Qinyue Nation was an ancient human country situated in the Chaos Heavens. It had tens of millions of years of history and its territory spanned tens of millions of kilometers. It was considered a stable, if average, faction.
In the Chaos Heavens, factions like the Qinyue Nation were innumerable. Typically, few intelligence organizations would pay notice to this nation.
Northwest of the Qinyue Nation was a mountain range that extended for tens of thousands of kilometers. It was filled with primordial forests in which lived venomous worms, places that were devoid of human life.
This day, a man and three women flew to a spot above the nameless forest. Sweeping the area with his perception, the man checked the surrounding situation. "This shall be it."
The person who spoke was none other than Yi Yun.
The women with him were Lin Xintong, Jiang Xiaorou, and Shan Ling.
After leaving the ancient Heaven Fey, Yi Yun had been searching for a land for his seclusion, firstly to continue refining Myriad Form Shura Pills and secondly, to cultivation in seclusion.
The Heaven Fey City would be good, but Yi Yun was facing the possible pursuit of the Celestials. To further use the Ancestor God's blood to refine pills in Heaven Fey City would only be outright provocation against the Celestials.
The ancient Heaven Fey would not be able to withstand the wrath of the Celestials.
The mountain range he chose was far inferior to the Heaven Fey City's array core in terms of Heaven Earth Yuan Qi.
However, the lack of Heaven Earth Yuan Qi did not concern Yi Yun. The ancient Heaven Fey had provided him with sufficient Chaos Crystals and array formations to make up for that.
"This shall be it."
Jiang Xiaorou nodded. Yi Yun had brought her along with him when he left the ancient Heaven Fey.
Regardless, his strength was the key to everything.
To put it bluntly, the contest for the crown was merely a contest for resources. And now, the Myriad Form Shura Pills that Yi Yun was about to refine were the best kind of resource.
In a relatively long period of time in the near future, Yi Yun would choose to enter seclusion. Jiang Xiaorou naturally had to use this time to enter seclusion with him, so as to evolve her bloodline.
Yi Yun took out a disk array and casually set up a massive array. Instantly, hundreds of kilometers of the mountain range was enveloped within the array. With Yi Yun's present nomological insight, even a Godly Monarch would fail to notice anything off about the forest even if they were standing right there.
Yi Yun selected an inconspicuous mountain and dug open a cave abode that was well-facilitated within its belly.
The cave abode had dozens of chambers of varying sizes. The biggest one was made Yi Yun's alchemy lab.
Connected to the alchemy lab was Yi Yun's and Lin Xintong's master bedroom.
Beside the master bedroom was Shan Ling's room. Yi Yun's seclusion wouldn't be that short, so Shan Ling's presence would help tend to Yi Yun's and Lin Xintong's daily life and deal with some miscellaneous matters.
Yi Yun took out the Ascending Dragon Cauldron and placed it right in the middle of the alchemy lab.
Ever since he left the ancient Heaven Fey, Yi Yun had taken with him all the materials needed to refine the Myriad Form Shura Pills.
Since he had sworn on the Heavenly Dao, the ancient Heaven Fey were not afraid that Yi Yun would misappropriate the pills.
The price of going against his oath was just too much for a warrior like Yi Yun who had an unlimited future ahead of him. It was not worth it just to take the remaining percentage of the pills.
When he placed the alchemical materials in front of him, Yi Yun sighed at how deep the ancient Heaven Fey's heritage went.
A super faction that had existed for billions of years had reserves that were stunning.
Just the Fey cores of a powerful Fey numbered six. Each one had a quality that far exceeded the one Yi Yun bought at the auction.
As for the valuable herbs such as Flying Clouds Flowing Flower, them being a million years old was just the beginning. With these materials, the quality of the cauldron of pills would be greatly enhanced.
But now, Yi Yun was not in a hurry to begin the pill refinement. Instead, he took out two interspatial rings.
They were the rings left behind by Luo King and Ghost Doctor after their deaths.
The heritage of two Godly Monarch level figures!
This was of timely assistance to the presently poor Yi Yun.
His perception delved deep into the Luo King's interspatial ring and took out the items one by one.
The Luo King was an old Fey Thearch among the ancient Heaven Fey. He had accumulated his wealth for years, so it was immense. Inside the interspatial ring, just the Chaos Crystals alone numbered thirty thousand.
Back when Yi Yun refined the first cauldron of Myriad Form Shura Pills, he had sought the Blood King's help. All the Blood King could do was produce a few thousand Chaos Crystals. The rest was obtained from a mortgage of the Treasure Fey Pagoda.
Apart from the Chaos Crystals, there were all sorts of Fey cultivation manuals that numbered more than a hundred.
Yi Yun had no use for them and handed them to Jiang Xiaorou.
The Luo King's cultivation manuals mostly came from the ancient Heaven Fey. Although Jiang Xiaorou had read them previously, the Luo King had left behind his annotations and thoughts in the manuals.
These notes was considered secrets that no Fey Thearch would impart easily.
Jiang Xiaorou already had the Blood King as her teacher, and now, she had the addition of the Luo King. As she studied the insights of the two Fey Thearchs, Jiang Xiaorou resolved some of the questions that plagued her in the past.
Shan Ling, who was also a Fey, enjoyed the benefits as well. Just a sampling of the manuals benefited her greatly.
After the manuals were all sorts of pills, natural treasures, as well as artifacts.
Yi Yun found several Fey bones, Fey cores, and Fey blood in one of the Luo King's chest.
The Luo King also had a Fey Thearch level Fey core!
Yi Yun was about to enter seclusion; therefore, these items were of great use.
As for Ghost Doctor, he was a lot poorer than the Luo King. As a Ghost Doctor, he earned a lot, but his expenditure was great due to his research of all kinds of mystical medicines.
Ghost Doctor's interspatial ring only had 8000 Chaos Crystals.
However, Yi Yun found many exclusive mystic medicines, and a large number of books on alchemy and medicine.
Just the notebooks which Ghost Doctor wrote personally numbered more than ten.
These things were even more detailed and comprehensive than the divine alchemist's notebook that Yi Yun had received previously.
With Yi Yun's foundation, all he needed to do was spend some time reading the material, and his alchemical skills would quickly improve.
In Yi Yun's eyes, the items left behind by the Ghost Doctor were even more valuable than what the Luo King had.
After tidying up everything, Yi Yun began his pill refinement in seclusion.
For this pill refinement, the ancient Heaven Fey provided 15,000 Chaos Crystals and a Spirit Gathering Array.
Now, Yi Yun shattered all the 15,000 Chaos Crystals and created an array core environment in the middle of the Spirit Gathering Array.
Heaven Earth Yuan Qi appeared and instantly condensed into a spirit fountain within Yi Yun's alchemy lab.
This was quite an extravagant act.
With everything in place, Yi Yun's pill refinement process was extremely smooth. In half a year, he refined six cauldrons of Myriad Form Shura Pills.
Every cauldron created phenomena that was more alarming than the one back in Heaven Fey City. However, it was all suppressed by Yi Yun using an array formation.
The six cauldrons of pills made for a total of 72 pills. According to the agreement, Yi Yun took 22 of them.
Out of the 22, Jiang Xiaorou received 4 and the Nine Transformations Celestial Silkworm received 2.
The remaining 16 were used by Yi Yun to consolidate his lifeblood, in preparation for him to make his breakthrough to the Godly Monarch realm.
Yi Yun looked forward to the Godly Monarch realm. He had no idea how strong he would be once he attained it.