After capturing this Hall of Souls Venerate, Han Feng quickly extracted his memories.
But unfortunately, there were no crucial clues in these memories.
The task of the Hall of Souls Dou Venerate was to participate in the Pill Gathering and strive to win the championship. As for his choice to start a massacre among the contestants in the Pill Realm, it was just him acting on his own, wanting to lower the difficulty of winning the championship.
The only suspicious point was that a superior in the Hall of Souls gave him an order: after entering the top ten and entering the Star Domain, activate the spatial scroll to open a spatial gate in the Star Domain.
There is no need to think much about what is behind the spatial gate; it must be the people of the Hall of Souls ready to make a move.
Han Feng casually condensed this Spirit State soul into a soul bead, then refined the entire body of the Dou Venerate corpse to ensure no backup plans were left behind.
It seems the target of the Hall of Souls is the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but whether they want to subdue it is not certain.
The Three Thousand Burning Flame is like a bomb. If no one can subdue it, there is a danger of explosion at any time.
And with the power of this Heavenly Flame, once it goes out of control and explodes, it can completely burn the entire Holy Pill City to ashes.
For now, he can only take it one step at a time.
Han Feng came to a valley. With a thought, a ball of blue flame like water ripples ignited before his eyes.
Boom!
The Sea Heart Flame burned the corpse of the Hall of Souls Dou Venerate, washing away all residual flesh and blood aura in his body in a few breaths.
A moment later, Han Feng flicked a wisp of Fallen Heart Flame into the soul bead he just condensed.
Soul and flesh, dual refinement, the prototype of the puppet was completed.
This puppet was refined using the physical body of the Hall of Souls Dou Venerate, so there was no difference in appearance.
But looking inside, one would find it had been completely controlled by Han Feng.
Shoo!
Han Feng shot the soul bead into the puppet's body. Soul and flesh merged. The originally dead soul power quickly nourished the physical body. A pair of lifeless eyes rolled around, and a trace of spiritual agility faintly shot out.
"From now on, you are still a Hall of Souls Dou Venerate. Continue according to the original plan. After entering the Star Domain, follow my commands entirely."
"Yes..."
After implanting the order, Han Feng's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.
The divine consciousness of the Dou Venerate slowly recovered. Because Han Feng used his own soul bead, he remembered everything that had happened.
"Damn it, actually let her escape!"
The Hall of Souls Dou Venerate shouted angrily.
"But why did I appear in this place?"
The Hall of Souls Dou Venerate rubbed his head, then subconsciously ignored this.
"Forget it, let's go find medicinal ingredients first."
The Hall of Souls Dou Venerate sent a signal, telling those Hall of Souls subordinates to gather quickly.
A moment later, those Hall of Souls Envoys gathered in front of the Venerate one after another.
"Where are they? Didn't catch a single one?"
"Venerable Elder, please forgive us! The spatial barrier was broken, and they all retreated from the Pill Realm, failing to keep them..."
The life-saving items given by the Pill Tower were quite reliable. Unless encountering an insane Dou Venerate powerhouse, it was very easy to save one's life.
"Forget it, as long as they are eliminated."
The Hall of Souls Venerable Elder waved his hand. Since it came to this, blaming was useless.
The biggest regret was failing to keep those two Pill Tower geniuses.
"Go collect medicinal ingredients."
The Venerable Elder let his subordinates scatter to collect medicinal ingredients, while he sat down on the spot, nurturing his mind, preparing for the final assessment of the third round.
A few days later, the deadline arrived.
For those alchemists who hadn't finished collecting medicinal ingredients, the spatial jade stones beside them automatically shattered, and a spatial fluctuation flashed by, teleporting them outside.
After Han Feng and Xiao Yan submitted the materials, they successfully entered the third round.
"Senior Brother, why are there so few people participating in the third round?"
Xiao Yan looked at the people who finally ascended the stone platforms and found there were much fewer than he expected.
Han Feng said: "There were some wicked people in the Pill Realm who eliminated many alchemists."
"Ah?"
Xiao Yan was surprised.
In the second round, which was calm and even a bit boring for him, so many people were actually "killed in action".
Fortunately, I wasn't stubborn and said I wanted to find them myself.
Xiao Yan felt some lingering fear.
It's just that he still didn't know that if Han Feng hadn't taken down the Hall of Souls Venerable Elder, those eliminated alchemists wouldn't even have had the chance to come out.
The cultivation world is sinister. If encountering malicious people, one can only pray their strength is strong enough or luck is good enough.
At this time on the stone platform, Cao Ying's gaze was searching in the crowd, seemingly looking for something.
She wanted to thank the senior who saved her in the Pill Realm face to face.
But who exactly was it?
Cao Ying directly ignored those of her age because she felt that voice sounded like an older senior.
Perhaps due to a woman's intuition, Cao Ying's gaze intentionally or unintentionally swept over Han Feng.
Han Feng noticed Cao Ying's little movement but didn't care much. His gaze turned to Chen Xiaoyu, who was waving at him.
This girl had good luck, didn't encounter interception by the Hall of Souls Envoys, and passed smoothly.
On the chief high platform, the three giant figures of the Pill Tower appeared again.
Xuan Kongzi looked at everyone on the stone platforms below and spoke: "First of all, congratulations to you who can stand here. You have passed the screening of the first two rounds and entered the final round, which is also the most important assessment of the entire Pill Gathering, alchemy!"
"The stone platforms in the sky are your stage to perform. There, I hope you can bloom the most brilliant moment of your life!"
"Glory will be born among you!"
A short speech, like a spark, completely ignited the atmosphere of everyone present.
The alchemists, full of fighting spirit, flew towards the stone platforms in the sky one after another.
In the phantoms under the sun, each dazzling figure represented a genius. They might have walked out from small border towns and grown step by step into respected alchemists, or they might have come from major alchemy families, enjoying the name of a genius since childhood.
But no matter what, standing on this stage, alchemy is the standard for judging everything.
Identity and status are not important. As long as one can refine high-quality pills, one can get honor, status, and respect!
Han Feng and Xiao Yan each found a place. Because refining a Rank 8 pill later would cause a big commotion, it was better not to be close to each other. In case the Pill Lightning combined later, Xiao Yan would have nowhere to cry.
Fortunately, there were not many alchemists qualified for the final round, and the venue was quite spacious. Han Feng chose a spot on the edge and sat down.
As for the few stone platforms in the center, leave them for the young people to show off.
Although in terms of seniority, he still fits, normally speaking, it would have been most appropriate for him to participate in the previous session.
Now delayed by thirty years, in the mouths of mortals, he could be considered an old grandpa.
Han Feng's mind moved slightly, subtly controlling the Hall of Souls Dou Venerate to come to a place near him, making it convenient to control later.
A moment later, everyone took their places. Seeing everyone seated, Xuan Kongzi swept his gaze over the whole venue and said slowly: "The time has come. Everyone, please raise your cauldrons and refine pills!"
Dong!
A long bell rang, and all the alchemists in the venue quickly summoned their medicine cauldrons.
Countless medicine cauldrons fell on the stone platforms at the same time, making sounds of clashing metal. This dense sound of falling cauldrons lasted for a full ten seconds before stopping.
Boom!
As the medicine cauldrons fell, the alchemists sacrificed their respective flames.
Nearly a thousand flames ignited at the same time, the scene extremely spectacular. An alchemy competition of this level can only be seen in the Pill Tower.
A bloody-red, bizarre flame ignited in Cao Ying's hand, emitting a mysterious and weird power. This was the Blood Demon Flame Fire, refined from the blood of nearly a thousand magical beasts, giving a feeling of an inferior Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire.
But although it's "inferior", looking outside the Heavenly Flames, this Blood Demon Flame Fire is indeed hard to find an opponent and is already a first-class powerful flame.
Xiao Yan took a deep breath, and the Fallen Heart Flame was released outside his body.
Under his years of use, this sub-flame was already like an arm directing its fingers, almost no different from a normal Heavenly Flame.
Generally speaking, only Heavenly Flames ranked quite high will give birth to something like a "child flame".
But in fact, as long as a Heavenly Flame is developed to a very deep level, whether it's Void Swallowing Flame or Mysterious Yellow Flame, it can differentiate into a child flame, equivalent to artificially creating a newborn Heavenly Flame.
As soon as the Fallen Heart Flame came out, the surrounding flames experienced fluctuations of varying sizes.
When a Heavenly Flame appears, all flames submit!
A group of alchemists looked at Xiao Yan in shock. This person actually has a Heavenly Flame?
The appearance of a Heavenly Flame possessor in the huge Pill Gathering competition venue is not considered rare, but seeing it with one's own eyes still inadvertently creates feelings of envy.
Seeing everyone's shocked expressions, Xiao Yan felt somewhat speechless in his heart.
If you saw Senior Brother's flame, that would be a real shock.
As the former practitioner of the "Flame Mantra", Xiao Yan knew that Han Feng had already swallowed many Heavenly Flames. The level of this cultivation method now had probably already broken through the Heaven Class.
In front of Han Feng, the crimson Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron settled down.
A famous medicine cauldron on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking immediately attracted the attention of some people nearby.
"Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron!"
"Actually one of the Heavenly Cauldrons!"
"It seems this person is a tricky... What?!"
Boom!
The power of the Mysterious Yellow Flame connected with heaven and earth. The flames in the hands of surrounding alchemists were instantly suppressed, even almost extinguished.
Thanks to the fact that it had just started and hadn't entered the pill refining stage, otherwise, cauldrons would have exploded directly all at once.
"Heavenly Flame!"
Han Feng pointed a finger, and the Mysterious Yellow Flame flew completely into the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron.
Under his intentional control, the surrounding pressure converged mostly, but it still caused a change in the mentality of those alchemists. When summoning their flames again, they all became a bit more cautious.
"Senior Brother has started to exert force over there; I should also hurry up."
Xiao Yan collected his mind, took out the previously prepared medicinal ingredients one by one, and began to refine them in sequence.
On the stands, the gazes of the three giant figures of the Pill Tower all focused on Han Feng.
"He is Yao Chen's disciple, Han Feng."
"Isn't there another one named Xiao Yan?"
Tian Leizi, the only one among the three who was not very familiar with Yao Chen, said.
Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi didn't speak. They were insiders; the infant Yao Chen adopted back then was named Han Feng.
"Both are formidable figures, Fallen Heart Flame, Mysterious Yellow Flame."
Xuan Kongzi sighed.
"Master and disciples, three people, actually have one Heavenly Flame each."
Xuan Yi watched Han Feng's proficient alchemy techniques, his demeanor calm and unhurried. She couldn't find a single fault. If it were her, she probably couldn't do better than him.
"This Han Feng, is not simple..."
The disciple trained by Yao Chen is indeed not bad!
Time passed minute by minute.
Refining pills is something that requires a lot of patience, especially refining high-quality pills. It's very normal to refine continuously for ten days or half a month.
The cultivators who came to watch the Pill Gathering mostly had this mental preparation, so they were not impatient. Moreover, the opportunity to observe so many alchemists refining pills is rare. If they can see some profoundness from it, they still profit.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
A small part of the alchemists had successfully refined pills, but when the pills were formed, they also clearly knew that their journey in this Pill Gathering had reached its end.
Pills refined in five days, unless the alchemist's skills are particularly superb, are mostly just at the Rank 5 level. Perhaps some people can break through the limit, but no matter what, they cannot contend with those Rank 7 and Rank 8 pills.
These alchemists retreated sadly. The remaining contestants will display even more dazzling and brilliant achievements.
Another five days passed.
The first pillar of energy light rose from the stone platform, representing the appearance of the first Rank 6 pill in this Pill Gathering. The subsequent competition will also officially enter the Rank 6 level.
A Rank 6 pill, placed in the Jia Ma Empire of the Northwest Continent, is already the peak level. But looking out now, there are still nearly a hundred alchemists continuing to refine.
"Entering the white-hot stage."
On the stands, some discerning cultivators said.
The anomaly of Rank 6, the next step is...
Rumble!
In the sky, dark clouds gathered, and the first clap of thunder sounded.
"Pill Lightning, it's Pill Lightning!"
On the stone platform, a man's expression was ecstatic. He drew out this first Pill Lightning!
In the Pill Gathering, some people might not get a very good ranking, but drawing out the first Pill Lightning can add some fame to him.
The birth of the first Pill Lightning made the hearts of the others tighten slightly.
With Pill Lightning descending, the energy fluctuations will become increasingly intense. Whether they can bravely scale new heights next is not only a question of alchemy skills but also the collision between Dou Qi, soul power, and flames!
The time to each display divine might has come!
Cao Ying's hand gestures changed. The Blood Demon Flame Fire burst out with a strange light, and the power of the essence blood of a thousand magical beasts raised the energy inside the medicine cauldron by a notch.
A pure soul fluctuation lit up on the glabella of the Dan family's Dan Chen. Her soul power transformed into a human-shaped phantom, her hands wrapping outside the medicine cauldron.
Xiao Yan took a deep breath, and the Fallen Heart Flame turned into a formless fire dragon, hovering above the medicine cauldron.
The other alchemists also displayed their trump card moves respectively.
For a time, the sky above the Pill Gathering was full of anomalies. This is the most glorious highlight!
However, Han Feng still refined calmly as an old god, not disturbed by these auras.
"Hahaha, it's done, I did it!"
An alchemist held the newly refined Rank 7 pill in his hand and laughed wildly at the sky.
Some are happy, naturally some are sad.
Some alchemists whose cauldrons exploded not only cut off their own achievements in the Pill Gathering but also affected the alchemists beside them.
Those with bad luck were directly eliminated.
As batches of alchemists who successfully refined or exploded their cauldrons retreated, only thirty-six alchemists were left on the stone platforms.
These are true experts, powerhouses capable of sprinting for the top ten!
At this point, it's no longer about who can drag it out longer is more formidable; whether a pill can be formed is the key!
In the sky, thunderclouds enveloped the entire sky dome, the atmosphere oppressive.
A few silver lightning snakes fell, and a few more alchemists formed their pills.
Song Qing held this Rank 7 Peak pill in his hand, a look of joy in his eyes.
Rank 7 Peak! Breaking into the top ten should be no problem.
He looked up at the people on the other stone platforms and found Cao Ying was still continuing.
The joy in his heart diluted slightly. Song Qing felt Cao Ying might have set her target at a higher level, but he now has neither the qualification nor the ability to try.