Today was the day Chen Xia prepared to refine pills.
So he chose a sunny and breezy good day, with the sun hanging in the mid sky, not glaring, but still warm.
In the days that had already entered autumn, this was considered pretty good weather.
He still wore a green robe, carrying the medicinal ingredients he had barely managed to gather, walking on the green stone floor of the small pill hall, occasionally stepping on fallen leaves, pressing them slightly into the soil.
It was also considered facilitating reincarnation.
Chen Xia sighed.
He felt that he was indeed doing good deeds all the time, back in Blue Sky Sword Sea, he was already known far and wide as a great good person.
First he eliminated the tyrant Qiong Qi, helping many cultivators overturn their situations, and also helped Qiong Qi reincarnate.
Later he crippled the evil tyrant The Fourth Law Elder, helping him retire earlier to receive a pension.
Why was he so gentle?
Chen Xia felt very emotional, shook his head, the green robe fluttered with the autumn breeze, amidst the flying fallen leaves, the nearby big tree swayed twice, and suddenly stopped.
Because a fallen leaf had dropped onto Chen Xia's head, he glanced sideways at the big tree.
The big tree didn't dare sway anymore, even the fallen leaves were very restrained, this was a kind of survival instinct.
Chen Xia removed the fallen leaf from his head, casually dropping it to the ground, then walked quite a distance forward, went down Inverted Mountain, and went deep into the mountain range to refine pills.
He was afraid the small pill hall couldn't withstand the incoming heavenly thunder, and would directly collapse.
When he reached the secluded deep mountains where there was no one around, Chen Xia put down the ingredients he was carrying, and started boiling water and lighting a fire.
If anyone else saw this, they absolutely wouldn't believe he was preparing to refine pills, preparing to cook food was more likely.
But for Chen Xia, previously there really wasn't much difference, now it was different.
Because in the last period of time in Blue Sky Sword Sea, Chen Xia felt too bored, so he studied pill refining for a period of time.
He could speak about some principles of pill refining, and knew why to refine like this.
But it was useless.
Chen Xia only had one sentence to evaluate it.
Not as good as stir frying.
The pot was already set up, the fire was also lit, it just needed a simple fire, without much difficulty, the orange-yellow flame burned, rolling at the tips.
Chen Xia poured some oil into the pot based on his sense of ritual, preparing to heat up the pot first.
He didn't know if this was his sense of ritual for refining pills, or for cooking.
Then a familiar old pal appeared.
The spatula.
The ingredients didn't need to be cut, just placed in the iron pot like this, waiting for the medicinal essence to volatilize a bit, there was no need to rush.
When the medicinal essence had mostly come out, during pill congealing.
Chen Xia held the spatula, rounded it smoothly inside the pot, his right hand holding the pot started flipping wildly.
If he couldn't refine pills, perhaps he could become an excellent chef.
Unfortunately based on the current scene, pill refiners and chefs would both remain silent if they saw it.
It was a patchwork monster.
The grade of the pill wasn't too high, so it also didn't take too long to refine, after two hours, thunder clouds gathered in the sky, with dense rumbling thunder roiling inside, occasionally roaring, as if about to fall at any moment.
This represented it was about to become a pill.
It was just that this heavenly tribulation was somewhat beyond Chen Xia's expectations.
It was a bit too small, not as fierce as when refining pills in Blue Sky Sword Sea. If compared to the heavenly tribulation in Blue Sky Sword Sea, this pill at most was only a low-grade Dao pill level.
It was possibly because the heaven and earth were different here, Qing Province cultivators were weaker, at most they could only withstand a low-grade Dao pill level heavenly tribulation.
Chen Xia didn't think much of it, a low-grade Dao pill was fine too.
He had this kind of mentality.
The cultivators in the distance were not able to remain calm, seeing this terrifying heavenly tribulation, just glimpsing it inadvertently made their hearts shake tremendously.
"What's going on, how can there be such a terrifying heavenly tribulation, could it be some supreme expert is about to break through to the Reverse Ocean Realm?!"
"With this degree of heavenly tribulation, it's hard to say, but it's also possible a wondrous treasure has emerged, there are records of it in the chronicles, an extreme quality Dao artifact!"
"..."
The cultivators' discussions continued endlessly, but none of them dared approach, if it really was a cultivator breaking through to the Reverse Ocean Realm, for them to go take a look would be courting death.
Moreover, even if it was a wondrous treasure appearing, what business was it of theirs.
It would definitely be the Moving Mountain Realm supreme experts of The Eight Great Forces fighting over it, even if they obtained the treasure as ants, it would only lead to a dead end.
They didn't dare think any further, only watched as the heavenly tribulation finally rumbled, then turned into a hundred-meter thick lightning pillar crashing down madly.
The sky was full of flashing lightning!
Qing Province's Moving Mountain Realm supreme experts had almost set out the instant the heavenly tribulation appeared, although they were close, they didn't get closer, only observed from several dozen li away.
Waiting for when the heavenly tribulation crashed down, their expressions changed, and they retreated another several dozen li first, afraid of being affected by the heavenly tribulation, tainted by karma.
When the hundred-meter wide lightning pillar had almost finished crashing down, and was about to disappear.
They simultaneously flashed forward in that instant, if it really was a wondrous treasure appearing, they had to seize the moment when the heavenly tribulation finally disappeared to snatch it, that was the fastest way.
The hundred-meter lightning pillar finally had only a bit left, the surroundings revealed a bottomless pit, the same size as the lightning pillar.
Only in the middle there was still some flickering lightning.
The thunderclouds in the horizon gradually dispersed.
The last bits of lightning were also about to vanish.
The Moving Mountain Realm cultivators' minds tightened, they were all considered supreme existences in Qing Province, competing equally in the past.
If there really was a wondrous treasure inside the heavenly tribulation, whoever obtained it could possibly break this equilibrium.
And even if they couldn't obtain it themselves, they couldn't let others obtain it either.
Everyone shouldn't think of benefitting, continuing the equilibrium was the way.
And the heavenly tribulation finally completely disappeared.
A stone pillar appeared in the middle, it was the only stone pillar left in the bottomless pit, just barely big enough for one person to stand on.
Looking further up was a green robe.
Seeing this green robe, the few Moving Mountain Realm cultivators' minds jumped, and they silently thought this was not good.
This commotion wasn't a wondrous treasure appearing, but a supreme expert breaking through!
They just didn't know which supreme expert could bring about such a breakthrough heavenly tribulation, could it be after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, Qing Province was finally going to produce a Reverse Ocean Realm supreme cultivator?!
Their thoughts halted, because the green robed figure had fully appeared.
Refined features, a tranquil smile, in his hand holding a glistening, shining pill, smiling and asking them.
"You came specially to congratulate me?"
The few Moving Mountain Realm cultivators' gazes paused on him briefly, then quickly fell onto that glistening, shining pill. Even from this distance, they could smell the medicinal fragrance.
And the aura of the pill was simply shocking.
"Dao... Dao pill?!" One of the Moving Mountain Realm cultivators directly cried out, even going hoarse.
Chen Xia glanced at the pill in his hand, shaking his head.
"Just a low-grade Dao pill, it's truly a pity."
This heaven and earth didn't allow for refining better pills.
The few Moving Mountain Realm cultivators swallowed, their expressions blank, only feeling like Chen Xia had made them pretend with all their might.
Just a low-grade Dao pill?
A pity?