The Journey of Projection Upgrading
Chapter 246

Chapter 246 - Dan Cheng

"It seems almost done."

Chen An looked at the remaining source power in front of him, silently thinking to himself.

With eight thousand units of source power, this was definitely the richest he had ever been since his debut.

At any time in the past, he had never been this rich before.

With eight thousand units of source power, it was enough for Chen An to do many things.

Such as raising his cultivation, directly promoting to the perfection of the Golden Core stage?

It seemed possible.

Eight thousand units of source power were enough.

But here comes the problem.

Even if he really promoted to the perfection of the Golden Core stage and reached the peak of the Golden Core through the allocation, could he break through and escape from this place?

Chen An pondered.

Probably not.

The reason was simple.

This place was someone else's stronghold.

In the past two to three years, Chen An had already explored it.

There were dense arrays everywhere, and a hidden mountain protection array was hidden, always in an activated state.

Although it couldn't be seen usually, once exposed, the power was probably not something an ordinary person could withstand.

Although the cultivation at the level of the perfection of the Golden Core was strong, it still seemed insufficient under the protection of the mountain array.

Not to mention Lin Qiu and others.

Although Chen An didn't know how many Golden Core cultivators there were in this place, there were definitely more than just Lin Qiu.

Considering the powerful artifact Lin Qiu had shown before.

The probability of breaking through seemed to be even smaller.

It was not impossible, just very slight.

Chen An thought that if he really wanted to break out, his only chance of success would probably be finding an opportunity to capture Qi Rou, and then escaping through her.

But here's the problem.

These people were all cultivators of the demonic path.

Would kidnapping a hostage be effective for these people?

Chen An thought it was a bit mystical.

So for safety, he decided to wait a little longer.

The current situation was fine.

Chen An looked towards the other side.

Since the possibility of breaking through with force was low, he decided to continue cooperating.

It was time for the Tianyuan Pill to come out.

Originally, Chen An had planned to delay it for ten years.

But recently, Qi Rou's condition had been getting worse, and the symptoms of being possessed by fire were becoming more and more obvious.

If this continued, she probably wouldn't last ten years.

In this situation, Chen An decided it was better to show some results now and stop dragging Qi Rou and others along.

So, he activated the deduction mode again.

Familiar information emerged in his mind, and in this state, everything in the world seemed to have no secrets, as if it was completely transparent to Chen An.

Various pieces of information kept pouring into his mind, past records were revisited, rearranged directly into another form.

After an unknown amount of time passed, his vision gradually cleared.

A brand new pill formula appeared in his mind.

"So that's how it is."

Feeling the new pill formula emerging in his mind, Chen An felt a bit enlightened and reluctant.

Leave aside everything else, this state under the influence of source power was extremely refreshing.

The feeling that all knowledge was open to you, as if you could understand everything in an instant and resolve all doubts, was truly joyful.

No matter who it was, after experiencing it once, they would feel a sense of reluctance.

The only downside was that it cost a lot.

For example, this time, the deduction cost him over a thousand units of source power.

Just in a short period of time.

And there was more to come.

Thinking of this, Chen An couldn't help but sigh and look at the perfected Tianyuan Pill formula on the inheritance panel, making a firm decision.

Upgrade the template, add it to me!

Swish

Purple light flickered, momentarily overshadowing Chen An's vision.

Then, under a force, these purple lights gathered on the inheritance panel and slowly dissipated.

All settled.

Chen An perfected the Tianyuan Pill formula in one go.

This approach seemed unnecessary, maybe even wasteful at first glance, but it was actually necessary.

Because the materials needed for refining the Tianyuan Pill were too precious, with many materials being hard to find, and some being irreplaceable.

In this situation, if he failed to refine it once, the wasted materials would be irretrievable.

So Chen An decided to upgrade the pill formula to perfection all at once to avoid waste.

Generally speaking, once the pill formula was upgraded to perfection, there would be very few accidents in the subsequent pill refining.

If Chen An was more careful, there would be basically no problems, refining one correctly each time.

The high success rate he had before was basically from this.

The cost was also significant.

Upgrading the Tianyuan Pill formula to perfection cost another three thousand units of source power.

Including the previous deduction of a thousand units, the total was four thousand units of source power.

Such a huge consumption of source power would have severely distressed the old Chen An, but now he was calm, with a nonchalant attitude.

Not a big deal.

Source power was gone, he could earn it back later.

Regardless of how much loss there was, Qi Rou, the scapegoat, could cover it all.

Chen An had thought it through.

In the future, apart from other things, by adding more materials to the Tianyuan Pill formula, increasing the amount of Earth Crystal needed, he could earn back the source power.

Anyway, he was the one who wrote the pill formula, so he had the right to make decisions.

Could Qi Rou really refuse?

As Chen An had planned, in the future, to refine one Tianyuan Pill, at least twenty Earth Crystals would be required to cover the cost.

By doing this a few more times, the four thousand units of source power would soon be recovered.

Plan confirmed.

Of course, for now, he still needed to continue his efforts to verify the success of his pill formula.

"Then let's begin."

He looked outside and then smiled lightly as he started his actions.

Soon, the spiritual fire in the pill furnace in front of him began to burn slowly.

Chen An began to refine pills again, and this time he was refining the Tianyuan Pill.

The Tianyuan Pill required very precious materials, so even Chen An had to apply for them in advance to start the refining process.

Chen An only had one set of materials with him now.

So it had to succeed, not fail.

Luckily, because the pill formula had been upgraded to perfection, Chen An's operation this time was quite good, with all the details perfected without any mistakes.

This round of pill refining lasted for half a day before it finally ended.

As the pill refining ended, a faint blue smoke rose from the pill furnace.

However, Chen An did not immediately fix the pill furnace. Instead, he felt it.

A pill master needed to put his mind into the pill furnace to subtly manipulate the changes inside.

So at Chen An's level, he didn't need to open the pill furnace to know what was inside.

The refining of the Tianyuan Pill was successful, and three pills were produced with this set of materials.

Hmm, lucky.

According to Chen An's previous calculations, with the materials he used before, he should have produced two pills.

But now he had three.

This extra pill was obviously thanks to the perfection of the pill formula.

Good, good.

As Chen An praised himself silently, he made some adjustments, using the White Tower directly to remove the pills from the pill furnace.

He did it this way inside the pill furnace because there were probably people outside monitoring.

This was very obvious.

Qi Rou was both a member of the demonic sect and the first party.

When one party commands others to work, how can they really trust them?

Therefore, sending people to monitor from time to time was quite normal.

Chen An had known this for a long time, so he usually operated like this when refining pills.

Opening the pill furnace again, a strong fragrance escaped from it.

A pure white pill appeared.

Compared to the Golden Lotus Pill, the pill in front of him looked quite ordinary, like some common pills, all pale white, seemingly nothing special.

But looking closely at this pill, Chen An could clearly feel a strong desire welling up from within him.

It was an extremely eager feeling, like a person in the desert who had been thirsty for a long time seeing water, or a hungry person seeing a feast after a long time. The desire that arose from the heart was unstoppable.

This was the miraculous aspect of the Tianyuan Pill. Even without swallowing it, just looking at it could make a person irresistibly eager.

Chen An gazed at the pill, feeling the intense desire for it. After a while, he carefully stored it, putting it in a wooden box.

Then, he got up and walked towards the room where Qi Rou was.

The way was clear.

For some reason, in recent days, there seemed to be fewer people here, not even a few regular guards were seen.

Passing through the checkpoints, Chen An arrived outside Qi Rou's room.

"Is it Mr. Chen?"

Before Chen An could speak, Qi Rou's voice came from inside the room.

And her voice sounded particularly hoarse, as if she was suppressing something.

Chen An pushed open the door and entered.

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Qi Rou's room was originally quite clean, although there weren't many women's things inside, but there were the essentials, and there were cleaning arrays everywhere, making it look very neat and tidy.

But now, it was dirty everywhere.

Several bodies lay scattered around, with crimson blood splattered everywhere, looking particularly terrifying.

The faces of these bodies still had a fierce and fearful expression, indicating that they were torn apart alive.

The whole scene was extremely terrifying and made people feel uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry."

As if sensing Chen An's discomfort, Qi Rou's face showed a hint of apology. "I accidentally let out some anger, and haven't had a chance to have someone clean it up. I'm sorry for letting you see this."

Let out some anger?

Your way of releasing anger is really quite different.

"No worries."

Chen An silently complained in his heart, but on the surface, he remained calm and softly said, "I have something to bring to Miss."

(End of this chapter)

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