Volume 1, Chapter 140 – Spirit Transformation Pill

Shi Lan vaguely remembered that when she had completed her reputation achievement, one of the rewards had been a chance to reset the lottery.

Because she had been hurrying on the road at the time, she had never looked into it carefully.

Now that things had taken a sudden turn for the better, Shi Lan pressed the reset button without the slightest hesitation.

The wheel began to spin again, light flaring brightly.

【Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a six-star item: one Spirit Transformation Pill】

Six-star!

A flash of wild joy crossed Shi Lan’s eyes. As the ancients said, extreme misfortune turns to good fortune. It really was true.

Exiting the lottery interface, Shi Lan opened the system’s temporary storage and took out a purple pill the size of a baby’s fist.

The moment the purple pill appeared in the quiet room, a surge of spiritual qi roared out, whipping up a raging tide of qi that swept through the room.

The pure and dense spiritual qi made Shi Lan unconsciously close her eyes, take a light breath. The qi gathered into two strands of white mist visible to the naked eye and poured into her nose and mouth.

The instant the spiritual qi entered her body, Shi Lan felt a tingling run through her flesh, and all her bones and tendons stirred with excitement.

Before she could savor that comfortable feeling, the strange sensation from her palm pulled her back to herself.

The Spirit Transformation Pill lying in her hand was swelling and contracting, its surface slowly rising and falling as it breathed in and out spiritual qi like a living thing.

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Forcing down the impulse to just toss the pill into her mouth, Shi Lan silently asked, “System, what use does this Spirit Transformation Pill have?”

【The Spirit Transformation Pill can help intent transform into spirit, greatly increasing a martial artist’s chances of breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm. It is suitable for martial artists of the Myriad Phenomena Realm.】

Shi Lan frowned slightly and asked again, “Do I have any way to take it now?”

【The medicinal power of the Spirit Transformation Pill is extremely gentle. The Host may directly swallow it. However, with the Host’s current cultivation, it will be very difficult to wear through the pill skin. There is an extremely high chance you will be unable to absorb its medicinal power and will excrete it intact.】

Shi Lan fell silent. The system’s words were easy enough to understand. In short, her ability to digest it was not enough. The Spirit Transformation Pill would very likely go in looking one way and come out looking exactly the same.

With such a spiritual pill in front of her, Shi Lan was unwilling to just give up. Unreconciled, she sent out a wisp of true qi, condensed it into astral qi, and slashed it down on the Spirit Transformation Pill.

Clang!

Sparks flew. The astral qi was unable to do anything to the Spirit Transformation Pill and shattered from the backlash.

The Spirit Transformation Pill did not change in the slightest. It continued to rise and fall gently, drawing in and spewing out a vast amount of spiritual qi. Even without taking it, just by relying on the spiritual qi it breathed out, Shi Lan’s cultivation speed could increase significantly.

After hesitating for a moment, Shi Lan silently called out:

“Samsara…”

“I can help you break it open, but forcing it apart will cause nearly forty percent of its medicinal power to dissipate. It will no longer be complete, and its effectiveness will fall sharply. I do not recommend you do this.”

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Shi Lan had only just started to speak when Samsara cut in directly.

After pondering for a while, Shi Lan’s eyes lit up. She unfolded the Black Domain and wrapped it toward the Spirit Transformation Pill.

The Black Domain completely enveloped the Spirit Transformation Pill, but after nearly half a quarter of an hour, aside from spiritual qi, it had not drawn out even the slightest hint of the pill’s medicinal power.

Shi Lan felt a bit discouraged. Just as she was about to withdraw the Black Domain, a trace of extremely faint clear qi came from within it. Instead of flowing into her meridians, it surged straight into her mind.

Not daring to be distracted, Shi Lan closed her eyes, clenched the pill in her hand, and carefully felt out the effects of that wisp of clear qi.

That wisp of clear qi felt somewhat familiar to her. It was similar to the Enlightening Jade Dew she had taken before, yet also different.

The clear qi pouring out from the Spirit Transformation Pill seemed to be changing something even more fundamental.

The sense of clarity as if her very soul was being washed clean almost made Shi Lan unable to pull herself out of it.

The wisp of clear qi was too weak. In about the time it took to drink a cup of tea, it was spent.

Shi Lan opened her eyes somewhat unsatisfied, looking at the Black Domain, full of expectation as she waited for the next strand of clear qi to arrive.

Only after nearly half an hour did the second wisp of clear qi finally transmit from the Black Domain.

Along with that clear qi came an indescribable fatigue. Shi Lan could no longer sustain the Black Domain, and the phantasmal scene behind her slowly dispersed.

This was the first time Shi Lan had kept the Black Domain open for so long. She did not know whether it was because of the duration, or because the Spirit Transformation Pill was simply too hard to gnaw through, but the consumption was quite heavy.

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She had never figured out what the Black Domain was driven by. Now, with waves of exhaustion coming from her mind, she roughly had some idea.

Nourished by that clear qi, Shi Lan quickly revived, her gaze brightening with a new gleam of spirit.

Shi Lan did not open the Black Domain again to absorb the Spirit Transformation Pill. Instead, she circulated the Yuqing Creation Art to digest the dense spiritual qi the Black Domain had incidentally drawn into her body earlier.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye…

Feeling the dense true qi surging through her body like crashing waves, a hint of satisfaction appeared in Shi Lan’s eyes. At this rate, it would not be long before she could prepare to attack the second acupoint.

Placing the Spirit Transformation Pill at her lower abdomen, Shi Lan lowered her lashes and was about to open the Black Domain again when the Demon-Suppressing Command in her arms sent over a message. Bai Weiyang was summoning her.

Stowing the Spirit Transformation Pill into her Universe Bracelet, Shi Lan rose and left the quiet room. Following the guidance from the Demon-Suppressing Command, she arrived at a vast plaza on the lower level of the warship.

Many figures were already standing in the plaza, at least several hundred, scattered about. Some wore black armor and belonged to the Demon-Suppressing Army, while others were martial artists from various powers, their attire all different.

The plaza was utterly silent. No one spoke idly. All gazes were on Bai Weiyang, who stood in the center of the square with hands clasped behind his back.

Not long after Shi Lan arrived, several hundred more people came. Nearly a thousand people now stood gathered.

A heart-piercing scream suddenly rang out from the edge of the plaza, shattering the silence.

Everyone turned toward the sound and saw a burly man in black armor holding a Daoist in green robes by the scruff. The Daoist’s topknot was in disarray, making him look extremely bedraggled. His face was swollen and bruised, full of dejection.

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Shi Lan recognized that burly man in black armor. He was a ten-thousand-man commander named Ren Kaiyang, a peak expert at the great perfection of the Heavenly Astral Realm. When she had moved about the warship before, she had crossed paths with him a few times.

Several martial artists standing not far from Shi Lan, upon seeing the green-robed Daoist in Ren Kaiyang’s grip, all looked somewhat surprised and began whispering among themselves.

“Isn’t that Daoist Chisong? How did he end up this miserable?”

“Judging by this, it looks like he offended the Demon-Suppressing Army.”

“That Daoist Chisong claims every word on his lips is an immortal decree, that he’s connected above to the Heavenly Palace and below to the Yellow Springs. He’s never been wrong when reading fate and changing fortunes for people. I wonder if he ever predicted he’d see this day.” The one speaking sounded rather gloating.

Shi Lan listened quietly, but in her heart she was already pondering why Bai Weiyang had summoned so many people here.

Ren Kaiyang walked up to Bai Weiyang, tossed the green-robed Daoist to the ground, cupped his fists, and said,

“General, this Daoist was someone I happened to run into while leading the troops. I saw that his cultivation was decent and sincerely invited him to help us suppress fiends.

“This slippery Daoist agreed very readily at first, but then used the excuse of going back to fetch some belongings to lure my men and me into a trapping formation. If not for a thousand-man commander under me being well-versed in formations, who knows when we would have gotten out.”

After Ren Kaiyang finished, he glanced down at the Daoist at his feet and let out a cold laugh.

“After we broke the formation, I tracked him down and captured him. This Daoist yielded even faster, saying he was willing to do his part in suppressing fiends. I had no intention of making things too hard on him and brought him back to the warship. I never expected that once he boarded, he still nursed wicked thoughts. Not only did he refuse to accept the military summons, he even tried every way he could think of to escape, and on his way out he went and stole a set of artifact-grade battle armor!”