The Chaotic Immortal Wood Sect: Immortal Cultivation War - Chapter 48

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48. If You’re Going to Eat, You Should Do Your Best to Pick It Clean

‘This is beyond what I can handle.’

This was the conclusion he reached not long after having Trent absorb the energy inside the pill furnace.

Although Trent was a summoned creature belonging to Kang Hyeon, who was only at Early Qi Accumulation, its status exceeded Mid Qi Accumulation.

However, no matter how much Trent was at Mid Qi Accumulation level and possessed the Absorption Divine Ability, it absolutely could not handle the energy accumulated inside the alchemy furnace.

‘What should I do?’

Kang Hyeon couldn’t help but feel anxious as he examined the various patterns revealed on the inner walls of the alchemy furnace.

This was because the dharma inscriptions, patterns, lines, and diagrams on the inner walls of the alchemy furnace were now unstably colliding and gradually becoming distorted.

This meant that the pill refining was not proceeding properly and was heading toward failure.

‘If the pill refining fails, all the effort put in so far will be wasted, which would be a great loss, but since I didn’t prepare this myself, I won’t suffer any loss. Yes, that’s definitely how it should be. But the problem is that I’m trapped inside the alchemy furnace.’

Kang Hyeon was currently trapped inside the alchemy furnace, and if the pill refining failed in this state, what followed would undoubtedly lead to Kang Hyeon’s death.

It was the interior of an alchemy furnace where tremendous energy that he wouldn’t even dare to handle was accumulated layer upon layer.

Just looking at the abnormal signs appearing on the walls of the pill furnace, it was almost certain that the failure of pill refining would cause a tremendous explosion.

How could Kang Hyeon survive within that?

‘There’s no other way. I must either absorb all the energy to suppress the explosion, or at least I alone must get outside the alchemy furnace.’

That was the conclusion Kang Hyeon reached.

And it was a situation where he had to do something immediately.

There was no time to hesitate.

‘Keep absorbing! As much as possible!’

Kang Hyeon first instructed Trent to continue absorbing the energy inside the pill furnace.

This was because even if he were to go outside, he thought he would at least fill his belly as much as he could eat.

‘Then what’s the way to get outside the alchemy furnace?’

Kang Hyeon could find no other method than using the Mysterious Mirror for that as well.

‘This place is also inside the Mysterious Mirror. So I just need to open a passage to get outside the Mysterious Mirror. After going outside, if I summon Trent again and return to the Mysterious Mirror?’

If he could accomplish it as planned, wouldn’t this be the best method?

Kang Hyeon thought so and tested whether he could open an entrance to the Mysterious Mirror.

‘If I just open an entrance, I’ll return to where the Old Monster was, so I must avoid that. Then I’ll have to choose one of Trent’s branches and roots scattered throughout Nok Province to open an entrance?’

Kang Hyeon first searched for branches and roots that had enough energy to open a Mysterious Mirror entrance at the closest location.

And he confirmed that he could open an entrance using the branch left at the inn’s annex building in Jeollak Bang City and the root planted at the lakeside outside Jeollak Bang City.

‘Since I’m just going out briefly and coming back, it would be better to move inside Jeollak Bang City and then return. Since I won’t use it again, it would be good to consume it like that.’

Considering that he would go out briefly and come back in, Kang Hyeon decided to go to the annex building of the inn where he and In Deok had stayed in Jeollak Bang City.

Perhaps the Old Monster or his subordinates might be guarding the annex building, but it seemed he could momentarily open the entrance to the Mysterious Mirror and return inside.

If there were those guarding and watching that place, his existence might be discovered, but anyway, he had already made enemies with the Old Monster to the fullest extent, so there was nothing new about it.

Wooooong! Jjuuuuup! Jjuuup!

‘It seems to have almost reached its limit now?’

Just then, as if Trent’s absorption had also reached its limit, danger signals could be felt from Trent.

At this, Kang Hyeon immediately used Trent to open the entrance to the Mysterious Mirror toward the inn’s annex building in Jeollak Bang City.

Swoosh!

“Hmm!”

Contrary to his worry that there might be obstacles in opening it, the entrance to the Mysterious Mirror opened smoothly.

At this, Kang Hyeon went outside as is, immediately summoned Trent, opened the Mysterious Mirror entrance again, and came back in.

That time was truly shorter than the blink of an eye.

“Phew, fortunately there seemed to be no eyes watching the annex building.”

In that brief time, Kang Hyeon confirmed that there were no watchers observing the lodging where he had stayed.

Of course, high-level monks might have been guarding it so he couldn’t notice, but since there was no reaction even when he revealed himself, he decided to believe that.

“Hmm. So this is the pill furnace.”

Since he had already re-entered the Mysterious Mirror and closed the entrance, there was no need to worry about outside matters for now.

So Kang Hyeon’s gaze naturally had to turn toward the alchemy furnace where he had been trapped.

“It’s a pill furnace with five legs, quite unusual. It’s large too.”

It was a bronze alchemy furnace larger than Kang Hyeon.

Of course, since it was an artifact with mysterious power in itself, the size visible from the outside didn’t mean much.

Previously, when Kang Hyeon was trapped inside the alchemy furnace, the space was about ten zhang in radius and the same in height, but now looking from outside, it was only slightly larger than Kang Hyeon.

Rumble rumble rumble!

“Hm? Tribulation clouds?”

But while Kang Hyeon was examining the pill furnace, purple clouds faintly gathered in the sky of the Mysterious Mirror.

Kang Hyeon recognized that those purple clouds were tribulation clouds containing heavenly tribulation lightning.

However, the clouds were so faint now, and the lightning energy rumbling within them was so weak that it didn’t feel very frightening.

“So the pill refining taking place in this pill furnace was remarkable enough to call forth heavenly tribulation. But since the pill refining has already gone awry and is collapsing, the heavenly tribulation is also fizzling out.”

As Kang Hyeon understood it that way and watched the tribulation clouds in the sky, the faint tribulation clouds eventually completely scattered and disappeared.

“It means the pill refining has completely failed. Then what happens to that now?”

Kang Hyeon muttered while looking at the bronze alchemy furnace that was still emitting a faint light.

After discovering the alchemy furnace, he immediately tried to examine the inside of the alchemy furnace using his consciousness and spiritual consciousness, but it didn’t work well.

So he couldn’t grasp the current situation inside the alchemy furnace, yet various dharma inscriptions and patterns were still appearing and disappearing while emitting light from the alchemy furnace.

“I can’t even tell if it’s dangerous right now or not, and Trent has already absorbed too much energy and has no room left, so what should I do?”

The energy inside the bronze alchemy furnace before his eyes was at the Spirit Body Stage level, far surpassing the Qi Accumulation or Core Formation stages.

In reality, the energy Kang Hyeon had absorbed through Trent was less than a few ten-thousandths of it.

So how could he not covet the energy remaining in the alchemy furnace?

“Is there no… way?”

Kang Hyeon fell into deep thought, alternately looking at the bronze alchemy furnace and Trent.

Since only Trent could do something about the furnace’s energy anyway, he was trying to find a solution through Trent.

***

‘The method would be best to use cutting propagation and root division method simultaneously.’

Kang Hyeon pondered how to continue using Trent’s absorption divine ability that had already reached its limit, and decided to apply the method he had used when cultivating fields on Earth to Trent.

Although Kang Hyeon had worked as a combat hunter on Earth, he was originally an awakener closer to being a farmer who grew plants.

So initially he had worked cultivating fields and growing food crops, and at that time, increasing the number of individual plants was as important as growing crops quickly.

The methods Kang Hyeon mainly used then were cutting propagation and division propagation.

Cutting propagation refers to cutting and planting branches or stems, while division propagation refers to dividing roots into several pieces and planting them.

Since Kang Hyeon originally had an awakening ability to accelerate plant growth, if he used that ability after cutting propagation or division propagation, he could harvest crops from a wide field in a short time.

Now Kang Hyeon was trying to operate Trent based on that memory.

‘I can’t just do cutting propagation or division propagation. I need to transform the energy that Trent has absorbed and stored into things like seed buds or root nodules, then attach them to the branches to be cut and planted or roots to be divided.’

What was urgent for Trent now was discharging the absorbed energy.

Only then could it absorb the energy inside the alchemy furnace again.

‘Let’s try it.’

Once his plan was set, Kang Hyeon immediately piled up soil to make a platform and sat in lotus position on top of it.

Then he focused his consciousness on Trent and closed his eyes.

Crack crack crack! Crack crack! Crack crack crack!

And immediately after, orbs smaller than fingernails began to form on Trent’s branches and roots.

Trent had condensed the life energy it absorbed into orb shapes.

Moreover, if you looked closely, those orbs had growth points where branches and roots could grow, so they met the minimum requirements to grow on their own even if just cut and planted.

“Scatter!”

When preparations were complete, Kang Hyeon shouted while injecting wood spiritual energy into Trent.

Then thousands of branches and roots about two finger joints long fell from Trent’s body and flew scattered throughout the Mystic Realm.

“Done!”

He didn’t know whether all the scattered branches and roots would grow well or not.

But what was important right now was that Trent had discharged energy so it could use the absorption divine ability again.

“Let’s start absorbing again.”

Kang Hyeon immediately connected consciousness with Trent and gave that instruction.

Then Trent, with the help of consciousness connected to Kang Hyeon, extended its branches and roots to wrap around the bronze alchemy furnace.

“I can’t penetrate inside, but there’s no need to do so anyway. Rather, gradually sucking out the energy from inside while staying outside is much safer.”

Kang Hyeon checked whether he could absorb the energy inside the alchemy furnace while wrapping it with Trent.

Then surprisingly, it was possible to draw the inner energy outward, though he couldn’t tell if this was due to an original function to discharge impurities or because problems had occurred in the pill refining process.

“Whatever it is, the results are good, so I’ll proceed for now.”

Thus Kang Hyeon began using Trent to gradually extract the energy from the bronze alchemy furnace that should have become Ten Thousand Lives Blood Qi Pills.

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Roughly three hundred thousand.

That was the number of branches and roots Kang Hyeon had spread throughout the Mystic Realm through Trent using cutting propagation and division propagation.

So it also meant he had extracted that much energy from the alchemy furnace.

“This is the limit now.”

But there was also a limit to the energy that could be extracted from the alchemy furnace.

At this moment, the interior of the alchemy furnace was in a state where the energy balance was completely disrupted.

The energy that had been precariously maintaining balance somehow could no longer endure and began to run wild.

“I’d like to use the absorption divine ability once more, but there’s a possibility Trent could be annihilated if I’m not careful.”

The energy running wild inside the alchemy furnace was a greater amount than all the energy extracted so far.

If he got greedy and connected Trent to that, Trent could get caught up in the rampage and be torn to shreds.

So now was the time to let go of greed.

‘What should I do? The safest method would be to throw the alchemy furnace outside the Mystic Realm, but…’

With the alchemy furnace’s condition now beyond help, Kang Hyeon had no choice but to worry about how to handle it.

‘But it’s too wasteful to just throw away the energy inside the alchemy furnace. If it causes an explosion, the aftermath would be tremendous, but even so, the energy that bursts out with that explosion won’t just disappear. If I let it explode inside the Mystic Realm, that energy will remain inside the Mystic Realm in some form.’

It was a spirit pill he had tried to make based on life energy close to pure from the beginning.

So the main nature of the energy contained in the pill furnace was life energy.

With hundreds of types of alchemy materials added to that life energy, he calculated that if it exploded and spread throughout the Mystic Realm, there would be more benefits than losses.

“Let’s let it explode inside. Instead, let’s try to reduce the aftermath of the explosion.”

After much deliberation, Kang Hyeon reached that conclusion and immediately extended spiritual energy to float the bronze alchemy furnace in the air.

And the place Kang Hyeon moved to while carrying the alchemy furnace was where the Spirit Spring was located within the Mystic Realm.

Of course, he wasn’t planning to throw the pill furnace into the spring water where spiritual energy bubbled up to make it explode.

Kang Hyeon’s destination was where water originating from the Spirit Spring flowed down to form a reservoir.

“Heave!”

Whoooosh! Splash!

Kang Hyeon reached the reservoir and threw the Bronze Pill Refinement Furnace into it without hesitation.

‘Even if an explosion occurs, since it happens underwater, it should be able to offset the aftermath to some degree. Of course, that wouldn’t mean much, but it would be better than burying it deep underground. If I buried it underground, the entire Mystic Realm might get turned upside down, so this is the best option.’

Of course, Kang Hyeon was well aware that his choice was dangerous.

However, no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t abandon his greed for the energy remaining inside the Alchemy Furnace.

And he also had expectations that even if it caused an explosion, as long as he wasn’t close by, there might not be much damage.

After all, the energy inside the Alchemy Furnace was of similar types based on life force, so he was also expecting the explosive power to be offset.

“Still, I should stay a bit farther away. There’s no need to stand close like this and invite danger.”

Kang Hyeon extended his spiritual consciousness to briefly examine the Bronze Pill Refinement Furnace that had disappeared into the reservoir, then decided to flee far away since he didn’t know when an explosion might occur, and launched his body into flight.

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“What? Why isn’t it exploding?”

Three days later, Kang Hyeon tilted his head in confusion while staring at the peaceful surface of the reservoir visible in the distance.

Wasn’t the surface of the reservoir far too calm?

Moreover, it seemed like a faint radiance had been spreading from the reservoir for some time now, and looking at it again, that wasn’t his imagination.

“It’s not exploding, and the water’s color in the reservoir has changed? Then is the energy from the Alchemy Furnace seeping out and dissolving into the reservoir?”

It was speculation without certainty, but with high possibility.

Kang Hyeon began contemplating whether to approach the reservoir.

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