Chapter 199: You'll Know Once You Try

"It's over?"

Staring at the lead-gray clouds that had closed up again overhead, Anton couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

For the past three days, he had been enduring lightning strikes almost nonstop.

Rampant energy surged through his entire body. Every bolt of lightning that fell felt like a red-hot iron skewer scraping through his bone marrow. Waves of agony washed over him, one after another, nearly tearing his consciousness apart.

The sensation was worse than ten thousand ants gnawing at his bones, more intense than death by a thousand cuts.

But in contrast, the rewards were extremely gratifying.

After three days of this baptism of lightning, he had managed to refine a full fifty percent of the Pill Poison.

Under normal circumstances, even with the aid of an Evil-Transforming Pill, a Nine Transitions refining formation, and a Spirit Vein, it would have taken him at least twenty years to achieve such results.