For several days running,
Inside a room of the courtyard estate.
"Nie Li, what exactly are you doing?" Lu Piao couldn't help but ask, gazing at Nie Li with a puzzled look.
Over the past few days, Nie Li had collected several hundred different types of herbs, along with an enormous cauldron, as if he were preparing to refine something.
Nie Li smiled mysteriously. "I'm about to refine a type of pill. You'll find out what it does soon enough!"
"A pill? What kind of pill?" Gu Bei, Li Xingyun, and the others all showed expressions of curiosity.
Long Yuyin blinked as well, clearly intrigued. After learning of Nie Li's identity not long ago, she had indeed wrestled with it for quite a while. But after giving it some thought, she had come to terms with it. Whether Nie Li was from a hundred years in the future or whatever else—it was simply part of his past. She liked the Nie Li who was here and now, and that was enough!
Nie Li took out a Fruitless Divine Fruit, then produced a Cold Iron Divine Needle. With the needle, he carefully extracted the tiniest sliver of flesh from the fruit and placed it into a bottle.
"This bottle contains Rootless Water. First, shake it thoroughly, then divide it equally into one hundred bottles. Shake those again, then take one of those bottles and divide it into another hundred bottles!" Nie Li said as he sorted through the other herbs.
Hearing this, Li Xingyun and the others roughly understood what Nie Li was after—he intended to dilute the essence of the fruit's flesh into ten thousand bottles!
"What kind of spiritual herb is this? Even if it were some miraculous immortal pill, diluting it ten thousand times would surely render it completely useless!" Lu Piao couldn't help but voice his confusion.
"Exactly—that's a ten-thousandfold dilution!" Gu Bei chimed in as well.
Nie Li simply smiled. "You've never seen a Fruitless Divine Fruit before, so you don't know what it's capable of. That's why you'd say something like that."
"Fruitless Divine Fruit? I've genuinely never heard of it!" Li Xingyun was momentarily stunned. "I can't imagine what sort of miraculous pill could still be effective after being diluted ten thousand times."
"The Fruitless Divine Fruit… the words 'miraculous pill' hardly do it justice. The tiny bit I just extracted with the Cold Iron Divine Needle—if a Martial Ancestor consumed it, that person would instantly explode and die, because the body simply cannot withstand the Fruitless Divine Fruit's overwhelming medicinal power," Nie Li said with a grin.
"That powerful? You're not just trying to scare us, are you?" Li Xingyun and the others all changed color.
Martial Ancestor level—just how mighty was that? If such a minuscule amount could cause even a Martial Ancestor-level powerhouse to explode, that was simply staggering!
"When have I ever lied to you?" Nie Li chuckled. The Fruitless Divine Fruit was one of the treasures of the Celestial Emperor; its medicinal power was beyond what any Martial Ancestor could imagine! "Even after diluting it ten thousand times, the potency would still be far too much for us to handle. If we each drank even a single drop after that dilution, we'd burst and die just the same!"
"Then what are you planning to do?" Li Xingyun asked, unable to hide the shock in his heart.
"I plan to take this ten-thousandfold dilution and then use several dozen different techniques to temper and soften its medicinal properties, before refining it into pills," Nie Li explained. "Once those pills are finished, their effects will be absolutely astonishing!"
"I wonder if these pills can push us to the peak of the Heavenly Rotation Realm?"
"Forget the peak of the Heavenly Rotation Realm—breaking through to the Dragon Path Realm wouldn't be a problem at all!" Nie Li said with complete confidence.
The Dragon Path Realm?