Ryuk closed the Cauldron and then began to hit it heavily. The violent movement traveled to the medical solution at the bottom part steel and part heart grass. They coagulated, but lots of energy was released causing the cauldron to shake violently.
Ryuk said angrily "Damn! I can't with even the second caldron around it the medicine wouldn't do this. Ryuk opened the lid, but closed the top of the inner cauldron.
Ryuk snorted "You want to mess with me? Lets see who will win."
Ryuk took the rest of the medicinal herbs and tossed it inside.
A senior brother who was walking by looked over just as Ryuk tossed all the herbs in and screamed "Little brother Ryuk! What are you doing! Shit it's going to explode I have to get the elders. If they find out Ryuk got injured it will be a whole fiasco."
Everyone else was also awakened and saw Ryuk with a violently shaking cauldron.
They gathered.
"What is Ryuk thinking trying to make pills. Ai. Good he's been too overconfidence maybe getting hurt will humble him."
"To be honest we all had worse failures when we started. I remember Goshi nearly destroyed the whole pill making studio on the west wing."
"That's right! Goshi you dumbass using random fruits without examination and even putting in such high quality ones for such a trash pill."
"Ah. Maurice, Fabien you too couldn't even make a folded flame until 3 years after you arrived and the quality was trash too! You kept begging senior brother Laurent for flames and he as a kind senior had to waste so much time for you."
The elders soon came the saw Ryuk hitting the cauldron violently.
"Wait... isn't that elder Prices practiced formation technique - Explosion birth?" The division head said.
Elder price came forward and toggled his glasses and said "Your right! The way he's hitting it and everything is like the way it's described."
Elder winter snow said "Why that technique? it's such a dangerous and irresponsible technique."
Mongoose said quietly "Elder I may know."
Taoist River spider said "Speak."
Mongoose gulped and said "Ryuk has a... well a very money grabbing personality. He always wants a profit. If he goes to do something he always tries to get 2 or 3 things back. He told me when he was in his village he had to hunt for food, money and clothing so he could that easily without any guilt in mind. Not even caring if he was skimmed of money for the beasts, but he would always take millimetre of extra flesh or the tip of a animals tail. To make as much money."
The Alchemy division head said "Conclude!"
Mongoose stuttered and said "H... He... must have been about to fail and angry at the loss of spirit and qi as well as materials he must have chosen the extreme."
Everyone nodded.
A boy said to himself "The tip of a tail what could he do with that?"
Most people from weaker backgrounds said in unison "The tip of a glove."
These people had encountered events similar to Ryuk. Being shamed and unloved, having to fight for every chance, but being cheated by those with connection's or luck.
They had all been silent as their was nothing they could do and even the promise of Cultivation sought naught to alleviate their sorrows.
They all understood the burden of being themselves, but seeing Ryuk fight against it a warmth filled them. Their black winters that had chilled their beating hearts into cold indifference seemed to warm. They had heard about Ryuk and what he had done. They originally looked at him as an entitled lucky bastard, but now they knew he was just a dirt eater who had fought his way up. Now Ryuks blackmailing of the elders and manipulating of facts seemed like a weakling fighting with all he could to stand up instead of a greedy bastard. Ryuks challenging of elders like the mission elder and even people of high status like Mooneye seemed all the most telling like the tale of a hero. Even the trial and his defiance of the judgement of the beast god sect seemed heroic and admirable. A voice seemed to echo in their hearts shaking the frost "Look that that kid, he looks so weak and fragile, but he fight tooth and nail to make his own fate. Now look at us we just gave up... We won't let it end like this!"
They cheered inwardly for Ryuks... no their success.
Ryuk used his soul to monitor everything, every single partical and it's every movement.
His entire psyche was pushed to the brink.
Finally his eyes shined and He spat "Violent vivid violet cauldrons!"
1000's of cauldrons formed inside the giant cauldron.
Under the compressive pressure from the 1000 cauldrons the pill forming energy and kinetic energy from hitting it began to violently collide.
Ryuk wiped his forehead and said "Now there are only two options. Explosion or rise in rank. "
Ryuk had doubled down and now only fate and luck could save his first pill.
inside the large Cauldron the smallest cauldron had a small yellow bead which spun. It Continuously spat out energy and kept eating as well. A pressure washed over it shrinking it causing the output and input to increase.
Suddenly grey lines covered the pill forming a diamond like pattern. It then began to shake the Cauldrons and seemed to be imploding.
Ryuk seeing this had a dark face. He kept thinking of solutions, but it came down to three items. Using Yin Yang law, using earth law or forcefully stopping the pill birth and then reproducing the effect yourself.
The first was unrealistic and difficult with his level.
the second had some grounds to work.
The third would surely work.
Ryuk forced his Earth law out. Everything seemed to become centered as if around the energy a Universe was being born.
Slowly, slowly the energy continued to circulate. Continuously the internal energy of the pill was being condensed, then refilled, then condensed. Again and again and again.
10 hours later. Ryuks eyes were blank and he was shaking.
Ryuk was holding onto the cauldron tightly, but suddenly his hands released and he fell backwards.
The Division head caught Ryuk looking downwards contentedly.
He looked back at the other alchemists and said "Well?"
They all had intense glows in their eyes.
The first pill making experience 10 hours + furthermore at Ryuks Cultivation and soul strength which they were surprised to find now on the 2nd tribute. Furthermore the methods Ryuk had used were all extremely taxing on spirit, soul and Cultivation.
They sighed and said "No problems."
Taoist River spider lamented "Too bad he failed."
He walked over to the cauldron and looked inside and his eyes widened.
Seeing this elders piled on and looked into the cauldron.
A golden pill with silver lines criss crossing sat neatly at the bottom.
They all said in a ghastly voice "Plain grade level 3 High quality..."
Elder winter snow said "How did it upgrade 2 levels? I personally managed the inventory of this studio. There were horrible material's and to make a level 1 low quality pill was already amazing. How can it be high quality?"
Shaman Tang said "That doesn't matter. Can you feel the traces of the layered flame? Even with Great fire pain lord I don't think it could be this powerful."