With the successful attempts in his 30th portion of ingredients, this gave Long Feng the baseline on how he should proceed with the Pill Refining Process. Long Feng patiently refine each portion of the ingredients and putting his best efforts to refine Upper-Ranked Pills. Although the Refining method had been developed, this doesn't mean that Long Feng has an unlimited supply of Elemental Essence within his body. But to notice this slight changes, Long Feng has to sacrifice one portion of the ingredients.

As the 40th portion of ingredients is badly refined, Long Feng finally notice the changes in his body. "Never do I consider the possibility of myself getting tired and not in the full concentration after refining for a continuously five hour in total." Long Feng regretted slightly for not paying attention to his own Elemental Essence Storage, but as the elders say [Once Bitten, Twice Shy], Long Feng put this in his mind as he moves the cauldron away from where he was seated, and ready to meditate and increase his cultivation instead.

Since he has 20 Middle-Rank Cultivation Pellets and 5 Upper-Rank Cultivation Pellets from the stipends yesterday, Long Feng decided to consume it, to push his cultivation slight further. Without any hesitation, Long Feng pop in the Pills into his mouth, few at a time. Feeling a surge of warm feeling came into his Core, Long Feng began to circulate his cultivation, creating a small vortex that refines all the Essence Energy within his body to be absorbed and assimilated.

Although the Cultivation Pellets in the Middle-Rank and Upper-Rank is nowhere uncommon, the amount of Pure Essence Energy it contains, could still be called as sufficiently rich. The twenty-five pills taken by Long Feng continuously releasing the Essence Energy trapped within, until it has totally vanished from the body. What more unbelievable is, Long Feng is only stepping away from reaching the Peak Refinement Stage, and this twenty-five Pills actually helps him to reach it!

Long Feng's Essence Energy within his Core exploded to all corners in the Heaven Room! The essence of his Refinement Tier cultivation rush out and covers the room with the attribute of [REFINE!]. Bathing in this kind of atmosphere, Long Feng decided to test the strength of his Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill, as he withdraws it from his Spatial Ring and pops it into his mouth, Long Feng pay attention on the Pill as it went down his throat and start releasing the energy trapped within.

"Poosh!" a surge of an explosion of Essence Energy could be felt out of sudden as if the air in a balloon is running out if the muzzle is not restricted! Shocked with the sudden incoming of such burst of energy, Long Feng quickly calm himself in the meditation position and circulates the Essence Energy running around his Core to absorb and assimilate. The burst of energy does not stop at a point but continue until the end of the fourth burst. Next, a warmth feeling encompass Long Feng and his whole body, and to the edge of seeing his previous wounds, his exhausted mind, his impurity within the body, his excess oil secretion from eating unhealthy, his unbalance lifestyle and his fatigue, all recovered and adjusted within seconds, making him felt fresher than ever before. Even his height had increased by around 2 to 3 Centimetres because this young boy is still in the age of growing up!

But then, the final burst of surprise came before Long Feng has any slight idea. Long Feng could felt the Enhancement properties from the Pill entering his bones, blood, core, and Elemental Storage. Seeing this advantageous situation, Long Feng continues his cultivation and starts circulating his Refinement Tier energy to form an Adept Tier Essence Lake within his Core. Long Feng's concentration continues, and as the Adept Tier Essence Lake slowly formed, Long Feng felt that in the time span of four hours, his cultivation actually increase by leaps and bounds!

Just then, he finally felt that it is the moment he should break from this Refinement Tier Cocoon, Long Feng allows all the might of his formed Essence Lake explodes! The Refinement Attribute surrounding him is all absorbed into his Essence Lake, and one Adept Rank Essence Pearl is formed in the Essence Lake. This is the proof Long Feng cultivation had pass the Peak Refinement Tier and entering the stage of Early Human Adept Tier cultivation! "This is the strength of the Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill! If this Pill managed to make it into the auction, they will be fought by many wealthy cultivators!" Long Feng smile and felt like laughing hard, because of such fortunate occurrences happened to him when cultivating and Refining Pills.

With all this ordeal he went through, Long Feng already spent around ten hours from the moment he steps into the Heaven Room. But what Long Feng should do now, is not continue to refine the [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] but instead stabilizing his cultivation. Long Feng's mind had been slowly tempered since the moment his teacher, Han Feng Xian is believed to be dead on the hand of the Beast Taming School, and his Master departure to the Xuan Wu Jade City to help the remnants of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. Added with what happened yesterday outside of his house, losing his mother to the delegate from Heavenly Blossom Empire.

"Strength! Fame, Wealth, and Power! I will need this all before I could make my way to the Heavenly Blossom Empire. Mother, wait for Xiao Feng, give me three years, I will come before you to bring you with me when I have the cultivation strong enough to enter the whole empire by a single person!" Long Feng makes his promise to the Heavens and kowtowed to the Earth, sealing it within his heart and mind until he successfully saves his mother. Withdrawing the remaining three Low-Rank [Spirit Calming Dew Pellet] from his Spatial Ring, Long Feng consume it and starts to meditate and stabilize his foundation of Adept Tier.

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In a blink of eyes, Long Feng had already in the Closed Door Cultivation for a total of ten days. During the time he is not communicating with Nan Jing Jing, Long Feng could still felt her companion through the ring. Meanwhile, in where Nan Jing Jing is at currently, some construction works could be seen within the General's Mansion.

There is a lot of camps for temporary accommodation, and the camps are well spread all along the training ground where everyone had trained here at least once before. Although the construction and repairing work proceeds efficiently, in the heart of those defeated ten days ago, an Inner Demon slowly appears within their hearts.

Ten days ago, when Nan Jing Jing and the two Elders finally returned to the General's Mansion, their blood on the face totally faded away as the look before them, could only be described as [Disaster]. Three-quarters of the General's Mansion had been destroyed into tiny rubbles, maids and housekeepers are all either dead, injured, or Internally disrupted due to their low cultivation level. The troops stationed outside of the mansion face a heavy defeat in one single swipe, and it is the same to all the Vice-Generals and General. The delegate only needs the time span of fewer than ten minutes, to clear the whole General's Mansion and their strongest cultivators.

Especially Nan Gong Yu, Chen Yu and Lang Ren. This three is heavily injured, to the stage where if no miraculous Pills is given to them, their death is for sure within few more days. But luckily, Lady Mei does have some hidden stash kept somewhere. Looking at this situation, Nan Jing Jing immediately digs out the cosmetic box belonged to her mother, which is also the only thing is not damaged within the whole mansion. Within the box, a total of ten [Heaven Blossom Dew Pill] is kept within the box, and Nan Jing Jing used seven in total, leaving three remains within her hand.

After taking the miraculous Pills, the four Vice-General, the two Elders, and Nan Gong Yu fully recovered, but only in physically and internally, not their mind. "I am Nan Gong Yu, and yet here I can't even be compared to a mere delegate from the Heavenly Blossom Empire!" Nan Gong Yu is the first person to be most emotional. That is without a doubt, as he was the person who loses the most. His beloved wife, his mansion, and most importantly, his Confidence! In a slight second, Nan Gong Yu actually thinks about learning the scrolls he sealed within the underground of the mansion.

But before his starting to corrupted mind taking over, Nan Jing Jing appears before him and gave him a strong hug, stopping his father from doing anything reckless. "Father! Stop, don't proceed anymore!" Nan Jing Jing cries as she knows what her father is thinking with his eyes full of killing intents. "Father, mother said we should get stronger and go to the Heavenly Blossom Empire to officially bring her away. You must not go into the underground, even mother said so. That scroll is not something we should open and learn. You must remember the moment mother spends all her energy just to seal its evilness from getting out from the scroll!" Nan Jing Jing blocks her father's advancement as she hugs him directly.

"I'm like this, how long should your mother waits until I reach the stage comparable to the delegate? He is only a mere delegate of the Empire! There will be even stronger cultivators within the empire, and I will have to wait here until I die in regrets?" Nan Gong Yu emotionally burst into despair, self-blaming, and jealousy. He then added his misfortune with a strong scream.

"Argh!!!! Why does this happen to me! Why!!!!" Nan Gong Yu screamed until he vomited few mouthful of blood. The sorrow of this scream, made all of those participates in the fight earlier, to felt the same despair. But then, a ray of light shine from the skies. Everyone tried to look at the ray of light, but unfortunately, they possess not enough right to do so. Only Nan Gong Yu and Nan Jing Jing could stare directly at it, staring as a silhouette appears before the shining light.

"Great General Nan, do you remember me?" the silhouette appears to be an old man with a white beard on his chin, age around 100 to 130 years old, and unfathomable cultivation strength. "You're! Are you the old man I helped before when you failed to climb up to the Sky Peak Mountain?" Nan Gong Yu seems to recognize this old man after a clearer look. "Hahaha, seems like this young man that used to impress me, already married and even have such an old daughter already. This old man, really happy for you." the old man continues with his words.

"You are filled with all sorts of negative energy, which is why I am here. I'm here to repay the kindness you've shown me ten years ago." the old man says. "Take this three scrolls, and learn as much as you could. Only by putting all your effort in this, you could save your wife from that ignorant delegate of Heavenly Blossom Empire." the old man places three scrolls before Nan Gong Yu.

"This elder, what are you actually?" Nan Gong Yu couldn't help but ask for the old man's identity. He then looked at the three scrolls and its title.

Heavenly Ascension Art

Heavenly Retribution Art

Heavenly Travelling Art

"This!" Nan Gong Yu is shocked as he read the three titles on the three scrolls! He pulled Nan Jing Jing along to kneel on the floor and gave the old man three kowtows. "This ignorant man actually dare to question old master, please forgive him and his daughter for such atrocities!" a sense of fear appears within Nan Gong Yu's heart. Because even without looking at the old man, only one person within the School could have the right to give out this three scrolls to whoever he likes.

The Headmaster of the Heavenly Ascension School, Late-King Ye Lao.

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After putting an effort in stabilizing his cultivation for a total of ten days, Long Feng finally opened his eyes to take a view around the room. "My cultivation not only stabilized even further than how it should be compared to during my Refinement Tier, it even becoming more rich and concentrated." Long Feng control a single wisp of his Essence Energy circulating within his body, and slowly move it in his own speed around his whole body, acting as if a commander doing its routine check up. Each opening contained a lot of wisps of Essence Energy that walked all around his body nonstop, and in each opening of every single vein, the wisps combined, born into a totally new entity, becoming even more concentrated, as it continues the journey.

"Essence Lake. This is all depending on the Essence Lake I form with all my Refinement Tier cultivation strength. From my previous attempt, the whole stage of my refinement tier cultivation had been converted into one single Adept Rank Essence Pearl. If I followed this way of cultivation, I would need to form a total of nine more Adept Rank Essence Pearl to achieve the Peak Adept Tier cultivation, before I proceed to tackle the Practitioner Stage." Long Feng deduce the stage requirement he needs to reach the peak of Adept Tier, and pre-planned his path before anything else.

"But that stage is still far from my reach, what I need is to make sure I could participate in the Auction, and in three more months, I should increase my strength to make sure I could participate in the Thousand Herbal Garden's opening time. From now onwards, my target should be strengthening my cultivation and enter the Core Disciple rank in this Bronze Pill Hall. By that time, it would help me in getting a spot to participates in the selection matches." Long Feng refines his target and important issues he should focus on achieving, before anything else.

With his foundation of Adept Tier cultivation had been stabilized, Long Feng decided to continue Refining the still available ingredients. Using 30 minutes for each portion of ingredients, Long Feng starts refining the ingredients one by one, until he was out of [Soul Enhancement Seed]. But after a total of 11 parts of ingredients is used, Long Feng is finally out of the seeds. This 11 parts with the previous 9 more successful attempts, managed to yield Long Feng a total of 97 Upper-Rank and 2 Unknown-Rank [Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]. This result is after deducting the first Upper-Rank Pill he has eaten before he breaks through the Adept Tier.

Since he has some additional time, Long Feng decided to take a decent rest, and meditates for another few hours, before he wakes up once again to restart the production of the [Blood Refinement Pellet] once again. With his mind and soul further calm down and stable now, Long Feng confidence in preparing the Pills increased accordingly as well, where he dares to try a Quadruple Refining attempt in his first try.

Although the effort is slightly more difficult than usual, the step and each moment of variable adjustments are easily noticed by Long Feng and in the term of Fire Control, Extraction, Purity, and Shaping, Long Feng aced all of the important factors as he quickly finish Firing his Cauldron, and come out with a results of 22 Pills. 6 of them is on the Lower-Rank, 14 of them in their Middle-Rank, and the remaining 2 in their Upper-Rank. But this kind of accomplishment is not what could satisfy Long Feng's hunger in his Pill Refining. Instead of remaining steady with the refining steps, Long Feng dare himself to try and further refine the ingredients as much as he could. He chooses to remove the boundary between the old and new, inserting a newer method in refining the ingredients so he could come out with a better result.

Long Feng spent first 10 attempts, using a total of 40 parts among the remaining 996 ingredients, to obtain the results of 220 Pills. Among them, 70 of them still remains as Lower-Rank, but only 120 among them is at Middle-Rank, while 30 of them managed to results in an Upper-Rank Pills. This is after Long Feng adjusted the way he combined the ingredients in harmony, similar to how the [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] works.

His next 10 attempts, using another 40 parts of the ingredient from the remaining 956 ingredients, managed to results in a smaller quantity because Long Feng further purify every single drop of blood until they entered the Brilliant Scarlet Purity before he mixes them into one Concoction and starts his final Firing. This time, each concoction only managed to come out with a result of 200 Pills only, but among them, 50 is in their Lower-Rank, 100 is in their Middle-Rank, and 50 more in Upper-Rank. Through this time, Long Feng managed to obtain the results he was aiming, but it wasn't enough to satisfy him!

Long Feng take makes 10 more attempts, using the previous two adjustments along with newer changes once again. Instead of mixing three different Cultivation Beast Bloods into the concoction to refine, Long Feng decided to adjust it to four, five and six respectively. But the result of this attempt is a failure, thus none of the ingredients is successfully refined into any pills. Using another 40 more ingredients again, Long Feng decided to throws in some other medicinal Ingredients into the concoction, trying one by one between the forty parts of ingredients. Out of the blue, a specific ingredient managed to create a harmonized resonance with one of the successful portions!

"Seems like this is what it takes to fulfill the requirements to prepares the perfect concoctions." Long Feng withdraw another three more units of the ingredients to prepare a total of four different portions within the Cauldron for his Quadruple refining attempt. The after all procedures is as usual, according to what he has been adjusting in the few previous batch of productions. But this time, with the recipe, is changed for a tad bit, Long Feng managed to get an end results of 24 successful Pills, 12 Middle-Rank, and 12 Upper-Rank!

"This is really wonderful, and here I am underestimating the ability of this [Seven Needle Flower]." Long Feng withdraw one of the flowers into his hand and scanned the special properties hidden within this small white flower with it's seven juicy but bitter Needles.

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