Published: September 2, 2025
Chapter 527: Uninvited Guests
The door of the pill refining chamber remained closed for a full three years.
When Han Li calmly emerged one day after those three years, the demonic beast cores had already been transformed into all kinds of rare pills.
In the first two years, Han Li naturally devoted all his time to refining pills primarily using Level 5 demonic beast cores as the main ingredient.
Although these pills no longer had any significant effect on him at this point, any one of them falling into the hands of a foundation establishment stage cultivator would definitely make them ecstatic, something they would dream of having.
The process of refining these pills finally allowed Han Li to advance his application of pill refining techniques to a higher level.
After all, even genuine master pill refiners seldom have the opportunity to waste so many demonic beast cores just for practice.
For an ordinary pill refiner, being able to use thirty or forty demonic beast cores in their lifetime to make pills would already be remarkable.
Even though the refining methods for each pill varied greatly, there were always some commonalities from which Han Li could learn.
As a result, after refining so many rare pills numerous times, Han Li’s pill refining technique was unexpectedly elevated beyond the level of the rumored master pill refiners.
Consequently, when he later used Level 6 and 7 demonic beast cores, his success rate in forming pills naturally increased significantly.
This greatly pleased Han Li!
Otherwise, given the rarity of Level 6 and 7 pills, even Han Li wouldn’t lightly waste them.
After finishing the pill refining, Han Li rested for a month.
During this time, he visited the insect chambers several times to check on the tricolor golddevourer worms and the original, unevolved golddevourer worms in the two chambers respectively.
While he was in the pill refining chamber, he had instructed his puppets to alternately feed both types of golddevourer worms with Nishang Herb leaves.
The result was a very bad piece of news for Han Li.
Although the tricolor golddevourer worms continued to eat the Nishang Herb without issue, the herb seemed to have lost the special effect that could make them irritable and excited. After consuming it, there was no abnormal change at all.
At first, Han Li thought that the effect was not obvious because the feeding period was too short or the number of golddevourer worms was too large.
So, suspicious, he isolated hundreds of tricolor golddevourer worms to feed exclusively on this herb to observe any change in their behavior.
But after several feedings, these golddevourer worms remained as before, showing no abnormal reactions.
This caused Han Li to feel very troubled.
Now he could be certain that the Nishang Herb had truly lost its miraculous effect to induce rapid breeding in the evolved golddevourer worms.
Although he didn’t understand the underlying mystery, there was no doubt that he had now lost the method to quickly breed and advance the tricolor golddevourer worms.
These beetles were gradually being used up one by one!
Now he could only return to the old path, having the puppets concentrate the Nishang Herb to feed the gold and silver unevolved golddevourer worms.
These worms had become more and more irritable, clearly signaling that the next breeding time was not far off.
After settling all this, Han Li composed himself and entered the seclusion chamber again.
With the assistance of various pills, he planned to first cultivate the ninth level of the Blue Origin Sword Technique, aiming to break through to mid foundation formation.
Sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion inside the sealed chamber, Han Li took out a prepared pill bottle from his storage pouch.
Then he poured out a pill that glowed red like a longan fruit, took it with one hand, and swallowed it in one gulp.
Feeling the warmth of the medicinal power stirring inside his stomach, Han Li silently recited the ninth level sword art, slowly closing his eyes.