Awakened: Evolving to Godhood

The next thirty hands used blocks of rare woods to create fire. As Elliot didn't have a flame-type ability or mystic flames, he could only use woods to develop them.

"Do you see the inscriptions on the cauldron? The first allows you to amplify the effect of the fire inside the cauldron. The second one will enable you to control the fire that is in contact with the cauldron or inside of it. The third one allows you to instantly extinguish the first inside or on contact with the cauldron." The Pill Emperor said.

"I got it, thanks," Elliot replied.

Elliot used the second inscription to gain control of the fire. He sent the first inside the caldron and made them envelop the different ingredients. Now, he knew the melting points of the ingredients. It was just that the fire was too weak.

Thus, He amplified the weak fire by using the first inscription.

The fire burned the shell of the ingredients, leaving only their medicinal essence behind. Elliot split them apart into eight portions by using his streams of energy, then combined each into the shape of a gaseous ball.

Finally, A large amount of mana surged out of Elliot's body and into the cauldron, putting pressure on the eight gaseous balls. In the blink of an eye, all of them turned into fine pills.

"Genius like him are bound to outperform everyone under the heaven; us mortals can't compare ourselves to them." The Pill Emperor muttered, feeling jealous of Elliot's talent and feeling pride that this person was his student.

Elliot retrieved his pills.

[You've created eight energy circuit widening pills!]

[You've ascended to the ranks of alchemists and completed the previous trial.]

[Congratulations! You've gained the recipe of energy solidifying pill.]

[I've stored it in your subspace!]

"You did well for a first-timer." The Pill Emperor praised him.

In truth, the pill emperor exploded his cauldron ten times, burned his ingredients a hundred times, messed up at the medicinal essence solidifying process a thousand times before getting it right!

"Thanks for your compliments, teacher." Elliot humbly replied.

"This much is enough for today. You can go and rest now." The Pill Emperor said and walked away.

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Every day Elliot would learn a new pill recipe and how to create them. Each time Pill Emperor would perform for him and then ask him to do the same. At the same time, he would go around the celestial mountain, asking the other lords about the reason why the Pill Emperor hated otherworldly beings. Elliot was curious by nature, so this was bound to happen. The seven lords didn't tell him a single thing, telling him to ask about it from the pill emperor himself. The wine lord agreed to say to him, but even after Elliot accompanied him in drinking wine for a whole day, he didn't tell him a thing. Wine Lord was a damn fraud!

There was a secret agreement between Elliot and the seven lords that none of them must tell the Pill Emperor he was secretly enquiring about his past.

Elliot didn't find out about the cause of the pill emperor's hatred until the third student returned to the academy. It took him a day to become the best friend of his third senior brother as the latter was pretty materialistic and what Elliot didn't lack were treasures.

One day, Elliot got him drunk and extracted the past from him with a fox-like sly smile!

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Pill Emperor past!

Pill Emperor had a total of three students, excluding Elliot. The first one he loved very much. He was like his child. In truth, Pill Emperor treated him better than one. Skye was a mystical tree that Pill Emperor had raised ever since he was but a mere spirit root. After a thousand years of soaking in mana, Skye grew up to become the size of a typical spirit tree. After three thousand years, he changed into a human form. He called Pill Emperor his father while the latter called him his son.

As Pill Emperor knew that Skye was an exotic resource that could help a person ascend to the emperor stage, he kept him in the celestial mountain, which was the safest place for Skye in the entire spirit world. After a thousand years, Skye reached the emperor level. Since he had never seen the outside world, he wanted to get out there and explore. Met with the persistent request of his son, the virgin pill emperor agreed.

He had multiple reasons why he was letting Skye go out. The first was that his son was an emperor himself, more powerful than most. The second was that reading ten thousand books can't amount to walking a thousand miles. He wanted Skye to experience the real world, which was the worst mistake of his life. The last reason was that he was already ten thousand years old. If Pill emperor doesn't become a sublime emperor, death will get him in another thousand years. He wanted Skye to become independent before his eventual end.

After Skye went out to explore the spirit world, otherworldly beings approached him; one of them was a kingdom-toppling beauty and the perfect wife material. She was gentle, kind, caring, and Skye could use all the good works to define her. He didn't know that such a person should only exist in fantasies mot reality. Fast forward to the end of his travels; he decided to marry her and live with her. Still, he went to get the blessing of his father. Pill Emperor was sad but also happy that he found such a good person. He trusted Skye to the kingdom-toppling beauty.

On their wedding night, Skye wanted to sleep with Leela, but she declined his advances saying she was tired. After that, every time he tried to make love with her, Leela would coincidentally become busy, and when he was fed up and wanted to do it, she came up with an excuse, saying how her uncle nearly raped her.. Hence, she developed a fear of sexual intimacy.