Eternal Martial Sovereign Chapter 49 – Reviving The Family

Chapter 49 – Reviving The Family

Translator: Mr Voltaire

Editor: Master Shadow

The way of martial cultivation required not only talent, but also diligence. Xiao Yun trained non-stop and soon, he had practised the Firecloud Palms to the point of perfection. Following this, he went to refine medicinal pills – after all, this concerned the fate of the entire Xiao family.

Seeing that Xiao Yun didn’t have any time to spend with her, Yan Shi Yan returned home, and occasionally visited the Xiao family’s residence.

Xiao Hai also continuously gathered medicinal ingredients for Xiao Yun to refine, such as those for the Innate Pill and Congealing Qi Pill.

The Congealing Qi Pill was a pill that could help Innate realm cultivators restore their Essence Qi and increase their cultivation, and was a tier above the Innate Pill.

However, because Xiao Yun’s spirit energy was incredibly powerful, and he was now extremely proficient at using the Violet Flame Martial Spirit, he was able to refine the Congealing Qi Pill. Such talent at pill refining caused the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow to stare in shock, feeling immense hope within its heart.

“I should start refining Pure Essence Pills.” Xiao Yun took in a deep breath and placed the medicinal ingredients for refining a Pure Essence Pill into the pill cauldron.

After a while, a pill gradually took form within the cauldron. However, just as it was about to be formed, the cauldron trembled.

Buzz!

The pill had actually shattered.

“I failed.” Xiao Yun looked quite disappointed. Just as he was about to complete the pill, it had actually shattered.

Luckily, the Violet Flame Cauldron was quite extraordinary. When the pill shattered, a wave of violet runes engulfed the berserk energy. Otherwise, the berserk shockwaves could have destroyed the cauldron and killed Xiao Yun.

“No wonder its said that refining pills can be quite dangerous,” Xiao Yun muttered to himself.

“This is quite normal. The medicinal strength of the Pure Essence Pill is too strong, and if you can’t balance the medicinal strength of the different medicinal ingredients, there’ll be resistance. That was what just happened. Your cultivation’s too low, so it’ll be difficult for you to control this energy,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said.

“Looks like I need to take things slower.” Xiao Yun breathed in deeply, as a look of resolution appeared within his eyes. “However, I don’t believe that I can’t refine this Pure Essence Pill. Not only that, I’m also going to refine a Mysterious Congealing Pill to help grandpa step into the Essence Core realm and become even more powerful.”

“Alright, it’s good that you have such determination,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said. “Don’t worry about failing. Just don’t let failure beat you down into someone who’s plain and ordinary. That sort of person will never become great, and will never accomplish anything in their lives.”

Xiao Yun gathered his thoughts and continued to refine pills.

Buzz!

Once, twice… after failing 7 times, Xiao Yun finally succeeded in refining a Pure Essence Pill. It was a silvery-white medicinal pill, but there were still some impurities within it. It wasn’t a very high-grade pill, but because it contained so much medicinal strength, it could cause anyone to go crazy over it. Even if it couldn’t allow someone at the complete stage of the Innate realm reach the True Essence realm, it would still be able to raise one’s cultivation.

Moreover, even someone at the True Essence realm who had used up all of their Essence Qi would be able to recover much of it after consuming this pill. It would be tens, if not hundreds, of times faster than tediously absorbing Heaven and Earth Essence Qi by themselves or by using Essence Stones. It was a life-saving medicinal pill to cultivators.

This was why Ling Xi had previously asked Xiao Yun to look for her medicinal pills.

“This medicinal pill’s grade is too low and won’t be able to help anyone break through to the True Essence realm,” Xiao Yun lamented as he shook his head. The Fang family were preparing to make a move against his Xiao family, so he had to quickly help his family’s elders break through as soon as possible.

If they had a few more True Essence realm experts, they would definitely be able to hold the fort.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

Buzz!

A resplendent and blinding light shone within the pill cauldron, as if a godly pill had descended.

“He succeeded again?” The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow’s eyes lit up.

Within the cauldron there was a medicinal pill with a halo-like fog swirling around it. This pill gave off an extremely dense sensation of Essence Qi.

Xiao Yun took the medicinal pill and looked delighted.

“This is a Grade 1 medicinal pill, and is close to Grade 2,” the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said.

“Not bad. This pill can be given to cultivators who are close to the True Essence realm. I’m sure it’ll be able to help them take that final step to the True Essence realm.” The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was quite pleased with this medicinal pill. Medicinal pills were split into 9 Grades, and every Grade had different levels of effects.

A Grade 9 medicinal pill would be able to help someone with mediocre talent at the complete stage of the Innate realm immediately break through to the True Essence realm.

This was the attraction of medicinal pills – they provided miraculous effects. Of course, if one’s talent was mediocre, even if they broke through once, wanting to advance again would be as difficult as scaling the heavens. However, to those who hadn’t broken through in decades, this would be enough.

“I still have a few more portions of medicinal ingredients. I’ll refine a few more True Essence Pills.” Xiao Yun felt quite excited and had no intention of stopping.

A day later, Xiao Yun had finished refining all of the medicinal ingredients, and had refined two more Grade 1 True Essence Pills.

There were also 3 ordinary True Essence Pills that weren’t quite Grade 1.

As he looked over his accomplishments, Xiao Yun’s brows unfurrowed slightly.

“If my family has a few more True Essence realm cultivators, why would we need to fear that Fang family?”

After gathering up the medicinal pills, Xiao Yun left his room.

“Haha, Yun’Er, I was just going to find you.” When he saw Xiao Yun, Xiao Hai laughed as he spoke, “I’ve already sold the Innate Pills that you refined, and it went extremely well. The neighbouring Sifting Cloud City’s Auction Hall offered to form a partnership with us, and even gathered medicinal ingredients for us. Look, there are medicinal ingredients for Innate Pills, antidote pills, and even 3 portions of medicinal ingredients for Mysterious Congealing Pills. This will be enough to keep you busy for a while.”

There was a large pile of medicinal ingredients within Xiao Hai’s courtyard.

“Really?” Hearing this, Xiao Yun felt ecstatic. With the medicinal ingredients for an antidote pill, he would be able to cure big sister Shi Fei’s poison.

“Mm.”  Xiao Hai was also delighted.

“The effects of your Innate Pills were extremely good, and were even stronger than Master Yuan’s. The Auction Hall was so afraid that we wouldn’t partner with them, and agreed that they’d help us find whatever medicinal ingredients we need.”

“It’s a pity that we can’t do the same in the Violet Cloud County, otherwise, we’d be able to earn a large sum here as well.”

The Xiao family currently had many enemies and once it was exposed that Xiao Yun could refine pills, the Fang family might join with the Zhou family to attack them. As such, it was best that Xiao Hai keep this matter under the wraps.

“It’s fine. Raising the strength of our family is the most important thing,” Xiao Yun replied.

“Mm,” Xiao Hai smiled. “Your cousin Xiao Ye’s cultivation stopped at the complete stage of the Body Tempering realm, and broke through after consuming an Innate Pill. I also secretly helped a few other of our family members break through to the Innate realm. In the future, our Xiao family will definitely become the most powerful family in the Violet Cloud County.”

“That’s good.” Xiao Yun nodded his head in satisfaction as he spoke, “Second Uncle, here are some Pure Essence Pills. See if you can use them to help people break through to the True Essence realm.” Following this, Xiao Yun took out a bottle containing the medicinal pills he had refined.

“What?! Pure Essence Pills?” Xiao Hai was incredibly excited as he took the medicinal pill bottle with trembling hands.

“What dense Essence Qi!” After opening the bottle, Xiao Hai’s eyes lit up.

“Well done! Excellently done! Haha, it looks like our Xiao family’s going to experience a revival.” Xiao Hai was delirious with joy.

“There are 3 medicinal pills of decent grade. You can give them to people in our family, such as Eldest Uncle and Uncle Xiao Hu. The remaining low-grade pills can be auctioned off.  In future, I’ll refine more pills for our family, so that we can have a few more True Essence realm experts,” Xiao Yun said.

“Our Xiao family is truly going to experience a revival!” Xiao Hai felt as if his blood was boiling as he laughed, “Haha, it’s truly a good feeling to have a pill refiner in the family!”

No wonder why everyone said that a Pill Refiner was comparable to 10, or even 100, geniuses.

Xiao Yun gave a happy smile and arranged for people to bring the medicinal ingredients to his own courtyard, then went back to refining pills.

He continued to refine the medicinal pills that were relatively easier to make, in order to increase his control. As he continuously refined pills, Xiao Yun felt that his spirit energy was also becoming stronger, and was almost at the point of breakthrough.

This was because he was continuously using his spirit energy, and had developed it over the course of pill refining. Pill refining seemed to be even more effective than painstakingly cultivating it.

Within one of the Xiao family’s Discussion Halls, Xiao Hong was invited over.

“Second brother, what did you need to see me so urgently for?” Xiao Hong asked with a frown. “Don’t you know that the Fang family and Zhou family have been attacking our mines, and that I’ve been busy with coordinating defences?”

Beside him, Xiao Hu stood with an expression of confusion.

“Fang family?” An icy look appeared in Xiao Hai’s eyes as he responded, “Why do we need to fear them?”

“Ol’ Second, what do you mean by that?” Xiao Hong asked as he frowned. He had turned a blind eye to his second brother not paying attention to this matter during this month, but how could he act like this?

This matter concerned the life or death of the Xiao family!

“I have 2 Pure Essence Pills here. Take them and see if both of you can break through to the True Essence realm,” Xiao Hai said calmly.

“What?! Pure Essence Pills?” Hearing this, a look of shock appeared in Xiao Hong’s eyes. “Ol’ Second, you must be joking. Where did you get Pure Essence Pills from?”

“Haha, don’t worry about that,” Xiao Hai said as he handed out the pills.

As they received the jade bottle containing the medicinal pills, Xiao Hong and Xiao Hu’s bodies trembled.

“What dense Essence Qi!” Xiao Hong exclaimed with incredulity. “Second Brother, where did you obtain these? Even if we sold all of our family’s fortunes, it would be difficult to buy two of these pills!”

These sorts of medicinal pills were extremely rare, and they would be fought over by many large families, making them incredibly difficult to obtain.

“Just take them, but don’t reveal this.” Xiao Hai didn’t bother explaining.

“Hmph, Fang family? When I step into the True Essence realm, I’ll destroy their nest,” Xiao Hai coldly harrumphed.

When Fang Hao had tried to force them into handing Xiao Yun over, he had been so angry that he almost started fighting with them.

“Alright, I know what to do.” A calm expression appeared on Xiao Hong’s face, and a sharp look in his eyes. If he broke through to the True Essence realm, why would he need to fear the Fang family?

“Thank you Second Patriarch for the medicinal pill.” Xiao Hu was incredibly grateful, and almost wept.

The True Essence realm was something that countless cultivators of the Violet Cloud County dreamt of!

“Don’t be like this; we’re all part of one family. You’ve worked diligently and taught many of the younger generation, so this pill is something you deserve.” Xiao Hai waved his hand, saying, “I’m going to go into closed-door training. I’ve waited 10 or so years for this day!”

Everyone else nodded, all preparing to go into closed-door training.

“I’ve finally refined an Antidote Pill!” At this moment, a look of joy appeared in Xiao Yun’s eyes as he took out a jade-green pill from the pill cauldron. The aroma from the pill was extremely fragrant and just by smelling it, one’s mind would feel refreshed. This was an Antidote Pill that could cure various poisons.

The medicinal ingredients for Antidote Pills were hard to find, so Xiao Yun let out a sigh of relief after finally successfully refining them.

Chapter end