Chapter 265: Chapter 163: Achieving the Fake Pill: The Killing Star Descends

An hour later.

"Phew~!"

Xiao Chen exhaled a breath of turbid air and fully stabilized his Fake Pill.

Sensing the abundant Magical Power within him, a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.

After a Cultivator forms a Fake Pill, their Magical Power capacity skyrockets from the original eighty-four to a staggering three hundred and thirty-three.

It had increased by nearly fourfold.

Although his Cultivation Realm hadn’t advanced, with this amount of Magical Power alone, he could wield several times more Magical Artifacts to easily suppress an ordinary Great Perfection Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

What was even more incredible was that the Fake Pill could help a Cultivator break through the limits of Foundation Establishment.

With a Fake Pill, a Cultivator could perceive the world like a Golden Core True Man, comprehending the Path of the Five Elements, the Path of Qi Blood, the Sword Dao, and so on.

They could learn how to mobilize the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi when casting Magic.

In this state, even though the Magic was still the same, its actual power would be vastly different.

In the distant past, the Fake Pill was even once considered a separate Realm between Foundation Establishment and Golden Core.

Even today, one can still find related descriptions in some surviving Ancient Texts.

But for Xiao Chen, the thing that made him happiest right now was undoubtedly that he no longer had to worry about having too many Top Grade Magical Artifacts.

It might sound strange, but he had indeed once considered selling his surplus Magical Artifacts because he had too many Top Grade ones.

For example, the golden bamboo branch hairpin and the White Bone Staff.

He just hadn’t found a suitable opportunity, so he hadn’t sold them yet.

But now that he had the Fake Pill, it was no longer an issue. He could keep them all for his own use.

Even during his recent confrontation with the Southern Wanderer and the Western Wanderer, his total Magical Power had been a bit tight.

He clearly had more Top Grade Magical Artifacts in his Storage Bag, but he could only rely on Magic to fight his enemies.

If there had been one more Demon Cultivator, he still would have won, but he wouldn’t have had enough Magical Power to stop them all from escaping. At least one would have gotten away.

But things were different now. He was confident he could catch them all in one fell swoop, even if two more showed up.

"Huh, why isn’t it morning yet?"

Xiao Chen walked out of the cave and looked up at the sky, only to find that it was still nighttime.

He had arrived at the cave around 9:45 PM. Logically, Fake Pill Formation should have taken quite a long time.

But as it turned out, after he carefully examined the constellations, he realized it was now 9:15 PM.

It turned out that while he was undergoing Fake Pill Formation, a full day and night had passed outside.

Counting the time he spent on Alchemy at the Chang Family’s residence, Xiao Chen had been awake for nearly sixty hours.

But perhaps because of the Fake Pill, he didn’t feel tired at all. In fact, he felt more energetic than ever.

Using the moonlight, he opened his map and got his bearings.

Without stopping to rest, Xiao Chen rushed toward Dongyuan County to begin his point-grinding journey.

He hadn’t forgotten that, according to the news spreading earlier, nearly forty Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators had invaded.

Only four were gone so far, leaving more than thirty. All of them were points ripe for the taking.

「At the same time.」

Celestial Secret Pavilion, Hezhou.

Silver Dawn Zhenren looked up at the sky, his brow furrowed.

As a successor of the Stargazing Lineage, he was accustomed to observing the constellations every night.

But the starry sky tonight felt exceptionally unfamiliar to him.

"The heavens radiate killing intent; the stars themselves have shifted."

Silver Dawn Zhenren spoke suddenly, startling the few disciples around him.

However, the disciples looked up at the constellations, then down at their companions, but none of them knew what he meant.

In their eyes, tonight was no different from the past several thousand nights.

So they couldn’t understand at all why their master had suddenly said such a thing.

But Silver Dawn Zhenren was both surprised and pleased. "Strange. Why would such a change happen so suddenly?"

He glanced around at them, stroking his beard in excitement. "Do you see it? A star of slaughter has fallen in the east, driving away the clouds and scattering the mist."

"This corresponds perfectly to the Demon Cultivator invasion. This is wonderful news!"

The surrounding disciples exchanged glances. The news they had received was that the Demon Cultivators had essentially occupied the area east of Dongyuan County, and the Lingyuan Sect’s situation was dire.

’In a situation like this, what good news could there possibly be?’

’Could a star of slaughter truly have descended to kill all the invading Demon Cultivators?’