Paragon Of Sin

Chapter 1742: Alchemy Flourishes (2)

RUMBLE!

A thunderous explosion shook the void, stirring mana and propelling waves of force.

Beneath the Original Dawn Palace was the Utmost Purity Hallʼs palatial building situated upon a free-floating continent. On this continent, the inhabitants were all outside or near windows, staring at the sky as their eyes were fixated on the palace above. Their expressions ranged from disbelief, uncertainty, fear, shock, interest, amazement, awe, desire, and anticipation. Some sat alone, with their Dao Companions, or together in wide circles. Others maintained hand-seals while circulating their cultivation base silently, and a few had strange tools that seemed to be designed to store energy and essence.

This wasnʼt the first time the Original Dawn Palace above their heads rumbled with a mighty thunderous roar, keeping them awake and shaking their spirits. At first, they were terrified. Who wouldnʼt after such a monstrous uproar caused by a foreigner? But then that fear quickly gave way to other emotions, one of which was none other than greed!

That was because of the subsequent event that would occur after the explosion, which was a leakage of Utmost Purity Mist intermixed with extraordinarily refined Solar Essence! The Utmost Purity Mist was extremely pure, absurdly so!

In the Utmost Purity Galaxy, Utmost Purity Mist had distinctions of grade and quality, often serving as a differentiation for their uses as well. This displayed the depth of their Alchemic Dao.

As such, Utmost Purity Mist formed through the consecutive concoction of qualified ninth-grade Mortal-Rank products was considered as Grade One Mist, the lowest. By either accumulation and compression or by concocting products, the latter of which had requirements of 777 low-tier, 77 high-tier, or 7 peak-tier products, then Grade Two Mist was created.

Grade One Mist was largely superficial and was more of a status than practical in usage. Grade Two Mist was far more practical, capable of being utilized with various Arts, Spells, and Methods and Wei Wuyin had devised the Eighth Source Transcendent Spell using Grade Two Mist as its basis.

Grade Three Mist required similar requirements but on the scale of Mystic-Earth grade or 7,777 transcendent-quality ninth-grade products. At this point, Alchemic Runes could be refined and various abilities of the Alchemic Stars can be executed to their peak effect, such as replicating the Alchemical Manifestations of the Alchemic Dao, such as the World Awakening of a True Saint.

What was genuinely fascinating and enough to invoke pure desire about Utmost Purity Mist was the largely spread method across the galaxy that allowed standard cultivators to refine Utmost Purity Mist to expel impurities, digest Alchemical Spirit Remnants, and assist in the ease of refining alchemical products and generic cultivation materials.

Meanwhile, by using Utmost Purity Mist, the standard method of cultivating external alchemical energies to refine products can be elevated depending on the grade of the mist. In actuality, even in the Utmost Purity Galaxy, the majority of Alchemists didnʼt pursue Alchemic Heart of Qi either due to the lack of innate talent or the unwillingness to exhaust their combat potential and future lifespan for a chance at breaking the mold and becoming extraordinary.

However, products had stringent requirements, and the vast majority of cultivated alchemical energy was diluted in effectiveness and essence due to the process. For example, it was notoriously known that the Alchemic Spirit Cultivation Path allowed a cultivatorʼs alchemical energies to be an entire realm above those who did not do so. This was an inferior thinking process, and it was easier to understand that the Alchemic Spirit generates the appropriate grade of energy while those who use external methods to produce alchemical energies were naturally inferior.

The King of Everlore had concocted the ninth-grade product, the Everlore Ascension Pill, as a Qi Condensation Realm cultivator. This was logically sound, and appropriate, although exceedingly unreasonable in terms of talent and expected ability, in the Utmost Purity Galaxy.

This was because Astral Core Realm alchemists like Tuo Bihan can concoct seventh, eighth, and ninth-grade products with inferior alchemical energies and lacking an Alchemic Spirit!

The solution to this was solved through Utmost Purity Mist and an ingenious alchemist long, long, long ago. By using Utmost Purity Mist to refine oneʼs externally cultivated alchemical energies, cultivators can artificially elevate their grade of energy, enhancing the range of products they can conceive and emulate pure alchemists, while simultaneously maintaining their combat strength.

Grade One Mist equated to an Astral Core Realm Alchemistʼs Alchemical Force; Grade Two Mist equated to the lower-stage of the Mystic Ascendant Realm—Mystic Star, Soul of Mysticism, Demi-Mortal Lord, and Earthly Saint Phases; Grade Two Mist rivaled the upper-stages of the Mystic Ascendant Realm—Worldly Saint, Heavenly Saint, Ascended Saint, and True Sage. Furthermore, they can benefit greatly by being exposed to, cultivating, and concocting Utmost Purity Mist of any grade.

Lastly, while not the final method, one of the most important reasons: Utmost Purity Mist can be considered as the non-existent to the world yet natural form of Alchemical Essence, and they can directly assist in the cultivation path of Alchemic Spirit cultivators!!

Unfortunately, this caused Utmost Purity Mist, an already rare substance, to become exceedingly valuable to most cultivators and Alchemists, and therefore a ridiculously expensive material that was in absurd demand yet the lowest supply. After all, those who can create it can also use it!

The grade of Utmost Purity Mist that was leaking from the Original Dawn Palaceʼs protective saber formation was grade two! It was flooding downwards like a mystical immortal mist cascading like a waterfall, but it lingered within the saber formationʼs boundary, only pushed explosively down by these repeated explosions.

A blessed opportunity!

Why exactly?

It began seven days ago.

Wei Wuyin had resolved himself to attempt an unprecedented leap in his Dao of Alchemy! He was determined to test out of theory and create a Transcendent Mystic-Rank Product!

Firstly, he used a Vortex-Zone with a ʼone day to one monthʼ ratio, intending to spend the next twenty-four days, essentially two whole years, trying to succeed! Then, he started to concoct after gathering his notes and thoughts on the possibility. All that was left was to experiment through concoction!

And thatʼs where the problem lies!

Wei Wuyin spent the next three months within the Vortex-Zoneʼs temporal acceleration bubble with Bai Xiu. He was driven and focused, and he exerted the fullest extent of his cultivation base concocting using the Thirty-Three Heavenly Concoction Method to warm up after living those eighteen lives. He had an extraordinary amount of materials to play with, capable of concocting various products from the lineages he possessed and his own.

This included products like the Chasm of White Pill, a Mystic-World grade product, which was enough to sprout the deepest of greenest of greedy lights within Violet Sea, Grey Rose, Crimson Blade, and Fairy Silenceʼs eyes! They were like ravenous wolves, starving, and hungry for meat. He could still recall their looks.

While the Chasm of White Pill was an Abyssal Raceʼs exclusive product, he didnʼt mind making a few.

If the world knew that Wei Wuyin was using Mystic-World grade products, concocting them 33 times in a single go as a mere ʼwarm-upʼ, countless alchemists might have heart attacks and enter the cycle of samsara willingly.

Meanwhile, this was nothing to Wei Wuyin; since his breakthrough into the first stage of the Mystic Ascendant Realm, the quality of his energies had entered an entirely new realm. As a defier of common convention, becoming the first ever Mortal Saint Alchemist, Wei Wuyinʼs cultivation vastly exceeded typical standards. This was the accumulation of every advantage he had worked incredibly hard for and risked his life.

Additionally, various Alchemic Methods were studied and vastly improved by his Second Mindʼs incessant pursuit of perfection and further knowledge. He was putting many of those untested spells, arts, and modifications to existing principles into practice and finding great success with most of them! It was abundantly obvious that the Magi part of him had truly been taken in by his Second Mind without restraint. A true scholar!

That said, Wei Wuyinʼs intelligence was obviously no less its equal, and when it came to application, his Second Mind would certainly fall behind. Of course, this wasnʼt a competition! Absolutely not!

After the first month, Wei Wuyin had finished his warm-up. In the end, he had concocted 2,541 Mystic-Earth grade product portions(such as a single vial of elixir, bottle of paste, and one pill) from 28 different Concoction Methods, repeating three products twice and one product three times!

As for Mystic-World products, he had concocted 264 portions!

By this point, the alchemical chambers were filled with swirling Utmost Purity Mist, and Bai Xiu was the cause as she gulped the mist within her body. She was delighted to the extreme!

After all, out of those 2,805 products, whether they were Mystic-Earth or Mystic-World grade, they were all…

PEAK-QUALITY!!!

She was devouring the mist like a gremlin! This was a delicious meal that any Spirit of the Alchemic Dao would kill for! Straight murder!!

ʼMy technique has vastly improved. The Eye of Creation can solve any quality issues by replicating perfect or improved versions of an existing material. This helps. However…to think that all of our accumulation has resulted in this default standard. Even the speed of concoction is a little insane to think about.ʼ Wei Wuyin had thought this shortly after completing his warm-up, and while he was originally going to rest for Bai Xiu to consume the Utmost Purity Mist, his intention was immediately met with an abject refusal and aggrieved voice.

Bai Xiu was on the verge of wailing. It was almost as if she was a child who had been starved for so long by their father, and after their father gave them a piece of bread, they werenʼt going to give them more. Without a single pointed word, Bai Xiu painted Wei Wuyin as the villain in an instant.

However, he was concerned and voiced it. The Utmost Purity Mist formed in terms of quantity was several times higher based on the quality of the product itself. This was 2,805 Mystic-Rank peak-tier products!

The Utmost Purity Mist had already exceeded grade three after being compressed into the chamber! This was Grade Four Mist! Moreover, it seemed on the verge of breaking past that grade!

Wei Wuyin relented after seeing Bai Xiuʼs pouty face as if she was being wronged. He pinched her cheeks and sighed. The next two months confirmed his worries.

Wei Wuyin started attempting to infuse his Eye of Immortalityʼs eternal aura into the process at the fusion step.

However, he failed.

Again.

And again.

And again.

And again!

AND AGAIN!!

Eventually, he was essentially relying on his Stellar-Paragon Physique to replenish the normally limited eternal bestowed to him during the concoction of the Neo-Dawn Paragon-Forging Pill. It was working! What would have normally been a finite resource had become an unlimited one! This realization allowed him to relax and bask in the awesomeness of his physique! His efforts to create an inexhaustible physique that can contain exceedingly powerful energies far surpassing his cultivation base were showing its heaven-defying powers!

He kept testing. He tried infusing the materials. He tried involving the aura of eternity in all seven steps of the concoction process. He tried using the aura of eternity at the forefront of every process, including infusing it into his Alchemic Akashic Mystic Force, the extraction, growth, and transformation of materials, every step imaginable…yet…

FAILED!!!

Bai Xiu was full; she was exceedingly stuffed trying to keep up with the production of Utmost Purity Mist versus absorption, and she horrendously failed.

However, Wei Wuyin was too bedeviled by that point. He kept trying.

He tried lesser-graded products. He tried different types of products. He even used Essence Pills! He started to cycle through every product he knew.

EVERY.

LAST.

ONE!

He used a variety of methods on all of them, and his focus was at its peak. In some circles, they would call this a flow state. Despite not using the Thirty-Three Heavenly Concoction Method, in two months, Wei Wuyin had exceeded the number of products he made in that one-month warm-up. Not just by a little either. He had made four times the amount!

The shocking thing was…every product was of peak-quality!

The rumbling from outside was the result of Bai Xiuʼs indignation and reluctance. She was continuously expelling grade four Utmost Purity Mist, trying to store it outside and slurp it up slowly without Wei Wuyin noticing. And he truly didnʼt notice.

Unfortunately, every time she took a ʼdumpʼ outside, the formation outside would become semi-permeable, expelling grade two mist after being shockingly diluted.

By the third month, word had gotten around of this event, and the fortune that was being bestowed to these fortune alchemists!

But of course, how could this be settled with just that? When word spread, the entire Swirling Growth Stellar Region was alerted! Hao Chengxue was informed and was making haste to return!

However, it was just the beginning!

Within the Alchemical Chambers, two voices erupted with excitement!

”I have an idea!” Wei Wuyin exclaimed.

”I know why we keep failing!” Wei Wuyinʼs Second Mind exclaimed.

In truth, they were both failing, and they were both working their damndest to find a solution!

”Oh?” Wei Wuyin hurriedly calmed the swirling grade four mist, a display of his Alchemic Stars of Transcendent Purityʼs strength. ”Do you think itʼs me?”

The Second Mind was a mental incarnation that was reflected within Wei Wuyinʼs right eyeʼs pupil, a literal front-row seat to the concoction, and he said matter-of-factly: ”I know itʼs you!”

”I think so too,” Wei Wuyin nodded. He realized that it wasnʼt that he couldnʼt infuse the aura of eternity into the process or materials, but his Alchemic Akashic Mystic Forceʼs quality was lacking!

”Your Mystic Force isnʼt capable of allowing the aura of eternity to adhere to the materials or retain its properties during the conception process. While it seemed as if the aura of eternity remains abundant throughout the process, the resulting product lacks any sign of eternity. However, I canʼt determine where it has gone. Can you?” The Second Mind analyzed and asked.

Wei Wuyin was relying on the Celestial Eyes of Spiritual Divinity to bypass the impure-creating and failure-inducing process of using oneʼs Spiritual Strength to concoct products. He relied on this very early on to gain a great advantage in his Concoction, avoiding the common failures of alchemists. However, he was unable to locate the lost aura of eternity after the final step was taken.

It was as if it had vanished.

So he shook his head and sighed, ”I canʼt.” Given the powers of his completed Celestial Eyes of Spiritual Divinity, this was incredible. Moreover, he couldnʼt sense it with his Spiritual Sense either.

”As I thought, the aura of eternity has normalized. Your Mystic Force simply canʼt retain its properties. Do you recall how you created your first transcendent-quality product?” Wei Wuyinʼs Second Mind asked.

Wei Wuyin could remember easily; it was by accident. The World-Light Refraction Elixir had, by a miracle, absorbed the invisible properties of Mysticism, and this happened a few times throughout the Everlore Starfieldʼs history due to its location and the faint amounts of Mystic Essences within the air. Back then, even with his Celestial Eyes, he couldnʼt see the essence of Mysticism.

”Are you saying that the aura of eternity thatʼs been refined through the concoction process loses its connection with me, so I can no longer sense it?” The moment he verbally said that theory, he began to see the logic in it as his eyes brightened.

The Second Mind nodded solemnly. The aura of eternity extracted would eventually lose its connection to him. After all, he was like a non-cultivating human pouring water into a pot. He canʼt control the water. A better example would be blood, and while within his body, he had some natural control over it, such as being able to slow or raise his heart rate and thereby increase the flow, but once spilled out into the world, he had zero control of it after losing contact with it.

”I see…”

Well, Wei Wuyin couldnʼt sense the origins of the aura of eternity in the same way he, as a mortal, couldnʼt sense the aura of mysticism! That only changed after he became a Starlord! The peak of the Mortal Dao!

”Must I reach the peak of the Resonant Soul Realm or find an Immortal-Grade material to refine then?” The thought caused him to pale slightly. They didnʼt have a Mystic-Soul material, let alone an Immortal-graded material! Even the Second Mind shuddered. They were both reluctant, but the facts remained. Was a transcendent-quality Mystic-Rank product out of the reality of possibility? Seems so…

”Absolutely not!” King spoke out with words that were as valuable as gold.

”...” Wei Wuyin.

”...” The Second Mind.

They both focused on King. Even Eden, Kratos, Ori, Element, and Little Defiant went silent as they focused on King.

King paused for a long while, but then it spoke with a conviction that could end immortals, ”You are no longer just a mortal! Or just an Ascended being! You are…a Paragon! A conqueror of four floors of Hell! A human who dared to offend the River of Time! A soul that dared to bravely stare at heavenʼs secrets! You dared to scheme against the Heavenly Daosʼ Blessed and an entire galaxy!

”YOU ARE A PARAGON! Act like one.”

”...” Everyone.