Little Black was confused as Shun Long then said
''Take a look at my eyes''
As he finished speaking, Shun Long circulated his qi to flow into his eyes.
His eyes immediately turned golden and Shun Long then mumbled
''Master, what is this?''
Almost at the same time, little Black also said
''Master what is this?''
The black dragon was stunned for a second, until a horrifying thought flashed through his mind and his breathing suddenly became faster.
Shun Long saw that little Black had an idea of what was happening, but he wasn't planning on keeping it a secret from him anyway so he explained in a serious tone
''I can glimpse into the future''
As soon as these words left his mouth, they were akin to an explosion as they reached little Black's ears, making the dragon unable to even speak.
Shun Long who saw little Black's reaction continued
''When my eyes turn golden I can glimpse about 5 seconds ahead into the future. If used properly, this ability can even be stronger than my 'Monarch's Domain'.''
Little Black nodded his head at Shun Long's words as he said
''Master, this ability will definitely be much stronger than your 'Monarch's Domain'.''
Just thinking about the possible uses of this ability, both Shun Long and little Black were trembling with excitement.
Shun Long then asked little Black with a hint of expectation in his tone
''Little Black what about your breakthrough? Did you succeed?''
The black dragon roared as he spread his wings and revealed his aura that had reached the early rank 4.
Thankfully little Black was still inside the 'Stone of Time' and his aura was contained inside it or else the entire sect would have been alarmed.
Then he said proudly as he looked at Shun Long
''I have already reached the early rank 4 master. If I were to fight that 'silver-winged roc' again, I am more than eighty percent confident that I could beat it.''
Shun Long was happy that little Black managed to increase his strength as well, and after sitting down and thinking seriously for a bit he decided
''I can still advance my strength while I let the 'Heaven swallowing vine' recharge the pure qi inside it but, it's better if I get accustomed to my current strength first.
I can take this chance to speed up the maturity of the 'Profound earth fruit', the 'purple fragrant grass' and the other medicinal herbs, and then refine the pill I need.''
As Shun Long sorted out his thoughts, he sat cross-legged on his bed and sent his spiritual strength inside the 'Stone of Time', in the place where Little Black stayed, and the 'Heavenly swallowing vine' as well as the rest of his medicinal herbs were stored.
As his consciousness entered inside, Shun Long was stunned.
Somehow, the space inside had grown from 30 square meters, all the way to 300.
Little Black noticed the stunned Shun Long and said
''Right, master, I noticed that the space here grew larger as soon as your cultivation entered the earth grade.''
Shun Long was happy that the space inside had actually increased. With little Black practically living inside here, the 'Heavenly swallowing vine' and all the planted medicinal herbs, as well as the dozens of rank 3 beast corpses, there really wasn't any more room left here before. But now, Shun Long could plant as many medicinal herbs he wanted, or store magic beast corpses without worrying about the space inside.
Sitting on his bed, Shun Long used his qi to hasten the growth of the medicinal herbs inside. After 3 hours, his qi had been completely depleted but the effects on the medicinal herbs were simply astonishing.
After advancing to the middle of rank 3 in earth grade, Shun Long's qi be it in quality or quantity was incomparable to before.
Shun Long spent the next 3 days growing the medicinal herbs in the 'Stone of Time', as well as getting accustomed to his increase in strength after his consecutive breakthroughs.
3 days later, he had more than 5 'Profound earth fruits', while his stalks of 'purple fragrant grass' had reached more than 20.
Shun Long took out a few big wooden barrels that he had purchased from the 'Treasure Pavilion' and sat down inside the special alchemy room as he started warming the peak rank 3 bronze grade medicinal cauldron that was placed inside.
Little Black was somewhat puzzled as he asked curiously
''Master, why aren't you using your own cauldron if you want to refine pills?''
Shun Long shook his head as he said
''My cauldron is too small to refine what I want this time.''
Little Black curiously watched Shun Long who had just started his preparations.
As Shun Long sat down in front of the medicinal cauldron, more than a dozen rank 2 medicinal herbs, as well as almost all his stalks of 'purple fragrant grass' were all neatly arranged in front of him in precisely 20 different sets.
After the cauldron was warm enough, Shun Long started throwing in the rank 2 medicinal herbs, adding the 'purple fragrant grass' last.
After advancing to the middle rank 3 in earth grade, Shun Long could easily refine rank 3 medicinal herbs like the 'purple fragrant grass'. He assumed that even the 'Profound earth fruit' wouldn't pose much of a problem either with his current spiritual strength that had advanced by leaps and bounds along with his cultivation.
Half an hour later, Shun Long opened the cauldron and a red colored fluid could be seen inside instead of a pill.
Little Black who saw this liquid immediately said
''Master don't worry, everyone fails in alchemy sometimes. There are no alchemists that can always succeed every single time.''
Shun Long however, didn't seem disheartened at all. Instead he lifted the alchemy cauldron that was more than twice the size of his own, as he poured the red colored liquid in the wooden barrels.