Yang Feng revealed a cruel smile as he looked at the skeleton and spoke, "*heh* I'd like to see how this race, that devours others to grow, would feel like if they become the ones that get devoured by others to grow stronger instead."
Just as Su Yan was about to ask him what he meant by that, Yang Feng's forehead shone with intense light that was focused on the ice cubes skeleton. As if sensing something, the skeleton that was laying motionlessly in the ice, suddenly stirred and it's empty eyes shone with red light.
But it was too late. The moment the skeleton stirred, it was forced to remain motionless as Yang Feng Spiritual Energy pressed down on it on all sides. Su Yan revealed a slightly shocked look at the slightly trembling skeleton, which was trying to resist Yang Feng's Spiritual Energy.
"It really is alive, even in this condition.", Yang Feng didn't say anything as his Yin-Yang Harmony Flames emerged from the light emitting from his forehead.
As soon as the flames appeared, the temperature in the cave turned incredibly hot, even melting the Ice around the skeleton. Su Yan didn't know if it was an illusion or not, but she felt that the skeleton seems to reveal a dreadful look as soon as Yang Feng summoned his flames.
"Let's see if this works or not.", Yang Feng muttered in a low voice. The flames surged and encased the skeleton in a circular motion.
Seeing that it was fully confined, Yang Feng formed a handsign, "Haa!". With the shout, Yang Feng concentrated the flames, causing them to form a tight ball of flame, making it harder to even see the skeleton through the dense flames.
Su Yan looked in awe at Yang Feng. Currently, the light emitting from his forehead had diminished alot and a crown like shape, made solely from grayish flames, extended from his forehead and hovered over his head, giving him a noble and feiry aura.
Su Yan saw that Yang Feng was fully concentrated on the flames in front of him and could even feel the waves of spiritual energy constantly erupting from him, enveloping the flames and keeping them in that shape.
'is he....', a thought occured to her as she recalled his words, causing her eyes widened. '*huee* he's refining that bone Race member like a Pill, AND THAT TOO WITHOUT ANY CAULDRON!!'
Yang Feng didn't know about Su Yan's thought as he used all his focus on refining the skeleton that continued to struggle against his spiritual energy.
Slowly, the flames started to burn off small pieces of bones from the skeleton, turning them into small specs of dust which continued to be refined.
In just a few minutes, most of the skeleton had been turned into a small handful of powder, leaving only it's spine and half of it's head.
Outside, Yang Feng's forehead was covered in a light sheen of sweat. Seeing that the process was mostly complete, he didn't relax but increased the spiritual output. This spiritual energy then concentrated on the forehead of the skeleton and the spine.
As soon as the spiritual energy entered the forehead of the skeleton, a agonizing screech sounded from the skeleton, even with it's mouth(?) gone. This screech came from the soul of the skeleton.
In next moment, Yang Feng snorted and attacked the soul, destroying it. As soon as the soul died, the skeleton head turned into powder that was infused with the spiritual energy of the skeleton.
At the same time, the spine was refined but it didn't turn into powder like the rest of bones, it instead turned into a milky white semi-solid substance, which was the refined source blood of the skeleton.
Unlike most races, the Bone Race because of it's uniqueness had its blood essence stored in their spines.
Yang Feng released a light sigh, 'with that done...'. Yang Feng then waved his hand, causing three herbs, those were stored in his inventory, to appear in front of him. With his spiritual energy Yang Feng pushed two of them into the flames.
The effect was immediate as both herbs turned into medical liquid. Yang Feng then combined the medical liquid with the bone powders, but he kept the source blood away.
Yang Feng then threw the last herb into the flames as well, but kept it far away from the rest of the material. In that particular area, Yang Feng used his control over the flames temperature and adjusted it to carefully refine the herb without burning it.
He did this because this herb needed an even greater temperature to be refined than the other materials, a temperature which could burn the rest of the material to waste.
With his control, Yang Feng was able to refine all the materials within a few more minutes.
Yang Feng then turned entered an extremely focused state and started to go through multiple handsigns as runes started forming around each material. He then guided the mixed medical liquid of the two herb and the bone powder, and combined it with the source blood.
After another few minutes of refining and combining the two, he lead the mixture to the last component which was the medical liquid of the third herb. As the two things connected and started to combine, Yang Feng sighed in relief.
After some time, what remained in the flames was a medical liquid the size of a fist, which was covered in various runes. The rest of the process was relatively easy for Yang Feng as he divided the medical liquid into 12 Pill sized balls and solidified them.
After the refinement was complete, Yang Feng extinguished the flames and stored the pills into a bottle. He then sat down cross-legged and ate a pill from his inventory to recover his Spiritual Energy.
Su Yan who was beside him through the entire process, quietly stood guard for him to recover and grabbed the bottle containing the newly refined pills, but didn't open it.
After Yang Feng recovered an hour later, he exhaled lightly and looked at Su Yan, who was also looking at him. Seeing him awake, Su Yan gave him the pill bottle and said while shaking her head, "You used up quite alot of your spiritual energy during the refinement. You should be careful next time."
Yang Feng smiled and caught the pill bottle, while saying, "the skeleton was more difficult to deal with than I had thought.", according to his estimate, the skeleton's spiritual realm was at the Transcendent Realm and it even tried to blow itself up halfway through. But fortunately, he was able to hold it back which was the reason for his exhaustion.
he shook his head and opened the bottle. He poured the one of the pills into his hand and observed it.
The pill was of grayish-white color and had golden intrecate patterns on it. Yang Feng was looking at the pill when he heard Su Yan ask him about the pill. Yang Feng answered, "It's name is the Bone Essence Pill and can be used to refine the body. Usually, this pill needs the bones and blood essence of a particular monster race, But looks like this Bone Race can be used as a substitute for it..."
Yang Feng suddenly stopped as he felt the pill closely. His eyes suddenly shot up as he exclaimed, "This..!!". Su Yan looked at his worriedly. "What is it?"
Yang Feng didn't answer and used his divine sense to confirm what he had thought. 'This pill really does have traces of spirituality!! Could it be because of the spiritual energy of the skeleton?'
The reason Yang Feng was so surprised was because, in Martial Peak verse there wasn't a concept of Pills having sentience till the Origin King Grade, even if they form Pill Clouds, they don't have a consciousness of their own and can only absorb the world energy from the surroundings. {Correct me if I am Wrong.}
Not to mention that a pill of this level couldn't have any level of spirituality. But as Yang Feng had observed, the pill somehow had very very faint traces of spirituality, which means that if this pill had some more spirituality, it could with time develop it's own consciousness. Though the time needed would itself be astrominal.
Yang Feng calmed down few seconds later. Although the prospect of spiritual pills was amazing, unfortunately the pill have near non-existent amount of it. He turned to Su Yan and looking at her expression of worry, he chuckled slightly and said, "it's nothing. Just a false alarm."
Su Yan just nodded and asked him if he wanted to use the pill right now. Yang Feng thought for a moment but decided against it. The two then looked around the mountain for any more Bone Race members, but couldn't find them even though they searched for hours.
The two stood at the mountain and looked at the setting sun. Suddenly Su Yan spoke, "Feng. I want to stay here to cultivate.", Yang Feng sighed when he heard this as he already knew this would happen, this was also another reason that he brought Su Yan here.
This place was simply a paradise for those who cultivate Ice Techniques. So, if Su Yan cultivates here, her cultivation speed would increase by many times. Yang Feng turned to look at her and asked with a soft smile, "I expected this to happen and I agree with your decision.... This place is the home of the Ice Sect, I think it would be best if you could join them."
The two stood there silently for some time before they left the mountains and flew towards the Ice Sect.
Yang Feng had inquired about the general location of the sect from Shui Ling and so after following that direction, they approached the area where they sensed life energies gathered together. Once they reached near the Ice Sect, the two stopped some distance away.
After hugging and kissing Yang Feng goodbye, Su Yan flew towards the Ice Sect. Yang Feng watched from a distance as a female figure came out from the sect and after a few minutes brought Su Yan inside the sect.
Yang Feng stood there and focused on their spiritual bond. This was the first time, he had to truly tap into the bond as he and Su Yan were mostly together.
After a hour of waiting, Yang Feng used the bond and sent a message to her,
Yang Feng was relieved hearing that nothing was wrong. He then remembered something and asked with shining eyes,
In the original, Su Yan wasn't even a Transcendent when she came here so Qing Yue was able to take her in as a desciple. But now that Su Yan was already a 3rd Order Transcendant, while Qing Yue herself was at 1st Order Saint, Qing Yue didn't have the qualifications to accept Su Yan as a desciple.
After that Yang Feng and Su Yan wished each other good luck and Yang Feng left the area and started flying towards the Mainland.
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{A-Note: I had forgotten to write this note in the previous chapter, so here goes.
The result of a poll is out and those in the discord already know about it. Check out the Harem Auxiliary Chapter for the update.
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Martial Peak: Eternal Void Great Emperor
By EVNovels.}