I Am A Notorious Hidden Boss In The Alternate World

Chapter 256 - Peak-stage Innate Realm

After browsing the memory fragments for some time, Albion paused on a peculiar memory fragment with little carnage but a lot of knowledge on alchemy and even artifact forging. 

'Artifact forging, huh? I need this knowledge if I want to turn the Void Stone into another interspatial artifact or reforge the Ashura Ring to have bigger storage space…' Albion thought. 

'Haiz, forget about reforging the Ashura Ring for now. I should acquire confidence in artifact forging before making such an attempt. It will be tragic if I end up ruining the Ashura Ring."

Nevertheless, it was not like Albion had not been destroying everything the Dark Emperor had worked hard to built up since day one.

The gateway to Nine Divine Heavens was not entered, the Ashura Group fell apart, spirit herbs were used to make trash pills, the Ashura Flames were used for cooking fish and heating bathwater, and even the treasured Grade-6 Obisidian Sword was used to dig dirt. 

Each reason was enough to infuriate the Dark Emperor a thousand times over. 

Ding!

<You have absorbed a Dark Emperor's memory fragment>

<Your soul has been greatly enhanced>

<Your soul strength has reached a milestone>

<A portion of the Seal has been permanently lifted>

<Your cultivation has increased to Peak-stage Innate Realm>

<A portion of the Seal's Divine Energy has been recovered>

<You have received 5 units of Divine Energy>

<[Balance]: 23/1000 Divine Enertgy>

…

A string of notifications followed after Albion said 'yes' to every confirmation question asked by the system before a massive wave of information flooded his mind and integrated with his soul.

<You have learned the Basic-level flame control technique, Hundred Fire Threads> 

<You have learned the Basic-level pill refining technique, Nine Divine Shifts>

<You have learned Basic-level Artifact Forging>

<You have learned Basic-level Heavenly Massage>

<You have…

…

Albion's mind was spammed with more notifications after the complete integration of the Dark Emperor's memory fragment.

With each new skill acquired, Albion gave an approving nod—when he suddenly paused on a rather peculiar skill he discovered within the mix.

"Heavenly Massage?" 

Albion was slightly astonished before he wondered, "What can I do with this skill? This definitely a medical skill and not something lewd—Ahem, think no evil, see no evil."

A few moments later, Albion shook his head and thought over his gains, "I've managed to acquire a flame control technique and pill refining technique out of this time's harvest. This should improve the quality of my pills a fair bit this time."

Shortly after, Albion doubled checked his inventory and prepared another set of spirit herbs to refine the Grade-3 Resplendent Snow Pill. 

"The Dark Emperor does not have many frigid-attribute spirit herbs in the Ashura Ring… The ones I have was mostly procured from Blue Wyvern City some time ago," Albion mused before speaking to himself, "There's only enough for another batch of refinement, so I should make it count."

That being said, Albion immediately commenced another round of pill refinement while utilizing the newly acquired techniques, the Hundred Fire Threads and Nine Divine Shifts.

+19 Fire controlling proficiency

+23 Pill refining proficiency

Ding!

<You have successfully refined a batch of nine Grade-3 Resplendent Snow Pill>

Several minutes quickly passed before Albion killed the Ashura Flames and discovered a batch of nine Grade-3 Resplendent Snow Pill have been successfully refined as the system had informed him.

Not only that, among the nine Grade-3 Resplendent Snow Pills, there were 3 High-rank, 4 Mid-rank, and only 2 of Low-rank quality.

"Not a single pill below Low-rank, and a single portion was turned into burnt dregs, huh? Using alchemy technique sure makes a world of difference," Albion evaluated the results.

Such a result should have been considered a success. 

Nevertheless, Albion frowned with dissatisfaction, "Not a single pill of Peak-rank quality or even Supreme-rank quality, huh? I don't think I made any errors in the process, but it seems I still don't have enough experience."

There was still quite a fair distance from refining Supreme-rank pills easily like the Dark Emperor. 

Generally, the grade of a pill is determined by its ability to produce a specific effect. 

In contrast, its quality is determined by the ratio of herbal essence to other components of spirit herbs used to form the pill, which usually comes with adverse side effects.

As such, pills of Supreme-rank quality were the most desirable for ingestion as they comprised of 100% herbal essence and had no adverse side effects outside of their intended effects.

"A High-rank pill contains 70% herbal essence… The side effects are minor and should be fine for Fenriri to consume. These Mid-rank pills contain 50% herbal essences—Although not exactly great, I should hold onto them for now."

"As for these Low-rank pills with only 30% herbal essences in them… I should just sell them or award less important wolf-people with merits," Albion thoughtfully decided. 

As for the pills with less than 30% herbal essences from the first batch of pill refinement produced by him, he was definitely selling them.

"Ahem, these below Low-rank pills are not fit for my people's consumption. Such good things should be enjoyed by others…"

A few moments later, Albion packed his items before heading outside the cave and prepared to find a spot near Fenriri to cultivate his Ashura Empyrean Arts.

However, Fenriri sensed his approaching presence paused her cultivation. 

"Master!" Fenriri called enthusiastically.

"How is it?" Albion glanced at her casually and asked, "Why don't you continue cultivating? I was also planning to cultivate."

"A great person at your level still needs to cultivate, Master?" Fenriri gasped with surprise before her eyes beamed with worship, "No wonder Master was able to reach the Aura God Realm! Master is so hardworking!" 

"Fenriri must also work hard!" Fenriri clenched her fist with determination before she suddenly mentioned, "Nevertheless, this is genuinely amazing, Master!" 

"The amount of progress I made in the past half an hour is equivalent to amount it would usually take me to cultivate in half a day!"

"Ha, then your cultivation will speed up even quicker after consuming these pills," Albion smiled before passing a pill bottle containing three High-rank Grade-3 Resplendent Snow Pill to Fenriri.

Fenriri accepted before sniffing the bottle with surprise.

"What is this, Master?"