"Senior Brother, please calm down. Don't get too agitated.
I do possess this ability, but the current alchemy cannot be replicated. I cannot teach other alchemists because it truly relies on my innate talent.
I can't even explain the specific principles.
However, helping you all break through to the Heavenly Human realm is absolutely no problem.
So, how many Heavenly Humans do you think our sect will need to safely overcome this crisis?"
To prepare for the potential existential threat, Ding Yun decisively confirmed True Person Feihe's conjecture.
She then directly asked the Sect Master how many Heavenly Humans were required.
"You can actually do it? It seems I still underestimated you. Are you perhaps an immortal from the mortal realm? Never mind, I won't pry into your secrets.
As for how many Heavenly Humans our sect needs to survive this crisis, I surmise that the three top sects and the imperial family likely have at least five more Heavenly Humans. Even if these five have declining vital energy, they would most probably not be weaker than any newly breakthrough Heavenly Human. Therefore, we would need at least six or more Heavenly Humans to ensure safety.
More would, of course, be even better."
True Person Feihe knew without a doubt that his junior sister must have secrets. However, he also understood that some matters were best left unquestioned. As long as it didn't harm their Jade Flower Sect, her secrets were irrelevant.
Moreover, given his junior sister's capabilities, he lacked the power to investigate any secrets.
Therefore, it was better to pretend ignorance, openly state his stance, and answer Ding Yun's question. After saying this, he anxiously asked, "Right, Junior Sister, will refining pills with your talent have any negative impact or damage to you?"
"It won't have any impact on my body, but it will significantly impact my wallet. Consider this a debt for now. Once we overcome this crisis, you must remember to repay me. I don't need medicinal ingredients; you can repay me with gold. Gold is the true hard currency.
This matter brooks no delay.
So, Sect Master, find eleven more individuals, making a total of twelve with yourself. Those you believe can become Heavenly Humans, inform them about this. I will return to refine pills, and we will meet here tonight. We won't pick an auspicious date; we'll break through together tonight.
Strive to have everyone break through to the Heavenly Human realm tonight, then stabilize our cultivation over the next few days, familiarize ourselves with the sudden surge of internal energy, and begin to guard against the imperial court."
Ding Yun believed her gold shouldn't only be spent and not replenished. What if some golden finger or world in the future required gold? That's why she spoke this way.
She also took the initiative to make arrangements for what was to come.
True Person Feihe, however, assumed Ding Yun didn't want to disclose the medicinal ingredients needed for alchemy, which was why she suggested settling the bill with gold. He had no objections to this and immediately indicated his understanding.
Then, the two parted ways to attend to their respective tasks.
Upon returning to the backyard of the Sutra Repository, Ding Yun no longer hand-copied the manuals herself. During her previous outing, she had specifically commissioned a set of movable type printing. Now, all she needed was to compile a set of movable type templates for the manuals, character by character.
Then, she could directly mass-produce them.
In the end, she only spent the time it would normally take to copy two manuals to successfully print over a hundred copies.
Next, of course, was to cultivate in her "氪金农场" (pay-to-win farm).
Although Ding Yun printed over a hundred manuals, she didn't intend to plant them all. She only planted twelve. The rest were stored away. If she needed them later, she could retrieve and plant them anytime, which was much more convenient.
After planting the "seeds" (manuals), Ding Yun buried several hundred kilograms of gold as fertilizer. Ten minutes later, she quickly harvested another batch of "gold fruits." She didn't plan to give all these gold fruits to the Sect Master, True Person Feihe.
After careful consideration,
Ding Yun allocated only four internal energy fruits for each skill fruit. She then compressed both the skill fruits and the internal energy fruits into the form of golden cores. Yes, this time she intended to have them consume the skill fruits as well. This was because the subsequent cultivation realms were indeed profound, and Ding Yun worried they might lack sufficient understanding of these higher realms. If they only had abundant internal energy, it would be difficult to smoothly break through to the Heavenly Human realm.
Therefore, it was better to see them through to the end, by incorporating the skill fruits into the golden cores they would consume.
This way, they would be able to perfectly absorb the internal energy, and would undoubtedly break through to the Heavenly Human realm.
As for the remaining gold fruits, Ding Yun planned to consume them herself. She wanted to try and see if she could directly break through to the Land Immortal realm by relying on abundant, refined internal energy.
Only by breaking through to the Land Immortal realm
could one be considered invincible under heaven.
She would no longer have to act with restraint, worry about this and that, or fear implicating the sect.
Everything was proceeding smoothly on Ding Yun's end.
There were no particular difficulties for True Person Feihe either.
After all, Ding Yun had explicitly told him that she could currently only help those who cultivated the Jade Flower Classic break through to the Heavenly Human realm. Therefore, True Person Feihe didn't need to agonize over whether to choose two elders from other factions to appear fair.
Given the circumstances, he could only select members of his own faction.
This was not a reflection of his unfairness.
As for how he would choose among his own kin, precisely because they were all from the same faction and familiar with each other, True Person Feihe quickly sent people to notify eleven elders and Grand Elders with whom he had good relations and who were deeply loyal and trustworthy to the sect.
And until half an incense stick before the appointed time,
they entered the secluded chamber to await Ding Yun.
Only then did True Person Feihe explain the specific situation to them, followed by a practiced display of surprise and astonishment. Ding Yun arrived punctually and distributed the pills to them, specifically instructing them to swallow them in one gulp.
Not one by one.
After being compressed, the golden skill fruits looked virtually indistinguishable from the ordinary golden internal energy cores. Ding Yun didn't want to explain the origin of these miraculous pills, nor did she even mark them for differentiation. Therefore, if they consumed and refined them one by one, there was no guarantee they would consume a skill fruit with the first pill, which would waste a lot of their years of internal energy.
Compared to the trouble of meticulous explanations,
it was simpler and more direct to have them swallow them whole.
True Person Feihe and the others did not suspect Ding Yun of harming them. Thus, they immediately followed her advice without hesitation, swallowing the pills Ding Yun gave them in one go. They then immediately sat down cross-legged to refine the pills and break through their confinement.
What happened next was quite obvious. The golden skill fruits took effect, helping them first master the complete and proficient versions of the secret manuals. Then, in a perfect state, by virtue of the eighty years of refined Heavenly Human internal energy provided by the four golden internal energy fruits, they not only smoothly bypassed the Grandmaster realm and broke through to the Heavenly Human realm, but directly reached the late Heavenly Human stage. Everyone present experienced this.
Of course, Ding Yun was not included.
Even though they broke through in the middle of the night, the celestial phenomena caused by twelve people advancing to the Heavenly Human realm simultaneously were still incredibly terrifying. Not only within a radius of dozens of miles, but even hundreds of miles could feel the fearsome pressure.
However, this pressure caused all the observers
to be instantly dumbfounded.