211: Dan Chenzi

Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

Yin winds howled, and the turbid, blood-yellow river water flowed endlessly, with countless suffering and wailing phantom resentful Souls rising and falling within it.

The Yin Qi here was so dense that it could freeze a Divine Soul.

In the deepest, most defiled vortex at the bottom of the Yellow Springs River, a pitch-black lotus, with only its pistil a vibrant crimson, slowly swayed—the Netherworld Blood Lotus!

Di Shenglong stepped onto the surface of the Yellow Springs water, the Law of Time and Space naturally flowing beneath his feet, preventing the defiled river water from touching him in the slightest.

The terrifying Soul-corroding Yin winds dissipated on their own as they approached his body.

His gaze penetrated the turbid river water, locking onto that Blood Lotus.

Guarding the Blood Lotus were countless powerful ghostly beings formed from the Yellow Springs' foul Qi and resentment, among which were many existences comparable to the Supreme Realm.

Sensing the aura of a living person, they let out silent screeches and surged forward, carrying monstrous resentment.

Di Shenglong didn't even raise a hand; an Supreme pressure, like Nine Heavens thunder, crashed into the Yellow Springs!

Those powerful ghostly beings that had rushed forward were like ice and snow under a scorching sun; they didn't even have time to scream before completely dissolving and annihilating in silence!

He reached out and beckoned, and that Netherworld Blood Lotus, along with a piece of pitch-black Netherworld Soil it was rooted in, broke out of the water and flew into his sleeve.

Starfall Sea.

A peculiar ocean floating in the Void Realm, its waters composed of shattered star dust and congealed Star Power, beautiful yet deadly.

Countless stellar remnants floated in the sea.

In the deepest part of the ocean, at the center of a massive graveyard formed by the accumulated remnants of countless extinguished stars, a faint but incredibly pure starlight, like a tear, hung suspended—the Star Tear!

The surrounding space was extremely unstable, filled with destructive Star Power turbulence and spatial traps.

Di Shenglong strolled across the Starfall Sea, and the violent Star Power turbulence and spatial traps were smoothed out by an invisible hand as they approached him.

He walked directly to the center of the Star Graveyard and gently tapped the Star Tear with his fingertip. Buzz! The surrounding

violent and chaotic Star Power instantly became incredibly docile, and the shattered spatial fragments were forcibly mended.

The Star Tear automatically flew into his hand.

Burial Dragon Nether Cave.

A natural cave (karst cave) buried deep within a certain forbidden land's earth pulse (earth vein) in the Central Domain. The cave walls were embedded with countless gigantic Dragon bone fossils, making it eerie and deathly silent.

In the deepest part of the cave, on an altar built from countless Dragon skull remains, a fist-sized crystal floated, within which black Dragon shadows seemed to roar and struggle—the Nether Dragon soul crystal!

Ferocious Dragon Soul resentment formed a tangible black storm, raging around the altar. An ordinary Supreme would have their Divine Soul torn apart in an instant upon approaching.

Di Shenglong ignored the storm of resentment, which was capable of tearing apart Divine Souls, and walked to the altar.

As the black storm touched him, it automatically parted as if in submission.

He did not forcefully collect it. Instead, he extended a finger, and a ray of light containing a trace of pure Divine-Demon Origin Qi essence entered the soul crystal.

The black Dragon shadow, which had been furiously roaring and struggling within the soul crystal, suddenly paused. That trace of Divine-Demon Origin was like sweet dew to its broken and ferocious Dragon Soul, bringing a sense of comfort and majesty derived from the Origin of life.

The ferocity of the Dragon shadow slightly subsided, and the soul crystal's agitation greatly diminished.

Only then did Di Shenglong put it away.

Di Shenglong's footsteps traversed several forbidden lands and restricted areas in the Central Domain, places that would make ordinary people pale at the mere mention.

Each of his actions was as smooth as flowing clouds and water, effortlessly accomplished.

Sometimes he would make an equivalent exchange, trading Supreme methods and Origin power for what he needed; other times, he would display formidable strength, making the guardians dare not act rashly; or he would directly break Restrictions with force, subduing fierce creatures.

Throughout the entire process, there were no earth-shattering battles, yet everywhere revealed the unfathomable methods and absolute control of a Great Emperor.

When the last material—the 'Void Illusory Vine,' growing in a spatial rift, from which Di Shenglong took its most essential vine heart—fell into his spatial storage, twenty rare and exotic treasures, enough to drive even Quasi-Emperors mad, had been gathered.

Di Shenglong stood in a barren Void Realm, surrounded by shattered star belts.

He spread his palm, and twenty light orbs of various shapes, emitting distinctly different but terrifyingly extreme energy fluctuations, quietly floated above his palm:

The creation mist of the Chaos Origin Stone, the surging vitality of the Creation Green Lotus Seed, the world-burning might of the Solar True Fire Essence, the destructive starlight of the Star Tear, the life-and-death strangeness of the Netherworld Blood Lotus, the ferocious Dragon might of the Nether Dragon soul crystal... various auras intertwined and clashed, yet were firmly bound by an invisible Supreme power, unable to leak even a trace.

He looked at these treasures in his palm, treasures that could drive countless ancient existences into a frenzy of competition, his eyes still as calm as an ancient well.

"Materials are ready," Di Shenglong murmured to himself, his voice echoing in the silent Void Realm. "nine revolutions nirvana dao sculpting pill... Grand Elder, I will reshape your Dao foundation!"

The next step was Alchemy.

"nine revolutions nirvana dao sculpting pill..." Di Shenglong whispered, his voice causing subtle ripples in the silent starry sky. "A Quasi-Emperor level Medicinal Pill, not something an ordinary Alchemist can refine."

Although he was a Great Emperor and knowledgeable in all Laws, he was not specialized in the Dao of Alchemy.

Refining such a Heaven-Defying Medicinal Pill required a giant in Alchemy who had reached the pinnacle of their craft, a top-tier Alchemist capable of controlling the violent medicinal properties of these twenty rare treasures and precisely grasping the profound mysteries of Nirvana and Dao sculpting.

With a slight thought, Di Shenglong's Divine Sense, like invisible tentacles, instantly enveloped the entire Saint Realm.

The Saint Realm was vast and boundless, its foundation far incomparable to the other Four Domains.

Super-forces here were merely relatively powerful existences, and there were even more reclusive Dao lineages and ancient existences lying dormant.

Di Shenglong's Divine Thought, like an invisible net, instantly covered an extremely vast area of the Saint Realm, and countless streams of information surged into his Sea of Consciousness.

He was searching for a specific fluctuation—the unique Soul imprint of a top-tier Alchemy Grandmaster, one that resonated highly with the Laws of the medicinal properties of heaven and earth.

"As expected, there's no manifestation of an Emperor-level Alchemist's aura," Di Shenglong understood in his heart.

Emperor-level Alchemists were existences capable of refining Emperor Pills and creating Heaven-Defying fortunes; even in the Saint Realm, they were almost legendary.

The waters of the Saint Realm were deeper than he had imagined; the superficial power structure might just be the tip of the iceberg, and even deeper undercurrents and secrets were beyond the full grasp of a Great Emperor.

Soon, his Divine Thought locked onto an area in the northwest direction of the Saint Realm, an area named "Danxia Ancient Realm."

There, it was one of the most prosperous places for Alchemy Legacy in the entire Saint Realm. The fragrance of pills permeated for hundreds of millions of miles, countless rare medicinal fields dotted the landscape, and even the Void Realm was imprinted with wisps of pure Alchemy Laws.

And in the core of the ancient realm, deep within a magnificent palace constructed entirely from ten-thousand-year warm jade, suspended above nine-colored auspicious clouds, an aura caught his attention.

That aura was vast yet restrained, like molten lava surging deep within the earth's core, containing terrifying heat capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas, yet it was bound by a harmonious and perfect Alchemy Dao will.

Its Soul core's resonance with the myriad medicinal Laws of heaven and earth had reached an astonishing height; although it hadn't touched the Emperor Realm, it had already stood at the Quasi-Emperor level!

"Dan Chenzi... one of the Alchemy giants of the Saint Realm, a Quasi-Emperor level Alchemist," Di Shenglong instantly confirmed the target's identity.

This person had a peculiar temperament, was obsessed with the Dao of Alchemy, disliked power struggles, and had been in seclusion for years, studying ancient Pill Formulas. He was one of the few who could refine Quasi-Emperor level Medicinal Pills.

The next instant, Di Shenglong's figure had already appeared outside the deepest Alchemist's chamber in the warm jade palace, at the core of the Danxia Ancient Realm.

There were no spatial fluctuations, no aura leaks, as if he had always been there.

The Alchemist's chamber door was tightly shut, inscribed with complex pill cauldron runes, emitting powerful Restriction fluctuations.

Di Shenglong did not force his way in.

He flicked his finger, and a speck of light, purely condensed from the Law of Time and Space and containing a trace of the essence of the Myriad Realms Return to Origin Scripture, ignored the layers of Restrictions, directly penetrated the warm jade door, and entered the Alchemist's chamber.