Immortal and Martial Dual Cultivation

Chapter 1965 (Raw 2063): Pill Turned Demonic

Why did I not notice that a person was standing there?

There are only two possibilities. First, he is at least a Small Perfection Sovereign Personage, someone much stronger than Liu Yuanzong, an Initial Perfection Sovereign Personage.

That would be someone who could avoid my detection.

The other possibility is that he is dead.

Xiao Chen sent out a gust of strong wind with a palm strike, and that person fell over.

“Indeed.”

It was as Xiao Chen guessed. If that person were a Small Perfection Sovereign Personage, that person would have taken him down first before doing anything else.

“Whoosh!”

Xiao Chen gently leaped up and landed beside that person. After hesitating for a moment, he flipped that person’s body over.

As he expected, it was just a withered skeleton wearing armor and some outer clothes.

No matter how incredible you were when you were alive, after you die, you cannot escape the clutches of time. Eventually, you will turn into a skeleton.

“Sigh.”

Xiao Chen pushed the skeleton aside and discovered some blurry words on the ground. After staring and trying to identify the words for a long time, he read softly, “Pill turned demure?”

The phrase did not make sense. However, in the next second, he understood, and his expression changed drastically.

It was “pill turned demonic” and not “pill turned demure.”

[TL Note: This part here has been altered by me to fit English better. “Pill turned demure” was suppose to be “pill turned wide.” However, in English, wide does not look like demonic at all. The character for wide (广) is a part of the character for demonic (魔). In this case, it appears that the word either had partly worn away or was not completed.]

The Medicinal Pill had gained a demonic nature as well as intelligence. Xiao Chen had seen something similar before. However, this was a Divine Pill that had turned demonic. Just thinking about how strong the pill would become made him tremble.

He checked his surroundings, and his expression changed.

Xiao Chen felt that everything around him seemed strange. This was not a room for Alchemy but a prison, a cage that held an evil demon.

Lingering here was bad. Xiao Chen no longer thought about fortuitous encounters. It was already enough to escape alive.

“Boom!”

Just as Xiao Chen was preparing to leave, several figures flew out from the top of the medicine cauldron.

That was not right. These people did not fly down; someone flung them off with huge force.

Before Xiao Chen could react, three explosions roared out on the ground, accompanied by metallic clangor.

These sounds echoed in the empty cave for a long time.

Three chained figures landed. Flames burned all over their bodies as they gave off bestial growls. Their eyes appeared ferocious and lacked intelligence.

“These three…”

Xiao Chen’s expression changed slightly in recognition. These three seemed to be the people who fell into the medicine cauldron earlier.

How come they became like that? They look like they no longer have any lifeforce, practically damned corpses.

Furthermore, there is someone controlling them, sealing them with chains.

Is it Liu Yuanzong?

That can’t be. Liu Yuanzong is not that strong. Giving his Initial Perfection Sovereign Stage cultivation, he is simply incapable of this.

It’s the Divine Pill. Right, it must be the powerful Divine Pill that gained a demonic nature!

These people all turned into pill slaves!

“Argghh!”

The three let out pained grunts, and their auras turned even more terrifying.

Vaguely, the three gained an aura at the level of Sovereign Personages. The flames on their bodies turned black. Now, they looked like evil demons that came from hell.

“Die! Die! Die!” the three roared and charged at Xiao Chen, showing no fear or rationality.

“Whoosh!”

Xiao Chen’s heart sank. He knew that he was in great danger, and he might die here if he was careless.

He needed to end the fight quickly. Otherwise, when Liu Yuanzong turned into a pill slave as well and came to attack him, he would give him some trouble.

Taiji Yinyang Flame Diagram!

Two resplendent lights flared in Xiao Chen’s eyes, one golden and one snow-white. The Primal Chaos Grade Heavenly Flame and Primal Chaos Grade Heavenly Snow Divine Flame burned at the same time.

Then, a majestic Taiji Yinyang Flame Diagram formed in front of him, blocking the three’s attacks.

Primal chaos Veritable Essence Energy, Taiji force field!

Xiao Chen formed hand seals with both hands, not holding anything back. His Demonic Qi Veritable Essence Energy and Spiritual Energy Veritable Essence Energy mixed to form primal chaos Veritable Essence Energy and filled his entire body.

A Taiji diagram appeared underfoot, mirroring the Taiji diagram in front of him.

As Xiao Chen continuously expended his Veritable Essence Energies, the Taiji Yinyang Flame Diagram gave off a bright light. Soon, various mysterious phenomena appeared, showing Yinyang, four divisions, the eight trigrams, and other scenes.

When the Taiji diagram’s mysterious phenomena completely formed, Xiao Chen shouted, “Taiji Burst!”

“Boom!”

The Taiji Yinyang Flame Diagram directly exploded. The blast inflicted wounds all over the three pill slaves with Sovereign-Personage-level auras as it knocked them back.

If these were ordinary cultivators, this violent attack would have crushed their bones and killed them on the spot.

However, the physical bodies of these pill slaves seemed to have been altered to become as hard as Profound Tools or even Dao Tools. They could no longer be measured by normal human standards.

“Whoosh!”

The pill slaves moved the black chains around their hands. Then, some flames appeared from the medicine cauldron.

They were just small flames, but when they descended, they turned into a heavy, endless rain of fire, blocking out his vision above.

The flames might be contaminated with the Divine Pill’s demonic nature, so Xiao Chen did not dare to come in contact with them. He stood on a lightning dragon, and his figure turned illusory. Electric light shot out as he easily dodged the rain of fire, weaving through it.

However, this rain of fire seemed never-ending.

The pill slaves did not show any fear for this rain, either. When the fire rained on them, their wounds even started to heal.

The horror of this inspired fear.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

As Xiao Chen fought with the pill slaves, he was shocked to discover that if he did not activate his Divine Dragon War Body, they were even stronger than him physically.

Thunder Great Dao! Saber Great Dao!

Xiao Chen’s face sank. He activated his Saber Great Dao and Thunder Great Dao at the same time, layering the Dao Might to boost his own aura.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

As Xiao Chen and the three pill slaves clashed with their auras, thunderous explosions rang out endlessly.

Right now, Xiao Chen’s only advantage was that the three pill slaves had lost their intelligence. Although they were tough and strong, they were full of openings. Their attacks also lacked any techniques.

“I need to stop this rain of fire.”

The endless rain of fire restricted Xiao Chen’s Movement Technique, rendering him quite passive in the fight against the pill slaves.

“Thousand Frost Battle Snow!”

Xiao Chen executed a killing move that he used when he was in the Kunlun Realm. As he circulated the Ice Feather Divine Incantation, a heavy snowstorm descended like falling leaves, covering the ground.

As the snowflakes and flames mixed, the surrounding temperature plummeted, giving Xiao Chen a lot more space to maneuver.

“Now!” Xiao Chen did not want to delay. His body trembled and turned into nine bolts of lightning.

Then, the lightning bolts turned into dragons. In an instant, nine dragons flew in the air.

Xiao Chen rammed the three pill slaves. The heavy impact and the electricity blasted the three pill slaves away.

“Whoosh!”

The nine dragons merged into one. Xiao Chen moved continuously, executing Firmament’s Rage.

A humongous hand with saber-like fingers and flickering electricity blocked the view above. When it landed, there was no place to escape to.

“Boom!”

Before the relentless attacks, the three pill slaves moaned in pain. Their bones shattered, and they burned up.

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

Xiao Chen saw three souls trying to escape. However, a burst of terrifying laughter came from the medicine cauldron.

The souls howled in pain and were dragged into the medicine cauldron, which produced even more horrifying screams.

Xiao Chen’s face sank slightly. This was his first time seeing something so difficult to deal with; it even bound the soul and made one a slave forever.

With the danger resolved, Xiao Chen thought of something. His figure flashed, and he arrived beside that skeleton again.

He searched the skeleton and, after a while, found an ancient bronze plate. There seemed to be profound text on it, recording something.

Xiao Chen remembered seeing this kind of script in the Blood-Soaked Dragon Emperor’s memories. This was an ancient script from the initial period of the Martial Epoch.

The Blood-Soaked Dragon Emperor did not know that much. Still, Xiao Chen managed to read the words with much difficulty. “Great Desolate Ten Thousand Beast Pill!”

Xiao Chen’s expression immediately changed. He recognized this extremely horrifying Medicinal Pill.

This was a Divine Pill refined by using ten thousand types of Great Desolate Eon ferocious beast souls supplemented with countless ten-thousand-year-old divine herbs.

Just the materials themselves were extremely difficult to find.

It was currently not the Great Desolate Eon but the Epoch Eon, where epochs started and ended. Countless epochs had passed before the current Martial Epoch.

The difficulty of trying to find the descendants of Great Desolate Eon ferocious beasts in the Martial Epoch could be easily imagined.

Furthermore, the supplementary herbs were all incredibly precious. Even for True Gods, collecting everything would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

To think that someone actually wanted to refine this Divine Pill.

According to legend, once such a Divine Pill was refined and consumed, it could revert one’s bloodline to the source—to a Primal Chaos God Demon.

Given the current situation, it was clear that the Medicinal Pill’s refinement failed.

To Xiao Chen, this was simply a fantasy. This was something that defied heaven, something impossible to accomplish.

Not only would it fail, but it would also cause a huge disaster.

This Divine Pill contaminated with a demonic nature horrified Xiao Chen. If it was released, it would be an extremely horrifying disaster.

Without even having to think, he promptly tossed this ancient bronze plate into the stokehole of the medicine cauldron to destroy this Alchemic Recipe that caused harm to people.

Xiao Chen continued searching the skeleton, feeling that there should be more.

Just at this moment, the black chains that initially bound the pill slaves started snaking silently towards Xiao Chen.