Starting With 100 Million Lives

Blood gushed from Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable’s throat, while blood began to seep spontaneously from his eyes, ears, and nose.

His skin aged at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fine wrinkles rapidly spread across his forehead and other parts of his body.

His lifespan was rapidly shortening at the speed of light.

Soon, a rotting smell emanated from his body, and pus oozed from every pore.

This was a means of the Heavenly Dao, not belonging to combat, nor from any Rule Origin.

Such a method, he simply couldn’t withstand.

Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable struggled to lift his finger, his eyes filled not only with terror but intense unwillingness!

To die like this as a dignified Daoist Venerable, how could he be reconciled?

Especially since he was given such a ’perfect’ test question this time, almost as if it was tailor-made for him, just to crown him.

A celestial fate embraced him, how could he be utterly defeated?

Yet now, his thoughts were futile.

Due to the vast disparity in performance between him and Jiang Cheng, the final punishment of the Heavenly Dao was to obliterate the failure!

The Heavenly Dao demanded his death, he had no choice but to comply.

"I already gave you a chance, but you didn’t appreciate it."

Jiang Cheng sighed.

"This really isn’t something you can blame on me."

He operated with a principle, viewing this alchemy contest as a test of alchemy alone.

It wasn’t a life-and-death battle, there was no need for anyone to die.

But unfortunately, Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable didn’t even bother to operate properly.

By the time he wanted to operate, he no longer had a chance to show.

Once Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable completely perished, Jiang Cheng was also transmitted out of the contest space.

"He’s out!"

"Did the contest end so quickly?"

The crowd outside was still quietly discussing and speculating.

Mostly, everyone thought both wouldn’t succeed, and Jiang Cheng’s performance would be much worse than Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable.

Ultimately, Jiang Cheng would face punishment, and Yi Yuan would emerge unscathed.

"It’s Jiang Cheng!"

"Where is Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable?"

"Why so fast?"

"Even if he failed, the contest would wait for Yi Yuan Master to fail before ending, right?"

"What happened?"

"Did that kid face punishment?"

Fan Lei Daoist Venerable squeezed to the front, extending Divine Thought to appraise Jiang Sect Leader, looking for traces of damage from the Heavenly Dao.

Of course, he found nothing.

Instead, Taiheng Daoist Venerable was the first to exclaim.

"Origin Certification!"

"Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist Certification!"

With his exclamation, the people in the rear like Liuyuan and Qing Huan Qing Ling all sensed Jiang Cheng’s Pill Origin mark!

"My heavens, Sect Leader Jiang succeeded?"

"Oh my, is he really an Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist?"

"To clarify, he’s an Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist certified by Origin, which is on a completely different level."

"That’s right, it’s much stronger than Tian Lin’s old brute’s Seventh-Grade certification!"

Daoist Venerable Tian Lin, having been named, could no longer feel disrespect.

Because the entire venue exploded.

Whether from the Purification Pill Stream or Yidan Stream, everyone was engulfed in extreme shock.

Passing the eighth level of the Immortal Furnace’s trial is nothing to amateurs.

But for professional Imperial Alchemists, it was like a bolt from the blue, directly changing the entire structure of the Pill Realm!

"This... How can this be?"

Beihe Daoist Venerable, also an Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist, was stupefied, as if about to lose his soul.

And Tian Lin Daoist Venerable, in this moment seemed to have aged two or three times.

"Eighth-grade certification, he actually got the Origin’s eighth-grade certification..."

He shook his head in a daze, his swaying white hair seemed so helpless.

"How can this be?"

"How can this be..."

He suffered a heavy critical strike.

Normally, the three streams would argue about whose stream was stronger, who was the orthodox.

Since each stream had its points, no one had been declared superior.

Now, Jiang Cheng had securely surpassed him.

And Jiang Cheng came from the Ancient Immortal Realm, ’belonging’ to the Ancient Pill Stream, different from their Purification Pill Stream.

What does that mean?

Does it imply that the Ancient Pill Stream is orthodox, their Purification Pill Stream is a misguided path?

When he conceived this idea, his belief was destroyed, and he nearly collapsed.

The excitement among the three streams in the Celestial Pill Department also petrified Prince Yi of Shi and Fan Lei Daoist Venerable immediately.

Did Jiang Cheng really pass the Eighth-Grade test?

This was absurd!

Previously, the Celestial Pill Department had just four Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemists.

And Jiang Sect Leader was merely of Emperor Realm Ninth Layer.

Before he ascended, Prince Shi, and others hadn’t even heard of this person.

Yet, this kid turns out to be the Celestial Palace’s fifth Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist?

Such a precious Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist!

And he was the only one certified by Origin, more substantial than the other four’s Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist.

This they couldn’t accept at all.

Meanwhile, Jin Pi and Zhengxu finally noticed one thing—Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable hadn’t emerged.

"Where’s our ancestor?"

"Yes, where’s our grandmaster? Where did he go?"

Brother Cheng, immersed in shock and praise, casually turned his head and dropped a line: "He was obliterated by the Heavenly Dao."

For him, it was just an offhand remark.

But for everyone else present, that sentence detonated like a nuclear bomb.

"What did you say?"

King Shi was the first to dash forward.

"Yi Yuan died?"

He glared at Jiang Cheng, his gaze as if to devour him.

Prince Yi and King Lv nearly went insane.

"How could Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable die so easily?"

"Quickly, tell the truth?"

"Damn you, are you daring to deceive us?"

Their intense reactions were expected.

After all, most immortals couldn’t do without pills, and the Celestial Pill Department ranked in the top five in the entire Celestial Palace.

And Eighth-Grade Imperial Alchemist Yi Yuan Daoist Venerable was one of the treasures of the Celestial Palace, a strategic figure.

Particularly, Yi Yuan was one of the ancestors of the Yidan Stream, influential and essential.

Such a significant figure suddenly dying would have profound effects on the Celestial Palace.

Before Jiang Cheng could say anything, Jin Pi and Zhengxu were already wailing loudly.

"Dead!"

"Grandmaster’s Life Token shattered, he’s really dead!"

"No, Grandmaster, no..."

Upon hearing Yi Yuan was truly dead, King Shi’s fury soared into the clouds.

"Did you do it again? Did you kill him again?"

He roared angrily at Jiang Cheng.

"Since you came, the Celestial Palace hasn’t been calm; you are the scourge..."

His expression was extremely menacing, and the Divine Monarch’s coercion was unchecked, causing those nearby to tremble.

Yet Jiang Cheng didn’t care at all.

"Is your brain fried?"

He mocked mercilessly.

"In that contest space, who can harm another?"

"Furthermore, if I wanted to kill him, why would I quietly do it inside?"