Invincible Dad-Chapter 736 - 1,000,000 for a Single Pill

The Tenth Divine General of the Heavenly Court was Pill Emperor Shan Baiwan, an expert at the peak of the Immortal Venerable Realm who was in charge of the Heavenly Court's treasury. This individual had once concocted over one hundred batches of Quasi-Emperor Elixirs. He had even fortuitously created half a batch of an Emperor's Elixir, earning him the title of Pill Emperor among the cultivators of the Immortal Domain!

Out of fear of committing a taboo, Shan Baiwan never dared to call himself the Pill Emperor. Instead, he claimed to be second only in the Alchemy Dao, taking the title of Pill Saint.

It was well known that concocting elixirs did not just require talent; it also required the support of one's cultivation Boundary. For example, even though Baize was a sixth-layer Quasi-Emperor, she had only ever successfully concocted ten batches of Quasi-Emperor Elixirs. Divine General Baize's Boundary far surpassed that of the Tenth Divine General, Shan Baiwan. Having reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm, could her insight into the Alchemy Dao truly be that much inferior?

Not at all. In fact, Divine General Baize's insight into the Alchemy Dao was enough to rank within the top ten in the entire Immortal Domain. To be ranked in the top ten amongst the myriad beings of the Immortal Domain, especially among its countless prodigies and geniuses, was an achievement sufficient to look down upon the heavens.

And Shan Baiwan… could rank in the top three!

The first was Xu Lai, the second was Shan Baiwan, and no one dared to claim the title of third.

In his opinion, any elixir that would make Divine General Baize ask Shan Baiwan for help must be extraordinary.

Sure enough, Baize pondered for a moment before saying, "The Transforming Crane Pill."

Xu Lai's pupils suddenly shrank.

This was not some bizarre concoction that turned one into a crane demon after consumption; it was a potent Poison Pill! It had been created by the White Crane Great Emperor twelve epochs ago. If one were to mistakenly consume this Poison Pill, even an expert in the Emperor Realm would perish with regret. It was truly worthy of the name Emperor's Elixir!

The cultivators of the Immortal Domain were so certain of the elixir's efficacy because the White Crane Great Emperor had taken it himself. That's right. Just a few months after creating it, unable to otherwise verify the Emperor's Elixir's effects, the White Crane Great Emperor had used his own body as a test.

The outcome was predictable. If not for the fact that one of the main ingredients in the Poison Pill was his own heart's Essence Blood, the White Crane Great Emperor would likely have died on the spot. Even so, the Great Emperor lost half his life and suffered an incurable Dao injury. He lived for less than 400,000 more years before passing away from melancholy.

What could Divine General Baize possibly want with the Transforming Crane Pill? Xu Lai couldn't help but fall into deep thought. It seemed the only person in this entire starry sky worth her using the Transforming Crane Pill on... was him. Emperor Wanyun didn't count; all that remained of her in the coffin was a wisp of a lingering thought. The second incarnation of Great Emperor Youming, Dongfang Youming, who was sealed in slumber within the Samsara Sea, didn't count either. That one had attained the Dao through a corpse. The last time Xu Lai went to the Samsara Sea to search for Ruan Tang's grandmother's soul, he had battled numerous Emperor Realm corpses but still failed to find the Corpse Emperor. It was even less likely that Baize, a mere sixth-layer Quasi-Emperor, could find him. Besides, this information had come from Snowflower, and Xu Lai had yet to verify its authenticity. Therefore, it was already quite obvious who this Transforming Crane Pill was for.

With a dark expression, Xu Lai asked, "Is it for me?"

"Mm," Divine General Baize said. "I heard that the White Crane Elixir can poison an Emperor Realm expert, and I wanted to try."

"..."

Xu Lai fell into deep thought. He searched his memory of the tens of thousands of years he had known Baize, certain he had never done anything to wrong her. Forcing himself on a female subordinate? Such a thing was absolutely impossible.

As if sensing the long silence, Baize suddenly chuckled. "I was only joking just now. Please don't take offense, Supreme Emperor."

"Really?"

"The Supreme Emperor also claimed I had an improper relationship with Divine General Yan. Was that also true?"

"..."

Xu Lai was at a loss for words.

Baize spoke softly, "Those two giant corpses, the ones that are 100,000 zhang tall... I want to feed each of them a White Crane Elixir."

"Originally, Divine General Shan said the most he could manage was a Quasi-Emperor Elixir, but with Snowflower leaves, we might be able to attempt an Emperor's Elixir."

"Feeding elixirs to corpses?" Xu Lai's brow furrowed deeply. He had no idea what Baize was plotting.

"One person's poison is another's delicacy," Baize stated with extreme calm. "I suspect that poison might be able to resurrect those two giant corpses."

"HISS!"

Xu Lai drew in a sharp breath.

Yiyi, who had been sent by her aunt to hurry him up with breakfast, glanced at the kitchen before running back to the yard. "Aunty," she said worriedly, "Daddy's sucking in cold air! Maybe our breakfast is too much trouble for him."

"Sucking in cold air? So we've found the culprit behind global warming!"

"..."

「Inside the kitchen.」

Xu Lai heard his chuunibyou sister-in-law's retort but paid it no mind. He was simply too shocked by what Divine General Baize had said. Those two 100,000-zhang-tall giant corpses were long dead, devoid of the slightest fluctuation or remnant of life force. This was a point Xu Lai had personally verified.

And yet, now Baize was saying she could resurrect them with poison?

"It's just a suspicion," Baize said.

Even across a distance of countless billions of light-years, Xu Lai could still imagine it: in a cave dwelling cluttered with ancient books and chessboards, Divine General Baize, who was normally as gentle as a maiden from a riverside village, was sitting in a rather unladylike posture on the Drunken Dream Stone—a stone as durable as an Emperor Artifact. Yet, the expression on her face was one of utmost seriousness.

Xu Lai pondered for a moment before saying, "I'll give you three leaves. Make sure Shan Baiwan succeeds."

"That's an Emperor's Elixir. Success isn't guaranteed even if you were to personally refine it, Supreme Emperor."

"He will definitely succeed," Xu Lai said calmly. "No one understands elixirs better than him."

Even Baize, the cleverest woman in the Immortal Domain, was stunned for a moment. She frowned and asked, "Supreme Emperor, what do you mean by that?"

Can a peak Immortal Venerable really concoct an Emperor's Elixir? If anyone else had said that, Baize would have absolutely hurled a tray of chess pieces at them.

"Let me know if you have any news," Xu Lai said, not elaborating further before proactively cutting off the Divine Sense communication.

Gazing at the noodles boiling in the pot before him, Xu Lai's expression grew distant for a moment.

No one in the Immortal Domain, aside from him, knew that the Heavenly Court's Tenth Divine General, Shan Baiwan, was not a Human Race cultivator. He was an elixir!

It wasn't unheard of for pills to gain sentience. Elixirs of the Immortal Pill rank and above already possessed spiritual intelligence and would try to flee when an alchemist opened the furnace to avoid being eaten. In fact, 80,000 years ago, an Emperor's Elixir had even managed to take human form and cultivate to the first layer of the Quasi-Emperor Realm. If it hadn't provoked Xu Lai and ended up being killed and eaten, that Emperor's Elixir might have had a chance to reach for the Emperor Realm Dao Fruit.

Shan Baiwan was different. He wasn't an elixir refined by any 'person'. He was a Great Pill refined by the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Domain itself! To be more precise, Shan Baiwan was formed from the condensed fragments of the Alchemy Dao's laws from the past one hundred epochs. The laws of the Alchemy Dao were supposed to have merged into the Heavenly Dao, but a mistake of unknown origin led to the birth of the Pill Emperor.

It wasn't hard to imagine. If a single Emperor's Elixir could reach the first layer of the Quasi-Emperor Realm, how far could the condensed Alchemy Dao laws of one hundred epochs go? The true Emperor Realm was within reach!

But Shan Baiwan was very clever. Or rather, he was very afraid of death. He knew that a Great Pill condensing one hundred epochs of the Immortal Domain's Alchemy Dao laws was no less tempting to cultivators than a Snowflower that had survived for a hundred epochs. After all, the latter could be seen but not touched. But if one were to consume this Great Pill… forget about successfully refining an Emperor's Elixir with every attempt, but creating a Quasi-Emperor Elixir every time should at least be possible, right?

No cultivator could resist such a temptation! Even Xu Lai himself, an Emperor Realm expert, had hesitated for a moment when Shan Baiwan had first revealed his identity and sought refuge with the Heavenly Court all those years ago.