suddenly froze, his eyes filled with incredulity. He had just wanted to verify the feeling, but he didn't expect it to be true!

  As long as he wants to, he can really put anything into the treasure basin in his body and then take it out at any time, completely ignoring the layer of belly skin in between!

  This treasure basin actually has the effect of having storage space!

  Xia Chen's heart was pounding as he reached out and grabbed four more Yuanyi Yuanqi Dans, the entire process feeling like he was putting them into nothingness and then pulling them back out again, storing them with ease.

  However, the聚宝盆 has two spaces, the left space is used for storage, and the right space is...

  The legendary Cauldron of Plenty is said to have the ability to reproduce objects.

  Xia Chen's heart beat even more fiercely as he put four more Yuanyang Dan into the right side space of the Aggregating Treasure Bowl.

  A mist suddenly rose on the right side of the space, and after it dispersed, four Yuanqi Dans turned into forty!

  Xia Chen's eyes widened in an instant, almost disbelievingly staring at this scene!

  It's indeed a fake product!

  He took out forty Yuanqi Dans, then put them back in. The mist rose again, only this time it lasted a bit longer. When the mist dispersed, the forty Yuanqi Dans had turned into four hundred!

  Xia Chen's eyes widened in shock, his expression stunned. He couldn't believe that this snow-white urn was so against the heavens!

  He was just about to continue exploring when suddenly, Han Dongyu's voice came from outside the stone room: "Xia Chen, are you refining a pill?"

  Xia Chen hastily put the elixir into his storage space and replied, "Master, I was refining the Yuan Qi Pill!"

  Han Dongyu walked into the stone room, looked at the extinguished stove fire and frowned: "Although Yuanqi Dan is the most basic dan medicine for replenishing yuanqi, it's not something that can be refined by a cultivator below the fifth stage of post-heavenly cultivation. Your true energy is too weak, and you haven't broken through to the sixth stage of post-heavenly cultivation, so you can't give birth to post-heavenly true fire, which means you can't accurately control the firing time of the dan, making the success rate of refining the dan too low."

  He paused for a moment, then said: "The reason I provided you with the medicinal materials is actually to hope that you can become familiar with their properties, rather than refining the elixir now. Although I am in charge of the medicine garden, the medicinal materials for the Yuanqi Dan are not precious items, but they also cannot be wasted."

  "Master, I..." Xia Chen was just about to say that he had already refined the infant-grade Yuanqi Dan.

  Han Dongyu's face was stern, and he interrupted him, saying: "I won't say anything to you, I just want to make you understand the difficulty of alchemy and the preciousness of medicinal materials. Originally, I thought you would cherish the medicinal materials, but it seems that I have been too indulgent towards you. From now on, the amount of medicinal materials given to you each month will be halved, and they can only be used to familiarize yourself with their properties, not for alchemy."

  At this point, Han Dongyu's tone became stern.

  "Master, if I refine a low-grade elixir, would that be considered wasteful?" Xia Chen asked cautiously, as if Han Dongyu didn't let him refine the elixir, it would block a shortcut to rapid cultivation.

  "Trash?" Han Dongyu said with a bad tone, "You can't even condense the medicinal energy and you're talking about trash? If you can refine the Yuanyang Dan, the herbs in this garden are yours to pick and refine..."

  Suddenly, Han Dongyu couldn't say anything more, his eyes fixed on Xia Chen's outstretched palm, where four pale green Yuanqi Dans lay quietly.

  "Master, this is the Yuanyi Dan I just refined. Unfortunately, the fire timing was off by a bit, but it's finally taken shape!" Xia Chen said with a hint of regret.

  "Ah!" Han Dongyu stared at Xia Chen's hand in shock, his face a picture of amazement!

  He had just said that Xia Chen wasted medicine, but unexpectedly Xia Chen immediately took out four low-grade Yuanqi Dans. Although they were low-grade, they were still genuine and valuable medicines!

  How is this possible! Han Dongyu's heart was silently roaring, without the Postnatal True Fire, relying solely on controlling the external fire, even as a Divine Ability Cultivator and Alchemy Grandmaster, he didn't dare guarantee that he could refine an Embryonic Yuan Qi Pill. Xia Chen was indeed a Postnatal Double Heavy! This is fundamentally impossible!

  These four elixirs of Yuanqi Dan are still emitting a faint warmth and medicinal fragrance, obviously they were just refined, and the Zhengxuan Sect doesn't have Yuanqi Dan, so Xiacun can't be lying.

  For a moment, Han Dongyu's gaze towards Xia Chen became extremely strange.

  "Master, what's wrong?" Xia Chen was taken aback.

  "No, no way..." Han Dongyu's mind was shaken, and his words were somewhat incoherent. "Xia Chen, you can refine the Infant Product Yuan Qi Pill, why didn't you say so earlier?"

  "Master, you didn't even give me a chance to speak!" Xia Chen said.

  Han Dongyu was taken aback, only then remembering that he hadn't let Xia Chen speak earlier. His old face flushed red as he hastily changed the subject, saying: "How did you refine it? Tell me the detailed process!"

  At this time, he had regained his composure and his face turned solemn, thinking that Gu Yuan's sacred body was not only exceptionally talented in cultivation, but also a rare genius in alchemy.

  "The disciple was after breaking through the Three Heavens of Post-Heaven, according to his feeling, controlling the fire phase, and naturally refining it into a Yuanqi Dan." said Xia Chen Dao.

  As for the strange feeling of passing on the聚宝盆 to him, Xia Chen naturally couldn't say.

  "What? You broke through the Post-Heaven Triple Layer so quickly?" Han Dongyu's heart, which had just calmed down, was once again stirred up!

  His face almost distorted, he grabbed Xia Chen's wrist and probed the true energy situation inside his body.

  A moment later, Han Dongyu put down Xia Chen's arm.

  "It's indeed the Threefold of Postnatal... I thought you'd need at least half a month to break through, but I didn't expect you to cultivate it so quickly. You truly live up to your reputation as the Ancient Yuan Sacred Body!" Han Dongyu muttered.

  A strong excitement suddenly flashed in his eyes.

  This excitement seems not to be for Xia Chen's breakthrough, but more like a greedy excitement when facing prey!