Damned Healer-Chapter 733: Made Me Sleepy

Mulloy had a wide, twisted grin on his face. Suddenly, he opened the lid of the pill furnace.

At that instant, a pure aura and a strong fragrance filled the entire arena.

Some experienced alchemists in the stands immediately identified the result, even before it was fully revealed. Their hearts raced, and they all stood up from their seats.

"Heavens! That's a Treasure Pill! He actually made a Treasure Pill!"

Above the twelve circles of a Spiritual Pill, it broke through into a Treasure Pill, which was considered the highest level of all for ordinary people.

At that same moment, everyone's gazes turned toward a young woman. Limdiss had also opened her furnace.

A scent and aura just as strong emerged… no, they were subtly different.

"No way! One circle! She made a Treasure Pill with one circle!"

Cries of excitement and pride rang out among the people of the Golden Crow Sect.

Darian was genuinely moved. Now that was talent. Too bad she had been completely corrupted by her family and turned into the monster he met before.

Limdiss couldn't even clearly see the result, and her eyes closed.

She staggered backward, but an Ancestor immediately caught her and placed a pill into her mouth. He couldn't bear to see such talent collapse like that.

At the same second…

Mulloy, who had a worried expression, roared, "Hahaha! I'll show you a real alchemical technique! Blood Soul Enhancement!"

After Mulloy's shout, people were shocked to see his eyes turn scarlet.

His forehead split open, and blood slowly flowed out. That trail of blood seemed to have a life of its own. It crawled in a fixed pattern, forming a strange mark.

"What?! He's really willing to do that?!"

Some in the stands widened their eyes in shock. This Enhancement Technique wasn't particularly secret, but its price was extremely high.

It was something that severely drained the three life energies of a person to forcibly increase a pill's quality.

Using this technique caused great damage to the user, and that damage was permanent, because the three life energies couldn't be quickly healed together by ordinary means. When it takes too long to heal a vital energy, that damage rapidly grows to a point of no return.

"Oh? So that's what gave you confidence?" Darian said mockingly.

"Hahaha, you're nothing but a country bumpkin from the Mortal Plane! Not only will I take first place, but I won't suffer any damage either!"

Mulloy shouted excitedly and waved his hand. As the blood mark on his forehead intensified, people could feel a strange energy pulsing inside his furnace. His pill furnace trembled nonstop. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

*BOOM!*

With a violent sound coming from inside the furnace, the flames scattered, and Mulloy's arrogant smile deepened.

He opened the furnace, revealing a pill that shone intensely. Even in broad daylight, it remained dazzling.

"My god, a… a Treasure Pill with three circles!" Cries of shock echoed.

But Darian wasn't looking at the pill. Instead, he was looking at Mulloy. Suddenly, he spoke calmly:

"No wonder you dared to use that Technique. You didn't use your own energy, but someone else's life energies. A first-rate cheat, indeed."

Darian's words shocked everyone. If what he said was true…

For it to work perfectly, Mulloy had to completely refine the life energies of a human just like himself, cruelly killing them.

"No matter what you say, I didn't break any rules. Now you should believe first place is mine, right? Hahahaha!" Mulloy laughed.

Everyone in the arena turned toward the Ancestors. They were indifferent, which proved Mulloy's words were true.

But… even if he won, he obviously would never be approved as a new Alchemist Emperor.

Mulloy knew that and didn't want to use this technique at all, but after sensing great danger from Darian, he chose to use it regardless of the consequences. Even if he wasn't accepted now, he would still enter that sect, and his future was guaranteed. It would only be a delay to his ambitions.

Suddenly, Darian's emotionless voice rang out. "Ancestors, what exactly are we using to determine the rankings?"

"The pill's effect," the central Ancestor replied.

Darian suddenly smiled. "Great."

He waved his hand, placing it on the furnace.

*CRACK*

Suddenly, cracking sounds came from the furnace. The sounds were very low, but in the silent arena, everyone heard them clearly.

"What?! He destroyed the pills that were about to form?"

Everyone was shocked. What the hell was he doing? Had he completely given up?

Even the Ancestors' pupils contracted.

*BOOM!*

Space trembled violently, and the ground shook as well. A massive vortex dozens of meters wide formed in the sky, completely covering the arena.

"How… how… how is this possible?!" Looking at that enormous vortex, everyone's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"How could anyone here possess such terrifying spiritual energy?" Even the always-calm central Ancestor was moved. He could tell this was a type of Technique never seen before… and its focus was Darian's pill furnace.

That enormous vortex was something condensed from Darian's soul energy. That was his hidden trump card. A technique he learned from his Uncle, flashy but extremely efficient.

It was created to deal with extremely violent materials and energies that refused to form a pill. It completely suppressed them. But in Darian's case, he was using it to nurture and enhance the pills with his own energy.

In truth, it wasn't that different from the Sacrifice technique Mulloy used. But in Darian's case, it wouldn't cause him the slightest damage. After all, all his vital energies were practically infinite, as if he were immortal.

Even if he burned 99.99% of everything he had, after a few days of rest, it would all return to 100%. That was because his new body had been given to him by the two most powerful people who ruled the world.

Darian crushed the pills that were about to form, turning them into powder. Then he began a frantic refinement once more.

*BOOM!*

Suddenly, a massive pillar of bestial flames erupted from Darian. The pillar of flames was thirty meters thick and shot straight into the clouds, covering him.

A terrifying pressure spread. The competitors around him couldn't withstand the heat and had to retreat.

"My god, is he even human?!" People were dumbfounded. The scene was far too shocking.

"The time is almost up!"

The end of the competition was extremely close.

*BUZZ*

Heaven and Earth trembled. The pillar of flames dispersed, revealing Darian. At that moment, he was visibly exhausted. One hand was firmly pressing down on his pill furnace.

"Was it a failure?"

Everyone saw that Darian's furnace was covered in spiderweb-like cracks. It was clear his furnace had been one step away from exploding.

During the final moments of the refining process, the furnace needed to be hermetically sealed. Otherwise, if the internal energy leaked, the pill inside would become essentially useless.

"Time's up!" shouted the person in charge of time control as the last grain of sand fell.

"Hahaha, Darian, you made such a big show, but in the end, wasn't it just a joke?" Mulloy laughed.

*CRACK*

Darian's furnace suddenly began to collapse. Piece by piece, it fell to the ground.

"Hahaha, Darian, first place is… what?!"

Mulloy's smile suddenly vanished, as if someone had grabbed his throat. He froze in shock.

Darian's pill furnace revealed something curious.

It was a Treasure Pill with no circles, only a faint halo.

However, that pill shocked everyone.

"A-A giant… p-pill?!"

The pill-shaped halo was very simple, but the pill itself was the size of a baby's fist. It was an extremely rare giant pill.

All pills had a standard size that varied only slightly. Giant pills, however, were something alchemists might never be able to refine, even in their entire lifetime.

Refining a giant pill was dozens of times more taxing on the soul than refining normal pills, and the flame had to reach an unprecedented level of power. The chances of failure were more than a hundred times higher than normal.

Because of that, giant pills were something many people had heard of, but most had never seen. Moreover, the energy of giant pills was more than twenty times greater than that of pills of the same level combined.

As for the giant pill in Darian's hand, it had reached an even higher tier. It had no circles, but its medicinal effect would be equivalent to at least a nine-circle Treasure Pill.

"You bastard, that's impossible! Darian, you definitely cheated!" Mulloy roared.

His expression twisted with fury. He couldn't accept it, completely seized by a mad frenzy. Then he charged straight at Darian.

Everyone in the arena was slow to react. Was this a joke? This same idiot, who had clearly cheated more than once and everyone had noticed, was really saying that now?

**BANG!**

A violent sound echoed, making everyone jump from their seats and snap out of their stupor.

The entire central stage shattered, and a large crater appeared in the middle.

When the dust settled… everyone saw a figure sprawled out, body completely twisted and face smashed.

Standing right in front, Darian yawned. Then he placed his hands behind his back.

Silence.

"How pathetic. That actually made me sleepy…"