Learning that the pills couldn't be mass-produced, the Peacock Great Emperor wasn't the least bit discouraged. He shook his head slightly. "I never expected there to be such miraculous pills in this world. Your master is truly no ordinary person. I only wonder whether, in my remaining years, I'll have the fortune to meet him. For an elder of such caliber, even a single meeting and a few words of guidance would be a lifelong blessing."
The Peacock Great Emperor sighed with admiration again and again, firmly believing that all of
What else could possibly explain it?
Could Danqian Palace possibly possess such capability? Obviously not. As a mere Fourth-Rank sect, Danqian Palace couldn't possibly have nurtured such an outstanding disciple.
And so, the Peacock Great Emperor was firmly convinced that the mysterious senior who had trained Jiang Chen must be one of this world's most powerful reclusive powerhouses.
Just how powerful — the Peacock Great Emperor didn't even dare to imagine. Every miracle Jiang Chen had displayed — wasn't each one earth-shattering in its own right?
If the Peacock Great Emperor had been two thousand years younger, he might not have been able to resist doing what Pill King Lü Feng had done — taking Jiang Chen as his master instead.
"Your Majesty, I still have more Pine Crane Pills here…"
The Peacock Great Emperor simply smiled at ease and waved his hand. "I won't be needing one. I have at least three thousand years of lifespan remaining. Besides, if I'd wanted to extend my life, I could have broken through to the Heavenly Position Realm back when I comprehended the Laws of Heaven and Earth — all in one push."
Breaking through to the Heavenly Position Realm would dramatically increase one's lifespan. While it fell far short of immortality, one's longevity would absolutely be incredibly long.
This, Jiang Chen understood clearly. In the Myriad Heavens of his previous life, virtually no Heavenly Position powerhouse had ever died of old age.
Most Heavenly Position cultivators either perished while out gaining experience, were killed in battles between powerhouses, or met their end through accidents of all sorts.
In short, the number of Heavenly Position cultivators who actually lived to the Five Signs of Decay and died of old age was truly less than one in five.
"Your Majesty, why don't you keep one? If you don't need it yourself, perhaps you have a kindred spirit who does? Keeping it as a goodwill gesture is always wise." Jiang Chen was naturally not stingy — he had refined nine pills in total. He'd given one to Panlong Clan Lord, leaving eight.
Even after gifting one to the Peacock Great Emperor as a token of respect, he would still have seven left.
Upon hearing this, the Peacock Great Emperor didn't decline further. He accepted the pill bottle, and as his divine sense swept over the Pine Crane Pills within, his expression shifted slightly. "The spiritual energy in these pills is remarkably rich. Truly worthy of being Heaven-Grade elixirs. By the way — for Emperor Realm cultivators, are these pills really effective?"
"Absolutely." Jiang Chen's tone was equally firm. "When used by Emperor Realm cultivators, the effect is slightly reduced — the efficacy drops by roughly one-fifth."
"Only one-fifth? So if a Sovereign Realm cultivator gains a thousand years of lifespan from this pill, an Emperor Realm cultivator would still gain eight hundred?"
Jiang Chen nodded. "Roughly that proportion."
The Peacock Great Emperor was utterly amazed. "Nothing rivals the wonder of creation. To think that such a small pill could reverse time and alter life and death. It seems my obsession with the martial path and my neglect of alchemy all these years — that prejudice was truly misplaced. I underestimated the power of the Dao of Alchemy."
Jiang Chen smiled but offered no comment. However, he had always believed that while the martial path was indeed the foremost among all the Great Daos of the Myriad Heavens, any path, if wielded well, could achieve divine mastery.
The Dao of Alchemy was no exception. What was so extraordinary about good pills reversing time? Besides, it was only a reversal of about a thousand years.
After all, in his previous life, his father the Celestial Emperor — in order to extend the lifespan of his mortal body — had not hesitated to challenge the Laws of Reincarnation of the Myriad Heavens, to sacrifice the fortune of the myriad realms, and to attempt the reversal of reincarnation itself, refining the Sun-Moon Divine Pill that allowed his mere mortal frame to live for a million years.
Compared to the Sun-Moon Divine Pill, these Pine Crane Pills or Longevity Pills were nothing more than minor tricks.
They weren't even on the same level — they didn't even deserve to be compared. The gap between them was immeasurable.
The Sun-Moon Divine Pill could grant even a mortal body a lifespan of a million years.
Whereas the Longevity Pill and the Pine Crane Pill merely offered a brief reversal of a powerful cultivator's bodily functions.
In truth, neither the Longevity Pill nor the Pine Crane Pill possessed the power to reverse time itself. These two pills merely stimulated the body's hidden potential — drawing out the deepest reserves of a cultivator's life force, then, through the pill's transformative properties, allowing the life body to develop as though time were being reversed.
In reality, it was nothing more than the awakening of dormant life potential.