One person: I, Daoist Master, am a cultivator of immortality!

A burst of purple lightning flashed in Sun Yao's hand, and a towering pillar of lightning shot out from his hand, its target the six-winged centipede climbing on the beam of the main hall. This six-winged centipede was one of the best gains from this trip to Ping Mountain. The three pairs of wings on its back meant that it had lived for six cycles of sixty years, which meant that it must have already formed an inner core.

With this inner core, Sun Yao only needs to use it as a base and add century-old medicinal herbs to refine a batch of top-grade pills. The efficacy of this medicine will be many times stronger than that of the Little Yellow Pill, and it is estimated to be several times stronger than the pills he had envisioned refining with the Nine Ghost Plate and Fulongzhi.

Sun Yao's attack could be described as a full-force strike, but the six-winged centipede was also quite clever. Before Sun Yao even made his move, it sensed the immense power of this attack and knew it couldn't be met head-on. It hurriedly scurried around, but in the end, it was still grazed by the towering pillar of lightning that struck it from above.

It barely grazed the ground, yet a huge bloody hole appeared in its body, which was encased in hard carapace. Its blood flowed continuously from the hole torn open by the towering lightning pillar, and with just that one blow, it fell to the ground, howling incessantly.

It struggled and thrashed wildly on the ground, even knocking down the stone pillar that led straight to the roof. That pillar must have weighed at least a thousand or eight hundred pounds, and it was sent flying by just one sway of its body. This shows just how strong this six-winged centipede was.

However, this meant little to Sun Yao. It was just that if the centipede continued to struggle, it would be difficult for him to get close. But this didn't faze Sun Yao. He reached up and removed the silver-winged whistling arrow from his hair ornament. Once removed, the arrow transformed into a streak of light and rushed towards the six-winged centipede. In the blink of an eye, the silver-winged whistling arrow pierced the six-winged centipede from head to tail. The six-winged centipede only had time to let out a mournful cry before collapsing to the ground, no longer struggling.

However, Sun Yao didn't rush forward to collect his spoils. Instead, he released the Thunder Pool Flying Sword and used his sword control technique to split it into dozens of swords. The next moment, each of the Thunder Pool Flying Swords struck the six-winged centipede.

The six-winged centipede then let out a roar. This centipede, though dead, did not stiffen, especially since it had already cultivated an inner core. With its characteristic of not stiffening after death, coupled with the regenerative power of its inner core, this injury was far from enough to kill it.

'This insect was just playing dead, trying to lure me close so it could deliver a fatal blow.' Sun Yao thought to himself, watching the six-winged centipede struggling in the main hall. 'Luckily, the Records of Gu Refining mention the characteristics of centipedes; otherwise, I might have really been tricked by it.'

As Sun Yao pondered, his hands never stopped moving. He manipulated the Thunder Pool Flying Sword with his sword fingers, continuously inflicting damage on the six-winged centipede. In the blink of an eye, countless holes had been ripped into the centipede's body. The creature was constantly bleeding, but the blood was purple, corroding the floor of the main hall as it flowed to the ground.

Seeing that it was no match for Sun Yao, the six-winged centipede roared at him and then immediately fled into the distance.

"Trying to escape? You think you can just come and go as you please? Did you even ask me?!"

Seeing that the six-winged centipede was about to escape, Sun Yao immediately used the Shrinking Earth Technique to take a step forward, and in the blink of an eye, Sun Yao appeared in front of it.

"Want to leave? Stay!"

Sun Yao extended his palm towards the six-winged centipede, then clenched it into a fist. The next second, flames erupted within a 50-meter radius of the centipede, forming a ball of fire that completely enveloped the centipede.

The six-winged centipede charged and rammed around, but its body was burned quite a bit. After that, the six-winged centipede dared not continue its rampage, instead curling itself into a ball, its head tucked inside, seemingly doing something.

"You want to heal yourself with your inner core? It's mine now. Did you even give me permission to use my stuff? Heaven and Earth Furnace, refine it!"

This six-winged centipede has lived for six cycles of the Chinese calendar. Apart from its toxicity, its flesh and blood contain the essence of life. Therefore, Sun Yao decided not to extract the inner core separately, but to refine the six-winged centipede along with its body and inner core.

Sun Yao immediately activated the Heaven and Earth Furnace. He even used Samadhi True Fire when activating the Heaven and Earth Furnace, all in order to completely refine the six-winged centipede.

Unfortunately, the six-winged centipede seemed to sense Sun Yao's intentions. Instead of using its inner core to heal its injuries, it swallowed the core and began to fight back fiercely. Dark qi began to emerge from its body, enveloping it, and it began to gather its strength within the furnace of heaven and earth.

"It seems I can't get the pill without killing you first. Fine, whether I refine you alive or dead, it's all the same to me. Today I'll give you a quick death, my sword will multiply into countless forms to subdue demons and vanquish evil! Kill!"

The Thunder Pool Flying Sword appeared in front of Sun Yao's chest. Sun Yao pulled his hands outwards, and the Thunder Pool Flying Sword began to split into countless flying swords. These flying swords shot into the sky like a long river, their target being the six-winged centipede that was poised to strike in the furnace of heaven and earth.

Countless flying swords transformed into a long river, engulfing the six-winged centipede. Under the onslaught of this river of swords, the centipede was utterly ravaged, its body reduced to rubble and ruins. Ultimately, the six-winged centipede could not survive the onslaught of countless swords and was torn to pieces by the Thunder Pool Flying Swords.

Looking at his results, Sun Yao nodded in satisfaction. He then used his spiritual energy to draw out the inner core of the six-winged centipede and placed it in the Heaven and Earth Furnace as a catalyst. He then activated the Samadhi True Fire to completely refine the body of the six-winged centipede into life essence, removing all toxins and impurities.

Looking at the inner core completely enveloped in life essence in mid-air in front of him, Sun Yao nodded in satisfaction. Sun Yao then threw the Nine Ghosts Plate and the Dragon-Subduing Mushroom into it, along with the ginseng he had previously gathered in the mountains, and refined them all.

In no time, he had refined all the medicinal herbs into a medicinal liquid. Then, he slowly used his spiritual energy to control the medicinal liquid and injected it into the inner core. Finally, he used the furnace-making method of the Heaven and Earth Furnace to completely shrink the flames and refine all the essence into the inner core.

In the end, he obtained a pill, but the potency of this pill was more than ten times that of the batch of pills he had refined before when he made the Little Yellow Pill.