You studied alchemy systematically while continuing your cultivation.
The Ninefold Profound Art greatly improved your talent for the Martial Path.
You encountered no bottlenecks in your current cultivation.
The process went as smoothly as silk.
Before long, you completed your second True Qi condensation.
The power of your True Qi Release received an epic-level enhancement.
Your released True Qi could break through the defenses of a Bone Tempering Middle Stage martial artist.
Its range had increased to six zhang, equivalent to over twenty meters.
That was quite a considerable distance.
Although your practical alchemy skills had not improved much,
Xie Huide's insights into alchemy gave you tremendous inspiration.
Many things that had once left you muddled were now resolved as easily as splitting bamboo.
It was like years of constipation suddenly clearing up.
Only then did you realize how many detours you had taken when refining Qi and Blood Pills before.
On the surface, Xie Huide did not seem particularly invested in you.
But in truth, Xie Huide thought highly of you.
Whenever he explained alchemy techniques to you, he was exceedingly thorough.
And he concerned himself only with your alchemy.
He never asked what you did in your spare time.
While studying alchemy, you also came into contact with some medical principles.
Alchemy and medicine were actually quite similar.
Both required a thorough understanding of the human body before prescribing the right remedy for the illness.
The few formidable alchemists of the Danxia Sect were all physicians with superb medical skills as well.
In the third year, you had been in the Danxia Sect for eight months.
That day, Xie Huide summoned you to his courtyard.
He wanted to inspect your progress in alchemy.
Your assessment results when you first entered the sect had been dazzling.
But an alchemy master like Xie Huide had not paid them much mind.
Yet the longer he taught you, the better he came to understand you.
Your decades of self-taught alchemy experience frequently collided with Xie Huide's own experience.
At times, you could even offer him different ideas and inspiration.
Xie Huide gradually discovered that you truly were an alchemy genius.
You had merely taken the wrong path.
This stirred his desire to cherish talent.
He was doing his best to guide you back onto the proper road.
Based on Xie Huide's understanding of you,
he estimated that you had already brought one first-grade pill to great mastery.
Xie Huide lay on a rocking chair in the courtyard, leisurely basking in the sun.
He lightly waved the palm-leaf fan in his hand. "Tiezhu, among the three first-grade pills, has your proficiency in any one of them reached great mastery?"
You answered calmly, "My proficiency in the Po Wang Pill and Jin Ming Pill has reached great mastery. My progress with the Yang Sha Pill is poor; I have only just begun."
In truth, your proficiency in all three first-grade pills had already reached great mastery.
Your proficiency with the Po Wang Pill had even reached perfection.
But to avoid being too shocking, you concealed your progress.
You discovered that you really did have an exceptional talent for alchemy.
You were a genuine alchemy genius.
"You've achieved great mastery in two first-grade pills?" Xie Huide abruptly sat upright from his rocking chair.
Xie Huide had expected you to bring the proficiency of one first-grade pill to great mastery.
He had never imagined that you had actually raised your proficiency in two first-grade pills to great mastery.
And you had even begun learning the third first-grade pill.
"Yes, Master."
Xie Huide suddenly turned serious. "Tiezhu, this is not something you can fake!"
You said in a deep voice, "If I have spoken even one lie, may Zhao Tiezhu be struck dead by lightning, and may all eight generations of my ancestors perish without exception!"
Xie Huide hurriedly stopped your poisonous oath. "Tiezhu, it's not that I don't believe you. Alchemy must be proven through action!"
You knew that Xie Huide wanted you to demonstrate.
You directly took out your Alchemy Furnace, set up your stance, and began refining.
You refined two fresh batches on the spot.
The yield rates for the Po Wang Pill and Jin Ming Pill had indeed reached great mastery.
Xie Huide was overjoyed. "Good, good, good! You have the bearing I had in my youth!"
He immediately took out the Dan Dao Zhen Jie he had written and gave it to you.
It was a summary of his decades of alchemy experience, incomparably precious.
It could save you from taking many detours.
After taking it back, you read it for three days and three nights, forgetting food and sleep.
During those three days, even cultivation, which you loved most, was set aside.
This Dan Dao Zhen Jie benefited you greatly.
Your understanding of alchemy and medicine rose to a higher level.
Yet outwardly, you continued pretending to be a clueless novice.
In the third year,
you finished reading Xie Huide's Dan Dao Zhen Jie.
You felt that you were terrifyingly strong now.
You directly took a third-grade pill formula from the Scripture Pavilion.
Brimming with confidence, you began refining it.
The result was that a month later, your record was still 0–10.
After refining for an entire month, you had not produced so much as a hair.
You had slightly overestimated your talent for alchemy.
Fortunately, your perseverance was excellent.
You continued persistently refining third-grade pills.
That day, you felt the time was right.
You revealed to Xie Huide that your proficiency in the third first-grade pill, the Yang Sha Pill, had reached great mastery.
Xie Huide happily handed you the pill formula for the Qi and Blood Pill.
He also explained the matters requiring attention when refining Qi and Blood Pills.
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Compared to other first-grade pills, refining the Qi and Blood Pill was several orders of magnitude more difficult.
If you had truly started from scratch with no experience, you would probably have been completely baffled.
But in reality, you had a perfect success rate when refining Qi and Blood Pills.
Refining Qi and Blood Pills put no pressure on you whatsoever.
You even felt like laughing.
You pretended to begin refining it clumsily.
In reality, you were not refining Qi and Blood Pills at all.
You had been diligently cultivating the entire time.
Alchemy was merely supplementary.
A fist as big as a sandbag was the real truth.
In the fourth year,
you spent the entire year cultivating the Martial Path.
You completed your fourth True Qi condensation.
As someone in the Marrow Washing Realm Initial Stage, you could now cripple an Essence Refinement Realm Middle Stage martial artist!
You revealed your hidden cultivation as the Skin Refinement Late Stage.
At the same time, you revealed your proficiency with the Qi and Blood Pill as having reached initial success.
When Xie Huide saw that both your Martial Path talent and alchemy talent were outstanding, he was extremely pleased.
Xie Huide brought you to meet Deng Rusong, the sect master of the Danxia Sect.
You thought there was some important matter to discuss.
But Deng Rusong merely exchanged a few casual words with you.
You had no idea what it meant.
Only later, after asking around, did you learn the reason.
It meant that Xie Huide intended to train you as his successor.
He had brought you before Deng Rusong so his senior brother, the sect master, could recognize your face.
From that day on, you became a Personal Disciple of the Danxia Sect.
Your ordinary token was replaced with a more exquisite one, marking the rise in your status.
The entire Danxia Sect had more than four hundred disciples.
There were only sixteen Personal Disciples.
This status was extremely precious.
After returning, you continued researching the refinement of third-grade pills.
Your theoretical knowledge of alchemy had become extremely abundant.
Your understanding of the human body's structure was also deeply thorough.
A sudden idea struck you: could you create a pill of your own?
The many pills that existed today had all been created by those who came before.
Then, as long as your theoretical knowledge was sufficient,
you should be able to create pills as well.
You acted the moment the thought arose.
You refined a batch of ten self-created pills.
The pills could send a person into a berserk state for the duration of three breaths.
You did not know whether the pills had succeeded, so you did not dare test them on yourself.
You caught a nest of little white rabbits for experimentation.
You fed one rabbit a self-created pill.
The effect was excellent; the little white rabbit exploded on the spot into a puddle of bloody muck.
Unwilling to give up, you fed another rabbit a pill.
The rabbit's eyes instantly filled with bloodshot veins, and it began to go into a wild heat.
It did not care about male or female at all. It grabbed the rear of any rabbit it could find and charged straight in, cranking its attack speed to the maximum.
It fucked the other rabbits until they pissed and shit themselves in terror.
You simply threw all the pills into the cage.
After eating them, the rabbits began to go mad.
They gnawed on one another.
Demons danced wildly in the cage, and it became a complete mess.
Clearly, your self-created pill had failed.
But it seemed you had created a potent poison.
You did not know whether feeding it to people would have such excellent lethal effects.
You planned to find a few lucky audience members for experiments when the opportunity arose.
Aside from creating your own pills,
you spent all the time outside your Martial Path cultivation refining third-grade pills.
Whenever you encountered problems refining third-grade pills, you kept them bottled up and worked through them yourself.
You did not dare take them to Xie Huide.
After all, you had only revealed your proficiency in the second-grade Qi and Blood Pill as initial success.
It would seem far too abrupt if you suddenly took questions about third-grade pills to him.
In the sixth year,
over the past two years, you had arranged every day of your time extremely tightly.
You needed to devote most of your energy to cultivating your art and raising your realm.
You also had to condense your True Qi.
Then there was the refinement of third-grade pills.
And you still had to spare some energy to explore your self-created pills.
You wished a day had twenty-four double-hours for you to use.
You felt that you had become a master of time management.
Your stock of Inner Divinity Pills in the space had been consumed by more than half.
But there were gains to be had after putting in the effort.
Your Desolate Heaven Saber Art had broken through to the mid-stage Marrow Washing Realm.
Your condensed true qi had reached its fifth refinement.
Your true combat strength had reached the late Essence Refinement Realm.
No one would have imagined that you, an alchemist, also knew a thing or two about fighting.
At the same time, you revealed that your proficiency in Qi and Blood Pills had reached Minor Mastery.
As long as you reached Major Mastery,
you would be qualified to obtain the Inner Divinity Pill formula.
It was already not far off.
Xie Huide was very satisfied with your progress.
At the same time, he called you over, saying he had something to tell you.
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