Opened the furnace lid.
This time, Mu Jinyu regained his state and directly produced six elixirs.
However, there were still some minor mistakes, so the Rush Yuan Pills he refined did not all possess top-grade quality with six paths elixir patterns.
Instead, they were mixed with four and five elixir patterns!
But Mu Jinyu felt quite satisfied, at least this time they were all starting as fine elixirs.
After taking another Rush Yuan Pill, Mu Jinyu felt the effect of the elixir improve after refining it, and his True Yuan inside his body had significantly strengthened.
Looking outside at the sky, it was already night.
Seeing this, Mu Jinyu decided to push down the thought of refining a batch of Rush Yuan Pills along with the identical grade elixirs purchased from the Heavenly Sword Faction at one go.
"Forget it, for today I'll just study the Rush Yuan Pill. I'll think about the other kind after the Outer Gate's grand examination ends, I can't miss the opportunity to teach Chen Qiuqiao a lesson!"
Mu Jinyu hadn't expected that analyzing a pill formula would take so much time.
He stretched lazily, got up from the ground, and instead of rushing to refine Rush Yuan Pills at night, he opened the door and went out to report the situation to Wen Rou and the others.
"Little Mu, how did it go, was it very smooth?"
Wen Rou, who was sitting outside, immediately stood up to greet him as she saw Mu Jinyu opening the door to come out, and curiously asked.
"Hmm, it went rather smoothly. I've already mastered the pill formula for the Rush Yuan Pill. Here, you take these first. I remember Little Yanzi was not far from the Fourth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm. If you take a few more Rush Yuan Pills, you should be able to break through to the Fourth Layer!"
Mu Jinyu spread his hand and handed the five freshly refined Rush Yuan Pills to Wen Rou.
"Okay," Wen Rou accepted.
Mu Jinyu then said to the two of them, "Alright, it's late, you should go rest earlier. I'll continue to ponder."
Jian Ruyan stared blankly at Mu Jinyu.
Mu Jinyu saw Wen Rou walking back to her room and turned his head to look at Jian Ruyan, only to find her standing still and looking at him with a strange gaze, so he explained:
"Using Wen Rou's body, you are now at the Fourth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm, and in a short term, you can't break through to the Fifth Layer. Since there were only a few elixirs just refined, it's better to give them to Wen Rou first."
"I understand." Jian Ruyan didn't look at him discontentedly because Mu Jinyu didn't give her elixirs to take; she was just wondering why, even though he didn't seem much different from others, he was so inhuman.
"Then why are you staring at me like that?" Seeing Jian Ruyan nod in understanding, yet still looking at him oddly, Mu Jinyu curiously asked.
Snapping back to reality, Jian Ruyan rolled her eyes at him irritably and said, "Because you are handsome!"
With that said, she twisted her slender waist and went back to her room.
Mu Jinyu watched Jian Ruyan return to her room, touched the back of his head, and muttered to himself, "Was I not handsome before?"
Shaking his head slightly, Mu Jinyu didn't bother to dwell on Jian Ruyan's girlish feelings and went back to his room to continue with alchemy and taking the elixir.
The night passed.
When a sliver of dawn appeared in the East, and the first ray of sunlight shone down.
Mu Jinyu opened his eyes and gently exhaled a breath of stale air.
After a whole night of taking Rush Yuan Pills for cultivation, he was now not far from the Seventh Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Given a bit more time, he would be able to break through to the Seventh Layer!
That was the Later Stage of the Divine Transformation Realm, which, although only one level higher in strength than the Sixth Layer, was vastly different...
So it was not that easy to break through.
On that day, at the Dragon Marrow Immortal Spring in Ruiyan Mountain, he had absorbed quite a lot of the spring, which not only increased the concentration of Dragon Blood but also surged his strength, allowing him to break through to the Sixth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm. However, the time needed to stabilize his realm had also become much longer.
Up to now, he was still at the Sixth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm, but under his Concealment Art, others always believed he was at the Fourth Layer, just like Jian Ruyan.
Now having the pill formula for the Rush Yuan Pill, it wouldn't take him too long to break through the Late Divine Transformation Realm Stage.
"Boom!"
Just as Mu Jinyu was reflecting on how he would soon break through to the Seventh Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm, a commotion suddenly erupted from the room next to him, Wen Rou's Gentle Room. The world's spiritual energy frantically surged towards her.
"No way, just five Rush Yuan Pills, and Wen Rou has broken through using Jian Ruyan's body?!"
Mu Jinyu sensed this change and couldn't help but reveal a stunned expression.
After swapping bodies, Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan not only experienced slower cultivation speeds but also found their True Yuan moving more sluggishly in their meridians, and the speed of assimilation had drastically decreased.
Mu Jinyu hadn't sensed any activity all of last night and thought that the five Rush Yuan Pills had no effect on Wen Rou.
Who would have thought that by dawn, with the sunrise in the east and the purple qi coming from the east, she would break through!
"It seems that the shopkeeper really didn't lie to me. These Rush Yuan Pills truly are suitable for assisting cultivation in the Fourth and Fifth Layers of the Divinity Transformation Realm."
Mu Jinyu said wryly, then he collected the various medicinal ingredients and the Shennong Cauldron around the room and walked out.
Outside.
Jian Ruyan had also woken up early and was practicing her divine skills. At this moment, she, too, was standing still, shocked by the breakthrough commotion coming from Wen Rou's room.
Seeing her like this, Mu Jinyu teased, "Happy now? The body you're using has reached the Fourth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm. Without cultivating, your own body, entrusted to Wen Rou, has also reached the Fourth Layer. You're really living the good life!"
Jian Ruyan glared fiercely at Mu Jinyu upon hearing his words and responded, "If you think it's so great, you could switch bodies with Wen Rou and let her cultivate for you!"
"Eh."
Mu Jinyu, unfazed by Jian Ruyan's sarcasm, actually felt that if he could really switch bodies with Wen Rou, or any of his own women, casually, that experience might not be so bad either.
As the two bickered, the breakthrough momentum inside Wen Rou's room quickly subsided.
While Mu Jinyu and Jian Ruyan quietly waited for Wen Rou to come out, conversations from other Outer Sect Disciples could be faintly heard not too far away:
"Wow, the people over here are amazing. They even managed to break through right before the Outer Gate trial!"
"Ah, if only I could break through too, then I wouldn't have to worry about failing the Outer Gate trial!"
"You seem to have already failed four times in a row, right? If you fail again this time, you'll be expelled from the Heavenly Sword Faction. Good luck!"
"..."
Mu Jinyu's interest was piqued, and he said, "So, failing the Outer Gate trial multiple times can actually get you expelled from the sect?"
Jian Ruyan affirmed, "Of course. The sect doesn't support idlers."
"Creak."
Wen Rou's room opened.
She walked out with a bright smile and said to Mu Jinyu, "Little Mu, I've finally returned to the Fourth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm."
Originally, Wen Rou was the fastest among the women in cultivation speed, having reached the Fourth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm quite early. However, after switching bodies with Jian Ruyan, she fell back to the Third Layer because that was the extent of Jian Ruyan's power at the time.
Thus, she became the weakest in terms of strength among the three who came to the Kunlun Ruins. That's why she was so determined to catch up with the others.
Finally, thanks to the five Rush Yuan Pills that Mu Jinyu gave her the day before, she broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm again, which delighted her immensely.
This was even more exhilarating than if she had broken through to the Sixth Layer of the Divinity Transformation Realm with her own body!
After all, according to Mu Jinyu's estimates, those who had switched bodies through soul seizing, like Nameless, found it extremely hard to break through in strength and wasted many years. But she had defied the norm and advanced even further after body-swapping!
"Yep, my Wen Rou is the best."
Mu Jinyu smiled as he stepped forward and gently pinched Wen Rou's delicate nose.
Standing to the side, Jian Ruyan looked at this scene with a complex emotion flickering in her eyes, but she didn't intervene.
After adapting over time, she had grown accustomed to these changes. She no longer vehemently protested the little intimacies between Mu Jinyu and Wen Rou in her own body.
Unless Wen Rou actually planned to use her body to be intimate with Mu Jinyu, Jian Ruyan would turn a blind eye.