Sea Merging Pills

== 7th tier ==
The Seven Stamen Seaheart Fruit was a seventh tier medicinal ingredient, while the Sea Merging Pill was a seventh tier pill. And even amongst seventh tier pills, it would be one of the most difficult to refine.
For most alchemists, their cultivation bases would have to reach Sea Expansion or above just to refine a sixth tier pill.
Last time in the Pill Tower's competition, he had refined the Overflowing Sea Expanding Pill. Although it was a sixth tier pill, it was something used by Sea Expansion experts. Because the requirements and difficulty in refining it were too low, it could not be counted as a seventh tier pill.
But there were also some special existences amongst medicinal pills. A prime example was the Overflowing Sea Expanding Pill.
The Overflowing Sea Expanding Pill was one of the common medicinal pills for Sea Expansion experts. Its price was relatively low. Other than the Overflowing Sea Expanding Pill, there were also quite a few other popular medicinal pills with better medicinal effects. But their price was also multiple times higher.
The Sea Expansion realm was also a money-burning realm just like Bone Forging. Borrowing the energy within medicinal pills, it was possible to expand the qi sea even further.
The better the medicinal pill, the greater the medicinal energy. As for the Sea Merging Pill Long Chen was attempting to refine, it was a priceless treasure that Sea Expansion experts would long for even in their dreams.
But in the outside world, he hadn't heard of the Sea Merging Pill. It seemed that the world no longer possessed this medicinal pill, or perhaps the Seven Stamen Seaheart Fruit was already extinct, so the medicinal pill had also disappeared.
== Refining ==
Even alchemists whose cultivation bases had reached Sea Expansion wouldn't necessarily be able to refine a seventh tier medicinal pill. And even if they could, it would be the comparatively lower level ones, not ones like the Sea Merging Pill. Those that could refine that level of pill would be grandmaster alchemists.
Of course, if people knew that he had refined the Sea Merging Pill with his Xiantian cultivation base, it would definitely shake the entire alchemy world. There were three questions they would ask: Where did he get that much spiritual yuan? Where did he get that much soul energy? And where did he get such a powerful Pill Flame?
Long Chen didn't just have all three of those requirements, but he also had his Pill Sovereign memories with profound alchemy experience. It would have been strange if he couldn't refine it.
In the alchemy world, ordinary alchemists could only refine pills one tier below their cultivation base. If they could refine pills on the same tier as their cultivation base, they would be a genius. As for someone who could refine a pill with a higher tier than their cultivation base, there was one word for that: nonsense. No one would believe such a thing.
"Three one-ring pills and the rest are middle grade. They're pretty much useless." Long Chen threw away the middle grade ones, leaving behind only the three one-ring Sea Merging Pills.
== Consumption ==
He directly swallowed one of them. While swallowing it, he bound it with his spiritual yuan, not letting it immediately dissolve.
That was a seventh tier medicinal pill, one that was used to forcibly increase the size of the qi sea once it had already reached its limit. The amount of energy within it was immense.
If a Xiantian expert ate it, it would be suicide. Once the pill dissolved, the terrifying medicinal energy would directly cause their qi sea to explode. If they were fortunate, they would just immediately die instead of being half-dead from their destroyed qi sea.
Even Long Chen wouldn't dare to just directly allow it to dissolve in his body. He wasn't using it to expand his qi sea, but to transform it into spiritual yuan to increase his cultivation base.
There were seven flower marks on the Sea Merging Pill, the same marks that were originally on the Seven Stamen Seaheart Fruit. That was where the fruit's essence was condensed.
Long Chen tested absorbing the medicinal energy bit by bit. But its medicinal energy was too powerful, and it was like gunpowder to him. As soon as he started refining it, its medicinal energy surged through his meridians.
His meridians swelled as if a river was pouring into a canal. But Long Chen was relieved to see that his meridians were fine. It seemed he had been worried for nothing.
== Effects ==
After bearing the first wave of medicinal energy, Long Chen was confident. He continued to release the medicinal energy. The energy was like a surging sea crashing through his body.
This energy, which should have been used to push the limits of the qi sea, had now been used to increase his cultivation base.
That was an exceedingly brazen method, but its effect was remarkable. Long Chen could feel his cultivation base rapidly advancing.
Just two pills had allowed him to reach the twelfth Heavenstage. He was just one step from the Sea Expansion realm.
His laughter echoed throughout the land, filled with delight. The Sea Merging Pill had an even greater effect than he had imagined.
He had reached the peak of the Xiantian realm now. It had been three months since he had entered the Immemorial Path, and there were still three months until the spiritual qi eruption in the Immemorial Path would occur. That was the best time to advance to Sea Expansion.
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