Dual Cultivation God Returns

In the days leading up to the refinement of the Yang Fire Dragon Pill, Wu Long did not cultivate with his ladies as he would require a long cultivation session that neither of them could handle if they did not have a rest.

In addition, ever since Yu Huan has arrived at the mansion a few weeks ago all of his women took Yin Qi enhancement medicine and took great care to circulate the techniques Dual Cultivators used in lead up to important cultivation sessions.

Yu Huan sat in the middle of the alchemy room with the furnace as Wu Long sat behind her. Ye Ling, Hua Ziyan, Cao Xiang and Wei Lan, the people with the largest reserves of Spiritual Qi of everyone sat behind him.

"I will start now"

After concentrating in silence for some time and adjusting her state of mind, Yu Huan took a deep breath and started the alchemy process.

What she was about to refine was a high-level 9th-tier Mortal Grade pill, something she as a Foundation Building Realm practitioner should not be able to refine since that required one to be in Mortal Transcendence Realm to do.

However, with skills and techniques from Wu Long that bypassed the necessary requirements, the only thing she now lacked was simply raw power in the form of Spiritual Qi and Soul Power.

The conversion rate would be quite bad, since borrowing Spiritual Qi or Soul Power was generally inefficient. The concept was not new as eventually there were ambitious alchemists in the Seven Boundless Worlds who attempted to refine pills of higher tiers by borrowing Spiritual Qi and Soul Power from each other. But the efficiency was so bad that it was generally deemed not practical. It also did not make up for the gap in skills between alchemists in higher realms.

But with this group she was set with enough resources to refine the pill, since Wu Long could give her more than enough Soul Power even with the bad efficiency, and together with the holders of the largest reserves of Spiritual Qi there was enough of it as well.

There was a large array on the floor, and additional arrays and inscriptions on the walls and ceiling. Because the final hurdle was the furnace, which was a mere mid-level 7th-tier Mortal Grade treasure, but that was the highest one could possibly get in this world if one was not associated with the Alchemy Tower. Such a furnace would not be able to withstand the strain, so once the pill refinement entered a certain stage, Yu Huan would have to switch to the Open-Array Refinement method.

There were other methods of refining pills not in the furnace but she had yet to master the required skill and reach high enough cultivation to attempt those.

Despite the difficulty of the procedure and tricks to bypass some restrictions, the pill refinement was only long and arduous, but due to the meticulous planning and preparations did not have anything out of the ordinary.

By the end of the next day, a perfectly round orange pill with yellow lines that seemed to flow on it's surface appeared before the weary eyes of everyone present.

"Haha, it is a success, Fairy Yu Huan. Moreover, it is a flawless-quality pill"

Wu Long received the pill and chuckled as he examined it, joy appearing in the tired eyes of the alchemist who sighed and nearly lost her balance trying to stand up.

He quickly caught her with one arm, as her heart skipped a beat. She clearly felt that sensation of his gentle yet firm touch around her waist, even through the dizziness of fatigue.

But her joy which prompted her to almost involuntarily attempt standing up was understandable.

Alchemy pills, in addition to levels, tiers and grade also had quality, which determined the skills of the alchemist. They were seven levels of poor, low, standard, flawless, high, paragon, and transcendent quality.

Normally to be called an alchemist of a certain tier and grade, one should be able to refine standard quality mid-level pills of that tier and grade.

For Yu Huan who was entire three Major Realms below, refining a flawless pill was a tremendous achievement.

"All right, we should all take a rest for now"

Wu Long chuckled, letting go of the beautiful lady who somehow felt a little reluctance to part with the comfort his touch brought.

Even Wu Long looked tired. He nearly exhausted his reserves of Spiritual Qi as the ladies behind him took turns in supplying theirs to him while he kept the constant flow.

It was a double loss, first from them to him and then from him to Yu Huan, but this way there was a steady uninterrupted flow that did not impede the refining process and did not break Yu Huan's concentration.

He also used a special way to purify the Spiritual Qi so that Yu Huan could use it as her own without much trouble.

Besides the loss between his women and Wu Long was greatly less due to the fact that their Yin and Yang Qi were connected and assisted in the process.

There was a simple reason in the urgency to refine this pill as Wu Long was slowly running out of means to improve his Golden Yang Dragon Body.

He has been using Yang attribute medicines and Demonic Cores that Sui Luxiao constantly supplied, but lately there was no significant effect, as he required large quantities even for small improvement.ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ɴovᴇl(F)ɪre.ɴet

There was simply a lack of anything above 6th-tier Mortal Grade to help him.

That resulted in the halt in the progress of his Yang Root.

Normally it would not be a problem to wait until he found a way out of this fractured world, but the catch was that his bond with his women required him to keep a balance.

As they started entering Core Formation and were expected to reach Core Reformation Realms, their Yin would start to overpower his Yang.

If he could reach Core Formation Realm his Yang Root would also receive a boost but he was at least currently moving at a slower pace.

With that in mind, he could also not initiate any new bonds with women carelessly.

And yet, he was in a situation when he had to increase his rate of growth.

"Thank you, Fairy Yu Huan, I will be sure to thank you properly at a later time when we are all in better shape"

He smiled at the alchemist whose eyes, though slightly unfocused due to extreme fatigue, shone with a happy light at seeing him genuinely happy.