Chapter 279 The Fourth Origin, Heavenly Realm Perfection!

Artifact Refining is different from Alchemy.

Alchemy tests the control over medicinal ingredients, flames, and techniques; it tests the understanding and Fusion of medicinal power.

Artifact Refining, however, tests the knowledge of Materials, the engraving of runes, and the Fusion of Formations with the item's Origin.

In these matters, Shen Wen was starting almost from scratch.

Fortunately, he had the heaven burning cauldron.

That cauldron itself was a top-tier product of Artifact Refining; every line and every rune on its body served as a ready-made textbook.

Shen Wen studied the Yuqing Artifact Refining Method while cross-referencing the rune arrays on the heaven burning cauldron, dismantling, understanding, and digesting them bit by bit.

During this period, news arrived from Jin Shi.

The Gold-Devouring Rat Clan had already begun searching for rare metallic Materials with all their might. The first batch of meteorite iron and mysterious bronze had been prepared and was being sent to Holy Pill City.

Shen Wen instructed Cao Ying's people to receive them, and sent some Medicinal Pills back as payment for the Gold-Devouring Rat Clan.

After all, these rats were now his people; what was due should be given.

As the days passed, one day, Shen Wen suddenly opened his eyes.

He sensed it.

That power originating from the thoughts of all living beings was once again brimming.

The Power Of Faith.

He had previously laid out his plans in the Northwest, establishing order and harvesting general belief; now, he was finally seeing the results.

The scattered thoughts of billions of living beings converged into a vast and pure Power Of Will, crossing the distance of space to pour into his Sea of Consciousness.

Shen Wen did not hesitate.

He closed his eyes, circulated the Great Origin Technique, and began attempting to open the fourth Origin.

Inside the Quiet Room, Shen Wen sat cross-legged.

The aura around his body was as heavy and still as water, without the slightest leak. But inside his body, a world-shaking change was currently taking place.

The Great Origin Technique was the supreme method for Cultivating the power of Origin.

Shen Wen had already opened three Origins previously.

And now, he was opening the fourth.

The Power Of Faith surged into his body like a tide, guided by the Great Origin Technique toward a void deep within his Qi Sea.

There, a new Origin was slowly taking shape.

This process was not easy.

Every time an Origin was opened, it required the consumption of a massive amount of energy, and the requirements for Soul Power were also extremely high.

A slight lapse in caution could lead to an unstable Origin, resulting in a regression of cultivation at best, or the complete destruction of one's Foundation at worst.

But Shen Wen possessed the Seven Apertures Exquisite Heart and the Future Non-Existence Sutra for deduction; every step he took was extremely steady.

Time passed minute by minute.

After an unknown amount of time, a low rumble suddenly echoed within Shen Wen's body.

That was the sign of a successful Origin opening.

The fourth Origin was complete.

Shen Wen opened his eyes, a flash of light passing through them. The Dou Qi in his body doubled once more, and in the next moment...

His Soul cultivation, which had been facing an obstacle, finally took that most critical step: Heavenly Realm Great Perfection.

Vast Soul energy swept out from the Shen Residence in all directions, but no one sensed anything unusual, except for the Dan Ta Three Giants, who had also reached the Heavenly Realm Soul Realm.

As well as Old Monster Lin and Xuan Danzi.

In their perception, a giant sun had suddenly appeared within Pill City, and its Soul cultivation was enough to shock even them.

Tian Leizi and Xuan Kongzi were drinking tea and discussing Alchemy. They glanced at each other, and Xuan Kongzi sighed, "The younger generation is truly to be feared!"

"What we discussed before can probably be done now," Tian Leizi said suddenly. "Heavenly Realm Great Perfection—even we cannot compare to that!"

"Yes, I will convene the Little Pill Tower and the Pill Tower Elders to discuss it! Youth is not a disadvantage; rather, it is the greatest capital!"

In Xuan Yi's residence.

Xuan Yi looked at that terrifying Soul Realm and sighed, "Yao Chen, if you were still here, I wonder if you would also be at the Heavenly Realm Great Perfection?"

"However... even you, at this age, were likely not such a heavenly genius!"

At the highest level of the Pill Tower.

Xuan Danzi narrowed his eyes, watching the Soul Power sweeping through Pill City. He raised an eyebrow slightly; a few days ago, he felt that Shen Wen was indeed only a step away.

But that step could very well have taken several years to cross.

He hadn't expected him to achieve a Breakthrough so quickly.

Recalling what Old Monster Lin had once told him—that Shen Wen was likely the Bloodline of a Dou Di or an even higher-level existence...

Looking at it now, there was indeed some truth to it.

'The potential of a Dou Di!'

At this moment, Shen Wen looked up at the sky. In his Soul vision, a giant Dragon that seemed to have no end was winding and coiling. The Dragon's eyes were tightly shut, and its body was surrounded by a strange, purplish-black flame.

When Shen Wen saw that purplish-black flame...

"Three Thousand Burning Flame?"

The giant Dragon looked down at Shen Wen, and just then, Xuan Danzi's voice suddenly rang in Shen Wen's ear: "The Three Thousand Burning Flame—do you want to refine it?"

"The Three Thousand Burning Flame absorbs the light of the stars and grows stronger and stronger.

The Pill Tower cannot keep it under Seal forever, but it holds a great grudge against the Pill Tower. Once the Seal is broken, it might destroy the entire Holy Pill City. So, if you can subdue it, that would be for the best."

"I'll think about it. Besides, isn't this supposed to be the reward for the Pill Gathering?"

Shen Wen retracted his mind. He hadn't expected that while he couldn't sense the Three Thousand Burning Flame before, he could sense it now upon his Breakthrough to the Heavenly Realm Great Perfection.

As he was pondering over what Xuan Danzi had just said...

His heart suddenly skipped a beat.

His expression changed slightly, and in the next moment, he had already disappeared from the Quiet Room.

Outside the delivery room, Qing Lin and Zi Yan were on guard. Seeing Shen Wen suddenly appear, Qing Lin hurried to meet him: "Brother Shen Wen, Sister Cai Lin, she—"

"I know."

Shen Wen interrupted her, his gaze falling on the tightly closed door.

His voice sounded steady enough, but Qing Lin could see his hands clenched tightly behind his back.

It was very quiet inside.

Too quiet.

So quiet that it made his heart panic.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to rush straight in, forcing himself to stand outside the door.

Cai Lin was a Dou Zong; her Physique far surpassed ordinary people, and the pregnancy had always been stable. There shouldn't be any problems.

Shouldn't.

But as soon as this thought surfaced, it was suppressed by another voice.

In matters like childbirth, who could say for sure?

He hadn't never seen female cultivators die due to difficult labor. No matter how high the cultivation, in such matters, nothing was foolproof.

"Brother Shen Wen, don't worry," Qing Lin said softly. "Sister Cao Ying and Sister Xiao Yi Xian are both inside; nothing will go wrong."

Zi Yan also came over, pulling on his sleeve and looking up with her small face, "That's right, that's right! Sister Cai Lin is so powerful, there definitely won't be a problem!"

Shen Wen looked down at them and quirked the corner of his mouth in a semblance of a smile.

But he didn't speak, only continued to stare at that door.

Time passed extremely slowly.

Every breath felt twice as long as usual.

Shen Wen didn't know how long he had been standing there; it might have been half an hour, or perhaps only fifteen minutes.

Just as he was about to lose his patience...

*Boom!*