Ye Yun watched the pills emerge from the Guiyuan Pill Furnace, a million at a time, his expression calm, but his heart bleeding.
This Guiyuan Pill Furnace was a bit of a scam. Ye Yun had refined over twenty million pills in the real world, yet no matter how many he made, its proficiency level remained unchanged.
This time, Ye Yun had refined a total of five million pills, two million of which were辟谷丹 (Bigu Pills), and the rest were for restoring true essence and healing various injuries. This amount would be enough for the hundred thousand personnel to consume for two years! To ensure the success of this expedition of a hundred thousand main gods into the Ninth Universe, Ye Yun had prepared thoroughly!
After everything was settled, Ye Yun retreated to the medicine garden, intending to use the time formation within to comprehend the laws of time.
The universe contained countless elements that flowed ceaselessly according to their own rules, thus forming their respective laws.
The most direct way for cultivators to master these laws was to purify their true essence to its extreme, aligning it with the corresponding law, and thus directly controlling it.
Another method was comprehension, which could be aided by an object or driven by the cultivator's own intent.
Ye Yun was currently using the formation in the medicine garden to try and glimpse the true meaning of the law of time.
"Empress, His Majesty has been standing in the medicine garden for a full ten days. Look…"
Wang Chen stood behind Ding Yi, observing Ye Yun on a mountaintop, speaking to Ding Yi as she approached. After that one joyous occasion, Ding Yi had become the sole empress in the harem.
"Alright, come over!" Ye Yun retracted his aura and addressed the approaching figure. He wasn't truly in seclusion, nor had he shut off his senses. He knew why Wang Chen was so anxious.
"This… Congratulations, Your Majesty, on your divine accomplishment." Wang Chen approached with an awkward smile.
Damn it!
Hearing this, Ye Yun felt an overwhelming urge to blast the man with a palm strike. He had spent ten days comprehending without making any headway, and now this guy said that. Wasn't this mocking him?
"The Law of Time, along with Space and Destiny, are known as the three supreme laws. They are not so easily comprehended. Your subject believes in balancing work and rest; this is not something that can be achieved overnight." Ding Yi walked over, looking at Ye Yun with a hint of shyness on her face.
"Heh heh, Wang Chen, look at the Empress's eloquence. It's no wonder your company went bankrupt." Ye Yun put his arm around Ding Yi and, turning his head, gave the embarrassed Wang Chen a disdainful look.
"By the way, gather a thousand portions of medicinal herbs for Wisdom Pills. The sooner the better." Ye Yun transmitted the list of thousands of herbs, along with their required ages and medicinal properties, directly into Wang Chen's mind.
"Alright, I'll have them prepared immediately. However, Boss…"
"What 'however'? If you want more, prepare more." Ye Yun, seeing the constipated expression on his face, knew exactly what he was thinking.
"Great! Thirty minutes, and it'll be ready." Hearing Ye Yun's words, Wang Chen's face lit up with joy, and he dashed off.
"Heh heh, Brother Wang is truly amusing." Seeing Ye Yun and Wang Chen's playful banter, Ding Yi's heart felt at ease. He was still the Ye Yun she knew before; he hadn't changed.
"Let's go, I'll take you to play." Ye Yun looked at Ding Yi, who exuded a different kind of charm. True essence surged from his hand, earth churned, and in an instant, a small two-story house was erected on the spot.
"Where are we going to play?" Ding Yi's heart leaped with joy and anticipation.
"Of course, to the Land of Ultimate Bliss!" Ye Yun waved his hand, and the earth law surged, isolating the entire pavilion from the outside world. Wang Chen, who was arranging for pharmacists and alchemists to collect herbs in the distance, felt a pang of heartbreak. Ye Yun had just destroyed tens of thousands of herbs, some over a hundred thousand years old.
Half an hour, not a minute more or less. Ye Yun straightened his clothes and, under Ding Yi's shy gaze, stepped out of the makeshift cultivation area.
Outside, Wang Chen also arrived precisely on time.
"Boss, here. This time I prepared a full ten thousand portions." Wang Chen found a flat spot and transferred all the prepared medicinal herbs to Ye Yun.
Refining a single Wisdom Pill required over a thousand herbs. Ten thousand portions meant tens of millions of herbs. Ye Yun was startled by the man's speed.
The primary effect of a Wisdom Pill was to greatly enhance a cultivator's comprehension in a short period, with a certain chance of allowing the cultivator to enter a state of enlightenment, making it a powerful tool for any cultivator studying techniques and understanding the great forces of heaven and earth.
This illustrated the importance of Wisdom Pills for a cultivator. Unfortunately, refining one required a thousand high-grade herbs, and it was not something that ordinary Spirit-grade alchemists could achieve.
Spirit-grade alchemists needed to master at least one nascent flame to have a 30% chance of success! As for alchemists above the Spirit-grade, if they mastered a nascent flame, their success rate could reach over 50%!
In other words, even a demon butterfly would go to any lengths to acquire a Wisdom Pill!
In terms of talent, Ye Yun was unparalleled in the Ten Universes. However, when it came to comprehension, Ye Yun was helpless. Comprehension was a natural gift, something that could not be improved.
Judging from the situation of humans entering the Extreme Realm this time, human comprehension had significant limitations. Currently, nearly all twenty-odd Extreme Realm powerhouses were unable to break through their cultivation levels due to their inability to comprehend laws.
Apart from Ye Yun, only Wang Chen had mastered three laws, Zhou Ningdong had mastered two, and everyone else had only mastered one origin law.
Origin laws were the inherent attributes of one's true essence. It could be said that upon breaking through to the Extreme Realm, one would almost instantly gain control of them.
Like Ye Yun's Law of Flame, which was derived from reaching the peak of a cultivation technique. This was the easiest law to comprehend and master!
*Bang…*
A dull thud suddenly came from the Guiyuan Pill Furnace. Even Ye Yun outside could smell a burnt odor. Then, under Ye Yun's control, over a thousand pills with purple halos floated out of the furnace.
"This is a Wisdom Pill? Holy crap, why does it look so ethereal?" Wang Chen exclaimed as he watched the pills land in Ye Yun's hand.
Ye Yun remained silent, his expression so dark it could drip water.
The success rate was still too low. It seemed he needed to upgrade the pill furnace's level in the game. Only a little over a thousand pills from ten thousand portions of medicinal herbs – a success rate of less than 20%. If the Guiyuan Pill Furnace was like this, it showed how difficult it was to refine this pill.
Ye Yun tossed a porcelain bottle containing twenty Wisdom Pills to Wang Chen, and then popped one into his own mouth. His divine sense immediately expanded, covering the time acceleration formation beneath his feet.