On the day of the event, dissonance and fortune had only just begun, yet the quintillions in attendance were already besieged aggressively by a shockingly exceptional experience!
“My body! It’s changing!” An Emperor Alchemist nearly six hundred years old howled to his companions with the light of shocking discovery within his stupefied gaze. He could feel his physique changing as he refined the Astralis Dawn Mist, which was incomparably and indescribably gentle, warm, and easy to refine.
This discovery wasn’t only limited to this alchemist. Those of the top-tier forces with exceptional foundations and understanding of cultivation also learned of this change as they inspected their bodies.
Empress Xiaocheng brightly smiled as she recalled her own experience and how deeply shaken she was discovering the quality of this resource. In fact, as she observed the vast quantity being sent to the quintillions of cultivators present, she couldn’t quite believe that it existed in such large amounts!
“One of the Astralis Dawn Mist’s effects is to elevate the degree of one’s body’s talent to refine alchemic materials. It’s not only created from the purest essence of a ‘natural’ Solar Star but had also been intermixed with Utmost Purity Mist.” As the Primary Host of the event, Empress Xiaocheng needed a firm understanding of the resource to explain its effects to everyone else adequately. Her words, however, created a wave of shock and exclamations that sounded like roaring thunder across the World of Eden. If not for the Proximity Link and its selective mute function, countless young cultivators would’ve gone deaf!
She continued, “While this improvement effect is good for generalized refinement, its main benefit is to enhance the ease of refinement of products made with a specific Post-Concoction Method. To give an example,” at this point, even she was incomparably excited and unable to hide it, “if a product might take you ten days to refine, if enhanced with this Post-Concoction Method, and if you’ve refined Astralis Dawn Mist at least once in your life, it’ll be reduced to five days!”
“!!!” Disbelief surged upward from the hearts, souls, and minds of countless cultivators, especially members of alchemist associations.
“Impossible!” A member of the Everlore Association, an Official Mortal Sovereign Alchemist, vehemently denied such claims. Improve the ease of refinement by half?! Of any product? This sounded fantastical and steeped in delusional imagination. They weren’t the only ones to call out Empress Xiaocheng’s absurd claims. Quite a few roared their refusal. Unfortunately, they were tiny voices amidst the crowd. In terms of relevance or speech power, they were no more significant than the young Qi Condensation little girl accompanying her family.
“I can attest to it myself,” Empress Xiaocheng added with a solemn light in her eyes. Wasn’t she the best to corroborate such claims? In fact, she felt insulted by their actions. A tinge of anger surged in her heart. All else aside, when she was first told of it, she too denied it without question, so it was hard to blame them.
Lin Xianxei was wide-eyed; she hastily formed a hand-seal and began absorbing the golden mist without hesitation. “Don’t waste a single second!” She shouted softly at Lin Ming, who was still stunned, only passively breathing the mist like the vast majority. This was an opportunity that would only last an hour! If it wasn’t seized, it might never come again.
In the Everlore Association’s group, San Luoyang’s heart clenched fiercely as a bad premonition birthed in his heart. Next to him was San Yongli, who was still frustrated that her concealment mask was ineffective in this World of Eden. She couldn’t hide her identity! No one could!
She glanced at Evergod, who was originally trying to stay mysterious in real life with his body cloaked by various concealment formations, tools, and such to blend in as an ordinary member, but in the World of Eden, his chestnut skin was in full view including his grand, imposing demeanor.
The man actively repelled the golden mist with his aura, his eyes serene, yet it was easy to tell that he wasn’t as calm as he seemed. The rest of the Everlore Association members, youth or otherwise, followed after Evergod’s lead and didn’t refine the golden mist. They were overly cautious against Wei Wuyin’s tricks.
San Luoyang, however, inspected the golden mist and sent a transmission to San Yongli, “Don’t waste this opportunity and refine the mist.”
San Yongli was taken aback. She turned to San Luoyang, who was refining the mist actively. “Why?” This was dangerous, likely a calamity disguised as an opportunity.
“Because this is Alchemic Sovereign Wei’s Alchemic Expo!” He firmly reminded her, but he didn’t add anything else.
”…” San Yongli frowned. But in the end, she shook her head and didn’t refine the mist. It was best to be cautious than reckless and reliant on others’ good intentions! She had died once before because of her carelessness and complacency. Moreover, she didn’t need to cultivate this mist for an hour.
San Luoyang grew a little frustrated at her response. Unfortunately, he could only sigh heavily in his heart. He’ll have to make preparations. He formed another hand- seal, performing an exquisite art.
The Everlore Association wasn’t the only one not to refine the mist. The Unchained Heart Sect was among those who practiced caution over obtaining fortune! The Imperial Clan was quite divided, but the princes and princesses were forced to refine the mist by Tian Lingyu. She almost force-fed the mist to the reluctant ones!
Tian Muyang, Yang Chaoyue, and Sky Monarch Bai were the first to wholeheartedly refine the mist, and they quickly entered a state of cultivation. Unlike the others, they had no apprehension toward Wei Wuyin’s good fortune.
Empress Xiaocheng’s feelings elevated after seeing the Imperial Clan refine the mist. It was even better than the Astralis Essence that the Everlore Association provided during the Saint Cyclic Renewal Summit, and unlike then, where the essence was limited, the Astralis Dawn Mist was supplied in such vast quantities that the amount one could absorb was entirely dependent on their bodily talents.Moreover, she knew there was no issue with the Astralis Dawn Mist.
An hour later…
The Astralis Dawn Mist began to retract. Countless found that this heavenly material was leaving them, and their hearts and minds cried out.
“Just a few more seconds!”
“I’m so close to reaching the 99 Qi Essence!” A Qi Condensation Realm cultivator who was still at the Yang Growth Phase an hour ago exclaimed. Jumping from the Fifth Stage to the Ninth Stage, nearly reaching the limits of their foundation, wasn’t unprecedented. In actuality, it was commonplace amongst many here.
There were Astral Core Realm cultivators that underwent their tribulations, temporarily vanishing from the World of Eden. They discovered that, while undergoing the tribulation, the Astralis Dawn Mist didn’t dissipate but was indirectly assisting them! It was as if it contained hints of Mortal Intent that could rightfully interfere! Some of the more talented ones jumped from the First Stage of the Astral Core Realm to the Fourth Stage in one go! Moreover, they reached at least the 7th Spatial Ripple!
Just an hour!
A single hour!
WHAT GOOD FORTUNE!
The crowd grew rowdy and expectant. This was the Neo-Dawn Alchemic Expo?! What else could there be?
“Isn’t this way too much?” A prince of the Imperial Clan questioned Tian Lingyu. The Astralis Dawn Mist was top-notch material that the peak forces would never waste, yet it was provided to quintillions in number, and it was merely the first step of the Neo- Dawn Alchemic Expo’s good fortune?
“Haaaa…Alchemic Expos are stages for an alchemist’s ego, the chance for them to display their abilities, their means, and their bright future.” Sky Monarch Bai said as he reveled in the sensation of growth. He felt as if he was on the verge of manifesting his Temporal Rune! If only he had a few days.
“He’s right. It’s never too much for them.” Tian Shangyang added, pouting slightly as he had wasted about a minute gawking at others. A minute he’ll never get back.
In the concealed location within the World of Eden, the man himself observed the various cultivators refining Astralis Dawn Mist. The light of calculation in his silver eyes was roaring at the moment. By his side was Cao Cuifen!
“Did you solve it?” She asked expectantly.
Wei Wuyin nodded slightly, “Took so many tries, though. What an expenditure of resources…” Despite what others might think, Wei Wuyin felt slightly pained in his heart at the cost. “But that’s the price for rapid experimentation, I guess.”
After a short while, Wei Wuyin shrugged his shoulders as Cao Cuifen smiled. Only Wei Wuyin dared conduct such large-scale experimentation with voluntary guinea pigs. “Let me see,” she urged.
Wei Wuyin lifted his palm and faced it skyward. Then, a glob of violet-golden mist began to manifest. The glob floated calmly within his palm, spinning slightly, exuding a faint silvery radiance. Cao Cuifen’s eyes brightened as she observed the violet- golden mist.
“Is this stable?” Cao Cuifen asked.
Wei Wuyin nodded deeply, “The perfected state of the Astralis Dawn Mist, the core material of my theorized Mystic-Earth grade pill-perfectly calibrated and in harmony with every aspect of the Three Mortal Realms and the four stages of the Mystic Ascendant Realm.”
pαndα`noν?1–сoМ Cao Cuifen’s hands trembled slightly. “But will it work?”
Smiling confidently, Wei Wuyin replied: “It’ll be the first Mystic-Earth grade product that any and every mortal cultivator can refine-it’ll work.”
In his heart, Wei Wuyin added: “And my only chance at reaching the peak of the Star Core Phase in my lifetime.”
After reaching the Star Core Phase, Wei Wuyin came to realize that, despite possessing the ability to refine Mystic- Earth grade products for his cultivation, the products of the Mystic Dao were not very effective at all for anything other than enlightenment of the Mystic Intent or Absorption of Mystic Essence into Mystic Rune Seeds. Any type of foundation- boosting effect was extremely ineffective to those not in the Mystic Ascendant Realm, an expected outcome but extremely disappointing.
Enlightenment and Mystic Essence was the furthest thing he needed with his cultivation base and an Existential Framework of a mortal. As a possessor of four Zenith Origin States and fully formed Mystic Rune Seeds and four World Rune Seeds, those things were entirely unneeded.
Wei Wuyin needed a product that exceeded a transcendent-grade Echoing Stars of the Vastness Pill, a legitimate ‘pinnacle-tier’ mortal-graded product, but fully effective for mortals. Unfortunately, only the Mystic Dao could provide such an elevation of effectiveness, creating an obstacle of unimaginable height. He was left with no choice but to think radically and abuse his understanding of Mortal Dao and Mystic Dao harmony alongside the Alchemic Expo’s participants.
“Are you ready?” Cao Cuifen felt relieved that Wei Wuyin had successfully created the core material for his theorized product, but there was still so much more left to do.
“Of course!” Putting away the perfected Astralis Dawn Mist, Wei Wuyin turned to the World of Eden’s quintillions of souls. “It’s time we began.”
