One day later, Zhu Ziyang woke up from his recuperation. He exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, his face full of ease.
"Good, now it's time for the main course!" he muttered, then stood up and walked to the pill furnace that had already cooled down. Without any hesitation, he directly opened the lid of the pill furnace.
"Puff~" A rich fragrance immediately filled the room, causing the air that had already faded to once again be occupied by the heaven and earth origin qi.
Zhu Ziyang did not pay attention to the pill fragrance lingering around his body. Full of anticipation, he took out the original golden pills from the pill furnace—one, two, three... Soon, nine original golden pills were taken out by Zhu Ziyang from the pill furnace and placed separately into the jade bottles he had prepared long ago.
Looking at these round and naturally formed, flawless golden pills, a trace of pride and fascination appeared in Zhu Ziyang's eyes. These nine pills were all priceless treasures of immeasurable value.
"Let's test the effect first!" Zhu Ziyang showed anticipation. With a wave of his hand, only one of the nine original golden pills remained in front of him; the other eight were naturally stored in the Star Flame Ring. How to distribute them, he did not want to think about for now. The most important thing at the moment was to first figure out the medicinal power of this one origin golden pill.
He poured the original golden pill into his palm, then held it up to his eyes and examined it carefully. The pill's fragrance was like a small hand, constantly tickling his senses, making him unable to resist wanting to swallow it. With Zhu Ziyang's current strength, he had long since lost the desire for food and drink, yet this pill could still arouse his appetite. One could imagine its wonder.
Without hesitation, Zhu Ziyang directly put it into his mouth and swallowed it. Immediately, he sat cross-legged on the ground and began to circulate his soul power to refine this original golden pill.
As the saying goes, swallow one golden pill into the belly, and my fate is up to me, not the heavens. After the original golden pill was swallowed by Zhu Ziyang, a vast medicinal power was immediately released. An immeasurable amount of heaven and earth origin qi instantly filled Zhu Ziyang's five viscera and six bowels, limbs and bones, and extraordinary meridians, causing his body to swell up in an instant, turning him into a fat man who looked at least two hundred jin.
A trace of surprise appeared on Zhu Ziyang's face, but more of it was pain and helplessness. He really had not expected the medicinal power of the original golden pill to be so violent, violent to the point that he was just a step slow, and it seized control of his body. Fortunately, this medicinal power was just a bit violent; although it made him very uncomfortable, it did not cause too much harm.
In fact, Zhu Ziyang could easily resolve the abnormality in his body. He only needed to expel the excess medicinal power of the original golden pill from his body, and all problems would be solved. But doing so would inevitably waste a lot of the original golden pill's medicinal power, so Zhu Ziyang did not plan to do that.
A trace of determination and ruthlessness flashed in his eyes. With a thought, the Pure World Resting Life Scythe and the Heavenly Frost White Dragon King martial soul attached to him at the same time. This was the first time he had summoned two major martial souls simultaneously, and unexpectedly, it was not for battle but for cultivation—a bit ironic.
However, Zhu Ziyang could not care about that much anymore. As the two major martial souls attached, he felt much more relaxed, but it was still far from enough. He summoned the martial souls not to share the pressure, but to refine this original golden pill.
Yes, Zhu Ziyang planned to completely refine this original golden pill. Something that had already entered his mouth—how could Zhu Ziyang possibly let it escape? This did not conform to his style of doing things!
He closed his eyes, and the Great Radiance Art operated at full power. The two major martial souls kept flickering, and the eighteen soul rings behind him rotated continuously, like high-speed engines. The three diamond-shaped crystals at his brow, heart, and lower abdomen flickered in and out, as if they were about to burst out of his body.
Zhu Ziyang's body, with a cultivation as high as level 97, entered such completely crazy operation for the first time. The heaven and earth origin qi contained in one origin golden pill was indeed domineering and unparalleled!
Zhu Ziyang, going all out, fell into a deep meditation, unaware of the passage of time. His body refined the original golden pill without stopping for a moment, and his consciousness transformed in the hazy void.
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Sun Moon Empire, Mingdu.
Now, three months had passed since the Mingdu incident. With the Moon Vein lineage of the imperial family entering the palace, Mingdu quickly restored its former stability and prosperity. Although there were still many cities in the empire rebelling against Mingdu's rule in the name of the Sun Vein, the people of the new Mingdu believed that their revered Princess Highness, the future Empress of the empire, would eventually quell all disputes.
In the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, at a seemingly ordinary pavilion, the security was extremely tight—almost one sentry every ten steps, one post every five steps. Every guard was at least a Soul King, fully armed with various soul tools. Such a setup primarily served to prove the importance of this place; as for how much security it actually provided, that was a matter of opinion.
After all, the weakest person who could enter this pavilion was a Soul Douluo.
At this moment, a routine meeting was being held inside the pavilion. Every person seated there was a famous big shot on the continent.
At the head of a long table sat, naturally, the nominal and actual leader of the Sun Moon Imperial Family's Moon Vein, the actual ruler of the Sun Moon Empire, Princess Tianxuan Xu Tianxuan—of course, also known as Zhang Lexuan.
The current Zhang Lexuan was completely different from the former Zhang Lexuan. Her temperament had changed too much. Although she had only been in power for two or three months, she had already begun to possess the qualities a monarch should have.
She sat there, graceful, atmospheric, majestic, domineering, pointing out the rivers and mountains, gesturing boldly. In short, every image you could think of regarding an empress could be found in her.
This could not help but make those familiar with Zhang Lexuan sigh: she was truly a born leader!
Sitting to Zhang Lexuan's left, starting with Divine Eagle Douluo Elder Song, followed by Martial God Douluo Xian Lin'er, Black Dragon Douluo Qian Duoduo, and Moon Devouring Douluo Elder Zhu. They represented Shrek Academy's support for Zhang Lexuan and were also Zhang Lexuan's most relied-upon trump card.
Sitting to Zhang Lexuan's right, the leader was a white-haired elder who looked quite unfamiliar. Even the former dynasty's princess Xu Jianwei could only sit behind him, showing his extraordinary identity and status.
The facts were indeed so. The elder was named Kong Deming, a level 95 Super Douluo with the title Silver Moon. He was the true master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall. Of course, these were not important. What mattered was that not long ago, he had become a level 10 soul engineer! With this identity alone, he was qualified to speak on equal terms with Shrek Academy.
Behind Kong Deming was naturally Xu Jianwei, followed by the Hall Master of Illustrious Virtue Hall, the patriarch of the Hongchen family, Jing Hongchen. This person, who held significant influence in the Sun Moon Empire, had vowed to die rather than surrender after being captured by Zhang Lexuan and others. However, when he saw his idol Kong Deming acknowledge Zhang Lexuan as the leader of the Moon Vein, he decisively made the right choice.
Behind Jing Hongchen was Xu Qianxuan, the legion commander of the Imperial Moon Soul Engineer Legion, Zhang Lexuan's most loyal subordinate among those present.
Today's routine meeting had no content worth recounting because the only thing in front of Zhang Lexuan and the others was to pacify all opposition within the empire, and then Zhang Lexuan would ascend the throne as emperor.
If this could not be accomplished, everything else was nonsense. So in this meeting, Zhang Lexuan did not say anything; the seated people consciously assigned tasks to themselves. They all set a final deadline: within half a year, sweep away all enemies, betting on the dignity of their Titled Douluo!
Zhang Lexuan naturally had no objections. Although she was the leader of the group, almost everyone present was her elder. She could not really command them arrogantly; at most, she would complain verbally a few times, saying they did not consider a pregnant woman or something.
The meeting ended smoothly. Under everyone's gaze, Zhang Lexuan stood up first. Her lower abdomen was slightly bulging, and behind her instantly appeared an absolutely beautiful woman in a long black dress with purple long hair. Everyone was used to this suddenly appearing woman.
If one were to say what the biggest trump card of their team was, it was absolutely not Kong Deming, who held level 10 soul tools, but this black-dressed woman. With her protecting Zhang Lexuan, they dared to leave Mingdu with peace of mind to quell the rebellions in various parts of the empire.
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The affairs of the Sun Moon Empire could not be hidden from the Heavenly Soul Empire and Star Luo Empire, which had always been paying attention to it. The two great empires did not know much about Xu Tianxuan, who might become the new master of the Sun Moon Empire, nor were they interested in knowing. They only knew that the Sun Moon Empire was now in a state of rebellion everywhere, which was in line with their interests. So at this moment, they were intensifying their war preparations.
According to their thinking, the more chaotic the Sun Moon Empire was, the better. Only in this way could they occupy as advantageous a position as possible in the future war!
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Everyone felt it: the Douluo Continent had fallen into a period of indescribable peace. However, beneath this peace, a storm sweeping the entire continent was brewing!
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